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{
"enable":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to provide with the means or opportunity",
": to make possible, practical, or easy",
": to cause to operate",
": to give legal power, capacity, or sanction to",
": to give strength, power, or ability to : make able"
],
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8n\u0101-b\u0259l",
"i-\u02c8n\u0101-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"empower",
"let",
"permit"
],
"antonyms":[
"prevent"
],
"examples":[
"The machine enables us to create copies without losing quality.",
"The system enables students to access class materials online.",
"These choices are part of what enabled the company to be successful.",
"a filing system that enables easy access to information",
"Be sure to enable your computer's firewall.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The show wisely deepens the story lines of its supporting characters, all of whom suffer the consequences of Barry\u2019s violence\u2014or enable it. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022",
"Ventura still doesn't enable the installation of x86 operating systems on Apple Silicon Macs\u2014only running x86 apps within Arm operating systems. \u2014 Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica , 7 June 2022",
"Drivers of the bZ4X can enable one-pedal driving, but the braking reportedly isn\u2019t as strong as on some models. \u2014 Stephen Wilmot, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"The problem is that most of the children did not have enough concentration of the virus to enable more-sophisticated testing for a specific strain or to find out whether that strain might be novel. \u2014 Lena H. Sun, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"TikTok is far from the only social media platform to enable payments or virtual gifting between users, or to offer live broadcasting features. \u2014 Alexandra S. Levine, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022",
"But the current environment does enable some employees to switch jobs or more easily vie for higher-level positions. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Peter\u2019s parents reportedly turned down the Queen\u2019s offer of a royal title for their son, hoping instead to enable him to lead a more normal life. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 1 June 2022",
"Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister is pleading with Western nations to provide Kyiv with heavy weapons to enable it to push Russian forces back. \u2014 Ella Lee, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220007"
},
"encamp":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to set up or occupy a camp",
": to place or establish in a camp"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8kamp",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"bivouac",
"camp (out)"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the hike will take several days, and we plan to encamp along the trail",
"as the hurricane raged outside, the stranded tourists were encamped overnight in the high school gym",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The local leaders are inviting the protesters, some armed, to encamp for the long haul. \u2014 WSJ , 12 June 2020",
"Get your game on at Midwinter Gaming Convention Games people play \u2014 a whole lot of them \u2014 are the focus of the Midwinter Gaming Convention, which encamps this weekend at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center, 509 W. Wisconsin Ave. \u2014 Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 9 Jan. 2020",
"Wong-Wilson is a leader of the Mauna Kea kia\u2019i, a group of Native Hawaiians who have been encamped near the volcano\u2019s base since July. \u2014 Alexandra Witze, Scientific American , 20 Jan. 2020",
"While the volcano remains dangerous, with large numbers of local villagers encamped in emergency shelters, officials have begun discussing post-eruption recovery. \u2014 Aaron Favila And Jim Gomez, SFChronicle.com , 19 Jan. 2020",
"Instead of encamping in France, as was intended, the league\u2019s Paris franchise will instead be based in New Jersey at the start of the season, according to two people familiar with the team\u2019s operations and housing situation. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Jan. 2020",
"It's believed that everyone else died while encamped for the winter, or while attempting to walk back to civilization. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 30 Aug. 2019",
"The number of caravan migrants encamped at Tijuana\u2019s main shelter has dropped by more than half, according to local government officials and social workers. \u2014 Juan Montes, WSJ , 18 Jan. 2019",
"Actor Jason Momoa, who has born in Hawaii, visited the hundreds of demonstrators encamped at the base of Mauna Kea on the Big Island on Wednesday. \u2014 Doug Criss, CNN , 2 Aug. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1563, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203301"
},
"encapsulation":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to enclose in or as if in a capsule",
": epitomize , summarize",
": to become encapsulated",
": to surround, encase , or protect in or as if in a capsule",
": to become encapsulated"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8kap-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8kap-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"boil down",
"brief",
"digest",
"epitomize",
"outline",
"recap",
"recapitulate",
"reprise",
"sum up",
"summarize",
"synopsize",
"wrap up"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The contaminated material should be encapsulated and removed.",
"can you encapsulate the president's speech in about a paragraph?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Designer Richard Mier\u2019s and charity Perennial wanted to encapsulate the pleasure that gardens can give \u2013 like a gift of love. \u2014 Angelina Villa-clarke, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"With raving 5-star reviews, the fragrance highlights the top note of bergamot, a middle note of clary sage, and a base note of patchouli to encapsulate a uniquely fresh scent. \u2014 Rolling Stone , 20 May 2022",
"From short phrases and one-liners to quotes and song lyrics to use as captions, get ready to encapsulate all the summertime feels for an iconic feed. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 9 May 2022",
"The look was minimal but sophisticated, elegant but magnetic enough to encapsulate the evening's dress code. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 3 May 2022",
"Our backgrounds encapsulate two main branches of it: therapy and coaching. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"Some of the sprays encapsulate the coronavirus\u2019 spike proteins\u2014the prominent molecule that the virus uses to bind to human cells\u2014into tiny droplets that can be puffed into the sinuses. \u2014 Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American , 3 May 2022",
"The two songs encapsulate both musicians' unique styles \u2014 and their ability to crossover. \u2014 Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"To encapsulate what is going on here, consider the line spoken by Amanda Drinkall\u2019s Desdemona, right before her husband snuffs out her life in their bedroom. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 19 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1872, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173040"
},
"encasement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act or process of encasing : the state of being encased",
": case , covering"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8k\u0101-sm\u0259nt",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"armor",
"capsule",
"case",
"casing",
"cocoon",
"cover",
"covering",
"housing",
"hull",
"husk",
"jacket",
"pod",
"sheath",
"shell"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an encasement of several inches of silt had helped to preserve the sunken remains of the historic ship",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On Sunday, a man disguised as an elderly woman jumped out of a wheelchair and attacked the Mona Lisa and her high-tech glass encasement with cake. \u2014 Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 May 2022",
"The plant\u2019s four reactors have been shut down ever since, and an encasement called a sarcophagus covers the location of the original explosion and fire. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 3 May 2022",
"Lake Barkley is joined by Kentucky Lake in its encasement of the National Recreation Area known as Land Between the Lakes, or what locals who were removed from the land decades ago called the land Between the Rivers. \u2014 Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal , 6 July 2021",
"In transport companies also use plastic trays and encasement to secure products in transit. \u2014 Danielle Bernabe, Fortune , 28 June 2021",
"So the team extracted the entire pit, protected it with a plaster encasement and moved it to the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, and later to a specialized laboratory at CENIEH. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2021",
"Before bed, replace the protector or encasement and make your bed. \u2014 Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful , 31 July 2020",
"Yves Gallet, an art historian at Bordeaux Montaigne University, oversees a group that aims to study stones that are still in place, such as the encasements that cradle the four-story-diameter rose windows. \u2014 Christa Lest\u00e9-lasserre, Science | AAAS , 12 Mar. 2020",
"When the time is right for germination, the encasement automatically dissolves, leaving new tree life to take root. \u2014 Sunny Fitzgerald, Washington Post , 5 Dec. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1741, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-215015"
},
"enceinte":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": pregnant sense 1",
": a line of fortification enclosing a castle or town",
": the area so enclosed",
": pregnant"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4\u207f(n)-\u02c8sant",
"\u00e4\u207f(n)-\u02c8sant"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"caught",
"expectant",
"expecting",
"gone",
"gravid",
"heavy",
"pregnant",
"quick"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonpregnant"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"back in the days when a bride who was visibly enceinte was a cause for family embarrassment"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"1602, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"circa 1708, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192209"
},
"enchain":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to bind or hold with or as if with chains"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8ch\u0101n"
],
"synonyms":[
"bind",
"chain",
"enfetter",
"fetter",
"gyve",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"pinion",
"shackle",
"trammel"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbind",
"unfetter",
"unshackle"
],
"examples":[
"children who were enchained by an overprotective mother"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English encheynen , from Anglo-French enchaener , from en- + chaene chain",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-225112"
},
"encipher":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to convert (a message) into cipher"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8s\u012b-f\u0259r",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1577, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-204844"
},
"enclasp":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to seize and hold : embrace"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8klasp",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear-hug",
"clasp",
"crush",
"embrace",
"enfold",
"grasp",
"hug",
"strain"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"reached around and enclasped all four children at once"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1584, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173355"
},
"enclose":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to close in : surround",
": to fence off (common land) for individual use",
": to hold in : confine",
": to include along with something else in a parcel or envelope",
": to close in : surround",
": to hold in : confine",
": to put in the same package or envelope with something else"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8kl\u014dz",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8kl\u014dz"
],
"synonyms":[
"box (in)",
"cage",
"closet",
"coop (up)",
"corral",
"encage",
"encase",
"envelop",
"fence (in)",
"hedge",
"hem (in)",
"house",
"immure",
"include",
"mew (up)",
"pen",
"wall (in)"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The pie's flaky crust encloses a fruit filling.",
"Enclose the fish in foil and bake.",
"She enclosed a photo with the card.",
"Please enclose a check with your application.",
"Enclosed with this letter are the tickets you ordered.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Shortages of some aluminum parts used to enclose the battery packs created particular bottlenecks, the people said, because those packs must be installed early in the assembly process. \u2014 Sean Mclain, WSJ , 4 June 2022",
"Created with portability in mind, the travel-friendly mosquito repellent bracelet mimics the shape of a hair elastic, easily slipping onto your wrist (or ankle) to enclose you in an invisible protective barrier against insects. \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure , 3 June 2022",
"The OTR StillHouse\u2019s outdoor space comfortably accommodates hundreds of guests, and the buildings that enclose the courtyard provide a pleasant amount of shade for guests to enjoy. \u2014 Matt Koesters, The Enquirer , 28 Apr. 2022",
"For instance, designer David Zinn has built the show a lovely Buckingham Palace, repeating the gilt folderol of the Longacre Theatre\u2019s proscenium on the columns and gates that enclose the stage. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 17 Nov. 2021",
"During the musical\u2019s finale, Walter sits alone in front of bars that enclose the immigrant couple. \u2014 Ayanna Prescod, Variety , 4 Nov. 2021",
"An eight-foot-high fence would enclose the entire site and a 20 foot-wide landscape buffer put in place along the fence\u2019s exterior, Latinovic said. \u2014 Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The winds enclose a large pool of extremely cold air. \u2014 Michael A. Rawlins, The Conversation , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Pull the dough up and around the filling, pinching the dough firmly to enclose the filling. \u2014 Jessica Battilana, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, probably from enclos enclosed, from Anglo-French, past participle of enclore to enclose, from Vulgar Latin *inclaudere , alteration of Latin includere \u2014 more at include ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213107"
},
"encode":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to convert (something, such as a body of information) from one system of communication into another",
": to convert (a message) into code",
": to convey symbolically",
": to specify the genetic code for",
": to specify the genetic code for"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8k\u014dd",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8k\u014dd, en-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Credit cards are encoded with cardholder information.",
"a technology that encodes images",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With its ability to encode information as quantum bits or qubits, quantum computing has the capacity to deal with big, messy data sets, at exponentially high speeds, far more quickly than conventional computers. \u2014 Nitin Rakesh, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"Frontal regions are indeed heavily involved in communicative control and the regulation of impulsivity, whereas posterior regions encode and integrate sensory information, enabling us to react to our environment. \u2014 Karen Hopkin, Scientific American , 15 Sep. 2021",
"That\u2019s also true for therapies that use mRNA to encode proteins such as the enzyme Cas9, which can slice the genome to make permanent edits. \u2014 Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS , 16 Dec. 2020",
"And lawmakers should encode these kinds of protections into regulation, so the companies aren\u2019t allowed to police themselves. \u2014 Drew Harwell, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"But instead of soldiers jumping out, the adenovirus releases genes that encode the coronavirus' spike protein. \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 20 Mar. 2022",
"It is based on the idea that any form of biology anywhere in the universe will encode life\u2019s information in complex assemblages of molecules that are measurably distinct from lifeless matter. \u2014 Natalie Elliot, Scientific American , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Other languages force speakers to encode information that English doesn\u2019t. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 Mar. 2022",
"Not to get too nerdy, but studies on learning show that parceling out learning into bite-sized chunks allows the information to encode into long-term memory. \u2014 Sabrina Shafer, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1919, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191614"
},
"encompass":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": include , comprehend",
": envelop",
": to form a circle about : enclose",
": to go completely around",
": bring about , accomplish",
": to cover or surround : encircle",
": include"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8k\u0259m-p\u0259s",
"en-",
"also",
"in-\u02c8k\u0259m-p\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"circle",
"compass",
"embrace",
"encircle",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"environ",
"gird",
"girdle",
"ring",
"surround",
"wreathe"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The district encompasses most of the downtown area.",
"a neighborhood encompassed by a highway",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ultimately, Delta\u2019s state-of-the-art facility at LaGuardia will encompass both Terminal C and D and will span 1.3 million square feet, featuring 37 gates across four concourses. \u2014 Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
"Since its start in 2011, the project has expanded to encompass 500 sites at 144 national parks and other federal lands. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 28 May 2022",
"The Commerce Department on Tuesday reported that retail sales, which encompass spending in stores, at restaurants and online, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.9% in April from a month earlier. \u2014 Justin Lahart, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"The plan to modernize Milwaukee's streetlight system will encompass 79,000 streetlights across the city, according to Kruschke. \u2014 Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 10 May 2022",
"Air-One will encompass a whole host of services, including aircraft command and control, eVTOL charging, cargo loading for unmanned drones and demo flights. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 2 May 2022",
"The broader testing will encompass 10 other administrative districts and an economic development zone, which houses the headquarters for the e-commerce giant JD.com Inc. and other high-tech firms. \u2014 Time , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Maybe this detour into shootouts and explosions would be the start of something wonderful: a career pivot that could encompass both the Method to his madness and the multiplexes all at once. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The civil demonstrations, initially sparked by the rise of subway fares in the capital of Santiago, quickly grew to encompass a variety of grievances, including the rising cost of living, privatization and rampant inequality across the country. \u2014 Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety , 23 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-222529"
},
"encounter":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to meet as an adversary or enemy",
": to engage in conflict with",
": to come upon face-to-face",
": to come upon or experience especially unexpectedly",
": to meet especially by chance",
": a meeting between hostile factions or persons : a sudden often violent clash",
": a chance meeting",
": a particular kind of meeting or experience with another person",
": a coming into the vicinity of a celestial body",
": to meet face-to-face or by chance",
": to experience or face often unexpectedly",
": a meeting face-to-face and often by chance",
": an often unexpected experience"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8kau\u0307n-t\u0259r",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8kau\u0307n-t\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"chance (upon)",
"happen (upon)",
"meet",
"stumble (upon)"
],
"antonyms":[
"brush",
"hassle",
"run-in",
"scrape",
"skirmish"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"There\u2019s never a good time for the emergency siren to sound at the track, but hearts race a bit faster when Derby and Oaks contenders may encounter danger. \u2014 Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal , 30 Apr. 2022",
"When people encounter problems with banks or other large organizations, Cooper said documenting the issue is a good first step. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Make a polished, highly polished, draft, until the words no longer encounter friction with their meanings? \u2014 Elena Ferrante, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"That danger can be compounded when out-of-towners encounter unfamiliar weather. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2022",
"Gilstrap is originally from South Carolina and had only been in the Tuscaloosa area for a few weeks prior to the Nov. 17, encounter with police. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Everything that could go wrong does, prompted by the disregard, bias or outright bigotry that has been at work when police officers encounter people of color or people with mental illness. \u2014 Lisa Kennedy, Variety , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Pok\u00e9mon also released a 3-minute trailer of the game, showing off the first gameplay of the game, as well as new characters and Pok\u00e9mon players will get to encounter . \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"Along the way, expect to encounter some 300 species of birds, alligators and white-tailed deer (keep your binoculars handy!). \u2014 Perri Ormont Blumberg, Chron , 29 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The deadly encounter happened around 4:47 p.m. in El Monte, a city east of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department said. \u2014 Phil Helsel, NBC News , 15 June 2022",
"After watching video of the most recent encounter , the officer arrested the resident for disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 15 June 2022",
"Wilkerson started the car and resumed driving, trying to digest the encounter . \u2014 John Blake, CNN , 11 June 2022",
"Despite the 50-plus years that have passed, the encounter largely remains absorbing and stingingly relevant. \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 10 June 2022",
"The incident is the latest violent encounter in the city's transit system. \u2014 Fox News , 2 June 2022",
"The man whose car was shot on U.S. 26 told investigators the violent encounter changed his life. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 May 2022",
"The videos were revealed by prosecutors in a series of recent court filings that detailed not only Brown\u2019s purported hatred of police but also his movements in the days and weeks before the violent encounter . \u2014 Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Palmer stars as the titular Alice, a slave living on a Georgia plantation that flees captivity after a violent encounter with her owner. \u2014 Rivea Ruff, Essence , 16 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-221431"
},
"encourage":{
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope : hearten",
": to attempt to persuade : urge",
": to spur on : stimulate",
": to give help or patronage to : foster",
": make more determined, hopeful, or confident : hearten",
": to give help or support to : aid"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8k\u0259r-ij",
"-\u02c8k\u0259-rij",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8k\u0259r-ij"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear up",
"buck up",
"buoy (up)",
"cheer (up)",
"chirk (up)",
"embolden",
"hearten",
"inspire",
"inspirit",
"steel"
],
"antonyms":[
"daunt",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then, applicants would share that video on social media using a sponsor-specific hashtag and encourage their followers to vote for their pitch and follow the sponsor. \u2014 Lou Cysewski, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"To be ready, the Biden administration has been gearing up to get sufficient supplies of the shots to hospitals, retail pharmacies and other vaccination sites and encourage parents to sign up. \u2014 Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"The plans meet zoning requirements, would boost tourism and foot traffic, and encourage entrepreneurial, innovative businesses, the department says. \u2014 Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant , 15 June 2022",
"The women featured in Taylor\u2019s collages went on to form Artemis Medical Society, which is made up of physicians of color who work to promote diversity in the medical fields and encourage the next generation of doctors. \u2014 Karen Idelson, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"Its programs teach people of all abilities to sail, paddle and windsurf on the Charles River \u2014 and encourage volunteerism. \u2014 Erin E. Williams, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"The group had been in school for 90% of April, and the event was a way to award and encourage more students to attend school regularly. \u2014 CBS News , 7 June 2022",
"Strong labor markets often encourage people to forgo training, but this economic moment poses unusually difficult trade-offs for students with families or other financial responsibilities. \u2014 New York Times , 6 June 2022",
"Ten might have been unable to steal their weapons because of efforts to require or encourage safer gun storage. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203613"
},
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"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
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": to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another",
": to advance beyond the usual or proper limits",
": to take over the rights or property of another little by little or in secret",
": to go beyond the usual or proper limits",
": to enter especially gradually or stealthily into the possessions or rights of another"
],
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"in-\u02c8kr\u014dch",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8kr\u014dch",
"in-\u02c8kr\u014dch"
],
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"creep",
"inch",
"worm"
],
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"examples":[
"The suburbs encroach further into the rural areas each year.",
"each year the sea continues to encroach upon the island's beaches",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Concerned that China\u2019s strict zero-COVID-19 controls will further encroach on basic freedoms and lead to economic and social stagnation, Carol and many of her peers are exploring contingency plans to move overseas. \u2014 Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor , 8 June 2022",
"And as humans continue to encroach on wild spaces, frogs are undoubtedly coming into more frequent contact with new species, or even unfamiliar objects, that could distract them from better prospects. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 17 May 2022",
"Without his eyedrops, Pellegrin\u2019s optic nerve would deteriorate under pressure inside his eyes; the blackness that occludes his peripheral vision would continue to encroach . \u2014 Ben Taub, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Rodriguez looked pained, as if the conversation had begun to encroach on uncomfortable territory. \u2014 Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker , 26 May 2022",
"The new law might appear to encroach upon many of Hong Kong films\u2019 favorite themes, such as crime, corruption and triad gangs, but few have so far sought to test it. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 18 May 2022",
"That meeting also depends on the condition that Moscow's troops don't further encroach into Ukraine. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Starting in the 1930s, city development began to encroach on Fourth Ward, despite its importance as a historic and cultural center, to make room for a new City Hall and the Gulf Freeway, among other projects. \u2014 Lauren Mcdowell, Chron , 28 Apr. 2022",
"And soon, dozens of offshore wind turbines - part of President Joe Biden\u2019s clean energy agenda - will encroach their habitat as the administration tries to balance tackling global warming with protecting wildlife. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1528, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203136"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
],
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": encipher",
": encode sense 1a"
],
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"in-\u02c8kript",
"en-"
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"examples":[
"The software will encrypt the message before it is sent.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The services encrypt your internet connection, preventing ISPs and governments from snooping on your web activities. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 18 May 2022",
"For Meta, there\u2019s another inherent risk in their plans to fully encrypt Messenger and Instagram. \u2014 Zak Doffman, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Ensure that backups are regularly tested and that they are not connected to the business network, as many ransomware variants try to find and encrypt or delete accessible backups. \u2014 Edward Segal, Forbes , 4 June 2021",
"Apps that are unable to send or receive messages but can be used to encrypt communications have also found a market in authoritarian countries. \u2014 Elad Natanson, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"B\u00f6ck also found four vulnerable PGP keys, typically used to encrypt email, on SKS PGP key servers. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Nvidia only managed to encrypt one of the group\u2019s virtual machines during the breach. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Brett Callow, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emisoft, said BlackByte's malware, like many ransomware variants, is hardcoded to not encrypt systems that use Russian or languages used by certain Russian allies. \u2014 CBS News , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Cybersecurity researchers have yet to independently confirm what sort of ransomware was used to encrypt Belarusian Railways' systems. \u2014 Andy Greenberg, Wired , 25 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":" en- entry 1 + -crypt (in cryptanalysis , cryptogram ), perhaps after decrypt ",
"first_known_use":[
"1944, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185514"
},
"encumbrance":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": something that encumbers : impediment , burden",
": a claim (such as a mortgage) against property",
": a claim (as a lien) against property",
": an interest or right (as an easement or a lease) in real property that may diminish the value of the estate but does not prevent the conveyance of the estate"
],
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"in-\u02c8k\u0259m-br\u0259n(t)s"
],
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"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
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"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"shackles",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
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"examples":[
"without the encumbrance of a heavy backpack, I could sprint along the trail",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The data from commercial spacecraft may not be as high-quality as those the latest U.S. spy satellites can reap, but they can be easily shared without the encumbrance of security restrictions. \u2014 Robert Wall, WSJ , 1 May 2022",
"Other skeptical reactions include preferences for the convenience of pills over the encumbrance of headsets, or fears that the widespread prescribing of V.R. will mean losing access to painkillers. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"However, the total quality of our freedom, the ability to move without encumbrance or a hindrance is a far piece off still. \u2014 Candace Mcduffie, The Christian Science Monitor , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Don't like encumbrance rules or somatic requirements to cast spells? \u2014 Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online , 14 June 2021",
"While some of his ministers still live in Yemen, Hadi remains holed up in Riyadh, a mostly impotent encumbrance to his backers, his value limited to his (unopposed) election, and the aura of democracy that confers on his government. \u2014 Nic Robertson, Nada Bashir And Charbel Mallo, CNN , 23 Apr. 2021",
"Females are accused of Satanic encumbrance , hunted by law enforcement, tormented by reactionary bros, even lobotomized. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 8 Apr. 2021",
"Funds not obligated by Nov. 20 need to be returned to the county fiscal officer, and those will be redistributed to cities that have met the encumbrance requirements, Rubino said. \u2014 Ed Wittenberg, cleveland , 7 Oct. 2020",
"Freed from the encumbrances of physical infrastructure, fitness can happen anywhere, in any form, anytime. \u2014 Michael Owen, The Atlantic , 29 May 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1535, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190729"
},
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"adjective",
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": the part of an area that lies at the boundary",
": a point that marks the extent of something",
": the point where something ceases to exist",
": the extreme or last part lengthwise : tip",
": the terminal unit of something spatial that is marked off by units",
": a player stationed at the extremity of a line or team (as in football)",
": cessation of a course of action, pursuit, or activity",
": death , destruction",
": the ultimate state",
": result , issue",
": something incomplete, fragmentary, or undersized : remnant",
": an outcome worked toward : purpose",
": the object by virtue of or for the sake of which an event takes place",
": a share in an undertaking",
": a particular operation or aspect of an undertaking or organization",
": something that is extreme : ultimate",
": a period of action or turn in any of various sports events (such as archery or lawn bowling)",
": after all , ultimately",
": exceedingly",
": without a stop or letup",
": to bring to an end",
": destroy",
": to make up the end of",
": to come to an end",
": to reach a specified ultimate rank, situation, or place",
": die",
": final , ultimate",
": to put (grain or hay) into a barn or stack",
": within : inside",
"\u2014 compare ect- , exo-",
": taking in",
": the part near the boundary of an area",
": the point where something stops or ceases to exist",
": the first or last part of a thing",
": death sense 1 , destruction",
": purpose , goal",
": a player in football positioned at the end of the line of scrimmage",
": a part of an undertaking",
": to bring or come to an end : stop , finish",
": to reach or come to a place, condition, or situation unexpectedly"
],
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"\u02c8end",
"\u02c8end"
],
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"arrest",
"arrestment",
"cease",
"cessation",
"check",
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"closedown",
"closure",
"conclusion",
"cutoff",
"discontinuance",
"discontinuation",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"offset",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stay",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
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"close",
"close out",
"complete",
"conclude",
"finish",
"round (off ",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"As a result, travel industry officials hiked pressure on U.S. government officials to lift the testing requirement, saying business could not fully recover without an end to the mandate. \u2014 Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc , 10 June 2022",
"The display was put there by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America as part of Wear Orange Weekend, a national movement by the organization to honor the lives lost to gun violence and to demand an end to gun violence nationally and locally. \u2014 Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun , 10 June 2022",
"Fundamentally, the human brain is not designed to perform the same task repeatedly with no end in sight. \u2014 Lior Elazary, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"After the Parkland shooting, in which a gunman killed 14 students and three staff members, the teenage survivors sparked a political movement to demand an end to school shootings and everyday gun violence. \u2014 Ellie Silverman, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"Then, one weekend in March, the peace that had helped win Bukele wide support came to an abrupt end . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Mayor London Breed said Wednesday that the recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin does not signal an end to progressive approaches to law enforcement in San Francisco. \u2014 J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle , 8 June 2022",
"So many poetry collections from the \u201980s and \u201990s capture loving in the face of an imminent end . \u2014 Joseph Osmundson, The Atlantic , 8 June 2022",
"Turkey has sought to play a role in negotiating an end to the war and in brokering the resumption of grain shipments. \u2014 Bernat Armangu\u00e9 And Yuras Karmanau, Anchorage Daily News , 8 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Reynolds lined out to right field to end that inning, and the Reds didn\u2019t have another runner reach third base until there were two outs in the eighth inning. \u2014 Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer , 11 June 2022",
"Mendick\u2019s throw to first made it just in time to end the inning. \u2014 Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune , 5 June 2022",
"Hayes and Bryan Reynolds, then got Daniel Vogelbach to ground out to first base to end the inning. \u2014 Jos\u00e9 M. Romero, The Arizona Republic , 5 June 2022",
"The freshman lefty from Howell then picked up a strikeout to end the inning, followed by four more scoreless innings, taking the Chips into the 12th. \u2014 Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press , 5 June 2022",
"Then Ayon gets consecutive strikeouts to end the inning. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 June 2022",
"Lindor came up with runners on first and second in the eighth but grounded out to end the inning. \u2014 Joe Reedy, ajc , 4 June 2022",
"Andrew Benintendi, the Royals\u2019 runner at first, was awarded two bases on the error and was at third when Plesac struck out MJ Melendez to end the inning. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 30 May 2022",
"Walls, in a 1-for-34 slide, homered on a 3-and-1 fastball from Luis Severino (3-1) for a 2-1 lead in the fifth and then made an outstanding defensive play at second to end the eighth inning. \u2014 Dick Scanlon, Hartford Courant , 29 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Another helpful metric to track during the digital journey is one that is very end -of-funnel-centric. \u2014 Ashlee Piga, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The response: The invasion of Ukraine is bringing to an end Western investment in Russia. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
"This is just before the end -Permian extinction event. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Curling: Four years after losing in the Pyeongchang final to American upstart John Shuster, Niklas Edin led Sweden to the gold medal, beating Britain 5-4 in the first extra- end men\u2019s final in Olympic history. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The sale is especially great for travelers who haven't booked end -of-year trips\u2014or are looking to gift a stay to a friend. \u2014 Meredith Carey, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 29 Nov. 2021",
"When his parents find out, George's father comes up with a scheme to raise giant animals to get rich and end world hunger. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 17 Dec. 2020",
"The new facility will replace Gilchrist\u2019s inpatient hospice center on Eutaw Street downtown, which has provided end -of-life care for city residents for over 30 years. \u2014 Angela Roberts, baltimoresun.com , 10 Nov. 2020",
"Brown has received a request to host a virtual Wisdom Sharing Night at the monthly meeting of the Minnesota Death Collaborative, an organization of end -of-life professionals. \u2014 Julie Kendrick Next Avenue, Star Tribune , 14 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb (1)",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
"Adjective",
"13th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb (2)",
"1607, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-224312"
},
"endamage":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to cause loss or damage to"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8da-mij"
],
"synonyms":[
"blemish",
"bloody",
"break",
"compromise",
"crab",
"cripple",
"cross (up)",
"damage",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"spoil",
"vitiate"
],
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"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"examples":[
"a thoughtless indiscretion that endamaged a reputation that took a lifetime to build"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-222422"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to bring into danger or peril",
": to create a dangerous situation",
": to expose to possible harm : risk",
": to bring into danger or peril",
": to create a dangerous situation"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u0101n-j\u0259r",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8d\u0101n-j\u0259r"
],
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"adventure",
"compromise",
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"menace",
"peril",
"risk",
"venture"
],
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"examples":[
"Parents feared that the dog could endanger their children.",
"The severe drought has endangered crops throughout the area.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Public anger over the state\u2019s high taxes and rising prices could endanger their legislative supermajority and perhaps even the fate of Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who is running for re-election this fall. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"When faced with a stampede of buffaloes who may endanger them, lions escape up into the branches. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Mar. 2022",
"And the safety of women should not be compromised for the sake of a radical agenda that would endanger them. \u2014 Nate Grasz, National Review , 25 Feb. 2022",
"But the term doxxing\u2014which refers to publicly revealing information about someone, often to endanger them\u2014does not really fit what happened. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 17 Feb. 2022",
"No matter where or when they are used, explosive weapons endanger a child's most fundamental rights. \u2014 Alexandra Grossi, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Many players have either kept completely quiet or been extremely calculated in their comments about Griner, worried that talking about her situation could further endanger her. \u2014 Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Police allege the five conspired to endanger China\u2019s national security by calling on foreign entities to impose sanctions on Hong Kong, arresting them under a sweeping law imposed by Beijing in June 2020 that criminalizes most dissent. \u2014 Elaine Yu And Selina Cheng, WSJ , 15 May 2022",
"However, mine expansion may endanger and wipe out the species, Jameson explains to the Independent. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1964, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-193606"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to bring into danger or peril",
": to create a dangerous situation",
": to expose to possible harm : risk",
": to bring into danger or peril",
": to create a dangerous situation"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u0101n-j\u0259r",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8d\u0101n-j\u0259r"
],
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"adventure",
"compromise",
"gamble (with)",
"hazard",
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"jeopard",
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"menace",
"peril",
"risk",
"venture"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Parents feared that the dog could endanger their children.",
"The severe drought has endangered crops throughout the area.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Public anger over the state\u2019s high taxes and rising prices could endanger their legislative supermajority and perhaps even the fate of Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who is running for re-election this fall. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"When faced with a stampede of buffaloes who may endanger them, lions escape up into the branches. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Mar. 2022",
"And the safety of women should not be compromised for the sake of a radical agenda that would endanger them. \u2014 Nate Grasz, National Review , 25 Feb. 2022",
"But the term doxxing\u2014which refers to publicly revealing information about someone, often to endanger them\u2014does not really fit what happened. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 17 Feb. 2022",
"No matter where or when they are used, explosive weapons endanger a child's most fundamental rights. \u2014 Alexandra Grossi, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Many players have either kept completely quiet or been extremely calculated in their comments about Griner, worried that talking about her situation could further endanger her. \u2014 Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Police allege the five conspired to endanger China\u2019s national security by calling on foreign entities to impose sanctions on Hong Kong, arresting them under a sweeping law imposed by Beijing in June 2020 that criminalizes most dissent. \u2014 Elaine Yu And Selina Cheng, WSJ , 15 May 2022",
"However, mine expansion may endanger and wipe out the species, Jameson explains to the Independent. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1964, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211818"
},
"endgame":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the stage of a chess game after major reduction of forces",
": the final stage of some action or process"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en(d)-\u02ccg\u0101m"
],
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"capper",
"close",
"closing",
"conclusion",
"consummation",
"end",
"ending",
"finale",
"finis",
"finish",
"grand finale",
"homestretch",
"mop-up",
"windup",
"wrap-up"
],
"antonyms":[
"baseline",
"beginning",
"dawn",
"day one",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"opening",
"start"
],
"examples":[
"they're now in the endgame of the negotiations for a new labor contract",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Will that be the case with Vecna or is his story a part of the endgame ? \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"Either way, the endgame is the same \u2014 to empower companies and employees with the market observations and insights needed to make better decisions. \u2014 Josh Dunham, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"This entire method of determining a nominee is stupid because, as upsetting as Fessy leaving might have been for certain people, his exit benefits everyone\u2019s endgame . \u2014 Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture , 22 Sep. 2021",
"Not that the movie\u2019s endgame \u2014 a bloody, fiery spectacle of destruction that suggests the Revelations to that prologue\u2019s Genesis \u2014 would be entirely out of place in most Hollywood blockbusters, give or take a lot of CGI. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Aug. 2021",
"After 2\u00bd violent months, the standoff at the Azovstal plant appears to be entering an endgame . \u2014 David L. Stern, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"An agreement is not yet final and may still fall apart, but what had initially seemed to be a highly improbable deal appeared to be nearing an endgame . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Ultimately, fans know that KaToby is not endgame as a flashforward in the season 5 finale saw Kate getting married to music school boss Phillip (Chris Geere). \u2014 Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com , 22 Mar. 2022",
"As well as focusing on the endgame , position yourself to enjoy the journey. \u2014 Jodie Cook, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1881, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194925"
},
"ending":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": something that constitutes an end: such as",
": conclusion",
": one or more letters or syllables added to a word base especially in inflection",
": the final part : end"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-di\u014b",
"\u02c8en-di\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[
"capper",
"close",
"closing",
"conclusion",
"consummation",
"end",
"endgame",
"finale",
"finis",
"finish",
"grand finale",
"homestretch",
"mop-up",
"windup",
"wrap-up"
],
"antonyms":[
"baseline",
"beginning",
"dawn",
"day one",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"opening",
"start"
],
"examples":[
"I didn't like the book's ending .",
"Common verb endings in English are \u201c-s,\u201d \u201c-ed,\u201d and \u201c-ing.\u201d",
"You can often recognize an English adverb by its \u201c-ly\u201d ending .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While these changes didn\u2019t require the filmmakers to also alter the story's ending , the writers have chosen to waive Saunders\u2019 more tragic finale in favor of conventional Hollywood escape. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 18 June 2022",
"That this brutal ending represents the beginning of something bigger. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Anyway, as the conclusion wisely, lightly, warmly affirms, at 22, no one should be hoping for a neat ending ; that\u2019s when adult life is only at its gloriously messy beginning. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"There are a surprise twist and a jubilant happy ending . \u2014 Kathleen Walsh, Glamour , 16 June 2022",
"By beating the Celtics 103-90 in Game 6 of the Finals, Golden State authored a fitting ending to the most unexpected chapter of this dynasty. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 June 2022",
"But Raiff sends Andrew on what turns out to be an unexpected journey that makes its way to its own version of a happy ending with tenderness, warmth and knockabout wit. \u2014 Ann Hornaday, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"The movie\u2019s ending is misguided to the point of being perplexing rather than upsetting, recasting everything that came before it in a less favorable light. \u2014 Michael Nordine, Variety , 14 June 2022",
"Core inflation, which factors out food and energy rose 6% year-over-year ending in May, down just slightly from April's 6.2%. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 10 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-204356"
},
"endlessly":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": being or seeming to be without end",
": extremely numerous",
": joined at the ends",
": lasting or taking a long time",
": joined at the ends : continuous"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en(d)-l\u0259s",
"\u02c8end-l\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottomless",
"boundless",
"fathomless",
"horizonless",
"illimitable",
"immeasurable",
"immensurable",
"indefinite",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unbounded",
"unfathomable",
"unlimited"
],
"antonyms":[
"bounded",
"circumscribed",
"confined",
"definite",
"finite",
"limited",
"restricted"
],
"examples":[
"There was an endless line at the bank.",
"There is endless work to do on the house.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Modern technology now moves at a lightning pace, with endless updates to phones, cameras and other gadgets. \u2014 Megan C. Hills, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"However, between sifting through the seemingly endless air purifier models and becoming familiarized with the technical jargon that plagues air purifier product descriptions, finding the best one for your budget and needs can be a challenge. \u2014 Will Briskin, Popular Mechanics , 10 June 2022",
"No one likes waiting on hold to reach a customer service agent, and navigating an endless phone tree is no fun. \u2014 Gaurav Tewari, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"The largest lake entirely in New York State, Oneida, has long been a magnet for vacationers who flock here to take in its natural beauty and stay active, thanks to a seemingly endless list of recreational activities. \u2014 Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure , 9 June 2022",
"The festivities constituted a celebration of art in its endless forms. \u2014 Ian Malone, Vogue , 9 June 2022",
"The wars returned things to white, this time in an endless 4-by-4 square grid, while also bringing industrialization, standardization and the beginning of cheaper \u2014 and less durable \u2014 ways of building. \u2014 Krystal Chang, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"The old ways of building relationships between act and audience (liner notes, audio quality) are subordinated by the new: algorithmic curation, which invites endless listening but not active engagement. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
"Some used their monologues to lament years of inaction, even as the country swelled with more guns than people while being pummeled with a seemingly endless series of mass shootings. \u2014 Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post , 26 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-193229"
},
"endorse":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to write on the back of",
": to sign one's name as payee on the back of (a check) in order to obtain the cash or credit represented on the face",
": to inscribe (one's signature) on a check, bill, or note",
": to inscribe (something, such as an official document) with a title or memorandum",
": to make over to another (the value represented in a check, bill, or note) by inscribing one's name on the document",
": to acknowledge receipt of (a sum specified) by one's signature on a document",
": to approve openly",
": to express support or approval of publicly and definitely",
": to recommend (something, such as a product or service) usually for financial compensation",
": to report or note the presence of (a symptom)",
": to show support or approval for",
": to sign the back of to receive payment",
": to write on the back of",
": to sign one's name as payee on the back of (an instrument) in order to receive the cash or credit represented on the face",
": to inscribe (as one's signature or a notation accompanied by one's signature) on an instrument (as a note or bill) especially to transfer or guarantee it",
": to transfer (an instrument) to another by inscribing one's signature",
": to inscribe (as an official document) with a notation (as of date or title)",
": to inscribe (an instrument) with a blank endorsement"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u022frs",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8d\u022frs"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"back",
"champion",
"patronize",
"plump (for)",
"plunk (for)",
"plonk (for)",
"support"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The newspaper has endorsed the conservative candidate for mayor.",
"We do not endorse their position.",
"She endorses a line of clothing.",
"That brand of sneaker is endorsed by several basketball stars.",
"You must endorse the check before you deposit it in the bank.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"If the agency's advisers endorse one or both shots for them -- and the FDA agrees -- there\u2019s still another hurdle. \u2014 Lauran Neergaard, ajc , 10 June 2022",
"His fellow IndyCar drivers endorse the idea \u2014 even Pato O\u2019Ward, a rival young series star who\u2019s hoping for a shot himself. \u2014 Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"Fifty plus candidates endorse some version of the big lie. \u2014 ABC News , 22 May 2022",
"Nobody would endorse you, or at least very few people would. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"Delegates will debate whether the party should endorse candidates in statewide races, a process of unfair anointment to some, and whether to back policies that push the party further right. \u2014 Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel , 20 May 2022",
"Congressional Republicans, by contrast, won\u2019t endorse an international minimum even in principle. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 19 May 2022",
"On the other hand, the opinion does endorse the views of NFP sponsors. \u2014 Peter J Reilly, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
"Even Nicolas Sarkozy, the party\u2019s last French president, from 2007 to 2012, didn\u2019t endorse her. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"alteration of obsolete endoss , from Middle English endosen , from Anglo-French endosser , to put on, don, write on the back of, from en- + dos back, from Latin dorsum ",
"first_known_use":[
"1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-184024"
},
"endorsement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act or process of endorsing",
": something that is written in the process of endorsing",
": a provision added to an insurance contract altering its scope or application",
": sanction , approval",
": money earned from a product recommendation",
": the act or process of endorsing",
": an inscription (as a signature or notation) on a document or instrument",
": an inscription usually on the back of a negotiable instrument that transfers or guarantees the instrument",
": an endorsement (as a signature) of a negotiable instrument that does not name a transferee and that makes the instrument payable to bearer",
": an endorsement of a negotiable instrument with words (as \u201cwithout recourse\u201d) that limit or qualify the endorser's liability",
": an endorsement of a negotiable instrument with words (as \u201cfor deposit only\u201d) that limit the further negotiation of the instrument",
": an endorsement of a negotiable instrument with words (as \u201cPay to Jane Doe\u201d) that make the instrument payable to a specified person",
": a provision added to an insurance policy that alters its coverage"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u022fr-sm\u0259nt",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the weeks after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Ginni Thomas apologized to those on the email list for a rift that developed among them after her pro-Trump advocacy and endorsement of his Jan. 6 rally. \u2014 Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"Trump\u2019s endorsement and the fact that the winner will likely prevail in November in a state Trump won twice by more than 25 percentage points. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022",
"In the weeks after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Ginni Thomas apologized to those on the email list for a rift that developed among them after her pro-Trump advocacy and endorsement of his Jan. 6 rally. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2022",
"That endorsement stood for nearly a year until Trump rescinded it as the conservative firebrand languished in the polls. \u2014 CBS News , 20 June 2022",
"The power of former president Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement is being put to the test \u2014 again. \u2014 Charles Hilu, National Review , 20 June 2022",
"Caruso, who registered as a Democrat earlier this year, did not seek the group\u2019s endorsement . \u2014 David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times , 18 June 2022",
"Other school-choice candidates running for open seats also won, several with Ms. Reynolds\u2019s endorsement . \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Palin launched her campaign for the seat in April and almost immediately earned Trump\u2019s endorsement , likely boosting her fortunes in a state Trump won by 10 points in 2020. \u2014 Joe Walsh, Forbes , 16 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1547, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185752"
},
"endue":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": provide , endow",
": imbue , transfuse",
": put on , don"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8d\u00fc",
"-\u02c8dy\u00fc",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"imbue",
"inculcate",
"infuse",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"inoculate",
"invest",
"steep",
"suffuse"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"professional soldiers endued with an ironclad sense of duty and honor",
"she's always been endued with an unquenchable optimism"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French enduire to introduce, imbue, from Latin inducere \u2014 more at induce ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203913"
},
"endurable":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": capable of being endured : bearable"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8du\u0307r-\u0259-b\u0259l",
"-\u02c8dyu\u0307r-",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearable",
"sufferable",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"tolerable"
],
"antonyms":[
"insufferable",
"insupportable",
"intolerable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"unsupportable"
],
"examples":[
"a flu shot is never pleasant, but I find the momentary pain entirely endurable",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even the struggles the characters faced were, in the end, endurable with mutual support and winsome optimism. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 9 Dec. 2021",
"Among his symptoms were blindness, paralysis, a weight of just seventy pounds, excruciating spinal pain\u2014made endurable only by opium taken three ways, including poured into wounds kept open for the purpose. \u2014 Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books , 22 July 2021",
"Among his symptoms were blindness, paralysis, a weight of just seventy pounds, excruciating spinal pain\u2014made endurable only by opium taken three ways, including poured into wounds kept open for the purpose. \u2014 Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books , 22 July 2021",
"Among his symptoms were blindness, paralysis, a weight of just seventy pounds, excruciating spinal pain\u2014made endurable only by opium taken three ways, including poured into wounds kept open for the purpose. \u2014 Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books , 22 July 2021",
"Among his symptoms were blindness, paralysis, a weight of just seventy pounds, excruciating spinal pain\u2014made endurable only by opium taken three ways, including poured into wounds kept open for the purpose. \u2014 Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books , 22 July 2021",
"Among his symptoms were blindness, paralysis, a weight of just seventy pounds, excruciating spinal pain\u2014made endurable only by opium taken three ways, including poured into wounds kept open for the purpose. \u2014 Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books , 22 July 2021",
"Among his symptoms were blindness, paralysis, a weight of just seventy pounds, excruciating spinal pain\u2014made endurable only by opium taken three ways, including poured into wounds kept open for the purpose. \u2014 Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books , 22 July 2021",
"Among his symptoms were blindness, paralysis, a weight of just seventy pounds, excruciating spinal pain\u2014made endurable only by opium taken three ways, including poured into wounds kept open for the purpose. \u2014 Michael Hofmann, The New York Review of Books , 22 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1796, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-184253"
},
"endurance":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the ability to withstand hardship or adversity",
": the ability to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity",
": the act or an instance of enduring or suffering",
": permanence , duration",
": the ability to put up with strain, suffering, or hardship"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8du\u0307r-\u0259n(t)s",
"-\u02c8dyu\u0307r-",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8du\u0307r-\u0259ns",
"-\u02c8dyu\u0307r-"
],
"synonyms":[
"abidance",
"ceaselessness",
"continuance",
"continuation",
"continuity",
"continuousness",
"durability",
"duration",
"persistence",
"subsistence"
],
"antonyms":[
"cessation",
"close",
"discontinuance",
"discontinuity",
"end",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
"examples":[
"The exercise program is designed to increase both strength and endurance .",
"the endurance of his love for his wife was not arrested even by her death",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"With any luck, a few of the leaves will be just starting to change color on race day and the air will be a perfect temp in the 50s for the endurance athletes. \u2014 Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel , 16 June 2022",
"Clingan\u2019s biggest weaknesses are his overall endurance and increasing lateral quickness on defense. \u2014 Shreyas Laddha, Hartford Courant , 9 June 2022",
"In contrast to such provocateurs as Lars von Trier or Nicolas Winding Refn, who bracket their cinematic endurance tests in compulsory irony, Cronenberg is in some senses a peculiarly earnest filmmaker. \u2014 Adam Nayman, The New Yorker , 3 June 2022",
"Its overall carb content is quite high, which actually makes this a great bar for runners or other endurance athletes looking for a snack or meal replacement that will keep them full and energized. \u2014 Elaheh Nozari, Bon App\u00e9tit , 27 May 2022",
"Tifosi is clear that its Crit line of polarized sunglasses is purpose-built for endurance athletes. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 17 May 2022",
"Throughout the summer and fall, Big Bear Lake hosts a variety of events for endurance athletes, including the Tour de Big Bear, the Kodiak 100 Ultra Marathon, and a one-mile uphill race called Conquer the Wall. \u2014 Outside Online , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The second month is rehab and the third month is basically starting to get your physical endurance , stamina, strength back to 100 percent. \u2014 Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"This complements testimony from aged performers (most recorded just before passing on) who recall the hardships and verify their endurance . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 18 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-184546"
},
"endure":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to continue in the same state : last entry 1",
": to remain firm under suffering or misfortune without yielding",
": to undergo especially without giving in : suffer",
": to regard with acceptance or tolerance",
": to continue to exist over a long time : last",
": to experience without giving in",
": to put up with"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8du\u0307r",
"-\u02c8dyu\u0307r",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8du\u0307r",
"-\u02c8dyu\u0307r"
],
"synonyms":[
"experience",
"feel",
"have",
"know",
"pass",
"see",
"suffer",
"sustain",
"taste",
"undergo",
"witness"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She wants to make sure her legacy will endure .",
"He endured five years as a prisoner of war.",
"We endured the lecture for as long as we could.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Its wide brim keeps the sun from beaming on your neck, and the water-resistant nylon material is durable enough to endure some light rain. \u2014 Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping , 15 June 2022",
"Minors had been beaten and stabbed and had fingernails or teeth removed during interrogation, while some were made to endure mock executions, according to a report from Tom Andrews, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 15 June 2022",
"To go to Parris Island, South Carolina, to endure two days of training at the Marine Corps boot camp. \u2014 Fox News , 15 June 2022",
"Having a history, and in particular having a championship history, also means having to endure the what-if moments. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 14 June 2022",
"The challenge for many is that investing in anything outside of cash means having to endure volatility. \u2014 Jonathan Dash, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"And, for now, some neighborhoods are equipped with fewer trees to endure it. \u2014 Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"China\u2019s economic activity showed some signs of recovery in May, albeit at a slow pace, as Beijing, Shanghai and other big cities continued to endure pandemic restrictions. \u2014 Jeffrey Sparshott, WSJ , 12 June 2022",
"And maybe, at the hospital, we would have been given the option of a surgical evacuation instead of being sent home to endure a risky second-trimester fetal demise. \u2014 Jerald Walker, Washington Post , 10 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French endurer , from Vulgar Latin *indurare , from Latin, to harden, from in- + durare to harden, endure \u2014 more at during ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185938"
},
"enemy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that is antagonistic to another",
": one seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound an opponent",
": something harmful or deadly",
": a military adversary",
": a hostile unit or force",
": a person who hates another : a person who attacks or tries to harm another",
": a country or group of people with which another country or group is at war or a person belonging to such a country or group",
": something that harms or threatens"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8e-n\u0259-m\u0113",
"\u02c8e-n\u0259-m\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"foe",
"hostile",
"opponent"
],
"antonyms":[
"amigo",
"friend"
],
"examples":[
"He made a lot of enemies during the course of his career.",
"Tradition is the enemy of progress.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Nonetheless, the show was obviously able to make the scheduling work, since Solomons did indeed return in the last episode to once again pitch in with the plans of his sometimes- enemy , sometimes-ally Tommy Shelby. \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
"In the early stages of the war, most entertainment programs were removed and replaced by all kinds of political talk shows, very aggressive, portraying the enemy and trying to find the right cause for the war. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 8 June 2022",
