- Definition: 1. reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
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- Definition: 1. affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market"
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- Definition: 1. create a short circuit in
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- Definition: 1. brief and to the point; effectively cut short;
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- Definition: 1. only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
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- 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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- Definition: 1. having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin
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- Definition: 1. briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"
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- Definition: 1. practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
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- Definition: 1. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
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- Definition: 1. adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
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- Definition: 1. shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
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- Definition: 1. obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"
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- Definition: 1. habitually reserved and uncommunicative
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- Definition: 1. briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"
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- Definition: 1. (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version"
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- Definition: 1. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"
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- Definition: 1. concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
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- Definition: 1. (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"
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