10155 lines
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10155 lines
478 KiB
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": an abdominal muscle":[
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"\u2014 usually used in plural"
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],
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": from : away : off":[
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"ab axial"
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],
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": the 11th month of the civil year or the 5th month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar \u2014 see Months of the Principal Calendars Table":[],
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": the one of the four ABO blood groups characterized by the presence of antigens designated by the letters A and B and by the absence of antibodies against these antigens":[],
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"1927, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"1956, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"circa 1771, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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},
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"Hebrew \u0100bh":"Noun",
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin ab-, abs-, a- , from ab, a \u2014 more at of":"Prefix"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ab",
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"\u02c8\u022fv",
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"\u02c8\u00e4b",
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"\u02c8\u00e4v",
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"\u02c8\u0101-\u02c8b\u0113"
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"\u2014 usually used in plural"
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"\u2014 usually used in plural"
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": the rudiments of reading, writing, and spelling":[
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"\u2014 usually used in plural"
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"Noun",
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"a book on the ABCs of computer usage"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0101-(\u02cc)b\u0113-\u02c8s\u0113"
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"alphabet",
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"\u2014 usually used in plural"
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": the rudiments of reading, writing, and spelling":[
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"a book on the ABCs of computer usage"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0101-(\u02cc)b\u0113-\u02c8s\u0113"
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"ABCD":{
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"definitions":{
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"accelerated business collection and delivery":[]
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"abbreviation"
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"ABM":{
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"definitions":{
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": antiballistic missile":[]
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"1963, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0101-(\u02cc)b\u0113-\u02c8em"
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"noun"
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"ABO blood group":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": any of the four blood groups A, B, AB, and O comprising the ABO system":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1949, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cc\u0101-(\u02cc)b\u0113-\u02c8\u014d-"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125800",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"Ab?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=a&file=ab000003":{
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"definitions":{
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": an abdominal muscle":[
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"\u2014 usually used in plural"
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],
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": from : away : off":[
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"ab axial"
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],
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": the 11th month of the civil year or the 5th month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar \u2014 see Months of the Principal Calendars Table":[],
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": the one of the four ABO blood groups characterized by the presence of antigens designated by the letters A and B and by the absence of antibodies against these antigens":[],
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"able seaman; able-bodied seaman":[],
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"abort; abortion":[],
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"bachelor of arts":[]
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},
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"1927, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"1956, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
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"circa 1771, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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},
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"Hebrew \u0100bh":"Noun",
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin ab-, abs-, a- , from ab, a \u2014 more at of":"Prefix"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ab",
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"\u02c8\u022fv",
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"\u02c8\u00e4b",
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"\u02c8\u00e4v",
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"\u02c8\u0101-\u02c8b\u0113"
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],
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"Abaco":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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") north of New Providence Island area 776 square miles (2018 square kilometers), population 13,170":[
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"Great Abaco and Little Abaco"
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],
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"two islands of the Bahamas (":[
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"Great Abaco and Little Abaco"
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"\u02c8a-b\u0259-\u02cck\u014d"
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],
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"Abashev":{
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"definitions":{
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": belonging to a Bronze Age culture of the Chuvash Republic in the east central Soviet Union":[]
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1948, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"probably modification of Russian abashevskiy , derivative of Abashevo , village southeast of Cheboksary where remains of the culture were found":""
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259\u02c8b\u00e4sh\u0259f"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194306",
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"adjective"
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},
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"Abbeville":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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"city in a rice-growing region of southern Louisiana population 12,257":[],
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"commune in northern France on the Somme River northwest of Amiens population 24,880":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-bi-\u02ccvil",
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"\u00e4b-\u02c8v\u0113l"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-120046",
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"type":[
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"Abbevillian":{
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": of or relating to an early Lower Paleolithic culture of Europe characterized by bifacial stone hand axes":[]
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1934, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from French abbevillien , from Abbeville , town in Somme Department, France (near where tools of this tradition were found) + -ien -ian":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-b\u0259-",
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"\u02ccab-\u02c8vi-l\u0113-\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-185846",
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"adjective"
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"Abbevillian?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=a&file=abbevi01":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": of or relating to an early Lower Paleolithic culture of Europe characterized by bifacial stone hand axes":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1934, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from French abbevillien , from Abbeville , town in Somme Department, France (near where tools of this tradition were found) + -ien -ian":""
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-b\u0259-",
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"\u02ccab-\u02c8vi-l\u0113-\u0259n"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194714",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"Abderian":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": foolish":[
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"Abderian laughter"
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],
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": of or belonging to the ancient city of Abdera or to its inhabitants":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1737, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Abdera , city of ancient Thrace (borrowed from Greek \u00c1bd\u0113ra ) + -ian":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u02c8)ab\u00a6dir\u0113\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105204",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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"Abderite":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Abdera":[],
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": simpleton , scoffer":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from Latin Abd\u0113r\u012bt\u0113s , borrowed from Greek Abd\u0113r\u012b\u0301t\u0113s , from \u00c1bd\u0113ra , Thracian city whose inhabitants were reputedly stupid + -\u012bt\u0113s -ite entry 1":""
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8abd\u0259\u02ccr\u012bt"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084221",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"Abdias":{
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"definitions":{
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": obadiah":[]
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"first_known_use":{
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"12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Late Latin, from Greek":""
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"pronounciation":[
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"ab-\u02c8d\u012b-\u0259s"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013014",
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"noun"
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"Abdul-Jabbar":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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"Kareem 1947\u2013 originally (Frederick) Lew(is) Alcindor, Jr. American basketball player":[]
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},
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"ab-\u02c8d\u00fcl-j\u0259-\u02c8b\u00e4r"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094946",
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"type":[
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"biographical name"
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"Abdullah":{
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"definitions":{
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"1924\u20132015":[
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"Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud \\ bin-\u200b\u02ccab-\u200b\u02ccd\u00fc-\u200bl\u0259-\u200b\u02c8z\u0113z-\u200b\u00e4l-\u200bs\u00e4-\u200b\u02c8\u00fcd \\"
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],
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"king of Saudi Arabia (2005\u201315)":[
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"Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud \\ bin-\u200b\u02ccab-\u200b\u02ccd\u00fc-\u200bl\u0259-\u200b\u02c8z\u0113z-\u200b\u00e4l-\u200bs\u00e4-\u200b\u02c8\u00fcd \\"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccab-d\u0259-\u02c8l\u00e4"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020809",
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"type":[
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"biographical name"
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"Abdullah I":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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"1882\u20131951 \u02bdAbd All\u0101h ibn al-Husayn emir of Transjordan (1921\u201346); king of Jordan (1946\u201351)":[]
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"definitions":{
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"1962\u2013 great-grandson of Abdullah I king of Jordan (1999\u2013 )":[]
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202521",
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"Abd\u00fclaziz":{
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"definitions":{
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"1830\u20131876 Ottoman sultan (1861\u201376)":[]
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"\u02ccab-\u02ccd\u00fc-l\u0259-\u02c8z\u0113z"
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"1842\u20131918 Ottoman sultan (1876\u20131909)":[]
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"\u02ccab-\u02ccd\u00fcl-h\u00e4-\u02c8m\u0113d"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091241",
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"type":[
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"biographical name"
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]
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},
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"Abd\u00fclmecid I":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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"1823\u20131861 Ottoman sultan (1839\u201361)":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccab-\u02ccd\u00fcl-m\u0259-\u02c8j\u0113d"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-141041",
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"type":[
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"biographical name"
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]
|
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},
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"Abert squirrel":{
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
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": a large, chiefly tree-dwelling, dark gray squirrel ( Sciurus aberti ) with long tufted ears and white underparts that is found primarily in forests of ponderosa pine in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and northern Mexico":[
|
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"Mule deer, Abert squirrels and other wildlife often appear along the trails \u2026",
|
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"\u2014 Nancy Muenker , Denver Post , 2003",
|
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"\u2026 the only wildlife we spotted, other than birds and lizards, was an Abert's squirrel , which shook its bushy, skunklike tail at us before scampering into the woods.",
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"\u2014 John Stanley , Arizona Republic , 2009"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1853, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"after James W. Abert \u20201897 American soldier and scientist":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8\u0101-b\u0259rt-"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080712",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"Abert's towhee":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a rather large distinctly brown towhee ( Pipilo aberti ) of southwestern North America":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1859, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"after James W. Abert \u20201897 American soldier and scientist":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165622",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"Aberystwyth":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
"borough in western Wales on Cardigan Bay population 8666":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cca-b\u0259-\u02c8ris-\u02cctwith",
|
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"-\u02c8r\u0259s-"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005225",
|
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"type":[
|
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"geographical name"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"Abitur":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an examination that students in Germany are required to pass in order to be eligible to attend a university":[
|
|
"Women take a different route to underemployment. Their problem is not education: they make up a majority of those who pass the Abitur as well as of university students.",
|
|
"\u2014 The Economist , 11 Mar. 2010"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from German, borrowed from Latin abit\u016brus \"about to depart, one who is going to depart,\" future participle of ab\u012bre \"to go off, depart, pass on\"":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cc\u00e4-bi-\u02c8tu\u0307r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175115",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Abnaki":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":[
|
|
"Definition of Abnaki less common spelling of abenaki"
|
|
],
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":[],
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-183045",
|
|
"type":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"Abney level":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a surveying clinometer consisting of a short telescope, bubble tube, and graduated vertical arc used especially for measuring tree heights":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1883, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"after Wm. de Wiveleslie Abney \u20201920 English scientist":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8abn\u0113-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062641",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Abri Audit":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of or belonging to a prehistoric culture transitional between late Mousterian and Aurignacian":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1912, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from French Abri Audit (literally, \"Audit Shelter\"), a rock shelter in Dordogne department, France":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca(\u02cc)br\u0113\u02cc\u014d\u02c8d\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-182535",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Abroma":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a genus of Asian and Australian woody plants (family Sterculiaceae) the bark of which yields a strong white fiber \u2014 see devil's-cotton":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1795, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from New Latin, from a- a- entry 2 + Greek br\u00f4ma \"food,\" from br\u014d- (going back to Indo-European *g\u02b7\u1e5bh 3 - \"devour, consume\") + -ma , deverbal suffix of result":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259\u02c8br\u014dm\u0259"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235657",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Abt system":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a system of tracking for mountain railroads in which two or more cograils are used and so arranged that the teeth are not opposite on any two of the rails":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1886, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"after Roman Abt \u20201933 Swiss railroad engineer who devised it":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8\u00e4p(t)\u02ccs-",
|
|
"\u02c8a-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215753",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Abu Dhabi":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"sheikhdom, the most populous member of the United Arab Emirates population 2,135,000":[],
|
|
"town, its capital and capital of the United Arab Emirates population 347,000":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02c8t\u035fh\u00e4-",
|
|
"\u02cc\u00e4-b\u00fc-\u02c8d\u00e4-b\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020838",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"geographical name"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Abudefduf":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a genus of small ovate short-headed marine teleost fishes commonly found about rocks and other submerged objects and usually included in the percoid family Pomacentridae but sometimes made the type of a separate family (Abudefdufidae)":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1897, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from New Latin, borrowed from Arabic ab\u016bdafd\u016bf":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccab\u00fc\u02c8def(\u02cc)d\u0259f"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102239",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Abuja":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"city in central Nigeria; the national capital since 1991 population 1,143,835":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u00e4-\u02c8b\u00fc-j\u00e4"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112019",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"geographical name"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Ab\u016b Bakr":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"circa 573\u2013634 1st caliph of Mecca":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02ccb\u00fc-\u02c8ba-k\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220932",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"biographical name"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"Ab\u016b al-Q\u0101sim":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
"circa 936\u2013 circa 1013 Spanish Arab physician and medical writer":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02ccbu\u0307l-\u02c8k\u00e4-s\u0259m"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101525",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"biographical name"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"ab initio":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": from the beginning":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"What McConnell needed to do, for his argument to establish its conclusions, was to provide independent grounds of some kind for ruling out Interpretation B ab initio . \u2014 Jason Lee Steorts, National Review , 15 May 2021",
|
|
"Moreover, the Executive Order exceeds the President\u2019s authority and is therefore ultra vires and void ab initio . \u2014 Eriq Gardner, Billboard , 4 Sep. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1600, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin ab initi\u014d":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccab-\u0259-\u02c8ni-sh\u0113-\u02cc\u014d, \u02cc\u00e4b-i-\u02c8n\u0113-t\u0113-\u02cc\u014d",
|
|
"\u02ccab-\u0259-\u02c8ni-sh\u0113-\u02cc\u014d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193131",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"ab-":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an abdominal muscle":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually used in plural"
|
|
],
|
|
": from : away : off":[
|
|
"ab axial"
|
|
],
|
|
": the 11th month of the civil year or the 5th month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar \u2014 see Months of the Principal Calendars Table":[],
|
|
": the one of the four ABO blood groups characterized by the presence of antigens designated by the letters A and B and by the absence of antibodies against these antigens":[],
|
|
"Alberta":[],
|
|
"able seaman; able-bodied seaman":[],
|
|
"abort; abortion":[],
|
|
"about":[],
|
|
"airborne":[],
|
|
"airman basic":[],
|
|
"bachelor of arts":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1927, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
|
|
"1956, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
|
|
"circa 1771, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Hebrew \u0100bh":"Noun",
|
|
"Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin ab-, abs-, a- , from ab, a \u2014 more at of":"Prefix"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ab",
|
|
"\u02c8\u022fv",
|
|
"\u02c8\u00e4b",
|
|
"\u02c8\u00e4v",
|
|
"\u02c8\u0101-\u02c8b\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190708",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"abbreviation",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"prefix"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abaca":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a strong fiber obtained from the leafstalk of a banana ( Musa textilis ) native to the Philippines":[],
|
|
": the plant that yields abaca":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"In the living room, there\u2019s a graphic abaca rug in the shape of a slithering snake. \u2014 Julia Bainbridge, New York Times , 26 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Made in silk abaca straw, the hat finished off the royal mom\u2019s all-pink chic look for the event back in July. \u2014 Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com , 12 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"The Josef Frank\u2013style candlestick lamp is from Svenskt Tenn, the swing-arm lamp is by Ann-Morris, Inc., and the custom abaca rug is by Beauvais Carpets. \u2014 Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor , 21 May 2018",
|
|
"Designer: DeAnna Gibbons, DeAnna Gibbons Millinery Dresses: A royal wedding guest Materials: Draped lilac silk abaca with handmade red silk flowers, red glass currents and yellow nose-length veil. \u2014 Tony Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 Jan. 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1751, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Spanish abac\u00e1 , from Tagalog abak\u00e1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8a-b\u0259-\u02cck\u00e4",
|
|
"\u02cca-b\u0259-\u02c8k\u00e4"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125852",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abacate":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": avocado":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1860, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Portuguese, probably borrowed from a regional variant of Spanish aguacate":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca-b\u0259-\u02c8k\u00e4-t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195055",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abacaxi":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a large, sweet pineapple grown especially in Brazil":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1866, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese, \"pineapple, variety of pineapple,\" perhaps borrowed from Tupi *\u0268\u03b2akati , from \u0268\u03b2a \"plant, fruit\" + kati \"fragrant\"":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u00a6a-b\u0259-k\u0259-\u00a6sh\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033703",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abaciscus":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": abaculus":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1753, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latinization of Late Greek abak\u00edskos , diminutive of Greek abak- , \u00e1bax \"slab, board\"":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02c8ki-",
|
|
"\u02cca-b\u0259-\u02c8si-sk\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191607",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abacist":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": one that uses an abacus":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin abacista , from Latin abacus abacus + -ista -ist entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8ba-kist",
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"\u02c8a-b\u0259-sist",
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"-kist"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232833",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"aback":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": backward , back":[],
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": by surprise : unawares":[
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"was taken aback by her sharp retort"
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],
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": in a position to catch the wind upon the forward surface (as of a sail)":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"completely taken aback by the neighbors' announcement that they were moving",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Taken aback by the magnitude of the demonstrations, authorities quickly shelved the idea. \u2014 Theodora Yu, Washington Post , 22 June 2022",
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"Many viewers will be taken aback by the unexpected timbre of this film. \u2014 Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , 17 June 2022",
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"Rookie wide receiver David Bell had seen the documentary on Brown before, but he was still taken aback by Brown scoring 43 points in his final game at Syracuse. \u2014 Dan Labbe, cleveland , 15 June 2022",
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"Insiders were taken aback by the blunt way that the shake-up was handled. \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
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"Even Bluebird was taken aback by the overwhelming support. \u2014 Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com , 10 June 2022",
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"Doug is a wildlife person and is used to this kind of visual access, but I was taken aback by having such intimacy with an animal whose presence is typically so fleeting. \u2014 Liz Langley, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
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"Although Burton has worked with some of the artists, such as Marcela Correa, who creates pieces for McQueen stores, and Guinevere Van Seenus, a longtime brand muse, she was taken aback by the uniqueness of the final multi-disciplinary works. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 7 June 2022",
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"But moviegoers expecting a gory thrill fest might be taken aback by director David Cronenberg's sci-fi drama (now in theaters), which gets under your skin with its moving meditation on mortality and real-world issues. \u2014 Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY , 3 June 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8bak"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"suddenly",
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"unanticipatedly",
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"unaware",
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"unawares",
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"unexpectedly"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063205",
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"type":[
|
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"adverb"
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]
|
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},
|