"Even the idea that there's no true name for the movie's enemy somehow works. \u2014 Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping , 4 June 2022",
"First, intelligence is gathered by locating enemy electronic signals. \u2014 Oleksandr Stashevskyi And Frank Bajak, Anchorage Daily News , 3 June 2022",
"During the Vietnam War, Americans launched Operation Ranch Hand in 1962, employing chemical herbicides in enormous quantities to deprive the enemy of places to hide. \u2014 Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press , 1 June 2022",
"Browne recalls the program's grueling schedule, with lectures, flights, debriefs and lessons that involved studying the enemy 's aircraft, too. \u2014 Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 May 2022",
"Polling puts Hice in a neck-and-neck battle with incumbent Ben Raffensperger, who like Kemp was a popular establishment Republican-turned- enemy of the former president for refusing to act on the 2020 election conspiracy. \u2014 Isabella Murray, ABC News , 24 May 2022",
"The sides are fighting a battle of attrition in which the enemy is rarely seen. \u2014 Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post , 21 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English enmy, enemi, borrowed from Anglo-French enemi, going back to Latin inim\u012bcus, noun derivative of inim\u012bcus, adjective, \"of an opponent, unfriendly, hostile,\" from in- in- entry 1 + am\u012bcus \"friendly, well-disposed, loving\" \u2014 more at amiable ",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220352"
},
"energetic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": operating with or marked by vigor or effect",
": marked by energy : strenuous",
": of or relating to energy",
": having or showing the ability to be active",
": of or relating to energy"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cce-n\u0259r-\u02c8je-tik",
"\u02cce-n\u0259r-\u02c8je-tik",
"\u02ccen-\u0259r-\u02c8jet-ik"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamic",
"flush",
"gingery",
"lusty",
"peppy",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"vigorous",
"vital"
],
"antonyms":[
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
"examples":[
"She has an energetic personality.",
"The children are energetic workers.",
"They mounted an energetic campaign.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There\u2019s nothing quite like taking a good band and a good sound system in a highly energetic room and bringing all that together. \u2014 Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News , 11 May 2022",
"That's quite unusual, given that most stars are composed of highly energetic hydrogen that's doing a lot of emitting. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 4 May 2022",
"Some people report feeling more relaxed after taking CBD, while others may feel more energetic . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The monochromatic drawings appear more energetic and spontaneous, with smeary blacks and large areas of white that pull the viewer's eye into the compositions. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"This isn\u2019t the end of Riri's pregnancy style domination\u2014expect more energetic ensembles to come. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Most who knew me during college saw me as a highly energetic musician. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Refreshingly creative and highly energetic , Counsell is the type of individual that earns trust and respect from his owner, his front office, his players, and from his fans. \u2014 Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"It\u2019s saturated and rich color without being energetic or pushy. \u2014 Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Greek energ\u0113tikos , from energein to be active, from energos ",
"first_known_use":[
"1700, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173259"
},
"energize":{
"type":"verb",
"definitions":[
"to make energetic , vigorous, or active",
"to impart energy to",
"to apply voltage to",
"to put forth energy act",
"to give the ability to be active to give energy to"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8e-n\u0259r-\u02ccj\u012bz",
"synonyms":[
"amp (up)",
"animate",
"brace",
"enliven",
"fillip",
"fire",
"ginger (up)",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"juice up",
"jump-start",
"liven (up)",
"pep (up)",
"quicken",
"spike",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"vivify",
"zip (up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"kill"
],
"examples":[
"His rousing speech energized the crowd.",
"You'll feel more energized after a bit of exercise.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Common sense dictates that that's not clever -- especially not for a CEO who's paid big bucks to motivate and energize . \u2014 CNN , 9 June 2022",
"The move came after Martin helped energize the bench over the first half of the season, before injuries began to exact a toll. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 5 June 2022",
"Whether used to wall off sleeping quarters in a loft or hung as art, considering clever room divider ideas can help energize a room. \u2014 Marisa Martin, Good Housekeeping , 31 May 2022",
"The organization is hoping that the gift will energize people to get involved. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 24 May 2022",
"Some proposals have broad support within the party, but others have divided progressives and moderates, with each wing making different arguments about what will energize or repel voters in November. \u2014 Andrew Restuccia, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Others have countered that loan forgiveness would energize young voters and provide an economic boost to low-income and minority borrowers, according to people familiar with the discussions. \u2014 Andrew Restuccia, WSJ , 23 May 2022",
"Democratic campaign officials immediately turned to the fall elections with the hope that the impending end of Roe v. Wade would energize young voters and turn Republican-leaning women in the suburbs against the G.O.P. \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
"Bold contrasting colors, personal collections, and smart storage blend in rooms that both soothe and energize . \u2014 Mallory Abreu, Better Homes & Gardens , 17 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":null,
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1865, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"energy":{
"type":"noun",
"definitions":[
"dynamic quality",
"the capacity of acting or being active",
"a usually positive spiritual force",
"vigorous exertion of power effort",
"a fundamental entity of nature that is transferred between parts of a system in the production of physical change within the system and usually regarded as the capacity for doing work",
"usable power (such as heat or electricity)",
"the resources for producing such power",
"ability to be active strength of body or mind to do things or to work",
"strong action or effort",
"usable power or the resources (as oil) used to produce usable power",
"psychic energy",
"the capacity for doing work"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8e-n\u0259r-j\u0113",
"synonyms":[
"aura",
"chi",
"ch'i",
"qi",
"ki",
"vibe(s)",
"vibration(s)"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The kids are always so full of energy .",
"They devoted all their energy to the completion of the project.",
"They devoted all their energies to the completion of the project.",
"She puts a lot of energy into her work.",
"The newer appliances conserve more energy .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Surging global energy prices leading up to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine have had a profound impact on global climate policies. \u2014 Matthew Dalton, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"But, Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February worsened already high energy prices. \u2014 Damian J. Troise, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"But, Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February worsened already high energy prices. \u2014 Damian J. Troise, ajc , 16 June 2022",
"Without those extra Iranian barrels, Biden has few options to tame energy prices. \u2014 Dan Eberhart, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"The former Michigan Democratic governor famously guffawed when a journalist previously asked her about a plan to curb high energy prices. \u2014 Fox News , 15 June 2022",
"Zandi noted in his tweet thread that higher energy prices have in turn spread into other sectors of the economy. \u2014 Christine Mui, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
"Higher energy prices hit lower-income families the hardest. \u2014 David Koenig, Anchorage Daily News , 13 June 2022",
"European officials also worry about the damage being done to their own economies by inflation and high energy prices, and about the likely domestic political backlash. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Late Latin energia , from Greek energeia activity, from energos active, from en in + ergon work \u2014 more at work ",
"first_known_use":[
"1783, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
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": lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated",
": to reduce the mental or moral vigor of",
": to lessen the vitality or strength of",
": to cut the nerves or tendons of",
": to lessen the vitality or strength of"
],
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"i-\u02c8n\u0259r-v\u0259t",
"\u02c8e-n\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101t",
"\u02c8en-\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101t"
],
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"castrate",
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"devitalize",
"geld",
"lobotomize",
"petrify"
],
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"brace",
"energize",
"enliven",
"invigorate",
"quicken",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"vivify"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"a lifetime of working in dreary jobs had enervated his very soul",
"the surgery really enervated me for weeks afterwards",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"This relationship, when successful, tends to enervate mediating institutions that thwart the immediate desires of both the populist leader and the public. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 28 Feb. 2021",
"The saving grace of this often enervating thriller is that Doscher grants time for his actors to build character and intimacy, and both Pinto and Odom offer warm, affectingly natural performances as two people facing the end of their world. \u2014 Teo Bugbee, New York Times , 5 Mar. 2020",
"To a great extent, that reflects the endless, enervating nature of the Brexit debate. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Jack\u2019s enervating recovery in The Way Back is full of drab, predictable pathos instead of the stylized drama in Dawn of Justice. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 6 Mar. 2020",
"Perhaps the most intimate of these photographs presents her after a shower, wet and enervated , rubbing a cloth across her reflection in a mirror, as though the condensation were crud. \u2014 Eren Orbey, The New Yorker , 6 Feb. 2020",
"Then again, enervating her supporters has been Madonna\u2019s M.O. in recent years. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 3 July 2019",
"But the art which resists the slow sap of a chronic disease\u2014which repairs frames enervated by lust, swollen by gluttony, or inflamed by wine . . \u2014 Chris Pope, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2019",
"Such behavior is particularly enervating when the West aims to bring new countries into permanent and universal\u2014that is, Western-style\u2014guarantees of security and systems of relations. \u2014 I. William Zartman, WSJ , 24 June 2018"
],
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"Adjective",
"1603, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205915"
},
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"type":"verb",
"definitions":[
"to make feeble deprive of strength"
],
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"debilitate",
"devitalize",
"enervate",
"etiolate",
"prostrate",
"sap",
"soften",
"tire",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
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"beef (up)",
"fortify",
"strengthen"
],
"examples":[
"long periods of being confined to a hospital bed will enfeeble anyone",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"The goal is to blunt criticism and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2021",
"The move may, in effect, enfeeble America's technology sector and, worse yet, leave the root problem\u2014investigating terrorism, child predation, and criminality\u2014unresolved as wrongdoers flock to alternative products. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 29 June 2020",
"India entered its sixth week of a stringent nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, pushing an economy already enfeebled before the pandemic to the brink of collapse. \u2014 Fox News , 12 May 2020",
"Whatever the truth, the risk is the Anwar and Azmin camps wear each other down and enfeeble the Pakatan Harapan alliance, which Mahathir chairs. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 July 2019",
"Meanwhile, the danger AI poses is rather of human tyranny, with machines enfeebling most people, physically and intellectually, so as to leave them at the mercy of a master-class. \u2014 K.n.c., The Economist , 19 July 2019",
"More often than not, the result is to blunt the impact of the critique and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com , 25 June 2018",
"Mr Macron has been helped by a big parliamentary majority, and an opposition enfeebled by his new party\u2019s rise. \u2014 The Economist , 14 Apr. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English enfeblen , from Anglo-French enfebler, enfeblir , from en- + feble feeble",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"enfeeblement":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make feeble : deprive of strength"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8f\u0113-b\u0259l",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"devitalize",
"enervate",
"etiolate",
"prostrate",
"sap",
"soften",
"tire",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"antonyms":[
"beef (up)",
"fortify",
"strengthen"
],
"examples":[
"long periods of being confined to a hospital bed will enfeeble anyone",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"The goal is to blunt criticism and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2021",
"The move may, in effect, enfeeble America's technology sector and, worse yet, leave the root problem\u2014investigating terrorism, child predation, and criminality\u2014unresolved as wrongdoers flock to alternative products. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 29 June 2020",
"India entered its sixth week of a stringent nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, pushing an economy already enfeebled before the pandemic to the brink of collapse. \u2014 Fox News , 12 May 2020",
"Whatever the truth, the risk is the Anwar and Azmin camps wear each other down and enfeeble the Pakatan Harapan alliance, which Mahathir chairs. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 July 2019",
"Meanwhile, the danger AI poses is rather of human tyranny, with machines enfeebling most people, physically and intellectually, so as to leave them at the mercy of a master-class. \u2014 K.n.c., The Economist , 19 July 2019",
"More often than not, the result is to blunt the impact of the critique and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com , 25 June 2018",
"Mr Macron has been helped by a big parliamentary majority, and an opposition enfeebled by his new party\u2019s rise. \u2014 The Economist , 14 Apr. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English enfeblen , from Anglo-French enfebler, enfeblir , from en- + feble feeble",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-215449"
},
"enflame":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to excite to excessive or uncontrollable action or feeling",
": to make angry",
": to make more heated or violent : intensify",
": to set on fire : kindle",
": to cause to redden or grow hot from anger or excitement",
": to cause inflammation in (bodily tissue)",
": to burst into flame",
": to become excited or angered",
": to become affected with inflammation"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-181734"
},
"enfold":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to cover with or as if with folds : envelop",
": to surround with a covering : contain",
": to clasp within the arms : embrace",
": to wrap up",
": embrace entry 1 sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8f\u014dld",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8f\u014dld"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosom",
"bower",
"circumfuse",
"cocoon",
"embosom",
"embower",
"embrace",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"encompass",
"enshroud",
"enswathe",
"envelop",
"enwrap",
"invest",
"involve",
"lap",
"mantle",
"muffle",
"shroud",
"swathe",
"veil",
"wrap"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The dish is made of vegetables enfolded in a pastry crust.",
"We watched as darkness enfolded the city.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The permafrost around Fairbanks is discontinuous; jagged pieces of it finger north-facing slopes and enfold the low-lying valleys. \u2014 Lois Parshley, Anchorage Daily News , 3 May 2022",
"Ambient keyboard chords chase and enfold themselves around Moody\u2019s voice, heightening the sparseness that always made Johnston\u2019s music great. \u2014 Kory Grow, Rolling Stone , 14 Feb. 2022",
"It's all headed somewhere, nominally, but the storyline doesn't so much unfold on screen as enfold the viewer into its discursive world of dilapidated car parks and sad-eyed pitbulls, Marlboro Reds and backlit oil rigs. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 29 Sep. 2021",
"But more than anything else, this enchantingly odd movie grows to enfold you in a lingering sense of melancholy that rings eerily true, especially right now. \u2014 Sara Stewart, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Part of their narcissistic behavior in child support litigation will enfold as them trying to prove you wrong. \u2014 Patricia Fersch, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
"Fourteen suites and guest rooms (with four more in the pipeline) and a pair of apartments enfold a courtyard shaded by umbrella pines and a century-old Lebanon cedar. \u2014 Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure , 1 May 2021",
"Darkness enfolds the great room and all its alcoves. \u2014 Seija Rankin, EW.com , 26 May 2020",
"But their satiny sound remained intimate, the instrumentation enfolding drummer Julien Ehrlich\u2019s upper-register vocals and Max Kakacek\u2019s economical guitar fills. \u2014 Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com , 3 Dec. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174543"
},
"enforce":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to give force to : strengthen",
": to urge with energy",
": constrain , compel",
": to effect or gain by force",
": to carry out effectively",
": to make happen",
": to carry out or make effective",
": to cause to take effect or to be fulfilled"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8f\u022frs",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8f\u022frs"
],
"synonyms":[
"administer",
"apply",
"execute",
"implement"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Police will be enforcing the parking ban.",
"the duty of the police is to enforce the law",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The denial of Kardashian\u2019s motion to enforce settlement was confirmed in a minute order posted on the court\u2019s website Thursday evening. \u2014 Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone , 17 June 2022",
"On Thursday, a judge from the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County denied Kardashian's previous motion to enforce a settlement over Chyna's allegations, per court documents seen by PEOPLE. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
"Exclusive use is hard to enforce , especially if a competitor copies your mark right at the onset. \u2014 Wen Xie, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"On Friday, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who chairs the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, sent a letter to Myanmar\u2019s military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, urging him not to enforce the death sentences. \u2014 Rebecca Tan, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Federal safeguards must expand to cover more health entities, including period-tracking apps, and explicitly prioritize and enforce protecting the privacy of individuals instead of allowing companies to simply rely on a user-consent model. \u2014 Katherine Yao And Megan L. Ranney, CNN , 16 June 2022",
"The official didn't point to any specific use of federal funds for conversion therapy but said the executive action will help HHS lawyers enforce any future attempts. \u2014 CBS News , 15 June 2022",
"His order also establish new rules to discourage conversion therapy, though efforts to enforce bans against it in places where state law allows the practice will rely on legal challenges from outside the White House. \u2014 Will Weissert, Sun Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"His order also establish new rules to discourage conversion therapy, though efforts to enforce bans against it in places where state law allows the practice will rely on legal challenges from outside the White House. \u2014 Will Weissert, Anchorage Daily News , 15 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French enforcer , from en- + force force",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174646"
},
"enfranchise":{
"type":"verb",
"definitions":[
"to set free (as from slavery)",
"to endow with a franchise such as",
"to admit to the privileges of a citizen and especially to the right of suffrage",
"to admit (a municipality) to political privileges or rights",
"to grant franchise to",
"to admit to the privileges of a citizen and especially to voting rights",
"\u2014 compare emancipate"
],
"pronounciation":"in-\u02c8fran-\u02ccch\u012bz",
"synonyms":[
"discharge",
"disenthrall",
"disenthral",
"emancipate",
"enlarge",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"manumit",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"antonyms":[
"bind",
"confine",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"restrain"
],
"examples":[
"in a way, modern labor-saving appliances enfranchised people, giving them much more leisure time",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The measure to enfranchise 16-year-olds failed, but voters approved amending the village charter to allow non-citizens to vote by a margin of 727 to 571, according to the Dayton Daily News. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
"CNN International reported last week on efforts to enfranchise noncitizens in Germany, where about 14% of the population cannot vote in federal elections like the one recently conducted there. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 12 Dec. 2021",
"The full scope of the nationwide push to re- enfranchise the formerly incarcerated is difficult to assess because few states keep track of how many people with felony convictions register to vote. \u2014 Nicole Lewis And Andrew R. Calderon, USA TODAY , 23 June 2021",
"Ultimately, Raskin argued, the question was whether to enfranchise the taxpayers of Washington, D.C. \u2014 Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner , 14 Apr. 2021",
"This will enfranchise students who are immunocompromised or suffer from severe social anxiety and allow teaching to continue both inside and outside the traditional classroom as necessary. \u2014 Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com , 16 Mar. 2021",
"Proponents pointed to last year\u2019s elections, which set records for turnout as states emphasized mail-in voting during the pandemic, as evidence of how changing policies could enfranchise more voters. \u2014 Siobhan Hughes, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2021",
"Antis feared that giving women the right to vote would enfranchise Black citizens. \u2014 USA Today , 24 Aug. 2020",
"Of course, this move was not applicable to all women; for example, Native American women were not fully enfranchised in Utah until 1956, as a result of a ruling in Utah\u2019s Supreme Court. \u2014 Kate Kelly, Teen Vogue , 29 Oct. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French enfranchiss- , stem of enfranchir , from en- + franc free \u2014 more at frank ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"engage":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end",
": to entangle or entrap in or as if in a snare or bog",
": to attract and hold by influence or power",
": to interlock with : mesh",
": to cause (mechanical parts) to mesh",
": to bind (someone, such as oneself) to do something",
": to bind by a pledge to marry",
": to provide occupation for : involve",
": to arrange to obtain the use or services of : hire",
": to hold the attention of : engross",
": to induce to participate",
": to enter into contest or battle with",
": to bring together or interlock (weapons)",
": to deal with especially at length",
": to pledge oneself : promise",
": to make a guarantee",
": to begin and carry on an enterprise or activity",
": to do or take part in something",
": to give attention to something : deal",
": to enter into conflict or battle",
": to come together and interlock",
": committed to or supportive of a cause",
": to catch and keep fixed (as someone's attention)",
": to take part in or cause to take part in something",
": to enter into contest or battle with",
": to arrange for the services or use of : employ",
": mesh"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8g\u0101j",
"en-",
"\u02cc\u00e4\u207f-\u02ccg\u00e4-\u02c8zh\u0101",
"in-\u02c8g\u0101j"
],
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"absorb",
"bemuse",
"busy",
"catch up",
"engross",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"enwrap",
"fascinate",
"grip",
"immerse",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involve",
"occupy"
],
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"He was engaged as a tutor.",
"He sure can engage an audience.",
"The story engaged my interest.",
"The troops prepared to engage the enemy.",
"The troops prepared to engage with the enemy.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"So Ya-Ya overloads itself in the wrong way, with a lot of big moments but precious few opportunities for the cast to really engage with each other. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"Penalties include requiring removal of tweets and suspending accounts when the platform determines their primary intent is to engage in hateful conduct. \u2014 Musadiq Bidar, CBS News , 9 June 2022",
"The time is now for supervisors to engage with their team members around these three intersecting themes. \u2014 Carylynn Larson, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"The program includes a Global Connect database, which enables teachers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico to connect with volunteers from around the world to engage in educational conversations with their students. \u2014 Mariah Espada, Time , 8 June 2022",
"However, health experts say individual behavior can\u2019t be discounted as research has shown people living in Democratic counties are more likely to engage in healthy behaviors, experts say. \u2014 Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
"Offering a curated approach to support emerging filmmakers, the show also offers mentorship opportunities for each filmmaker to engage with creatives and executives across Paramount Global. \u2014 Carson Burton, Variety , 1 June 2022",
"Wednesdays in May are not usually a time for college football rivals to engage hostilities in a ferocious showdown. \u2014 Laine Higgins, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"The disasters of the last several years are among the reasons Crandall is hoping Friday\u2019s strike will be a chance for older people to engage with a movement that has, in the past, been mostly focused on younger generations. \u2014 oregonlive , 19 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1946, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174928"
},
"engaged":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": involved in activity : occupied , busy",
": pledged to be married : betrothed",
": greatly interested : committed",
": involved especially in a hostile encounter",
": partly embedded in a wall",
": being in gear : meshed",
": busy with an activity",
": promised to be married"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8g\u0101jd",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8g\u0101jd"
],
"synonyms":[
"affianced",
"bespoke",
"bespoken",
"betrothed",
"promised"
],
"antonyms":[
"unattached"
],
"examples":[
"the engaged couple make a charming pair",
"I'm engaged right now, so call back some other time.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Data collected from more than two million workers show people are less engaged in their work compared with a year ago. \u2014 Bob Helbig, The Enquirer , 9 June 2022",
"Gallup also found that hybrid and remote workers are more engaged than on-site workers and that engagement is higher for companies that focus on culture and well-being. \u2014 Bryan Robinson, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
"The social media company fell 3.6% Tuesday, while Tesla slumped 11% over concerns that Musk will be distracted and less engaged in running the electric vehicle maker. \u2014 CBS News , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Executives view the lack of employee engagement as a sign of subpar performance to come: 93% of executives say employees who turn their camera off are generally less engaged in their work overall. \u2014 Jasmine Browley, Essence , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The conclusion to that fourth episode left me more engaged in the plot of Moon Knight than anything had in the preceding hours. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 29 Mar. 2022",
"For context, Lopez and Affleck first dated from 2002 to 2004 and became engaged before calling off their first wedding in September 2003. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 26 May 2022",
"Pratt and his second wife became engaged in January 2019 after dating for less than a year; the two tied the knot five months later. \u2014 Kristina Garcia, Los Angeles Times , 23 May 2022",
"Employees who feel engaged are more likely to stay in their jobs. \u2014 Jason Hennessey, Forbes , 13 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1629, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-181859"
},
"engagement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an arrangement to meet or be present at a specified time and place",
": a job or period of employment especially as a performer",
": something that engages : pledge",
": the act of engaging : the state of being engaged",
": emotional involvement or commitment",
": betrothal",
": the state of being in gear",
": a hostile encounter between military forces",
": the act of becoming engaged to be married : the state of being engaged to be married",
": employment sense 3",
": appointment sense 1",
": a fight between armed forces : battle",
": the phase of childbirth in which the fetal head passes into the cavity of the true pelvis"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8g\u0101j-m\u0259nt",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8g\u0101j-m\u0259nt",
"in-\u02c8g\u0101j-m\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[
"betrothal",
"espousal",
"troth"
],
"antonyms":[
"disengagement"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"According to the shelter's executive director Alison Fechino, the group's engagement and development director asked teachers at Booker T. Middle School in Newport News for help recently. \u2014 Saleen Martin, USA TODAY , 9 June 2022",
"One of the bigger changes was an increase of $6.7 million for youth engagement and employment programming. \u2014 Danny Mcdonald, BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2022",
"With greater fulfillment comes greater employee retention, engagement and performance\u2014all of which can lead to better results. \u2014 Chris Herndon, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Psychologists say people are balancing this yearning for social engagement and interaction with reality that this particular type of gathering can be a breeding ground for anxiety. \u2014 Alex Janin, WSJ , 7 June 2022",
"After a six-year engagement and two pandemic postponements, The Bachelorette stars tied the knot in May and went on a dreamy European honeymoon. \u2014 Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"In terms of practice, social gaming is an interesting mix of art (soft skills such as social engagement and an ability to read other players) and science (quantifiable and analytical). \u2014 Adam Rumanek, Rolling Stone , 6 June 2022",
"Art making, community engagement and talent development all bled together. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"Facebook\u2019s success depended on a business model that exploited personal data to maximize engagement and economic value. \u2014 Roger Mcnamee, Time , 2 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-184049"
},
"engender":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": beget , procreate",
": to cause to exist or to develop : produce",
": to assume form : originate"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8jen-d\u0259r",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"beget",
"breed",
"bring",
"bring about",
"bring on",
"catalyze",
"cause",
"create",
"do",
"draw on",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"make",
"occasion",
"produce",
"prompt",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"translate (into)",
"work",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The issue has engendered a considerable amount of debate.",
"a suggestion to go out for pizza that didn't seem to engender any interest",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Could this engender a broader national agreement, or are American motives suspect? \u2014 Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor , 13 May 2022",
"Extending design theory into the cultural and political realm, Escobar described social design as a means by which traditional and Indigenous peoples engender innovative solutions to contemporary challenges. \u2014 Carolina Schneider Comandulli, Scientific American , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Harsin continued his endeavors to engender goodwill with the Auburn fanbase by throwing out the first pitch Sunday afternoon at the Tigers\u2019 baseball game against Alabama at Plainsman Park. \u2014 Nubyjas Wilborn | Nwilborn@al.com, al , 15 May 2022",
"The remote fortress, where wannabe magi are taught to engender what seem to be Frisbees of fire. \u2014 The New Yorker , 6 May 2022",
"For instance, posting about a violent rally on Pinterest does not align with their mission to engender inspiration and positivity (and if taken too far could run afoul of the platform\u2019s community guidelines). \u2014 Avery Blank, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"This utopic vision, however, would engender bitter and often heated discussions between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) for the next eighty years. \u2014 Peter Labuza, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 Mar. 2022",
"This could engender even larger home price peaks and troughs, ultimately hurting lower-income households, which have the least wherewithal to withstand price declines. \u2014 Edward Pinto And Tobias Peter, WSJ , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Rising food prices engender increasing social and political instability. \u2014 Adam Strauss, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
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"\u02c8en-j\u0259n",
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"Noun",
"The car has a four-cylinder engine .",
"tanks, planes, and other engines of war",
"The tax cut could be an engine of economic growth.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Many of those fleeing are mid-career professionals whose expertise is needed to run engine and hand crews. \u2014 Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"Once imported and sold by dealerships, customers arrange for the engine and transmission to be installed by third parties or themselves. \u2014 Thomas Page, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"The hybrid powertrain's 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine and two motor-generators make a total of 194 horsepower. \u2014 Joe Lorio, Car and Driver , 1 June 2022",
"The entry hybrid \u2014 called the 350h \u2014 will combine a 2.5L engine and hybrid drivetrain for 246 hp. \u2014 Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press , 1 June 2022",
"That vehicle would come to be known as the C-Type and sported an even curvier aluminum body and came equipped with a dual-overhead cam 3.4-liter straight six engine and disc brakes, which was a first for a race car. \u2014 Bryan Hood, Robb Report , 18 May 2022",
"When work began, so few electric excavators existed that engineers had to retrofit a diesel excavator with an electric engine and battery. \u2014 Nick Romeo, The New Yorker , 4 May 2022",
"To an ordinary fan or a motorsport enthusiast, racing is all about the driver, the car, the engine and the crew. \u2014 Rohit Amarnath, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"Totaled my wife\u2019s car by ruining her engine and fuel system. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Vehicle telematics works by simply installing a device with a SIM card that allows remotely acquiring vehicle information like location, speed, tire pressure, and engine idle in real-time, faster and more accurately than ever before. \u2014 Ekim Saribardak, Forbes , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Every decision during a race, from timing a pit stop and choosing the tires to engine settings and brake balance, is grounded in granular data. \u2014 Luc Hennekens, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021",
"From crying babies to engine turbines, the earbuds provided smooth listening and drowned out all distractions. \u2014 Nina Huang, EW.com , 23 Aug. 2021",
"Boeing and Airbus have often timed all-new aircraft to engine technology that provides a step-change in efficiency, such as the GEnx turbofans that made Boeing\u2019s 787 Dreamliner twin-aisle greener and quieter than its predecessors. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2021",
"Changes to the truck, from chassis to body to engine to interior, reflect consumer needs, requests and complaints. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 2 Jan. 2021",
"Changes to the truck, from chassis to body to engine to interior, reflect consumer needs, requests and complaints. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 2 Jan. 2021",
"Changes to the truck, from chassis to body to engine to interior, reflect consumer needs, requests and complaints. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 2 Jan. 2021",
"Changes to the truck, from chassis to body to engine to interior, reflect consumer needs, requests and complaints. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 2 Jan. 2021"
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": gird , encompass"
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"in-\u02c8g\u0259rd",
"en-"
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"band",
"begird",
"belt",
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"girt",
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"her forehead engirded with a band of gold"
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"1566, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182059"
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"verb"
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"en-"
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"band",
"begird",
"belt",
"engird",
"enwind",
"gird",
"girdle",
"girt",
"girth",
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"ungird",
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"the cloud- engirdled peaks of the Andes"
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"1596, in the meaning defined above"
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"adjective",
"adverb"
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": taking up the attention completely : absorbing"
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"in-\u02c8gr\u014d-si\u014b",
"en-"
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"absorbing",
"arresting",
"consuming",
"engaging",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"gripping",
"immersing",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
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"boring",
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"dry",
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"heavy",
"monotonous",
"tedious",
"uninteresting"
],
"examples":[
"an engrossing lecture on Native American culture before the arrival of Europeans",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In fiction, for example, a premise that doesn\u2019t seem to promise much narrative possibility\u2014two people talking with each other in the same room again and again\u2014becomes engrossing and mysterious. \u2014 Ana Cecilia Alvarez, The Atlantic , 1 May 2022",
"Spacek and Simmons keep those eight hours from being a chore, and there\u2019s potential going forward for something more engrossing . \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 May 2022",
"BeReal\u2019s limited approach to posting and perusing is an alternate to apps such as TikTok and Instagram, which count more than a billion active monthly users apiece and plow money and engineers into making products more engrossing for users. \u2014 Dalvin Brown, WSJ , 20 Apr. 2022",
"During that time, Vile has steadily amassed one of the most engrossing discographies in all of indie rock. \u2014 Corbin Reiff, SPIN , 14 Apr. 2022",
"That makes Saint Peter's the first No. 15 seed to reach the Elite Eight and continues one of the most engrossing and unforeseen postseason runs in men's NCAA Tournament history. \u2014 Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY , 26 Mar. 2022",
"This engrossing , visceral ride through desire and self-deceit has a limited run and tickets are vanishing. \u2014 David Benedict, Variety , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Saint Peter's into the Elite Eight of the men's NCAA Tournament, continuing one of the most unpredictable and engrossing runs in postseason history. \u2014 Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Brendan Slocumb hits all the right notes in his engrossing debut about a young Black man whose natural talent for music has become the only way to secure his future. \u2014 Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com , 16 Mar. 2022"
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"in-\u02c8gr\u014d-sm\u0259nt",
"en-"
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"absorption",
"attention",
"concentration",
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"immersion"
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"inattention"
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"my engrossment in the video game made me lose track of time"
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"1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"noun",
"verb"
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": to flow over and enclose : overwhelm",
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": to be overwhelmed by"
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"in-\u02c8g\u0259lf",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8g\u0259lf"
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"deluge",
"drown",
"flood",
"gulf",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"overwhelm",
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"submerse",
"swamp"
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"drain"
],
"examples":[
"The valley was engulfed in a thick fog.",
"high waves from the hurricane engulfed large areas of the coastal community",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even as fighting begins to engulf parts of Lysychansk, some residents insisted on staying. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Cooler temperatures will engulf the Midwest over the weekend, putting an end to this early-season hot stretch in that region. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 11 May 2022",
"The smaller pieces draw you in close and tight to the work, while the larger works engulf you and require a step back to fully appreciate. \u2014 Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Family duty sends a lawman to London to look for his mob-assassin brother as a yakuza war threatens to engulf Tokyo. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Fire engines have till now failed to put it out as toxic fumes engulf the area surrounding the Bhalswa landfill. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The inquiry has grown to engulf some of the most contentious aspects of the campaign between Trump and Hillary Clinton. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 17 Mar. 2022",
"With that in mind, the San Antonio Fire Department, in partnership with USAA, demonstrated Monday how a dry Christmas tree can ignite and engulf a living room in flames in seconds. \u2014 Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Danske Bank A/S in 2018 became the face of a money-laundering scandal that grew to engulf the entire Nordic region. \u2014 Dylan Tokar, WSJ , 3 Jan. 2022"
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"1555, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"noun",
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": heighten , increase",
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": raise",
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"in-\u02c8han(t)s",
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"worsen"
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"You can enhance the flavor of the dish by using fresh herbs.",
"The image has been digitally enhanced to show more detail.",
"The company is looking to enhance its earnings potential.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But my word, roasted garlic is good: The stickily sweet flesh, squeezed from the clove like toothpaste from a tube, will enhance almost anything from risotto to a salad dressing. \u2014 Bee Wilson, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"Larger bubbles enhance the release of aerosols into the air above the glass\u2014bubbles approximately 1.7 mm across the surface. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 8 June 2022",
"The package of legislation will also enhance New York's red flag law, which allows courts to take away guns from people, and implement microstamping for new firearms, which is intended to help police track guns that are used in crimes. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 7 June 2022",
"More residents in the Center will further enhance walkability and support for local businesses. \u2014 Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant , 5 June 2022",
"According to the Israeli government, the deal will enhance the trade of medicine, medical equipment, food, plastic goods and fertilizer, as well as Israeli jewelry. \u2014 Patrick Kingsley, New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"When the fit is right, however, transfers can enhance a team\u2019s outlook. \u2014 Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun , 26 May 2022",
"Studies have shown that participating in music and art can alleviate pain, help people manage stress, promote wellness, enhance memory, improve communications, aid physical rehabilitation, and give people a way to express their feelings. \u2014 Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
"With four finalists remaining in a race too close to call, Pagliuca has emerged as a dark horse candidate, and his new partners should enhance his chances. \u2014 Justin Birnbaum, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022"
],
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"noun",
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"You can enhance the flavor of the dish by using fresh herbs.",
"The image has been digitally enhanced to show more detail.",
"The company is looking to enhance its earnings potential.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But my word, roasted garlic is good: The stickily sweet flesh, squeezed from the clove like toothpaste from a tube, will enhance almost anything from risotto to a salad dressing. \u2014 Bee Wilson, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"Larger bubbles enhance the release of aerosols into the air above the glass\u2014bubbles approximately 1.7 mm across the surface. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 8 June 2022",
"The package of legislation will also enhance New York's red flag law, which allows courts to take away guns from people, and implement microstamping for new firearms, which is intended to help police track guns that are used in crimes. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 7 June 2022",
"More residents in the Center will further enhance walkability and support for local businesses. \u2014 Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant , 5 June 2022",
"According to the Israeli government, the deal will enhance the trade of medicine, medical equipment, food, plastic goods and fertilizer, as well as Israeli jewelry. \u2014 Patrick Kingsley, New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"When the fit is right, however, transfers can enhance a team\u2019s outlook. \u2014 Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun , 26 May 2022",
"Studies have shown that participating in music and art can alleviate pain, help people manage stress, promote wellness, enhance memory, improve communications, aid physical rehabilitation, and give people a way to express their feelings. \u2014 Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
"With four finalists remaining in a race too close to call, Pagliuca has emerged as a dark horse candidate, and his new partners should enhance his chances. \u2014 Justin Birnbaum, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022"
],
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"Space seethes with an enormous enigmatic energy, and, each second, trillions of cubic light-years more of it materializes from nothingness. \u2014 Bob Berman , Astronomy , November 2007",
"You'll recognize them by their enigmatic smile and faraway look as they jog, skate, commute, or wander the aisles of the supermarket. \u2014 Consumer Reports , December 2005",
"Despite all that has been written\u2014and surmised\u2014about him, Bill Gates remains the enigmatic ringmaster of the digital circus. \u2014 J. D. Reed , People , 15 Mar. 1999",
"the discovery of the abandoned ship in mid ocean remains one of the most enigmatic episodes in seafaring history",
"the Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While Cruise\u2019s name wasn\u2019t as ubiquitous as the show\u2019s central figure, Laura Palmer, her voice and enigmatic character on the show lent an eerie musical throughline to the beloved series. \u2014 William Earl, Variety , 10 June 2022",
"The innovative and enigmatic Prince has been regarded as one of the greatest musicians of all time. \u2014 Okla Jones, Essence , 7 June 2022",
"Pavement\u2019s third studio album, Wowee Zowee, came out the same year, with an enigmatic yet memorable Keene cover (based on a photo of two Arab women in burkas and a goat from a 1972 Life publication called The Arab World). \u2014 Joe Lynch, Billboard , 17 May 2022",
"The 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, only 30 miles distant, inspired a series of troubling and enigmatic works. \u2014 Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022",
"Payet portrays the alluring and enigmatic Isabella, the daughter of foreign diplomats, who is spending a year as an exchange student with the Landry family. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Citigroup said an enigmatic money manager who accused the bank of owing him $11.6 billion is a fantasist and a fraud. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Oct. 2021",
"But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers\u2019s writing is perspicuous and teacherly \u2014 an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Soprano Maria Elena Altany is the Bird Mother, innocent, enigmatic , ever so slightly Masina-like. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Sep. 2021"
],
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"adjective",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
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": to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition",
": forbid , prohibit",
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"call (for)",
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"He was enjoined by his conscience from telling a lie.",
"The judge enjoined them from selling the property.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On Monday, Scott Zweig, an attorney who has been a vocal opponent to changing the mascots, filed a lawsuit along with resident Mary McGowan seeking to enjoin the school board from voting on the matter. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 10 June 2022",
"Multiple lawsuits are pending to enjoin California\u2019s mandates. \u2014 Kenin M. Spivak, National Review , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Project Veritas tries to embarrass progressives by making secret videos of them, and last year petitioned the Court to enjoin Massachusetts from enforcing a state law that bans the surreptitious taping of public officials. \u2014 Jane Mayer, The New Yorker , 21 Jan. 2022",
"In the Arkansas case, plaintiffs are asking the court to enjoin Arkansas from using the maps for state House elections, setting up a legal fight months before the boundaries are set to be put to use. \u2014 Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have declined to enjoin New York\u2019s and Maine\u2019s healthcare-worker vaccine mandates that deny religious, but not medical, exemptions. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 20 Dec. 2021",
"The lawsuit also seeks to enjoin James' involvement in any civil or criminal actions against the former President or his company. \u2014 Sonia Moghe, CNN , 20 Dec. 2021",
"The Court previously refused, by a slim 5-4 vote, to temporarily enjoin enforcement of the Texas law prior to holding a full oral argument on it. \u2014 Evan Gerstmann, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
"The Supreme Court has turned back several times already various efforts to enjoin other vaccine requirements. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Nov. 2021"
],
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"He was enjoined by his conscience from telling a lie.",
"The judge enjoined them from selling the property.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On Monday, Scott Zweig, an attorney who has been a vocal opponent to changing the mascots, filed a lawsuit along with resident Mary McGowan seeking to enjoin the school board from voting on the matter. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 10 June 2022",
"Multiple lawsuits are pending to enjoin California\u2019s mandates. \u2014 Kenin M. Spivak, National Review , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Project Veritas tries to embarrass progressives by making secret videos of them, and last year petitioned the Court to enjoin Massachusetts from enforcing a state law that bans the surreptitious taping of public officials. \u2014 Jane Mayer, The New Yorker , 21 Jan. 2022",
"In the Arkansas case, plaintiffs are asking the court to enjoin Arkansas from using the maps for state House elections, setting up a legal fight months before the boundaries are set to be put to use. \u2014 Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online , 30 Dec. 2021",
"Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have declined to enjoin New York\u2019s and Maine\u2019s healthcare-worker vaccine mandates that deny religious, but not medical, exemptions. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 20 Dec. 2021",
"The lawsuit also seeks to enjoin James' involvement in any civil or criminal actions against the former President or his company. \u2014 Sonia Moghe, CNN , 20 Dec. 2021",
"The Court previously refused, by a slim 5-4 vote, to temporarily enjoin enforcement of the Texas law prior to holding a full oral argument on it. \u2014 Evan Gerstmann, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
"The Supreme Court has turned back several times already various efforts to enjoin other vaccine requirements. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Nov. 2021"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Vomo's baby butlers care for children under age three, and arrangements can be made for childcare until 11 p.m., so parents can enjoy dinner and an evening on their own. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Riding a hardtail is a very pure form of mountain biking that anyone can enjoy . \u2014 John Watson, Outside Online , 18 June 2022",
"Some people may enjoy the slimness of the iPhone and want to have a case that is protective, but not too bulky. \u2014 Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"New players can enjoy exploring the history of the world and the setting but still have a frame of reference for modern ideas. \u2014 Rob Wieland, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"While crowds grow steadily during the annual fireworks show, at-home viewers can enjoy the event without having to give up the comfort of your pajamas. \u2014 Chaise Sanders, Country Living , 16 June 2022",
"Since then, the Trust has started working to expand access to allow more people to enjoy it at night. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"People will enjoy mixing and matching these flavors and configurations. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 10 June 2022",
"People enjoy premium quality sweet delights at Cloud Ninth Creamery on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, a seasonal artisanal ice cream shop that's only open from May to September. \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 June 2022"
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"I read the book strictly for my own enjoyment .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But few do it with as much ease and enjoyment as Makar. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"But even that moment or period of appreciation or enjoyment doesn\u2019t mean that the same feeling extended five years after the documentary. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 14 June 2022",
"According to a Springer Link study on how activity and weather impact seasonal and non-seasonal depression, activity level and enjoyment tends to be low in inclement weather, and those aren't season-specific. \u2014 Nikki Brown, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
"When done correctly, remote work increases productivity and work enjoyment . \u2014 Christopher Littlefield, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"The Civic proves both safety and behind-the-wheel enjoyment can live in harmony. \u2014 Austin Irwin, Car and Driver , 11 May 2022",
"The New Moon in sensual Taurus encourages us to take a walk on the indulgent side and manifest a life of enjoyment and comfort. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Find activities that offer you fulfillment and enjoyment . \u2014 cleveland , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Find activities that offer you fulfillment and enjoyment . \u2014 Annie Lane, oregonlive , 3 Apr. 2022"
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"soon after Eli Whitney had invented it, others copied his cotton gin, and he spent the rest of his life enmeshed in lawsuits trying to protect his invention",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The solution is not to further enmesh health care in politics, but to disentangle it from partisan ideologies. \u2014 Haider J. Warraich, STAT , 8 June 2022",
"If some senators, such as Cruz and Josh Hawley, seemed especially eager to enmesh themselves in conspiracy theories (the concept that the Democratic Party is one big child-trafficking ring is a QAnon tenet), the attacks were a group effort. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Chinese leaders may be content to offer rhetorical support for Moscow and may not want to further enmesh themselves with Mr. Putin by providing military support for the war, those U.S. officials say. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Mar. 2022",
"For more than 50 years, Bonn and later Berlin had taken a pacific approach: Don\u2019t rile the Russians; enmesh them in trade and diplomacy. \u2014 Josef Joffe, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Its biological imperative is to enmesh itself into a suitable host, reproduce, and disperse, then begin the process anew. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 28 June 2021",
"The country\u2019s impending departure from the bloc could also enmesh regulators in a legal mess if an EU court were to hear challenges over a jurisdiction where the EU would no longer hold sway. \u2014 Aoife White, Bloomberg.com , 19 Nov. 2020",
"The proximity of the company\u2019s inner circle to power would enmesh Simulmatics in Vietnam a few years later. \u2014 J.c. Pan, The New Republic , 8 Sep. 2020",
"The party is enmeshed in a blame game for the defeat, with some members accusing the socialist Corbyn of veering too far to the left and making lavish spending promises that voters regarded as unrealistic. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Jan. 2020"
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"They live in an enormous house.",
"We chose not to undertake the project because of the enormous costs involved.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Spanish cava, Italian proseccos, and California sparklers have had an enormous impact over the last decade in the sparkling wine market. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Adding singers to the stage and finding the right organ to use outdoors are enormous challenges. \u2014 Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"The final round drew an enormous crowd, and Ouimet\u2019s feat was front-page news nationwide. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"The drop poses an enormous challenge for the state, which was already behind on educational attainment goals. \u2014 Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star , 10 June 2022",
"That program also suffered enormous cost increases after NASA\u2019s Constellation program was canceled, meaning the agency had to redesign the tower to fit a different rocket, the SLS. \u2014 Christian Davenport, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"In short, the noun has traditionally borne little relation to the sibling adjective enormous . \u2014 Bryan A. Garner, National Review , 9 June 2022",
"Max was born nine weeks early on June 4, 2021, via emergency C-section, in a moment of enormous uncertainty for his doctors and parents. \u2014 Fox News , 9 June 2022",
"Levin says that the Senate testimony and Kennedy\u2019s support for the case and the issue had an enormous effect. \u2014 New York Times , 8 June 2022"
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"1531, in the meaning defined at sense 2b"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Paying interns in this prestigious program is enormously helpful. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 2 June 2022",
"The Ephrussi family saga begins with Charles Ephrussi, the largest grain dealer and oil merchant in Odessa, who became enormously wealthy. \u2014 Tom Teicholz, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"But even if Uber\u2019s own finances are troubled, the company has made executives and investors enormously wealthy. \u2014 Ben Mckenzie, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Gun purchases grew enormously during the pandemic, and a 2021 National Firearms Survey found that 81 million Americans are gun owners. \u2014 Lindsay Whitehurst, Hartford Courant , 28 May 2022",
"Gun purchases grew enormously during the pandemic, and a 2021 National Firearms Survey found that 81 million Americans are gun owners. \u2014 Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"That setup mirrors the enormously complex ecosystem of companies and organizations that manage the internet's technical infrastructure. \u2014 Brian Fung, CNN , 2 Mar. 2022",
"By marshaling resources under extreme circumstances, the nongovernmental groups worked to alleviate an enormously complex humanitarian crisis and save lives. \u2014 Jon Swaine, Anchorage Daily News , 29 Sep. 2021",
"The project, called ITER, is an enormous, and enormously complex and costly, physics experiment. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Aug. 2021"
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"His thoughtless behavior enraged us.",
"People were enraged by the decision.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet, during the past year, DeWine has been careful not to do anything that would enrage the Republican base. \u2014 Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Putin is the need for control, which is why the messy processes of democracy threaten and enrage him. \u2014 Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times , 10 Mar. 2022",
"In either case, the sight of 70,000 people maskless in California is going to further enflame and enrage anti-maskers in California, who want an off-ramp for the pandemic. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 14 Feb. 2022",
"The move worked often enough that Miller would enrage opposing defenders and coaches. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2021",
"But even if some of his past fibs may have arguably been more harmful to others around him, this one hits on a particular sensitivity that, psychologists have found, holds special power to enrage . \u2014 New York Times , 22 Jan. 2022",
"Unlike the unit\u2019s televisions, which enrage or pacify, a good nurse can see and understand you. \u2014 Abraham Nussbaum, STAT , 25 Dec. 2021",
"The restrictions enrage Clare Daly, an Irish EU legislator who is a member of the European parliament\u2019s civil liberties and justice committee. \u2014 Fox News , 20 Nov. 2021",
"Did any of these issues annoy or enrage you as well? \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 5 Oct. 2021"
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"His thoughtless behavior enraged us.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet, during the past year, DeWine has been careful not to do anything that would enrage the Republican base. \u2014 Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Putin is the need for control, which is why the messy processes of democracy threaten and enrage him. \u2014 Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times , 10 Mar. 2022",
"In either case, the sight of 70,000 people maskless in California is going to further enflame and enrage anti-maskers in California, who want an off-ramp for the pandemic. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 14 Feb. 2022",
"The move worked often enough that Miller would enrage opposing defenders and coaches. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2021",
"But even if some of his past fibs may have arguably been more harmful to others around him, this one hits on a particular sensitivity that, psychologists have found, holds special power to enrage . \u2014 New York Times , 22 Jan. 2022",
"Unlike the unit\u2019s televisions, which enrage or pacify, a good nurse can see and understand you. \u2014 Abraham Nussbaum, STAT , 25 Dec. 2021",
"The restrictions enrage Clare Daly, an Irish EU legislator who is a member of the European parliament\u2019s civil liberties and justice committee. \u2014 Fox News , 20 Nov. 2021",
"Did any of these issues annoy or enrage you as well? \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 5 Oct. 2021"
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"Her melodious voice enraptured the audience.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And never forget that his cockiness has always been part of his appeal: Shyamalan is a showman who loves to enrapture you with a good yarn and then floor you with a killer twist. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Vulture , 26 July 2021",
"Desperate for any technology that would free me from the exhausting process of typing real-time notes during interviews, I was enraptured by Thompson's prediction. \u2014 Wade Roush, Scientific American , 1 May 2020",
"After the movie, the three go to the Cafe Espa\u00f1a, where the girls, enraptured by midcentury Hollywood\u2019s benign glossy dream clich\u00e9s of love, America, and beauty, discuss the movie\u2019s finer points over TruColas. \u2014 Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2020",
"That duality\u2014of individualism and community\u2014is what the drones are mimicking to enrapturing effect. \u2014 Mary Alice Miller, Wired , 9 May 2020",
"The art house crowd is certain to be enraptured by this gem. \u2014 Jeff Menell, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 Feb. 2020",
"The journalist in me was enraptured by Meredith Levien, COO of the New York Times. \u2014 Samantha Barry, Glamour , 24 Feb. 2020",
"The show so enraptured the country that its tickets became the most expensive in theater history, going for an average of $1,200 (with at least one going for close to $10,000) and earning multiple millions each week. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2019",
"He was enraptured by the film\u2019s portrayal of journalism\u2019s moral force, its critical distance and independence. \u2014 Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker , 9 Dec. 2019"
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"They tried to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor.",
"How can I enrich my vocabulary?",
"He used manure to enrich the soil.",
"The drink is enriched with vitamin C.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Stradivari decided to break with tradition and create a violin with new proportions that helped to enrich the tone. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 7 June 2022",
"Their presence can reveal many things for us and enrich our lives in the process. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 3 June 2022",
"Gathering more insights from the data the organization already has access to creates a flywheel of engagement, which in turn produces more data to inspect and enrich for the consumers of that data. \u2014 Chet Kapoor, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"The drama is built around action, stints on character, features very little dialogue that doesn\u2019t advance the plot, and offers neither psychology nor history nor social context to enrich the historical framework. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022",
"Once again, trying to stick it to regular people and enrich the electric utilities. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 31 May 2022",
"If switching career paths seems daunting, start with less drastic changes that can enrich your perspective. \u2014 Laurie Winger, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
"In many ways, being aware of what\u2019s coming might enrich the experience, as well as serve as a trigger warning for readers and viewers especially sensitive about certain topics. \u2014 Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 May 2022",
"Allen Vigneron said Russell's global experience will help enrich the local archdiocese. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 23 May 2022"
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"dreamed that one day she would be enrobed in satins and silks",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The idea of enrobing an entire room in one color may seem like the exact opposite of balance, but sticking to a monochromatic scheme can actually make for a minimalist look. \u2014 Jessica Dailey, House Beautiful , 3 Apr. 2020",
