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1. Definition: 1. have grow through the gums; "The baby cut a tooth"

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1. Definition: 1. the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down; "the hem of her dress was stained"; "let down the hem"; "he stitched weights into the curtain's hem"; "it seeped along the hem of his jacket"

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1. Definition: 1. a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance;

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1. Definition: 1. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"

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1. Definition: 1. reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"

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1. Definition: 1. get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"

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1. Definition: 1. thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

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1. Definition: 1. street names for marijuana

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

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1. Definition: 1. a sharp slanting blow; "he gave me a clip on the ear"

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1. Definition: 1. the yield from plants in a single growing season

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

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1. Definition: 1. a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it

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1. Definition: 1. create a short circuit in

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1. Definition: 1. perform a stunt or stunts

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1. Definition: 1. leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"

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1. Definition: 1. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"

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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 used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads

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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. describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"

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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. make more complex, intricate, or richer;

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

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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. place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school"

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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 shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

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1. Definition: 1. become more compact or concentrated; "Her feelings condensed"

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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 a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench"

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1. Definition: 1. a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)

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

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1. Definition: 1. a magnifier of images of distant objects

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1. Definition: 1. embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; "The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition"

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1. Definition: 1. shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"

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1. Definition: 1. summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"

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