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"abacot":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":[
|
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"Definition of abacot variant of bycoket"
|
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],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-203145",
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"type":[]
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},
|
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"abacterial":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": not caused by or characterized by the presence of bacteria":[
|
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"abacterial prostatitis"
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]
|
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1888, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cc\u0101-(\u02cc)bak-\u02c8tir-\u0113-\u0259l"
|
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],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004950",
|
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"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abactinal":{
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": of or relating to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal":[]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1857, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"ab- entry 1 + actinal":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"(\u02c8)a-\u00a6bak-t\u0259-n\u1d4al",
|
|
"\u00a6a-\u02ccbak-\u00a6t\u012b-n\u1d4al"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024602",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abactor":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": one who steals cattle":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"1659, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin ab\u0101ctor , from abigere \"to drive away\" (from ab- ab- entry 1 + agere \"to drive\" + -tor , agent suffix":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"(\u02c8)a-\u00a6bak-t\u0259r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202328",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abaft":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"back of",
|
|
"behind"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": toward or at the stern : aft":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adverb",
|
|
"the lookout in the crow's nest warned that there was an enemy frigate abaft and bearing down hard on their ship",
|
|
"Preposition",
|
|
"a school of porpoises swam abaft the fishing boat"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Preposition"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from a- + baft in the rear, from Old English b\u00e6ftan , from be- + \u00e6ftan behind \u2014 more at aft":"Adverb"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8baft"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"aft",
|
|
"astern",
|
|
"sternward",
|
|
"sternwards"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020306",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"preposition"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abandon":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"abandonment",
|
|
"ease",
|
|
"lightheartedness",
|
|
"naturalness",
|
|
"spontaneity",
|
|
"spontaneousness",
|
|
"unconstraint",
|
|
"uninhibitedness",
|
|
"unrestraint"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to cease from maintaining, practicing, or using":[
|
|
"abandoned their native language"
|
|
],
|
|
": to cease intending or attempting to perform":[
|
|
"abandoned the escape"
|
|
],
|
|
": to give (oneself) over unrestrainedly":[
|
|
"abandoned himself to a life of self-indulgence"
|
|
],
|
|
": to give up to the control or influence of another person or agent":[],
|
|
": to give up with the intent of never again claiming a right or interest in":[
|
|
"abandon property"
|
|
],
|
|
": to withdraw from often in the face of danger or encroachment":[
|
|
"abandon ship",
|
|
"soldiers forced to abandon their position"
|
|
],
|
|
": to withdraw protection, support, or help from":[
|
|
"he abandoned his family"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"They abandoned the car on a back road.",
|
|
"That house was abandoned years ago.",
|
|
"The approaching fire forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes.",
|
|
"The officer refused to abandon his post.",
|
|
"The policy abandons the most vulnerable members of society.",
|
|
"She abandoned the party not long after the election.",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"added spices to the stew with complete abandon",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Wall Street has viewed Musk\u2019s saber rattling over the spam/bot issue as an attempt to drive down the deal price, or to give him a pretext to abandon the acquisition. \u2014 Todd Spangler, Variety , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"These pledges soothed investors\u2019 nerves even though authorities didn\u2019t abandon the stern COVID Zero policy that had sparked the panic in the first place. \u2014 Fortune , 1 May 2022",
|
|
"Albright rapped on the window of his limousine, Boucher told me, and urged Arafat not to abandon negotiations. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 24 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Other semifinalists said the Biden administration has a moral obligation not to abandon Afghans at this critical point in their history. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Voters who decide not to abandon L.A. before this fall\u2019s elections for mayor and other municipal positions can set a new course toward sanity. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 10 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"But the Blazers still must figure out how to maintain focus and not abandon their defensive principles. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"The fund believes the BOJ has accomplished its policy goals of higher inflation and accelerating wage growth and will abandon its yield curve control policy, said Naruhisa Nakagawa, the firm\u2019s founder. \u2014 Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"When Obama took office, there was virtually no chance Democrats would abandon the filibuster. \u2014 Benjy Sarlin, NBC News , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Victor LaValle, a longtime friend and another novelist of color who mixes genres with abandon , admires the sneaky weight of Johnson\u2019s comedy. \u2014 Ricardo Nagaoka, Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The first game on Dreamcast was basically a Crash Bandicoot clone of sorts, and this new game follows suit, but without all the wild creative abandon found in Toys For Bob\u2019s masterclass. \u2014 Mitch Wallace, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
|
|
"Similar to Samuel, it was noted that Kittle\u2019s style of playing with reckless abandon increased his injury risk. \u2014 Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Remember those kids at summer camp who seemed to enjoy nothing more than jumping into a freezing pool with reckless abandon ? \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"At the same time, vacation bookings are soaring, car sales are booming and Americans continue to spend with abandon , thanks to higher wages and brisk hiring. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Russia is striking Ukraine with abandon , complicating the flow of these newer weapons from Ukraine\u2019s western borders with Poland, Romania and Slovakia to the battle in the east. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Even the maxim that lifting is good only for getting big has been routinely undermined by a new legion of fitness instructors; women who were once cautioned against handling anything mightier than a hand weight now grunt and pull with abandon . \u2014 Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker , 7 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The Pelicans are playing with intensity and reckless abandon , and their reward for that type of play is showing up in foul calls and rebounding advantages. \u2014 Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic , 25 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb",
|
|
"1815, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abandounen , borrowed from Anglo-French abanduner , derivative of abandun \"surrender, abandonment,\" from the phrase a bandun \"in one's power, at one's disposal,\" from a \"at, to\" (going back to Latin ad \"to\") + bandun \"jurisdiction,\" going back to a Gallo-Romance derivative of Old Low Franconian *bann- \"summons, command\" (with -d- probably from outcomes of Germanic *bandw\u014d \"sign\") \u2014 more at at entry 1 , ban entry 1 , banner entry 1":"Verb",
|
|
"borrowed from French, in part derivative of abandonner \"to abandon,\" in part going back to Old French abandon, abandun \"surrender\" \u2014 more at abandon entry 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8ban-d\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abandon Verb abandon , desert , forsake mean to leave without intending to return. abandon suggests that the thing or person left may be helpless without protection. abandoned children desert implies that the object left may be weakened but not destroyed by one's absence. a deserted town forsake suggests an action more likely to bring impoverishment or bereavement to that which is forsaken than its exposure to physical dangers. a forsaken lover synonyms see in addition relinquish",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"deliver",
|
|
"give up",
|
|
"indulge",
|
|
"surrender",
|
|
"yield"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023034",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abandoned":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": left without needed protection, care, or support":[
|
|
"an abandoned baby",
|
|
"\u2026 she \u2026 began to live in what she referred to as the straitened circumstances of an abandoned woman.",
|
|
"\u2014 Richard Russo"
|
|
],
|
|
": left by the owner":[
|
|
"an abandoned car",
|
|
"an abandoned field",
|
|
"abandoned property",
|
|
"an abandoned factory"
|
|
],
|
|
": left to fall into a state of disuse":[
|
|
"an abandoned car",
|
|
"an abandoned field",
|
|
"abandoned property",
|
|
"an abandoned factory"
|
|
],
|
|
": no longer held or thought of : given up":[
|
|
"abandoned hopes/dreams"
|
|
],
|
|
": wholly free from restraint":[
|
|
"The lower the beer dropped in the kegs, the more abandoned and frenzied the dancers became.",
|
|
"\u2014 Don Asher",
|
|
"\u2026 unless you can convince them that you are as abandoned a profligate as themselves.",
|
|
"\u2014 George Bernard Shaw"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8ban-d\u0259nd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"derelict",
|
|
"deserted",
|
|
"desolate",
|
|
"disused",
|
|
"forgotten",
|
|
"forsaken",
|
|
"rejected",
|
|
"vacant",
|
|
"vacated",
|
|
"void"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He led a reckless and abandoned life and died young.",
|
|
"she consciously avoided walking past the abandoned house, with its broken windows and sagging porch",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"One year later, a group of college kids, who enter a reality TV show, stay the night at Michael\u2019s abandoned house \u2013 Michael pays them a visit later that night. \u2014 Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"Instead, taxpayers are left paying to clean up abandoned wells and all of the contamination left behind. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 29 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Ukrainian volunteer troops took over abandoned houses and dug trenches in backyards. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"An abandoned ski patrol hut still stands at the top, complete with an original trail map hanging on the wall, but beware of another holdover. \u2014 Heather Balogh Rochfort, Outside Online , 22 Dec. 2018",
|
|
"An abandoned railroad bridge in Kansas City, Kan., is getting a second life as an event space and food court, the latest example of property developers transforming outdated infrastructure into visitor attractions. \u2014 Konrad Putzier, WSJ , 23 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"In August, Hurricane Ida disrupted 90 to 95% of the Gulf Coast's oil and gas production and damaged current and abandoned pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure. \u2014 Rachel Ramirez, CNN , 4 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"The Desis spiders scuttle amidst coral, abandoned seashells and the bottoms of kelp on the beach during low tides. \u2014 Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Separately, Gulf Coast states trying to restore barrier islands have run into an unexpected obstacle \u2014 a tangle of old and abandoned pipelines. \u2014 Anna M. Phillips, Los Angeles Times , 14 Oct. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from past participle of abandounen \"to abandon entry 1 \"":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1c":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144344"
|
|
},
|
|
"abandonment":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"constraint",
|
|
"restraint"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the act of abandoning something or someone":[
|
|
"In its family and social contexts, he argues, the abandonment of children was, if not a \"good thing,\" at least the most feasible means of family limitation during the many centuries when other methods were largely ineffective or, in the case of Christians, prohibited.",
|
|
"\u2014 Mary Martin McLaughlin"
|
|
],
|
|
": the state of being abandoned":[
|
|
"fear of abandonment",
|
|
"The opulence of her life as an expat wife failed to soothe her feelings of abandonment , boredom and oppression.",
|
|
"\u2014 Bob Shacochis",
|
|
"\u2014 sometimes used before another noun abandonment issues"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1593, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8ban-d\u0259n-m\u0259nt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abandon",
|
|
"ease",
|
|
"lightheartedness",
|
|
"naturalness",
|
|
"spontaneity",
|
|
"spontaneousness",
|
|
"unconstraint",
|
|
"uninhibitedness",
|
|
"unrestraint"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-004451",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abase":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"elevate",
|
|
"ennoble",
|
|
"uplift"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem":[
|
|
"abase oneself",
|
|
"\u2026 the shame that had abased him within and without \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 James Joyce"
|
|
],
|
|
": to lower physically":[
|
|
"As we enter among them the great elephant makes us a bow in the best style of elephantine courtesy, bending lowly down his mountain bulk, with trunk abased and leg thrust out behind.",
|
|
"\u2014 Nathaniel Hawthorne"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Unfortunately, an impulse to abase oneself isn\u2019t resolved by a recognition that human life is a collaboration. \u2014 Caleb Crain, The Atlantic , 10 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"One by one, internees abase themselves before 60 of their fellow prisoners, repenting of their errors in thinking and their nonprogressive religious practices. \u2014 James E. Person Jr., National Review , 17 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"By the end of the weekend, the entire NBA was in damage-control mode, profusely and absurdly abasing themselves. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 7 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"Only fearful, humiliated ex-Trumpers in need of campaign support, like Jeff Sessions, who is again running for the Senate in Alabama, abase themselves and speak of his virtue. \u2014 David Remnick, The New Yorker , 19 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Judging from Capitol Hill\u2019s self- abasing deference to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, the answer is no. \u2014 William Mcgurn, WSJ , 24 July 2017",
|
|
"Consequently, the hero must be either venerated and elevated or cynically scorned and abased . \u2014 Elliot Kaufman, National Review , 19 July 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"alteration (conformed to base entry 3 ) of Middle English abessen, abaisen, abaschen , borrowed from Anglo-French abesser, abaisser , from a- , prefix in transitive verbs (going back to Latin ad- ) + -besser , going back to Vulgar Latin *bassi\u0101re \"to lower,\" derivative of Late Latin bassus \"fat, short, low\" \u2014 more at ad- , base entry 3":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0101s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bastardize",
|
|
"canker",
|
|
"cheapen",
|
|
"corrupt",
|
|
"debase",
|
|
"debauch",
|
|
"degrade",
|
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"demean",
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"demoralize",
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"deprave",
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"deteriorate",
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"lessen",
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"pervert",
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"poison",
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"profane",
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"prostitute",
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"subvert",
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"vitiate",
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"warp"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084553",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"abasement":{
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"antonyms":[
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"elevate",
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"ennoble",
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"uplift"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem":[
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"abase oneself",
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"\u2026 the shame that had abased him within and without \u2026",
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"\u2014 James Joyce"
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],
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": to lower physically":[
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"As we enter among them the great elephant makes us a bow in the best style of elephantine courtesy, bending lowly down his mountain bulk, with trunk abased and leg thrust out behind.",
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"\u2014 Nathaniel Hawthorne"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Unfortunately, an impulse to abase oneself isn\u2019t resolved by a recognition that human life is a collaboration. \u2014 Caleb Crain, The Atlantic , 10 Aug. 2021",
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"One by one, internees abase themselves before 60 of their fellow prisoners, repenting of their errors in thinking and their nonprogressive religious practices. \u2014 James E. Person Jr., National Review , 17 Sep. 2020",
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"By the end of the weekend, the entire NBA was in damage-control mode, profusely and absurdly abasing themselves. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 7 Oct. 2019",
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"Only fearful, humiliated ex-Trumpers in need of campaign support, like Jeff Sessions, who is again running for the Senate in Alabama, abase themselves and speak of his virtue. \u2014 David Remnick, The New Yorker , 19 Dec. 2019",
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"Judging from Capitol Hill\u2019s self- abasing deference to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, the answer is no. \u2014 William Mcgurn, WSJ , 24 July 2017",
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"Consequently, the hero must be either venerated and elevated or cynically scorned and abased . \u2014 Elliot Kaufman, National Review , 19 July 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"alteration (conformed to base entry 3 ) of Middle English abessen, abaisen, abaschen , borrowed from Anglo-French abesser, abaisser , from a- , prefix in transitive verbs (going back to Latin ad- ) + -besser , going back to Vulgar Latin *bassi\u0101re \"to lower,\" derivative of Late Latin bassus \"fat, short, low\" \u2014 more at ad- , base entry 3":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0101s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bastardize",
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"canker",
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"cheapen",
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"corrupt",
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"debase",
|
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"debauch",
|
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"degrade",
|
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"demean",
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"demoralize",
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"deprave",
|
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"deteriorate",
|
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"lessen",
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"pervert",
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"poison",
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"profane",
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"prostitute",
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"subvert",
|
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"vitiate",
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"warp"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035547",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
|
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},
|
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"abash":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert":[
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"He had never blushed in his life; no humiliation could abash him.",
|
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"\u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb"
|
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]
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},
|
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"examples":[
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"felt terribly abashed when she walked into the wrong hotel room",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Here, furious parents throw open the cupboard to reveal their daughter\u2019s abashed lover, as younger children look on wide-eyed and the family dog prepares to attack. \u2014 Susan Delson, WSJ , 20 June 2018",
|
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"Bloom called him out, and the abashed Harris apologized. \u2014 Christina Schoellkopf, latimes.com , 15 June 2018",
|
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"Not easily abashed by body-shamers, Teigen has publicly posted next-to-naked topless photos in the past. \u2014 Megan Decker, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 May 2018",
|
|
"Hefner was good-natured but rather abashed , diffident, and shy. \u2014 Jeanie Pyun, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 Oct. 2017",
|
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"Peverelli seemed slightly abashed at the images\u2019 potential elevation from commerce to art. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 22 May 2017",
|
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"But there is also a sort of confused, abashed one, often ironic, that acknowledges a problem and tries to work through a particularly American obliviousness. \u2014 Jill Mcdonough, New York Times , 21 Apr. 2017"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abaissen, abaschen \"to lose one's composure,\" borrowed from Anglo-French abaiss- , stem of abair \"to open wide, gape, be amazed,\" alteration (by prefix substitution) of esbaer (Continental Old French esbahir ), from es- \"out\" (going back to Latin ex- ) + baer \"to open wide, gape,\" going back to Vulgar Latin *bat\u0101re \u2014 more at ex- entry 1 , abeyance":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259-\u02c8bash"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abash embarrass , discomfit , abash , disconcert , rattle mean to distress by confusing or confounding. embarrass implies some influence that impedes thought, speech, or action. the question embarrassed her so much she couldn't answer discomfit implies a hampering or frustrating accompanied by confusion. hecklers discomfited the speaker abash presupposes some initial self-confidence that receives a sudden check, producing shyness, shame, or a feeling of inferiority. abashed by her swift and cutting retort disconcert implies an upsetting of equanimity or assurance producing uncertainty or hesitancy. disconcerted by finding so many in attendance rattle implies an agitation that impairs thought and judgment. rattled by all the television cameras",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"confound",
|
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"confuse",
|
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"discomfit",
|
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"disconcert",
|
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"discountenance",
|
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"embarrass",
|
|
"faze",
|
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"fluster",
|
|
"mortify",
|
|
"nonplus",
|
|
"rattle"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182723",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abashed":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": made to feel uncomfortable, disconcerted, or embarrassed by something that has happened or been done or said":[
|
|
"I stood back, abashed , wondering what I'd done wrong \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Paula Fox"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"But this year\u2019s bash is looking a little more abashed . \u2014 New York Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Delphine Hicks\u2014Caroline had waited for her beside the church steps one First Sunday (big meeting day) and had thrown her to the ground and robbed the abashed vampire of her underthings. \u2014 Zora Neale Hurston, Harper's magazine , 6 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"The video shows a very abashed McKinnon saying goodbye to Ginsburg on the stage following the production. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 15 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"Privacy concerns cause abashed feeling in Silicon Valley Zuckerberg's potential retort comes after Apple's Cook made comments at the end of March in an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes. \u2014 Chris Ciaccia, Fox News , 11 Apr. 2018",
|
|
"And, many know how to deliver home truths in a way that will elicit abashed agreement rather than anger. \u2014 Cathie Anderson, sacbee , 9 Mar. 2018",
|
|
"Their reactions varied, from unimpressed to abashed and pained \u2014 all of them uncomfortable. \u2014 Cara Buckley, New York Times , 8 Jan. 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abasshed , from past participle of abaissen, abaschen \"to abash \"":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8basht"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021601",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abashless":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": unabashed":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1843, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205318",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abashment":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert":[
|
|
"He had never blushed in his life; no humiliation could abash him.",
|
|
"\u2014 Charlotte Bront\u00eb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"felt terribly abashed when she walked into the wrong hotel room",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Here, furious parents throw open the cupboard to reveal their daughter\u2019s abashed lover, as younger children look on wide-eyed and the family dog prepares to attack. \u2014 Susan Delson, WSJ , 20 June 2018",
|
|
"Bloom called him out, and the abashed Harris apologized. \u2014 Christina Schoellkopf, latimes.com , 15 June 2018",
|
|
"Not easily abashed by body-shamers, Teigen has publicly posted next-to-naked topless photos in the past. \u2014 Megan Decker, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 May 2018",
|
|
"Hefner was good-natured but rather abashed , diffident, and shy. \u2014 Jeanie Pyun, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 Oct. 2017",
|
|
"Peverelli seemed slightly abashed at the images\u2019 potential elevation from commerce to art. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 22 May 2017",
|
|
"But there is also a sort of confused, abashed one, often ironic, that acknowledges a problem and tries to work through a particularly American obliviousness. \u2014 Jill Mcdonough, New York Times , 21 Apr. 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abaissen, abaschen \"to lose one's composure,\" borrowed from Anglo-French abaiss- , stem of abair \"to open wide, gape, be amazed,\" alteration (by prefix substitution) of esbaer (Continental Old French esbahir ), from es- \"out\" (going back to Latin ex- ) + baer \"to open wide, gape,\" going back to Vulgar Latin *bat\u0101re \u2014 more at ex- entry 1 , abeyance":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8bash"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abash embarrass , discomfit , abash , disconcert , rattle mean to distress by confusing or confounding. embarrass implies some influence that impedes thought, speech, or action. the question embarrassed her so much she couldn't answer discomfit implies a hampering or frustrating accompanied by confusion. hecklers discomfited the speaker abash presupposes some initial self-confidence that receives a sudden check, producing shyness, shame, or a feeling of inferiority. abashed by her swift and cutting retort disconcert implies an upsetting of equanimity or assurance producing uncertainty or hesitancy. disconcerted by finding so many in attendance rattle implies an agitation that impairs thought and judgment. rattled by all the television cameras",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"confound",
|
|
"confuse",
|
|
"discomfit",
|
|
"disconcert",
|
|
"discountenance",
|
|
"embarrass",
|
|
"faze",
|
|
"fluster",
|
|
"mortify",
|
|
"nonplus",
|
|
"rattle"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235810",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abasi":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an Afghan unit of value for postage stamps":[
|
|
"one- abasi stamps",
|
|
"two- abasi stamps"
|
|
],
|
|
": an Afghan yellow bronze coin equivalent to four shahi that was issued between 1921 and 1923":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1922, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"variant transliterations of Persian \u02bdabb\u0101s\u012b abassi":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-124635",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abat-voix":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a device for reflecting sound (such as the sounding board over a pulpit or rostrum)":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1872, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from French, literally, \"(it) strikes down ( abat ) the voice ( voix ),\" from abattre \"to strike down\" + voix \"voice,\" going back to Old French vois":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"F \u0227b\u0227vw\u0227 or -w\u00e4",
|
|
"\u02cc\u00e4\u02ccb\u00e4v\u02c8w\u00e4"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195345",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abate":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"accumulate",
|
|
"balloon",
|
|
"build",
|
|
"burgeon",
|
|
"bourgeon",
|
|
"enlarge",
|
|
"escalate",
|
|
"expand",
|
|
"grow",
|
|
"increase",
|
|
"intensify",
|
|
"mount",
|
|
"mushroom",
|
|
"pick up",
|
|
"rise",
|
|
"snowball",
|
|
"soar",
|
|
"swell",
|
|
"wax"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": blunt":[],
|
|
": deduct , omit":[
|
|
"abate part of the price"
|
|
],
|
|
": deprive sense 1":[],
|
|
": nullify sense 1":[
|
|
"abate a writ"
|
|
],
|
|
": to beat down or cut away so as to leave a figure in relief":[],
|
|
": to become defeated or become null or void (as of a writ or appeal)":[],
|
|
": to decrease in amount or value":[
|
|
"The legacies abated proportionately."
