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1. Definition: 1. criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"

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1. Definition: 1. humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"

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1. Definition: 1. A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.

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1. Definition: 1. choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots"

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1. Definition: 1. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

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1. Definition: 1. the act of tearing; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear"

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1. Definition: 1. change direction; "The road bends"

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1. Definition: 1. undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"

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1. Definition: 1. tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

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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. explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel

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1. Definition: 1. a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

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1. Definition: 1. modify or bias;

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1. Definition: 1. the act of gouging

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1. Definition: 1. defeat someone through trickery or deceit

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1. Definition: 1. twist or curve abruptly; "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"

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1. Definition: 1. take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs;

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1. Definition: 1. make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked"

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1. Definition: 1. cut the top off;

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1. Definition: 1. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"

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1. Definition: 1. bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"

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1. Definition: 1. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"

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1. Definition: 1. a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

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1. Definition: 1. capture the attention or imagination of; "This story will grab you"; "The movie seized my imagination"

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1. Definition: 1. twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"

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1. Definition: 1. derive by reason; "elicit a solution"

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1. Definition: 1. remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

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1. Definition: 1. pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"

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1. Definition: 1. undergo development or evolution; "Modern man evolved a long time ago"

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1. Definition: 1. to make grasping motions; "the cat snatched at the butterflies"

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1. Definition: 1. a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt

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1. Definition: 1. get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner

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1. Definition: 1. remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"

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1. Definition: 1. fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong

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1. Definition: 1. animal hunted or caught for food

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1. Definition: 1. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

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1. Definition: 1. the ability and desire to purchase goods and services; "the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips"; "the demand exceeded the supply"

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1. Definition: 1. separate by avulsion

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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. sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere

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1. Definition: 1. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

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1. Definition: 1. shedding tears

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1. Definition: 1. a twisting force

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1. Definition: 1. squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"

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1. Definition: 1. criticize or abuse strongly and violently; "The candidate ripped into his opponent mercilessly"

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1. Definition: 1. an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar

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1. Definition: 1. recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"

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1. Definition: 1. become undone; "the sweater unraveled"

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1. Definition: 1. twist and press out of shape

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1. Definition: 1. become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle"

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1. Definition: 1. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

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1. Definition: 1. alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"

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1. Definition: 1. extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"

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1. Definition: 1. remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

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

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1. Definition: 1. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"

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1. Definition: 1. kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

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1. Definition: 1. extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information

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1. Definition: 1. (mathematics) a lack of symmetry

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1. Definition: 1. (mathematics) a lack of symmetry

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1. Definition: 1. release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task"

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1. Definition: 1. the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

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1. Definition: 1. surrendered as a penalty

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1. Definition: 1. behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality

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1. Definition: 1. an oblique or slanting asymmetry

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