"The whole thing is then enrobed in a bittersweet chocolate coating that has a nice candy-bar-like snap to it. \u2014 Alex Pastron, Bon App\u00e9tit , 4 Feb. 2020",
"For a small living space or entryway, check out West Elm\u2019s slim pop-up cone tree, which is enrobed in silver tinsel and trimmed with multicolored metallic dots. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Nov. 2019",
"Once your timer goes off, check the eggs: The whites should be firm, enrobing the liquidy centers\u2014like sturdy water balloons or packing peanuts. \u2014 Sarah Jampel, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 Oct. 2019",
"Recently Rutgers University professor Jasbir Puar was celebrated for enrobing the canard of Jewish organ theft in a sumptuous fabric of critical theory. \u2014 John-paul Pagano, National Review , 23 Sep. 2019",
"Each bite is a matrix of muscle and fat cells, interlaced with blood vessels and enrobed by connective tissue. \u2014 Natalie R. Rubio, The Conversation , 5 July 2019",
"The handmade agnolotti that was served over a velvety puree of sweet English peas back in April now is enrobed in a breathtakingly rich corn, Parmesan and mascarpone sauce. \u2014 Patricia Esc\u00e1rcega, latimes.com , 27 June 2019",
"On hot days, misters enrobe the whole thing in a cool fog. \u2014 Julie V. Iovine, WSJ , 25 July 2018"
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"The college enrolls about 25,000 students.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All Xavier alumni who enroll in a graduate degree program at Xavier are eligible. \u2014 Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer , 2 June 2022",
"Any final approval of the policy change would likely be many months away\u2014at the earliest, affecting students who enroll in the fall of 2023. \u2014 Deanna Paul, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Job Corps is free for people from low-income households who meet the eligibility requirements, and students can apply and enroll at any time. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"In February, Art & Science Group, a higher education consulting and research firm, conducted online interviews with 786 U.S. high school seniors who plan to enroll full-time at a four-year college or university this coming fall. \u2014 Emma Whitford, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Under the policy passed Monday by a 5-3 vote, any student who does not turn 20 before Sept. 10 will be able to enroll in classes at Billings high schools. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Sharpe graduated early to enroll at UK in January but only practiced with the team and did not play in games. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Brown plans to graduate in December and enroll at Arkansas in January. \u2014 Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Martinez, who graduated early from high school to enroll at OSU in January, is a dynamite blend of power and speed. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Apr. 2022"
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"The college enrolls about 25,000 students.",
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"All Xavier alumni who enroll in a graduate degree program at Xavier are eligible. \u2014 Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer , 2 June 2022",
"Any final approval of the policy change would likely be many months away\u2014at the earliest, affecting students who enroll in the fall of 2023. \u2014 Deanna Paul, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Job Corps is free for people from low-income households who meet the eligibility requirements, and students can apply and enroll at any time. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"In February, Art & Science Group, a higher education consulting and research firm, conducted online interviews with 786 U.S. high school seniors who plan to enroll full-time at a four-year college or university this coming fall. \u2014 Emma Whitford, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Under the policy passed Monday by a 5-3 vote, any student who does not turn 20 before Sept. 10 will be able to enroll in classes at Billings high schools. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Sharpe graduated early to enroll at UK in January but only practiced with the team and did not play in games. \u2014 Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Brown plans to graduate in December and enroll at Arkansas in January. \u2014 Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Martinez, who graduated early from high school to enroll at OSU in January, is a dynamite blend of power and speed. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Apr. 2022"
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"some teachers tend to enshrine their personal preferences as sacred rules of English grammar",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Congress is negotiating legislation that would enshrine those trade actions into law. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Activists Mark Kramer, a kayaker, and Todd Prager, a swimmer, sued the city, state and Department of State Lands that year in a bid to enshrine the public right to navigate Oswego Lake. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 Apr. 2022",
"But neither Republican has been willing to break with her leaders and join Democrats in a bid to put an end to the filibuster, leaving Democrats with no path to bringing up a bill to enshrine Roe into federal law. \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
"Their fight to enshrine anti-trans discrimination into law is just as audacious: So far in 2022, more than a dozen states have introduced anti-trans bills, which if passed would work step by step to exclude trans people from the public sphere. \u2014 Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Virginia's new Republican Attorney General ended a legal campaign to get the federal government to recognize the state's ratification of the landmark Equal Rights Amendment, the long-running effort to enshrine women's equality in the Constitution. \u2014 The Washington Post, Arkansas Online , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Ken Wissoker has helped to enshrine cultural studies in the American academy. \u2014 Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Lawmakers are trying again this year to enshrine the curtailment of solitary confinement in law. \u2014 Kelan Lyons, courant.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Indeed, a great dissent can help enshrine a Supreme Court justice\u2019s place in history and public memory. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 17 Feb. 2022"
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"the criminal organization uses a strictly enforced vow of silence to enshroud its villainous doings",
"a dense fog enshrouded the bridge spanning the harbor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then came the smoke \u2014 not just from the forest but also from some 14,000 houses and their contents that burned, generating a thick plume that enshrouded portions of Northern California for weeks and left Norton gasping. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Then came the smoke \u2014 not just from the forest but also from some 14,000 houses and their contents that burned, generating a thick plume that enshrouded portions of Northern California for weeks and left Norton gasping. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Then came the smoke \u2014 not just from the forest but also from some 14,000 houses and their contents that burned, generating a thick plume that enshrouded portions of Northern California for weeks and left Norton gasping. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Then came the smoke \u2014 not just from the forest but also from some 14,000 houses and their contents that burned, generating a thick plume that enshrouded portions of Northern California for weeks and left Norton gasping. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Then came the smoke \u2014 not just from the forest but also from some 14,000 houses and their contents that burned, generating a thick plume that enshrouded portions of Northern California for weeks and left Norton gasping. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Then came the smoke \u2014 not just from the forest but also from some 14,000 houses and their contents that burned, generating a thick plume that enshrouded portions of Northern California for weeks and left Norton gasping. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Then came the smoke \u2014 not just from the forest but also from some 14,000 houses and their contents that burned, generating a thick plume that enshrouded portions of Northern California for weeks and left Norton gasping. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Then came the smoke \u2014 not just from the forest but also from some 14,000 houses and their contents that burned, generating a thick plume that enshrouded portions of Northern California for weeks and left Norton gasping. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Jan. 2020"
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"that ensign of tutorial authority, the hickory stick",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Her first tour as an ensign took her to Seattle for an assignment aboard an icebreaker, the Polar Star. \u2014 New York Times , 31 May 2022",
"He was commissioned an ensign in 1963, and served aboard the USS Constellation as a nuclear weapons officer. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Melvin washes out, whereas Connell would become an ensign and train new recruits in New Orleans. \u2014 Gemma Sieff, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022",
"After initially saying Kazuo was dead, the navy sent a higher-ranking officer to confide that the ensign was missing. \u2014 Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Cervantes could have made the ensign read the manuscript aloud to the licentiate. \u2014 Phil Klay, Harper's Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021",
"On Friday, the day after Veterans Day, Ouellette will graduate top of her class from the U.S. Navy\u2019s Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, as an ensign . \u2014 Lori Riley, courant.com , 10 Nov. 2021",
"In June 1954, Rumsfeld graduated and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy. \u2014 Robert Burns, ajc , 1 July 2021",
"In June 1954, Rumsfeld graduated and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy. \u2014 Robert Burns, ajc , 1 July 2021"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And so long as men die, liberty will never perish\u2026 Don\u2019t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Zelensky has described the Russian invasion as a means to enslave the Ukrainian people. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Mar. 2022",
"McKell shared several emails with The Tribune that accused lawmakers of being ignorant or willfully complicit with a plan to enslave Utah. \u2014 Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Conversely, bad ideas can divide, enslave , and immiserate. \u2014 Lindsay Craig, National Review , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Evidence suggests that another 3,166 congressmen did not enslave anyone. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Jan. 2022",
"The enforcement of slavery in the U.S. effectively stigmatized all African-descended persons in the country as potential insurrectionists, as to enslave someone is to simultaneously give rise to an impulse toward liberation. \u2014 Hawa Allan, Time , 7 Jan. 2022",
"Making landfall in what is now the Bahamas on Oct. 12, 1492, Columbus, an Italian, was the first of a wave of European explorers who decimated Native populations in the Americas in quests for gold and other wealth, including people to enslave . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Oct. 2021",
"Making landfall in what is now the Bahamas on Oct. 12, 1492, Columbus, an Italian, was the first of a wave of European explorers who decimated Native populations in the Americas in quests for gold and other wealth, including people to enslave . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Oct. 2021"
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"1628, in the meaning defined above"
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"verb"
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"in-\u02c8sner",
"en-"
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"disentangle",
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"examples":[
"The animals got ensnared in the net.",
"The police successfully ensnared the burglar.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That can be a risky proposition, as creators face a near-constant battle against platform moderation efforts that can sometimes ensnare people who are not violating a company\u2019s rules. \u2014 Kat Tenbarge, NBC News , 17 June 2022",
"The cost of buying special rope designed to sink, so as not to ensnare right whales, is adding up for Jon Williams, a fisherman in New Bedford who owns 14 boats that catch lobster, crab and hagfish. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"As a genre, the scam started with victims in China, then began to ensnare Chinese-speaking residents of other countries. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Apr. 2022",
"In an attempt to help Jennifer Coolidge woo a cute UPS guy, Elle teaches her (and the entire salon) an ass-presenting move guaranteed to ensnare any man. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Russia\u2019s richest men are on the run amid a global dragnet Western governments have cast to ensnare their yachts, villas, jets and bank accounts. \u2014 Nick Kostov, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2022",
"McKenzie thinks celebrities are going to help ensnare regular people desperate to get in on what appears to be, from the outside, a boom so big there is room for everyone. \u2014 Declan Harty, Fortune , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Complex issues involving your work or reputation could ensnare you at the moment. \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"The break-in, its coverup and other political misdeeds would ensnare top members of President Richard M. Nixon\u2019s political circle and ultimately led to Nixon\u2019s resignation in 1974. \u2014 Emily Langer, Washington Post , 30 Nov. 2021"
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"1576, in the meaning defined above"
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"verb"
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": to involve in a snarl"
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"examples":[
"for two years the couple was ensnarled in the red tape of an international adoption",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Those exact questions would divide state government and ensnarl Utah\u2019s COVID-19 response in politics as hundreds, and then thousands, of Utahns fell ill while the coronavirus spread worldwide. \u2014 Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 Sep. 2021",
"All the while, their suspicions focused on Mr. Dulos, with whom she had been ensnarled in a bitter, yearslong custody battle. \u2014 Michael Gold, New York Times , 30 Jan. 2020",
"That led to a police chase that ended in Miramar, where the robbers became ensnarled in traffic and exchanged gunshots with the police. \u2014 Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com , 12 Dec. 2019",
"The site is part of what was once envisioned as a downtown neighborhood featuring hundreds of new homes, but the original plan by developer Zaremba Inc. was ensnarled by challenges from the start. \u2014 Jordyn Grzelewski, cleveland.com , 5 Sep. 2019",
"Yost is leading a wide-ranging investigation into Cuyahoga County government and the jail that has ensnarled members of Budish\u2019s administration. \u2014 Eric Heisig, cleveland.com , 30 Aug. 2019",
"The world seems to be careening into more and more disorder, and American politics in particular is hopelessly ensnarled in partisan dysfunction. \u2014 Sean Illing, Vox , 20 Dec. 2018",
"The controversies that have ensnarled Chang have run the gamut, from budget cuts and school closures to turbulent leadership at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School. \u2014 James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com , 18 Feb. 2018",
"McCabe has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, but is now ensnarled in a criminal investigation by the US Attorney's office in DC based on the inspector general's findings -- a searing reminder of the gravity of the office's powers. \u2014 Laura Jarrett, CNN , 16 May 2018"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": bewitch , enchant"
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"a dense, dark forest that is the scene for many a tale in which some unsuspecting traveler is ensorcelled by a witch or wizard"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle French ensorceler , alteration of Old French ensorcerer , from en- + -sorcerer , from sorcier, sorcer sorcerer \u2014 more at sorcery ",
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"circa 1541, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"definitions":[
": to strive to attain : pursue",
": to take place afterward or as a result",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The stabilization would last for roughly five seconds before a rapid descent would ensue . \u2014 Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"As wedding preparations immediately ensue , George earns a crash course on learning to let go and accepting that his little girl has grown up. \u2014 Leah Campano, Seventeen , 10 June 2022",
"Kelly said the Biden administration should not end Title 42 without preparing for the immigrant swell that would ensue . \u2014 Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Congress was facing a deadline of Friday at midnight to pass the bill or a government shutdown would ensue . \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 11 Mar. 2022",
"And its ultimate cost would not be determined by Congress, but instead by the response of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the military escalation that would ensue . \u2014 Saoirse Gowan, The Week , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Yet as clouds pile up, stormy conditions can ensue . \u2014 Eric Olden, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"His responses to the tweets on Tuesday, from Enjeti and online influencer Mike Cernovich, also reveal the chaos \u2014 and potential harm \u2014 that can ensue when the incoming owner of a company amplifies criticism of workers there. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Violence would often ensue , sometimes with a slap or a shove from Heard or his wife throwing a television remote control or a glass of wine in his face, Depp said. \u2014 CBS News , 20 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French ensivre (3rd singular ensiut ), from en- + sivre to follow \u2014 more at sue ",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-225335"
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"verb"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1597, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191840"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the action of entangling : the state of being entangled",
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"in-\u02c8ta\u014b-g\u0259l-m\u0259nt",
"en-"
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"mesh(es)",
"morass",
"net",
"noose",
"quagmire",
"quicksand",
"snare",
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"toil(s)",
"trap",
"web"
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"examples":[
"his life is greatly complicated by his romantic entanglements",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Whatever its provenance, the semantic entanglement with fire has taken on a self-fulfilling air, a quirk of history that provides an expressive frame for the island\u2019s reputation as a paradise that is also an inferno. \u2014 Jack Parlett, The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The entanglement broke Zinter\u2019s wrist and ultimately led to surgery. \u2014 Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press , 22 Sep. 2021",
"Morainic movement as both wines and lessons for optimism in this specific location of entanglement of fruit and sparkling wine. \u2014 Susan H. Gordon, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"In her 12 novels, plot is often secondary to perspective and the cumulative impact of emotional, social and cultural entanglement . \u2014 Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2022",
"The inevitable complications of that entanglement don't take long to manifest, and fresh beginnings prove equally fraught for Nora (Portrait star No\u00e9mie Merlant), a thirtysomething real-estate agent attempting to start over in law school. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
"In recent years, the number of whale entanglements in fishing gear increased, and a legal settlement between the state and the Center for Biological Diversity now requires the CDFW to close fishing zones where the risk of entanglement is high. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 Apr. 2022",
"In some cases, live dolphins that approached the shore were also visibly weak or dehydrated and showed no sign of infection or entanglement . \u2014 Naomi Cohen, NBC News , 13 May 2022",
"The entanglement between fantasies of love and power occupied Berlant for the rest of their career. \u2014 Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times , 25 Dec. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Weaver likely will enter at some point to pitch multiple innings; he was built up to four innings and 60 pitches in his most recent rehab start. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 11 June 2022",
"The Human Rights Watch released a report on June 6, stating that migrants and asylum-seekers who enter Mexico through its southern border face abuses and struggle to obtain protection or legal status. \u2014 Michelle Velez And Marlon Sorto, CNN , 11 June 2022",
"Lingo will be arraigned at 10:30 a.m. today, at which time she will likely be asked to enter pleas to the charges. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"Laurens was sentenced Friday in federal court after admitting to being among the first to enter the Capitol through an exterior door on the Senate side. \u2014 Chris Joyner, ajc , 10 June 2022",
"Speaking with reporters Friday following the announcement about the exact timeline for the UCF, Houston and Cincinnati to enter the Big 12, UCF athletics director Terry Mohajir shared insight into the conference realignment. \u2014 Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel , 10 June 2022",
"That theory suggests that Democrats are allowing migrants to enter the United States to change the electorate and replace white voters, thereby reducing their political power. \u2014 Pedro Rios, San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"Martin, who had been scheduled to make his third start of the season, is expected to enter the game after Lopez. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
"Defense attorney Nayib Hassan said Tarrio never instructed nor encouraged anyone to enter the Capitol or to engage in any violence or destruction on Jan. 6. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022"
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"Entertainment was provided by jugglers.",
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"They played games in the evening for entertainment .",
"plays, movies, and other entertainments",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Cooley cut his teeth in entertainment by starting out as an assistant to filmmaker Joel Schumacher in 2002. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 11 June 2022",
"But the arena also had a strong identity in entertainment \u2014 Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra and Diana Ross sang here. \u2014 Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun , 9 June 2022",
"Game Changers is a series profiling the people and projects making an impact in diversity, equity, and inclusion in entertainment . \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"Women in Film, a nonprofit that advocates for women working in entertainment , echoed Heard\u2019s sentiment. \u2014 Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"British-American comedian and actor Bob Hope, who passed away in 2003 at the age of 100, had an illustrious and dynamic career in entertainment . \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 30 May 2022",
"Marvel is the biggest name in entertainment , and now Disney is using it to boost its resorts business to attract families who may have found the previous iteration of the park a bit, well, boring. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 28 May 2022",
"Other prominent figures in entertainment have been more pointed in their responses to the tragedy. \u2014 Sonia Rao, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"In a bright spot for companies in live and in-person entertainment , consumers have been flocking to concerts, theme parks and theaters. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 18 May 2022"
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": to hold spellbound : charm",
": to hold in or reduce to slavery",
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"enthralled by the flickering fire in the hearth, we lost all track of time",
"for years these master magicians have been enthralling audiences with their astounding illusions",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bravado would see their son and scoop him up and whisk him toward the backstage area on the ship to enthrall the crowd even more. \u2014 Cassell Ferere, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"The portrayal is absorbing, committed and morbidly fascinating\u2014one of the more memorable aspects of the Holmes persona was her unnaturally deep voice, which seemed intended to enthrall and probably did. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Your zone of genius areas are your interests that engage and enthrall you. \u2014 Julia Wuench, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The first games to really enthrall me were Starcraft and Guild Wars. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 30 Nov. 2021",
"No matter your genre preference, summertime music festivals are sure to enthrall . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 July 2021",
"While The Office ended more than eight years ago, the NBC series has continued to enthrall fans around the world. \u2014 Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com , 16 July 2021",
"Weather is perpetrated by a somewhat predictable but ultimately uncontrollable force, and no Hollywood disaster flick can fully replicate the effects, those forces majeures that can enthrall , shock, or even humble. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 10 July 2021",
"Lakers owner Jack Kent Cooke\u2019s open checkbook, the Athens of America vs. Hollywood \u2014 will still enthrall fans of the game, more than a half-century later. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 July 2021"
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"for years these master magicians have been enthralling audiences with their astounding illusions",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bravado would see their son and scoop him up and whisk him toward the backstage area on the ship to enthrall the crowd even more. \u2014 Cassell Ferere, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"The portrayal is absorbing, committed and morbidly fascinating\u2014one of the more memorable aspects of the Holmes persona was her unnaturally deep voice, which seemed intended to enthrall and probably did. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Your zone of genius areas are your interests that engage and enthrall you. \u2014 Julia Wuench, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The first games to really enthrall me were Starcraft and Guild Wars. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 30 Nov. 2021",
"No matter your genre preference, summertime music festivals are sure to enthrall . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 July 2021",
"While The Office ended more than eight years ago, the NBC series has continued to enthrall fans around the world. \u2014 Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com , 16 July 2021",
"Weather is perpetrated by a somewhat predictable but ultimately uncontrollable force, and no Hollywood disaster flick can fully replicate the effects, those forces majeures that can enthrall , shock, or even humble. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 10 July 2021",
"Lakers owner Jack Kent Cooke\u2019s open checkbook, the Athens of America vs. Hollywood \u2014 will still enthrall fans of the game, more than a half-century later. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 July 2021"
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"the literary world has enthroned Shakespeare for so long that his preeminence among writers seems unassailable",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"He will be officially enthroned on October 22nd, in a ceremony which the many grand guests, including the vice-president of China and the prime minister of South Korea, will watch only by video monitor from another part of the palace. \u2014 The Economist , 17 Oct. 2019",
"In 1928, Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 Nov. 2019",
"In the upper level, Roma, the goddess of Rome, sits at the center on her throne in a relaxed pose, her eyes meeting those of Augustus, enthroned just to the right. \u2014 Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ , 21 Sep. 2018",
"Corporations have been enthroned , and an era of corruption in high places will follow. \u2014 Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News , 22 Aug. 2019",
"The spectacular folio on the left shows Christ in majesty, enthroned in an abstract eternity of glistening, polished gold. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 July 2019",
"Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, 51, a native of Istanbul and a longtime theology professor in Greece, was enthroned as archbishop in an elaborate ceremony at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 June 2019",
"Inside the gendarmerie station, Javed was met by the commander\u2014an aristocratic-looking man with a powerful jaw\u2014in full military uniform, enthroned behind a big wooden desk. \u2014 Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine , 10 Feb. 2019",
"In the central niche are the remains of a fresco depicting Christ enthroned between angels. \u2014 Jim Berkeley, Town & Country , 5 Oct. 2016"
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"noun"
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": strong excitement of feeling : ardor",
": something inspiring zeal or fervor",
": belief in special revelations of the Holy Spirit",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"My three-and-a-half-year-old\u2019s enthusiasm has been infectious. \u2014 Vogue , 3 June 2022",
"Cheng\u2019s enthusiasm for the project was palpable in a recent interview. \u2014 Gene Park, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"Farr-Kaye says the younger players bring new enthusiasm . \u2014 Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic , 18 May 2022",
"The influence of its neighbor has been crucial \u2014 more than three quarters of Finns now support NATO membership, and the enthusiasm is contagious. \u2014 Patrick Smith, NBC News , 18 May 2022",
"That enthusiasm has been in short supply this year across markets. \u2014 Paul Vigna, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
"The cast\u2019s enthusiasm for the sheer joy of music is contagious. \u2014 Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel , 16 May 2022",
"My impression is that local enthusiasm was quite muted. \u2014 Nick Vivarelli, Variety , 13 May 2022",
"The two millennials reinvigorated the benefit with a fresh vision, new enthusiasm and focus on fun, Drummey said. \u2014 Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 Apr. 2022"
],
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"They were enthusiastic supporters of the president.",
"I'm not wildly enthusiastic about your latest idea.",
"She received an enthusiastic welcome.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ghahramani is enthusiastic about the unsettling unknown of all of this. \u2014 Stephen Marche, The Atlantic , 19 June 2022",
"Thiel is enthusiastic about Musk running Twitter, two associates said. \u2014 Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News , 19 June 2022",
"Gardeck stayed an hour and was enthusiastic about partnering with the organization. \u2014 Jos\u00e9 M. Romero, The Arizona Republic , 18 June 2022",
"By recognizing that certain investors, consumers and employees will be less enthusiastic about supporting ESG economically during recessions, bear markets and inflationary periods, leaders can maintain a more consistent approach to ESG. \u2014 John M. Bremen, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"The board of directors and Mr. Bezos were enthusiastic about the plan. \u2014 Dana Mattioli, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"Lea Slusher, the symphony\u2019s vice president for artistic administration and audience development, is equally enthusiastic about Humphreys. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"The Diamonds of the Year Named for their resemblance to a river of gems, diamond rivi\u00e8res have long attracted an enthusiastic fan base. \u2014 Leena Kim And Olivia Hosken, Town & Country , 17 May 2022",
"The two-term senator has real political strengths: incumbency, an enthusiastic GOP base and the political tailwinds of running in a midterm election against the party of the president. \u2014 Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 12 May 2022"
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"having no element or part left out whole",
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"consisting of one piece",
"homogeneous , unmixed",
"intact",
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"having the margin continuous or free from indentations",
"stallion",
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"Adjective",
"The war affected an entire generation of young Americans.",
"The fence runs along the entire length of the building.",
"She has dedicated her entire life to helping others.",
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"Begich had filed to challenge Young, who represented the entire state for 49 years in the House, before his death. \u2014 Bridget Bowman, NBC News , 9 June 2022",
"By involving the entire organization in the process\u2014or even just making employees aware that a pilot is taking place\u2014will lead to much higher success rates. \u2014 Adam Bryant, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"According to recent reports, only around 500,000 properties in the entire state of California would qualify under SB 9, and there are no significant subsidies to incentivize homeowners to take advantage of it. \u2014 Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 June 2022",
"The effort took six months, but the owner was rewarded in the end with a $4,700 turf removal rebate check from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California that paid for almost the entire project. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022",
"While every residence boasts spectacular views of the city and Hudson River, Jardim Norte 11A is the crown jewel of the entire project and is currently listed for $21 million. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 3 June 2022",
"The entire project is on schedule to open to traffic by the end of the year. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 3 June 2022",
"In 2021, new legislation for the entire state of Virginia restricted officers from pulling drivers over solely for minor infractions. \u2014 Fox News , 2 June 2022",
"The big draw is the site\u2019s reputation as the largest colony of wood storks in the entire state. \u2014 Hunter Boyce, ajc , 27 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"As storms and fires grow stronger in a warming world, so must the entire of infrastructure, including roads, power, buildings, and people need to be made resilient enough to withstand disasters. \u2014 Camille Squires, Quartz , 3 Sep. 2021",
"As of 2021, the media bail bond for a felony is $10,000 \u2014 an amount that is nearly an entire 's year worth of income for the people who can't afford it. \u2014 Li Cohen, CBS News , 23 July 2021",
"Frequently in this production, the entire back wall becomes a movie screen, sometimes capturing live scenes on or just off stage. \u2014 Brian Schaefer, Bloomberg.com , 6 May 2020",
"Vanore, a 37-year-old television producer, had an entire row to herself on the United Airlines flight last Thursday from Newark to Los Angeles. \u2014 Maxine Joselow, Scientific American , 23 Apr. 2020",
"EDsmart, a college ranking website, is looking for a real die-hard Potterhead to binge-watch the entire Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film series. \u2014 Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure , 17 Apr. 2020",
"Red, Jackson-Posey and Donald Ghostone had three steals each while the entire Flower Mound team had just two for the game. \u2014 Dallas News , 29 Feb. 2020",
"Shop the entire Nordstrom sale The product experts at Reviewed have all your shopping needs covered. \u2014 Samantha Matt, USA TODAY , 18 Mar. 2020",
"Catch Pompeo's entire Late Late Show interview below. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Glamour , 28 Sep. 2019"
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"are you entirely aware of what you're doing with that thing?",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That sour mood is almost entirely thanks to inflation, especially as gas and food prices continue their upward march into the summer travel season. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 12 June 2022",
"Brows can lose their fullness over the years, and your tweezers aren't entirely to blame. \u2014 Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR , 10 June 2022",
"Multiple sources say the decision was entirely business and strategy-related and had nothing to do with any personal behavior on Rice\u2019s part. \u2014 Cynthia Littleton, Variety , 9 June 2022",
"Right now there are three that are entirely vine to bottle wines. \u2014 Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
"Our dinners were usually thrifty and utilitarian, with lots of repeats, but holidays and birthdays \u2014 celebrations of any kind \u2014 were another thing entirely . \u2014 Emily Heil, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"Produced entirely by Zora herself, with just a few key contributions from Thornton and other friends on guest vocals and session parts, Z1 is a fearless expression of the person Zora truly is. \u2014 Simon Vozick-levinson, Rolling Stone , 7 June 2022",
"The Berry Amendment requires that all garments made for the military must be produced entirely in the United States. \u2014 Rick Helfenbein, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"An ingredient with the term glutinous in the title might be misleading, but rest assured, both rice flour and glutinous rice flour are entirely gluten-free. \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 31 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192734"
},
"entitlement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the state or condition of being entitled : right",
": a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract",
": belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges",
": a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group",
": funds supporting or distributed by such a program",
": the state or condition of being entitled : claim",
": a right to benefits that is granted especially by law or contract (as an insurance policy)",
": a government program that provides benefits to members of a group that has a statutory entitlement",
": the benefits distributed by such a program"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8t\u012b-t\u1d4al-m\u0259nt",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"allocation",
"allotment",
"annuity",
"appropriation",
"grant",
"subsidy",
"subvention"
],
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"examples":[
"my entitlement to a refund",
"celebrities who have an arrogant sense of entitlement",
"entitlements such as medical aid for the elderly and poor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"All the coding displays a fluency in the various ways that celebrity gayness can intersect with pride, vanity, narcissism, tension, injury, entitlement , persistence, weepiness and determination. \u2014 Mark Harris, New York Times , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Based on Sarah's addictive book, the show tackles entitlement , truth and the boundaries of consent. \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 31 Jan. 2022",
"In this world, millennial malaise, narcissism, delusion, entitlement , and privilege (especially white privilege) are dangerous and insidious forces with catastrophic consequences\u2014for just about everyone but the offending party. \u2014 Leena Kim, Town & Country , 13 Jan. 2022",
"But this rhetoric, which is designed to stoke white fear and entitlement , has never really been fringe and has always found an eager audience. \u2014 Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune , 17 May 2022",
"And how complicit are people within that sort of structure, and obviously dealing with rape and how difficult that is to prosecute \u2014 and who\u2019s telling the truth and male entitlement . \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 5 May 2022",
"The Washington Democrats wasted their political capital in 2021 trying to create a once-and-for-all U.S. entitlement state with Build Back Better. \u2014 Daniel Henninger, WSJ , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Expanding Medicaid would only expand the entitlement 's inefficiencies and poor health outcomes. \u2014 Sally Pipes, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"And needless to say, Friend\u2019s achingly Tory haircut\u2014somehow too square and too soft, chiseled from a sad putty of inexhaustible entitlement \u2014stamps out any last embers of desire. \u2014 Raven Smith, Vogue , 21 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
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"1782, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190615"
},
"entoil":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": entrap , enmesh"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8t\u022fi(-\u0259)l"
],
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"catch up",
"enmesh",
"immesh",
"ensnare",
"ensnarl",
"entangle",
"entrap",
"mesh",
"net",
"snare",
"tangle",
"trap"
],
"antonyms":[
"disentangle",
"untangle"
],
"examples":[
"entoiled by the strings of fate"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1581, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210733"
},
"entombing":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to deposit in or as if in a tomb : bury",
": to serve as a tomb for"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8t\u00fcm",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"bury",
"hearse",
"inhume",
"inter",
"lay",
"put away",
"tomb"
],
"antonyms":[
"disinter",
"exhume",
"unearth"
],
"examples":[
"a number of Boston's historic notables are entombed in the Old Granary Burying Ground",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The occupiers attempted to counter the partisans by gassing the tunnels and sealing off access points to entomb them, but the rebels persisted. \u2014 Will Hunt, The New Yorker , 9 Apr. 2022",
"But even his flytraps were improbably large, big enough to entomb and consume a human. \u2014 Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The firefighters eventually used Portland cement to entomb the smoldering ruins. \u2014 Merrill Goozner, The New Republic , 28 Oct. 2021",
"For Palestinians in Gaza, watching their neighborhoods collapse and pillars of smoke entomb their homes, the suffering is only deepening. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 May 2021",
"After the water in their environment dries up, the minerals are left behind and entomb those microbes, forming stromatolites. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 3 Mar. 2021",
"Similar concrete pads are often used to entomb nuclear waste. \u2014 Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune , 25 Feb. 2021",
"Cemeteries rejected those they were meant to entomb . \u2014 Hisham Melhem, The Atlantic , 22 Nov. 2020",
"The site northwest of Las Vegas was first proposed in the 1980s to entomb 77,000 tons of the nation\u2019s most highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English entoumben , from Middle French entomber , from en- + tombe tomb",
"first_known_use":[
"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203204"
},
"entourage":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one's attendants or associates",
": surroundings"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4n-tu\u0307-\u02c8r\u00e4zh"
],
"synonyms":[
"cortege",
"cort\u00e8ge",
"following",
"posse",
"retinue",
"suite",
"tail",
"train"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the President and his entourage",
"the gaggle of hangers-on that passes for the rock star's entourage",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The dwarfish figures with black skin depicted in the painting were part of the entourage of the Portuguese Queen Maria I. \u2014 Martin Dale, Variety , 30 May 2022",
"An entourage of a half-dozen male students escorted her from her car to her throne-like chair, ornately carved in dark wood, cushioned in red velvet and positioned near the front row. \u2014 Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 May 2022",
"Traveling through farming villages with an entourage of Japanese guards and interpreters, Thunberg documented how he would be mobbed by children shocked by the bizarre look of a foreigner with large, round eyes. \u2014 Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 May 2022",
"She was joined by a full entourage of dancers in pale green gowns to match her own feathery ensemble and the green surfaces of the tennis courts, like the ones where the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, played growing up. \u2014 Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Jackson didn't realize an entourage of district officials and reporters were en route to Butler with a big check with her name on it. \u2014 Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal , 10 May 2022",
"Earlier in her testimony Thursday, Heard testified that Depp surrounded himself with an entourage of enablers to shield him from the consequences of his drug and alcohol use. \u2014 CBS News , 6 May 2022",
"Johnny Depp surrounded himself with an entourage of enablers to shield him from the consequences of his drug and alcohol use, his ex-wife Amber Heard testified Thursday. \u2014 Matthew Barakat, ajc , 5 May 2022",
"At the ceremony, the couple had an entourage of four people, three who were filming and one who provided security, Frierson said. \u2014 NBC News , 5 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French, from Middle French, from entourer to surround, from entour around, from en in (from Latin in ) + tour circuit \u2014 more at turn ",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1834, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185453"
},
"entrance":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": power or permission to enter : admission",
": the act of entering",
": the means or place of entry",
": the point at which a voice or instrument part begins in ensemble music",
": the first appearance of an actor in a scene",
": to put into a trance",
": to carry away with delight, wonder, or rapture",
": the act of going in",
": a door, gate, or way for going in",
": permission to join, participate in, or attend",
": to put into a trance",
": to fill with delight and wonder"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-tr\u0259n(t)s",
"in-\u02c8tran(t)s",
"en-",
"\u02c8en-tr\u0259ns",
"in-\u02c8trans"
],
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"access",
"accession",
"admission",
"admittance",
"door",
"doorway",
"entr\u00e9e",
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"entry",
"gateway",
"ingress",
"key",
"passport",
"ticket"
],
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"carry away",
"enrapture",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"rap",
"rapture",
"ravish",
"transport"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In cities, special prep schools are filled with teenagers hoping to pass the army\u2019s entrance exams. \u2014 Shams Irfan, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Khoury was charged more than a year after Ernst and 49 others \u2014 including actors and prominent businesspeople \u2014 were arrested in the sprawling scheme involving bogus athletic credentials and rigged entrance exam scores. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Khoury was charged more than a year after Ernst and 49 others \u2014 including actors and prominent businesspeople \u2014 were arrested in the sprawling scheme involving bogus athletic credentials and rigged entrance exam scores. \u2014 CBS News , 16 June 2022",
"The Classical Learning Test, a new college entrance exam, was designed by members of the classical learning community to validate what students have learned. \u2014 Mike Mcshane, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"There is an entrance fee of KW3,000 (or $2.5) for daytime visitors. \u2014 Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"In the entrance hall, large hanging planters help frame views out to the English perennial gardens, which have been redesigned to meld with the boundary established by the welcome center\u2019s architecture. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"Because the Water Gap is part of the National Park Service, the recent announcement by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy that entrance fees at state parks are being lifted this summer does not apply. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"All classroom doors will be closed and locked during exams, and the entrance gate on Bristol Street will be closed, opening only for vendors, according to the statement. \u2014 Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Powerhouse voice, theatrical style, Broadway-meets-rock vibe, ability to entrance TV viewers and turn them into devoted fans. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The blue themes of Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, not to mention the blue Apple uses for iMessages, entrance us. \u2014 Mark Naida, WSJ , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Taxi from Newbury station to entrance gate at Highclere about $27 and takes about 15 minutes. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Oct. 2021",
"On Twitch and YouTube, Vubters entrance live audiences, sometimes numbering thousands, with cutesy karaoke or the latest video games. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 28 Apr. 2021",
"The free day this weekend is one of six offered by the National Park Service in 2021, and applies only to entrance fees \u2013 camping and other fees will still be charged. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Secure perimeter means classes continue but entrance to the campus is restricted. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 4 Nov. 2020",
"However, this summer he is eclipsed by Ronnie, a magician, and Evie, his glamorous assistant \u2014 and fianc\u00e9e \u2014 who entrance fresh crowds every night. \u2014 Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune , 18 Sep. 2020",
"Yuan's freemium strategy worked and tech companies, entranced by Zoom's simplicity and efficiency, signed up for premium Zoom subscriptions. \u2014 Jon Sarlin, CNN , 21 May 2020"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1569, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213233"
},
"entranced":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": power or permission to enter : admission",
": the act of entering",
": the means or place of entry",
": the point at which a voice or instrument part begins in ensemble music",
": the first appearance of an actor in a scene",
": to put into a trance",
": to carry away with delight, wonder, or rapture",
": the act of going in",
": a door, gate, or way for going in",
": permission to join, participate in, or attend",
": to put into a trance",
": to fill with delight and wonder"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-tr\u0259n(t)s",
"in-\u02c8tran(t)s",
"en-",
"\u02c8en-tr\u0259ns",
"in-\u02c8trans"
],
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"access",
"accession",
"admission",
"admittance",
"door",
"doorway",
"entr\u00e9e",
"entree",
"entry",
"gateway",
"ingress",
"key",
"passport",
"ticket"
],
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"carry away",
"enrapture",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"rap",
"rapture",
"ravish",
"transport"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In cities, special prep schools are filled with teenagers hoping to pass the army\u2019s entrance exams. \u2014 Shams Irfan, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Khoury was charged more than a year after Ernst and 49 others \u2014 including actors and prominent businesspeople \u2014 were arrested in the sprawling scheme involving bogus athletic credentials and rigged entrance exam scores. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"Khoury was charged more than a year after Ernst and 49 others \u2014 including actors and prominent businesspeople \u2014 were arrested in the sprawling scheme involving bogus athletic credentials and rigged entrance exam scores. \u2014 CBS News , 16 June 2022",
"The Classical Learning Test, a new college entrance exam, was designed by members of the classical learning community to validate what students have learned. \u2014 Mike Mcshane, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"There is an entrance fee of KW3,000 (or $2.5) for daytime visitors. \u2014 Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"In the entrance hall, large hanging planters help frame views out to the English perennial gardens, which have been redesigned to meld with the boundary established by the welcome center\u2019s architecture. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
"Because the Water Gap is part of the National Park Service, the recent announcement by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy that entrance fees at state parks are being lifted this summer does not apply. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"All classroom doors will be closed and locked during exams, and the entrance gate on Bristol Street will be closed, opening only for vendors, according to the statement. \u2014 Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Powerhouse voice, theatrical style, Broadway-meets-rock vibe, ability to entrance TV viewers and turn them into devoted fans. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The blue themes of Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, not to mention the blue Apple uses for iMessages, entrance us. \u2014 Mark Naida, WSJ , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Taxi from Newbury station to entrance gate at Highclere about $27 and takes about 15 minutes. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Oct. 2021",
"On Twitch and YouTube, Vubters entrance live audiences, sometimes numbering thousands, with cutesy karaoke or the latest video games. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 28 Apr. 2021",
"The free day this weekend is one of six offered by the National Park Service in 2021, and applies only to entrance fees \u2013 camping and other fees will still be charged. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Secure perimeter means classes continue but entrance to the campus is restricted. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 4 Nov. 2020",
"However, this summer he is eclipsed by Ronnie, a magician, and Evie, his glamorous assistant \u2014 and fianc\u00e9e \u2014 who entrance fresh crowds every night. \u2014 Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune , 18 Sep. 2020",
"Yuan's freemium strategy worked and tech companies, entranced by Zoom's simplicity and efficiency, signed up for premium Zoom subscriptions. \u2014 Jon Sarlin, CNN , 21 May 2020"
],
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"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1569, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-201633"
},
"entrap":{
"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to catch in or as if in a trap",
": to lure into a compromising statement or act",
": to catch in or as if in a trap",
": to cause (a person) to commit a crime by means of undue persuasion, encouragement, or fraud in order to later prosecute"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8trap",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8trap",
"in-\u02c8trap"
],
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"catch up",
"enmesh",
"immesh",
"ensnare",
"ensnarl",
"entangle",
"entoil",
"mesh",
"net",
"snare",
"tangle",
"trap"
],
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"disentangle",
"untangle"
],
"examples":[
"We used the net to entrap a school of fish.",
"The air bubbles were entrapped in ice.",
"She felt that she was entrapped in an unhappy marriage.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Pentagon on Thursday said that Russian commanders are attempting to entrap Ukrainian forces defending key towns in Donbas even as the Kremlin\u2019s combat losses continue to mount in the face of significant resistance. \u2014 Alex Horton, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"According to the team, as halite grows from salty surface waters, fluid inclusions entrap the water, becoming microenvironments or habitats for trapped microorganisms. \u2014 Saleen Martin, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
"Even large logs that appear immovable can crush or entrap victims underneath when a sneaker wave rolls in. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The tactic would entrap a large portion of the Ukrainian military in a pocket in the eastern part of the country, and cut it off from retreating towards Kyiv. \u2014 Jeremy Kahn, Fortune , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Continuing the runaway semi-autonomous car example, imagine that the police don\u2019t have enough police cars on the scene to entrap the bolting car. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The federal suit, filed in San Francisco against Meta Platforms and Snap, claims the social media platforms operate on algorithms intentionally designed to entrap children and teens. \u2014 Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Often, a cover is all that is needed to entrap heat and keep the plants from frost or freezes. \u2014 Tom Maccubbin, orlandosentinel.com , 18 Dec. 2021",
"His playbook of operations was called the Trout Memo \u2013 after the fly-fishing technique designed to entrap trout. \u2014 Mike O'sullivan, Forbes , 23 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle French entraper , from en- + trape trap",
"first_known_use":[
"1531, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213550"
},
"entrust":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to confer a trust on",
": to deliver something in trust to",
": to commit to another with confidence",
": to give care of something to",
": to give to another with confidence",
": to deliver something to (a person) under a charge or duty",
": to give (something) over to the care of another",
": to deliver to a merchant who may transfer ownership to a buyer in the ordinary course of business",
"\u2014 see also negligent entrustment \u2014 compare bail , consign"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8tr\u0259st",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8tr\u0259st"
],
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"assign",
"charge",
"commission",
"task",
"trust"
],
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"examples":[
"She was entrusted with the job of organizing the reception.",
"we entrusted our financial adviser with the investment of all of our savings",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pence's instinct was there was no way the Founding Fathers would entrust a single person with this authority to determine an election, Jacobs testified. \u2014 Lisa Mascaro, Chron , 16 June 2022",
"What has inspired them to entrust one of the NFL\u2019s most crucial positions \u2014 backup quarterback \u2014 to Nate Sudfeld, 28, who is largely unknown and nearly wholly unproven? \u2014 Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 May 2022",
"The move was also an acknowledgment by the Daley administration that the city could not entrust such a major transportation improvement to the CTA alone. \u2014 Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune , 13 May 2022",
"State and local governments should entrust their money to managers that don\u2019t work against their residents\u2019 best interests. \u2014 Mike Pence, WSJ , 26 May 2022",
"Instead, business owners can entrust some of these projects to their employees. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"When your kids get a little older, entrust them with pocketknives of their own. \u2014 Rachel Walker, Outside Online , 22 Apr. 2019",
"So, why do all of these celebrities and brands entrust their public-facing images to Lede? \u2014 Jessica Iredale, New York Times , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The best approach is a set of policies that entrust people with the ability to exercise responsibility and be cautious. \u2014 Megan Carnegie, Wired , 31 Mar. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-184552"
},
"enunciate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make a definite or systematic statement of",
": announce , proclaim",
": articulate , pronounce",
": to utter articulate sounds",
": to make known publicly",
": to pronounce words or parts of words"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0113-\u02c8n\u0259n(t)-s\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t",
"\u0113-\u02c8n\u0259n-s\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t"
],
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"articulate"
],
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"examples":[
"He set out to enunciate the basic principles of his system.",
"enunciate a basic set of beliefs",
"Children should be taught to enunciate clearly.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Waiting for the sourdough to rise has given people the patience to enunciate multisyllable names like Genevieve, Josephine, and Theodore. \u2014 Laura Lane, The New Yorker , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The fatty meat and wok hei work well together to enunciate the charred flavor in each bite, offset by pungent Thai basil and young green peppercorns. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Speaking at a measured pace can also help you to enunciate your words and ensure your colleagues understand each word communicated through the technology. \u2014 Avery Blank, Forbes , 7 Sep. 2021",
"To confront the truth is first to enunciate it, and on neither count was American society equal to the task. \u2014 Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2021",
"Abigail, the first deaf contestant in the franchise's history, reveals her cochlear implants to Matt, who promises to enunciate clearly for her. \u2014 Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY , 5 Jan. 2021",
"James, in a particularly cute moment, promised to always enunciate clearly for her. \u2014 Devon Ivie, Vulture , 4 Jan. 2021",
"The former vice president, who struggled growing up with a stutter, stuttered slightly at the start of the program and at one point squeezed his eyes shut and slowed down his response to clearly enunciate his words. \u2014 The Associated Press, NOLA.com , 16 Oct. 2020",
"The former vice president, who struggled growing up with a stutter, stuttered slightly at the start of the program and at one point squeezed his eyes shut and slowed down his response to clearly enunciate his words. \u2014 Jonathan Lemire, Star Tribune , 16 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin enuntiatus , past participle of enuntiare to report, declare, from e- + nuntiare to report \u2014 more at announce ",
"first_known_use":[
"1623, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173138"
},
"environment":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded",
": the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (such as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival",
": the aggregate of social and cultural conditions that influence the life of an individual or community",
": the position or characteristic position of a linguistic element in a sequence",
": a computer interface from which various tasks can be performed",
": a person's physical surroundings",
": the surrounding conditions or forces (as soil, climate, and living things) that influence a plant's or animal's characteristics and ability to survive",
": the social and cultural conditions that affect the life of a person or community",
": the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival",
": the aggregate of social and cultural conditions that influence the life of an individual or community"
],
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"in-\u02c8v\u012b-r\u0259(n)-m\u0259nt",
"-\u02c8v\u012b(-\u0259)r(n)-",
"in-\u02c8v\u012b-r\u0259n-m\u0259nt",
"-\u02c8v\u012b-\u0259rn-m\u0259nt",
"in-\u02c8v\u012b-r\u0259n-m\u0259nt",
"-\u02c8v\u012b(-\u0259)rn-"
],
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"ambient",
"atmosphere",
"climate",
"clime",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The family includes 5,000 compounds, which are persistent, remaining both in the environment and the human body over time. \u2014 Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Moreover, what happens in the environment does not always track what happens in the laboratory. \u2014 Meg Wilcox, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"More recently, worries about inflation and the path of interest-rate increases have provoked turmoil in markets as well as vigorous debate over the right valuations for stocks in the current environment . \u2014 Nick Timiraos, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"Despite the potentially transitory headwinds in the current environment , Palantir\u2019s long-term outlook remains intact. \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"As a result, crypto exchanges have been among the quickest to cut jobs in the current environment . \u2014 Michael Bellusci, Fortune , 3 June 2022",
"Complete diversification means owning all sectors and companies, and, in the current environment , that definitely includes traditional fossil fuel companies. \u2014 New York Times , 3 June 2022",
"The defense said their client could not get a fair trial in the current environment . \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"The current political environment , Naftali says, undermines the American political tradition of lawmakers being problem solvers. \u2014 Brian Bennett, Time , 1 June 2022"
],
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"1827, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-012452"
},
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"type":"plural noun",
"definitions":[
"the districts around a city",
"environing things surroundings",
"an adjoining region or space vicinity"
],
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"synonyms":[
"outskirts",
"purlieus",
"suburbia"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The horizontal, not vertical, presentation in open water environs has, on more than one occasion, saved the day for me when other more traditional tactics sputtered. \u2014 Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun , 29 May 2022",
"There are exotic fauna as well, not typically found in such urban environs gazelles, puffins, kangaroos and bears. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"Erik Haula was leaning on a white concrete wall near the Bruins\u2019 dressing room at PNC Arena, chatting in familiar environs . \u2014 Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
"Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, an independent library and archive of LGBTQ materials incorporated here in 1981, hasn\u2019t always operated in the most becoming environs . \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 30 Mar. 2022",
"When cleaning a bird feeder, care should be taken to keep it safe for you, your home's outdoor environs , and, of course, the birds who stop by for refreshments. \u2014 Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens , 31 May 2022",
"So every couple of years, Banas takes leave of his life for a few weeks and ventures into nature\u2019s harshest environs . \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 Feb. 2022",
"And the artists have been Montclairians, live nearby, or take inspiration from Montclair\u2019s leafy environs . \u2014 Jeanine Barone, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
"The live fury of punk may have naturally been mooted by the art gallery environs , but there is plenty of visual excitement to be had here. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 1 Apr. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1665, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"envision":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to picture to oneself"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8vi-zh\u0259n",
"en-"
],
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"conceit",
"conceive",
"conjure (up)",
"dream",
"envisage",
"fancy",
"fantasize",
"fantasy",
"feature",
"ideate",
"image",
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"picture",
"see",
"vision",
"visualize"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The inventor envisioned many uses for his creation.",
"She envisioned a better life for herself.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The drop in efficacy may come as a shock to some Americans who still envision protection levels of over 90% against symptomatic infection that were initially reported by vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna in late 2020. \u2014 Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News , 9 June 2022",
"That decade of experience is one reason the Diamondbacks could envision Lovullo leading them back to respectability. \u2014 Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic , 27 May 2022",
"Consumer stocks of all stripes were thrashed as a growing chorus of economists envision recession on the horizon. \u2014 John Dobosz, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
"There\u2019s that one where somebody looks up into the sky and may envision some higher power. \u2014 Chuck Culpepper, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Feb. 2022",
"To picture articular cartilage, envision the tough, white coating on the end of a chicken bone. \u2014 Claudia Wallis, Scientific American , 1 June 2022",
"Taylor can even envision a day when people bank their own stem cells at a young age, taking them out of storage when needed to grow a heart -- and one day even a lung, liver or kidney. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"Chris Chen, a 26-year-old personal trainer in New Taipei City, could envision a life in the military, given the proper training. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"When spreading mulch around your tree, envision a doughnut. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 22 Apr. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1855, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195522"
},
"enlargement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an act or instance of enlarging : the state of being enlarged",
": a photographic print larger than the negative that is made by projecting the negative image through a lens onto a photographic printing surface",
": an act of making or growing larger",