|
|
],
|
|
": to decrease in force or intensity":[
|
|
"waiting for the storm to abate"
|
|
],
|
|
": to put an end to":[
|
|
"abate a nuisance"
|
|
],
|
|
": to reduce in degree or intensity : moderate":[
|
|
"may abate their rancor to win peace"
|
|
],
|
|
": to reduce in value or amount : to make less especially by way of relief":[
|
|
"abate a tax"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"For a while, in the Cold War's aftermath, the public fascination for espionage may abate , though somehow I doubt it. \u2014 John le Carr\u00e9 , Boston Globe , 19 Nov. 1989",
|
|
"At about six, as the heat abated , people began to crowd the streets and marketplaces, and to fill the caf\u00e9s. \u2014 Milton Viorst , New Yorker , 12 Oct. 1987",
|
|
"But his attitude of sullen grievance and simmering fury never abated fully. \u2014 Joseph Heller , God Knows , 1984",
|
|
"We waited for the wind to abate .",
|
|
"interest in the author's home abated as her novels waned in popularity",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"As recently as February, Fort Lauderdale's Noise Control Advisory Committee, which meets once a month, had been checking into what other cities have done to abate noise. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 3 July 2022",
|
|
"For such strength to continue, though, worries about a recession would have to abate . \u2014 CBS News , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"As recently as February, Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Noise Control Advisory Committee, which meets once a month, had been checking into what other cities have done to abate noise. \u2014 Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"Other experts agree that the geopolitical elements that have served to raise prices across the globe are not going to abate in the short-term. \u2014 Rob Wile, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"This might in turn suggest that inflationary pressures could abate in the near future. \u2014 Ravin Jesuthasan, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
|
|
"If the district is able to abate its debt service payment again in 2022, the average tax bill will increase by 1.4%, which is the consumer price index rate used for the levy. \u2014 Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com , 22 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Johnson & Johnson, praising the decision Tuesday, confirmed that none of the $465 million has been given to communities to abate the overdose crisis. \u2014 Meryl Kornfield And Lenny Bernstein, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"While the outbreak is beginning to abate in major cities such as Delhi and Mumbai, its spread to rural areas is drawing concern. \u2014 Eliza Mackintosh, CNN , 24 May 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abaten , borrowed from Anglo-French abatre \"to strike down, fell, reduce, put an end to,\" from a- , prefix in transitive verbs (going back to Latin ad- ad- ) + batre \"to beat,\" going back to Latin battuere , of uncertain origin":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0101t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abate abate , subside , wane , ebb mean to die down in force or intensity. abate stresses the idea of progressive diminishing. the storm abated subside implies the ceasing of turbulence or agitation. the protests subsided after a few days wane suggests the fading or weakening of something good or impressive. waning enthusiasm ebb suggests the receding of something (such as the tide) that commonly comes and goes. the ebbing of daylight synonyms see in addition decrease",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"de-escalate",
|
|
"decline",
|
|
"decrease",
|
|
"die (away ",
|
|
"diminish",
|
|
"drain (away)",
|
|
"drop (off)",
|
|
"dwindle",
|
|
"ease",
|
|
"ebb",
|
|
"fall",
|
|
"fall away",
|
|
"lessen",
|
|
"let up",
|
|
"lower",
|
|
"moderate",
|
|
"pall",
|
|
"phase down",
|
|
"ratchet (down)",
|
|
"rachet (down)",
|
|
"recede",
|
|
"relent",
|
|
"remit",
|
|
"shrink",
|
|
"subside",
|
|
"taper",
|
|
"taper off",
|
|
"wane"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093415",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abatement":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"accession",
|
|
"addition"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the act or process of reducing or otherwise abating something":[
|
|
"abatement of pollution",
|
|
"a storm continuing without abatement [=without weakening]"
|
|
],
|
|
": the state of being abated":[
|
|
"abatement of pollution",
|
|
"a storm continuing without abatement [=without weakening]"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"But officials could not apply for the abatement until now due to several design changes during construction. \u2014 Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"The emotional hearing came one day after a US bankruptcy judge approved a settlement that requires Purdue Pharma and the Sackler families to pay out as much as $6 billion to states, individual claimants and for opioid crisis abatement . \u2014 Lauren Del Valle, CNN , 10 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Questions have been raised by residents about possibility of building a wall on properties along 248th Avenue that don\u2019t qualify for noise abatement . \u2014 Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com , 8 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"While Vice President Kamala Harris visited Milwaukee Monday to promote lead abatement , her husband Doug Emhoff spent time with youth arts program directors before meeting with leaders of the Milwaukee Jewish community. \u2014 Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"McCormack contrasted it to the work put into lead abatement . \u2014 Robin Goist, cleveland , 20 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"However, new housing development to address the shortage is being threatened because one of New York\u2019s main tools to encourage building, the property tax abatement called Affordable New York or 421-a, is scheduled to sunset on June 15, 2022. \u2014 Shimon Shkury, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
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"To get the maximum tax incentive, owners would have to make one-quarter of the units affordable for the duration of the abatement , according to Hernandez. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
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"After all, there has been a steady flow of leaks about the committee\u2019s work and findings with no sign of abatement . \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 6 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, from abatre \"to abate \" + -ment -ment":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0101t-m\u0259nt"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"deduction",
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"discount",
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"reduction"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041221",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"abaxial":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": situated out of or directed away from the axis":[
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"the abaxial or lower surface of a leaf"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The two fields run perpendicular to each other, with one from the base to the tip of the leaf and the other from the surface to the adaxial- abaxial boundary. \u2014 Maddie Burakoff, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Jan. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1835, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"ab- + axial":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"(\u02cc)a-\u02c8bak-s\u0113-\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190838",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
|
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},
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"abaxial?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=a&file=abaxia01":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": situated out of or directed away from the axis":[
|
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"the abaxial or lower surface of a leaf"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The two fields run perpendicular to each other, with one from the base to the tip of the leaf and the other from the surface to the adaxial- abaxial boundary. \u2014 Maddie Burakoff, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Jan. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1835, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"ab- + axial":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"(\u02cc)a-\u02c8bak-s\u0113-\u0259l"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-192817",
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
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]
|
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},
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"abbey":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": a convent ruled by an abbess":[],
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": a monastery ruled by an abbot":[],
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": an abbey church":[],
|
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"Edwin Austin 1852\u20131911 American painter and illustrator":[]
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"the monks in the abbey grow all their own vegetables",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The Roman numerals on the label depict the date 1494, the year whisky was allegedly produced at the abbey . \u2014 Joseph V Micallef, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
|
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"His return initially seemed like that of a wise man emerging from an abbey to bring revelations to a broken world. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
|
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"In 1843, archaeologists excavated the burial grounds of Remiremont Abbey in Lorraine, France (the abbey was founded in the 7th century). \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Indeed, the old abbey has long served as a place of communion. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Monte Cassino abbey in Italy has been destroyed by Lombards, Napoleon, Nazis, and earthquakes \u2014 and every time rebuilt. \u2014 Andrew Doran, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Library director Brian Morin said inclusion of the cartoons illuminates an essential truth about the abbey . \u2014 oregonlive , 14 May 2022",
|
|
"Huntsville\u2019s main source of water also comes from a pristine source on the abbey property. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Blaise Pascal stands with the mother superior and two notaries at the reading of the contract ensuring his sister\u2019s keep at an abbey . \u2014 WSJ , 21 Dec. 2021"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abbeye, abbay , borrowed from Anglo-French abeie, abbaye , borrowed from Medieval Latin abb\u0101tia \"abbacy, abbey,\" from Late Latin abb\u0101t-, abb\u0101s abbot + Latin -ia -y entry 2":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8a-b\u0113"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"cloister",
|
|
"friary",
|
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"hermitage",
|
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"monastery",
|
|
"priory"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003635",
|
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"type":[
|
|
"biographical name",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abbreviate":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"elongate",
|
|
"extend",
|
|
"lengthen",
|
|
"prolong",
|
|
"protract"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Meant to show strength and independence, Alzona\u2019s sculptures abbreviate women\u2019s bodies to such active parts as a torso or a pair of ankles and feet. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"Having returned to public activities in May, and then having to abbreviate her schedule due to COVID, the 44-year-old royal appeared to welcome the opportunity to reengage and interact with the public. \u2014 Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com , 18 June 2022",
|
|
"As a result, manufacturers of electric vehicles are trying to abbreviate the supply chains of these metals by bringing their sources closer to them. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Having readily available access to a niche workforce enables a company to abbreviate the development period as well as time to launch. \u2014 Todd Greenbaum, Forbes , 1 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"The only sensible answer is to abbreviate Alaska with seven or more letters, preferably ten or fifteen. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 13 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Some brands, like Patek Philippe and Rolex, abbreviate or even spell out the day and date. \u2014 Carol Besler, Forbes , 6 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Therefore, there\u2019s still a lot up for grabs, and the NFL couldn\u2019t just abbreviate the season and start the playoffs early. \u2014 Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times , 29 Nov. 2020",
|
|
"Draconian measures will abbreviate Thanksgiving gatherings in a way unprecedented in U.S. history. \u2014 Victor Davis Hanson, National Review , 19 Nov. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abbreviaten , borrowed from Late Latin abbrevi\u0101tus , past participle of abbrevi\u0101re \"to make shorter\" \u2014 more at abridge":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8br\u0113-v\u0113-\u02cc\u0101t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abbreviate shorten , curtail , abbreviate , abridge , retrench mean to reduce in extent. shorten implies reduction in length or duration. shorten a speech curtail adds an implication of cutting that in some way deprives of completeness or adequacy. ceremonies curtailed because of rain abbreviate implies a making shorter usually by omitting some part. using an abbreviated title abridge implies a reduction in compass or scope with retention of essential elements and a relative completeness in the result. the abridged version of the novel retrench suggests a reduction in extent or costs of something felt to be excessive. declining business forced the company to retrench",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abridge",
|
|
"curtail",
|
|
"cut back",
|
|
"dock",
|
|
"elide",
|
|
"shorten",
|
|
"syncopate",
|
|
"truncate"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035529",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abbreviated":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": made shorter or briefer":[
|
|
"an abbreviated word",
|
|
"an abbreviated session",
|
|
"an abbreviated version of the story"
|
|
],
|
|
": relatively short or small : shorter or smaller than is normal or conventional":[
|
|
"Their hourglass shape (a new trend this season even in alpine skis), metal edges, and abbreviated size make them easier to handle than traditional skis.",
|
|
"\u2014 Jena MacPherson",
|
|
"\u2026 an abbreviated version of an American amusement park.",
|
|
"\u2014 John P. Sisk"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Because of the strict local protocols, Santa Clara moved its basketball operations to Santa Cruz for an abbreviated , 20-game season. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 19 June 2022",
|
|
"The Kings have leaped from a .438 points percentage during the abbreviated 2020-21 season to a .600 percentage that puts them in playoff position. \u2014 Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The number of early-entry candidates is bloated this season because many players are bypassing the additional year of eligibility awarded them because of the abbreviated 2019-20 season. \u2014 Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com , 9 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"While no formal announcement has been made, sources say there has been talk of the series coming to a conclusion with an abbreviated final season. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Back when even-year postseason runs were a thing for the Giants, Crawford rode the waves to World Series championships in 2012 and 2014 and the abbreviated and forgettable experience in 2016. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"The conference\u2019s presidents and chancellors voted unanimously to give the green light for an abbreviated and late-starting football season. \u2014 Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com , 5 June 2021",
|
|
"There are 24 seniors at the high school in Okabena, including Hailey Liepold, Meakin Bang and Grace Kilian, standouts during last fall's abbreviated and successful volleyball season. \u2014 Star Tribune , 13 Feb. 2021",
|
|
"Because of the pandemic, abbreviated seasons were moved to February. \u2014 Chuck Carlton, Dallas News , 11 Feb. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8br\u0113-v\u0113-\u02cc\u0101-t\u0259d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070855",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abbreviated number":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a number from which significant figures are omitted beyond a certain point determined by the degree of approximation desired or of accuracy attainable (as 5.667 for 5\u00b2/\u2083 or 93,000,000 for the mean distance in miles to the sun)":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1852, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195215",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abbreviation":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a shortened form of a written word or phrase used in place of the whole word or phrase":[
|
|
"\"Amt\" is an abbreviation for \"amount.\"",
|
|
"\"USA\" is an abbreviation of \"United States of America.\""
|
|
],
|
|
": the act or result of abbreviating something : abridgment":[
|
|
"I know you would not be satisfied with an abbreviation of its contents, and you shall have the whole, save, perhaps, a few passages here and there of merely temporary interest to the writer \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Anne Bront\u00eb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The company is often recognized by its abbreviation , XAB. \u2014 Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"Just over a century ago, in 1920, German confectioner Hans Riegel Sr. struck out on his own, establishing a new candy company called Haribo\u2014an abbreviation derived from his name and hometown of Bonn (Hans Riegel Bonn). \u2014 Michele Herrmann, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"The first name of someone whose last name is the same as the last name of someone whose first name is the abbreviation of a kind of juice. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
|
|
"In May and June, Lynn punctuated several tweets with the same abbreviation . \u2014 NBC News , 22 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"In a twist too implausible for fiction, the abbreviation is DGB, one letter off from KGB. \u2014 Roger Koppl And Abigail Devereaux, WSJ , 1 May 2022",
|
|
"Paddy's' or 'Patty's': What is the correct abbreviation ? \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"In May and June, Lynn punctuated several tweets with the same abbreviation . \u2014 NBC News , 22 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"An olive-colored jacket, with GWD AVE (an abbreviation for Greenwood Avenue) in gold block letters on a patch, caught my eye. \u2014 Rj Young, Travel + Leisure , 5 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abbreviacioun \"contraction, shortening,\" borrowed from Anglo-French abreviation , borrowed from Late Latin abbrevi\u0101ti\u014dn-, abbrevi\u0101ti\u014d , from abbrevi\u0101re \"to abbreviate \" + Latin -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02ccbr\u0113-v\u0113-\u02c8\u0101-sh\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abridgment",
|
|
"abridgement",
|
|
"bowdlerization",
|
|
"condensation",
|
|
"digest"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022811",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abbreviature":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": abbreviation":[],
|
|
": abridgment , compendium , abstract":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1578, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Medieval Latin abbrevit\u016bra , from Late Latin abbrevi\u0101tus (past participle of abbrevi\u0101re \"to abbreviate entry 1 \") + Latin -\u016bra -ure":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-v\u0113\u0259\u02ccchu\u0307(\u0259)r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192928",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abbs":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":[
|
|
"Definition of abbs plural of abb"
|
|
],
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":[],
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-162250",
|
|
"type":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"abchalazal":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": located or facing away from the chalaza of a seed \u2014 compare chalazal":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"ab- entry 1 + chalazal":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u00a6abk\u0259\u00a6l\u0101z\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184737",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abcoulomb":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the cgs electromagnetic unit quantity of electricity equal to 10 coulombs and being the charge that passes in one second through any cross section of a conductor carrying a steady current of one abampere":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1903, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"ab- entry 2 + coulomb":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"(\u02c8)ab\u02c8k\u00fc\u02ccl\u00e4m",
|
|
"-l\u014dm"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114003",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abdicate":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to cast off : discard":[
|
|
"abdicate a responsibility"
|
|
],
|
|
": to relinquish (something, such as sovereign power) formally":[
|
|
"abdicate a throne"
|
|
],
|
|
": to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function":[
|
|
"The king was forced to abdicate ."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Per city and state housing rules, the board cannot abdicate its responsibility to exterminate. \u2014 Ronda Kaysen, New York Times , 4 June 2022",
|
|
"While royal watchers say Elizabeth, who turned 96 last month, will never abdicate , a transition has been happening gradually for some time. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"She was later overthrown in a coup d'\u00e9tat and forced to abdicate . \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 14 May 2022",
|
|
"Prior to Akihito, the last emperor to abdicate was Emperor Kokaku in 1817 in the later part of the Edo Period, and the royal male line is unbroken, records show, for at least 14 centuries. \u2014 CNN , 13 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Benedict retired as pope in 2013, the first pontiff to abdicate in some 600 years. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"But one booted board member \u2014 former counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway \u2014 was clearly not willing to take the news lying down, instead responding with her own letter calling on President Biden to abdicate his White House throne. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 8 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"In 2017, the Japanese legislature, the Diet, enacted a law that would allow Akihito to abdicate and pass down the throne to Naruhito. \u2014 Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country , 23 July 2021",
|
|
"The legislative Democrats seem to be more than happy to abdicate their constitutional responsibilities to give him that authority. \u2014 Christopher Keating, courant.com , 11 July 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1548, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin abdic\u0101tus , past participle of abdic\u0101re , \"to resign, renounce, withdraw,\" from ab- ab- + -dic\u0101re , ablaut derivative of d\u012bc- (going back to *deik- ) in d\u012bcere \"to speak, state\" \u2014 more at diction":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ab-di-\u02cck\u0101t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abdicate abdicate , renounce , resign mean to give up a position with no possibility of resuming it. abdicate implies a giving up of sovereign power or sometimes an evading of responsibility such as that of a parent. abdicated the throne renounce may replace it but often implies additionally a sacrifice for a greater end. renounced her inheritance by marrying a commoner resign applies to the giving up of an unexpired office or trust. resigned from the board",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abnegate",
|
|
"cede",
|
|
"relinquish",
|
|
"renounce",
|
|
"resign",
|
|
"step aside (from)",
|
|
"step down (from)",
|
|
"surrender"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203752",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abdication":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": an act of abandoning or discarding a right, responsibility, etc.":[
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"an abdication of authority",
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"The militants took the liberties of Europe as a sign of moral and political abdication .",
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"\u2014 Fouad Ajami",
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"When the majority throws up its hands because the problems are too tough, that's simply an abdication of responsibility.",
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"\u2014 Michael S. Serrill"
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],
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": an act of abdicating : such as":[],
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": an act of giving up sovereign power or high office":[
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"The desire of King Edward VIII to marry divorced U.S. socialite Wallis Simpson led to the king's abdication in 1936, an event that also brought Harry, his father Prince Charles and his brother, Prince William, into the line of succession.",
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"\u2014 Martha Ross",
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"From the advent of Alexander the Great, in 332 B.C., to the abdication of King Farouk, in 1952, the country was ruled without interruption by non-Egyptians.",
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"\u2014 Milton Viorst"
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1571, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccab-di-\u02c8k\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102435",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
|
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"abdomen":{
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
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": the posterior section of the body behind the thorax in an arthropod":[
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"On a nearby table was a \u2026 dish of ants that looked familiar except that they had been feeding on peach nectar and the abdomen of each was a large, swollen, translucent sac.",
