1. Definition: 1. affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market"

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1. Definition: 1. brief and to the point; effectively cut short;

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1. Definition: 1. create a short circuit in

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

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1. Definition: 1. short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"

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1. Definition: 1. a device that terminates the flow in a pipe

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1. Definition: 1. affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets; "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient"

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1. 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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1. 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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1. Definition: 1. habitually reserved and uncommunicative

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1. 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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1. Definition: 1. obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"

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1. Definition: 1. with parts removed; "the drastically cut film"

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1. 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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