": the state of having been made or having grown larger",
": a larger copy of a photograph",
": an act or instance of enlarging : the state of being enlarged"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8l\u00e4rj-m\u0259nt",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8l\u00e4rj-m\u0259nt",
"in-\u02c8l\u00e4rj-m\u0259nt"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Symptoms include enlargement of the lymph nodes.",
"The plans call for an enlargement of the company's offices.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Enlargement of the prostate frequently causes partial obstruction of the urethra, and having to push to begin urinating is a common symptom of prostate enlargement in men. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 11 May 2022",
"The post-Cold War rounds of enlargement took place under conditions of unquestioned U.S. primacy and relative Russian economic weakness and international decline. \u2014 Chris Massaro, Fox News , 21 Jan. 2022",
"But before the war started, Putin presented the West with a list of demands including, most notably, a halt to NATO enlargement . \u2014 Jeffrey Sachs, CNN , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The Russians have demanded no NATO enlargement and no NATO membership for Ukraine. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 29 Mar. 2022",
"The Kremlin wants to portray NATO enlargement as an imperial project aimed at destabilizing Russia. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Mar. 2022",
"The defense argued to block the photos, arguing the state crime lab expert who produced them from the video couldn't fully explain the algorithms that allow digital image enlargement . \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 Nov. 2021",
"In addition, there will be an enlargement of the existing warming hut and paddle tennis courts will be open until 11 p.m. when one local paddle tennis club league is in season. \u2014 Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune , 9 May 2022",
"Further enlargement of the 27-nation EU is suddenly back on the table with Moldova and Georgia, both formerly part of the Soviet Union, submitting applications for membership. \u2014 Kateryna Choursina, Bloomberg.com , 3 Mar. 2022"
],
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"1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-111404"
},
"enfetter":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to bind in fetters : enchain"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8fe-t\u0259r",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"bind",
"chain",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"gyve",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"pinion",
"shackle",
"trammel"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbind",
"unfetter",
"unshackle"
],
"examples":[
"enfettered by debt, she was in no position to take early retirement"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1599, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-112630"
},
"ensconce":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": shelter , conceal",
": establish , settle"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8sk\u00e4n(t)s"
],
"synonyms":[
"install",
"lodge",
"nestle",
"perch",
"roost",
"settle"
],
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"examples":[
"The sculpture is safely ensconced behind glass.",
"He ensconced himself in front of the television.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That probably extends to Mike Conley Jr., too, an All-Star a season ago whose arrival in Utah helped ensconce the Jazz as contenders. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 Dec. 2021",
"The appearance of an unfamiliar object is a surefire way to pique a cat\u2019s interest, perhaps even enough to try to ensconce themselves in it. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 12 May 2021",
"Spa days aren\u2019t complete without a cozy robe to ensconce yourself in, and this one from Riley will do the trick. \u2014 Courtney Thompson, CNN Underscored , 4 Nov. 2020",
"With Emmanuel Macron ensconced in the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace, the policy of European fiscal union enjoys the passionate support of one of Europe\u2019s two biggest powers for the first time. \u2014 Peter Rough, National Review , 22 Apr. 2020",
"Grandpa would ramble about his years as a meteorologist, at which point my younger cousins would slip away and ensconce themselves under the table, tug at someone\u2019s pants, or pluck one of my aunt\u2019s stockings. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Nov. 2019",
"Scaramucci missed his son\u2019s birth while ensconced at the White House during his 11-day tenure before his epic firing following an expletive-laden New Yorker interview. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 June 2019",
"Just as the nineteenth-century flaneur gets intoxicated on a strange mix of empathy and detachment, the lurker sees their historic moment by being above it and very much ensconced in it. \u2014 Adrian Daub, The New Republic , 13 Apr. 2020",
"But don't worry -- the mice were safely ensconced in their own comfy little cages with bedding and food. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 24 Mar. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":" en- + sconce entry 2 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-192033"
},
"encumber":{
"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": weigh down , burden",
": to impede or hamper the function or activity of : hinder",
": to burden with a legal claim (such as a mortgage)",
": to weigh down : burden",
": to cause problems or delays for : hinder",
": to burden with a claim (as a mortgage or lien)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8k\u0259m-b\u0259r",
"in-\u02c8k\u0259m-b\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"short-circuit",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel"
],
"antonyms":[
"aid",
"assist",
"facilitate",
"help"
],
"examples":[
"These rules will only encumber the people we're trying to help.",
"Lack of funding has encumbered the project.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The goal would be to reduce recidivism, provide workforce development and not encumber first-time offenders with a conviction on their records. \u2014 Thomas Jewell, cleveland , 26 Oct. 2021",
"The hope is that the testbed will remove much of the red tape that might otherwise encumber partnering with the government. \u2014 Adi Gaskell, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
"In other words, unused oil and gas leases encumber 1.7 federal million acres in Utah, some of them within sight of national parks and monuments. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 4 Aug. 2021",
"Mitchell\u2019s own first publication at the company, on making smile-detection algorithms perform well for people of different races and genders, also met with a degree of corporate hesitancy that didn\u2019t seem to encumber more conventional AI projects. \u2014 Tom Simonite, Wired , 8 June 2021",
"At that time, Roach said that of the $18.7 million in FEMA funds, $13.6 million had been spent or encumbered, leaving $5.1 million to encumber over the next few weeks. \u2014 Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press , 5 May 2021",
"Roach said of the $18.7 million in FEMA funds, $13.6 million has been spent or encumbered as of Friday, leaving $5.1 million to encumber over the next few weeks. \u2014 Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press , 17 Apr. 2021",
"Suburban voters are convinced that taxes will cost them money, no matter where the hammer drops, and are perplexed that the White House would encumber an economy recovering from the coronavirus. \u2014 David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner , 12 Apr. 2021",
"Backlogs have caused unbearably long wait times for results, and the coming flu season might further encumber test processing. \u2014 Keith Gillogly, Wired , 15 Sep. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English encombren , from Anglo-French encumbrer , from en- + Middle French combre dam, weir",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-192203"
},
"environ":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": encircle , surround"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8v\u012b-r\u0259n",
"-\u02c8v\u012b(-\u0259)rn"
],
"synonyms":[
"circle",
"compass",
"embrace",
"encircle",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"encompass",
"gird",
"girdle",
"ring",
"surround",
"wreathe"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a decaying, impoverished city environed by affluent suburbs"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English envirounen , from Anglo-French enviruner , from envirun around, from en in (from Latin in ) + virun circle, from virer to turn \u2014 more at veer entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-200938"
},
"engaging":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": tending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive",
": attractive or interesting"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8g\u0101-ji\u014b",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8g\u0101-ji\u014b"
],
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"alluring",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charismatic",
"charming",
"elfin",
"enchanting",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"fetching",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"luring",
"magnetic",
"seductive"
],
"antonyms":[
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repelling",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"unalluring"
],
"examples":[
"movie stars often have an engaging aura that is hard to describe",
"a movie with an engaging story that will hold your interest for a couple of hours",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The observations are, at once, witty and engaging and sad. \u2014 Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
"Chief Creative Officer of The Game Agency (a division of ELB Learning) - exciting, engaging and educating audiences. Think about employee training at your company. \u2014 Stephen Baer, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"That said, your style of writing is engaging and your voice has merit. \u2014 Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"At the same time, however, a rival faction in the capital, the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians, was calling for compositional techniques that remained intelligible, engaging and edifying for a modern socialist listener. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
"Taking inspiration from his day job as a music teacher, Slocumb has orchestrated an engaging and suspenseful story about an aspiring musician and his great-great-grandfather\u2019s violin. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Feb. 2022",
"At the same time, Wang occasionally deploys an ironic, almost satirical hyperbole that is engaging and funny, but can shift the novel\u2019s register closer to moralistic fable. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022",
"This will allow members of our own travel communities to provide engaging and collaborative travel tips that are exclusive to the Elude platform. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Because this surprising reset of a cult series that didn\u2019t air that long ago is intriguing, engaging and actually has something to say. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1673, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-231610"
},
"entice":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt",
": to attract by raising hope or desire : tempt"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8t\u012bs",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8t\u012bs"
],
"synonyms":[
"allure",
"bait",
"beguile",
"betray",
"decoy",
"lead on",
"lure",
"seduce",
"solicit",
"tempt"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"every commercial seemed to be for some tempting snack specifically designed to entice me from my diet",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Block understandably didn't give too much away about the hunt and hopes the mystery will entice more folks to sign up. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 10 May 2022",
"As rivals' efforts continue to weigh on sales, Popeyes is hoping the Buffalo Ranch Chicken Sandwich will entice customers. \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 3 May 2022",
"Tristano says a couple dozen donuts for the price of a few might entice managers trying to ease the transition. \u2014 NBC News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Chiambaretta hopes the renovations, which will be completed in phases over the next eight years, will not only entice Parisians to return to their beloved avenue but also serve as a model for cities around the world. \u2014 Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Officials recently launched a fundraising campaign to support the city's largest ever gun buyback program, with the goal of raising $1 million to entice people to turn in guns during two large events this year. \u2014 Rebekah Riess And Steve Almasy, CNN , 20 May 2022",
"Streaming services aim to entice people to subscribe with compelling TV series and movies. \u2014 Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"But stadium officials are hoping something else will entice people to come back to the 30-year-old ballpark: the food. \u2014 Christina Tkacik, Baltimore Sun , 11 Apr. 2022",
"To entice younger people, Ocean County has run pop-up clinics that have dangled incentives like free admission to Six Flags Great Adventure, an amusement park in Jackson, and season-long access to the park\u2019s popular safari ride. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French enticer , from Vulgar Latin *intitiare , from Latin in- + titio firebrand",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-232506"
},
"ennoblement":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make noble : elevate",
": to raise to the rank of nobility"
],
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8n\u014d-b\u0259l",
"e-\u02c8n\u014d-"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"canonize",
"deify",
"dignify",
"elevate",
"enshrine",
"ensky",
"enthrone",
"exalt",
"glorify",
"magnify"
],
"antonyms":[
"abase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate"
],
"examples":[
"a life ennobled by suffering",
"Her skill and talent ennoble her profession.",
"He was ennobled by the queen.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Set aside for a moment the fact that the conduct of a war can ennoble even when the outcome is likely doomed, as is generally believed of the Ukrainians, led by the astonishing Volodymyr Zelensky. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"At the same time, the religious elements in Crossroads work to ennoble the minutiae that Franzen embraces at last. \u2014 Becca Rothfeld, The Atlantic , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Donald Trump did not heroically take up the cross of COVID-19 in order to ennoble or inspire the masses to reclaim their lives. \u2014 Joel Mathis, TheWeek , 5 Oct. 2020",
"Ruin is ennobled without being prettified, aestheticized, pushed into the mental distance. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 27 Apr. 2020",
"The parasocial nature of fan-artist bonds, in which followers invest one-sided emotional energy into the relationship, ennobles celebrities\u2019 words. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 24 Apr. 2020",
"As Cromwell has grown in the public\u2019s esteem, so has Mantel; in 2014, she was ennobled by the Queen who now sits on Henry\u2019s throne, entitled to call herself Dame Hilary. \u2014 Dan Stewart, Time , 6 Mar. 2020",
"On a beautiful afternoon last September, Fiennes drove me from his house to the grounds of Holkham Hall, which was built by the Coke family, who were ennobled as the Earls of Leicester by King George II, in 1744. \u2014 Sam Knight, The New Yorker , 10 Feb. 2020",
"For a concerto is supposed to be a grand affair, an individual instrument ennobled by a major orchestra. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 5 Sep. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English ennobelen , from Middle French ennoblir , from Old French, from en- + noble noble",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-232722"
},
"engineer":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a member of a military group devoted to engineering work",
": a crafty schemer : plotter",
": a designer or builder of engines",
": a person who is trained in or follows as a profession a branch of engineering",
": a person who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance",
": a person who runs or supervises an engine or an apparatus",
": to lay out, construct, or manage as an engineer",
": to contrive or plan out usually with more or less subtle skill and craft",
": to guide the course of",
": to modify or produce by genetic engineering",
": a person who designs and builds machinery or technical equipment : a person who studies or works in a branch of engineering",
": a person who runs or is in charge of a railroad engine or other machinery or technical equipment",
": to plan, build, or manage as an engineer",
": to plan out in a skillful or clever way : contrive",
": to modify or produce by genetic engineering"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccen-j\u0259-\u02c8nir",
"\u02ccen-j\u0259-\u02c8nir",
"\u02ccen-j\u0259-\u02c8ni(\u0259)r"
],
"synonyms":[
"architect",
"mastermind"
],
"antonyms":[
"contrive",
"finagle",
"finesse",
"frame",
"machinate",
"maneuver",
"manipulate",
"mastermind",
"negotiate",
"wangle"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Design engineers are working on ways to make the cars run more efficiently.",
"The engineer stopped the train.",
"Army engineers were called in to construct the canal.",
"Verb",
"The rebels engineered a successful attack.",
"the mayor engineered an agreement to have a major league team play in our city",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Mena Lockwood, assistant state traffic engineer for VDOT, said in a statement that the occasional lower speeds will reduce the risk of crashes and injuries while keeping traffic moving. \u2014 Gaya Gupta, Washington Post , 18 June 2022",
"Having begun the project by interviewing such participants as engineer -producer Glyn Johns, Jackson adopted not only Johns\u2019 wisdom that the real Beatles magic lay not in the guitars, etc., but in the harmonies. \u2014 Fred Schruers, Los Angeles Times , 17 June 2022",
"Max Zhang, an engineer living in another province, found his health code flipped to red earlier this week, with a line saying it had been flipped by Henan authorities remotely. \u2014 Wenxin Fan, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Lowther Loudspeakers has a reputation as one of the top British hi-fi designers of all time and was born out of a collaboration between engineer Paul Voigt and OP Lowther. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Rachel Rothman, Chief Technologist and head engineer , has a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics with a mathematics minor from the University of Pennsylvania and has been at GH for 14 years. \u2014 Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"The project\u2019s architect and structural engineer were let go in August 1971. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"The musician produced it herself alongside mixing engineer Ryan Freeland. \u2014 Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone , 15 June 2022",
"Three experienced-looking, middle-aged engineer types staffed the video boards. \u2014 Cal Newport, The New Yorker , 15 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The committee must drive home this point: Plenty of powerful people never stormed the Capitol but nonetheless are responsible for trying to engineer a coup. \u2014 Elie Honig, CNN , 8 June 2022",
"For its part, the Fed is trying to engineer a soft landing for the U.S. economy by raising interest rates and signaling more hikes to come. \u2014 Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 May 2022",
"The Fed is now trying to engineer a slowdown because of its belief that too much economic activity causes inflation. \u2014 Steve Forbes, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"Alice does it all, trying to engineer a happier future \u2013 one that doesn\u2019t include her father on his deathbed on her 40th birthday. \u2014 Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY , 15 May 2022",
"After making the ruble unpalatable to investors and savers, President Vladimir Putin is trying to engineer extra demand for the Russian currency from its only remaining market: captive commodity buyers. \u2014 Jon Sindreu, WSJ , 30 Mar. 2022",
"After weakening to a record intraday low of about 158 rubles per dollar on March 7, a series of maneuvers by Russia\u2019s central bank, combined with the country\u2019s big export business, helped engineer a ruble rebound. \u2014 WSJ , 28 May 2022",
"Orbiting the 3-point arc is how Williams helped engineer the Celtics\u2019 fourth trip to the Eastern Conference Finals since 2017, setting a Game 7 record for 3-point attempts. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 May 2022",
"By refusing to sign President Mikhail Gorbachev\u2019s treaty to restructure the Soviet Union, Kravchuk helped engineer its collapse in December 1991. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 May 2022"
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": to get pleasure from",
": to have the use or benefit of"
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"en-",
"in-\u02c8j\u022fi"
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"fancy",
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"savour"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Vomo's baby butlers care for children under age three, and arrangements can be made for childcare until 11 p.m., so parents can enjoy dinner and an evening on their own. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Riding a hardtail is a very pure form of mountain biking that anyone can enjoy . \u2014 John Watson, Outside Online , 18 June 2022",
"Some people may enjoy the slimness of the iPhone and want to have a case that is protective, but not too bulky. \u2014 Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"New players can enjoy exploring the history of the world and the setting but still have a frame of reference for modern ideas. \u2014 Rob Wieland, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"While crowds grow steadily during the annual fireworks show, at-home viewers can enjoy the event without having to give up the comfort of your pajamas. \u2014 Chaise Sanders, Country Living , 16 June 2022",
"Since then, the Trust has started working to expand access to allow more people to enjoy it at night. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"People will enjoy mixing and matching these flavors and configurations. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 10 June 2022",
"People enjoy premium quality sweet delights at Cloud Ninth Creamery on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, a seasonal artisanal ice cream shop that's only open from May to September. \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 June 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
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"type":[
"verb"
],
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": to fill with delight"
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"in-\u02c8rap-ch\u0259r",
"en-"
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"elate",
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"depress"
],
"examples":[
"Her melodious voice enraptured the audience.",
"enraptured upon learning that he would be attending college on a full sports scholarship",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And never forget that his cockiness has always been part of his appeal: Shyamalan is a showman who loves to enrapture you with a good yarn and then floor you with a killer twist. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Vulture , 26 July 2021",
"Desperate for any technology that would free me from the exhausting process of typing real-time notes during interviews, I was enraptured by Thompson's prediction. \u2014 Wade Roush, Scientific American , 1 May 2020",
"After the movie, the three go to the Cafe Espa\u00f1a, where the girls, enraptured by midcentury Hollywood\u2019s benign glossy dream clich\u00e9s of love, America, and beauty, discuss the movie\u2019s finer points over TruColas. \u2014 Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books , 27 May 2020",
"That duality\u2014of individualism and community\u2014is what the drones are mimicking to enrapturing effect. \u2014 Mary Alice Miller, Wired , 9 May 2020",
"The art house crowd is certain to be enraptured by this gem. \u2014 Jeff Menell, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 Feb. 2020",
"The journalist in me was enraptured by Meredith Levien, COO of the New York Times. \u2014 Samantha Barry, Glamour , 24 Feb. 2020",
"The show so enraptured the country that its tickets became the most expensive in theater history, going for an average of $1,200 (with at least one going for close to $10,000) and earning multiple millions each week. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2019",
"He was enraptured by the film\u2019s portrayal of journalism\u2019s moral force, its critical distance and independence. \u2014 Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker , 9 Dec. 2019"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
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": of, relating to, or resembling an enigma : mysterious"
],
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"\u02cce-(\u02cc)nig-\u02c8ma-tik",
"also"
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"arcane",
"cryptic",
"deep",
"impenetrable",
"inscrutable",
"mysterious",
"mystic",
"occult",
"uncanny"
],
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"examples":[
"Space seethes with an enormous enigmatic energy, and, each second, trillions of cubic light-years more of it materializes from nothingness. \u2014 Bob Berman , Astronomy , November 2007",
"You'll recognize them by their enigmatic smile and faraway look as they jog, skate, commute, or wander the aisles of the supermarket. \u2014 Consumer Reports , December 2005",
"Despite all that has been written\u2014and surmised\u2014about him, Bill Gates remains the enigmatic ringmaster of the digital circus. \u2014 J. D. Reed , People , 15 Mar. 1999",
"the discovery of the abandoned ship in mid ocean remains one of the most enigmatic episodes in seafaring history",
"the Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While Cruise\u2019s name wasn\u2019t as ubiquitous as the show\u2019s central figure, Laura Palmer, her voice and enigmatic character on the show lent an eerie musical throughline to the beloved series. \u2014 William Earl, Variety , 10 June 2022",
"The innovative and enigmatic Prince has been regarded as one of the greatest musicians of all time. \u2014 Okla Jones, Essence , 7 June 2022",
"Pavement\u2019s third studio album, Wowee Zowee, came out the same year, with an enigmatic yet memorable Keene cover (based on a photo of two Arab women in burkas and a goat from a 1972 Life publication called The Arab World). \u2014 Joe Lynch, Billboard , 17 May 2022",
"The 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, only 30 miles distant, inspired a series of troubling and enigmatic works. \u2014 Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 10 May 2022",
"Payet portrays the alluring and enigmatic Isabella, the daughter of foreign diplomats, who is spending a year as an exchange student with the Landry family. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Citigroup said an enigmatic money manager who accused the bank of owing him $11.6 billion is a fantasist and a fraud. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Oct. 2021",
"But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers\u2019s writing is perspicuous and teacherly \u2014 an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Soprano Maria Elena Altany is the Bird Mother, innocent, enigmatic , ever so slightly Masina-like. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Sep. 2021"
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"1609, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act of encouraging : the state of being encouraged",
": something that encourages",
": something that gives hope, determination, or confidence",
": the act of giving hope or confidence to"
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"in-\u02c8k\u0259r-ij-m\u0259nt",
"-\u02c8k\u0259-rij-",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8k\u0259r-ij-m\u0259nt"
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"goad",
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"impulse",
"incentive",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"momentum",
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"Our aim is the encouragement of investment.",
"the encouragement of plant growth",
"teachers who give their students a lot of encouragement",
"With support and encouragement from their parents, the students organized a fundraiser.",
"They offered him gifts of money and other encouragements .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite the distress at the heart of these young men\u2019s circumstances, Love convincingly offers a sense of hope, showing how outside encouragement and a commitment to self-improvement are crucial to their liberation. \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"Among Milk\u2019s legacies was the encouragement of LGBTQ+ people to come out in their communities. \u2014 Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune , 30 May 2022",
"As of late, our favorite celebrities have been listening, and listening well, to what has seemingly been encouragement from the hair gods. \u2014 Jennet Jusu, Allure , 5 May 2022",
"And as many great artists as there are out there, there has to be encouragement for new, emerging ones. \u2014 Zachary Weiss, Vogue , 21 Apr. 2022",
"This award is an encouragement on a deeply human level to learn to listen to each other. \u2014 Fred Bronson, Billboard , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The rest of it is the encouragement from the friendly crowds, the dancing in Chinatown and Greektown. \u2014 Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com , 7 Oct. 2021",
"And while summer 2021 provided some domestic encouragement for air travel, 2022 looks even more promising domestically and internationally. \u2014 Ben Baldanza, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Some encouragement in curiosity should be seen as a positive \u2014 this way, the person can start developing a deeper understanding, connection and relationship with the plant. \u2014 Philip Wolf, Rolling Stone , 29 Apr. 2022"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-122702"
},
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"adjective"
],
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"in-\u02c8d\u0101n-j\u0259rd",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8d\u0101n-j\u0259rd"
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"exposed",
"liable",
"open",
"sensitive",
"subject (to)",
"susceptible",
"vulnerable"
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"insusceptible",
"invulnerable",
"unexposed",
"unsusceptible"
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"examples":[
"a daring attempt to rescue the endangered passengers from the burning boat",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite Mexico outlawing some fishing and the use of gillnets in 2017, these practices continue to push vaquitas, which share a habitat with the endangered totoaba fish, to the brink of extinction. \u2014 Camille Fine, USA TODAY , 10 May 2022",
"Tule Lake is home to two endangered fish and serves as a critical stopover for migratory birds on the Pacific Flyway, Kurtis Alexander writes for the San Francisco Chronicle. \u2014 Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Other crews will staff the site in the coming weeks, and close to 200 endangered fish are expected to be transported in total. \u2014 Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Delisting, or moving a species off the endangered or special concern lists, isn\u2019t always straight forward. \u2014 Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star , 30 Mar. 2022",
"The federal government also monitors the water levels in the lake to protect endangered fish essential to tribal life. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Nov. 2021",
"But climate change is altering normal expectations, and the farmers worry that the government will cut them off again to bolster water supplies for the endangered fish. \u2014 Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor , 18 Oct. 2021",
"In Washington, biologists estimate the fires have killed 50% of the state\u2019s endangered pygmy rabbits, which inhabit sagebrush flats that burned this year. \u2014 Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS , 30 Sep. 2020",
"Nearby, the Redwood Coast Land Conservancy will soon be adding trails though Mill Bend, an estuary and lagoon that\u2019s a habitat for endangered and threatened species such as steelhead, Coho salmon and red-legged frogs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022"
],
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"1964, in the meaning defined above"
],
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"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
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": to set free (as from slavery)",
": to endow with a franchise: such as",
": to admit to the privileges of a citizen and especially to the right of suffrage",
": to admit (a municipality) to political privileges or rights",
": to grant franchise to",
": to admit to the privileges of a citizen and especially to voting rights",
"\u2014 compare emancipate"
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"in-\u02c8fran-\u02ccch\u012bz",
"en-",
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"release",
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"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
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"bind",
"confine",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"restrain"
],
"examples":[
"in a way, modern labor-saving appliances enfranchised people, giving them much more leisure time",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The measure to enfranchise 16-year-olds failed, but voters approved amending the village charter to allow non-citizens to vote by a margin of 727 to 571, according to the Dayton Daily News. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
"CNN International reported last week on efforts to enfranchise noncitizens in Germany, where about 14% of the population cannot vote in federal elections like the one recently conducted there. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 12 Dec. 2021",
"The full scope of the nationwide push to re- enfranchise the formerly incarcerated is difficult to assess because few states keep track of how many people with felony convictions register to vote. \u2014 Nicole Lewis And Andrew R. Calderon, USA TODAY , 23 June 2021",
"Ultimately, Raskin argued, the question was whether to enfranchise the taxpayers of Washington, D.C. \u2014 Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner , 14 Apr. 2021",
"This will enfranchise students who are immunocompromised or suffer from severe social anxiety and allow teaching to continue both inside and outside the traditional classroom as necessary. \u2014 Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com , 16 Mar. 2021",
"Proponents pointed to last year\u2019s elections, which set records for turnout as states emphasized mail-in voting during the pandemic, as evidence of how changing policies could enfranchise more voters. \u2014 Siobhan Hughes, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2021",
"Antis feared that giving women the right to vote would enfranchise Black citizens. \u2014 USA Today , 24 Aug. 2020",
"Of course, this move was not applicable to all women; for example, Native American women were not fully enfranchised in Utah until 1956, as a result of a ruling in Utah\u2019s Supreme Court. \u2014 Kate Kelly, Teen Vogue , 29 Oct. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French enfranchiss- , stem of enfranchir , from en- + franc free \u2014 more at frank ",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-135648"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a woman who practices magic : sorceress",
": a fascinating or beautiful woman",
": a woman who casts magic spells : witch , sorceress"
],
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"in-\u02c8chan-tr\u0259s",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8chan-tr\u0259s"
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"sorceress",
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"examples":[
"when misfortune occurred, it was not uncommon for some unpopular woman of the village to be branded an enchantress",
"Scarlett O'Hara is one of literature's most celebrated enchantresses .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This enchantress is the Millay whom many came to know. \u2014 Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
"Taylor-Joy reunites with her Witch director as a different kind of enchantress , Olga, a character Eggers prefers to keep somewhat a mystery. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 20 Dec. 2021",
"In 2019, Johnson made history as the first actor of color to take the Broadway stage as the bubbly, blond enchantress while understudying the coveted part. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"When accused, the enchanter or enchantress will likely attempt to label you a hypocrite for supporting vaccine mandates. \u2014 Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com , 2 Sep. 2021",
"But in one of a few key deviations from the original text, Gawain is also the son of the enchantress Morgan le Fay (Sarita Choudhury), whose determination to secure his future sets the story in motion. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 July 2021",
"Players will start out controlling a centaur with a whip as their dungeon manager, but eventually a dryad enchantress and monkey engineer can also be unlocked, with each master necessitating various styles of gameplay. \u2014 Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online , 24 May 2021",
"It was deemed a line straight to God \u2014 staggering, the voice of an enchantress , a sibyl, a siren. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 May 2021",
"She's generally depicted as a mysterious and often unnamed enchantress who lives beneath a lake and is probably best known for bestowing Excalibur on King Arthur. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR , 17 July 2020"
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},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": to mount an attack on (an enemy's flank)",
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"hem (in)",
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"a chronic mistrust of outsiders envelops that neighborhood, cutting it off from the rest of the city",
"the truth of the presidential assassination is enveloped in a dense fog of myths and conspiracy theories",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Dinner is an event, an exploration where Holley\u2019s nurturing spirit and the luxurious atmosphere envelop you. \u2014 Dwight Brown, Essence , 18 May 2022",
"Naya had a laugh that would envelop you and hold you captive. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Soothing vitamin E and niacinamide will envelop the skin in an invisible protective film to fight against daily aggression, leaving your complexion healthy and radiant. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 13 May 2022",
"The soft and velvety walls envelop the space and also offer a tactile element to the room, which opens to the master bedroom. \u2014 Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor , 3 May 2022",
"Poles born in the post-communist era appear less likely to fear that the conflict will envelop their country. \u2014 Patrick J. Mcdonnell, Los Angeles Times , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Forces around Kyiv have been waiting for reinforcements and are attempting to envelop the city. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Seesaw battles have unfolded in the areas of Hostomel, Bucha and Irpin \u2014 a possible harbinger of the urban, street-by-street warfare that could envelop the capital if Russian forces break through. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Mar. 2022",
"This national park in the south of France lends itself to exploring craggy coves and the turquoise waves that envelop them. \u2014 Emily Pennington, Outside Online , 25 Feb. 2022"
],
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"verb"
],
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": the act of entering",
": the means or place of entry",
": the point at which a voice or instrument part begins in ensemble music",
": the first appearance of an actor in a scene",
": to put into a trance",
": to carry away with delight, wonder, or rapture",
": the act of going in",
": a door, gate, or way for going in",
": permission to join, participate in, or attend",
": to put into a trance",
": to fill with delight and wonder"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Ciampa\u2019s whole entrance is basically attacking babyfaces from behind. \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"One morning in January, several dozen protesters blocked the entrance , leading to at least nine arrests. \u2014 Abby Goodnough, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
"Construction crews and materials that were already in the park for a deferred maintenance project to repair Grand Loop Road will be diverted to Old Gardiner Road, a 5-mile gravel road at the north entrance , the agency said. \u2014 Tyler Kingkade, NBC News , 20 June 2022",
"Farmington Avenue entrance , has offered children\u2019s camps in the summer, along with swimming, sailing, trail biking and, in the winter, skating and cross country skiing. \u2014 James Alexander, Hartford Courant , 19 June 2022",
"The main entrance is by the City Library, in Library Square. \u2014 Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 June 2022",
"The railway underpass between the parking lot and the museum entrance , for instance, features artist Stefan Strumbel\u2019s pop-art takes on local symbols, like a slice of Black Forest cake topped with a skull in place of a cherry. \u2014 Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"Damage came into sharp view from above where a flight by helicopter showed huge sections of roadway inside the park's north entrance that had been swallowed up by the violent torrent. \u2014 Fox News , 17 June 2022",
"The school normally locks its doors during the day, Cerebelli said, but has to keep the entrance to the polling place open. \u2014 Julie Zauzmer Weil, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Powerhouse voice, theatrical style, Broadway-meets-rock vibe, ability to entrance TV viewers and turn them into devoted fans. \u2014 Mary Colurso | Mcolurso@al.com, al , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The blue themes of Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, not to mention the blue Apple uses for iMessages, entrance us. \u2014 Mark Naida, WSJ , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Taxi from Newbury station to entrance gate at Highclere about $27 and takes about 15 minutes. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Oct. 2021",
"On Twitch and YouTube, Vubters entrance live audiences, sometimes numbering thousands, with cutesy karaoke or the latest video games. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 28 Apr. 2021",
"The free day this weekend is one of six offered by the National Park Service in 2021, and applies only to entrance fees \u2013 camping and other fees will still be charged. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Secure perimeter means classes continue but entrance to the campus is restricted. \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 4 Nov. 2020",
"However, this summer he is eclipsed by Ronnie, a magician, and Evie, his glamorous assistant \u2014 and fianc\u00e9e \u2014 who entrance fresh crowds every night. \u2014 Malcolm Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune , 18 Sep. 2020",
"Yuan's freemium strategy worked and tech companies, entranced by Zoom's simplicity and efficiency, signed up for premium Zoom subscriptions. \u2014 Jon Sarlin, CNN , 21 May 2020"
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],
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": to make angry",
": to make more heated or violent : intensify",
": to set on fire : kindle",
": to cause to redden or grow hot from anger or excitement",
": to cause inflammation in (bodily tissue)",
": to burst into flame",
": to become excited or angered",
": to become affected with inflammation"
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"verb"
],
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": to place within or surround with a trench especially for defense",
": to place (oneself) in a strong defensive position",
": to establish solidly",
": to cut into : furrow",
": to erode downward so as to form a trench",
": to dig or occupy a trench for defensive purposes",
": to enter upon or take over something unfairly, improperly, or unlawfully : encroach"
],
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"in-\u02c8trench",
"en-"
],
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"bed",
"embed",
"imbed",
"enroot",
"fix",
"impact",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"root"
],
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"dislodge",
"root (out)",
"uproot"
],
"examples":[
"officials who have tried to entrench themselves in office",
"a father who entrenched in our minds the belief that hard work pays off",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For the past six years the Annecy Animation Film Festival has looked to entrench VR producers within the global animation community. \u2014 Ben Croll, Variety , 12 June 2022",
"Instead, tech monopolies use their power to further entrench their dominance by capitalizing off of users' personal data and ignoring privacy rights. \u2014 Evan Greer For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 10 May 2022",
"Russian forces and their local proxies, meanwhile, have tried to entrench their hold on Melitopol. \u2014 Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"The city has never looked better, especially since the disruptive gash of construction to entrench the center\u2019s tram system is now gone. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Each shooting seems to entrench everyone's respective convictions. \u2014 Paul Leblanc, CNN , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The ultimate aim was to entrench a new communist social order in Italy as comprehensively as the church had entrenched Roman Catholicism over the course of centuries. \u2014 Thomas Meaney, The New Republic , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Enjoy the scenic grounds and entrench yourself in its rich history. \u2014 Shirley Macfarland, cleveland , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Whether the management uses the poison pill for the benefit of the shareholders or to entrench themselves ultimately depends on the board. \u2014 Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1548, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-191016"
},
"encomium":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise",
": an expression of this"
],
"pronounciation":[
"en-\u02c8k\u014d-m\u0113-\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[
"accolade",
"citation",
"commendation",
"dithyramb",
"eulogium",
"eulogy",
"homage",
"hymn",
"paean",
"panegyric",
"salutation",
"tribute"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the encomiums bestowed on a teacher at her retirement ceremonies",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first was that the canticle contains an encomium of Saint Dominic, who in Merwin\u2019s eyes was the most villainous churchman of the Middle Ages. \u2014 Robert Pogue Harrison, The New York Review of Books , 17 Aug. 2017",
"This encomium seems a little like awarding the season\u2019s M.V.P. during spring training, simply because an intrepid player announces his plan to bat .400. \u2014 Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker , 24 Dec. 2020",
"The encomiums his cheerleaders offer him, a veteran professional politician in a baggy suit, are as extreme as his ideas. \u2014 The Economist , 23 Jan. 2020",
"Here\u2019s a second reason for caution: Despite heady media claims that pizza is now being made by artificial intelligence (and a similar suggestion from the company itself), Picnic\u2019s device doesn\u2019t quite earn that encomium . \u2014 Stephen L. Carterbloomberg, Houston Chronicle , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Certainly there was no evidence in its encomium to Koch. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 26 Aug. 2019",
"Such encomiums haven\u2019t helped her popularity in her home state, though. \u2014 oregonlive.com , 22 July 2019",
"Ralph Lauren is admired throughout the fashion industry as the quintessential American designer, and singer-songwriter John Legend\u2019s success is evident from countless encomiums and a shelf full of awards. \u2014 Kristina O\u2019neill, WSJ , 8 Nov. 2018",
"But agreeing to write a Trump encomium for Time is a whole other thing. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 19 Apr. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin, from Greek enk\u014dmion , from en in + k\u014dmos revel, celebration",
"first_known_use":[
"1567, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-191143"
},
"endearing":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": arousing feelings of affection or admiration"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8dir-i\u014b",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorable",
"darling",
"dear",
"disarming",
"lovable",
"loveable",
"lovesome",
"precious",
"sweet",
"winning",
"winsome"
],
"antonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"loathsome",
"odious",
"unlovable"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Kumari Small is endearing as Ella\u2019s kind stepsister Gabrielle. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 June 2022",
"These habits can often be cute, endearing , and maybe even attractive to your partner. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 15 June 2022",
"Navalny\u2019s human imperfections aren\u2019t always endearing . \u2014 David Klion, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The moment was especially endearing when Gaga stepped back to allow Minnelli to accept the Dolby Theatre audience's warm applause. \u2014 Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Seeing a glimpse of their pets, kids running around and interesting decor choices is endearing and makes for a great way to connect and learn more about a person\u2019s real life. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Not as sentimentally endearing but threatened and critically key to the health of oceans is the shark. \u2014 Louise Schiavone, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The scenes between Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran are most endearing . \u2014 Sheena Scott, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"So there\u2019s not a whiff of entitlement about him, which many who played or worked with Pederson insist is one of his many endearing qualities. \u2014 Gene Frenette, USA TODAY , 6 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1766, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-191519"
},
"entrails":{
"type":[
"noun plural",
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": bowels , viscera",
": internal parts",
": the inner workings of something",
": the internal parts of an animal",
": the bowels or viscera especially of an animal"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-\u02cctr\u0101lz",
"-tr\u0259lz",
"\u02c8en-\u02cctr\u0101lz",
"-tr\u0259lz",
"\u02c8en-tr\u0259lz",
"-\u02cctr\u0101lz"
],
"synonyms":[
"gut",
"innards",
"inside(s)",
"inwards",
"viscera",
"vitals"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And there is a close connection between these two films that delve deep into the entrails of Martone\u2019s native Naples. \u2014 Nick Vivarelli, Variety , 25 May 2022",
"In his canvases, Mr. Nitsch used materials including blood and pig entrails in addition to acrylics. \u2014 Emily Langer, Washington Post , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The dogs, intrigued by the entrails , give themselves a good roll in the filth. \u2014 Nathaniel Adams, Chron , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Protesters left deer entrails on the mayor\u2019s car and hired detectives to trail White Buffalo\u2019s sharpshooters, who began wearing bulletproof vests. \u2014 Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Hybrids are popular these days: cars that run on electricity and gas, people who run on pig hearts and other animal entrails , journalists who blend fact, fiction and malevolence. \u2014 Dave Shiflett, WSJ , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Take those measurements, perhaps swirl them with the entrails of a goat, and out pops a score. \u2014 David Mccloskey, CNN , 11 Oct. 2021",
"Dogpatch neighborhood was reportedly named for the packs of strays that hunted for scraps from a now extinct row of nearby slaughterhouses, where industrial meat operations could discard entrails into marshes and mudflats. \u2014 Kate Aronoff, The New Republic , 29 Sep. 2021",
"In late 1985, Feinstein started rallying again for a baseball-only ballpark; a sports arena that was somehow even uglier than the dome, with Interstate 280 overpasses beyond right field, looking like human entrails coming out of the ballpark. \u2014 Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle , 19 Sep. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English entrailles , from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin intralia , alteration of Latin interanea , plural of interaneum intestine, from neuter of interaneus interior",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-192338"
},
"encage":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": cage sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8k\u0101j",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"box (in)",
"cage",
"closet",
"coop (up)",
"corral",
"encase",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"envelop",
"fence (in)",
"hedge",
"hem (in)",
"house",
"immure",
"include",
"mew (up)",
"pen",
"wall (in)"
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"examples":[
"a stay-at-home mom who somehow felt encaged in her home"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1592, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-192418"
},
"enthral":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to hold spellbound : charm",
": to hold in or reduce to slavery",
": to hold the attention of completely"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8thr\u022fl",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8thr\u022fl"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"bedazzle",
"catch up",
"enchant",
"fascinate",
"grip",
"hypnotize",
"mesmerize",
"spellbind"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"enthralled by the flickering fire in the hearth, we lost all track of time",
"for years these master magicians have been enthralling audiences with their astounding illusions",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bravado would see their son and scoop him up and whisk him toward the backstage area on the ship to enthrall the crowd even more. \u2014 Cassell Ferere, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"The portrayal is absorbing, committed and morbidly fascinating\u2014one of the more memorable aspects of the Holmes persona was her unnaturally deep voice, which seemed intended to enthrall and probably did. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Your zone of genius areas are your interests that engage and enthrall you. \u2014 Julia Wuench, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The first games to really enthrall me were Starcraft and Guild Wars. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 30 Nov. 2021",
"No matter your genre preference, summertime music festivals are sure to enthrall . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 July 2021",
"While The Office ended more than eight years ago, the NBC series has continued to enthrall fans around the world. \u2014 Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com , 16 July 2021",
"Weather is perpetrated by a somewhat predictable but ultimately uncontrollable force, and no Hollywood disaster flick can fully replicate the effects, those forces majeures that can enthrall , shock, or even humble. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 10 July 2021",
"Lakers owner Jack Kent Cooke\u2019s open checkbook, the Athens of America vs. Hollywood \u2014 will still enthrall fans of the game, more than a half-century later. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-192746"
},
"encampment":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the place where a group (such as a body of troops) is encamped",
": the individuals that make up an encampment",
": the act of encamping : the state of being encamped",
": the act of making a camp",
": camp entry 1 sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8kamp-m\u0259nt",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8kamp-m\u0259nt"
],
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"bivouac",
"camp",
"campground",
"campsite",
"hutment"
],
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"examples":[
"a recreational area that will serve as this year's encampment for the Scouts' jamboree",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Ken Saffer, a 57-year-old resident of the encampment on and off since 2017, said his belongings were confiscated, including clothing, tools and a generator. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"The last days of a homeless encampment in San Pedro. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 May 2022",
"Five Central American migrants, including a young Guatemalan couple with a 3-year-old boy, showed up this week at the edge of the encampment where the Ukrainians were waiting. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"In nearby Pensacola, some city officials became concerned with the closure of a homeless encampment under Interstate 110 last month. \u2014 al , 2 Mar. 2022",
"The pastor who runs it opened a second space last month for migrants who were sleeping in a makeshift encampment in a nearby public park. \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"The pastor who runs it opened a second space last month for migrants who were sleeping in a makeshift encampment in a nearby public park. \u2014 Eileen Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
"Officials are investigating the death of a woman who was found with gunshot wounds in a homeless encampment near South Gate early Saturday. \u2014 Alejandra Reyes-velardestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 7 May 2022",
"In the encampment across the street, a few people sat in a lawn chairs, watching the press conference over the roar of passing trucks. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1598, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-192838"
},
"enchantment":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act or art of enchanting",
": the quality or state of being enchanted",
": something that enchants",
": a magic spell"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8chant-m\u0259nt",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"abracadabra",
"bewitchment",
"charm",
"conjuration",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"hex",
"incantation",
"invocation",
"spell",
"whammy"
],
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"examples":[
"Our enchantment faded when we found that the house needed even more repairs.",
"the enchantment of a snowy field bathed in moonlight",
"He writes about the dangers as well as the enchantments of sailing.",
"stories about wizards and enchantments",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The lesson of Reinhardt\u2019s production still holds: Hire an expert director who isn\u2019t afraid to dream big or let the Bowl\u2019s open-air enchantment intermittently steal the show. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"But there\u2019s just as much enchantment in what for most people would be a dreary setting. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Doubt turned into enchantment at first sight of the chora, or main town \u2014 a blue church dome topping a medieval castle topping a white village lined by windmills and cascading down a rocky outcrop to the sea. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"The show\u2019s enchantment has often stemmed from its ability to make Atlanta types more recognizable and more surreal at the same time \u2014 and in doing so, highlighting the humanity within their absurdities. \u2014 Inkoo Kang, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"This brand new play, which turned the Civic theater into a place of steadily increasing enchantment last night, is still fluid with change, but it is vividly written, and in the main superbly acted. \u2014 Claudia Cassidy, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022",
"The ritual and romance that turns a military leader into a king is one of the most powerful sorts of enchantment . \u2014 William Tipper, WSJ , 23 May 2022",
"There\u2019s some final-act business back in London that ruminates for a distracted second on the uses of enchantment in a modern world in which hate prevails and just about every wish can be instantly gratified by technology. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
"From thereon, the anthropologist found himself in a state of enchantment \u2013 a feeling that has never left him and which continues to drive him to explore Pakistan\u2019s tangible and intangible heritage. \u2014 Sonya Rehman, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-193529"
},
"encrust":{
"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to cover, line, or overlay with or as if with a crust",
": to form a crust",
": to cover with or as if with a crust",
": to cover, line, or overlay with a crust",
": to form a crust"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8kr\u0259st",
"i\u014b-",
"in-\u02c8kr\u0259st"
],
"synonyms":[
"cake",
"crust",
"rime"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"refrigerator shelves that were encrusted with the residue of many spills",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That last one was a rare find that triggered all kinds of childhood memories from an era where parents used Corn Flakes to encrust chicken, top casseroles and make desserts. \u2014 Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com , 25 Aug. 2020",
"The sand particles that encrust the crystals give these pieces wonderful texture. \u2014 Elizabeth Pash, House Beautiful , 23 June 2020",
"Like many American holidays, it is now encrusted with humbug and commercialism. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 5 May 2020",
"The ring's 18-karat beige gold band is also encrusted with diamonds, making the piece incredibly sparkly. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 9 Dec. 2019",
"Instead of the smooth exterior of a tokamak, stellarators are encrusted with hundreds of strange cylinders and rectangular compartments for magnets. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 7 May 2020",
"The protein is encrusted in sugars known as glycans, which camouflage the virus from the human immune system, as healthy human cells are covered in the same glycans. \u2014 Sophia Chen, Wired , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Steel mills, after the molten metal was poured from their kilns, found the enormous vats encrusted with slag, which is the stony residue that results when metal is melted out of its ore. \u2014 David E. Petzal, Field & Stream , 18 Mar. 2020",
"Dafoe remains in his element, and there\u2019s a startling moment in which he is shown, or imagined, as a kind of Triton, encrusted with barnacles and shells. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 18 Oct. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"probably from Latin incrustare , from in- + crusta crust",
"first_known_use":[
"1596, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-194203"
},
"enthralled":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to hold spellbound : charm",
": to hold in or reduce to slavery",
": to hold the attention of completely"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8thr\u022fl",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8thr\u022fl"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"bedazzle",
"catch up",
"enchant",
"fascinate",
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"hypnotize",
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"spellbind"
],
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"examples":[
"enthralled by the flickering fire in the hearth, we lost all track of time",
"for years these master magicians have been enthralling audiences with their astounding illusions",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bravado would see their son and scoop him up and whisk him toward the backstage area on the ship to enthrall the crowd even more. \u2014 Cassell Ferere, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"The portrayal is absorbing, committed and morbidly fascinating\u2014one of the more memorable aspects of the Holmes persona was her unnaturally deep voice, which seemed intended to enthrall and probably did. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Your zone of genius areas are your interests that engage and enthrall you. \u2014 Julia Wuench, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The first games to really enthrall me were Starcraft and Guild Wars. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 30 Nov. 2021",
"No matter your genre preference, summertime music festivals are sure to enthrall . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 July 2021",
"While The Office ended more than eight years ago, the NBC series has continued to enthrall fans around the world. \u2014 Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com , 16 July 2021",
"Weather is perpetrated by a somewhat predictable but ultimately uncontrollable force, and no Hollywood disaster flick can fully replicate the effects, those forces majeures that can enthrall , shock, or even humble. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 10 July 2021",
"Lakers owner Jack Kent Cooke\u2019s open checkbook, the Athens of America vs. Hollywood \u2014 will still enthrall fans of the game, more than a half-century later. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 9 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-194240"
},
"enliven":{
"type":[
"noun,",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to give life, action, or spirit to : animate",
": to put life or spirit into"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8l\u012b-v\u0259n",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8l\u012b-v\u0259n"
],
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"amp (up)",
"animate",
"brace",
"energize",
"fillip",
"fire",
"ginger (up)",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"juice up",
"jump-start",
"liven (up)",
"pep (up)",
"quicken",
"spike",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"vivify",
"zip (up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"kill"
],
"examples":[
"He enlivened his speech with a few jokes.",
"a soup enlivened by chili peppers",
"A few touches of color will enliven the room.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Adding a little touch of greenery will enliven any space, no matter how small. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 14 June 2022",
"This family-heirloom was painted two times before Katie decided to enliven it with a vibrant pink shade. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 13 June 2022",
"The nine directors were tapped to enliven the storytelling with their own varying aesthetics. \u2014 Jocelyn Novek, USA TODAY , 2 May 2022",
"In response to corporate consolidation and a declining population, Hartford has in recent years focused on developing residential housing to enliven a downtown area that has long focused on serving commuters. \u2014 WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Hints of invigorating apple, grapefruit, and ginger enliven this sultry blend that offers great longevity and notable sillage. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 Mar. 2022",
"This appointment is part of a larger effort at The Times to accelerate and enliven our news coverage across all departments. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Feb. 2022",
"And, as importantly, a good old court fight should enliven a Democratic base that had looked increasingly moribund of late. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Each year the Venice Film Festival introduces the world to groundbreaking movies from across the globe, and the performers behind those projects enliven the fashion scene with expressive daily looks. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 2 Sep. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1604, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-194315"
},
"enfant terrible":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a child whose inopportune remarks cause embarrassment",
": a person known for shocking remarks or outrageous behavior",
": a usually young and successful person who is strikingly unorthodox, innovative, or avant-garde"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4\u207f-f\u00e4\u207f-te-\u02c8r\u0113bl\u1d4a"
],
"synonyms":[
"bohemian",
"boho",
"counterculturist",
"deviant",
"free spirit",
"heretic",
"iconoclast",
"individualist",
"lone ranger",
"lone wolf",
"loner",
"maverick",
"nonconformer",
"nonconformist"
],
"antonyms":[
"conformer",
"conformist"
],
"examples":[
"an author who reveled in his role as the enfant terrible of American letters",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Hopper, the movies\u2019 enfant terrible , and Hayward, the taste-making daughter of showbiz royalty, made for one of Hollywood\u2019s more unlikely yet influential power couples during the 1960s. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 May 2022",
"Elon Musk does relish playing to the crowd as the enfant terrible of auto manufacturing, generating an insulating admiration from his fans, but Kanye and Jay-Z are truly in a bind. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Now, fashion\u2019s enfant terrible returns to the ever-versatile seating, this time for a bold new outdoor edition that debuts just in time for the warmer months. \u2014 Helena Madden, ELLE Decor , 11 Mar. 2022",
"After rave reviews but slow sales, Lollapalooza kick-started the career of enfant terrible de la Rocha and his band of merry muckrakers. \u2014 Katherine Turman, SPIN , 26 Feb. 2022",
"His style earned him the title of the German opera world\u2019s enfant terrible . \u2014 New York Times , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Humored my enfant terrible by inquiring about a tattoo. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Dec. 2021",
"Architecture's enfant terrible Odile Decq is known for her distinct style inspired by punk and goth, a result of her spending time in London in the early 1980s. \u2014 Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure , 28 Oct. 2021",
"In the summer of 2004, Hoffman, who had recently founded LinkedIn, and Sean Parker, the Silicon Valley enfant terrible , introduced Thiel to Mark Zuckerberg, who was looking for a major investor in Facebook, then a site for college students. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French, literally, terrifying child",
"first_known_use":[
"1851, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-200659"
},
"entr\u00e9e":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act or manner of entering : entrance",
": freedom of entry or access",
": the main course of a meal in the U.S."