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"\u2014 The New Yorker"
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],
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"\u2014 see insect illustration":[
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"On a nearby table was a \u2026 dish of ants that looked familiar except that they had been feeding on peach nectar and the abdomen of each was a large, swollen, translucent sac.",
|
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"\u2014 The New Yorker"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"showed us a tiny tattoo on her abdomen , right next to her belly button",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"One North Vietnamese bullet tore into Army Sergeant John Eade\u2019s abdomen . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2022",
|
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"In 2016, pain began rippling through the abdomen of Birmingham Police Officer Kristy McKinney. \u2014 al , 20 June 2022",
|
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"Phillips was shot in the chest and Pereira was shot in the head and the abdomen , police said in a statement. \u2014 D\u00c9bora \u00c1lvares, ajc , 18 June 2022",
|
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"Patients in our studies experienced the full efficacy of the treatment by 12 weeks after 2-3 segments with 20 -25% fat loss in the upper and lower abdomen . \u2014 Meggen Harris, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
|
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"Mark Collins' injuries included a shotgun wound to the abdomen , his report noted. \u2014 Meredith Deliso, ABC News , 10 June 2022",
|
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"Yet within seconds, Castellanos was on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound to the abdomen after a fifth officer shot him with his handgun just as another deployed a Taser. \u2014 Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
|
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"The body was later identified as 35-year-old Luis Guerrero, a friend of Delgado\u2019s who died from a gunshot to the abdomen that morning, according to the Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office. \u2014 Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News , 28 Feb. 2022",
|
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"The juvenile transported by helicopter is currently in stable condition after undergoing surgery for a gunshot to the abdomen . \u2014 Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al , 21 Feb. 2022"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1541, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Latin abd\u014dmen \"fat underpart of an animal, belly, paunch,\" of uncertain origin":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8ab-d\u0259-m\u0259n",
|
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"\u0259b-\u02c8d\u014d-m\u0259n",
|
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"ab-",
|
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"\u02c8ab-d\u0259-m\u0259n, -\u02ccd\u014d-; \u0259b-\u02c8d\u014d-m\u0259n, ab-",
|
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"-\u02ccd\u014d-",
|
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"ab-\u02c8d\u014d-"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"belly",
|
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"breadbasket",
|
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"gut",
|
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"solar plexus",
|
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"stomach",
|
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"tummy"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120427",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"abdominal":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": of, relating to, or involving the abdomen":[
|
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"abdominal pain/cramps/bloating",
|
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"an abdominal scar",
|
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"abdominal sternites"
|
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],
|
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"\u2014 see also abdominal cavity":[
|
|
"abdominal pain/cramps/bloating",
|
|
"an abdominal scar",
|
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"abdominal sternites"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1650, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02c8d\u00e4m-n\u1d4al",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8d\u00e4-m\u0259-n\u1d4al",
|
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"\u0259b-",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8d\u00e4m-\u0259n-\u1d4al"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010708",
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb",
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"abdominal cavity":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": the cavity of the abdomen (see abdomen sense 1 ) that is lined by peritoneum , is bounded above by the diaphragm , anteriorly by a wall of muscle and tissue, and posteriorly by the spinal column, is continuous below with the pelvic cavity , and contains many of the visceral organs and especially those involved in digestion (such as the stomach, liver, pancreas, kidneys, and intestines)":[
|
|
"He makes a half-inch incision in the navel and inserts a laparoscope, a flexible optical device for inspecting the abdominal cavity .",
|
|
"\u2014 Matt Clark",
|
|
"Most hernias can be pushed back into the abdominal cavity .",
|
|
"\u2014 Fred Cicetti"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1745, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024031",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
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"abdominal fin":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": one of the posterior paired fins of fishes : pelvic fin":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1775, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064209",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abdominal pore":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an excretory usually paired aperture opening within or behind the cloacal region in many fishes and affording communication between the abdominal cavity and the exterior":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1845, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190959",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abdominal pouch":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": marsupium sense 1":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1800, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-204052",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abdominal respiration":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": diaphragmatic respiration":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1828, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105304",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abduct":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to draw or spread away (a part of the body, such as a limb or the fingers) from a position near or parallel to the median axis of the body or from the axis of a limb":[
|
|
"a muscle that abducts the arm"
|
|
],
|
|
": to seize and take away (a person) by force":[
|
|
"The girl was abducted by kidnappers."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Ukraine: Russians abduct Kherson mayor Kherson Mayor Ihor Kolykhaiev has been abducted by Russian forces that occupy the southern city of almost 300,000, a mayoral adviser said. \u2014 John Bacon, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Dan Chappel, an Army veteran, was an FBI informant who secretly recorded hours of conversations, participated in chat groups and trained to abduct Whitmer, along with Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta. \u2014 CBS News , 21 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Davila was arrested earlier on Friday after she was found with the vehicle officers suspect was used to abduct the infant, according to police. \u2014 Gloria Rebecca Gomez, The Arizona Republic , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"The suspects also allegedly tried to abduct the baby from a local Walmart on March 28 and on the morning of the actual kidnapping, but failed both times. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"Who would abduct him, torture him for days and toss him onto a rubbish tip? \u2014 Tom Nolan, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
|
|
"An irate Meehan attempted to abduct Terra Newell (as played by Julia Garner in the series) in a parking lot in 2016, leading her to fatally stab him in self-defense. \u2014 Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"That March, he was arrested again in Newport News, Virginia and charged with allegedly trying to abduct and strangle his then-20-year-old wife, according to The Virginian-Pilot. \u2014 Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com , 14 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"According to Time, military advisers told the president that a Russian squad had been sent to abduct him, with rumors circulating that a pro-Moscow puppet government would be installed once he had been removed. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1765, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Medieval Latin abd\u016bctus , past participle of abd\u016bcere \"to draw (a limb) away from the body,\" going back to Latin \"to lead away, carry off, remove, entice away,\" from ab- ab- + d\u016bcere \"to lead\" \u2014 more at tow entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"sense 2 also \u02c8ab-\u02ccd\u0259kt",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8d\u0259kt, \u0259b- also \u02c8ab-\u02cc",
|
|
"\u0259b-",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8d\u0259kt",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8d\u0259kt, \u0259b-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"kidnap"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184719",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abductee":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a person who has been abducted":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Saturday's cold open brought back McKinnon's Miss Rafferty -- an alien abductee who goes through a rougher experience than her counterparts. \u2014 Frank Pallotta, CNN , 22 May 2022",
|
|
"Her comic chops with characters like alien abductee Colleen Rafferty frequently drove castmates and guest hosts to lose it live on air. \u2014 Staff, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 May 2022",
|
|
"Within days, the charred remains of a new abductee , Arab teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir, were found in the Jerusalem Forest, enraging the Palestinian community. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Soon after, in 2006, she was chosen to represent former abductees at a series of peace talks between the LRA and the Ugandan government. \u2014 John Okot, The Christian Science Monitor , 15 Apr. 2020",
|
|
"Five abductees were then allowed to return to Japan. \u2014 Alastair Gale, WSJ , 14 June 2018",
|
|
"Over four months, two of the kidnapping ring\u2019s leaders\u2014Ebenezer Johnson and his wife, Sally\u2014marched Scomp and six other abductees hundreds of miles to the Deep South. \u2014 Eric Herschthal, The New Republic , 16 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"Some of the abductees were tortured and dumped by the wayside, while others were never seen again. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"Once migrants get into the vehicle, the drivers take them to an undisclosed location and dial every American number on their abductee \u2019s contact list in an effort to fetch the highest ransom possible. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 July 2019"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1832, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccab-\u02ccd\u0259k-\u02c8t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210903",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abduction":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the action of abducting : the condition of being abducted":[],
|
|
": the unlawful carrying away of a woman for marriage or sexual intercourse":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"discredited reports of abductions by aliens",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"He is charged in the Sept. 5, 2020, abduction and slaying of 18-year-old Thomas Anthony Green. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 5 May 2022",
|
|
"His methods are brute force and terror: the bombing and besieging of cities, deliberate targeting of civilians, and the abduction and jailing of local leaders and journalists and their replacement by loyal quislings. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"In Fairfax County, he was arrested in 2020 on abduction and burglary charges, FOX D.C. reported. \u2014 Fox News , 15 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Alexander Lackey pleaded guilty to felonious assault, abduction and domestic violence. \u2014 Cliff Pinckard, cleveland , 18 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The tipster said Calderwood had told them about Murnane's abduction , assault, and killing. \u2014 Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"Jose Roman Portillo, Yesenia Guadalupe Ramirez and Baldomeo Sandoval have all been arrested and charged with kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, child abduction and home invasion, San Jose police said Wednesday. \u2014 CBS News , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"All were in custody Wednesday and face charges of kidnapping, child abduction and home invasion, the San Jose Police Department said. \u2014 Fox News , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Reed, who is Black, was found guilty by an all-white jury in the 1996 abduction , rape and slaying of Stites, a white grocery store worker in the central Texas town of Bastrop, east of Austin. \u2014 NBC News , 25 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1632, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Late Latin abd\u016bcti\u014dn-, abd\u016bcti\u014d \"withdrawal, removal, allurement,\" from Latin abd\u016bcere \"to lead away\" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at abduct":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259b-",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8d\u0259k-sh\u0259n",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8d\u0259k-sh\u0259n, \u0259b-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"hijacking",
|
|
"highjacking",
|
|
"kidnapping",
|
|
"kidnaping",
|
|
"rape",
|
|
"snatch"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221705",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abductive":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": involving abduction":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1877, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"abduct(ion) + -ive entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259b\u02c8d-",
|
|
"(\u02c8)ab\u00a6d\u0259ktiv"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164548",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abductively":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": in an abductive manner":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1958, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212601",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abecedarian":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"basal",
|
|
"basic",
|
|
"beginning",
|
|
"elemental",
|
|
"elementary",
|
|
"essential",
|
|
"fundamental",
|
|
"introductory",
|
|
"meat-and-potatoes",
|
|
"rudimental",
|
|
"rudimentary",
|
|
"underlying"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": alphabetically arranged":[],
|
|
": of or relating to the alphabet":[],
|
|
": one learning the rudiments of something (such as the alphabet)":[],
|
|
": rudimentary":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"abecedarians soon learn that martial arts have a spiritual as well as physical side",
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"an abecedarian approach to historical study"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1603, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
|
|
"1732, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"abecedary \"alphabet book, primer\" (going back to Middle English abscedary , borrowed from Medieval Latin abeced\u0101rium \"alphabet, primer,\" derived from neuter of Late Latin abeced\u0101rius \"alphabetical,\" from the names of the letters a + b + c + d + Latin -\u0101rius -ary entry 2 ) + -an entry 1":"Noun",
|
|
"abecedary \"alphabet book, primer\" + -an entry 2 \u2014 more at abecedarian entry 1":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cc\u0101-b\u0113-(\u02cc)s\u0113-\u02c8der-\u0113-\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"apprentice",
|
|
"babe",
|
|
"beginner",
|
|
"colt",
|
|
"cub",
|
|
"fledgling",
|
|
"freshman",
|
|
"greenhorn",
|
|
"neophyte",
|
|
"newbie",
|
|
"newcomer",
|
|
"novice",
|
|
"novitiate",
|
|
"punk",
|
|
"recruit",
|
|
"rook",
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"aberrant behavior",
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"I don't intend to suggest that his psychology was in some way aberrant or neurotic \u2026",
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"\u2014 Michael Chabon"
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],
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": straying from the right or normal way":[
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"aberrant misfits"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"The stones, silvered in the moon's aberrant light, shone like spectral tombs, and the figures, which Dalgliesh knew were Helena, Lettie and the Bostocks, became discarnate shapes disappearing into the darkness. \u2014 P. D. James , The Private Patient , 2008",
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"\u2026 as if he had happily spied an aberrant crocus amid the wintry gray scene of Presidential impeachment. \u2014 Francis X. Clines , New York Times , 8 Jan. 1999",
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"\u2026 at the brief and aberrant moment in time when it was possible to believe that America owed its great place in the world to its military and moral virtue rather than to the weight of its currency. \u2014 Lewis H. Lapham , Harper's , March 1992",
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"a year of aberrant weather\u2014record rainfall in the summer, record heat in the autumn",
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"aberrant behavior can be a sign of rabies in a wild animal",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"But the plaintiffs had an ace up their sleeve: an aberrant Ninth Circuit standard for when the ADA preempts general state laws. \u2014 Glenn G. Lammi, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
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"However, unlike most others who create antibodies that bind to aberrant protein, Mead and colleagues designed an antibody that stabilizes the normal protein precursor. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
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"Butler speculated that this could point to an aberrant immune response injuring the liver rather than the virus itself. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 6 May 2022",
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"Parents should have a say in what their children watch, but to deny them movies like this one is to give them the false impression that lust is aberrant , even nonexistent. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 25 Mar. 2022",
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"The entire constitutional premise that Congress can check and balance an aberrant President will be tarnished. \u2014 David Shortell And Stephen Collinson, CNN , 20 Oct. 2021",
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"She\u2019s a woman who does something very aberrant , very transgressive. \u2014 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times , 18 Jan. 2022",
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"New work from the CUNY team shows an early glimpse of that possibility, while also revealing the difficulties involved in identifying what an aberrant signal means. \u2014 Maryn Mckenna, Wired , 14 Feb. 2022",
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"And both suggest that the impulse to cheat, cut corners and get over on chumps, if not inflict harm upon them outright, is far from some aberrant pathology in the American identity but rather a constitutive force. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Feb. 2022"
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"circa 1536, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective"
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"borrowed from Latin aberrant-, aberrans , present participle of aberr\u0101re \"to wander away, stray, go wrong,\" from ab- ab- + err\u0101re \"to wander, drift, be in error\" \u2014 more at err":"Adjective",
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"noun derivative of aberrant entry 1":"Noun"
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"\u02c8a-b\u0259-r\u0259nt",
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"-\u02c8be-r\u0259nt",
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"\u0259-; \u02c8ab-\u0259-r\u0259nt",
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"a-\u02c8ber-\u0259nt"
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"atypical",
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"especial",
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"freak",
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"phenomenal",
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"unextraordinary",
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": aberrant":[]
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"you may have taken an aberrated path to the correct answer, but you got there"
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],
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"1786, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"past participle of aberrate \"to cause an aberration in,\" borrowed from Latin aberr\u0101tus , past participle of aberr\u0101re \"to wander away, stray\" \u2014 more at aberrant entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8a-b\u0259-\u02ccr\u0101-t\u0259d"
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],
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]
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"mind",
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"saneness",
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"sanity"
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],
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": an aberrant individual":[],
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": failure of a mirror, refracting surface, or lens to produce exact point-to-point correspondence between an object and its image":[
|
|
"chromatic aberration",
|
|
"\u2026 the telescope suffers from a serious focusing problem, a condition known as spherical aberration , which causes the point-like images of stars to be surrounded by fuzzy haze.",
|
|
"\u2014 M. Mitchell Waldrop"
|
|
],
|
|
": something or someone regarded as atypical and therefore able to be ignored or discounted":[
|
|
"Harkins was to be regarded as an aberration among American military leaders \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Neil Sheehan",
|
|
"The U.S. establishment treated this grassroots movement almost as an aberration , virtually ignoring it.",
|
|
"\u2014 Helen Caldicott",
|
|
"As for Putin's desire to lay waste to Chechnya, Western leaders largely dismiss it as an aberration \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 The New Republic"
|
|
],
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": the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state":[
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"aberrations of character"
|
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],
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": unsoundness or disorder of the mind":[]
|
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|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recently geneticists have taken a closer look at a genetic aberration previously considered rare \u2026 . The genes may be perfectly normal, yet there is a shortage or surplus of DNA sequences that may play a role in diseases that defy straightforward genetic patterns \u2026 \u2014 Melinda Wenner , Scientific American , June 2009",
|
|
"He did hit five homers for Texas in 1987, but that was an aberration . In no other major league season has he hit more than three, and last season he actually came up with a goose egg. \u2014 E. M. Swift , Sports Illustrated , 5 Apr. 1989",
|
|
"Gilliard's studies of numerous bird of paradise species brought them from the realm of exotic aberrations to the forefront of sociobiology. \u2014 Jared M. Diamond , Nature , 24-30 Sept. 1981",
|
|
"For her, such a low grade on an exam was an aberration .",
|
|
"a study of sexual aberration",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Looking back at the history of King adaptations, Firestarter stands out as an aberration . \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"Such comments created a timeline that bridged the Nazi era, cordoning it off as an aberration . \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"One hundred years ago, the lynching of Black men and women in Texas was not an aberration . \u2014 Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Chron , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"According to popular Gen Z social influencer and co-founder of Mozverse, Zach Hirsch, his generation\u2019s push into the digital world will not be an aberration . \u2014 Josh Wilson, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"An aberration or a harbinger or where Trumpism was heading? \u2014 NBC News , 9 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"His shooting slump was positively an aberration ; there will be several huge threes coming from the hands of Mountain Mike. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Freak weather, no longer the aberration , routinely disrupts travel. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Nothing in the study links the aberration to mask usage and, in fact, the study never even mentions masks. \u2014 Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Aug. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
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|
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"1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
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|
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"borrowed from Latin aberr\u0101ti\u014dn-, aberr\u0101ti\u014d \"diversion, relief,\" from aberr\u0101re \"to wander away\" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at aberrant entry 1":""
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
]
|
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|
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|
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"mind",
|
|
"saneness",
|
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"sanity"
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
": failure of a mirror, refracting surface, or lens to produce exact point-to-point correspondence between an object and its image":[
