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1. Definition: 1. relieve from; "Rid the house of pests"

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1. Definition: 1. dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young"

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1. Definition: 1. give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"

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1. Definition: 1. a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened); "he showed signs of strain"; "they welcomed the signs of spring"

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1. Definition: 1. bound off one point after another

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1. Definition: 1. prompt willingness; "readiness to continue discussions"; "they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel"; "they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority"; "he tried to explain his forwardness in battle"

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1. Definition: 1. the state of nonexistence

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1. Definition: 1. take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth; "She dropped acid when she was a teenager"

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1. Definition: 1. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;

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1. Definition: 1. an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage

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1. Definition: 1. a woman who jilts a lover

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1. Definition: 1. feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!"

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1. Definition: 1. a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"

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1. Definition: 1. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;

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1. Definition: 1. flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide; "slack water"

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1. Definition: 1. bet more than the previous player

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1. Definition: 1. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property"

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1. Definition: 1. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

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1. Definition: 1. avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"

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1. Definition: 1. leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"

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1. Definition: 1. cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

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1. Definition: 1. remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"

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1. Definition: 1. organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"

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1. Definition: 1. the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

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1. Definition: 1. (of domestic animals) not selectively bred

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1. Definition: 1. the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed; "I wasted a year of my life working on an abort"; "he sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area"

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1. Definition: 1. a long narrow excavation in the earth

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1. Definition: 1. an extra component of a machine or other apparatus

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1. Definition: 1. a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character

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1. Definition: 1. become invisible or unnoticeable; "The effect vanished when day broke"

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1. Definition: 1. avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

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1. Definition: 1. any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)

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1. Definition: 1. ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

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1. Definition: 1. a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love

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1. Definition: 1. deem wrong or inappropriate;

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1. Definition: 1. accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"

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1. Definition: 1. the mistake of not following suit when able to do so

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1. Definition: 1. cause to become; "The shot rendered her immobile"

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1. Definition: 1. leaves without transport.

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1. Definition: 1. cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"

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1. Definition: 1. consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"

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1. Definition: 1. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

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1. Definition: 1. degree of figurative distance or separation; "just one remove from madness"

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1. Definition: 1. of dark brownish to purplish red

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1. Definition: 1. dispose of (something no longer useful or needed); "She finally retired that old coat"

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1. Definition: 1. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property"

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1. Definition: 1. withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"

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1. Definition: 1. arid land with little or no vegetation

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1. Definition: 1. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

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1. Definition: 1. consent reluctantly

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1. Definition: 1. change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"

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1. Definition: 1. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens

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1. Definition: 1. the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers

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1. Definition: 1. the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)

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1. Definition: 1. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

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1. Definition: 1. lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "

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1. Definition: 1. A discarded item of clothing, something or someone unwanted.

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1. Definition: 1. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

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1. Definition: 1. an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

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1. Definition: 1. throw as from an airplane

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1. Definition: 1. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

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1. Definition: 1. withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess"

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1. Definition: 1. cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

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1. Definition: 1. refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"

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1. Definition: 1. an earnest and sincere feeling

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1. Definition: 1. (baseball) an out that advances the base runners

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1. Definition: 1. the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"

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1. Definition: 1. take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"

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1. Definition: 1. Ceases

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1. Definition: 1. the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"

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1. Definition: 1. a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

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1. Definition: 1. a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; "the various turpitudes of modern society"

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1. Definition: 1. the trait of being resolute; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work"

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1. Definition: 1. release, as from one's grip; "Let go of the door handle, please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall"

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1. Definition: 1. the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint; "the spontaneity of his laughter"

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1. Definition: 1. the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice

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1. Definition: 1. postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"

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