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-\u02cctr\u0101",
"also"
],
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"access",
"accession",
"admission",
"admittance",
"door",
"doorway",
"entrance",
"entry",
"gateway",
"ingress",
"key",
"passport",
"ticket"
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"examples":[
"We had steak as an entr\u00e9e .",
"entr\u00e9e to the country club is through sponsorship by someone who is already a member",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For The Deep's entree , Homelander brings out Deep's octopus pet and close friend Timothy. \u2014 Alex Raiman, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"Through June 12 at Edge Off-Broadway, 1133 W. Catalpa Ave.; tickets $20 at 773-828-9129 and astonrep.com/young K-RNB Brunch: Listen to Korean R&B music at a bash including a welcome mimosa or bloody mary, a soju cocktail and a brunch entree . \u2014 Samantha Nelson, Chicago Tribune , 27 May 2022",
"The entree arrives with all sorts of cross-cultural references. \u2014 Leslie Kelly, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"The deal is valid on June 20 and the free entree must be redeemed between June 21 and 27. \u2014 Rebecca Norris, Country Living , 6 May 2022",
"The restaurant advises pairing the entree with a Cinco Rita, which is $5 all day. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 4 May 2022",
"The ticket price of $20 per child (ages 2-9) includes the egg hunt, an entree and photo opportunities. \u2014 Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The heartiest entree starts with a basic notion, lasagna, and deploys bechamel, black trumpet mushrooms and wild boar to enrich layers of tender egg noodles. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The final entree option, like so many places up and down the economic scale, was a burger. \u2014 Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French entr\u00e9e , from Old French \u2014 more at entry ",
"first_known_use":[
"1692, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-213537"
},
"ensky":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": exalt"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8sk\u012b",
"en-"
],
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"aggrandize",
"canonize",
"deify",
"dignify",
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"enthrone",
"exalt",
"glorify",
"magnify"
],
"antonyms":[
"abase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate"
],
"examples":[
"a society that seems to have enskied celebrity as an end in itself"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1603, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-221716"
},
"enthused":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": feeling or showing enthusiasm : enthusiastic"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8th\u00fczd",
"en-",
"also"
],
"synonyms":[
"agog",
"antsy",
"anxious",
"ardent",
"athirst",
"avid",
"crazy",
"desirous",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"excited",
"geeked",
"great",
"greedy",
"gung ho",
"hepped up",
"hopped-up",
"hot",
"hungry",
"impatient",
"juiced",
"keen",
"nuts",
"pumped",
"raring",
"solicitous",
"stoked",
"thirsty",
"voracious",
"wild"
],
"antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Westbrook, for his part, hasn\u2019t seemed too enthused with the Lakers, either. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Though many Disney fans were thrilled about the mouse's makeover, others were not so enthused that Minnie would be ditching her usual polka dot dress. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 28 Jan. 2022",
"That disparity could shrink if the Democratic base was more enthused . \u2014 Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 Jan. 2022",
"While some borrowers are elated with the outcome, other advocates are less enthused . \u2014 Zack Friedman, Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021",
"But the event exceeded expectations as the orchestra\u2019s music director, Rafael Payare (who first appeared in dramatic silhouette), led the enthused orchestra in its first live performance in 16 months. \u2014 Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Dec. 2021",
"Both renowned as top-tier acts, BTS and Chris Martin took the stage in front of the enthused AMA audience and hugged exuberantly at the conclusion of the song. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Lennox ended the enthused note with a string of hand-clapping emojis and hashtag #adele. \u2014 Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Rather, her followers were not super enthused about another glaring fact: that she is also covered in fake blood. \u2014 Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire , 13 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"from past participle of enthuse ",
"first_known_use":[
"1843, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-225714"
},
"endless":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": being or seeming to be without end",
": extremely numerous",
": joined at the ends",
": lasting or taking a long time",
": joined at the ends : continuous"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en(d)-l\u0259s",
"\u02c8end-l\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottomless",
"boundless",
"fathomless",
"horizonless",
"illimitable",
"immeasurable",
"immensurable",
"indefinite",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unbounded",
"unfathomable",
"unlimited"
],
"antonyms":[
"bounded",
"circumscribed",
"confined",
"definite",
"finite",
"limited",
"restricted"
],
"examples":[
"There was an endless line at the bank.",
"There is endless work to do on the house.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The alternatives are endless : chicken burgers, turkey burgers, even salmon burgers! \u2014 Mehreen Karim, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
"The list of reasons why Andy Butler decided to revamp his sound is seemingly endless . \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 21 June 2022",
"There are endless reports in the press about yet another vulnerable elder who got ripped off by an unscrupulous financial manager, wealth advisor or other in a position of control over money. \u2014 Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Style it casually with sneakers for backyard barbecues, wear it as cover-up over your swimsuit for the beach, or pair it with wedges for a brunch \u2014 the possibilities are endless . \u2014 Alex Warner, PEOPLE.com , 11 June 2022",
"From the naked dress look to whale tails and peering boxers, the options to flash your intimates are endless . \u2014 Frances Sol\u00e1-santiago, refinery29.com , 9 June 2022",
"The possibilities for spicy summer looks are endless \u2014 especially because the collection is size-inclusive (US 2-24) with prices ranging from $10 to $100. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 7 June 2022",
"While her list of honors and activities are endless . \u2014 Hunter Boyce, ajc , 5 June 2022",
"From ornamental pendants to unobtrusive track lighting, the options for kitchen light fixtures are endless . \u2014 Alicia Mies, Good Housekeeping , 31 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-235916"
},
"entombment":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to deposit in or as if in a tomb : bury",
": to serve as a tomb for"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8t\u00fcm",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"bury",
"hearse",
"inhume",
"inter",
"lay",
"put away",
"tomb"
],
"antonyms":[
"disinter",
"exhume",
"unearth"
],
"examples":[
"a number of Boston's historic notables are entombed in the Old Granary Burying Ground",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The occupiers attempted to counter the partisans by gassing the tunnels and sealing off access points to entomb them, but the rebels persisted. \u2014 Will Hunt, The New Yorker , 9 Apr. 2022",
"But even his flytraps were improbably large, big enough to entomb and consume a human. \u2014 Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The firefighters eventually used Portland cement to entomb the smoldering ruins. \u2014 Merrill Goozner, The New Republic , 28 Oct. 2021",
"For Palestinians in Gaza, watching their neighborhoods collapse and pillars of smoke entomb their homes, the suffering is only deepening. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 May 2021",
"After the water in their environment dries up, the minerals are left behind and entomb those microbes, forming stromatolites. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 3 Mar. 2021",
"Similar concrete pads are often used to entomb nuclear waste. \u2014 Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune , 25 Feb. 2021",
"Cemeteries rejected those they were meant to entomb . \u2014 Hisham Melhem, The Atlantic , 22 Nov. 2020",
"The site northwest of Las Vegas was first proposed in the 1980s to entomb 77,000 tons of the nation\u2019s most highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English entoumben , from Middle French entomber , from en- + tombe tomb",
"first_known_use":[
"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-000142"
},
"ended":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"combining form",
"noun",
"verb",
"verb ()"
],
"definitions":[
": the part of an area that lies at the boundary",
": a point that marks the extent of something",
": the point where something ceases to exist",
": the extreme or last part lengthwise : tip",
": the terminal unit of something spatial that is marked off by units",
": a player stationed at the extremity of a line or team (as in football)",
": cessation of a course of action, pursuit, or activity",
": death , destruction",
": the ultimate state",
": result , issue",
": something incomplete, fragmentary, or undersized : remnant",
": an outcome worked toward : purpose",
": the object by virtue of or for the sake of which an event takes place",
": a share in an undertaking",
": a particular operation or aspect of an undertaking or organization",
": something that is extreme : ultimate",
": a period of action or turn in any of various sports events (such as archery or lawn bowling)",
": after all , ultimately",
": exceedingly",
": without a stop or letup",
": to bring to an end",
": destroy",
": to make up the end of",
": to come to an end",
": to reach a specified ultimate rank, situation, or place",
": die",
": final , ultimate",
": to put (grain or hay) into a barn or stack",
": within : inside",
"\u2014 compare ect- , exo-",
": taking in",
": the part near the boundary of an area",
": the point where something stops or ceases to exist",
": the first or last part of a thing",
": death sense 1 , destruction",
": purpose , goal",
": a player in football positioned at the end of the line of scrimmage",
": a part of an undertaking",
": to bring or come to an end : stop , finish",
": to reach or come to a place, condition, or situation unexpectedly"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8end",
"\u02c8end"
],
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"arrest",
"arrestment",
"cease",
"cessation",
"check",
"close",
"closedown",
"closure",
"conclusion",
"cutoff",
"discontinuance",
"discontinuation",
"ending",
"expiration",
"finish",
"halt",
"lapse",
"offset",
"shutdown",
"shutoff",
"stay",
"stop",
"stoppage",
"surcease",
"termination"
],
"antonyms":[
"close",
"close out",
"complete",
"conclude",
"finish",
"round (off ",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Prince Salim and Anarkali\u2019s love, forbidden by taboos of nobility and class, comes to a tragic end when Akbar orders Anarkali to be buried alive. \u2014 Mansi Choksi, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"Carefully crafted to maximize the impact and energy of modern electronic music, the S-80 headphones have a punchy low end , smooth midrange and clear highs. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"With the end of the school year and the official beginning of summer, outdoor festival season is heating up. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 21 June 2022",
"According to multiple outlets, the change was made to focus on the new titular year, which will have storylines about the end of World War I and the start of the Prohibition era. \u2014 Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping , 21 June 2022",
"According to the Modern Lifecycle Policy, which applies to Windows 10, users will be notified a year before the end . \u2014 Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"Mercer, for example, tacked three years onto the end of his contract, which now expires in 2026. \u2014 Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star , 21 June 2022",
"Promontory is an area of high ground at the north end of the Great Salt Lake. \u2014 Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 June 2022",
"The site has Beauchamp getting picked four picks before the end of the first round. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 21 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The interactive display is near the new Andrew J. Brady Music Center, but the significance of the location does not end there. \u2014 Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer , 24 June 2022",
"The agreement to destroy those spots doesn't end the case. \u2014 Ed White, Detroit Free Press , 23 June 2022",
"Just banning assault weapons won\u2019t end all the damage guns do. \u2014 Christopher Colwell, Scientific American , 22 June 2022",
"Forcing kids to pose with characters often does not end well, Daniels said. \u2014 Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic , 21 June 2022",
"Indeed, most mainstream portrayals of trailblazing gay men in Ulrich\u2019s lifetime didn\u2019t end well. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 June 2022",
"That online effort didn\u2019t end with his candidacy but rather continues today, said Jonathan Ong, a disinformation researcher at the University of Massachusetts and Harvard University who studied the 2016 and 2022 elections. \u2014 Michael E. Miller And Regine Cabato, Anchorage Daily News , 20 June 2022",
"But the decision does not completely end Assange's decade-long fight to avoid facing a U.S. trial in a case that could have implications for First Amendment protections. \u2014 Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"The list of advantages that SPACs offer doesn\u2019t end with lower risks, though. \u2014 Gary Fowler, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Another helpful metric to track during the digital journey is one that is very end -of-funnel-centric. \u2014 Ashlee Piga, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"The response: The invasion of Ukraine is bringing to an end Western investment in Russia. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2022",
"This is just before the end -Permian extinction event. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Curling: Four years after losing in the Pyeongchang final to American upstart John Shuster, Niklas Edin led Sweden to the gold medal, beating Britain 5-4 in the first extra- end men\u2019s final in Olympic history. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 19 Feb. 2022",
"The sale is especially great for travelers who haven't booked end -of-year trips\u2014or are looking to gift a stay to a friend. \u2014 Meredith Carey, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 29 Nov. 2021",
"When his parents find out, George's father comes up with a scheme to raise giant animals to get rich and end world hunger. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 17 Dec. 2020",
"The new facility will replace Gilchrist\u2019s inpatient hospice center on Eutaw Street downtown, which has provided end -of-life care for city residents for over 30 years. \u2014 Angela Roberts, baltimoresun.com , 10 Nov. 2020",
"Brown has received a request to host a virtual Wisdom Sharing Night at the monthly meeting of the Minnesota Death Collaborative, an organization of end -of-life professionals. \u2014 Julie Kendrick Next Avenue, Star Tribune , 14 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb (1)",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
"Adjective",
"13th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb (2)",
"1607, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-015403"
},
"enough":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"pronoun"
],
"definitions":[
": occurring in such quantity, quality, or scope as to fully meet demands, needs, or expectations",
": in or to a degree or quantity that satisfies or that is sufficient or necessary for satisfaction : sufficiently",
": fully , quite",
": in a tolerable degree",
": a sufficient number, quantity, or amount",
": equal to the needs or demands",
": in the amount necessary or to the degree necessary",
": a number or amount that provides what is needed"
],
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8n\u0259f",
"\u0113-",
"\u0259-",
"i-\u02c8n\u0259f"
],
"synonyms":[
"adequately",
"satisfactorily",
"sufficiently",
"suitably"
],
"antonyms":[
"inadequately",
"insufficiently",
"unsatisfactorily"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"After more than two years of battling to get sufficient goods into the country, many U.S. companies suddenly have too much of some items and not enough of others. \u2014 David J. Lynch, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"It\u2019s a blast, but there isn\u2019t enough of an opportunity to turn a marginal or decent player card into a great one. \u2014 Brian Mazique, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"To that list, Dr. Melnyk adds fatigue, irritability, the tendency to get angry easily, and sleeping too much or not enough . \u2014 Maggie O'neill, SELF , 10 June 2022",
"Not enough of the supporting characters have the same texture as Leaphorn and Chee. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 10 June 2022",
"There\u2019s been enough in the last 20 years for the Buckeyes to want to be careful. \u2014 Doug Lesmerises, cleveland , 9 June 2022",
"Given the volume and seriousness of the allegations against the Cleveland Browns quarterback, our columnist wonders if an N.F.L. suspension is enough of a punishment. \u2014 Kurt Streeter, New York Times , 9 June 2022",
"In this case, that\u2019s still not enough to build a movie around. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 9 June 2022",
"More than a few readers, encountering his columns in the Washington Post in the 1980s and 1990s, might say: not enough . \u2014 Dave Shiflett, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Anxiety, stagnancy, not feeling good enough , heaviness, bitterness, frustration. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 14 June 2022",
"This week, Bad Bunny earned 137,000 equivalent album units in the U.S., good enough to land on top again and, along with the Post Malone premiere, push Styles\u2019 album from first to third. \u2014 Thania Garcia, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"The Mets wound up going 5-5 against the Dodgers, the Padres and the Angels, still good enough to head back to New York with the second best record in the majors, trailing only the Yankees. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Would Robinson be willing to be a backup if the money offer was good enough ? \u2014 Jason Patt, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"Plus, when Omer started while Bam Adebayo was gone, his defense was good enough to help keep Miami afloat and in many ways his play on both ends was key in Miami being in position to get the number-one seed. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 12 June 2022",
"Rob Williams looks good, but not good enough to be catching Jaylen lobs 11 feet high. \u2014 Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"At Belmont Park on May 14, Golden Glider finished 10.25 lengths behind We the People in the Peter Pan Stakes, but that was good enough for second in the Grade 3 race. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 11 June 2022",
"But La Jolla\u2019s season was good enough to get the team a berth in the Southern California Regional playoffs. \u2014 Terry Monahan, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Adverb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Pronoun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-015709"
},
"entertain":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to show hospitality to",
": to provide entertainment for",
": to keep, hold, or maintain in the mind",
": to receive and take into consideration",
": to play against (an opposing team) on one's home field or court",
": maintain",
": receive",
": to provide entertainment especially for guests",
": to host a social event",
": to have as a guest",
": to perform for or provide amusement for",
": to have in mind"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccen-t\u0259r-\u02c8t\u0101n",
"\u02ccen-t\u0259r-\u02c8t\u0101n"
],
"synonyms":[
"amuse",
"disport",
"divert",
"regale",
"solace"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They like to entertain their friends at their summer home.",
"Much of his job as a salesman involves entertaining clients.",
"Jugglers were on hand to entertain the crowd.",
"Our father entertained us with stories.",
"Our father's stories entertained us.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"These gatherings happen at libraries, bookstores, and other free public places, where the performers entertain and delight children while introducing them to new types of people and teaching them acceptance and inclusion through storybooks. \u2014 Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone , 16 June 2022",
"Fans accustomed to seeing Biles smiling and winning, as if her reason for being was to entertain and amaze, were surprised. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
"We are known to be extremely hospitable and generous, and love to entertain and celebrate, especially at Christmas. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Everyone from the owner to the Grind Liners to the trainers was back at The Joe for a 2\u00bd-hour rally \u2014 a chance to relive one of the greatest moments in Detroit sports history, sell thousands of T-shirts and entertain a TV audience. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 9 June 2022",
"His departure means that UCLA could more seriously entertain the transfer portal as a possibility with only 10 players on scholarship heading into next season. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"Rock Radio, which features radio hits from the \u201860s, \u201870s, \u201880s and \u201890s, will entertain attendees 1-3:15 p.m. \u2014 Carol Kovach, cleveland , 31 May 2022",
"One way to create binge-able content for your audience is by developing a branded video series to inspire and entertain your audience. \u2014 Chris Savage, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
"Broadway-style shows, held in a new outdoor theater, entertain all generations. \u2014 Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping , 19 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English entertinen , from Middle French entretenir , from entre- inter- + tenir to hold \u2014 more at tenable ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 5a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-035832"
},
"enchantingly":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": powerfully pleasing, appealing, or delightful : charming",
": very attractive : charming"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8chan-ti\u014b",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8chan-ti\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluring",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charismatic",
"charming",
"elfin",
"engaging",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"fetching",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"luring",
"magnetic",
"seductive"
],
"antonyms":[
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repelling",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"unalluring"
],
"examples":[
"visitors have long found the Highlands of Scotland to be an enchanting place",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Both are often wrong as historians, yet both are enchanting stylists. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"With ample winter rain, the desert in springtime can be an enchanting place. \u2014 Mare Czinar, USA TODAY , 10 Apr. 2022",
"This enchanting book was written for readers of fantasy, young and old, and anyone with an active imagination who loves fantasy, food and cooking. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Just as enchanting as the food, however, is the restaurant\u2019s ambiance. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 11 May 2022",
"One of the easiest ways to make your backyard more beautiful is by attracting hummingbirds, one of the most enchanting \u2014and elusive\u2014birds in the animal kingdom. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 14 Apr. 2022",
"With ample winter rain, the desert in springtime can be an enchanting place. \u2014 Mare Czinar, USA TODAY , 10 Apr. 2022",
"With ample winter rain, the desert in springtime can be an enchanting place. \u2014 Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Yet replacing an actor with an avatar struck me as oddly charming, just as the worlds our avatars moved in were enchanting \u2014beautiful, even. \u2014 Merve Emre, The New Yorker , 22 Feb. 2022"
],
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"1589, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-045648"
},
"enwrap":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to wrap in a covering : enfold",
": envelop",
": to preoccupy or absorb mentally : engross"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8rap",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorb",
"bemuse",
"busy",
"catch up",
"engage",
"engross",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"fascinate",
"grip",
"immerse",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involve",
"occupy"
],
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"examples":[
"enwrapped in my own reverie, I failed to notice the coworker standing outside my cubicle",
"an air of serene self-satisfaction enwraps the leafy, well-to-do suburb"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-052811"
},
"encircle":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to form a circle around : surround",
": to pass completely around",
": to make a circle around : surround",
": to go completely around"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8s\u0259r-k\u0259l",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8s\u0259r-k\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"circle",
"circuit",
"circumnavigate",
"circumvent",
"compass",
"girdle",
"orbit",
"ring",
"round"
],
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"examples":[
"A crowd of reporters encircled the mayor.",
"communication satellites encircling the earth",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many, but by no means all, of the 2 million inhabitants who Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said had fled when Russian forces tried to encircle the city in March are now returning. \u2014 John Leicester, ajc , 11 June 2022",
"Russia is also trying to encircle the eastern city of Severodonetsk, but the regional governor said Saturday that the city has not been cut off. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 28 May 2022",
"The offensive aims to encircle Ukraine's most experienced and best-equipped troops, who are deployed in the east, and to seize parts of the Donbas that remain in Ukraine's control. \u2014 Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 15 May 2022",
"Russia\u2019s offensive aims to encircle Ukraine\u2019s most experienced and best-equipped troops, who are deployed in the east, and to seize parts of the Donbas that remain in Ukraine\u2019s control. \u2014 Oleksandr Stashevskyi And David Keyton, Chicago Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"Russia\u2019s offensive aims to encircle Ukraine\u2019s most experienced and best-equipped troops, who are deployed in the east, and to seize parts of the Donbas that remain in Ukraine\u2019s control. \u2014 David Keyton, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022",
"The Ukrainian military was holding the line in the Donbas region more than three weeks after the massive Russian offensive that aims to encircle Ukraine\u2019s best forces there began. \u2014 WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"To fully encircle Kyiv, the Russians must engage in several more suburban battles. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Mar. 2022",
"The Ukrainian military's commander-in-chief warned Monday afternoon local time that Russian forces were redoubling their effort in the south while also trying to encircle Kyiv. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English enserclen ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-131211"
},
"enmity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will",
": hatred especially when shared : ill will"
],
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"\u02c8en-m\u0259-t\u0113",
"\u02c8en-m\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"animosity",
"animus",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bad blood",
"bitterness",
"gall",
"grudge",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor"
],
"antonyms":[
"amity"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Still, the seeming enmity is troubling for some Democrats who believe that the appearance of party unity is crucial to staving off serious electoral losses in this year\u2019s midterms and beyond. \u2014 New York Times , 9 May 2022",
"While enmity toward Putin and a desire to send assistance to the region is virtually universal in Congress, lawmakers have had a hard time finding unity on other steps. \u2014 Alan Fram, Anchorage Daily News , 10 Mar. 2022",
"While enmity toward Putin and a desire to send assistance to the region is virtually universal in Congress, lawmakers have had a harder time finding unity on other steps. \u2014 Alan Fram, ajc , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The fiercest enmity has been reserved toward Fenerbahce, a domestic powerhouse whose influence spreads well beyond the soccer field. \u2014 New York Times , 13 May 2022",
"But there is enmity to spare for the West in general for vaccine hoarding, which is seen as just the latest example of a centuries-long disregard for African lives. \u2014 Glen Retief, The New Republic , 18 Dec. 2021",
"After an employee uproar, Disney stated that the company's goal was for the law to be repealed or struck down in the courts, earning the enmity of right-wing lawmakers. \u2014 Eric Levenson And Steve Contorno, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Often seeming as fixated on his enmity toward Enrico as on his love of Lucia, this character actually contributes to her burden rather than relieving it. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Apr. 2022",
"This mounting isolation came on top of a foreign policy whose driving force was enmity toward the imperialist West. \u2014 Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ , 4 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English enmite , from Anglo-French enemit\u00e9, enemist\u00e9 , from enemi enemy",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-142118"
},
"endeavor":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to attempt (something, such as the fulfillment of an obligation ) by exertion of effort",
": to strive to achieve or reach",
": to work with set purpose",
": serious determined effort",
": activity directed toward a goal : enterprise",
": to make an effort : try hard",
": a serious effort or attempt"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8de-v\u0259r",
"in-\u02c8de-v\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
],
"antonyms":[
"assay",
"attempt",
"bash",
"bid",
"crack",
"essay",
"fling",
"go",
"offer",
"pass",
"shot",
"stab",
"trial",
"try",
"whack",
"whirl"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Tim Smeeding, a distinguished economics and public policy professor at UW-Madison, is part of a National Aacademy of Sciences endeavor to study income, wealth and consumption statistics for policy and research purposes. \u2014 Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 28 Mar. 2022",
"This is the type of thing that a functional modern society should endeavor to provide to its members, regardless of individual ability to pay. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The work completed on the F-35 will help keep the United States in the lead as warfighters endeavor to bring other platforms\u2014friendly aircraft, networked UAVs, attritable drones and other warfighting networks\u2014together. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The documents are part of the back-and-forth that occurs over many months as corporations endeavor to convince the government not to file charges. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 Feb. 2022",
"On one side, participants endeavor to dismantle a city and kill the occupants. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
"In line with this, the United States can endeavor to find ways to creatively bolster its support for Russian civil society and fund Russian opposition movements. \u2014 Mick Mulroy, ABC News , 26 Feb. 2022",
"In 2022, partly thanks to No Way Home, studios will endeavor to return to it. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 4 Jan. 2022",
"The Hansons training plans endeavor to keep you from falling victim to the less-than-satisfying results that such a haphazard approach to training can produce. \u2014 Keith And Kevin Hanson, Outside Online , 21 Feb. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Social impact investing is though quite different from philanthropy as there is an expectation of return on the investment for those accepting capital for their endeavor or business. \u2014 Michael Gale, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Chavez and Le hope to inspire and help guide other entrepreneurs with their endeavor . \u2014 Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic , 25 May 2022",
"As the world awaits Taylor Swift\u2019s next installment in her six-album re-recording endeavor , the superstar is keeping plenty busy. \u2014 Jason Lipshutz, Billboard , 19 May 2022",
"British officials have spoken about wanting to, at a minimum, see Russia pushed back to its Feb. 23 position and ensure that Russia is seen to have failed in its military endeavor . \u2014 Vivian Salama, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
"This is our third endeavor of trying to put this up. \u2014 Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune , 13 May 2022",
"Cronin said Riley had a cleanup procedure in his knee three days after the season ended but is now fully recovered and training for his next basketball endeavor . \u2014 Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times , 6 May 2022",
"Ultimately attracting more attention to its newfound endeavor . \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 6 May 2022",
"Kravis lean into the relatability of their endeavor , while also adding their trademark touch of absurdity. \u2014 Vogue , 5 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb and Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2",
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-012303"
},
"envoy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a minister plenipotentiary accredited to a foreign government who ranks between an ambassador and a minister resident",
": a person delegated to represent one government in its dealings with another",
": messenger , representative",
": a representative sent by one government to another",
": messenger"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-\u02ccv\u022fi",
"\u02c8\u00e4n-",
"\u02c8en-\u02ccv\u022fi",
"\u02c8\u00e4n-"
],
"synonyms":[
"agent",
"ambassador",
"delegate",
"emissary",
"legate",
"minister",
"representative"
],
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"examples":[
"the president sent the secretary of state as his personal envoy to gain the support of the country's allies",
"one of the hostage takers was chosen as the group's envoy for all dealings with the authorities",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In particular, Mary\u2019s struggle to reconcile her love for her brother with that for her Catholic faith eventually gives Garai more to do than cry with frustration, especially with the introduction of Pedro (Ekow Quartey), a concerned Spanish envoy . \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 10 June 2022",
"The subprefecture of some remote French region may not be the dream of a polished polyglot envoy . \u2014 Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"Over the weekend, a video went viral of actor Angelina Jolie \u2014 a special envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees \u2014 meeting orphans in Lviv as sirens blared in the background. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
"The junta has refused to allow her visits, including by a special Southeast Asian envoy trying to end the crisis. \u2014 NBC News , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Dawn reported that the document that Khan was referring to was a cable sent by a former Pakistani envoy to the U.S. who said he was warned by a U.S. official of serious consequences if Khan survived the no-confidence vote. \u2014 Kamran Haider, Bloomberg.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The State Department\u2019s announcement this month said that Biden\u2019s special envoy for hostage affairs would lead an interagency team to secure Griner\u2019s release. \u2014 New York Times , 28 May 2022",
"State Department spokesman Ned Price on Wednesday confirmed that Ibrahim met with Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs. \u2014 Suzan Haidamous, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, who leads the interagency team that\u2019s working for Griner\u2019s release, had no comment. \u2014 Gerald Posner, Forbes , 19 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French envoy\u00e9 , from past participle of envoyer to send, from Old French enveier ",
"first_known_use":[
"1635, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-105028"
},
"entranceway":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": entryway"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-tr\u0259n(t)s-\u02ccw\u0101"
],
"synonyms":[
"entry",
"entryway",
"foyer",
"hall",
"hallway",
"lobby",
"vestibule"
],
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"examples":[
"the visitor thoughtfully removed her snow-covered hat and gloves in the entranceway",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Photos showed damage to an Aldi Grocery Store, with debris crowding a crushed entranceway . \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 22 May 2022",
"Photos also showed damage to an Aldi Grocery Store, with debris crowding a crushed entranceway . \u2014 Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press , 21 May 2022",
"Performances will take place in three spaces \u2014 Unity House, the entranceway , and the sanctuary. \u2014 Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The solo work features Elijah Guardiola, a member of Banks\u2019 company since 2019, who will perform at the entranceway . \u2014 Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Located in the main event entranceway and vestibule at the school, the new display honors the rich history of Warriors athletic teams. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 26 Jan. 2022",
"The Ways and what were once cracked stone steps leading to nowhere turn into an entranceway into the dark unknown. \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Future phases at the venue will include semi-permanent seating, landscaping with a brick entranceway and walking paths, art installations, a playground and a concession stand, as well as improvements to the pavilion. \u2014 Linda Girardi, chicagotribune.com , 17 Aug. 2021",
"It was held in the echoing marble entranceway of the Public Library just atop Bryant Park, erstwhile home of New York Fashion Week, the stairs outside speckled once more with street-style photographers. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1800, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-105922"
},
"enervate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated",
": to reduce the mental or moral vigor of",
": to lessen the vitality or strength of",
": to cut the nerves or tendons of",
": to lessen the vitality or strength of"
],
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8n\u0259r-v\u0259t",
"\u02c8e-n\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101t",
"\u02c8en-\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"castrate",
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"devitalize",
"geld",
"lobotomize",
"petrify"
],
"antonyms":[
"brace",
"energize",
"enliven",
"invigorate",
"quicken",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"vivify"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"a lifetime of working in dreary jobs had enervated his very soul",
"the surgery really enervated me for weeks afterwards",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"This relationship, when successful, tends to enervate mediating institutions that thwart the immediate desires of both the populist leader and the public. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 28 Feb. 2021",
"The saving grace of this often enervating thriller is that Doscher grants time for his actors to build character and intimacy, and both Pinto and Odom offer warm, affectingly natural performances as two people facing the end of their world. \u2014 Teo Bugbee, New York Times , 5 Mar. 2020",
"To a great extent, that reflects the endless, enervating nature of the Brexit debate. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Jack\u2019s enervating recovery in The Way Back is full of drab, predictable pathos instead of the stylized drama in Dawn of Justice. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 6 Mar. 2020",
"Perhaps the most intimate of these photographs presents her after a shower, wet and enervated , rubbing a cloth across her reflection in a mirror, as though the condensation were crud. \u2014 Eren Orbey, The New Yorker , 6 Feb. 2020",
"Then again, enervating her supporters has been Madonna\u2019s M.O. in recent years. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 3 July 2019",
"But the art which resists the slow sap of a chronic disease\u2014which repairs frames enervated by lust, swollen by gluttony, or inflamed by wine . . \u2014 Chris Pope, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2019",
"Such behavior is particularly enervating when the West aims to bring new countries into permanent and universal\u2014that is, Western-style\u2014guarantees of security and systems of relations. \u2014 I. William Zartman, WSJ , 24 June 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"1603, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-112454"
},
"energized":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make energetic , vigorous, or active",
": to impart energy to",
": to apply voltage to",
": to put forth energy : act",
": to give the ability to be active to : give energy to"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8e-n\u0259r-\u02ccj\u012bz",
"\u02c8e-n\u0259r-\u02ccj\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[
"amp (up)",
"animate",
"brace",
"enliven",
"fillip",
"fire",
"ginger (up)",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"juice up",
"jump-start",
"liven (up)",
"pep (up)",
"quicken",
"spike",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"vivify",
"zip (up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"kill"
],
"examples":[
"His rousing speech energized the crowd.",
"You'll feel more energized after a bit of exercise.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Common sense dictates that that's not clever -- especially not for a CEO who's paid big bucks to motivate and energize . \u2014 CNN , 9 June 2022",
"The move came after Martin helped energize the bench over the first half of the season, before injuries began to exact a toll. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 5 June 2022",
"Whether used to wall off sleeping quarters in a loft or hung as art, considering clever room divider ideas can help energize a room. \u2014 Marisa Martin, Good Housekeeping , 31 May 2022",
"The organization is hoping that the gift will energize people to get involved. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 24 May 2022",
"Some proposals have broad support within the party, but others have divided progressives and moderates, with each wing making different arguments about what will energize or repel voters in November. \u2014 Andrew Restuccia, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Others have countered that loan forgiveness would energize young voters and provide an economic boost to low-income and minority borrowers, according to people familiar with the discussions. \u2014 Andrew Restuccia, WSJ , 23 May 2022",
"Democratic campaign officials immediately turned to the fall elections with the hope that the impending end of Roe v. Wade would energize young voters and turn Republican-leaning women in the suburbs against the G.O.P. \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
"Bold contrasting colors, personal collections, and smart storage blend in rooms that both soothe and energize . \u2014 Mallory Abreu, Better Homes & Gardens , 17 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1865, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-115350"
},
"enjoyably":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to have a good time",
": to have for one's use, benefit, or lot : experience",
": to take pleasure or satisfaction in",
": to have a good time",
": to get pleasure from",
": to have the use or benefit of"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8j\u022fi",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8j\u022fi"
],
"synonyms":[
"adore",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"fancy",
"get off (on)",
"groove (on)",
"like",
"love",
"rejoice (in)",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"savor",
"savour"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Vomo's baby butlers care for children under age three, and arrangements can be made for childcare until 11 p.m., so parents can enjoy dinner and an evening on their own. \u2014 Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure , 19 June 2022",
"Riding a hardtail is a very pure form of mountain biking that anyone can enjoy . \u2014 John Watson, Outside Online , 18 June 2022",
"Some people may enjoy the slimness of the iPhone and want to have a case that is protective, but not too bulky. \u2014 Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
"New players can enjoy exploring the history of the world and the setting but still have a frame of reference for modern ideas. \u2014 Rob Wieland, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"While crowds grow steadily during the annual fireworks show, at-home viewers can enjoy the event without having to give up the comfort of your pajamas. \u2014 Chaise Sanders, Country Living , 16 June 2022",
"Since then, the Trust has started working to expand access to allow more people to enjoy it at night. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"People will enjoy mixing and matching these flavors and configurations. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 10 June 2022",
"People enjoy premium quality sweet delights at Cloud Ninth Creamery on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, a seasonal artisanal ice cream shop that's only open from May to September. \u2014 Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English enjoien , from Anglo-French enjoir, enjoier to gladden, enjoy, from en- + joie joy",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-130817"
},
"envious":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": feeling or showing envy",
": emulous",
": enviable",
": feeling or showing unhappiness over someone else's good fortune and a desire to have the same"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-v\u0113-\u0259s",
"\u02c8en-v\u0113-\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"covetous",
"green-eyed",
"invidious",
"jaundiced",
"jealous",
"resentful"
],
"antonyms":[
"unenvious"
],
"examples":[
"a family that is envious of their neighbors' big house",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And if that's not fancy enough for you, there's also another figurine that'll truly make any diehard Moon Knight fan envious . \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The Warriors\u2019 efforts Wednesday revived the old rumblings from around the envious league that the Warriors are soft. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 May 2022",
"Ignelzi\u2019s sequence of photos got nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and drew envious grumbles from other newspaper photographers in town. \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 May 2022",
"The feeling of triumph extended to employees across the board, who benefited from massive spending budgets and envious compensation packages buoyed by high salaries and lucrative stock options. \u2014 J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Apr. 2022",
"On the contrary, his first 15 months in office have produced an envious record of relief, recovery and reform \u2013 to borrow a slogan from the New Deal. \u2014 John Zogby, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s the kind of show that also takes us along for the ride, keeping us entertained but also envious of everyone\u2019s wealth, luxuries, status, and privilege along the way. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Her party scenes play out the inevitable clash: youth and money, mutually envious . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Five words to describe Jafar? Mercurial; malevolent; jealous (not to be confused with envious ); vain; and self-important. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-131535"
},
"entail":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result",
": to restrict (property) by limiting the inheritance to the owner's lineal descendants or to a particular class thereof",
": to confer, assign, or transmit (something) for an indefinitely long time : to confer, assign, or transmit as if by entail",
": to fix (a person) permanently in some condition or status",
": a restriction especially of lands by limiting the inheritance to the owner's lineal descendants or to a particular class thereof",
": an entailed (see entail entry 1 sense 2 ) estate",
": something transmitted as if by entail",
": to make (an estate in real property) a fee tail : limit the descent of (real property) by restricting inheritance to specific descendants who cannot convey or transfer the property",
": an act or instance of entailing real property",
": the practice of entailing property",
"\u2014 see also De Donis Conditionalibus",
": an entailed estate in real property",
": the fixed line of descent of an entailed estate"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8t\u0101l",
"en-",
"\u02c8en-\u02cct\u0101l",
"in-\u02c8t\u0101l",
"in-\u02c8t\u0101l"
],
"synonyms":[
"carry",
"comprehend",
"contain",
"embrace",
"encompass",
"include",
"involve",
"number",
"subsume",
"take in"
],
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"exclude",
"leave (out)",
"miss out",
"omit"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The White House Correspondents\u2019 Association manages briefing-room seating assignments, which don\u2019t entail an outlet-by-outlet content analysis. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Nov. 2021",
"There are no indications of what the redesign will entail except that wireless charging is on the cards. \u2014 David Phelan, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
"But that path could be fraught with its own political challenges, given the wide array of opinions within the president\u2019s own party over what infrastructure reform should entail , and how to pay for it. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2021",
"They could be limited to providing protection for humanitarian evacuations, tasked to stop Russian aircraft from flying or even to prevent missiles from being launched, which would entail attacking Russian ground facilities. \u2014 Stephen Fidler, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The company has also agreed to implement up to $27 million in measures to minimize future eagle injuries and deaths, the prosecutors said without detailing what that would entail . \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Apr. 2022",
"That could entail stepping up sanctions and isolation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Rose Gottemoeller, deputy secretary-general of NATO from 2016 to 2019. \u2014 Ellen Knickmeyer, chicagotribune.com , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Amazon has used the regular meetings, which typically include a few dozen employees and last roughly 30 minutes, to create a false impression of what unionizing would entail , the union supporters said. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The key question is what neutrality for Ukraine would entail . \u2014 Jan Smole\u0144ski, The New Republic , 22 Mar. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2",
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-131654"
},
"enfeeble":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make feeble : deprive of strength"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8f\u0113-b\u0259l",
"en-"
],
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"debilitate",
"devitalize",
"enervate",
"etiolate",
"prostrate",
"sap",
"soften",
"tire",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"antonyms":[
"beef (up)",
"fortify",
"strengthen"
],
"examples":[
"long periods of being confined to a hospital bed will enfeeble anyone",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
"The goal is to blunt criticism and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2021",
"The move may, in effect, enfeeble America's technology sector and, worse yet, leave the root problem\u2014investigating terrorism, child predation, and criminality\u2014unresolved as wrongdoers flock to alternative products. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 29 June 2020",
"India entered its sixth week of a stringent nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, pushing an economy already enfeebled before the pandemic to the brink of collapse. \u2014 Fox News , 12 May 2020",
"Whatever the truth, the risk is the Anwar and Azmin camps wear each other down and enfeeble the Pakatan Harapan alliance, which Mahathir chairs. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 July 2019",
"Meanwhile, the danger AI poses is rather of human tyranny, with machines enfeebling most people, physically and intellectually, so as to leave them at the mercy of a master-class. \u2014 K.n.c., The Economist , 19 July 2019",
"More often than not, the result is to blunt the impact of the critique and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com , 25 June 2018",
"Mr Macron has been helped by a big parliamentary majority, and an opposition enfeebled by his new party\u2019s rise. \u2014 The Economist , 14 Apr. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English enfeblen , from Anglo-French enfebler, enfeblir , from en- + feble feeble",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-134550"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"combining form",
"intransitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to go or come in",
": to come or gain admission into a group : join",
": to make a beginning",
": to begin to consider a subject",
": to go upon land for the purpose of taking possession",
": to come onstage",
": to come into a preestablished situation or context like an actor coming onstage",
": to play a part : be a factor",
": to come or go into",
": inscribe , register",
": to cause to be received or admitted",
": to put in : insert",
": to make a beginning in",
": to go into (a particular period of time)",
": to become a member of or an active participant in",
": to make report of (a ship or its cargo) to customs authorities",
": to place in proper form before a court of law or upon record",
": to go into or upon and take actual possession of (something, such as land)",
": to put formally on record",
": to make oneself a party to or in",
": to form or be part of",
": to participate or share in",
": to engage in a fight or struggle",
": intestine",
": to come or go in or into",
": to stab into : pierce",
": to put into a list or book : write down",
": to put in or into",
": to become a member of",
": to become a participant in or take an interest in",
": enroll in : begin attending",
": to go or come in",
": to go upon real property by right of entry especially to take possession",
": to come or go into",
"\u2014 see also break , breaking and entering",
": record , register",
": to put in correct form before a court or on a record",
"\u2014 compare render",
": to go upon (real property) by right of entry especially to take possession",
"\u2014 compare distrain",
": to make oneself a party to or in"
],
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"\u02c8en-t\u0259r",
"\u02c8en-t\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"access",
"penetrate",
"pierce"
],
"antonyms":[
"depart",
"exit",
"leave"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Friends have told her that Chin\u2019s case inspired them to enter activism, law or politics. \u2014 Harmeet Kaur, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Carter and his financial backer, the Earl of Carnarvon, hosted the international press in 1923 but didn\u2019t allow most of the visitors to enter the crypt. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Costs to enter Hoosier National Forest include a daily use permit for a trail for $5 per day if riding a horse or bicycle. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
"That decision eschewed opting for the NBA's G-League lucrative offer for high profile prep prospects looking to enter the NBA. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
"Young is expected to enter the NFL draft after this season and projects to be a first-round pick. \u2014 Erick Smith, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Police later cleared the vehicle and allowed guests to re- enter the affected areas. \u2014 Bradford Betz, Fox News , 23 June 2022",
"The Accord may no longer be Honda's bread and butter\u2014that would be the CR-V crossover nowadays\u2014but the perennially 10Best-winning sedan is set to enter a new generation soon. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 23 June 2022",
"Individuals pried open the back door to enter the property, Dobridnia said. \u2014 Marlene Lenthang, NBC News , 22 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 3a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-174025"
},
"encyclopedic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or suggestive of an encyclopedia or its methods of treating or covering a subject : comprehensive"
],
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"in-\u02ccs\u012b-kl\u0259-\u02c8p\u0113-dik"
],
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"all-embracing",
"all-in",
"all-inclusive",
"broad-gauge",
"broad-gauged",
"compendious",
"complete",
"comprehensive",
"cover-all",
"cyclopedic",
"embracive",
"exhaustive",
"full",
"global",
"inclusive",
"in-depth",
"omnibus",
"panoramic",
"thorough",
"universal"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She published an encyclopedic study of ancient Egypt.",
"The event was described in encyclopedic detail.",
"his almost encyclopedic knowledge of movies",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Banks tends to show up to interviews with an encyclopedic knowledge of his hero\u2019s achievements. \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"The Librarian Aptly known onstage as The Librarian for her encyclopedic knowledge of breaks and drum & bass, the emotional release of her set at LiB was two years in the making. \u2014 Graham Berry, Billboard , 1 June 2022",
"Informed by O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s encyclopedic knowledge of design and architecture\u2014projects span residential, hospitality, restaurants, bar, and yachts. \u2014 Bridget Arsenault, Forbes , 15 May 2022",
"Dedicated Laurenites will be pleased to find an encyclopedic archive of the shirt\u2019s most coveted iterations, illustrating its seemingly infinite adaptability. \u2014 Kareem Rashed, Robb Report , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Accompanied by three friends, Romero wandered the museum\u2019s halls, which boast an encyclopedic collection of Indigenous Mexican art that spans dozens of cultures and dates back thousands of years. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Liverpool, who has the endearingly encyclopedic manner of a music nerd, had converted the second-floor guest room into a studio. \u2014 The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"There are plenty of novels that manage to balance an encyclopedic tendency with a commitment to the evocation of empathy. \u2014 Jake Bittle, The New Republic , 2 Mar. 2022",
"Unfiltered opinions, witty remarks, and encyclopedic sports knowledge collide, but this is enthusiastic and accessible enough for casual sports fans to enjoy. \u2014 Simon Hill, Wired , 20 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1824, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-211902"
},
"enthusiast":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a person filled with enthusiasm : such as",
": one who is ardently attached to a cause, object, or pursuit",
": one who tends to become ardently absorbed in an interest",
": a person who is very excited about or interested in something"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8th\u00fc-z\u0113-\u02ccast",
"-\u0259st",
"en-",
"also",
"in-\u02c8th\u00fc-z\u0113-\u02ccast",
"-\u02c8thy\u00fc-"
],
"synonyms":[
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"bug",
"devotee",
"fan",
"fanatic",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut",
"sucker"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonfan"
],
"examples":[
"skiing enthusiasts can't wait for the first snowfall of the season",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Described by his friends as a passionate tech enthusiast , Brown loved his Tesla and often filmed videos behind the wheel. \u2014 Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"We like Mercedes-AMG's twin-turbo V-8 as much as the next car enthusiast . \u2014 Greg Fink, Car and Driver , 18 May 2022",
"Radcliffe's status as devout Bachelor Nation enthusiast is well documented. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The official profile for Young at cbs.com depicts Young as a fitness enthusiast who owns a beach services company and whose dislikes include bullies, wearing shirts and disrespectful behavior. \u2014 al , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Named for the late United States senator from Pennsylvania, who was a squash enthusiast , the $40 million facility has 20 courts. \u2014 New York Times , 4 May 2022",
"If your mom is a passionate plant enthusiast , choosing a gift that caters to her hobby is the perfect way to show some appreciation to the favorite woman in your life. \u2014 Noma Nazish, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Daniels is a motorcycle enthusiast and rides a Harley Davidson. \u2014 CNN , 29 Mar. 2022",
"My college classmate and friend Nicole Lucier happens to be a fellow Wordle enthusiast . \u2014 Kavita Das, Wired , 14 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"earlier, \"person claiming to receive divine communication or inspiration, member of a putative early Christian sect making such claims,\" borrowed from Late Greek enthousiast\u1e17s, going back to Greek, \"person possessed by a god,\" from enthousiad-, stem of enthousi\u00e1zein \"to be inspired or possessed by a god\" + -t\u0113s, agent suffix \u2014 more at enthusiasm ",
"first_known_use":[
"1748, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-214254"
},
"enchanting":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": powerfully pleasing, appealing, or delightful : charming",
": very attractive : charming"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8chan-ti\u014b",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8chan-ti\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluring",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charismatic",
"charming",
"elfin",
"engaging",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"fetching",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"luring",
"magnetic",
"seductive"
],
"antonyms":[
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repelling",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"unalluring"
],
"examples":[
"visitors have long found the Highlands of Scotland to be an enchanting place",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Both are often wrong as historians, yet both are enchanting stylists. \u2014 Dominic Green, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"With ample winter rain, the desert in springtime can be an enchanting place. \u2014 Mare Czinar, USA TODAY , 10 Apr. 2022",
"This enchanting book was written for readers of fantasy, young and old, and anyone with an active imagination who loves fantasy, food and cooking. \u2014 Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Just as enchanting as the food, however, is the restaurant\u2019s ambiance. \u2014 Liam Hess, Vogue , 11 May 2022",
"One of the easiest ways to make your backyard more beautiful is by attracting hummingbirds, one of the most enchanting \u2014and elusive\u2014birds in the animal kingdom. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 14 Apr. 2022",
"With ample winter rain, the desert in springtime can be an enchanting place. \u2014 Mare Czinar, USA TODAY , 10 Apr. 2022",
"With ample winter rain, the desert in springtime can be an enchanting place. \u2014 Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Yet replacing an actor with an avatar struck me as oddly charming, just as the worlds our avatars moved in were enchanting \u2014beautiful, even. \u2014 Merve Emre, The New Yorker , 22 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1589, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-000709"
},
"entwine":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to twine together or around",
": to become twisted or twined",