|
|
"chromatic aberration",
|
|
"\u2026 the telescope suffers from a serious focusing problem, a condition known as spherical aberration , which causes the point-like images of stars to be surrounded by fuzzy haze.",
|
|
"\u2014 M. Mitchell Waldrop"
|
|
],
|
|
": something or someone regarded as atypical and therefore able to be ignored or discounted":[
|
|
"Harkins was to be regarded as an aberration among American military leaders \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Neil Sheehan",
|
|
"The U.S. establishment treated this grassroots movement almost as an aberration , virtually ignoring it.",
|
|
"\u2014 Helen Caldicott",
|
|
"As for Putin's desire to lay waste to Chechnya, Western leaders largely dismiss it as an aberration \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 The New Republic"
|
|
],
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
"Recently geneticists have taken a closer look at a genetic aberration previously considered rare \u2026 . The genes may be perfectly normal, yet there is a shortage or surplus of DNA sequences that may play a role in diseases that defy straightforward genetic patterns \u2026 \u2014 Melinda Wenner , Scientific American , June 2009",
|
|
"He did hit five homers for Texas in 1987, but that was an aberration . In no other major league season has he hit more than three, and last season he actually came up with a goose egg. \u2014 E. M. Swift , Sports Illustrated , 5 Apr. 1989",
|
|
"Gilliard's studies of numerous bird of paradise species brought them from the realm of exotic aberrations to the forefront of sociobiology. \u2014 Jared M. Diamond , Nature , 24-30 Sept. 1981",
|
|
"For her, such a low grade on an exam was an aberration .",
|
|
"a study of sexual aberration",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Looking back at the history of King adaptations, Firestarter stands out as an aberration . \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"Such comments created a timeline that bridged the Nazi era, cordoning it off as an aberration . \u2014 New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"One hundred years ago, the lynching of Black men and women in Texas was not an aberration . \u2014 Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Chron , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"According to popular Gen Z social influencer and co-founder of Mozverse, Zach Hirsch, his generation\u2019s push into the digital world will not be an aberration . \u2014 Josh Wilson, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"An aberration or a harbinger or where Trumpism was heading? \u2014 NBC News , 9 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"His shooting slump was positively an aberration ; there will be several huge threes coming from the hands of Mountain Mike. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Freak weather, no longer the aberration , routinely disrupts travel. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Nothing in the study links the aberration to mask usage and, in fact, the study never even mentions masks. \u2014 Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 Aug. 2021"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"borrowed from Latin aberr\u0101ti\u014dn-, aberr\u0101ti\u014d \"diversion, relief,\" from aberr\u0101re \"to wander away\" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at aberrant entry 1":""
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},
|
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|
|
"\u02ccab-\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-sh\u0259n",
|
|
"\u02cca-b\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-sh\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
|
"dementia",
|
|
"derangement",
|
|
"insanity",
|
|
"lunacy",
|
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"madness",
|
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"mania",
|
|
"rage"
|
|
],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225121",
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|
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|
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|
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|
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},
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
"1876, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
},
|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
": denoting absence or lack":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1854, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin abesse \"to be absent\" + -ive":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"(\u02c8)a\u00a6besiv"
|
|
],
|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135813",
|
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|
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|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abet":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
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|
|
": to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan)":[
|
|
"abet the commission of a crime"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She abetted the thief in his getaway.",
|
|
"Did he abet the commission of a crime?",
|
|
"Their actions were shown to abet terrorism.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Kerr, whose father, Malcolm, was assassinated when Steve Kerr was in college, is an outspoken critic of gun violence and of the politicians who abet it. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"Trump has long complained about Kemp, who did nothing to abet Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 6 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Beyond clinicians and regulators, Purdue Pharma found many to abet its criminal scheme, including pharmacies and drug distributors who flooded small towns with mountains of opioids. \u2014 Haider J. Warraich, STAT , 20 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Attorney Elizabeth Myers, who represents those plaintiffs, said the orders granted by Meachum wouldn\u2019t stop Texas Right to Life or other injunctive defendants from suing other parties that abet in abortions when the law goes into effect. \u2014 Dallas News , 31 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Trump wanted to leverage federal law enforcement to abet his reelection bid. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 3 July 2021",
|
|
"Polls reveal shockingly high levels of isolation and loneliness among the U.S. population, conditions that are known to make people more susceptible the destructive, paranoid conspiracy theories that abet the right wing. \u2014 Astra Taylor, The New Republic , 6 May 2021",
|
|
"Coopting the appeal of sweatsuit comfort, this set adds enough polish to aid and abet your return to in-person plans. \u2014 Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ , 24 Apr. 2021",
|
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"The wonder is why a serious Democratic administration would aid and abet their cause. \u2014 Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune , 6 Apr. 2021"
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|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abetten , borrowed from Anglo-French abeter , from a- , prefix in transitive verbs (going back to Latin ad- ad- ) + beter \"to harass (a bear with dogs), bait,\" borrowed from Old Low Franconian *b\u0113tan ; akin to Old English b\u01e3tan \"to set upon (with animals), bait\" \u2014 more at bait entry 1":""
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259-\u02c8bet"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abet incite , instigate , abet , foment mean to spur to action. incite stresses a stirring up and urging on, and may or may not imply initiating. inciting a riot instigate definitely implies responsibility for initiating another's action and often connotes underhandedness or evil intention. instigated a conspiracy abet implies both assisting and encouraging. aiding and abetting the enemy foment implies persistence in goading. fomenting rebellion",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
|
"brew",
|
|
"ferment",
|
|
"foment",
|
|
"incite",
|
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"instigate",
|
|
"pick",
|
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"provoke",
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"raise",
|
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"stir (up)",
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"whip (up)"
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
|
"She abetted the thief in his getaway.",
|
|
"Did he abet the commission of a crime?",
|
|
"Their actions were shown to abet terrorism.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Kerr, whose father, Malcolm, was assassinated when Steve Kerr was in college, is an outspoken critic of gun violence and of the politicians who abet it. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"Trump has long complained about Kemp, who did nothing to abet Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 6 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Beyond clinicians and regulators, Purdue Pharma found many to abet its criminal scheme, including pharmacies and drug distributors who flooded small towns with mountains of opioids. \u2014 Haider J. Warraich, STAT , 20 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Attorney Elizabeth Myers, who represents those plaintiffs, said the orders granted by Meachum wouldn\u2019t stop Texas Right to Life or other injunctive defendants from suing other parties that abet in abortions when the law goes into effect. \u2014 Dallas News , 31 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Trump wanted to leverage federal law enforcement to abet his reelection bid. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 3 July 2021",
|
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"Polls reveal shockingly high levels of isolation and loneliness among the U.S. population, conditions that are known to make people more susceptible the destructive, paranoid conspiracy theories that abet the right wing. \u2014 Astra Taylor, The New Republic , 6 May 2021",
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"Coopting the appeal of sweatsuit comfort, this set adds enough polish to aid and abet your return to in-person plans. \u2014 Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ , 24 Apr. 2021",
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"The wonder is why a serious Democratic administration would aid and abet their cause. \u2014 Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune , 6 Apr. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English abetten , borrowed from Anglo-French abeter , from a- , prefix in transitive verbs (going back to Latin ad- ad- ) + beter \"to harass (a bear with dogs), bait,\" borrowed from Old Low Franconian *b\u0113tan ; akin to Old English b\u01e3tan \"to set upon (with animals), bait\" \u2014 more at bait entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8bet"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abet incite , instigate , abet , foment mean to spur to action. incite stresses a stirring up and urging on, and may or may not imply initiating. inciting a riot instigate definitely implies responsibility for initiating another's action and often connotes underhandedness or evil intention. instigated a conspiracy abet implies both assisting and encouraging. aiding and abetting the enemy foment implies persistence in goading. fomenting rebellion",
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"synonyms":[
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"brew",
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"ferment",
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"foment",
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"incite",
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"instigate",
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"pick",
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"provoke",
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"raise",
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"stir (up)",
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"whip (up)"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081921",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"transitive verb",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"abetter":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan)":[
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"abet the commission of a crime"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
|
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"She abetted the thief in his getaway.",
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"Did he abet the commission of a crime?",
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"Their actions were shown to abet terrorism.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Kerr, whose father, Malcolm, was assassinated when Steve Kerr was in college, is an outspoken critic of gun violence and of the politicians who abet it. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 May 2022",
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"Trump has long complained about Kemp, who did nothing to abet Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 6 Jan. 2022",
|
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"Beyond clinicians and regulators, Purdue Pharma found many to abet its criminal scheme, including pharmacies and drug distributors who flooded small towns with mountains of opioids. \u2014 Haider J. Warraich, STAT , 20 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Attorney Elizabeth Myers, who represents those plaintiffs, said the orders granted by Meachum wouldn\u2019t stop Texas Right to Life or other injunctive defendants from suing other parties that abet in abortions when the law goes into effect. \u2014 Dallas News , 31 Aug. 2021",
|
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"Trump wanted to leverage federal law enforcement to abet his reelection bid. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 3 July 2021",
|
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"Polls reveal shockingly high levels of isolation and loneliness among the U.S. population, conditions that are known to make people more susceptible the destructive, paranoid conspiracy theories that abet the right wing. \u2014 Astra Taylor, The New Republic , 6 May 2021",
|
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"Coopting the appeal of sweatsuit comfort, this set adds enough polish to aid and abet your return to in-person plans. \u2014 Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ , 24 Apr. 2021",
|
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"The wonder is why a serious Democratic administration would aid and abet their cause. \u2014 Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune , 6 Apr. 2021"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English abetten , borrowed from Anglo-French abeter , from a- , prefix in transitive verbs (going back to Latin ad- ad- ) + beter \"to harass (a bear with dogs), bait,\" borrowed from Old Low Franconian *b\u0113tan ; akin to Old English b\u01e3tan \"to set upon (with animals), bait\" \u2014 more at bait entry 1":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8bet"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abet incite , instigate , abet , foment mean to spur to action. incite stresses a stirring up and urging on, and may or may not imply initiating. inciting a riot instigate definitely implies responsibility for initiating another's action and often connotes underhandedness or evil intention. instigated a conspiracy abet implies both assisting and encouraging. aiding and abetting the enemy foment implies persistence in goading. fomenting rebellion",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"brew",
|
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"ferment",
|
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"foment",
|
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"incite",
|
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"instigate",
|
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"pick",
|
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"provoke",
|
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"raise",
|
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"stir (up)",
|
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"whip (up)"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030637",
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"type":[
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"noun",
|
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"transitive verb",
|
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"abettor":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan)":[
|
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"abet the commission of a crime"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"She abetted the thief in his getaway.",
|
|
"Did he abet the commission of a crime?",
|
|
"Their actions were shown to abet terrorism.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Kerr, whose father, Malcolm, was assassinated when Steve Kerr was in college, is an outspoken critic of gun violence and of the politicians who abet it. \u2014 Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"Trump has long complained about Kemp, who did nothing to abet Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 6 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Beyond clinicians and regulators, Purdue Pharma found many to abet its criminal scheme, including pharmacies and drug distributors who flooded small towns with mountains of opioids. \u2014 Haider J. Warraich, STAT , 20 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Attorney Elizabeth Myers, who represents those plaintiffs, said the orders granted by Meachum wouldn\u2019t stop Texas Right to Life or other injunctive defendants from suing other parties that abet in abortions when the law goes into effect. \u2014 Dallas News , 31 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Trump wanted to leverage federal law enforcement to abet his reelection bid. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 3 July 2021",
|
|
"Polls reveal shockingly high levels of isolation and loneliness among the U.S. population, conditions that are known to make people more susceptible the destructive, paranoid conspiracy theories that abet the right wing. \u2014 Astra Taylor, The New Republic , 6 May 2021",
|
|
"Coopting the appeal of sweatsuit comfort, this set adds enough polish to aid and abet your return to in-person plans. \u2014 Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ , 24 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"The wonder is why a serious Democratic administration would aid and abet their cause. \u2014 Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune , 6 Apr. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abetten , borrowed from Anglo-French abeter , from a- , prefix in transitive verbs (going back to Latin ad- ad- ) + beter \"to harass (a bear with dogs), bait,\" borrowed from Old Low Franconian *b\u0113tan ; akin to Old English b\u01e3tan \"to set upon (with animals), bait\" \u2014 more at bait entry 1":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8bet"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abet incite , instigate , abet , foment mean to spur to action. incite stresses a stirring up and urging on, and may or may not imply initiating. inciting a riot instigate definitely implies responsibility for initiating another's action and often connotes underhandedness or evil intention. instigated a conspiracy abet implies both assisting and encouraging. aiding and abetting the enemy foment implies persistence in goading. fomenting rebellion",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"brew",
|
|
"ferment",
|
|
"foment",
|
|
"incite",
|
|
"instigate",
|
|
"pick",
|
|
"provoke",
|
|
"raise",
|
|
"stir (up)",
|
|
"whip (up)"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-223020",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun",
|
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"transitive verb",
|
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"verb"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"abeyance":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"continuance",
|
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"continuation"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested":[
|
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"an estate in abeyance"
|
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],
|
|
": a state of temporary inactivity : suspension":[
|
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"\u2014 used chiefly in the phrase in abeyance \u2026 new contracts on all but one existing mine \u2026 are in abeyance pending the outcome of a government inquiry to be carried out into Australia's role in the nuclear fuel cycle. \u2014 Vimala Sarma a plan that is currently being held in abeyance"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"our weekend plans were held in abeyance until we could get a weather forecast",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Plans to build a next-generation frigate at a second yard, which Ingalls had a good chance of winning, now are in abeyance , as are plans to build a next-generation destroyer. \u2014 Loren Thompson, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"In effect, all pending cases in various courts have been held in abeyance . \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 10 May 2022",
|
|
"This is science fiction that keeps its science largely in abeyance , as dark matter for a story about loneliness, grief and finding purpose. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Three weeks later, Dayspring and his business associates addressed the Board of Supervisors during the public comment period, urging the county to again extend the abeyance . \u2014 Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times , 29 July 2021",
|
|
"Here\u2019s a look at some of the tougher possible penalties that U.S. leaders are holding in abeyance \u2014 while watching for new Russian steps against Ukraine. \u2014 Ellen Knickmeyer And Fatima Hussein, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Hope and anticipation have not gone dormant, have not settled in abeyance , just in impatience. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 28 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The consensus of analysts is that the crisis may be in abeyance for the moment, but is far from over. \u2014 Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor , 13 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The judge held the case in abeyance until the parties could work out a solution. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 6 Oct. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1530, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Anglo-French abeyaunce \"absence of a claimant or owner, lapse in succession,\" from abaer, abair \"to open wide\" (from a- , prefix in transitive verbs\u2014from Latin ad- ad- \u2014 + baer, baier \"to have the mouth wide open, gape, pant,\" from Vulgar Latin *bat\u0101re , perhaps of imitative origin) + -ance -ance":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0101-\u0259n(t)s",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0101-\u0259ns"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"cold storage",
|
|
"deep freeze",
|
|
"doldrums",
|
|
"dormancy",
|
|
"holding pattern",
|
|
"latency",
|
|
"moratorium",
|
|
"quiescence",
|
|
"suspended animation",
|
|
"suspense",
|
|
"suspension"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054155",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abhor":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"love"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe":[
|
|
"abhorred violence"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"We believe we know that Americans abhor extremes and mistrust ideology. \u2014 David Frum , Atlantic , March 1995",
|
|
"I abhor latter-day, modishly camp take-offs of my cherished boyhood heroes and heroines (Little Orphan Annie, Wonder Woman, Invisible Scarlet O'Neil). \u2014 Mordecai Richler , New York Times Book Review , 3 May 1987",
|
|
"He abhorred grandiosity. When he came to New York to revise his manuscripts and galley proofs, he would hole up in a little cubicle on the attic floor of the old 52nd Street mansion that went by the name of Random House. \u2014 Norman Cousins , Saturday Review , April 1981",
|
|
"abhors the way people leave their trash at the picnic sites in the park",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Because of the enhancer, a young man was quickly tainted by an allegation we all abhor . \u2014 Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"Yale faculty members abhor the prospect of changing the university\u2019s name to satisfy leftist activists. \u2014 Aron Ravin, National Review , 3 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"But then most normal people would also abhor the speech involved in the Brandenburg decision that Kirk references. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 25 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"This obstinance is confounding and perhaps infuriating for some who can't understand what so many parents abhor about resuming remote learning until Omicron subsides. \u2014 Stephanie H. Murray, The Week , 13 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Mother Nature, as the adage goes, must really abhor a vacuum. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 21 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"There are many things to abhor about Mark Zuckerberg and his works, but the fundamental mediocrity of it all is what feels both most egregious and most of this moment. \u2014 David Roth, The New Republic , 22 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Because, while Jason Momoa is clearly having a blast as Duncan in Denis Villeneuve\u2019s new film adaptation, there\u2019s no getting around the fact that \u2014 for myself and others \u2014 this is a fictional universe that should abhor a name like Duncan Idaho. \u2014 Nate Jones, Vulture , 28 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Most senior leaders don\u2019t abhor that vacuum at all. \u2014 David Benjamin And David Komlos, Forbes , 27 Sep. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abhorren , borrowed from Latin abhorr\u0113re , from ab- ab- + horr\u0113re \"to bristle, shiver, shudder\" \u2014 more at horror entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8h\u022fr",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8h\u022fr",
|
|
"ab-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abhor hate , detest , abhor , abominate , loathe mean to feel strong aversion or intense dislike for. hate implies an emotional aversion often coupled with enmity or malice. hated the enemy with a passion detest suggests violent antipathy. detests cowards abhor implies a deep often shuddering repugnance. a crime abhorred by all abominate suggests strong detestation and often moral condemnation. abominates all forms of violence loathe implies utter disgust and intolerance. loathed the mere sight of them",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abominate",
|
|
"despise",
|
|
"detest",
|
|
"execrate",
|
|
"hate",
|
|
"loathe"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194942",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abhorrence":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"love"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a feeling of strong repugnance or disgust : loathing":[
|
|
"an abhorrence of war"
|
|
],
|
|
": something regarded as repugnant or disgusting":[
|
|
"Slavery is an abhorrence ."
