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1. Definition: 1. take a small amount from; "I had to dip into my savings to buy him this present"

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1. Definition: 1. the outward flow of the tide

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1. Definition: 1. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

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1. Definition: 1. a coniferous tree

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1. Definition: 1. be cast down; "his eyes fell"

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1. Definition: 1. press and smooth with a heated iron; "press your shirts"; "she stood there ironing"

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1. Definition: 1. amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis; "a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5"

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1. Definition: 1. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

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1. Definition: 1. appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"

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1. Definition: 1. the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down; "he walked with unsteady steps"

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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. have or show an appearance of; "wear one's hair in a certain way"

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1. Definition: 1. street names for marijuana

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1. Definition: 1. soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"

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1. Definition: 1. gradually ceasing to be visible

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1. Definition: 1. grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"

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1. Definition: 1. stick of wax with a wick in the middle

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1. Definition: 1. cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"

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1. Definition: 1. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"

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1. Definition: 1. the act of removing hair with a razor

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1. Definition: 1. make less taut; "relax the tension on the rope"

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1. Definition: 1. refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision

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1. Definition: 1. become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"

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1. Definition: 1. take by attacking with scaling ladders; "The troops scaled the walls of the fort"

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1. Definition: 1. a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector

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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. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

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1. Definition: 1. lift weights; "This guy can press 300 pounds"

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1. Definition: 1. drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her long scarf behind her"

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1. Definition: 1. look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

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1. Definition: 1. the absence of sound;

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1. Definition: 1. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips"

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1. Definition: 1. a physician who specializes in psychiatry

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1. Definition: 1. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

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1. Definition: 1. decrease in size, extent, or range;

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1. Definition: 1. make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"

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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. make more complex, intricate, or richer;

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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. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

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1. Definition: 1. take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100"

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1. Definition: 1. wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"

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1. Definition: 1. a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different)

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1. Definition: 1. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

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1. Definition: 1. the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery

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1. Definition: 1. lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"

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1. Definition: 1. grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

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1. Definition: 1. Gradually recede

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1. Definition: 1. be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"

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1. Definition: 1. make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives"

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1. Definition: 1. make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench"

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1. Definition: 1. take off or away; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French"

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1. Definition: 1. express as a number or measure or quantity; "Can you quantify your results?"

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

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1. Definition: 1. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

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1. Definition: 1. spend extravagantly;

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1. Definition: 1. the act of reducing complexity

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1. Definition: 1. the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance

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1. Definition: 1. Ceases

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1. Definition: 1. the act of abating; "laws enforcing noise abatement"

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1. Definition: 1. severe criticism

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1. Definition: 1. the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store; "shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting"

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1. Definition: 1. a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"

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1. Definition: 1. termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

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1. Definition: 1. an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

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