": to twist or twine together or around"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8tw\u012bn",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8tw\u012bn"
],
"synonyms":[
"enlace",
"implicate",
"interlace",
"intertwine",
"intertwist",
"interweave",
"inweave",
"lace",
"ply",
"twist",
"weave",
"wreathe",
"writhe"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The snake entwined itself around the branch.",
"marveled at how the vines had delicately and intricately entwined themselves on the trellis",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The various narrative strands entwine somewhat improbably, though not as improbably as a literate octopus\u2019 skill at detective work. \u2014 Heller Mcalpin, The Christian Science Monitor , 2 May 2022",
"These variations demonstrate the complexity of the spiritual tradition, in which distant folk origins entwine with the individual creative choices of latter-day performers. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Progressive and traditional education often entwine . \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Nov. 2020",
"Mr Jansa, whose entire adult life has been entwined with the history of modern Slovenia, has a point. \u2014 The Economist , 6 June 2020",
"That\u2019s entwined with a story of two officers (one British, one American) in love with the same woman. \u2014 Mike Hughes, Cincinnati.com , 31 May 2020",
"By turns compassionate and investigative, Mr. Taub entwined his exploration of Salahi\u2019s plight with a broader examination of America\u2019s yearslong war on terrorism. \u2014 New York Times , 4 May 2020",
"But entwined is a indictment of how far the rest of us may have fallen. \u2014 Thomas Page, CNN , 7 Feb. 2020",
"One element that stays mysteriously stable across the centuries is rat kings\u2019 geographic spread: the history of the rat king is uncannily, at times uncomfortably entwined with the history of Germany. \u2014 Adrian Daub, Longreads , 13 Dec. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1590, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-082529"
},
"enticement":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt",
": to attract by raising hope or desire : tempt"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8t\u012bs",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8t\u012bs"
],
"synonyms":[
"allure",
"bait",
"beguile",
"betray",
"decoy",
"lead on",
"lure",
"seduce",
"solicit",
"tempt"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"every commercial seemed to be for some tempting snack specifically designed to entice me from my diet",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The JPMorgan board had also awarded Mr. Dimon a $50 million special bonus earlier in 2021 outside of the annual pay to entice him into staying at the bank for at least five more years. \u2014 David Benoit, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Block understandably didn't give too much away about the hunt and hopes the mystery will entice more folks to sign up. \u2014 Jay R. Jordan, Chron , 10 May 2022",
"As rivals' efforts continue to weigh on sales, Popeyes is hoping the Buffalo Ranch Chicken Sandwich will entice customers. \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 3 May 2022",
"Tristano says a couple dozen donuts for the price of a few might entice managers trying to ease the transition. \u2014 NBC News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Chiambaretta hopes the renovations, which will be completed in phases over the next eight years, will not only entice Parisians to return to their beloved avenue but also serve as a model for cities around the world. \u2014 Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Officials recently launched a fundraising campaign to support the city's largest ever gun buyback program, with the goal of raising $1 million to entice people to turn in guns during two large events this year. \u2014 Rebekah Riess And Steve Almasy, CNN , 20 May 2022",
"Streaming services aim to entice people to subscribe with compelling TV series and movies. \u2014 Wendy Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"But stadium officials are hoping something else will entice people to come back to the 30-year-old ballpark: the food. \u2014 Christina Tkacik, Baltimore Sun , 11 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French enticer , from Vulgar Latin *intitiare , from Latin in- + titio firebrand",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-091734"
},
"entreaty":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an act of entreating : plea",
": a serious and urgent request"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8tr\u0113-t\u0113",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8tr\u0113-t\u0113"
],
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"adjuration",
"appeal",
"conjuration",
"cry",
"desire",
"petition",
"plea",
"pleading",
"prayer",
"solicitation",
"suit",
"suppliance",
"supplication"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"our entreaties to give us another few minutes to answer the test questions fell on deaf ears",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Moore never tried to call police that night and rejected his brother's entreaty to get in their car to get away from Scott, the prosecutor said. \u2014 John Lynch, Arkansas Online , 4 May 2022",
"More than 11,000 people have put their signatures on the entreaty so far. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 7 Nov. 2014",
"In another message stashed in the attackers\u2019 wallet, someone claiming to be a Wormhole user made an even more desperate entreaty . \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 4 Feb. 2022",
"But as the pandemic races on, the entreaty to them remains the same, still urgent but hopeful: Please, do more. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Dec. 2021",
"A few days later, convinced their entreaty was a scam, Ms. Singh ceased communication. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Dec. 2021",
"The California Supreme Court on Thursday decided to leave the state\u2019s death penalty law intact, refusing an entreaty from Newsom that would have overturned scores of death sentences. \u2014 John Myers, Los Angeles Times , 27 Aug. 2021",
"Zola tells Stefani at one point, King\u2019s most pull-quote-worthy line turned into an entreaty for someone to accept, if not their own worth, then that of everyone else. \u2014 Alison Willmore, Vulture , 30 June 2021",
"If your gentle entreaty falls on deaf ears, pass on a slice for yourself, and for subsequent visits to her home, bring a dessert that end-runs the issue \u2014 a confection whose presentation involves neither licking nor onsite slicing. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 18 May 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1530, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-092023"
},
"ennoble":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make noble : elevate",
": to raise to the rank of nobility"
],
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8n\u014d-b\u0259l",
"e-\u02c8n\u014d-"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"canonize",
"deify",
"dignify",
"elevate",
"enshrine",
"ensky",
"enthrone",
"exalt",
"glorify",
"magnify"
],
"antonyms":[
"abase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate"
],
"examples":[
"a life ennobled by suffering",
"Her skill and talent ennoble her profession.",
"He was ennobled by the queen.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Set aside for a moment the fact that the conduct of a war can ennoble even when the outcome is likely doomed, as is generally believed of the Ukrainians, led by the astonishing Volodymyr Zelensky. \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2022",
"At the same time, the religious elements in Crossroads work to ennoble the minutiae that Franzen embraces at last. \u2014 Becca Rothfeld, The Atlantic , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Donald Trump did not heroically take up the cross of COVID-19 in order to ennoble or inspire the masses to reclaim their lives. \u2014 Joel Mathis, TheWeek , 5 Oct. 2020",
"Ruin is ennobled without being prettified, aestheticized, pushed into the mental distance. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 27 Apr. 2020",
"The parasocial nature of fan-artist bonds, in which followers invest one-sided emotional energy into the relationship, ennobles celebrities\u2019 words. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 24 Apr. 2020",
"As Cromwell has grown in the public\u2019s esteem, so has Mantel; in 2014, she was ennobled by the Queen who now sits on Henry\u2019s throne, entitled to call herself Dame Hilary. \u2014 Dan Stewart, Time , 6 Mar. 2020",
"On a beautiful afternoon last September, Fiennes drove me from his house to the grounds of Holkham Hall, which was built by the Coke family, who were ennobled as the Earls of Leicester by King George II, in 1744. \u2014 Sam Knight, The New Yorker , 10 Feb. 2020",
"For a concerto is supposed to be a grand affair, an individual instrument ennobled by a major orchestra. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 5 Sep. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English ennobelen , from Middle French ennoblir , from Old French, from en- + noble noble",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-120505"
},
"ensure":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make sure, certain, or safe : guarantee",
": to make sure, certain, or safe : guarantee"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8shu\u0307r",
"in-\u02c8shu\u0307r"
],
"synonyms":[
"assure",
"cinch",
"guarantee",
"guaranty",
"ice",
"insure",
"secure"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"A combination of \u2026 personal courage, dashing leadership from the front, willingness to share the toughest rigours suffered by the ordinary soldiers, and a liberal dose of sheer good fortune ensured his stature as a great general. \u2014 Paul Cartledge , History Today , July 2004",
"Indeed, even though she's been off the mainstream radar for more than a decade, her passionate love for and commitment to rock & roll have ensured that she's managed to make a steady living. \u2014 Tom Sinclair , Entertainment Weekly , 24 Nov. 2000",
"At 20, [Kobe] Bryant is already living the modern American dream, a $70 million man on the NBA's glamour team in the nation's starriest city. His acrobatic moves make him the envy of teenage boys and his good looks and megawatt smile a heartthrob for teenage girls, ensuring his status as one of the NBA's premier pitchmen \u2026 \u2014 Allison Samuels et al. , Newsweek , 31 May 1999",
"They took steps to ensure the safety of the passengers.",
"regulations that ensure the wholesomeness of our food",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Landing rocket boosters instead of discarding them in the ocean, as other rocket companies have done for decades, is at the core of SpaceX's and Blue Origin's plans to bring down the cost of a launch and ensure profitability. \u2014 Jackie Wattles, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"The operational readiness designation allows Metro to simulate service, run emergency drills with first responders, work out security issues, fully train workers and ensure that construction issues are resolved before taking full possession. \u2014 Lori Aratani, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Companies need to provide a wide variety of connection opportunities\u2014social clubs, events and more\u2014and must ensure everyone is invited and feels truly welcomed. \u2014 Natalie Baumgartner, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Congress must work towards solutions that preserve our environment for the next generation and ensure a greener, healthier future for all Americans. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 22 June 2022",
"The change will increase the number of teams competing at a regional from six or seven to 12-14 and essentially ensure competition at all weight classes. \u2014 Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel , 22 June 2022",
"One dollar of each ticket sale will go to PLUS1, which supports non-profits working to secure social justice, ensure mental health care for all, and confront the climate crisis. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 21 June 2022",
"Some of the coming renovations to the decades-old buildings are designed to improve energy efficiency, upgrade the heating and cooling systems and ensure that new restrooms and lockers meet the standards of the Americans With Disabilities Act. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"Take the time to wash, clean, repair, sand, and seal your deck annually to protect it and ensure its longevity. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 17 June 2022"
],
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"1660, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-134235"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make poisonous",
": embitter"
],
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"in-\u02c8ve-n\u0259m",
"en-"
],
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"antagonize",
"embitter",
"empoison"
],
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"examples":[
"thoughtless, self-indulgent antics that only managed to envenom his teammates"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English envenimen , from Anglo-French envenimer , from en- + venim venom",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-172125"
},
"entry":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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": the act of entering : entrance",
": a place of entrance : such as",
": vestibule , passage",
": door , gate",
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": something entered: such as",
": a record or notation of an occurrence, transaction, or proceeding",
": a descriptive record (as in a card catalog or an index)",
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": vocabulary entry",
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": the act of going in : entrance",
": the right to go in or join",
": a place (as a hall or door) through which entrance is made",
": the act of making a written record of something",
": something written down as part of a list or a record",
": a person or thing taking part in a contest",
": the privilege of entering real property \u2014 see also right of entry",
": the act of entering real property",
"\u2014 see also trespass",
": the act of making or entering a record (as a plea or judgment)",
": a record entered"
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"\u02c8en-tr\u0113",
"\u02c8en-tr\u0113"
],
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"entranceway",
"entryway",
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"hall",
"hallway",
"lobby",
"vestibule"
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"examples":[
"His parents tried to make his entry into school life as smooth as possible.",
"His friends were surprised by his entry into politics.",
"She was denied entry into the courtroom.",
"students competing for entry into the college",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first entry was giant global cycling and hiking luxury specialist Butterfield & Robinson (read here). \u2014 Allison Olmsted, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Woodward and Herblock would share in The Post\u2019s 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of Watergate; 10 supplemental editorial cartoons were included in the entry . \u2014 Michael Cavna, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"Just inside the first-floor entry is an old, preserved wooden wall telephone, the kind with a crank on the side. \u2014 Bill Pennington, New York Times , 14 June 2022",
"The eighth entry in the Forza Motorsport series doesn\u2019t have a number, signaling a reboot of sorts for the sim-style racing game. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 13 June 2022",
"In other words:stay tuned for the below entry on Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 13 June 2022",
"This new entry into the splash pad market is a brilliant mash-up between classic Twister and a splash pad. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 13 June 2022",
"This week sees the release of Jurassic World Dominion, the sixth entry in the Jurassic franchise. \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"The meal is the latest entry in the growing trend of musical artists collaborating with fast food companies on their own combo meals. \u2014 Morayo Ogunbayo, ajc , 10 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English entre , from Anglo-French entree , from feminine of entr\u00e9 , past participle of entrer to enter",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-181045"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": lasting , durable"
],
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"in-\u02c8du\u0307r-i\u014b",
"-\u02c8dyu\u0307r-",
"en-"
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"abiding",
"ageless",
"continuing",
"dateless",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"imperishable",
"lasting",
"ongoing",
"perennial",
"perpetual",
"timeless",
"undying"
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"examples":[
"science fiction's enduring fascination with worlds beyond our own",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The precise workings of the metabolic system, its nuances and contingencies, are, in many respects, an enduring mystery. \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 1 Nov. 2021",
"Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring mystery with a new tool that may allow for more precise comparisons between the DNA of modern humans and that of our extinct ancestors. \u2014 Fox News , 17 July 2021",
"Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring mystery with a new tool that may allow for more precise comparisons between the DNA of modern humans and that of our extinct ancestors. \u2014 Christina Larson, chicagotribune.com , 16 July 2021",
"What Americans actually tip, both now and before the pandemic, is an enduring mystery. \u2014 Saahil Desai, The Atlantic , 29 June 2021",
"Now, Pomerantz and Patel have done more than just find the butterflies\u2014they\u2019ve also solved an enduring mystery: how their wings are transparent in the first place. \u2014 Anil Oza, Science | AAAS , 22 June 2021",
"An enduring mystery of the Covid-19 pandemic is why East Asian countries across the board have experienced far fewer cases and deaths than the U.S. and Europe. \u2014 Peter Landers, WSJ , 5 Dec. 2020",
"Cary Grant, one of the most enduring leading men of all time, became a major star in 1937 and retired 29 years later. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 1 June 2022",
"The most enduring consequence of the shooting for Maggie was what his killing did to her. \u2014 The Washington Post, Arkansas Online , 29 May 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a small table having a triangular drop leaf or leaves"
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"noun",
"verb"
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"definitions":[
": to deposit in or as if in a tomb : bury",
": to serve as a tomb for"
],
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"in-\u02c8t\u00fcm",
"en-"
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"bury",
"hearse",
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"inter",
"lay",
"put away",
"tomb"
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"disinter",
"exhume",
"unearth"
],
"examples":[
"a number of Boston's historic notables are entombed in the Old Granary Burying Ground",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The occupiers attempted to counter the partisans by gassing the tunnels and sealing off access points to entomb them, but the rebels persisted. \u2014 Will Hunt, The New Yorker , 9 Apr. 2022",
"But even his flytraps were improbably large, big enough to entomb and consume a human. \u2014 Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The firefighters eventually used Portland cement to entomb the smoldering ruins. \u2014 Merrill Goozner, The New Republic , 28 Oct. 2021",
"For Palestinians in Gaza, watching their neighborhoods collapse and pillars of smoke entomb their homes, the suffering is only deepening. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 May 2021",
"After the water in their environment dries up, the minerals are left behind and entomb those microbes, forming stromatolites. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 3 Mar. 2021",
"Similar concrete pads are often used to entomb nuclear waste. \u2014 Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune , 25 Feb. 2021",
"Cemeteries rejected those they were meant to entomb . \u2014 Hisham Melhem, The Atlantic , 22 Nov. 2020",
"The site northwest of Las Vegas was first proposed in the 1980s to entomb 77,000 tons of the nation\u2019s most highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English entoumben , from Middle French entomber , from en- + tombe tomb",
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"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-185737"
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"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
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": to establish by legal and authoritative act",
": to make into law",
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"i-\u02c8nakt",
"i-\u02c8nakt",
"i-\u02c8nakt"
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"constitute",
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"legislate",
"make",
"ordain",
"pass"
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"repeal",
"rescind",
"revoke"
],
"examples":[
"Congress will enact legislation related to that issue.",
"The law was finally enacted today.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The groundbreaking legislation, which would make New York the first state to enact such a moratorium, has the potential to influence regulations in other states or at the federal level. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"That's a process where advocates collect hundreds of thousands of signatures to try and enact a law by going around the Legislature, putting the issue to voters on a ballot in a future election. \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 2 June 2022",
"New York City is on the cusp of becoming the first major city to enact a law requiring employers to post certain types of salary information with job postings. \u2014 Tom Spiggle, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress are currently attempting to enact a measure enshrining some form of Roe v. Wade into federal law. \u2014 Charlie Dent, CNN , 9 May 2022",
"In 1974, Maryland became the first state to enact a Law Enforcement Officers\u2019 Bill of Rights. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun , 6 May 2022",
"Doing so would make Ohio the 14th state to enact such a law, including the neighboring Kentucky and several southern and Midwestern states with Republican state legislatures. \u2014 Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland , 4 May 2022",
"The European Union, for example, is poised to enact a new law called the Digital Services Act, which would require tech companies to catch certain content deemed problematic in real-time and may lead to more filtering of speech, not less. \u2014 NBC News , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Idaho became the first state to enact a law modeled after a Texas statute banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy when Republican Gov. Brad Little signed the measure into law last month. \u2014 Kyle Morris, Fox News , 8 Apr. 2022"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-212652"
},
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"adjective",
"adverb"
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"definitions":[
": giving hope or promise"
],
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"in-\u02c8k\u0259r-i-ji\u014b",
"-\u02c8k\u0259-ri-",
"en-"
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"auspicious",
"bright",
"fair",
"golden",
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"optimistic",
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"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"roseate",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
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"bleak",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
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"gloomy",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"pessimistic",
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"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious"
],
"examples":[
"We've just heard some encouraging news.",
"encouraging signs that the economy is improving",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But researchers noted that encouraging signs of other tortoises \u2014 from scat to tracks \u2014 have been found on Fernandina. \u2014 Sammy Westfall, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Companies are increasingly encouraging staff to come back to the office, travel and attend in-person meetings and events. \u2014 Carylynn Larson, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Especially compared to other harmful viruses in circulation right now, the chances of avoiding monkeypox are pretty encouraging \u2014for now, at least. \u2014 Melody Schreiber, The New Republic , 7 June 2022",
"Yet the results of Australia\u2019s gun buyback are encouraging . \u2014 Philip Alpers, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"Fans and other parents are generally encouraging as well. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 16 May 2022",
"Saturday, though, certainly was encouraging , the way the offense took off from the outset and kept going. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 27 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s hardly encouraging , given the recent increase in attacks. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 25 Apr. 2022",
"And even these examples are not necessarily encouraging . \u2014 Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic , 6 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1593, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-223609"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
],
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": to set (something, such as fuel) on fire : to cause to ignite",
": to make bright and glowing",
": to take fire : flame"
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"in-\u02c8kin-d\u1d4al",
"en-"
],
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"burn",
"fire",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"light",
"torch"
],
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"dowse",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
],
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"see if you can enkindle some paper in the fireplace while I look for logs"
],
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"1542, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-030118"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an embossed postage stamp on an envelope"
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},
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"type":[
"verb"
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"definitions":[
": to view or regard in a certain way",
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"in-\u02c8vi-zij",
"en-"
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"examples":[
"I envisage a day when proper health care will be available to everyone.",
"I'm trying to envisage you on a surfboard.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"To envisage , too, a future that will thrillingly marry the old and new. \u2014 Claire Messud, Travel + Leisure , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Leaders across all industries were faced with a new reality, requiring them to determine how, in an already competitive market for talent, companies would envisage their future path while retaining their existing workforce. \u2014 Andrew Dawson, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Until this time, they are surrounded by sky And can, as yet, envisage no way out. \u2014 Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn, The New Yorker , 21 Mar. 2022",
"The idea that California might one day ballot-initiative its way out of its ballot-initiative fetish is a fascinating one, but hard to envisage . \u2014 Nathan Heller, The New Yorker , 19 Sep. 2021",
"In between those two extremes, many organizations envisage hybrid modes of working where face-to-face and digital working can blend seamlessly. \u2014 Imperial Business Insights, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"But a new wave of mycoprotein companies envisage a future far beyond turkey dinosaurs. \u2014 Matt Reynolds, Wired , 8 Aug. 2021",
"All told, the IMF offers numerous recommendations that envisage a world in which taxing authorities incrementally push the needle toward larger reforms. \u2014 Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes , 10 June 2021",
"The resolution should also envisage a broader mediation framework that starts with the acknowledgment that this has never been a war just between two sides. \u2014 Jamal Benomar, CNN , 5 May 2021"
],
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"1660, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-050648"
},
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"noun"
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": enactment"
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"\u0259\u0307\u02c8naksh\u0259n",
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},
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"adjective"
],
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],
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"\u02c8en-t\u0259r-\u02ccpr\u012b-zi\u014b",
"\u02c8en-t\u0259-\u02ccpr\u012b-",
"\u02c8en-t\u0259r-\u02ccpr\u012b-zi\u014b"
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],
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"ambitionless",
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],
"examples":[
"As an enterprising young reporter, she covered many important stories.",
"the company is claiming that there will be huge financial rewards for enterprising sales representatives",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One of our more enterprising residents, Amanda, just launched a support group for millennials whose tattoos of birds flying through hexagons now resemble angry clouds birthing meatballs. \u2014 Cara Michelle Smith, The New Yorker , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Some enterprising businesspeople became full-time car dealers. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Last year, a counterfeit Banksy NFT netted an enterprising copycat over $1 million. \u2014 Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Frank doesn\u2019t spend any time on Truman\u2019s service in World War I or his stint as an enterprising haberdasher in Kansas City. \u2014 Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor , 29 Mar. 2022",
"In 1977, four years into Lee\u2019s sentence, an enterprising Korean investigative reporter came across his case. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Balloons were invented in 1824, when an enterprising scientist stacked two sheets of rubber, sprinkled flour between them and sealed the sides to create perhaps the most valuable ravioli of all time. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"What keeps the film from being anything more than an enterprising but minor diversion is that, with Shawn being is such a loud comic character from the get-go, scares and laughs alike don\u2019t have much space to build. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 13 Mar. 2022",
"An enterprising publisher reissued an account of the 1706 bigamy trial of Robert Fielding, with prints of the interior view and a key of where famous people had sat. \u2014 Catherine Ostler, Town & Country , 24 Feb. 2022"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": the bag containing the gas in a balloon or airship",
": a natural enclosing covering (such as a membrane, shell, or integument)",
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": a conventionally accepted limit",
": a flat usually paper container (as for a letter)",
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"\u02c8en-v\u0259-\u02ccl\u014dp",
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"\u02c8en-v\u0259-\u02ccl\u014dp",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Instead, organizations should constantly be looking for ways to push the envelope on security, and leaders should invest in tools that always monitor assets for threats. \u2014 Evan Ramzipoor, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"The consensus view seems to be that the bZ4X performs well enough but offers little to push the envelope or otherwise stand out in an increasingly crowded field. \u2014 Stephen Wilmot, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"While Air Vodka serves as the flagship Air Company product at the moment, expect the company\u2019s work with NASA to continue to push the envelope . \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 23 May 2022",
"The county government must continue to push the envelope in procuring strong funding for our schools. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 17 May 2022",
"All eyes are on the Met Gala to watch designers push the envelope of fashion, but eyes are also watching a historically exclusive fashion industry that's proven itself hesitant to push toward inclusion. \u2014 Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY , 2 May 2022",
"In that spirit, WWDC22 invites developers from around the world to come together to explore how to bring their best ideas to life and push the envelope of what\u2019s possible. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The jar and its enigmatic contents may seem to suggest a time capsule or, with envelope and stamp, a message in a bottle to Cavell\u2019s future self. \u2014 Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books , 27 Apr. 2022",
"At one point, two Roseville police officers delivered a small yellow envelope to sheriff's detectives. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 26 Apr. 2022"
],
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},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": to make larger : extend",
": to give greater scope to : expand",
": to set free",
": to grow larger",
": to speak or write at length : elaborate",
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": to make larger",
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"in-\u02c8l\u00e4rj",
"en-",
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"accelerate",
"accumulate",
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"expand",
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"multiply",
"mushroom",
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"roll up",
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],
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"contract",
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"wane"
],
"examples":[
"We had the photograph enlarged .",
"as the number of people with cell phones enlarges , more transmission towers will have to be built",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The procedures, more technically called gluteal fat grafting, involve injecting fat to enlarge or reshape patients\u2019 buttocks. \u2014 Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel , 21 June 2022",
"This can be seen in the rise in the Brazilian Butt Lift for example or people trying to enlarge their buttocks, the sexualization of Black women in music videos, and the reclaiming of that sexualization through pop stars currently working today. \u2014 Rica Cerbarano, Vogue , 8 June 2022",
"These will accumulate over time to enlarge the portion of the budget and of the GDP absorbed by entitlements. \u2014 Milton Ezrati, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
"Most Western analyses of the war suggest that Moscow\u2019s Plan B\u2014to concentrate forces in the east and southeast and enlarge its foothold in the Donbas region\u2014is going much more slowly than the Russians hoped. \u2014 Stephen Fidler, WSJ , 19 May 2022",
"This is a critical time when digital frontiers will power in to enlarge and expand. \u2014 Rachel Ooi, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Russians have made modest gains in the east, and their focus now may be to enlarge territory controlled by separatists and declare victory. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Mar. 2022",
"There are also another two platforms amidship that open up to enlarge the main living area and master stateroom. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 27 May 2022",
"With more funds at its disposal, the theocracy is bound to enlarge its auxiliary forces and bring more havoc to the region. \u2014 Reuel Marc Gerecht, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French enlarger, enlargir , from en- + large broad, large",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-135049"
},
"enter someone's mind/head":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":[
": to occur in someone's thoughts"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-140451"
},
"enterprise":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky",
": a unit of economic organization or activity",
": a business organization",
": a systematic purposeful activity",
": readiness to engage in daring or difficult action : initiative",
": a project or undertaking that is difficult, complicated, or risky",
": willingness to engage in daring or difficult action",
": a business organization or activity",
": an economic organization or activity",
": a business organization"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-t\u0259r-\u02ccpr\u012bz",
"\u02c8en-t\u0259-\u02ccpr\u012bz",
"\u02c8en-t\u0259r-\u02ccpr\u012bz",
"\u02c8en-t\u0259r-\u02ccpr\u012bz"
],
"synonyms":[
"business",
"company",
"concern",
"establishment",
"firm",
"house",
"interest",
"outfit"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Moving the drilling rig offshore was a costly enterprise .",
"Agriculture is the main economic enterprise among these people.",
"When he purchased the company it was a thriving commercial enterprise .",
"He was criticized for his lack of enterprise in dealing with the crisis.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then the storied actress\u2019 performance takes off as Marge does, as the thrill of the enterprise gets into her blood. \u2014 Michael Ordo\u00f1a, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"Back-end payments software used by more than 100 enterprise customers, including Marqeta, ClassPass and BlockFi, to move money in and out of bank accounts through wire transfers, ACH and Real-Time Payments transactions. \u2014 Jeff Kauflin, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Revenue from enterprise customers jumped 31% year over year and now comprise a little over half its business on a quarterly basis. \u2014 Dan Gallagher, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"What does have to stop right now, scientists say, is the expansion of the fossil-fuel enterprise . \u2014 Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker , 20 May 2022",
"Garc\u00eda, 42, represents the kind of professional golfer who might be most receptive to the promises of the LIV Golf enterprise . \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
"Cristina Silva will continue her role as deputy managing editor of enterprise and will oversee education coverage in addition to race and social justice. \u2014 Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY , 29 Apr. 2022",
"The success of the enterprise is made possible by both a first-rate team headed by director Stephen Brackett and a supporting cast of singing actors \u2014 each now a veritable Broadway star in their own right. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Apr. 2022",
"The phenomenal success of this enterprise was one of the key foundations of the family's fortune. \u2014 Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure , 24 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from entreprendre to undertake, from entre- inter- + prendre to take \u2014 more at prize ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-150952"
},
"envisagement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act or an instance of envisaging : conception"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-m\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-151709"
},
"energetically":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": operating with or marked by vigor or effect",
": marked by energy : strenuous",
": of or relating to energy",
": having or showing the ability to be active",
": of or relating to energy"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cce-n\u0259r-\u02c8je-tik",
"\u02cce-n\u0259r-\u02c8je-tik",
"\u02ccen-\u0259r-\u02c8jet-ik"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamic",
"flush",
"gingery",
"lusty",
"peppy",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"vigorous",
"vital"
],
"antonyms":[
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
"examples":[
"She has an energetic personality.",
"The children are energetic workers.",
"They mounted an energetic campaign.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In addition to the energetic ambiance the cocktails are winners, too. \u2014 Christina Liao, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
"Very well hidden, though, behind a flood of energetic storytelling. \u2014 Marion Winik, Washington Post , 26 June 2022",
"Within the energetic watercolors all around, Homer had shaded subtly from enigma to threat. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"Between couples cozying up and friends in pure bliss, their energetic set proved more rousing against the backdrop of a mesmerizing Manhattan skyline. \u2014 Isabela Raygoza, Rolling Stone , 22 June 2022",
"This fresh, energetic fragrance feels like a sunny summer day, thanks to bright notes from ginger, lemon, bergamot and tangerine. \u2014 Kristin Corpuz, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
"Dripping with potential, the energetic forward has what the NBA looks for in modern-day wing defenders -- size, switchability, strength, length, quickness, athleticism, non-stop motor. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 17 June 2022",
"Flo Milli delivers memorable bars with a side of attitude that exudes a powerful and unfaltering confidence over an energetic beat. \u2014 Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, refinery29.com , 17 June 2022",
"The working theory is that the energetic blast from Soldier Boy rendered her powerless. \u2014 Alex Raiman, EW.com , 17 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Greek energ\u0113tikos , from energein to be active, from energos ",
"first_known_use":[
"1700, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-155219"
},
"enervation":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated",
": to reduce the mental or moral vigor of",
": to lessen the vitality or strength of",
": to cut the nerves or tendons of",
": to lessen the vitality or strength of"
],
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8n\u0259r-v\u0259t",
"\u02c8e-n\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101t",
"\u02c8en-\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"castrate",
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"devitalize",
"geld",
"lobotomize",
"petrify"
],
"antonyms":[
"brace",
"energize",
"enliven",
"invigorate",
"quicken",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"vivify"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"a lifetime of working in dreary jobs had enervated his very soul",
"the surgery really enervated me for weeks afterwards",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"This relationship, when successful, tends to enervate mediating institutions that thwart the immediate desires of both the populist leader and the public. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 28 Feb. 2021",
"The saving grace of this often enervating thriller is that Doscher grants time for his actors to build character and intimacy, and both Pinto and Odom offer warm, affectingly natural performances as two people facing the end of their world. \u2014 Teo Bugbee, New York Times , 5 Mar. 2020",
"To a great extent, that reflects the endless, enervating nature of the Brexit debate. \u2014 Mark Landler, New York Times , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Jack\u2019s enervating recovery in The Way Back is full of drab, predictable pathos instead of the stylized drama in Dawn of Justice. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 6 Mar. 2020",
"Perhaps the most intimate of these photographs presents her after a shower, wet and enervated , rubbing a cloth across her reflection in a mirror, as though the condensation were crud. \u2014 Eren Orbey, The New Yorker , 6 Feb. 2020",
"Then again, enervating her supporters has been Madonna\u2019s M.O. in recent years. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 3 July 2019",
"But the art which resists the slow sap of a chronic disease\u2014which repairs frames enervated by lust, swollen by gluttony, or inflamed by wine . . \u2014 Chris Pope, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2019",
"Such behavior is particularly enervating when the West aims to bring new countries into permanent and universal\u2014that is, Western-style\u2014guarantees of security and systems of relations. \u2014 I. William Zartman, WSJ , 24 June 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"1603, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-161225"
},
"engram":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a hypothetical change in neural tissue postulated in order to account for persistence of memory : memory trace",
": a hypothetical change in neural tissue postulated in order to account for persistence of memory : memory trace"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-\u02ccgram"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s an engram every 3-6 games or so, depending on your rank. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 12 Sep. 2021",
"Over the last decade or so, several groups conducting engram research have begun to suspect that structural changes in the chromatin prime the cell to make and preserve memories. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 2 Nov. 2020",
"Right after the memory formed, there weren\u2019t huge differences in how the engram cells expressed their genes. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 2 Nov. 2020",
"This approach, in an impressive achievement, is now allowing researchers to observe and manipulate specific neurons that encode a specific memory known as an engram , as noted in a 2020 paper in Science. \u2014 Kenneth S. Kosik, Scientific American , 20 Apr. 2020",
"The road to that discovery started back in 2012, when Tonegawa\u2019s lab came up with a way to highlight brain cells known as engram cells, which hold a unique memory. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 14 Dec. 2017",
"Josselyn helped lead this wave of research with some of the earliest studies to capture engram neurons in mice. \u2014 Helen Shen, Scientific American , 14 Mar. 2018",
"But these types of memory-suppression study sketch out only half of the engram . \u2014 Helen Shen, Scientific American , 14 Mar. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"International Scientific Vocabulary",
"first_known_use":[
"1908, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-164852"
},
"ensorcellment":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": bewitch , enchant"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8s\u022fr-s\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"bewitch",
"charm",
"enchant",
"hex",
"overlook",
"spell",
"strike"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a dense, dark forest that is the scene for many a tale in which some unsuspecting traveler is ensorcelled by a witch or wizard"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle French ensorceler , alteration of Old French ensorcerer , from en- + -sorcerer , from sorcier, sorcer sorcerer \u2014 more at sorcery ",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1541, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-171219"
},
"enter":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"combining form",
"intransitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to go or come in",
": to come or gain admission into a group : join",
": to make a beginning",
": to begin to consider a subject",
": to go upon land for the purpose of taking possession",
": to come onstage",
": to come into a preestablished situation or context like an actor coming onstage",
": to play a part : be a factor",
": to come or go into",
": inscribe , register",
": to cause to be received or admitted",
": to put in : insert",
": to make a beginning in",
": to go into (a particular period of time)",
": to become a member of or an active participant in",
": to make report of (a ship or its cargo) to customs authorities",
": to place in proper form before a court of law or upon record",
": to go into or upon and take actual possession of (something, such as land)",
": to put formally on record",
": to make oneself a party to or in",
": to form or be part of",
": to participate or share in",
": to engage in a fight or struggle",
": intestine",
": to come or go in or into",
": to stab into : pierce",
": to put into a list or book : write down",
": to put in or into",
": to become a member of",
": to become a participant in or take an interest in",
": enroll in : begin attending",
": to go or come in",
": to go upon real property by right of entry especially to take possession",
": to come or go into",
"\u2014 see also break , breaking and entering",
": record , register",
": to put in correct form before a court or on a record",
"\u2014 compare render",
": to go upon (real property) by right of entry especially to take possession",
"\u2014 compare distrain",
": to make oneself a party to or in"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-t\u0259r",
"\u02c8en-t\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"access",
"penetrate",
"pierce"
],
"antonyms":[
"depart",
"exit",
"leave"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Friends have told her that Chin\u2019s case inspired them to enter activism, law or politics. \u2014 Harmeet Kaur, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Carter and his financial backer, the Earl of Carnarvon, hosted the international press in 1923 but didn\u2019t allow most of the visitors to enter the crypt. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
"Costs to enter Hoosier National Forest include a daily use permit for a trail for $5 per day if riding a horse or bicycle. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 23 June 2022",
"That decision eschewed opting for the NBA's G-League lucrative offer for high profile prep prospects looking to enter the NBA. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
"Young is expected to enter the NFL draft after this season and projects to be a first-round pick. \u2014 Erick Smith, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
"Police later cleared the vehicle and allowed guests to re- enter the affected areas. \u2014 Bradford Betz, Fox News , 23 June 2022",
"The Accord may no longer be Honda's bread and butter\u2014that would be the CR-V crossover nowadays\u2014but the perennially 10Best-winning sedan is set to enter a new generation soon. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 23 June 2022",
"Individuals pried open the back door to enter the property, Dobridnia said. \u2014 Marlene Lenthang, NBC News , 22 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 3a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-171426"
},
"endow":{
"type":[
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to furnish with an income",
": to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of",
": to furnish with a dower",
": to provide with something freely or naturally",
": to provide with money for support",
": to provide with something freely or naturally",
": to furnish with income",
": to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8dau\u0307",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8dau\u0307",
"in-\u02c8dau\u0307"
],
"synonyms":[
"bless",
"endue",
"indue",
"favor",
"gift",
"invest"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The wealthy couple endowed a new wing of the hospital.",
"She plans to endow a faculty position at the university.",
"The money will be used to endow the museum and research facility.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Caruso and his wife, Tina, donated $25 million to endow the USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology \u2014 Head and Neck Surgery. \u2014 Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 11 May 2022",
"In March, the foundation awarded $1 million to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to endow a long-term position of jazz music director. \u2014 Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press , 18 May 2022",
"These were echoed by the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, which took pains to endow Jesus with descent from Adam and Abraham, respectively; and by later Arabic genealogies that traced the Prophet Muhammad\u2019s ancestry to Abraham. \u2014 Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Invaleon is donating the solar array at one of the buildings \u2014 estimated at $25,000 in value \u2014 and another $25,000 to endow a scholarship at the college. \u2014 John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com , 25 May 2022",
"Independent front suspension\u2014that still features more articulation than the Wrangler\u2019s solid axle\u2014will endow the Bronco with good ride quality, more capable on-pavement handling, and the ability to travel in a straight line at highway speeds. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 1 Jan. 2021",
"The artists adopt formats and motifs familiar from modernist abstraction, but endow them with meaning connected to personal heritages. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Cezanne is considered a pivotal figure in the history of modern art who sought to endow the Impressionist style with a sense of gravity and solidity, rather than to focus on capturing fleeting effects of light and weather. \u2014 cleveland , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Per Forbes, Cash App will endow an initial $100,000 Bitcoin donation. \u2014 Alexa Philippou, courant.com , 8 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French endower , from en- + dower, douer to endow, from Latin dotare , from dot-, dos gift, dowry \u2014 more at date ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-173520"
},
"enunciation":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make a definite or systematic statement of",
": announce , proclaim",
": articulate , pronounce",
": to utter articulate sounds",
": to make known publicly",
": to pronounce words or parts of words"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0113-\u02c8n\u0259n(t)-s\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t",
"\u0113-\u02c8n\u0259n-s\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulate"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He set out to enunciate the basic principles of his system.",
"enunciate a basic set of beliefs",
"Children should be taught to enunciate clearly.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Waiting for the sourdough to rise has given people the patience to enunciate multisyllable names like Genevieve, Josephine, and Theodore. \u2014 Laura Lane, The New Yorker , 11 Apr. 2022",
"The fatty meat and wok hei work well together to enunciate the charred flavor in each bite, offset by pungent Thai basil and young green peppercorns. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Speaking at a measured pace can also help you to enunciate your words and ensure your colleagues understand each word communicated through the technology. \u2014 Avery Blank, Forbes , 7 Sep. 2021",
"To confront the truth is first to enunciate it, and on neither count was American society equal to the task. \u2014 Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2021",
"Abigail, the first deaf contestant in the franchise's history, reveals her cochlear implants to Matt, who promises to enunciate clearly for her. \u2014 Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY , 5 Jan. 2021",
"James, in a particularly cute moment, promised to always enunciate clearly for her. \u2014 Devon Ivie, Vulture , 4 Jan. 2021",
"The former vice president, who struggled growing up with a stutter, stuttered slightly at the start of the program and at one point squeezed his eyes shut and slowed down his response to clearly enunciate his words. \u2014 The Associated Press, NOLA.com , 16 Oct. 2020",
"The former vice president, who struggled growing up with a stutter, stuttered slightly at the start of the program and at one point squeezed his eyes shut and slowed down his response to clearly enunciate his words. \u2014 Jonathan Lemire, Star Tribune , 16 Oct. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin enuntiatus , past participle of enuntiare to report, declare, from e- + nuntiare to report \u2014 more at announce ",
"first_known_use":[
"1623, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-174319"
},
"enumerator":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one that enumerates",
": a census taker"
],
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8n(y)\u00fc-m\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101-t\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Out of financial necessity during the pandemic, reporter Jeremy Miller becomes a census enumerator in Richmond, California, for $25 an hour. \u2014 Longreads , 24 Oct. 2021",
"After his job as an enumerator for the Census Bureau ended, Freddy Sweet of San Francisco signed up for unemployment. \u2014 Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle , 22 July 2021",
"Over the weekend, an enumerator in Texas contacted the court, saying census employees there were being instructed to wrap up operations by Sept. 30 despite the ruling. \u2014 Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post , 29 Sep. 2020",
"Even so, like most people, Shandiin Herrera, a Din\u00e9 citizen and census enumerator who lives in Navajo Nation in southern Utah, didn\u2019t think too much about the census before last year. \u2014 Nick Martin, The New Republic , 25 Sep. 2020",
"Freddy Sweet, a 78-year-old who lives in the Inner Richmond, worked as a census enumerator in 2010 and said this year has been a very different experience. \u2014 Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com , 18 Sep. 2020",
"His wife, a teacher, took a temporary second job this month with the U.S. Census Bureau as an enumerator . \u2014 Jessica Menton, USA TODAY , 25 Aug. 2020",
"The Florida enumerator said her mask was flimsy and too big for her face. \u2014 Mike Schneider, Star Tribune , 16 Aug. 2020",
"The Florida enumerator said her mask was flimsy and too big for her face. \u2014 Mike Schneider, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Aug. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1835, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-181313"
},
"endorsingly":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": so as to endorse"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":" endorsing (present participle of endorse entry 1 ) + -ly ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-184232"
},
"Encratism":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the doctrines or tenets of the Encratites"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8e\u014bkr\u0259\u02cctiz\u0259m",
"\u02c8enk-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":" encrat ite + -ism ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-191346"
},
"entreat":{
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently",
": to deal with : treat",
": to make an earnest request : plead",
": negotiate",
": intercede",
": to ask in a serious and urgent way"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8tr\u0113t",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8tr\u0113t"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeal (to)",
"beg",
"beseech",
"besiege",
"conjure",
"impetrate",
"implore",
"importune",
"petition",
"plead (to)",
"pray",
"solicit",
"supplicate"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I entreat you to help me.",
"she began her letter by entreating me to forgive the belatedness of her reply",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Kimmel entreated viewers to vote Trump out of office in November, but also went further, attempting to grapple with the larger issues of racial injustice at play. \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 30 May 2020",
"At climate rallies, Granett entreats strangers to keep it terrestrial. \u2014 Alex Davies, Wired , 1 Apr. 2020",
"Over the past three years, priests, bishops, and Pope Francis have condemned U.S. immigration policy under the Trump Administration and entreated Catholics around the world to stand up for the rights of migrants. \u2014 Time , 7 Jan. 2020",
"Those things are forbidden, as entreating the angels with prayer. \u2014 Jake Cline, Washington Post , 17 Sep. 2019",
"In the developing movie (based on the 2019 sequel to Ahern's original work) Holly's sister Ciara entreats her to share her touching story with the world on a podcast. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 13 Feb. 2020",
"Or Tinkerbell, a sassy alpha sprite who in a burst of feminist solidarity entreats her sisters to a call for girl power? \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Jan. 2020",
"Kahn entreats the reader on the first page of her biography. \u2014 Vogue , 6 Nov. 2019",
"Trump entreated black voters at numerous whistle stops. \u2014 Deroy Murdock, National Review , 9 Aug. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English entreten , from Anglo-French entreter , from en- + treter to treat",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-192925"
},
"En-Sof":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the absolutely infinite God"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Hebrew \u0113n s\u014dph without end",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-193009"
},
"enterprise zone":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an economically depressed area in which business growth is encouraged by the government through tax relief and financial concessions"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The state\u2019s enterprise zone program places no limits on how much local governments can give away and provides small communities with no assistance in their negotiations with the companies seeking tax breaks. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 May 2022",
"Each of those earlier deals were reached under Oregon\u2019s enterprise zone program, which exempts data centers from all the property taxes other businesses pay in exchange for comparatively small, offsetting payments. \u2014 oregonlive , 22 Oct. 2021",
"The tax exemptions could be extended to 30 years if a $400 million investment is made, or a $200 million investment in an enterprise zone . \u2014 Erica E. Phillips, courant.com , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Hitachi\u2019s new facility is in a Hillsboro enterprise zone , though, which could exempt it from local property taxes. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 June 2021",
"Aggarwal said the state made the land beneath his plant an enterprise zone , which eliminates sales tax on construction materials for the building. \u2014 Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com , 7 May 2021",
"According to the enterprise zone agreement, Joseph was to create 50 jobs during the first two years, 100 new full-time jobs during years three and four, and another 87 jobs during year five. \u2014 Dan O\u2019brien, ProPublica , 31 Mar. 2021",
"The owner of the data center must spend at least $50 million to qualify if the center is in a federal opportunity zone or an enterprise zone and $200 million if it is located outside those zones. \u2014 Christopher Keating, courant.com , 24 Feb. 2021",
"Fairview city administrator Nolan Young said Amazon\u2019s property is in an enterprise zone , which would provide property tax exemptions to the company. \u2014 Mike Rogoway, oregonlive , 15 Dec. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1978, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-194535"
},
"engrave":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to impress deeply as if with a graver",
": to form by incision (as on wood or metal)",
": to cut figures, letters, or designs on for printing",
": to print from an engraved plate",
": photoengrave",
": to cut or carve (as letters or designs) on a hard surface",
": to cut (as letters or designs) on or into",
": to print from a cut surface"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8gr\u0101v",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8gr\u0101v"
],
"synonyms":[
"etch",
"grave",
"incise",
"inscribe",
"insculp"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They will engrave your initials on the ring for free.",
"She had the ring engraved with her initials.",
"The image was engraved on the plaque.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Community members will also play a part in the installation\u2014Newark residents can engrave a tile that will become part of a mosaic wall. \u2014 Carly Olson, ELLE Decor , 13 June 2022",
"Pick a quote to engrave , plus the deceased person's name and years of life. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 24 May 2022",
"Have the kids write a handwritten note (or draw a picture!) and send a photo to this Etsy seller\u2014they'll engrave it on this leather wallet for a gift that's useful and sentimental. \u2014 Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful , 18 May 2022",
"Some police agencies have hosted special events to help car owners engrave their vehicle\u2019s identification number onto their converters. \u2014 Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Send a photo of one of her most beloved handwritten recipes and this Etsy maker will engrave it onto a light or dark wood cutting board. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 16 Apr. 2022",