|
|
],
|
|
": the act or state of abhorring or despising something or someone":[
|
|
"a crime regarded with abhorrence"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"one of the changes in American society that remains a particular abhorrence of social conservatives",
|
|
"my firm abhorrence of all forms of hypocrisy",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Bennett suggests threatening to fly reconnaissance aircraft along the country's coast, playing off Kim's abhorrence for spying. \u2014 Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"The resolution to suspend Russia needed a two-thirds majority of votes cast, with abstentions not counting as votes, and is seen as a barometer of the world\u2019s abhorrence over the apparent atrocities in Ukraine. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"At the most meaningful level of identity, this tradition joins Ukrainians and Russians, as well as millions of others throughout the world, who watch with abhorrence the scandal of this invasion. \u2014 Tim Kelleher, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Living and learning in Germany, however, produced in her an abhorrence of German culture, with its pervasive ethic of Pflicht\u2014duty or high seriousness. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Fellow Black television sitcom actress Janet Hubert also tweeted out her abhorrence for Rashad's support, directly calling her out. \u2014 Shelby Stewart, Chron , 1 July 2021",
|
|
"These bills are engineered to incite extreme emotion\u2014sympathy for an embryo and abhorrence for people seeking abortions. \u2014 Marie Solis, The New Republic , 26 May 2021",
|
|
"Instead, Amazon\u2019s accommodations have been rewarded with a growing bipartisan abhorrence for mega-cap tech companies. \u2014 Jerry Bowyer, National Review , 19 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"But abhorrence of the fence is a rare issue on which the two parties can agree. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 Apr. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"abhorr(ent) + -ence":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"ab-",
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8h\u022fr-\u0259n(t)s",
|
|
"-\u02c8h\u00e4r-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abomination",
|
|
"anathema",
|
|
"antipathy",
|
|
"aversion",
|
|
"b\u00eate noire",
|
|
"detestation",
|
|
"execration",
|
|
"hate"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041219",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abhorrent":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"innocuous",
|
|
"inoffensive"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred : being so repugnant as to stir up positive antagonism":[
|
|
"acts abhorrent to every right-minded person"
|
|
],
|
|
": feeling or showing strong dislike or hatred":[],
|
|
": not agreeable : contrary":[
|
|
"a notion abhorrent to their philosophy"
|
|
],
|
|
": strongly opposed":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The arguments were not about the merit of honoring those whose action supported the abhorrent practice of slavery, the discussion Thursday was about the plain facts of the case. \u2014 Ben Brasch, ajc , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"But race itself is a social construct, invented by European and early American colonialists and slave traders who needed to justify their abhorrent treatment of Africans and Native Americans. \u2014 Keith Magee, CNN , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"The union, no matter how abhorrent the allegations might be, has no choice but to fight for Bauer during his appeal. \u2014 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"To enjoy the pleasures of money felt impossible, but to take this new security for granted was morally abhorrent . \u2014 New York Times , 29 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"This wasn\u2019t a car accident or risky behavior or karma for any of the abhorrent things teen boys do. \u2014 Petula Dvorak, Washington Post , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"While the movie begins with Buckley\u2019s grieving Harper needled by men in ways that are less overtly hostile and invasive than awkward and unnerving, the regenerative cycles of abhorrent male behavior gradually are exposed with graphic bluntness. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"What\u2019s lost in the continuing Olympic sport of face-saving, though, is the most abhorrent part. \u2014 Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"No tossing and turning for the man who has played one of the most abhorrent characters onscreen this season. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1599, in the meaning defined at sense 3b":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin abhorrent-, abhorrens , present participle of abhorr\u0113re \"to abhor \"":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"ab-",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8h\u022fr-\u0259nt",
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8h\u022fr-\u0259nt",
|
|
"-\u02c8h\u00e4r-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abominable",
|
|
"appalling",
|
|
"awful",
|
|
"disgusting",
|
|
"distasteful",
|
|
"dreadful",
|
|
"evil",
|
|
"foul",
|
|
"fulsome",
|
|
"gross",
|
|
"hideous",
|
|
"horrendous",
|
|
"horrible",
|
|
"horrid",
|
|
"loathsome",
|
|
"nasty",
|
|
"nauseating",
|
|
"nauseous",
|
|
"noisome",
|
|
"noxious",
|
|
"obnoxious",
|
|
"obscene",
|
|
"odious",
|
|
"offensive",
|
|
"rancid",
|
|
"repellent",
|
|
"repellant",
|
|
"repugnant",
|
|
"repulsive",
|
|
"revolting",
|
|
"scandalous",
|
|
"shocking",
|
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"sickening",
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"ugly"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025214",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"abidance":{
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"antonyms":[
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"breach",
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"contravention",
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"infraction",
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"infringement",
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"nonobservance",
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"transgression",
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"trespass",
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"violation"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": an act or state of abiding : continuance":[],
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": compliance":[
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"abidance by the rules"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"the FDA requires strict abidance by food manufacturers of its definitions for certain terms used on product labels",
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"the reassuring abidance of their friendship through times both good and bad",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Given the developing nature of the industry, brands should continually evaluate their technology to ensure continued compliance, future abidance by regulations and that their tools fit with their brand\u2019s goals and mission. \u2014 Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone , 29 Oct. 2021",
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"For now, many are highlighting success in other countries, and the glimmers of hope emerging in places like Washington state, where new infections are still occurring, but not as rapidly as before, thanks to widespread abidance to distancing. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 27 Mar. 2020",
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"Unlike Samsung, South Korea\u2019s largest chaebol, which has been mired in scandal, LG oozes reliability and law abidance . \u2014 The Economist , 2 Jan. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1607, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"abide + -ance":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8b\u012b-d\u1d4an(t)s"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"adherence",
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"compliance",
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"conformance",
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"conformity",
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"keeping",
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"obedience",
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"observance",
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"observation"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033605",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
|
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"abide":{
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"antonyms":[
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"bail",
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"bail out",
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"bug out",
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"buzz (off)",
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"clear off",
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"clear out",
|
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"cut out",
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"depart",
|
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"exit",
|
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"get off",
|
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"go",
|
|
"go off",
|
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"leave",
|
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"move",
|
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"pack (up ",
|
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"peel off",
|
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"pike (out ",
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"pull out",
|
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"push off",
|
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"push on",
|
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"quit",
|
|
"shove (off)",
|
|
"take off",
|
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"vamoose",
|
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"walk out"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
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": to accept without objection":[
|
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"will abide your decision"
|
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],
|
|
": to accept without objection : to acquiesce in":[
|
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"will abide by your decision"
|
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],
|
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": to bear patiently : tolerate":[
|
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"cannot abide such bigots"
|
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],
|
|
": to conform to":[
|
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"abide by the rules"
|
|
],
|
|
": to continue in a place : sojourn":[
|
|
"will abide in the house of the Lord"
|
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],
|
|
": to endure without yielding : withstand":[
|
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"abide the onrush of the enemy"
|
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],
|
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": to remain stable or fixed in a state":[
|
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"a love that abided with him all his days"
|
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],
|
|
": to wait for : await":[
|
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"I will abide the coming of my lord.",
|
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"\u2014 Alfred Tennyson"
|
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]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"Now his anger had poisoned all relationships, no one could be put in the two empty beds in the room, and not even his long-suffering sister could abide him in her house. \u2014 Peter Pouncey , Rules for Old Men Waiting , 2005",
|
|
"A former party functionary, Yeltsin replaced Communist ideology with a supremely simplified vision of democracy, which boiled down to two tenets: He could not abide Communists, and he supported freedom of the press. \u2014 Masha Gessen , New Republic , 5 June 2000",
|
|
"abide in the house of the Lord",
|
|
"a love that abided till the end of their lives",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"However, holders must abide by immigration and overstay rules. \u2014 Julia Buckley, CNN , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"The European Union didn\u2019t abide , and decided to cut off 90% of Russian gas imports instead. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
|
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"When in doubt, abide by the mantra of doing nothing. \u2014 Rotem Gantz, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"Rhode Islanders didn\u2019t abide such a taking of their public property. \u2014 Sean Lyness, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Its people rose up against the apartheid government in the 1950s and won a homeland, Transkei, that did not abide by the most oppressive strictures of White rule. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Many of those people have expressed outrage that Mr. Johnson and his colleagues, who imposed those rules, did not abide by them. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The three delegates say the maps don\u2019t abide by Maryland constitutional guidelines. \u2014 Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun , 22 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Ahead of the Rome talks, Sullivan said the U.S. wouldn't abide China or any other country helping Russia work around economy-jarring sanctions inflicted by the U.S. and other allies in response to the invasion. \u2014 Aamer Madhani, ajc , 19 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abiden , going back to Old English ab\u012bdan , from a- , perfective prefix + b\u012bdan \"to bide, wait\"; a- (also \u0101-, \u01e3- under stress in nominal derivatives) akin to Old Frisian a- , perfective prefix, Old Saxon \u0101-, \u014d- (unstressed a- ) and probably to Old English or- \"outward, extreme, lacking (in nominal compounds),\" Old Frisian & Old Saxon ur-, or- , Old High German ar-, ir-, er- unstressed inchoative verb prefix, ur \"out of, away from,\" Old Norse \u016br-, \u00f6r- , \"out of, from,\" \u00f8r- , privative prefix, Gothic us- \"out of,\" us- , privative and perfective prefix; if from pre-Germanic *ud-s- akin to Old English \u016bt \"out\" \u2014 more at out entry 1 , bide":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u012bd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abide bear , suffer , endure , abide , tolerate , stand mean to put up with something trying or painful. bear usually implies the power to sustain without flinching or breaking. forced to bear a tragic loss suffer often suggests acceptance or passivity rather than courage or patience in bearing. suffering many insults endure implies continuing firm or resolute through trials and difficulties. endured years of rejection abide suggests acceptance without resistance or protest. cannot abide their rudeness tolerate suggests overcoming or successfully controlling an impulse to resist, avoid, or resent something injurious or distasteful. refused to tolerate such treatment stand emphasizes even more strongly the ability to bear without discomposure or flinching. unable to stand teasing continue , last , endure , abide , persist mean to exist over a period of time or indefinitely. continue applies to a process going on without ending. the search for peace will continue last , especially when unqualified, may stress existing beyond what is normal or expected. buy shoes that will last endure adds an implication of resisting destructive forces or agencies. in spite of everything, her faith endured abide implies stable and constant existing especially as opposed to mutability. a love that abides through 40 years of marriage persist suggests outlasting the normal or appointed time and often connotes obstinacy or doggedness. the sense of guilt persisted",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"dwell",
|
|
"hang around",
|
|
"remain",
|
|
"stay",
|
|
"stick around",
|
|
"tarry"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-122105",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abiding":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": continuing for a long time : enduring":[
|
|
"an abiding interest in nature"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I have an abiding interest in animal welfare\u2014it's not just a phase I'm going through.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"There's family tragedy, struggle with drugs and deep poverty, but there's also children with a plucky spirit, adults who grapple for purchase against all odds and an abiding love that will stay with you for a long time. \u2014 Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"The memoir imparts an abiding sense of the gravity of these acts\u2014of raising, tending, and killing animals; of planting, nurturing, and harvesting vegetables\u2014that lends an almost sacred quality to Gaydos\u2019s prose. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
|
|
"More than a century after American forces landed, the United States remains an abiding feature of Haitian politics. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"Carson wanted not just to entertain but also to impart an abiding sense of interconnectedness. \u2014 Anelise Chen, The Atlantic , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"Who among us doesn\u2019t harbor an abiding love for Nicolas Cage? \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"That is a potent charge in a country with an abiding fear of Russia. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"James Vick ran a hugely successful seed business in Rochester, New York, in the mid-nineteenth century driven by an abiding love of flowers, and the desire to spread that love. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 July 2021",
|
|
"Yet my efforts were untethered to anything deep or abiding . \u2014 Kyle Meyaard-schaap, CNN , 30 Apr. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abydynge , from present participle of abiden \"to abide \"":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u012b-di\u014b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"ageless",
|
|
"continuing",
|
|
"dateless",
|
|
"enduring",
|
|
"eternal",
|
|
"everlasting",
|
|
"immortal",
|
|
"imperishable",
|
|
"lasting",
|
|
"ongoing",
|
|
"perennial",
|
|
"perpetual",
|
|
"timeless",
|
|
"undying"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203731",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"ability":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"disability",
|
|
"inability",
|
|
"incapability",
|
|
"incapableness",
|
|
"incapacity",
|
|
"incompetence",
|
|
"incompetency",
|
|
"ineptitude",
|
|
"ineptness"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": capacity, fitness, or tendency to act or be acted on in a (specified) way":[
|
|
"agglutin ability"
|
|
],
|
|
": competence in doing something : skill":[
|
|
"artistic abilities"
|
|
],
|
|
": natural aptitude or acquired proficiency":[
|
|
"students with different abilities"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"a young woman with many remarkable musical abilities",
|
|
"a young woman of great musical ability",
|
|
"She has shown some ability with foreign languages.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Antibody levels are one measure of immune response, and often used as a rough indication of a variant's ability cause reinfection or breakthrough infection. \u2014 Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Curtis\u2019s view of the Foley stage is blocked by a vast computer monitor, an intentional obstruction: seeing how a sound is created would spoil his ability to evaluate its accuracy and effectiveness. \u2014 Anna Wiener, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Each new pursuit has brought new satisfaction and a new ability to make an impact. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"Bryan has a Garth Brooks-type ability to turn a simple relatable rhyme and singable melody into gold, down to earth and poetic. \u2014 Journal Sentinel , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"Every hero has a new passive ability in Overwatch 2 based on their role. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"Three floors below at the hospital, 15-year-old Anastasia Pryhoda describes a vastly different experience, and a precocious ability to cope. \u2014 Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Without them, Ukrainian forces have a limited ability to retreat to Lysychansk, which sits on higher ground. \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Such a step, the administration said, would reduce the addictiveness of certain tobacco products and give addicted users a greater ability to quit, as well as help prevent young people from becoming regular smokers. \u2014 Laurie Mcginley, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English -ablete, -abilite, -iblete, -ibilite , borrowed from Anglo-French -ablet\u00e9, -abilit\u00e9, -iblet\u00e9, -ibilit\u00e9 , borrowed from Latin -abilit\u0101s, -ibilit\u0101s , from -abilis, -ibilis -able + -t\u0101s -ty":"Noun suffix",
|
|
"Middle English ablete, abilite, habilite \"suitability, proficiency, ability,\" borrowed from Anglo-French abilit\u00e9 , borrowed from Latin habilit\u0101t-, habilit\u0101s \"aptitude,\" from habilis \"easy to handle, adaptable, fit\" + -t\u0101t-, -t\u0101s -ty \u2014 more at able":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8bi-l\u0259-t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"capability",
|
|
"capableness",
|
|
"capacity",
|
|
"competence",
|
|
"competency",
|
|
"faculty"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093158",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"noun suffix"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abiuret":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": not giving the biuret reaction":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1908, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"a- entry 2 + biuret":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"(\u02c8)\u0101\u00a6b\u012by\u0259\u02ccret"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101112",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abject":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": cast down in spirit : servile , spiritless":[
|
|
"a man made abject by suffering",
|
|
"an abject coward"
|
|
],
|
|
": expressing or offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit":[
|
|
"abject flattery",
|
|
"an abject apology"
|
|
],
|
|
": showing hopelessness or resignation":[
|
|
"abject surrender"
|
|
],
|
|
": sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe":[
|
|
"living in abject poverty",
|
|
"to lowest pitch of abject fortune thou art fallen",
|
|
"\u2014 John Milton",
|
|
"abject failure"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"\u2026 the time would come that no human being should be humiliated or be made abject . \u2014 Katherine Anne Porter , The Never-Ending Wrong , 1977",
|
|
"\u2026 my critical intelligence sometimes shrivels to an abject nodding of the head. \u2014 Lewis H. Lapham , Harper's , May 1971",
|
|
"\u2026 nothing seemed to have changed at the Beehive across the years. The same pallid employees were visible in the same abject state of peonage, cringing under the whiplash of overseers. \u2014 S. J. Perelman , Baby, It's Cold Inside , 1970",
|
|
"They live in abject misery.",
|
|
"He offered an abject apology.",
|
|
"She thought he was an abject coward.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"As Cuba\u2019s economy went into freefall, Washington tightened its economic sanctions against Cuba, exacerbating the abject poverty that forced Cubans to illegally flee. \u2014 Nili Blanck, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 May 2022",
|
|
"This story generates trust, buy-in and affinity and can be the difference between roaring success and abject failure. \u2014 Jodie Cook, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"The DeSantis administration\u2019s effort to narrow healthcare coverage for transgender residents is yet another manifestation of the Republican Party\u2019s drift toward abject soullessness and moral bankruptcy. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"When the 45th president endorsed her opponent in the South Carolina primary, Representative Nancy Mace filmed a video in front of Trump Tower in New York proclaiming her abject loyalty. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"The rationale for my abject refusal to budge is simple. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
|
|
"It\u2019s been 762 days since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic and finally the vibe has shifted from the abject panic and disbelief of March 2020 to the ubiquitous dread of April 2022. \u2014 Molly Jong-fast, The Atlantic , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Anything less than abject fawning is met with what\u2019s-your-problem-Doc derision. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Someone who's got serious ambition is an abject up-and-goer on a clock-by-clock, day-by-day, minute-by-minute basis. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 18 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, \"outcast, rejected, lowly,\" borrowed from Latin abjectus \"downcast, humble, sordid,\" from past participle of abicere \"to throw away, throw down, overcome, abandon,\" from ab- ab- + -icere , reduced form of jacere \"to throw\" \u2014 more at jet entry 3":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ab-\u02ccjekt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abject mean , ignoble , abject , sordid mean being below the normal standards of human decency and dignity. mean suggests small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity. mean and petty satire ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit. an ignoble scramble after material possessions abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility. abject poverty sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness. a sordid story of murder and revenge",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"base",
|
|
"humble",
|
|
"menial",
|
|
"servile",
|
|
"slavish"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180711",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abjection":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a low or downcast state : degradation":[],
|
|
": the act of making abject : humbling , rejection":[
|
|
"I protest \u2026 this vile abjection of youth to age",
|
|
"\u2014 G. B. Shaw"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"sees the corporate scandal as yet another sign of the general abjection of our society",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Thanks to the cult of plain honesty, abjection , and sincere appearance, however, they were not portrayed as doing so persuasively, powerfully, beautifully. \u2014 Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"The films lean into ambiguity and uncertainty, resisting a binary vision of pure abjection or simple victory. \u2014 New York Times , 19 July 2021",
|
|
"Both authors are irreverent and unorthodox, both are drawn to abjection , and both engage in an extended reckoning with their own mothers. \u2014 Eula Biss, The New Yorker , 22 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"Even the gross-out images are not actually interested in the abjection of popular culture or American society, in the manner of Mike Kelley or Paul McCarthy. \u2014 Jason Farago, New York Times , 12 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"These books \u2014 so vaunted for their bravery, their abjection \u2014 are also, indisputably, an account of getting one\u2019s own way. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"The end point isn\u2019t self-realization, but abjection , the would-be interpreter gibbering before the staggering number of connections. \u2014 Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine , 5 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"The character careened between triumph and slapstick abjection as the puppeteers moved him across a long table with artificial turf. \u2014 Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times , 19 Nov. 2020",
|
|
"What is harder to parse is how precisely the pain and abjection that Carey describes in such detail yielded her confidence, determination, and skill. \u2014 Emily Lordi, The New Yorker , 2 Oct. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abjectioun \"humbleness, abject state, outcasts,\" borrowed from Anglo-French or Late Latin; Anglo-French abjeccioun \"rejection, outcasts,\" borrowed from Late Latin abjecti\u014dn-, abjecti\u014d \"casting away, rejection, humbled condition, humbleness,\" going back to Latin, \"dejection,\" from abicere \"to throw down\" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at abject":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"ab-\u02c8jek-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"corruption",
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"corruptness",
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"debasement",
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"debauchery",
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"decadence",
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"decadency",
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"degeneracy",
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"degenerateness",
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"degeneration",
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"degradation",
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"demoralization",
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"depravity",
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"dissipatedness",
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"dissipation",
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"dissoluteness",
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"libertinage",
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"libertinism",
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"perversion",
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"pervertedness",
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"rakishness",
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"turpitude"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204741",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"abjectly":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": cast down in spirit : servile , spiritless":[
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"a man made abject by suffering",
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"an abject coward"
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],
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": expressing or offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit":[
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"abject flattery",
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"an abject apology"
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],
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": showing hopelessness or resignation":[
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"abject surrender"
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],
|
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": sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe":[
|
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"living in abject poverty",
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"to lowest pitch of abject fortune thou art fallen",
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"\u2014 John Milton",
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"abject failure"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"\u2026 the time would come that no human being should be humiliated or be made abject . \u2014 Katherine Anne Porter , The Never-Ending Wrong , 1977",
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"\u2026 my critical intelligence sometimes shrivels to an abject nodding of the head. \u2014 Lewis H. Lapham , Harper's , May 1971",
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"\u2026 nothing seemed to have changed at the Beehive across the years. The same pallid employees were visible in the same abject state of peonage, cringing under the whiplash of overseers. \u2014 S. J. Perelman , Baby, It's Cold Inside , 1970",
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"They live in abject misery.",
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"He offered an abject apology.",
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"She thought he was an abject coward.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"As Cuba\u2019s economy went into freefall, Washington tightened its economic sanctions against Cuba, exacerbating the abject poverty that forced Cubans to illegally flee. \u2014 Nili Blanck, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 May 2022",
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"This story generates trust, buy-in and affinity and can be the difference between roaring success and abject failure. \u2014 Jodie Cook, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
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"The DeSantis administration\u2019s effort to narrow healthcare coverage for transgender residents is yet another manifestation of the Republican Party\u2019s drift toward abject soullessness and moral bankruptcy. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
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"When the 45th president endorsed her opponent in the South Carolina primary, Representative Nancy Mace filmed a video in front of Trump Tower in New York proclaiming her abject loyalty. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 24 May 2022",
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"The rationale for my abject refusal to budge is simple. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
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"It\u2019s been 762 days since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic and finally the vibe has shifted from the abject panic and disbelief of March 2020 to the ubiquitous dread of April 2022. \u2014 Molly Jong-fast, The Atlantic , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Anything less than abject fawning is met with what\u2019s-your-problem-Doc derision. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 12 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Someone who's got serious ambition is an abject up-and-goer on a clock-by-clock, day-by-day, minute-by-minute basis. \u2014 Dalton Ross, EW.com , 18 Mar. 2022"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English, \"outcast, rejected, lowly,\" borrowed from Latin abjectus \"downcast, humble, sordid,\" from past participle of abicere \"to throw away, throw down, overcome, abandon,\" from ab- ab- + -icere , reduced form of jacere \"to throw\" \u2014 more at jet entry 3":""
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ab-\u02ccjekt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abject mean , ignoble , abject , sordid mean being below the normal standards of human decency and dignity. mean suggests small-mindedness, ill temper, or cupidity. mean and petty satire ignoble suggests a loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit. an ignoble scramble after material possessions abject may imply degradation, debasement, or servility. abject poverty sordid is stronger than all of these in stressing physical or spiritual degradation and abjectness. a sordid story of murder and revenge",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"base",
|
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"humble",
|
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"menial",
|
|
"servile",
|
|
"slavish"
|
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],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191106",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abjure":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"adhere (to)"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to abstain from : avoid":[
|
|
"abjure extravagance"
|
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],
|
|
": to reject solemnly":[
|
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"She abjured her old beliefs."