"The timeline for that depends on funding and identifying the best area to engrave the names, Twyman said. \u2014 Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Three weeks ago Chula Vista police partnered with an auto shop \u2014 Wheel Depot \u2014 to engrave vehicle identification numbers on 50 catalytic converters at no cost to the public. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Now police are urging car owners to engrave their vehicle\u2019s identification number on their converter to link the part to their vehicle. \u2014 David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle French engraver , from en- + graver to grave, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English grafan to grave",
"first_known_use":[
"1509, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-195238"
},
"engrain":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
": to work indelibly into the natural texture or mental or moral constitution"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-201259"
},
"envenom":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make poisonous",
": embitter"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8ve-n\u0259m",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"antagonize",
"embitter",
"empoison"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"thoughtless, self-indulgent antics that only managed to envenom his teammates"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English envenimen , from Anglo-French envenimer , from en- + venim venom",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-202644"
},
"engrailed":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": indented with small concave curves",
": made of or bordered by a circle of raised dots"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8gr\u0101ld",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English engreled , from Anglo-French engresl\u00e9 , literally, reduced, thinned, from en- + gresle slender, from Latin gracilis ",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-202956"
},
"enterpriseless":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": lacking enterprise : unambitious"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-l\u0259\u0307s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-204304"
},
"enlighten":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to furnish knowledge to : instruct",
": to give spiritual insight to",
": illuminate",
": to give knowledge or understanding to"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8l\u012b-t\u1d4an",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8l\u012b-t\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquaint",
"advise",
"apprise",
"brief",
"catch up",
"clear",
"clue (in)",
"familiarize",
"fill in",
"hip",
"inform",
"instruct",
"tell",
"verse",
"wise (up)"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I don't understand what's going on; can someone please enlighten me?",
"the lecturer at the planetarium enlightened us about the latest astronomical discoveries",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s where my family and Kamau helped enlighten me. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Whatever the case, Kaplan was happy to help enlighten me. \u2014 Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times , 19 Mar. 2022",
"But sharing Shabbat with someone observing it for the first time can enlighten even the most seasoned Shabbat observer. \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel , 16 May 2022",
"Woman's Day/Getty Images Please enlighten my mind with truth, inflame my heart with love, inspire my will with courage, enrich my life with service. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 3 May 2022",
"This is the type of theater that will comfort and enlighten us in our dark days, and lead us back into the light. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 18 Jan. 2022",
"TikTok creator and key proponent of the trend\u2014to enlighten you. \u2014 Kerry Mcdermott, Vogue , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Ellis also hopes that Disney will double down on LGBTQ storylines, which can enlighten viewers to the prejudices that allow bills like the one in Florida to pass. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Mar. 2022",
"As Beverly Bain, an assistant professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga explains, these accounts treat knowledge as a product to be consumed rather than something to enlighten . \u2014 Zeahaa Rehman, refinery29.com , 16 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1b"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-205712"
},
"encase":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to enclose in or as if in a case",
": to cover or surround : enclose in or as if in a case"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8k\u0101s",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8k\u0101s"
],
"synonyms":[
"box (in)",
"cage",
"closet",
"coop (up)",
"corral",
"encage",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"envelop",
"fence (in)",
"hedge",
"hem (in)",
"house",
"immure",
"include",
"mew (up)",
"pen",
"wall (in)"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Ice encased the trees and power lines after the storm.",
"fear of the outside world can encase a person just as surely as stone walls",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That prompted the Louvre to encase the painting in safety glass, Reuters reports. \u2014 Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 May 2022",
"Hardside or hardshell luggage is made of plastic or metal materials that hold their shape to encase and protect your belongings. \u2014 Amanda Constantine, Good Housekeeping , 20 May 2022",
"Almost every traditional pit-cooking method utilizes some sort of large leaves to encase the food and add steam during the process. \u2014 Murat Oztaskin, Outside Online , 10 July 2021",
"Overhead sprinklers that encase grape buds in a protective coating of ice are another popular method of frost protection. \u2014 Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 22 Apr. 2022",
"To drive home the message that this is no ordinary sports watch, Patek Philippe chose to encase the Ref. \u2014 Paige Reddinger, Robb Report , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Here again, Latter-day Saints seem to broadly reflect attitudes expressed by their religious leaders, who issued a strong statement in 2019 opposing the bill, known as the Equality Act, designed to encase LGBTQ protections in federal law. \u2014 Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Samosas are individual hand pie\u2013size creations that encase tasty fillings in an equally tasty crust. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 14 Mar. 2022",
"To make the pastry portable, the dough needs to be sturdy enough to encase the filling without breaking, which makes bread flour ideal for using in the pasty crust. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Apr. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1633, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-210836"
},
"en grande tenue":{
"type":[
"French phrase"
],
"definitions":[
": in full dress"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4\u207f-gra\u207fd-t\u0259-n\u1d6b"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-211740"
},
"endowment":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act or process of endowing",
": something that is endowed",
": the part of an institution's income derived from donations",
": natural capacity, power, or ability",
": the act of providing money for support",
": money provided for support",
": the act or process of endowing",
": a result or product of endowing: as",
": the income of an institution derived from donations",
": the property (as a fund) donated to an institution or organization that is invested and producing income",
": an endowed organization or institution : foundation",
": endowment insurance"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8dau\u0307-m\u0259nt",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8dau\u0307-m\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[
"aptitude",
"bent",
"faculty",
"flair",
"genius",
"gift",
"head",
"knack",
"talent"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The hospital's endowment was established by a local family.",
"The college has a large endowment .",
"the endowment of a hospital wing",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Under Bacow, Harvard\u2019s endowment swelled to $53.2 billion from $41.9 billion in fiscal year 2021. \u2014 Emma Whitford, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"In memory of late Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, Peyton Manning has announced a scholarship endowment with Georgia Tech in Thomas' name. \u2014 Analis Bailey, USA TODAY , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Of course, genetics cannot be completely discounted because the capacity of an organism\u2019s behavior to be affected by the environment is a function of the species\u2019 evolutionary history and genetic endowment . \u2014 Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books , 21 Apr. 2022",
"To fund his purchases, Dr. Staley used endowment income, private donations and university allocations. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Or, the institution may even sell the work to build endowment or scholarship funds. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 June 2022",
"The family hopes to create an endowment or scholarship fund to aid young tennis players. \u2014 William Lee, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Saber Six Foundation also supports a Rotary Club of Milwaukee scholarship endowment for disadvantaged youths who aspire to public service. \u2014 Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 27 May 2022",
"The endowment gift, part of the museum\u2019s $1 billion fundraising campaign, is from Jewish philanthropist and author David M. Rubenstein. \u2014 Jns Staff Report, Sun Sentinel , 25 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-214937"
},
"enwind":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to wind in or about : enfold"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8w\u012bnd",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"band",
"begird",
"belt",
"engird",
"engirdle",
"gird",
"girdle",
"girt",
"girth",
"wrap"
],
"antonyms":[
"ungird",
"unwrap"
],
"examples":[
"a parcel enwound with red ribbons"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1631, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-220552"
},
"enumerate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to ascertain the number of : count",
": to specify one after another : list",
": count entry 1 sense 1",
": to name one after another : list"
],
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8n(y)\u00fc-m\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t",
"i-\u02c8n\u00fc-m\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101t",
"-\u02c8ny\u00fc-"
],
"synonyms":[
"detail",
"itemize",
"list",
"numerate",
"recite",
"reel off",
"rehearse",
"tick (off)"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Let me enumerate my reasons for doing this.",
"I proceeded to enumerate the reasons why I would be justified in filing a lawsuit for negligence.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Steven Mu\u00f1oz\u2019s exceptionally detailed, poster-like woodcuts enumerate threats to bees and butterflies. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 24 June 2022",
"The report stipulates that due to missing records, the exact numbers may never be known, but Haaland said one goal of the new initiative is to enumerate them as fully as possible. \u2014 Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic , 11 May 2022",
"Conversely, the Constitution does appear to enumerate a right to vote, notably in the Fifteenth Amendment. \u2014 Katherine Stewart, The New Republic , 10 May 2022",
"Any serious music lover can enumerate without difficulty three-dozen Soviet pianists who made important Beethoven recordings. \u2014 Norman Lebrecht, WSJ , 1 Apr. 2022",
"One historian, years ago, decided to collect and enumerate all the scholarly explanations for the fall of Rome. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic , 1 Mar. 2022",
"There was a part of me that wanted Janet to take this opportunity to unload on everybody involved \u2014 to enumerate the layers of hypocrisy involved in the whole moral panic of it all. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Loyal fans can fiercely debate and enumerate the merits of each, like which has the best rides, fireworks and food. \u2014 Victoria Brown, USA TODAY , 25 Oct. 2021",
"The documents do not enumerate in detail who is eligible for an additional vaccine dose. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 16 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin enumeratus , past participle of enumerare , from e- + numerare to count, from numerus number",
"first_known_use":[
"1616, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-223908"
},
"Encratite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a member of certain 2d century ascetic sects that condemned sexual intercourse, clericalism, and the use of animal food and strong drink \u2014 compare apostolici"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02cct\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Late Latin encratita , from Late Greek enkratit\u0113s , from Greek enkrat\u0113s self-disciplined (from en in +0 -krat\u0113s , from kratos strength) + -it\u0113s -ite",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-230347"
},
"ensorcerize":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": ensorcell"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8s\u022frs(\u0259)\u02ccr\u012bz",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":" en- entry 1 + sorcerize ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-231130"
},
"enlight":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": enlighten"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n",
"en+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":" en- entry 1 + light , noun",
"first_known_use":[
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-232034"
},
"enduring of":{
"type":[
"preposition"
],
"definitions":[
": enduring"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-232735"
},
"endemic":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": belonging or native to a particular people or country",
": characteristic of or prevalent in a particular field, area, or environment",
": restricted or peculiar to a locality or region",
": an organism that is restricted or peculiar to a locality or region : an endemic organism",
": restricted or peculiar to a locality or region",
"\u2014 compare epidemic sense 1 , sporadic sense 1",
": an endemic disease or an instance of its occurrence",
": an endemic organism"
],
"pronounciation":[
"en-\u02c8de-mik",
"in-",
"en-\u02c8de-mik",
"in-",
"en-\u02c8dem-ik, in-"
],
"synonyms":[
"aboriginal",
"autochthonous",
"born",
"domestic",
"indigenous",
"native"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonindigenous",
"nonnative"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"Divorce has become so endemic in our society that a whole lore has risen up around it: that divorce is a temporary crisis; that so many children have experienced their parents' divorce that children nowadays do not worry much about it; that in fact it makes things easier, and it is itself a mere rite of passage; that if the parents feel better, so will the children. \u2014 Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn , New Republic , 6 May 2002",
"Situated only 250 miles off the coast of Africa, Madagascar is biologically unique. Not only does it have a rich animal and plant life, it also houses a huge number of endemic species found nowhere else on earth. \u2014 Jim Milliot et al. , Publishers Weekly , 15 May 2000",
"The rap performers I enjoy are those who emphasize production values, songcraft and that quality of playfulness endemic to all good pop. \u2014 Francis Davis , Atlantic , October 1993",
"the fish is not an endemic species of the lake, and it is rapidly devouring the native trout population",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"However, as humans have increasingly come into contact with rainforests and jungles, human monkeypox has become endemic in several central and west African regions. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"McQuiston pointed out that the virus didn't become endemic after the last monkeypox outbreak in the United States, in 2003, when pet prairie dogs led to dozens of infected people across multiple states. \u2014 Jacqueline Howard And Michael Nedelman, CNN , 2 June 2022",
"Monkeypox is an infectious disease of the orthopoxvirus virus family that was first detected in 1970 in west Africa, and has since become endemic in the region. \u2014 Annalisa Merelli, Quartz , 31 May 2022",
"According to Global Health, more than 1,700 monkeypox cases have been identified in non- endemic countries, mostly in Europe and North America. \u2014 Mary Kekatos, ABC News , 14 June 2022",
"Conversely, some messaging might stigmatize people in Africa, where the virus is endemic and where it was first identified. \u2014 Jason Mast, STAT , 13 June 2022",
"This strongly suggests that despite an endemic lack of trust, New Yorkers really want basic reforms. \u2014 John Zogby, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"No deaths have been reported in non- endemic countries thus far. \u2014 Aria Bendix, NBC News , 9 June 2022",
"Nonetheless, there has been some deja vu as monkeypox cases tick upward, reaching 780 in 27 non- endemic countries as of the World Health Organization\u2019s latest update two days ago. \u2014 Jamie Ducharme, Time , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"China has grappled in aggressive fashion, using mass testing and citywide lockdowns, with coronavirus case numbers that are smaller than the figures that are considered as endemic in other parts of the world. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 5 June 2022",
"As Hong Kong moves to treat the virus as endemic , at least de facto, mainland China is sticking to its tough approach of mass testing and lockdowns. \u2014 Nicholas Gordon, Fortune , 4 May 2022",
"Some health officials even suggested a mass outbreak was necessary to spur the shift toward a strategy of treating it as endemic , meaning a disease that circulates among the population more predictably. \u2014 Dasl Yoon, WSJ , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Most of the world starts treating the disease as endemic . \u2014 David Axe, Rolling Stone , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The financial hub is proceeding with its plans to treat the virus as endemic -- after moving away from a strict Covid Zero strategy some months ago -- while ensuring its healthcare system isn\u2019t overwhelmed. \u2014 Faris Mokhtar, Bloomberg.com , 11 Mar. 2022",
"There are 10 species of iguanas in the genus Cyclura, all endemic to West Indian islands (another went extinct sometime in the 1900s), and molecular analysis suggests they are all descended from the Anegada rock iguana. \u2014 Murray Carpenter, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"The disease is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals. \u2014 Mike Stobbe, ajc , 3 June 2022",
"Healthcare workers in areas where CCHF is endemic who are exposed to blood or bodily fluids without sufficient protections are also at risk for catching the blood-borne virus. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 3 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"1759, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1926, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-234612"
},
"endemial":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": endemic"
],
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02c8)en\u00a6d\u0113m\u0113\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Greek end\u0113mi os native, endemic (from en in + d\u0113mos ) + English -al ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-013647"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of or being at the lowest level of a hierarchy"
],
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"\u02c8en-tr\u0113-\u02ccle-v\u0259l"
],
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"1946, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-014457"
},
"endellite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a clay mineral consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminum with varying amounts of water and being more hydrous than halloysite"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8end\u0259\u02ccl\u012bt"
],
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"history_and_etymology":"from Kurd Endell \u20201946 German ceramic engineer + English -ite ",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-015155"
},
"en creux":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": being in intaglio : sunk below the surface"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4\u207f\u02c8kr\u0259\u0304",
"-r\u0259r(\u2027)",
""
],
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"history_and_etymology":"French, literally, in the hollow",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-024027"
},
"enunciative":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": serving to enunciate : declarative",
": relating to enunciation"
],
"pronounciation":[
"|t|",
"|\u0113v"
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"history_and_etymology":"Latin enunciativus, enuntiativus , from enunciatus, enuntiatus + -ivus -ive",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-025703"
},
"envenomation":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": an act or instance of poisoning by venom (as of a snake or spider)",
": an act or instance of impregnating with a venom (as of a snake or spider)",
": envenomization"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02ccve-n\u0259-\u02c8m\u0101-sh\u0259n",
"en-",
"in-\u02ccven-\u0259-\u02c8m\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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"first_known_use":[
"1902, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-034659"
},
"entree":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act or manner of entering : entrance",
": freedom of entry or access",
": the main course of a meal in the U.S."
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4n-\u02cctr\u0101",
"also"
],
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"access",
"accession",
"admission",
"admittance",
"door",
"doorway",
"entrance",
"entry",
"gateway",
"ingress",
"key",
"passport",
"ticket"
],
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"examples":[
"We had steak as an entr\u00e9e .",
"entr\u00e9e to the country club is through sponsorship by someone who is already a member",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For The Deep's entree , Homelander brings out Deep's octopus pet and close friend Timothy. \u2014 Alex Raiman, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"Through June 12 at Edge Off-Broadway, 1133 W. Catalpa Ave.; tickets $20 at 773-828-9129 and astonrep.com/young K-RNB Brunch: Listen to Korean R&B music at a bash including a welcome mimosa or bloody mary, a soju cocktail and a brunch entree . \u2014 Samantha Nelson, Chicago Tribune , 27 May 2022",
"The entree arrives with all sorts of cross-cultural references. \u2014 Leslie Kelly, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"The deal is valid on June 20 and the free entree must be redeemed between June 21 and 27. \u2014 Rebecca Norris, Country Living , 6 May 2022",
"The restaurant advises pairing the entree with a Cinco Rita, which is $5 all day. \u2014 Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel , 4 May 2022",
"The ticket price of $20 per child (ages 2-9) includes the egg hunt, an entree and photo opportunities. \u2014 Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic , 9 Apr. 2022",
"The heartiest entree starts with a basic notion, lasagna, and deploys bechamel, black trumpet mushrooms and wild boar to enrich layers of tender egg noodles. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The final entree option, like so many places up and down the economic scale, was a burger. \u2014 Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"French entr\u00e9e , from Old French \u2014 more at entry ",
"first_known_use":[
"1692, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-040228"
},
"engrossed":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to copy or write in a large hand",
": to prepare the usually final handwritten or printed text of (an official document)",
": to purchase large quantities of (as for speculation)",
": amass , collect",
": to take or engage the whole attention of : occupy completely",
": to take the attention of completely",
": to prepare the usually final handwritten or printed text of (as a bill or resolution) especially for final passage or approval",
"\u2014 see also engrossed bill at bill sense 1 \u2014 compare enroll",
"[Middle English, from Anglo-French engrosser , from en gros wholesale, in quantity]"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8gr\u014ds",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8gr\u014ds",
"in-\u02c8gr\u014ds"
],
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"absorb",
"bemuse",
"busy",
"catch up",
"engage",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"enwrap",
"fascinate",
"grip",
"immerse",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involve",
"occupy"
],
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"examples":[
"a mystery story that will engross readers all the way to the surprise ending",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like the characters populating his novels, who are terrified of their own irrelevance, Franzen has a habit of proffering bells and whistles as compensation for the modest scope of the domestic sagas that engross him. \u2014 Becca Rothfeld, The Atlantic , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Readers will engross themselves in two beefy chapters on Hatfield\u2019s eight years as governor, but for the nearly 30 years that Hatfield spent in the U.S. Senate, Etulain serves up a scant 28 pages, inclusive of several full-page photographs. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Aug. 2021",
"Buyers can dig deeper into the country of origin and engross themselves in modern experiences from contemporary creatives without saying a word. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, House Beautiful , 13 May 2021",
"Amid a social justice movement and COVID-19 pandemic that engross the nation, the term gains gravitas. \u2014 Michael Gehlken, Dallas News , 11 Mar. 2021",
"His mother sang and played piano and was a big supporter, and Benet would engross himself in his detective father's extensive classical music collection. \u2014 Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Mar. 2021",
"The Senate voted to engross the bills ahead of debate Tuesday, which blocked changes to the measures. \u2014 Nyamekye Daniel, Washington Examiner , 24 Feb. 2021",
"Two days is enough time to engross yourself in a curriculum, build a solid foundation, sleep on it and continue to build on that foundation the next day. \u2014 Chris Mudgett, Outdoor Life , 1 July 2020",
"The intricate synergies of coffee and capitalism form the subtext of the historian Augustine Sedgewick\u2019s thoroughly engrossing first book, Coffeeland: One Man\u2019s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug. \u2014 Michael Pollan, The Atlantic , 6 Apr. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French engrosser to put (a legal document) in final form, from Medieval Latin ingrossare , from in grossam (put) into final form, literally, (written) in large (letter)",
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-041022"
},
"engrail":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to indent (something, such as a heraldic ordinary) with small curves \u2014 see engrailed",
": to ornament especially with a pattern indented on the edge",
": to carve in intaglio",
": roughen",
": to cause to appear serrated"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8gr\u0101l",
"en-",
""
],
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"history_and_etymology":"Middle English engrelen , from Middle French engresler , from en- en- entry 1 + gresle, graisle slender, from Latin gracilis ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-052345"
},
"entryway":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a passage for entrance"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-tr\u0113-\u02ccw\u0101"
],
"synonyms":[
"entranceway",
"entry",
"foyer",
"hall",
"hallway",
"lobby",
"vestibule"
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"examples":[
"a small entryway to receive visitors",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Artists, filmmakers, designers, writers and more have walked through its bright-yellow entryway to indulge in cocktails and French fare. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 20 May 2022",
"Behind it, a floor-to-ceiling wall filled with beveled glass reflects the villa's dramatic entryway . \u2014 Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure , 31 May 2022",
"Every few minutes a couple or a family would walk past 21 white paper bags, each containing a candle, that lined the entryway . \u2014 Claire Bryan, San Antonio Express-News , 27 May 2022",
"The former Fredicktown High School football player had officially found the entryway into the art world. \u2014 John Canale, cleveland , 23 May 2022",
"Board games were piled next to the fireplace, shoes strewn about the entryway . \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Some conservative lawmakers worry Ireland\u2019s decision to lift visa requirements for Ukrainians after the Russian invasion could create another entryway for those who don\u2019t meet British security checks or who are awaiting British visas. \u2014 Rachel Pannett, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"The piano nobile\u2019s entryway has wall decorations inspired by the princess\u2019s family coat-of-arms. \u2014 J.s. Marcus, WSJ , 11 May 2022",
"One person set it up as a sleek storage solution for bathroom essentials, another used it as a home for their succulents, and a separate buyer even designated it as a front entryway shoe rack. \u2014 Melissa Epifano, PEOPLE.com , 8 May 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1746, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-053701"
},
"enthuse":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make enthusiastic",
": to express with enthusiasm",
": to show enthusiasm"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8th\u00fcz",
"en-",
"also"
],
"synonyms":[
"drool",
"effuse",
"fuss",
"gush",
"rave",
"rhapsodize",
"slobber"
],
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"examples":[
"\u201cThis dinner is wonderful!\u201d he enthused .",
"His presentation failed to enthuse the committee.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Instead of infuriating and alienating web users, companies can enthuse , engage and delight them. \u2014 Michael Adair, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Analysts say earnings of Indian corporates in the December quarter so far have failed to enthuse . \u2014 Mimansa Verma, Quartz , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Feel free to extemporize, enthuse and connect with people, rather than overwork the data. \u2014 Palena Neale, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
"The judges are slightly lukewarm about the tango, though all of them enthuse that Jimmie has a lot of potential. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Sep. 2021",
"But the birth-order effect seems to particularly enthuse and preoccupy us. \u2014 Lynn Berger, Time , 13 Apr. 2021",
"Either way, there is a paradox emerging: while old established, bricks and mortar businesses enthuse about remote working, tech companies are rushing to put down roots, perhaps while office space is going cheap. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 12 Mar. 2021",
"His challenge will be to enthuse his conservative base to reelect the state\u2019s two incumbent senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. \u2014 Victor Davis Hanson, National Review , 26 Nov. 2020",
"And Ms Warren, especially, has a raft of detailed policy ideas that could enthuse large numbers of Democrats. \u2014 A.r. | Chicago, The Economist , 10 July 2019"
],
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"1827, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-060523"
},
"encased knot":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a dead or loose knot or portion of a branch partially or entirely embedded in the bole of a tree"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":" encased from past participle of encase ",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-061426"
},
"enteral":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": enteric",
": enteric"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-t\u0259-r\u0259l",
"\u02c8ent-\u0259-r\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1905, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-061545"
},
"entreating":{
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently",
": to deal with : treat",
": to make an earnest request : plead",
": negotiate",
": intercede",
": to ask in a serious and urgent way"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8tr\u0113t",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8tr\u0113t"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeal (to)",
"beg",
"beseech",
"besiege",
"conjure",
"impetrate",
"implore",
"importune",
"petition",
"plead (to)",
"pray",
"solicit",
"supplicate"
],
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"examples":[
"I entreat you to help me.",
"she began her letter by entreating me to forgive the belatedness of her reply",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Kimmel entreated viewers to vote Trump out of office in November, but also went further, attempting to grapple with the larger issues of racial injustice at play. \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 30 May 2020",
"At climate rallies, Granett entreats strangers to keep it terrestrial. \u2014 Alex Davies, Wired , 1 Apr. 2020",
"Over the past three years, priests, bishops, and Pope Francis have condemned U.S. immigration policy under the Trump Administration and entreated Catholics around the world to stand up for the rights of migrants. \u2014 Time , 7 Jan. 2020",
"Those things are forbidden, as entreating the angels with prayer. \u2014 Jake Cline, Washington Post , 17 Sep. 2019",
"In the developing movie (based on the 2019 sequel to Ahern's original work) Holly's sister Ciara entreats her to share her touching story with the world on a podcast. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 13 Feb. 2020",
"Or Tinkerbell, a sassy alpha sprite who in a burst of feminist solidarity entreats her sisters to a call for girl power? \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Jan. 2020",
"Kahn entreats the reader on the first page of her biography. \u2014 Vogue , 6 Nov. 2019",
"Trump entreated black voters at numerous whistle stops. \u2014 Deroy Murdock, National Review , 9 Aug. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English entreten , from Anglo-French entreter , from en- + treter to treat",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-063014"
},
"enlard":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": lard"
],
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"history_and_etymology":" en- entry 1 + lard , noun",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-064106"
},
"entrench":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to place within or surround with a trench especially for defense",
": to place (oneself) in a strong defensive position",
": to establish solidly",
": to cut into : furrow",
": to erode downward so as to form a trench",
": to dig or occupy a trench for defensive purposes",
": to enter upon or take over something unfairly, improperly, or unlawfully : encroach"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8trench",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"embed",
"imbed",
"enroot",
"fix",
"impact",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"root"
],
"antonyms":[
"dislodge",
"root (out)",
"uproot"
],
"examples":[
"officials who have tried to entrench themselves in office",
"a father who entrenched in our minds the belief that hard work pays off",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"For the past six years the Annecy Animation Film Festival has looked to entrench VR producers within the global animation community. \u2014 Ben Croll, Variety , 12 June 2022",
"Instead, tech monopolies use their power to further entrench their dominance by capitalizing off of users' personal data and ignoring privacy rights. \u2014 Evan Greer For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 10 May 2022",
"Russian forces and their local proxies, meanwhile, have tried to entrench their hold on Melitopol. \u2014 Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"The city has never looked better, especially since the disruptive gash of construction to entrench the center\u2019s tram system is now gone. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Each shooting seems to entrench everyone's respective convictions. \u2014 Paul Leblanc, CNN , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The ultimate aim was to entrench a new communist social order in Italy as comprehensively as the church had entrenched Roman Catholicism over the course of centuries. \u2014 Thomas Meaney, The New Republic , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Enjoy the scenic grounds and entrench yourself in its rich history. \u2014 Shirley Macfarland, cleveland , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Whether the management uses the poison pill for the benefit of the shareholders or to entrench themselves ultimately depends on the board. \u2014 Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1548, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-064824"
},
"endosarc":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the central usually semifluid part of the protoplasm of some unicellular organisms (such as amoebas) : endoplasm"
],
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"\u02c8end\u0259\u02ccs\u00e4rk"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-071806"
},
"encased postage stamp":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a postage stamp mounted in a metal case with a transparent face (as of mica) for use as a piece of money"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-072140"
},
"enviousness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": feeling or showing envy",
": emulous",
": enviable",
": feeling or showing unhappiness over someone else's good fortune and a desire to have the same"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-v\u0113-\u0259s",
"\u02c8en-v\u0113-\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"covetous",
"green-eyed",
"invidious",
"jaundiced",
"jealous",
"resentful"
],
"antonyms":[
"unenvious"
],
"examples":[
"a family that is envious of their neighbors' big house",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And if that's not fancy enough for you, there's also another figurine that'll truly make any diehard Moon Knight fan envious . \u2014 Milan Polk, Men's Health , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The Warriors\u2019 efforts Wednesday revived the old rumblings from around the envious league that the Warriors are soft. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 May 2022",
"Ignelzi\u2019s sequence of photos got nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and drew envious grumbles from other newspaper photographers in town. \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 May 2022",
"The feeling of triumph extended to employees across the board, who benefited from massive spending budgets and envious compensation packages buoyed by high salaries and lucrative stock options. \u2014 J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 Apr. 2022",
"On the contrary, his first 15 months in office have produced an envious record of relief, recovery and reform \u2013 to borrow a slogan from the New Deal. \u2014 John Zogby, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s the kind of show that also takes us along for the ride, keeping us entertained but also envious of everyone\u2019s wealth, luxuries, status, and privilege along the way. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Her party scenes play out the inevitable clash: youth and money, mutually envious . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Five words to describe Jafar? Mercurial; malevolent; jealous (not to be confused with envious ); vain; and self-important. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-073044"
},
"enviro":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": environmentalist"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8v\u012b-r\u014d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Watkins wrote two brilliant books before this \u2014 the otherworldly good story collection Battleborn and a terrifying enviro -novel, Gold Fame Citrus \u2014 but this is the work that should put her on the map. \u2014 Hillary Kelly, Vulture , 15 Dec. 2021",
"In a bad way, a very bad way, the Huntington Beach oil spill is the enviro -disaster equivalent of the giant panda. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Oct. 2021",
"The foot soldiers of enviro -imperialism are confident in the righteousness of their cause. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 20 July 2021",
"Watch enviro -films and join discussions during EarthX 2021 events. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Apr. 2021",
"But Baker just gave enviros a reason to celebrate \u2014 and to join him at a press conference. \u2014 Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com , 3 Apr. 2018",
"Curiously absent, as noticed by enviros , is the lack of revenue expected from a cap-and-trade program to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. \u2014 Newsweek , 14 Mar. 2018",
"By putting his boot on the neck of China, NAFTA, enviros , immigrant labor, liberal elites, etc. \u2014 Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic , 31 July 2017",
"Enviros who also don\u2019t walk the walk but enjoy their AC, Labrador, hamburgers etc. \u2014 Jon Caldara, The Denver Post , 9 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1987, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-073559"
},
"enchant":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to influence by or as if by charms and incantation : bewitch",
": to attract and move deeply : rouse to ecstatic admiration",
": to put under a spell by or as if by magic : bewitch",
": to please greatly : delight"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8chant",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8chant"
],
"synonyms":[
"allure",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"fascinate",
"kill",
"magnetize",
"wile",
"witch"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The book has enchanted children for almost a century.",
"The beauty of the place enchants .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Opening this latest Fox date is the War and Treaty, the Michigan husband-wife duo who enchant with their organic R&B. \u2014 Brian Mccollum, Detroit Free Press , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Ivy Getty is no stranger to high fashion\u2014see her wedding for further proof\u2014but still, the magic of Paris Fashion Week can enchant even the most jaded among us. \u2014 Sarah Spellings, Vogue , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Perhaps the most quintessential escape for New Yorkers, the Catskill Mountains are a stunning series of rolling, forested hills ready to enchant you with big vistas and quirky mountain towns. \u2014 Emily Pennington, Outside Online , 26 Aug. 2021",
"If the location of Four Seasons Resort Maui doesn\u2019t enchant enough, the artwork certainly will. \u2014 Beck Bamberger, Forbes , 24 Oct. 2021",
"The lunar landscape, the dusty village with its dark, smoky interiors, the eerily placid sea shimmering marvelously in the moonlight \u2014 the film\u2019s textures, all shot in black-and-white, enchant us with their spectral beauty. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 10 July 2021",
"Eric also revealed that Loki and Sylvie joining hands to enchant Alioth in episode 5 arrived late in the game. \u2014 Chancellor Agard, EW.com , 9 July 2021",
"Although the witch has the ability to enchant people, there\u2019s no sign of her physical form beyond a few flashbacks. \u2014 Danielle Broadway, Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2021",
"The flaws of each character will surprise and perhaps even enchant you \u2014 and only a clairvoyant could anticipate the book\u2019s ending. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2021"
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"The contaminated material should be encapsulated and removed.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Few phrases encapsulate the ethos of investing as well as this. \u2014 Ilona Limonta-volkova, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"The Oregon coastline is pure magic, and few stretches encapsulate its allure more than the Three Capes Scenic Loop. \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 23 May 2022",
"As the dreamy name implies, the Wish will encapsulate everything true fairy tale fans adore. \u2014 Brie Schwartz, Woman's Day , 11 May 2022",
"How did those lines encapsulate the experience of playing Wendy in this last act? \u2014 Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR , 5 May 2022",
"His writings on growing up as a first-generation Korean American in Atlanta perfectly encapsulate the push and pull between these cultural identities. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The choice, which then becomes part of the institution's far-reaching collection, is meant to encapsulate the prevailing mood of fashion, represent the past year and capture the imagination. \u2014 Jacopo Prisco, CNN , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Designer Richard Mier\u2019s and charity Perennial wanted to encapsulate the pleasure that gardens can give \u2013 like a gift of love. \u2014 Angelina Villa-clarke, Forbes , 27 May 2022",
"With raving 5-star reviews, the fragrance highlights the top note of bergamot, a middle note of clary sage, and a base note of patchouli to encapsulate a uniquely fresh scent. \u2014 Rolling Stone , 20 May 2022"
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"in the process of taking down the Christmas tree, we managed to entangle the string of lights into a hopeless mess of wires",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Waters free from whalers now brim with ships that strike them, and ropes that entangle them. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"School districts have shared concerns that the new state law could entangle them in a legal fight over differing interpretations of the law. \u2014 Stephen Gruber-miller And Ian Richardson, USA TODAY , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Football is over, and baseball has none of the exposure to international politics that entangle the NBA with China or the NHL with Russian players. \u2014 Dan Mclaughlin, National Review , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Birds, fish and whales are unlikely to suffer much harm from the Block Island wind farm, but no one knows how a thousand turbines might affect those creatures, especially floating turbines, whose cables could potentially entangle large whales. \u2014 Elizabeth Royte, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Few other platforms in the U.S. arsenal have done more to irreversibly entangle the U.S. in alliance structures that are, today, proving their value in standing tall against creeping authoritarianism. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Successful negotiations, however, could improve views of China as a responsible global leader, while failure could further entangle it in the centuries-old security disputes of Europe. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The crisis has threatened to entangle countries far beyond Eastern Europe, including Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, whose airlines have been accused of playing into Mr. Lukashenko\u2019s hands by flying migrants to Minsk, the Belarusian capital. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Nov. 2021",
"Once the saw pierces the outer fabric, the chain tears into the synthetic fibers below, which so thoroughly entangle the chain and its sprocket that both are stopped dead in their tracks. \u2014 Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics , 11 Nov. 2021"
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": a genus of amoeboid protozoans (order Amoebida) that are parasitic in the vertebrate digestive tract and especially in the intestines and that include the causative agent ( E. histolytica ) of amebic dysentery \u2014 see endamoeba",
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"as a result of an enactment by Congress, this breathtaking canyon will be permanently protected from development",
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"As Title IX marks its 50th anniversary this year, Gilder is one of countless women who benefited from the enactment and execution of the law and translated those opportunities into becoming leaders in their professional careers. \u2014 Tim Booth, ajc , 20 June 2022",
"Since the law\u2019s enactment , the relative cost of flying has fallen by half, opening the skies to economy-boosting air traffic for many more travelers. \u2014 Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"While there are many steps that must take place between the agreement on a framework and the enactment of a law, this deal gives the lie to the notion that the power of the gun lobby can never be checked. \u2014 Kris Brown, CNN , 14 June 2022",
"Yet underscoring election-year pressures from Buffalo and Uvalde, the parties\u2019 shared desire to demonstrate a response to those shootings suggested momentum toward enactment was strong. \u2014 Alan Fram, Chicago Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"In the wake of Alito\u2019s leaked opinion, Democrats pleaded with Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, to release the bill\u2019s funding ahead of its July 1 enactment date. \u2014 Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun , 8 June 2022",
"The House is expected to vote on \u2013 and pass \u2013 a red flag bill in the next two weeks, leaving enactment up to the Senate. \u2014 Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"The lawsuit and the enactment of the state\u2019s new ban comes on the heels of two mass shootings in New York and Texas that claimed 31 lives and left the country reeling over holes in gun-control laws and the limits of laws on the books. \u2014 Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post , 31 May 2022",
"The original bill would have made that requirement effective upon enactment , but the amendment extends it until March 1, 2023. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 May 2022"
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"verb"
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": to hold spellbound : charm",
": to hold in or reduce to slavery",
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"enthralled by the flickering fire in the hearth, we lost all track of time",
"for years these master magicians have been enthralling audiences with their astounding illusions",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Written by a marine biologist and illustrated by an artist in coastal Spain, this wondrous compendium will enthrall beachcombers and landlubbers alike. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
"Bravado would see their son and scoop him up and whisk him toward the backstage area on the ship to enthrall the crowd even more. \u2014 Cassell Ferere, Forbes , 14 Sep. 2021",
"The portrayal is absorbing, committed and morbidly fascinating\u2014one of the more memorable aspects of the Holmes persona was her unnaturally deep voice, which seemed intended to enthrall and probably did. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Your zone of genius areas are your interests that engage and enthrall you. \u2014 Julia Wuench, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"The first games to really enthrall me were Starcraft and Guild Wars. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 30 Nov. 2021",
"No matter your genre preference, summertime music festivals are sure to enthrall . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 July 2021",
"While The Office ended more than eight years ago, the NBC series has continued to enthrall fans around the world. \u2014 Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com , 16 July 2021",
"Weather is perpetrated by a somewhat predictable but ultimately uncontrollable force, and no Hollywood disaster flick can fully replicate the effects, those forces majeures that can enthrall , shock, or even humble. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 10 July 2021"
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"Middle English"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
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},
"enterpriser":{
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"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": entrepreneur"
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"\u02c8en-t\u0259r-\u02ccpr\u012b-z\u0259r",
"\u02c8en-t\u0259-\u02ccpr\u012b-"
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"adjective"
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": surrounded by a gelatinous or membranous envelope",
": condensed",
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"en-"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The implementation of a digital twin is an encapsulated software object or model that mirrors a unique physical object, process, organization, person or other abstraction. \u2014 Daniel Fallmann, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"Closing arguments played out over three days, and offered a encapsulated versions of the different approaches to the evidence. \u2014 Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com , 26 Sep. 2021",
"The encapsulated bottom is conducive to heat retention. \u2014 Chris Hachey, BGR , 1 July 2021",
"With a focus on 100% recyclable packaging, this line offers a proprietary Bleu Molecule Complex (aka micro- encapsulated sugar molecules acting as a natural ingredient delivery system) that Rosales loves for clients who dye. \u2014 Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue , 15 Mar. 2021",
"The encapsulated powder loads through the breech and sits directly under the projectile. \u2014 Brad Fenson, Outdoor Life , 28 Oct. 2020",
"In 2020, Federal Premium Ammunition introduced the FireStick, an encapsulated propellant that is easy to load and impervious to the elements, and that allows a break-action muzzleloader to be charged or uncharged within seconds. \u2014 Brad Fenson, Outdoor Life , 28 Oct. 2020",
"Such encapsulated spaces promote pretend play, give children a sense of agency and power over their environment and even change social hierarchies among children \u2014 from leadership by brute physical strength to imaginative world-building skills. \u2014 Malia Wollan, New York Times , 5 May 2020",
"Working with Marty became almost like an encapsulated ecosystem that vastly enhanced my knowledge and appreciation for cinema as an entire art form historically. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 Nov. 2019"
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"noun"
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": any of a genus ( Enterovirus ) of picornaviruses that occur especially in the gastrointestinal tract but may infect other tissues (such as nerve and muscle) and that include the poliovirus, Coxsackievirus, and echovirus",
": a genus of single-stranded RNA viruses of the family Picornaviridae that multiply especially in the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and swine but may infect other tissues (as nerve and muscle), that may produce clinically evident conjunctivitis, encephalitis, meningitis, myelitis, or myocarditis, and that include the poliovirus and several species including numerous serotypes named as Coxsackieviruses and echoviruses",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The researchers found something unusual: evidence of a common pathogen called an enterovirus , but in the fluid that bathes the spinal cord. \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 29 May 2022",
"Models show the same pattern for enterovirus D68, and probably for acute flaccid myelitis too. \u2014 Adam Rogers, Wired , 16 Mar. 2021",
"An outbreak of a rare enterovirus that can cause a deadly respiratory illness swept through North America, affecting mostly children. \u2014 The Editors, Scientific American , 12 Dec. 2014",
"Another enterovirus , called EV-A71, has also been linked to some cases. \u2014 Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com , 5 Aug. 2020",
"Another enterovirus , called EV-A71, has also been linked to some cases. \u2014 Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com , 5 Aug. 2020",
"Another enterovirus , called EV-A71, has also been linked to some cases. \u2014 Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com , 5 Aug. 2020",
"Another enterovirus , called EV-A71, has also been linked to some cases. \u2014 Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com , 5 Aug. 2020",
"Another enterovirus , called EV-A71, has also been linked to some cases. \u2014 Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com , 5 Aug. 2020"
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"1957, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
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": one that enables another to achieve an end",
": one who enables another to persist in self-destructive behavior (such as substance abuse) by providing excuses or by making it possible to avoid the consequences of such behavior",
": one that enables another to achieve an end",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Companies are on a war footing to attract and retain top talent, and in such a scenario, the metaverse serves as a key enabler to not just build a company\u2019s brand but also build an engaged and productive workforce. \u2014 Sudhir Pai, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Fossil fuel exports have been a key enabler of Russia\u2019s military buildup. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"One of the most impactful trends in developing an impactful employee listening strategy is HR becoming less of a filter and more of an enabler . \u2014 Rob Catalano, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
"To his critics, the arrangement has made Kirill far more than another apparatchik, oligarch or enabler of Mr. Putin, but an essential part of the nationalist ideology at the heart of the Kremlin\u2019s expansionist designs. \u2014 New York Times , 21 May 2022",
"Recognizing digital structures as an enabler of speed, Dadlani said Mars had an ambitious goal to operate 100 times faster (100X). \u2014 Rogayeh Tabrizi, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"If an unlikely enabler , Mr. Garber proved a valuable conduit who donated large sums of money to nationalist parties enamored with Moscow. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"For all of its devastation, the pandemic has also been an enabler of action and change. \u2014 Tom Sequist, STAT , 30 Mar. 2022",
"But the spirit of ambiguity and simplicity that shines through in the book were my guiding lights, and time was my enabler . \u2014 Rebecca Hall, Los Angeles Times , 18 Jan. 2022"
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"1615, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
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"first_known_use":[
"1890, in the meaning defined above"
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},
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"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": enthrone"
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"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8thr\u014d\u02ccn\u012bz",
"en\u02c8thr\u014d\u02cc-",
"\u02c8enthr\u0259\u02cc-"
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"Middle English entronizen, intronisen , from Middle French entroniser , from Late Latin enthronizare , from Greek enthronizein , from en- en- entry 2 + thronos throne + -izein -ize"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-173402"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": incised meander",
": one with slopes of about the same steepness on each side of the stream \u2014 compare ingrown meander"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-174441"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": an often autobiographical novel dealing with the development of a character from childhood to maturity"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-174832"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": enthronement"
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"\u0259\u0307n\u02ccthr\u014d|n\u0259\u0307\u02c8z\u0101sh\u0259n",
"(\u02cc)en\u02ccthr\u014d|",
"\u02ccenthr\u0259|",
"|\u02ccn\u012b\u02c8z-"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": bournonite"
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"German endellionit , from Endellion , Cornwall, England, its locality + German -it -ite"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-181753"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a family of small fishes related to the herrings and comprising the anchovies"
],
"pronounciation":[
"en\u02c8gr\u022fl\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
],
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"New Latin, from Engraulis , type genus (from Greek engraulis anchovy) + -idae"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-183540"
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"definitions":[
": dishes served in addition to the main course of a meal",
": dessert"
],
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"as a plural"
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"French, from Old French entremes , from entre between + mes food, dish"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-183620"
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"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make or dye crimson"
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"first_known_use":[
"1597, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-190904"
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"enverdure":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to clothe or cover with verdure"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n",
"en+"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"en- entry 1 + verdure (noun)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-191248"
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"engroove":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to fit or form into a groove"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8gr\u00fcv",
"en-"
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"en- entry 1 + groove , noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-194225"
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"energy spectrum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an arrangement of particle energies (as of alpha particles or photoelectrons) in a heterogeneous beam that is analogous to the arrangement of frequencies in an optical spectrum"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-205505"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one who enters upon public land with intent to secure an allotment under homestead, mining, or other laws",
": a coal miner engaged in driving a haulageway, airway, or passageway"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-m\u0259n"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-212844"
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"enumeration clause":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a clause in Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution requiring a count of the population in each state every ten years for the purpose of apportioning representatives"
],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[
"1862, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-215406"
},
"ensphere":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to enclose in or as if in a sphere"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8sfir",
"en-"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1612, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-215726"
},
"entered apprentice":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the first degree of Freemasonry",
": one who has taken the degree of entered apprentice \u2014 compare blue lodge"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-221846"
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"engross":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to copy or write in a large hand",
": to prepare the usually final handwritten or printed text of (an official document)",
": to purchase large quantities of (as for speculation)",
": amass , collect",
": to take or engage the whole attention of : occupy completely",
": to take the attention of completely",
": to prepare the usually final handwritten or printed text of (as a bill or resolution) especially for final passage or approval",
"\u2014 see also engrossed bill at bill sense 1 \u2014 compare enroll",
"[Middle English, from Anglo-French engrosser , from en gros wholesale, in quantity]"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8gr\u014ds",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8gr\u014ds",
"in-\u02c8gr\u014ds"
],
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"absorb",
"bemuse",
"busy",
"catch up",
"engage",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"enwrap",
"fascinate",
"grip",
"immerse",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involve",
"occupy"
],
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"examples":[