|
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],
|
|
": to renounce upon oath":[
|
|
"He abjured his allegiance to his former country."
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"abjured some long-held beliefs when she converted to another religion",
|
|
"a strict religious sect that abjures the luxuries, comforts, and conveniences of the modern world",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The potential to abjure the will of the people in order to advance a partisan agenda seems vast. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 28 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Sinema gets permission to hide from the press and abjure her constituents in part because she has been given the centrist/moderate stamp of approval. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 6 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"The attempt by Protestant reformer John Calvin to vindicate God\u2019s sovereignty ultimately forced him to abjure any meaningful belief in human free will, leaving us as either tools in the hands of our Maker or utter slaves to sin. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 25 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Taking the oath to absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure my homeland was more terrifying. \u2014 Jakki Kerubo, Longreads , 10 Aug. 2020",
|
|
"Generally, Majumdar abjures commentary and interior analysis in favor of incident, the decisive ramifications of action. \u2014 James Wood, The New Yorker , 1 June 2020",
|
|
"Passionately denouncing the inequity of his time, Francis of Assisi abjured his wealth and joined the beggars. \u2014 Karen Armstrong, New York Times , 3 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"On the other hand, the policy exempts parody and satire, which would seem to require precisely the kind of interpretive judgment that the company abjures to the point of outsourcing fact-checking to third parties. \u2014 Gilad Edelman, Wired , 7 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"But even in less dire cases, to abjure concern for one\u2019s health \u2014 let alone to encourage others to do so \u2014 is deeply irresponsible. \u2014 Jack Butler, National Review , 7 Nov. 2019"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abjuren , borrowed from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French abjurer , borrowed from Medieval Latin abj\u016br\u0101re , \"to repudiate, renounce (a right or claim), swear to stay away from,\" going back to Latin, \"to deny knowledge of falsely under oath, repudiate,\" from ab- ab- + j\u016br\u0101re \"to swear\" \u2014 more at jury entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"ab-\u02c8ju\u0307r",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8ju\u0307r, \u0259b-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abjure abjure , renounce , forswear , recant , retract mean to withdraw one's word or professed belief. abjure implies a firm and final rejecting or abandoning often made under oath. abjured the errors of his former faith renounce may carry the meaning of disclaim or disown. renounced abstract art and turned to portrait painting forswear may add an implication of perjury or betrayal. I cannot forswear my principles recant stresses the withdrawing or denying of something professed or taught. if they recant they will be spared retract applies to the withdrawing of a promise, an offer, or an accusation. the newspaper had to retract the story",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abnegate",
|
|
"forswear",
|
|
"foreswear",
|
|
"recant",
|
|
"renege",
|
|
"renounce",
|
|
"repeal",
|
|
"repudiate",
|
|
"retract",
|
|
"take back",
|
|
"unsay",
|
|
"withdraw"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081942",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"noun,",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"ablaze":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": being on fire":[],
|
|
": radiant with light or emotion":[
|
|
"his face all ablaze with excitement",
|
|
"\u2014 Bram Stoker"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The ship that caught fire Wednesday with around 4000 vehicles on board is still ablaze and adrift in the Atlantic Ocean today. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 18 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire has been ablaze since May 19. \u2014 Pedram Javaheri And Allison Chinchar, CNN , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"The barn is ablaze , civility is asunder, and once-sacred cows are noisily clunking around the yard. MOOOOOOOOO! \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"Within a few hours, multiple homes were ablaze and spewing hot embers as the Coastal fire chewed methodically through an upscale development overlooking the Pacific Ocean. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"Sporting light rain jackets, and with the van backdooring us with flashers ablaze , the group climbed on our bicycles to begin the day, coasting down Rich Mountain on a paved highway. \u2014 Bob Robinson, Arkansas Online , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"Multiple homes were seen ablaze in parts of the Laguna Hills neighborhood in Orange County, California, according to aerial footage from CNN affiliate KABC. \u2014 Taylor Romine, CNN , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"Perry saw a boat ablaze inside the garage of a home whose residents didn\u2019t own a boat \u2014 it had been jolted there when the plane slammed down. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"In the aftermath, the rest of the baseball world was ablaze second-guessing the decision. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1676, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"a- entry 1 + blaze entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8bl\u0101z"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"afire",
|
|
"aflame",
|
|
"alight",
|
|
"blazing",
|
|
"burning",
|
|
"combusting",
|
|
"conflagrant",
|
|
"fiery",
|
|
"flaming",
|
|
"ignited",
|
|
"inflamed",
|
|
"enflamed",
|
|
"kindled",
|
|
"lit",
|
|
"lighted"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065708",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adjective or adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"able":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"incompetent",
|
|
"inept",
|
|
"poor",
|
|
"unfit",
|
|
"unfitted",
|
|
"unqualified"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": capable of, fit for, or worthy of (being so acted upon or toward)":[
|
|
"\u2014 chiefly in adjectives derived from verbs break able collect ible"
|
|
],
|
|
": having a quality or nature that makes something possible":[
|
|
"a car able to hold five people",
|
|
"a shoe able to be repaired"
|
|
],
|
|
": having sufficient power, skill, or resources to do something":[
|
|
"able to solve a problem"
|
|
],
|
|
": having the freedom or opportunity to do something":[
|
|
"hopes to be able to visit soon"
|
|
],
|
|
": marked by intelligence, knowledge, skill, or competence":[
|
|
"an able administrator"
|
|
],
|
|
": susceptible to some action or treatment":[
|
|
"a car able to hold five people",
|
|
"a shoe able to be repaired"
|
|
],
|
|
": tending, given, or liable to":[
|
|
"agree able",
|
|
"perish able"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"He will buy a new car as soon as he is able .",
|
|
"He turned out to be an able editor.",
|
|
"She is one of the ablest lawyers in the firm.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"Investors should be able to answer these questions in full, and, frankly, few have the time, skills, resources or knowledge to do so. \u2014 Joshua Strange, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"People who were already receiving their maximum benefit were able to receive an additional $95 each month beginning in July 2021 under the emergency allotment, Durr said. \u2014 Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"As a result, the adolescent stars were able to learn from his example. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"His arrest comes on the eve of NBA free agency, which begins Thursday night with teams able to speak with free agents. \u2014 Steve Reed, ajc , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"Investors say much of their outlook for the rest of the year depends on how quickly the Fed is able to contain inflation, and how much the economy slows as a result. \u2014 Akane Otani, WSJ , 30 June 2022",
|
|
"The city aims to hire between 1,400 and 1,500 lifeguards per year, but was only able to secure slightly more than 1,000 lifeguards in 2021. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"He is devastated, since his profession depends heavily on being able to see clearly. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"In 2019, a crime scene investigator for the West Jordan Police Department was able to use a piece of equipment that essentially vacuums up trace DNA to get a sample from one of the ropes that had bound Reyes Geddes\u2019 body. \u2014 Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English able, abill , borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Latin habilis \"easily handled or adjusted, adaptable,\" from hab\u0113re \"to have, hold\" + -ilis , alteration (by haplology before labial consonants) of -ibilis -ible \u2014 more at give entry 1":"Adjective",
|
|
"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French and Middle French, going back to Latin -\u0101bilis, -ibilis , from -\u0101-, -i- (thematic vowels of various conjugations of verbs) + -bilis \"capable (of acting) or worthy of (being acted upon),\" going back to pre-Latin *-dhl-is , adjective suffix formed from the instrumental noun suffix *-dhl-om (whence Latin -bulum )":"Adjective suffix"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8\u0101-b\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"capable",
|
|
"competent",
|
|
"equal",
|
|
"fit",
|
|
"good",
|
|
"qualified",
|
|
"suitable"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174050",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adjective suffix",
|
|
"adverb suffix"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"able-bodied":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"ailing",
|
|
"diseased",
|
|
"ill",
|
|
"sick",
|
|
"unfit",
|
|
"unhealthy",
|
|
"unsound",
|
|
"unwell"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": having a sound strong body":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1600, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cc\u0101-b\u0259l-\u02c8b\u00e4-d\u0113d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bouncing",
|
|
"fit",
|
|
"hale",
|
|
"healthy",
|
|
"hearty",
|
|
"robust",
|
|
"sound",
|
|
"well",
|
|
"well-conditioned",
|
|
"whole",
|
|
"wholesome"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101510",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"able-bodied seaman":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": able seaman":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1708, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140155",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abled":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": capable of unimpaired function":[
|
|
"Again, the design is physically helpful for the less abled , more comfortable because it eliminates the strap-across-the-lower-neck sensation of standard belts \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Royal Ford"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"From senior citizens to an abled person curious about alternative ways to ride a bike, the program is welcoming. \u2014 Steven Aquino, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"The experience is similar for the X1 Remote; the ability to speak commands or requests allows users of various disabilities (visual, motor, and/or cognitive) to use their cable interface with the same fluidity as an abled person. \u2014 Steven Aquino, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
|
|
"There are sick bodies and bodies with disabilities, both of which require their inhabitants to navigate different landscapes than the ones encountered by healthy or abled people. \u2014 Dana Snitzky, Longreads , 18 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"The criteria of the law apply equally to abled and disabled alike. \u2014 Chris Eaton, Twin Cities , 15 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Things that are considered luxury amenities for abled people are often necessities for people with disabilities. \u2014 Wendy Lu, Quartz , 8 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"Scores of plus-size and differently abled models were seen strutting down the catwalk in all their glory. \u2014 Shammara Lawrence, Teen Vogue , 15 Sep. 2018",
|
|
"So much is focused on fertility and reproduction \u2014 and that's not always something abled people think disabled people should or can do. \u2014 Ariel Henley, Teen Vogue , 5 Oct. 2017",
|
|
"Many of these men and women lack the same freedom of movement and clarity of speech as abled people, yet they are focused less on their limitations and more on their potential. \u2014 Robbie Shell, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"extracted from disabled":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8\u0101-b\u0259ld"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195900",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abled?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=a&file=abled01m":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": capable of unimpaired function":[
|
|
"Again, the design is physically helpful for the less abled , more comfortable because it eliminates the strap-across-the-lower-neck sensation of standard belts \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Royal Ford"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"From senior citizens to an abled person curious about alternative ways to ride a bike, the program is welcoming. \u2014 Steven Aquino, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"The experience is similar for the X1 Remote; the ability to speak commands or requests allows users of various disabilities (visual, motor, and/or cognitive) to use their cable interface with the same fluidity as an abled person. \u2014 Steven Aquino, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
|
|
"There are sick bodies and bodies with disabilities, both of which require their inhabitants to navigate different landscapes than the ones encountered by healthy or abled people. \u2014 Dana Snitzky, Longreads , 18 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"The criteria of the law apply equally to abled and disabled alike. \u2014 Chris Eaton, Twin Cities , 15 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Things that are considered luxury amenities for abled people are often necessities for people with disabilities. \u2014 Wendy Lu, Quartz , 8 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"Scores of plus-size and differently abled models were seen strutting down the catwalk in all their glory. \u2014 Shammara Lawrence, Teen Vogue , 15 Sep. 2018",
|
|
"So much is focused on fertility and reproduction \u2014 and that's not always something abled people think disabled people should or can do. \u2014 Ariel Henley, Teen Vogue , 5 Oct. 2017",
|
|
"Many of these men and women lack the same freedom of movement and clarity of speech as abled people, yet they are focused less on their limitations and more on their potential. \u2014 Robbie Shell, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2017"
|
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],
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"1819, in the meaning defined above":""
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"a- entry 1 + bleeze verb":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259\u02c8bl\u0113z"
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],
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": in an able and skillful manner : with ability, skill, or proficiency":[
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"was ably assisted",
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"This silly comic Christmas romp is ably performed by a cast of 22 actors, led by the high-spirited Danny McBride as the childlike Buddy.",
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"\u2014 Matthew Yde",
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"Last year, she ably completed a half-marathon run with only minimal training.",
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"\u2014 Zachary Lewis"
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]
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"\u02c8\u0101-b(\u0259-)l\u0113",
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"\u02c8\u0101-bl\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205928",
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": deny , renounce":[
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"abnegated their God"
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],
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": surrender , relinquish":[
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"abnegated her powers"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"abnegated all claims to the deceased lord's domain",
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"felt that if the Congress adopted these security measures, it would be abnegating the nation's fundamental commitment to individual rights",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Abnegating this responsibility is going against the will of the people and we were voted in to protect the interests of the people. \u2014 Jan Engoren, Sun-Sentinel.com , 6 July 2017"
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],
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"1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from Latin abneg\u0101tus , past participle of abneg\u0101re \"to refute, decline, deny,\" from ab- ab- + neg\u0101re \"to say no, deny\" \u2014 more at negate":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ab-ni-\u02ccg\u0101t"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"abdicate",
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"cede",
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"relinquish",
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"renounce",
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"resign",
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"step aside (from)",
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"step down (from)",
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"surrender"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055529",
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"noun,",
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]
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"abnegation":{
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"antonyms":[
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"indulgence",
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"self-indulgence"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"examples":[
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"the couple's sudden abnegation of life in the fast lane for work as missionaries stunned everyone",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The life that Alharthi describes is one of almost saintly self- abnegation . \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
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"His na\u00efve insolence punctures the vanities of other filmmakers while offering no alternative, and the movie that results is a joyless, confused self- abnegation . \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 11 Apr. 2022",
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"That abnegation of critical judgment is the most important feature of the 1994 statement. \u2014 Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9, The New Republic , 21 Mar. 2022",
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"Where to go in a world where every slight, every frown, every chagrin, every cloud and every rainy day is a cause for outrage, denunciation, shame, self- abnegation and maybe even a congressional investigation or two? \u2014 WSJ , 14 June 2021",
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"Many performers practice public self- abnegation about their talent. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 May 2021",
|
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"That abnegation is an illness that has reached pandemic-level proportions under the panopticon of white-supremacist patriarchy, which seeds division among women through social pressure. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Mar. 2021",
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"Her thinking is already programmed for self-sacrifice; the self- abnegation of religion is only a quick step behind. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 6 Mar. 2021",
|
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"In his telling, Klara\u2019s self- abnegation feels both ennobling and tragic. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Mar. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English abnegacioun , borrowed from Late Latin abneg\u0101ti\u014dn-, abneg\u0101ti\u014d , from Latin abneg\u0101re \"to refute, decline, deny\" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at abnegate":""
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},
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"\u02ccab-ni-\u02c8g\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"renouncement",
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"renunciation",
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"repudiation",
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"self-denial"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011437",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"antonyms":[
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"common",
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"customary",
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"normal",
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"ordinary",
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"typical",
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"unexceptional",
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"unextraordinary",
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"usual"
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],
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"definitions":{
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},
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"examples":[
|
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"Adjective",
|
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"The results of the blood test were abnormal .",
|
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"a completely abnormal school day, because half of the kids were out sick",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
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"The high school experience for the Class of 2022 was abnormal , unique, and often, an hourly and daily challenge. \u2014 Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"But Leo, waving this nonsense aside, reminds her that there\u2019s nothing abnormal , let alone shameful, about expressing something so basic as desire. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"This suggests that coronaviruses induce an abnormal immune response that causes hyper inflammation and distorted neutrophil cells. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Researchers believe this autoimmune reaction occurs when your immune system has an abnormal response to bacteria in your digestive tract, but why this happens isn\u2019t entirely understood. \u2014 SELF , 11 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Such heat is dangerous and abnormal for even the hottest regions in the country. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"From Sauvie Island to Government Island, and Vancouver Lake to the Sandy River Delta, local parks are dealing with abnormal water levels inching up onto the land. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Impacting both animals and humans, such rapidly progressive diseases result in abnormal physical and impaired mental functioning within months of diagnosis until death. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"The decision marks the third year of abnormal operation for China\u2019s longest-running cinema event. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Primed for speed and for the social distancing of the new abnormal , Toro Coffee does its thing exclusively at the drive-thru, with a window on each side of this white box building near Rackspace on the Northeast Side. \u2014 Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News , 28 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Several in the Santiam district spoke to The Oregonian/OregonLive about what\u2019s become a catchphrase of the double bind -- the new abnormal . \u2014 oregonlive , 20 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"The abnormal of 2020 continued through this game as lightning delayed the game by more than half an hour late in the third quarter, and with 3:52 remaining in the game, half of the stadium's lighting went out. \u2014 al , 22 Aug. 2020",
|
|
"Welcome to the Charles Schwab Challenge and the PGA Tour\u2019s new abnormal . \u2014 Dallas News , 12 June 2020",
|
|
"The emergence of a new abnormal will depend on several factors. \u2014 Eric M. Stone, STAT , 5 June 2020"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"1817, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
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"1857, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"New Latin abnormis \"deviating from the average\" (going back to Medieval Latin, \"not conforming to rule,\" going back to Latin, \"belonging to no school of philosophy,\" from ab- ab- + norma \"carpenter's rule, pattern\") + -al entry 1 \u2014 more at norm":"Adjective",