"a mystery story that will engross readers all the way to the surprise ending",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like the characters populating his novels, who are terrified of their own irrelevance, Franzen has a habit of proffering bells and whistles as compensation for the modest scope of the domestic sagas that engross him. \u2014 Becca Rothfeld, The Atlantic , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Readers will engross themselves in two beefy chapters on Hatfield\u2019s eight years as governor, but for the nearly 30 years that Hatfield spent in the U.S. Senate, Etulain serves up a scant 28 pages, inclusive of several full-page photographs. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Aug. 2021",
"Buyers can dig deeper into the country of origin and engross themselves in modern experiences from contemporary creatives without saying a word. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, House Beautiful , 13 May 2021",
"Amid a social justice movement and COVID-19 pandemic that engross the nation, the term gains gravitas. \u2014 Michael Gehlken, Dallas News , 11 Mar. 2021",
"His mother sang and played piano and was a big supporter, and Benet would engross himself in his detective father's extensive classical music collection. \u2014 Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Mar. 2021",
"The Senate voted to engross the bills ahead of debate Tuesday, which blocked changes to the measures. \u2014 Nyamekye Daniel, Washington Examiner , 24 Feb. 2021",
"Two days is enough time to engross yourself in a curriculum, build a solid foundation, sleep on it and continue to build on that foundation the next day. \u2014 Chris Mudgett, Outdoor Life , 1 July 2020",
"The intricate synergies of coffee and capitalism form the subtext of the historian Augustine Sedgewick\u2019s thoroughly engrossing first book, Coffeeland: One Man\u2019s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug. \u2014 Michael Pollan, The Atlantic , 6 Apr. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English, from Anglo-French engrosser to put (a legal document) in final form, from Medieval Latin ingrossare , from in grossam (put) into final form, literally, (written) in large (letter)"
],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-223625"
},
"entre nous":{
"type":[
"French phrase"
],
"definitions":[
": between us : in confidence"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4\u207ftr\u1d4a-n\u00fc"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-224443"
},
"envermeil":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to color with or as if with vermilion"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\"+"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"en- entry 1 + vermeil (adjective)"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-224940"
},
"engraff":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": engraft"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English engraffen, ingraffen , from en- entry 1 or in- entry 2 + graffen to graft, insert (a scion)"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-232149"
},
"envy":{
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage",
": malice",
": an object of envious notice or feeling",
": to feel envy toward or on account of",
": begrudge",
": to feel or show envy",
": a feeling of unhappiness over another's good fortune together with a desire to have the same good fortune",
": a person or a thing that is envied",
": to feel unhappiness over the good fortune of (someone) and desire the same good fortune : feel envy toward or because of"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-v\u0113",
"\u02c8en-v\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"covetousness",
"enviousness",
"green-eyed monster",
"invidiousness",
"jealousy",
"resentment"
],
"antonyms":[
"begrudge",
"resent"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"my envy of his success",
"Their exotic vacations inspired envy in their friends.",
"We watched with envy as the yacht slid past us.",
"Verb",
"I envy you for your large group of friends.",
"I envy the way you've made so many friends.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Price aside, the San Diego County Water Authority has become the envy of other water districts for its diverse supply from recycling projects, a desalination plant, a Colorado River water deal and conservation efforts. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 May 2022",
"Homeowners who have envy -worthy pads but don't necessarily want to rent out their entire home or rooms on Airbnb or others, might be more comfortable showcasing their kitchens instead. \u2014 Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
"Another is with the hardware itself, giving your neighborhood a bad case of grill envy . \u2014 Larry Olmsted, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"As practically the only outside (non-reservation) characters in the film, this couple can be supportive one moment and shady the next, representing a lifestyle that Bill and his friends envy , but can\u2019t bring themselves to respect. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 21 May 2022",
"This ballet explores themes of love, vengeance, and envy while examining the juxtaposition between nature and modern life. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
"And there are plenty of chances to experience order envy . \u2014 Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Its success spurred envy from schools elsewhere in the city, and grumbling about its extra cost. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Those who want to clearly separate envy from jealousy are zealous in their nitpicking. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Artists bound by agreements with their labels may envy this freedom, but some, including Halsey, don\u2019t seem to have been barred from saying as much. \u2014 Sonia Rao, Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
"On Vanuatu, which boasts verdant volcanic landscapes and turquoise waters, Philbrick lived a life many an international fugitive would envy . \u2014 Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone , 23 May 2022",
"Its members oversee a six-figure fundraising juggernaut that any PTA president would envy . \u2014 oregonlive , 8 May 2022",
"Roy, who has coached every track and field event at one time or another, will also hand off a legacy any coach would envy . \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 4 May 2022",
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has earned admiration and respect across a spectrum of leaders in the kind of way most American politicians would envy these days. \u2014 Rick Klein, ABC News , 8 Mar. 2022",
"The family matriarch, Joan Wicks, a teacher, built a haven of creation that Marmee would envy \u2014 the primary difference being that the idyllic landscape was firmly rooted in Black culture. \u2014 Allure , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Veering from immature to sophisticated, hilarious to heartfelt, Haim delivered a performance that actors with a dozen films under their belt would envy . \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 12 Jan. 2022",
"The quiet self-certainty of fellow citizens stifled dissent with a reach and power that a censor\u2019s office could only envy . \u2014 Jedediah Britton-purdy, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Noun",
"Middle English envie , from Anglo-French, from Latin invidia , from invidus envious, from invid\u0113re to look askance at, envy, from in- + vid\u0113re to see \u2014 more at wit"
],
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"Noun",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-232536"
},
"enduro":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a long race (as for automobiles or motorcycles) stressing endurance rather than speed"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8du\u0307r-(\u02cc)\u014d",
"-\u02c8dyu\u0307r-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Thankfully, not all top-end enduro bikes are going that way. \u2014 Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"For mountain bikes, our categories were cross-country, short travel/trail, long travel/ enduro , women\u2019s mountain bikes, and e-mountain bikes. \u2014 Josh Patterson, Outside Online , 18 May 2020",
"The bike generally fought above its weight class but would occasionally pull a punch or two when it was thrown into fights more appropriate for enduro bikes. \u2014 Zach White, Outside Online , 23 Apr. 2021",
"Cross-country and enduro racers will certainly benefit from Live Valve, which imposed a weight penalty of about five ounces on my setup but makes up for it with improved efficiency and speed. \u2014 Kelly Bastone, Outside Online , 31 Dec. 2019",
"So were cruisers and choppers, enduro bikes, and trikes. \u2014 Denise Coffey, courant.com , 19 Aug. 2019",
"That\u2019s fast for a 15-kW, 3,000-rpm enduro -style bike weighing just under 150 lb. \u2014 Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics , 8 Feb. 2019",
"Crankworx has free admission and features the world\u2019s best enduro , downhill, and freestyle riders competing around the mountain. \u2014 Megan Michelson, Outside Online , 18 May 2018",
"Brake levers are completely revamped with a new bracing point to improve rigidity and control, and a new enduro -specific pedal adds stability and contact area for sneaker-styles shoes. \u2014 Aaron Gulley, Outside Online , 29 May 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"endur ance + -o (Italian or Spanish masculine noun ending)"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1935, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-000615"
},
"engraved glass":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": glass ornamented with intaglio cutting that is usually left unpolished \u2014 compare cut glass"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-002734"
},
"Endek":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a member of the fascist anti-Semitic National Democratic party of Poland"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en\u02ccdek"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Polish, from en (name of the letter n , here standing for the initial letter of the first word of Narodowa Demokracja National Democratic party, literally, National Democracy) +0 -dek (irregular from the d and k in Demokracja )"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-011111"
},
"engrandize":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make great or grandiose"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8gra(a)n\u02ccd\u012bz",
"en-",
"\u02c8engr\u0259n-",
"\u02c8e\u014bgr\u0259n-"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"modification (influenced by -ize ) of obsolete French engrandiss- , stem of engrandir , from Old French, from en- en- entry 1 + grant, grand great, large"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-011255"
},
"enwomb":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to shut up as if in a womb"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8w\u00fcm",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1590, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-030816"
},
"enlacement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the process or result of interlacing",
": a pattern of interlacing elements"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8l\u0101-sm\u0259nt",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-035608"
},
"engrandizement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an act of engrandizing or the state of being engrandized"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8gra(a)nd\u0259\u0307zm\u0259nt",
"en-",
"-\u02ccd\u012bz-",
"\u02c8en\u02ccgra(a)n\u02ccd\u012bz-",
"\u02ccen\u02ccgra(a)n\u02c8d\u012bz-"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-041134"
},
"energetics":{
"type":[
"noun, plural in form but singular in construction"
],
"definitions":[
": a branch of mechanics that deals primarily with energy and its transformations",
": the total energy relations and transformations of a physical, chemical, or biological system",
": a branch of physics that deals primarily with energy and its transformations",
": the total energy relations and transformations of a physical, chemical, or biological system"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cce-n\u0259r-\u02c8je-tiks",
"-iks"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-043349"
},
"endoxerosis":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a physiological disease of citrus causing the juice sacs especially in the stylar end of the fruit to collapse and leave a hollow region"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6en(\u02cc)d\u014d+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from end- + xer- + -osis"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-050930"
},
"engravement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": engraving"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-vm\u0259nt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-060148"
},
"encapsulant":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a material used for encapsulating"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n\u02c8kaps\u0259l\u0259nt",
"en-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"en-"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Whatever the outcome of Breivik\u2019s request for early parole, which will be decided by a three-judge panel in coming weeks, some take an enlightened view of the Norwegian government\u2019s apparent commitment to treat him like any other prisoner. \u2014 Mark Lewis, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Jan. 2022",
"The more enlightened companies share profits with their shareholders along the way and gain greater loyalty. \u2014 Walter Loeb, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
"And the fact remains that for all of Northam\u2019s more enlightened rhetoric, Black Virginians continue to be incarcerated at a higher rate, live in worse poverty, and struggle to get quality health care and education. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Hollywood apologizes for over 100 years of stereotyping Latinos and promises a new, enlightened era. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Dec. 2021",
"In these more enlightened times, the director\u2019s challenge is to find a balance between the original script and contemporary social mores. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Dec. 2021",
"According to the principal, the students frequently have a more enlightened view of depression, anxiety and mental health issues than many adults. \u2014 cleveland , 15 Oct. 2021",
"There are more and more enlightened leaders, like Joly, in the American private sector. \u2014 Peter Georgescu, Forbes , 16 Sep. 2021",
"This is where, in a more enlightened world, the education would flow in the other direction, from Mitchell to the Senate leader. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 Sep. 2021"
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"\u02ccen-t\u0259-r\u014d-\u02c8t\u00e4k-s\u0259n",
"\u02ccent-\u0259-r\u014d-\u02c8t\u00e4k-s\u0259n"
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"noun"
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": one that enervates"
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"\u02c8en\u0259(r)\u02ccv\u0101t\u0259(r)",
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": entozoa"
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"1790, in the meaning defined above"
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"1968, in the meaning defined above"
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"definitions":[
": a conveyor that feeds material or objects (such as bottles to be capped or labeled) into a processing machine"
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": producing enterotoxin",
": producing enterotoxin"
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"\u02ccen-t\u0259-r\u014d-\u02cct\u00e4k-s\u0259-\u02c8jen-ik",
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"1935, in the meaning defined above"
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"definitions":[
": establish , implant"
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"inseminate",
"instill",
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"sow"
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"everyone remembers that special teacher who enrooted within them a love of learning",
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"Middle English"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
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": one that enters or makes entries",
": drawer-in"
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": one that enchants",
": sorcerer"
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"en-"
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"conjuror",
"mage",
"Magian",
"magician",
"magus",
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"sorcerer",
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"voodooist",
"witch",
"wizard"
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"in Shakespeare's play an enchanter creates a storm at sea that causes his rivals to be cast upon the shores of his magical isle"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-143009"
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"verb"
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"definitions":[
": encircle"
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"en-"
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"1604, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-152735"
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"verb"
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": to furnish with proper grounds for seeking or claiming something",
": to give a title to",
": to give a right or claim to",
": to give an enforceable right to claim something"
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"in-\u02c8t\u012b-t\u1d4al",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8t\u012b-t\u1d4al"
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"He entitled his book \u201cMy Life on Mars.\u201d",
"the card entitles my grandmother to the discount for senior citizens",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At the very least, the commission should have identified the correct profit-split allocation key or explained why any of LuxOpCo\u2019s contributions would necessarily entitle it to a greater return under a contribution analysis, the judgment says. \u2014 Ryan Finley, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
"Paying money doesn\u2019t entitle anyone to be abusive to an athlete. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Senate Bill 1341, which cleared its first legislative hurdle last week, would entitle high school seniors who fit the definition of homelessness to at least four monthly cash payments between April 2023 and August 2023. \u2014 Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The first one is rights\u2014are there certain basic rights that either impose constraints on what we are permitted to do to others, or are their basic rights that entitle people to certain claims on us? \u2014 Walter Frick, Quartz , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Measures across the country now entitle the obese to preferential seats on subways, priority at places such as banks, and in some cases, protection from discrimination. \u2014 Jack Nicas, BostonGlobe.com , 27 Feb. 2022",
"He may also be rudely awakened to learn that in most divorce settlements, her contribution would entitle her to half of all the marital assets. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com , 25 Dec. 2021",
"He may also be rudely awakened to learn that in most divorce settlements, her contribution would entitle her to half of all the marital assets. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 25 Dec. 2021",
"He may also be rudely awakened to learn that in most divorce settlements, her contribution would entitle her to half of all the marital assets. \u2014 Amy Dickinson, oregonlive , 25 Dec. 2021"
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French entitler , from Late Latin intitulare , from Latin in- + titulus title"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-172536"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": the ultimate consumer of a finished product"
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"Programmers should always keep the end user in mind when designing a new piece of software.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Engaging a nontechnical audience will require a different PR approach, starting with establishing key messages that clearly state the value for the end user . \u2014 Ayelet Noff, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"When developing your product pages, keep both the decision-maker and the end user in mind. \u2014 Steve Ohanians, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"One of many examples of how that works is an ad for a Turkish company, which promises to purchase any goods the customer wants, and pass them on for payment in rubles to the Russian end user . \u2014 Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor , 2 May 2022",
"As such, a Member Agency choosing this compliance path also must submit to Metropolitan an enforcement plan with real consequences to the consumer or end user for failing to abide by the one-day-per-week restriction or ban on outdoor water use. \u2014 Ian James, Los Angeles Times , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Withholding names from the fragrances was dually intentional to ensure that the end user is not influenced to think, or feel, something predetermined when wearing them. \u2014 Celia Ellenberg, Vogue , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Cronobacter can be introduced into baby formula in different ways, according to the CDC, including after a container has been opened by the end user . \u2014 NBC News , 15 Apr. 2022",
"During the discovery phase, the team identifies customer, end user and stakeholder needs as well as product strengths and weaknesses. \u2014 Expert Panel, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Although, the Starlink network would be under SpaceX\u2019s control instead and comes at a cost: roughly $99 per month for the end user . \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 10 Feb. 2022"
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"circa 1945, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-172623"
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"definitions":[
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"\u02c8en-\u02ccver-\u02c8p\u00e4-sh\u0259",
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"definitions":[
": to endue with grace"
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"en+"
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"definitions":[
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-235516"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
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"(\u02cc)en\u02ccd-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-001339"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": one that enlightens"
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"1582, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-001934"
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"Definition of enspirit variant of inspirit"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-004304"
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"type":[
"adverb (or adjective)"
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"definitions":[
": inward"
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"French, inside"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-074131"
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"enchanted":{
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"adjective",
"adverb"
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"definitions":[
": placed under or as if under a magic spell",
": having or seeming to have a magical quality",
": made to feel delightfully pleased or charmed"
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"in-\u02c8chan-t\u0259d",
"en-"
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"charmed",
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"magic",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-080656"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": something placed between two things",
": insertion sense 2b"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6\u00e4\u207f\u2027tr\u0259\u00a6d\u0259",
"-d\u0259\u0304",
"-\u00a6d\u0259r(\u2027)",
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"history_and_etymology":[
"French, from entre- + deux two, from Latin duos , accusative of duo"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-082814"
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"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a genus of erect Asian shrubs (family Ericaceae) that have whorled branches, leaves which are mostly clustered at the twig ends, and nodding flowers in terminal clusters and that are often cultivated as ornamentals"
],
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"\u02cce\u014bk\u0113\u02c8an(t)th\u0259s"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from enki- (perhaps irregular from Greek enkyos pregnant, from en in + kyos fetus) + -anthus ; akin to Latin cavus hollow"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-103121"
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"energeia":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": energy sense 4a"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccen\u0259r\u02c8j|\u012b\u0259",
"-r\u02c8g|",
"|\u0101\u0259",
"|\u0113(y)\u0259",
"e\u02c8ner(\u02cc)g\u0101\u02cc\u00e4"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Greek, activity, operation"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-104803"
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"entreasure":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to store in a treasury"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"en- entry 1 + treasure (noun)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-134831"
},
"endways":{
"type":[
"adverb or adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": in or toward the direction of the ends : lengthwise",
": with the end forward (as toward the observer)",
": on end : upright"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8end-\u02ccw\u0101z"
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"first_known_use":[
"circa 1608, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-135100"
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"endwise":{
"type":[
"adverb or adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": endways"
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"first_known_use":[
"1655, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-204551"
},
"enepidermic":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": applied to the unbroken skin for medicinal purposes"
],
"pronounciation":[
"(\u00a6)en+"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"en- entry 2 + epidermic"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-221519"
},
"end with":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to have (something) at the end",
": to cause (something) to have (something) at the end"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-000800"
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"enchanter's nightshade":{
"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": any plant of the genus Circaea (especially C. lutetiana ) of the family Onagraceae characterized by inconspicuous white flowers and bristly fruit"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-002415"
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"engr":{
"type":[
"abbreviation"
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"definitions":[
"engineer",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-003905"
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"Endecott":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
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"definitions":[
"John 1588\u20131665 colonial governor of Massachusetts"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-di-k\u0259t",
"-d\u0259-\u02cck\u00e4t"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-013444"
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"enl\u00e8vement":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the lift into the air of a ballerina by her supporting male dancer"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4\u207flevm\u00e4\u207f"
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"French, action of lifting, from Middle French enlevement , from enlever to lift, raise (from Old French, to raise, from en from that place\u2014from Latin inde , akin to Latin is he and to Latin de from\u2014+ lever to raise) + -ment"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-174033"
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"endovenous":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": intravenous"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-183614"
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"adjective"
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": alimentary",
": being or having a coating designed to pass through the stomach unaltered and disintegrate in the intestines",
": of, relating to, or affecting the intestines",
": alimentary",
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"in-",
"en-\u02c8ter-ik, in-"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Livestock includes manure and enteric fermentation from the digestive systems in cattle, sheep and other ruminants. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Livestock includes manure and enteric fermentation from the digestive systems in cattle, sheep and other ruminants. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Livestock includes manure and enteric fermentation from the digestive systems in cattle, sheep and other ruminants. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Livestock includes manure and enteric fermentation from the digestive systems in cattle, sheep and other ruminants. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Livestock includes manure and enteric fermentation from the digestive systems in cattle, sheep and other ruminants. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Scientists call this little brain the enteric nervous system (ENS) because it is hidden within the digestive system\u2019s walls. \u2014 Aaraf Adam, Essence , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Livestock includes manure and enteric fermentation from the digestive systems in cattle, sheep and other ruminants. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Livestock includes manure and enteric fermentation from the digestive systems in cattle, sheep and other ruminants. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 7 Apr. 2022"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-193118"
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": countable"
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"circa 1889, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-200613"
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"noun"
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": to make rough : roughen"
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"en+"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-074644"
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"noun"
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": an interlude sometimes inserted in Spanish mystery plays of the middle ages",
": a short comic piece usually with music and dancing in the Spanish theater"
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"\u02ccen\u2027tr\u0259\u02c8m\u0101s"
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"Spanish, from Catalan entrem\u00e8s , from Latin intermissus , past participle of intermittere to intermit"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-075031"
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"definitions":[
": in drag"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4\u207f-tr\u00e4-ve-st\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-091336"
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"endyma":{
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"adjective",
"noun"
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": ependyma"
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"\u02c8end\u0259m\u0259"
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"New Latin, from Greek endyma garment, from endyein"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-122748"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
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"definitions":[
": encapsulate"
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"-(\u02cc)s\u00fcl",
"en-"
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"1877, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-124750"
},
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"transitive verb"
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"definitions":[
": to make captive"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-142742"
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": an intermediary center of trade and transshipment"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Much of central Shashamene, a booming entrepot some 200km south, was burned to the ground. \u2014 The Economist , 1 Aug. 2020",
"His children are now at the age (early 30s) when in years past the Sassoons, an Asian trading dynasty, would dispatch them to entrepots to advance the family concern. \u2014 The Economist , 7 Nov. 2019",
"That faith, already shaken during weeks of political protests against the entrepot \u2019s pro-Beijing government, is in tatters following China\u2019s treatment of Cathay Pacific, an airline based in Hong Kong. \u2014 The Economist , 22 Aug. 2019",
"Singapore is a trading entrepot , with a big and busy port. \u2014 The Economist , 1 Aug. 2019",
"Occult-minded visitors streamed in and added their own legends and theories, and today Mount Shasta is an entrepot for all things New Age. \u2014 Brian Coyne, SFChronicle.com , 11 July 2019",
"Fibonacci lived in a professional entrepot then called Bugia, not as a warrior or an enemy, but as a regular person and student who respected his teachers. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic , 11 June 2019",
"Dubai, an Arabian Peninsula entrepot , long has been a favorite port of call for those skirting the law. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 June 2018",
"Occult-minded visitors streamed in and added their own legends and theories, and today Mount Shasta is an entrepot for all things New Age. \u2014 Brian Coyne, SFChronicle.com , 11 July 2019"
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"French, from Middle French entrepost , from entreposer to put between, from entre- inter- + poser to pose, put"
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"first_known_use":[
"1732, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-143116"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":[
": penetrating into the associated root and ramifying between the cells \u2014 compare ectotrophic"
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"first_known_use":[
"1899, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-151650"
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"adjective"
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"definitions":[
": having a right to certain benefits or privileges",
": having or showing a feeling of entitlement (see entitlement sense 2 )"
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"in-\u02c8t\u012b-t\u1d4ald",
"en-"
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"first_known_use":[
"1817, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-153622"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": typhoid fever",
": paratyphoid",
": typhoid fever",
": paratyphoid"
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"first_known_use":[
"1833, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-153901"
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"enterostomy":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a surgical formation of an opening into the intestine through the abdominal wall",
": a surgical formation of an opening into the intestine through the abdominal wall"
],
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"\u02ccen-t\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4-st\u0259-m\u0113",
"\u02ccent-\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4s-t\u0259-m\u0113"
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"International Scientific Vocabulary"
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"1878, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-154908"
},
"engraven":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
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"definitions":[
": engrave"
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"by alteration"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-164523"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a steak cut from between the ribs"
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"pronounciation":[
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"French entrec\u00f4te , from entre- inter- + c\u00f4te rib, from Latin costa \u2014 more at inter- , coast"
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"first_known_use":[
"1840, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-172847"
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"endpaper":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a once-folded sheet of paper having one leaf pasted flat against the inside of the front or back cover of a book and the other pasted at the base to the first or last page"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An endpaper ripped out of one of the old books was on the table, someone having scribbled in pencil, Stay off. \u2014 Lauren Groff, The New Yorker , 27 Apr. 2021",
"No animal is injured, thank goodness, in this playful introduction for children ages 3-6 to Blake\u2019s famous poem, which appears unaltered in the endpapers . \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 15 Feb. 2019",
"Each book comes with an inside cover designed especially for the book in colorfully patterned endpaper and a matching bookmark. \u2014 Catie L'heureux, The Cut , 2 Feb. 2018",
"The book\u2019s gorgeous endpapers are based on vintage Disneyland shopping bags. \u2014 Chris Nichols, Los Angeles Magazine , 14 Dec. 2017",
"In the opening endpapers , against a backdrop of darkness, an angel carrying a lighted candle leads a sleepy parade of small children forward, into the book. \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 7 July 2017",
"The book's endpapers , that wallpaper glued to the inside cover, are both adhesive and cohesive, serving as a visual table of contents and tone-setting allegory. \u2014 Claire Howorth, Time , 12 Oct. 2017",
"Willems began the story on the endpapers , rather than after the title page. \u2014 Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker , 6 Feb. 2017"
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"first_known_use":[
"1818, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-180903"
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"noun"
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": an inscrutable or mysterious person",
": an obscure speech or writing",
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"i-\u02c8nig-m\u0259",
"e-",
"i-\u02c8nig-m\u0259"
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"conundrum",
"head-scratcher",
"mystery",
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"puzzlement",
"riddle",
"secret",
"why"
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"examples":[
"Despite the enigma of the singularity, the big bang theory is unquestionably one of the most successful ideas in the history of science. \u2014 Tom Yulsman , Astronomy , September 1999",
"Many scholars call it the ultimate enigma of the Nazi era, indeed perhaps of modern history: How did the Holocaust happen? And why in Germany? \u2014 Ralph Blumenthal , New York Times , 10 Jan. 1998",
"Indeed, the bond that in every individual connects the physiological life and the psychic life\u2014or better the relation existing between the contingence of an individual and the free spirit that assumes it\u2014is the deepest enigma implied in the condition of being human, and this enigma is presented in its most disturbing form in woman. \u2014 Simone de Beauvoir , translated and edited by H. M. Parshley, The Second Sex , 1953",
"To his friends, he was always something of an enigma .",
"one of the great enigmas of our time",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Latino paradox concept was hardly an enigma for Boyle Heights resident Carlos Montes. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"As China rose, as America fought and lost its forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as technology networked the world, a Russian enigma took form in the Kremlin. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Mar. 2022",
"John Ibrahim is \u2013 amongst so many things \u2013 an enigma wrapped in a mystery. \u2014 Patrick Frater, Variety , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Right now, Allan is the biggest enigma of the Christie family. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Her luminous beauty in part explains her effect, but so too does the enduring enigma of Garbo, who died in 1990 at age 84. \u2014 Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Despite the enigma of the man\u2019s midsection, the date is a success. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Dec. 2021",
"Since she was cast in her breakout role as Maddy Perez on Euphoria in 2019, Alexa Demie has been a true enigma on the Hollywood scene. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Serving as one of the most challenging tracks on the circuit, Daytona has essentially been an enigma since NASCAR began fielding races there unless your last name is Earnhardt. \u2014 Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic , 19 Feb. 2022"
],
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"Latin aenigma , from Greek ainigmat-, ainigma , from ainissesthai to speak in riddles, from ainos fable"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1539, in the meaning defined at sense 3"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-185904"
},
"energy level":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one of the stable states of constant energy that may be assumed by a physical system"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Directed with \u00e9lan by Tony-winner Kenny Leon, the production raises the energy level with stadium-style razzle-dazzle. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Jocelyn Alo brought the energy level to a fever pitch on a muggy Friday afternoon at Oklahoma\u2019s Marita Hynes Field. \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 2 June 2022",
"His set was a bit of a letdown, given the energy level and growing crowd size as the familiar DJ hit the stage. \u2014 Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star , 29 May 2022",
"The Mustangs energy level picked up throughout that day. \u2014 Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun , 27 Apr. 2022",
"In order to get up to the energy level needed for operation, operators ramp up the current so that a few magnets quench. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Silk Sonic set the energy level at the top of the show, momentarily making the high camp of a 1970s pastiche feel like a get-on-up good thing. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 4 Apr. 2022",
"The energy level discrepancy was apparent between the two lineups. \u2014 Shane Young, Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"As for specific features, the Venu Sq offers an always-on LCD touchscreen, blood oxygen monitoring, energy level monitoring, and sleep tracking. \u2014 Gear Team, Wired , 30 Nov. 2021"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1902, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-190941"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": encrinal"
],
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"(\u02c8)en\u00a6krinik",
"(\u02c8)e\u014b\u00a6-"
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"encrinic from New Latin Encrinus + English -ic; encrinital from encrinite + -al"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-191530"
},
"enerve":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": enervate entry 2"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"French \u00e9nerver , from Latin enervare"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-200848"
},
"endosclerite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a sclerite that is part of the internal skeleton of an insect or other arthropod"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6en(\u02cc)d\u014d+"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"end- + sclerite"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-201111"
},
"enround":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": surround"
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"Middle English enrounden , from en- entry 1 + round anything round"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-204247"
},
"Enteropneusta":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an order or other division of hemichordate worms consisting of Balanoglossus and related genera"
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"pronounciation":[
"\""
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"Plural noun",
"New Latin, from enter- + -pneusta",
"New Latin, from enter- + -pneusta"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-211433"
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"entering port":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-213555"
},
"ens rationis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an abstract logical entity usually having no positive existence outside the mind \u2014 compare ens reale"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6enz\u02ccrash\u0113\u02c8\u014dn\u0259\u0307s",
"\u00a6en(t)s\u02ccr\u00e4t\u0113\u02c8-",
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Medieval Latin, literally, being of the mind"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-220903"
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"engoul\u00e9e":{
"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":[
": having the extremities issuing from the mouths of animals"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"engoul\u00e9e from French, feminine of engoul\u00e9 , from past participle of engouler to swallow up, from Old French engoler , from en- en- entry 1 + gole throat, mouth, from Latin gula throat; engoul\u00e9 from French, from past participle of engouler; engouled modification (influenced by English -ed ) of French engoul\u00e9"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-230004"
},
"entrechat":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a leap in which a ballet dancer repeatedly crosses the legs and sometimes beats them together"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4\u207f(n)-tr\u0259-\u02ccsh\u00e4"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"French, modification of Italian ( capriola ) intrecciata , literally, intertwined caper"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1706, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-230523"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a number expressing the relative efficiency of an appliance (such as a room airconditioner) that is obtained by dividing the unit's output in BTUs per hour by its energy requirement in watts"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-235738"
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"Enugu":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
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"definitions":[
"city in a coal-mining region of southern Nigeria population 408,000"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-002253"
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"engraver's block":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a heavy metal turntable with clamps for securing articles to be engraved"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-020051"
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"endenize":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": endenizen"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"en- entry 1 + denize"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-031115"
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"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of Eneolithic variant of aeneolithic"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-031522"
},
"ens reale":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an entity that has either actual or potential existence beyond the confines of the finite mind \u2014 compare ens rationis"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6enzr\u0113\u02c8\u0101(\u02cc)l\u0113",
"\u00a6en(t)sr\u0101\u02c8\u00e4(\u02cc)l\u0101"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Medieval Latin, literally, real being"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-050018"
},
"endoscope":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun,"
],
"definitions":[
": an illuminated usually fiber-optic flexible or rigid tubular instrument for visualizing the interior of a hollow organ or part (such as the bladder or esophagus) for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes that typically has one or more channels to enable passage of instruments (such as forceps or scissors)",
": an illuminated usually fiber-optic flexible or rigid tubular instrument for visualizing the interior of a hollow organ or part (as the bladder or esophagus) for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes that typically has one or more channels to enable passage of instruments (as forceps or scissors)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-d\u0259-\u02ccsk\u014dp",
"\u02c8en-d\u0259-\u02ccsk\u014dp"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"An enteroscopy is used to examine the small intestine with a specialized endoscope that can reach further down your GI tract and give a better view of the area. \u2014 Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF , 13 Jan. 2022",
"The endoscope goes down your esophagus and gives your doctor a good look at your throat, stomach, and duodenum (the beginning of your small intestine) to see if there is any inflammation or bleeding. \u2014 Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF , 13 Jan. 2022",
"According to hospital officials, a review of safety procedures found that tubing used in endoscope procedures was rinsed but not disinfected. \u2014 CNN , 3 Oct. 2021",
"Three times, doctors tried to stop the bleeding with an endoscope \u2014 a flexible tube that can be used to see and treat internal bleeding \u2014 to no avail, daughter Dottie Glatz said. \u2014 John Fauber And Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 Aug. 2021",
"Johns injects less than one-tenth of a teaspoon\u2019s worth of the silk and hyaluronic acid mixture through a special catheter wired through his endoscope . \u2014 Max G. Levy, Wired , 28 June 2021",
"And the industrial endoscope lens is water-resistant. \u2014 Maren Estrada, BGR , 26 Mar. 2021",
"This wireless WiFi endoscope can work with Android 5.0+ smartphone and iPhone with iOS 9+ system. \u2014 Maren Estrada, BGR , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Debra then called John to come to Gulfport to try to remove the hook with an endoscope . \u2014 Debra Moore, The Conversation , 13 May 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"International Scientific Vocabulary"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1861, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-052605"
},
"enviable":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": highly desirable"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8en-v\u0113-\u0259-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The company is in the enviable position of having no real competitors.",
"She has an enviable reputation for honesty.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"No means are beyond bounds when the ends are so enviable . \u2014 New York Times , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Sally Mann has taken no end of indelible photographs \u2014 her strike rate is enviable . \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 9 Feb. 2022",
"As the punny title suggests, Schumer plays a woman named Beth(*), whose life on paper seems enviable . \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 8 Mar. 2022",
"The sleeper hit was sincere and defiant in its messaging, establishing Lipa as a new kind of pop star, someone whose confidence was enviable but not unattainable. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Feb. 2022",
"The Rams won it on Sunday, inside the multibillion-dollar SoFi Stadium, in Inglewood, California, where the weather both outside and in looked warm, dry, and generally enviable from back East. \u2014 Ian Crouch, The New Yorker , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Sakai enjoys strong support from an enviable group of Latina leaders representing a lot of fields. \u2014 Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News , 11 May 2022",
"Kristy Burns, Annette Demel, and Lynn Edmiston from Colorado Springs, Colorado, live up to their name with a nomadic lifestyle that's both age-defying and enviable . \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Esports in Kenya presents numerous, valuable opportunities that can be potentially modeled into an enviable career. \u2014 Ian Mugo Wanyeki, Quartz , 11 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1602, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-053506"
},
"en carr\u00e9":{
"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": on the intersection of four numbers in roulette so as to include all four"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4\u207fk\u0227r\u0101"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"French, literally, in the form of a square"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-054723"
},
"enucleate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": explain",
": to deprive of a nucleus",
": to remove without cutting into",
": to deprive of a nucleus",
": to remove without cutting into",
": lacking a nucleus"
],
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)\u0113-\u02c8n\u00fc-kl\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t",
"-\u02c8ny\u00fc-",
"(\u02c8)\u0113-\u02c8n(y)\u00fc-kl\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t",
"-kl\u0113-\u0259t, -\u02cc\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin enucleatus , past participle of enucleare , literally, to remove the kernel from, from e- + nucleus kernel \u2014 more at nucleus"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1548, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-060555"
},
"entrepreneur":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4n-tr\u0259-p(r)\u0259-\u02c8n\u0259r",
"-\u02c8n(y)u\u0307r",
"\u02cc\u00e4\u207fn-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"People are showing up at New York\u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art to see a marble statue of Rihanna, the music superstar and entrepreneur . \u2014 Joseph Pisani, WSJ , 23 June 2022",
"Previously, Murdoch was married to Wendi Deng, an entrepreneur and investor, from 1999 to 2014. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 June 2022",
"Ludacris, the Atlanta rap star, actor and entrepreneur , is one of 24 entertainers to be given a Hollywood Walk of Fame star next year. \u2014 Rodney Ho, ajc , 21 June 2022",
"Gullah Geechee tour guide, entrepreneur and content creator Akua Page. \u2014 Maya Eaglin, NBC News , 20 June 2022",
"Today winners were announced for the second annual Yu Prize, founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist Wendy Yu to support up-and-coming Chinese fashion designers. \u2014 Laia Garcia-furtado, Vogue , 19 June 2022",
"Stephanie Nguyen is an entrepreneur and the owner of DC Lash Bar, Washington D.C.'s premier eyelash extension bar. \u2014 Stephanie Nguyen, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"Anitta wears many hats: superstar artist, boss woman, and entrepreneur . \u2014 Griselda Flores, Billboard , 16 June 2022",
"The singer and entrepreneur spoke about all of his endeavors before the Backstreet Boys\u2019 extensive summer tour \u2013 which stops at Riverbend on July 26 \u2013 kicked into high gear. \u2014 The Enquirer , 15 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"French, from Old French, from entreprendre to undertake \u2014 more at enterprise"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1762, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-062721"
},
"entrepreneurial":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": having to do with the creation and development of economic ventures : of, relating to, characteristic of, or suited to an entrepreneur",
": engaged or interested in the development of economic ventures"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4n-tr\u0259-p(r)\u0259-\u02c8n\u0259r-\u0113-\u0259l",
"-\u02c8n(y)u\u0307r-",
"\u02cc\u00e4\u207fn-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1890, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-064404"
},
"enwoven":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of enwoven variant of inwoven"
],
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"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-080257"
},
"energy drink":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a usually carbonated beverage that typically contains caffeine and other ingredients (such as taurine and ginseng) intended to increase the drinker's energy"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pregnant and breastfeeding woman should limit energy drink usage as well. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2022",
"Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen and Checo Perez raced swamp buggies for their energy drink sponsor. \u2014 Joshua Robinson, WSJ , 8 May 2022",
"An energy drink once brought an entire generation of computer gamers together, and a few chips can turn into a bedtime ritual with a loved one. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Space Boost energy drink , best fuel to save the day. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Sneak in some low-carb tortillas and an energy drink before heading off to see my second patient (a young-at-heart 69-year-old). \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Bigger swings, like hybrid products, can potentially help reinvigorate the category by encouraging people who favor coffee or an energy drink for an afternoon pick-me-up to try a Coke instead. \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Be a hero and cover all your bases with Space Boost energy drink . \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 20 Apr. 2022",
"De Lorme, meanwhile, was a beverage industry veteran who was most recently the vice president of innovation at Monster Energy, a leading energy drink company. \u2014 Tim Casey, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1904, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-082721"
},
"enter (into) the equation":{
"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":[
": to become something that must be considered or dealt with"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-084454"
},
"Endotrophi":{
"type":[],
"definitions":[
"Definition of Endotrophi taxonomic synonym of entotrophi"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6en(\u02cc)d\u014d\u00a6tr\u014d\u02ccf\u012b"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from end- + trophi"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-084544"
},
"encarpus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an ornament on a frieze or capital consisting of festoons (as of fruit or flowers)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"en\u02c8k\u00e4rp\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"alteration (influenced by Greek enkarpos ) of earlier encarpa festoons as an architectural ornament, from Latin, from Greek enkarpa , neuter plural of enkarpos containing fruit, from en- en- entry 2 + -karpos -carpous"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-092408"
},
"enl":{
"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":[
"enlarged",
"enlisted",
"enlarged"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-092750"
},
"Entyloma":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a genus of parasitic fungi (family Tilletiaceae) that produce abundant conidia on long conidiophores and that comprise the white smuts"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccent\u1d4al\u02c8\u014dm\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from en- entry 2 + Greek tyl\u014dma callus"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-094118"
},
"enure":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to accustom to accept something undesirable",
": to become of advantage"
],
"pronounciation":[
"i-\u02c8nu\u0307r",
"-\u02c8nyu\u0307r",
"e-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-094405"
},
"endecha":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a short mournful Spanish song usually having four lines of six or seven syllables"
],
"pronounciation":[
"en\u02c8d\u0101ch\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Spanish, probably from Latin indicta , neuter plural of indictus , past participle of indicere to proclaim, announce, from in + dicere to say"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-101556"
},
"Enid":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"city north-northwest of Oklahoma City in northern Oklahoma population 49,379"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u0113-n\u0259d"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-110620"
},
"enuresis":{
"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the involuntary discharge of urine : incontinence of urine",
": an involuntary discharge of urine : incontinence of urine"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccen-yu\u0307-\u02c8r\u0113-s\u0259s",
"\u02ccen-yu\u0307-\u02c8r\u0113-s\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from Greek enourein to urinate in, wet the bed, from en- + ourein to urinate \u2014 more at urine"
],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1800, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-112217"
},
"Endymion":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a beautiful youth loved by Selene in Greek mythology"
],
"pronounciation":[
"en-\u02c8di-m\u0113-\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Latin, from Greek Endymi\u014dn"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1567, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-113657"
},
"en route":{
"type":[
"adverb",
"adverb or adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": on or along the way",
": on or along the way"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4n-\u02c8r\u00fct",
"\u00e4\u207f(n)-\u02c8r\u00fct",
"en-",
"in-",
"-\u02c8rau\u0307t",
"\u00e4n-\u02c8r\u00fct"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"According to Sudhanshu Kaushik, executive director of the organization, representatives from the North American Association of Indian Students are currently en route to Baltimore to obtain more details on Nakka's death. \u2014 Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer , 23 June 2022",
"While officers were en route , they were notified two victims had been transported to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden. \u2014 Remington Miller, Arkansas Online , 17 June 2022",
"The dispatcher said emergency medical services were en route about 11 seconds after that. \u2014 Peter Nickeas And Ray Sanchez And Tanika Gray, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"According to The Hill, While the masks were en route to their respective cities several boxes were confiscated by law enforcement which delayed shipment for 48 hours. \u2014 Ashlee Banks, Essence , 6 June 2022",
"The two were photographed en route to a f\u00eate, with Kardashian in a houndstooth corset mini dress. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 4 May 2022",
"Lily Cassell, Keystone, sr. \u2014 Committed to Northern Illinois, Cassell took to the circle for 31 of Keystone\u2019s 34 games last season en route to the Division II state crown. \u2014 Matt Goul, cleveland , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The first exchange took place Thursday aboard Air Force One en route to New York as Psaki fielded questions about the U.S. special forces raid in Syria, which resulted in the death of Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. \u2014 Chris Megerian, ajc , 5 Feb. 2022",
"But that mystique came crashing down on Jan. 4, 2003, when Michael Vick and the Atlanta Falcons took a 24-0 lead at halftime en route to a 27-7 victory in the wild-card round. \u2014 Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"French"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1779, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-115550"
},
"enkephalin":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": either of two pentapeptides with opiate and analgesic activity that occur naturally especially in the brain and have a marked affinity for opiate receptors \u2014 compare endorphin",
": either of two pentapeptide endorphins :",
": leucine-enkephalin",
": methionine-enkephalin"
],
"pronounciation":[
"in-\u02c8ke-f\u0259-l\u0259n",
"-(\u02cc)lin",
"en-",
"in-\u02c8kef-\u0259-l\u0259n, -(\u02cc)lin"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"enkephal- (alteration of encephal- ) + -in"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1975, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-125115"
},
"encarnalize":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to make carnal":[
"grossness encarnalizing a conversation"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u0259\u0307n",
"en+"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"en- entry 1 + carnalize":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105420"
},
"endpiece":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a piece at or forming an end":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105428"
}
}
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