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"noun derivative of abnormal entry 1":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"ab-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l",
|
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"(\u02c8)ab-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l",
|
|
"\u0259b-",
|
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"(\u02cc)ab-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l"
|
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],
|
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|
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"aberrant",
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"aberrated",
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"anomalous",
|
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"atypical",
|
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"especial",
|
|
"exceeding",
|
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"exceptional",
|
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"extraordinaire",
|
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"extraordinary",
|
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"freak",
|
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"odd",
|
|
"peculiar",
|
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"phenomenal",
|
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"preternatural",
|
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"rare",
|
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"singular",
|
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"uncommon",
|
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"uncustomary",
|
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"unique",
|
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"unusual",
|
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"unwonted"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024624",
|
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|
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|
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"adverb",
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
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": a branch of psychology concerned with mental and emotional disorders (such as anxiety disorders, phobias, depression, and developmental disorders) and with certain incompletely understood normal phenomena (such as dreams and hypnosis)":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"At Boston College, Kyleigh studied abnormal psychology and neuroscience, volunteered at a homeless shelter and then at a group home for women with psychiatric disorders, trying to help fill the gaps in a system that failed her sister. \u2014 Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, PEOPLE.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Walker taught undergraduate courses on research methods, abnormal psychology and personality. \u2014 Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com , 12 June 2018",
|
|
"Having a school textbook put a name to symptoms like this is an experience Kirkham shares with Wakilah Majied, 35, who came across the definition of flat affect last year in an abnormal psychology course at community college. \u2014 Gina Ryder, Glamour , 4 May 2018",
|
|
"Out of all the fictional options to choose from, the abnormal psychology of the criminally villainous is a pretty popular choice. \u2014 Paige S. Allen, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 Oct. 2017"
|
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],
|
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"1888, in the meaning defined above":""
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-191302",
|
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|
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|
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]
|
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},
|
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|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1904, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"abnormal entry 1 + -cy , probably on the model of normal : normalcy":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u022f(\u0259)m-",
|
|
"-si also \u0259b-",
|
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"ab\u02c8n\u022frm\u0259ls\u0113"
|
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],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104508",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abnormalism":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1851, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"abnormal entry 1 + -ism":""
|
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},
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|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084544",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abnormality":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": something abnormal":[],
|
|
": the quality or state of being abnormal":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccab-n\u0259r-\u02c8ma-l\u0259-t\u0113",
|
|
"\u02ccab-n\u0259r-\u02c8mal-\u0259t-\u0113, -(\u02cc)n\u022fr-",
|
|
"-(\u02cc)n\u022fr-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"anomaly",
|
|
"freak",
|
|
"monster",
|
|
"monstrosity"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"average",
|
|
"norm",
|
|
"normal",
|
|
"par",
|
|
"standard"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"The test results showed several genetic abnormalities .",
|
|
"There was some abnormality in his vision.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The 1967 law allows some exceptions for later-term abortions, including when the pregnancy endangers the woman\u2019s health or if a prenatal scan reveals a fetus abnormality . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 July 2022",
|
|
"Brnovich is fighting Rayes' decision on the 2021 law's genetic abnormality provision on behalf of the state in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. \u2014 Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"With heavy hearts, CMA announced tonight that Winter the Dolphin died at approximately 8 p.m. as animal care experts from around the country worked to treat her gastrointestinal abnormality . \u2014 Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com , 12 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Otherwise, the only abnormality that doctors could find was on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of his brain that was performed within 24 hours of the incident. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 28 May 2022",
|
|
"While most pregnancies are healthy, about 2-3% of fetuses have an ultrasound abnormality , while 1-2% have a positive noninvasive screening test, both of which may lead to a genetic diagnosis. \u2014 Haim Neerman, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"But about 12 weeks into it, her health-care provider noticed an abnormality in the nasal bone, and began to do testing. \u2014 Molly Longman, refinery29.com , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"Before the plane deviated from the cruising altitude, the radio communications between the crew and the air traffic control department did not show any abnormality , according to the report. \u2014 Nectar Gan And Cnn's Beijing Bureau, CNN , 18 May 2022",
|
|
"The only exclusions this bill allows for are a threat to the mother\u2019s life, if the mother would lose major bodily function or if there is a fatal fetal abnormality . \u2014 Caroline Catherman, sun-sentinel.com , 27 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"abnormal entry 1 + -ity":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1847, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152038"
|
|
},
|
|
"abnormally":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"common",
|
|
"customary",
|
|
"normal",
|
|
"ordinary",
|
|
"typical",
|
|
"unexceptional",
|
|
"unextraordinary",
|
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"usual"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": an abnormal person":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"The results of the blood test were abnormal .",
|
|
"a completely abnormal school day, because half of the kids were out sick",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"The high school experience for the Class of 2022 was abnormal , unique, and often, an hourly and daily challenge. \u2014 Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"But Leo, waving this nonsense aside, reminds her that there\u2019s nothing abnormal , let alone shameful, about expressing something so basic as desire. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"This suggests that coronaviruses induce an abnormal immune response that causes hyper inflammation and distorted neutrophil cells. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 9 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Researchers believe this autoimmune reaction occurs when your immune system has an abnormal response to bacteria in your digestive tract, but why this happens isn\u2019t entirely understood. \u2014 SELF , 11 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Such heat is dangerous and abnormal for even the hottest regions in the country. \u2014 Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"From Sauvie Island to Government Island, and Vancouver Lake to the Sandy River Delta, local parks are dealing with abnormal water levels inching up onto the land. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Impacting both animals and humans, such rapidly progressive diseases result in abnormal physical and impaired mental functioning within months of diagnosis until death. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"The decision marks the third year of abnormal operation for China\u2019s longest-running cinema event. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 6 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Primed for speed and for the social distancing of the new abnormal , Toro Coffee does its thing exclusively at the drive-thru, with a window on each side of this white box building near Rackspace on the Northeast Side. \u2014 Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News , 28 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Several in the Santiam district spoke to The Oregonian/OregonLive about what\u2019s become a catchphrase of the double bind -- the new abnormal . \u2014 oregonlive , 20 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"The abnormal of 2020 continued through this game as lightning delayed the game by more than half an hour late in the third quarter, and with 3:52 remaining in the game, half of the stadium's lighting went out. \u2014 al , 22 Aug. 2020",
|
|
"Welcome to the Charles Schwab Challenge and the PGA Tour\u2019s new abnormal . \u2014 Dallas News , 12 June 2020",
|
|
"The emergence of a new abnormal will depend on several factors. \u2014 Eric M. Stone, STAT , 5 June 2020"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1817, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
|
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"1857, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin abnormis \"deviating from the average\" (going back to Medieval Latin, \"not conforming to rule,\" going back to Latin, \"belonging to no school of philosophy,\" from ab- ab- + norma \"carpenter's rule, pattern\") + -al entry 1 \u2014 more at norm":"Adjective",
|
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"noun derivative of abnormal entry 1":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"ab-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l",
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"(\u02c8)ab-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l",
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"\u0259b-",
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"(\u02cc)ab-\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"aberrant",
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"aberrated",
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"anomalous",
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"atypical",
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"especial",
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"exceeding",
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"exceptional",
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"extraordinaire",
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"extraordinary",
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"freak",
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"odd",
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"peculiar",
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"phenomenal",
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"preternatural",
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"rare",
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"singular",
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"uncommon",
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"uncustomary",
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"unique",
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"unusual",
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"unwonted"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030201",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"abnormity":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": abnormality":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1724, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from New Latin abnormitas , from abnormis \"irregular, abnormal\" + Latin -it\u0101s -ity":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-i",
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"-\u0259t\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193955",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
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"abode":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a temporary stay : sojourn":[
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"\u2026 if any such dares to continue his abode in a family where his coming was an unauthorized intrusion \u2026",
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"\u2014 Walter Scott"
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],
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": the place where one lives : home":[
|
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"were reluctant to leave their lifelong abode",
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"Welcome to my humble abode ."
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],
|
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": wait , delay":[]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[
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"welcome to my humble abode",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"There's a fabulous conjunction between Venus and Uranus in your 4th House of Foundations and Family, casting a happy glow over your abode . \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 11 June 2022",
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"Switching up your lighting is also one of the easiest ways to make your abode smarter and more personalized to your tastes. \u2014 Dalvin Brown, WSJ , 23 Apr. 2022",
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"The small bioluminescent cephalopods, known as hotaru ika in their native Japan, ascend from their deep sea abode every spring to spawn in Toyama Bay, illuminating the waters with otherworldly flickers of blue light. \u2014 Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 Mar. 2022",
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"Various kinds of artwork and other items created by women of color are on display all throughout the abode , including tapestries, paintings, dolls, sculptures, and books. \u2014 Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful , 11 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"Howie\u2019s growing interest in Charlie introduces a collision of class and race between their groups, as the new flame and his friends live in an opulent bachelor pad on the beach, a far cry from Erin\u2019s cozy abode . \u2014 Kimmy Yam, NBC News , 2 June 2022",
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"Built in 1851 by architect Seth C. Bradford, this abode was later renovated by Richard Morris Hunt, while its interiors were done by Ogden Codman, Jr., who co-authored Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses. \u2014 Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful , 24 Jan. 2022",
|
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"Dozens of other treehouse escapes are available for rent throughout the Hill Country, like an impressive two-story abode on the Guadalupe River or a simple one-room home on a private ranch in Central Texas. \u2014 Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News , 12 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"In addition to this L.A. abode , Dirt reports that Zellweger, a proud Texan, also has a home in Connecticut. \u2014 Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com , 5 Oct. 2021"
|
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English abade, abode , from bade, bode \"stay, delay\" (going back to Old English b\u0101d \"expectation, period of waiting,\" probably going back to Germanic *bai\u0111- , noun derivative from the base of *b\u012b\u0111- \"wait, bide\") crossed with abiden \"to abide \"":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259-\u02c8b\u014dd"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"diggings",
|
|
"domicile",
|
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"dwelling",
|
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"fireside",
|
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"habitation",
|
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"hearth",
|
|
"hearthstone",
|
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"home",
|
|
"house",
|
|
"lodging",
|
|
"pad",
|
|
"place",
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"quarters",
|
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"residence",
|
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"roof"
|
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],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214159",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abogado":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": counsel sense 6":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1896, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from Spanish, going back to Latin advoc\u0101tus advocate entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccab\u0259\u02c8g\u00e4t(\u02cc)\u014d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-084324",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abohm":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the cgs electromagnetic unit of resistance equal to one billionth of an ohm that measures the resistance of a conductor that with a constant current of one abampere flowing through it maintains between its terminals a potential difference of one abvolt":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1906, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"ab- entry 2 + ohm":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"(\u02c8)a\u02c8b\u014dm"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011401",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"aboideau":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a tide gate or dam to prevent the overflow of water into marshland":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1802, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Canadian French aboiteau":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0227bw\u0227d\u014d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003447",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"aboil":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"asleep",
|
|
"dead",
|
|
"inactive",
|
|
"lifeless",
|
|
"sleepy"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": being at the boiling point : boiling":[],
|
|
": intensely excited or stirred up":[
|
|
"the meeting was aboil with controversy"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1810, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"a- entry 1 + boil entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fi(-\u0259)l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abubble",
|
|
"abuzz",
|
|
"alive",
|
|
"animated",
|
|
"astir",
|
|
"brisk",
|
|
"bustling",
|
|
"busy",
|
|
"buzzing",
|
|
"flourishing",
|
|
"happening",
|
|
"hopping",
|
|
"humming",
|
|
"kinetic",
|
|
"lively",
|
|
"rousing",
|
|
"stirring",
|
|
"thriving",
|
|
"vibrant"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022456",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective or adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abolish":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul":[
|
|
"abolish a law",
|
|
"abolish slavery"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He is in favor of abolishing the death penalty.",
|
|
"the U.S. abolished slavery by constitutional amendment on December 6, 1865",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Drew must fight to abolish the tyranny of the Lionlords and reclaim the throne. \u2014 Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"Republicans running against Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers have proposed to abolish the commission entirely or fire everyone in top positions, including the commission members. \u2014 Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"The ballot proposal had roots in the abolish -the-police movement that started after Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 3 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The ballot proposal that goes to voters Tuesday has roots in the abolish -the-police movement that erupted after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year. \u2014 Fox News , 31 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Mickelwait told me that her title at Exodus Cry, Director of Abolition, was modelled on figures such as William Wilberforce, who led the British movement to abolish the slave trade in the nineteenth century. \u2014 Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Friday's decision comes three years after human rights campaigners had criticized the government for making a U-turn on an earlier pledge to abolish capital punishment entirely. \u2014 Heather Chen, CNN , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"Since then, Republicans \u2014 including those running for governor \u2014 have cited the move as a reason to abolish the Wisconsin Elections Commission. \u2014 Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel , 5 June 2022",
|
|
"With the election a week away, the race has revolved around public safety, and calls made by Hernandez to abolish the police \u2014 a concept Cedillo opposes. \u2014 David Zahniserstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abolysshen , borrowed from Middle French aboliss- , stem of abolir \"to abolish,\" borrowed from Latin abol\u0113re \"to destroy, efface, put an end to,\" perhaps formed from abol\u0113scere \"to shrivel up, be effaced, fall into disuse,\" from ab- ab- + -ol- , medial form of the base of alere \"to nourish, bring up\" + -\u0113sc- , inchoative suffix \u2014 more at old entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u00e4-lish"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abate",
|
|
"abrogate",
|
|
"annul",
|
|
"avoid",
|
|
"cancel",
|
|
"disannul",
|
|
"dissolve",
|
|
"invalidate",
|
|
"negate",
|
|
"null",
|
|
"nullify",
|
|
"quash",
|
|
"repeal",
|
|
"rescind",
|
|
"roll back",
|
|
"strike down",
|
|
"vacate",
|
|
"void"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073112",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abominable":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"innocuous",
|
|
"inoffensive"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": very bad or unpleasant":[
|
|
"abominable weather"
|
|
],
|
|
": worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable":[
|
|
"the abominable treatment of the poor",
|
|
"an abominable crime"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"It was an abominable crime.",
|
|
"your table manners are abominable !",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"What was once so abominable flowing from one direction was now justified in flowing from the other. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"The cinematic worlds of Gaspar No\u00e9 are bursting with people who, in the pursuit of ecstatic highs, sink to abominable lows. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
|
|
"The acting in Forbidden West ranges from impressive to abominable . \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Fury is 7-0 with 4 KOs, but it must be noted that Fury has faced abominable opposition. \u2014 Anthony Stitt, Forbes , 6 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The disgusting coverup, lies, obfuscation and hazing practices described in the lawsuit against Mater Dei High, which were the subject of Bill Plaschke\u2019s recent column, are abominable and should be met with swift and appropriate discipline if true. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"It\u2019s not the first time the architecture of the place \u2014 and Heatherwick\u2019s abominable Vessel \u2014 have been cast in this role. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"But many have deteriorated into abominable conditions despite city efforts to force owners to clean them up. \u2014 David Calvert, ProPublica , 15 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Hovering above all the parties and all the jams and the richly detailed accounts of creating each album is an abundance of abominable behavior that only grew worse as Zeppelin\u2019s fame exploded. \u2014 Chris Vognar, USA TODAY , 11 Nov. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abhomynable, abomynable , borrowed from Anglo-French abhominable, abominable , borrowed from Late Latin ab\u014dmin\u0101bilis, abhomin\u0101bilis (spelling influenced by Latin ab homine \"from the man\"), from ab\u014dmin\u0101r\u012b \"to detest, abominate \" + -\u0101bilis -able":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u00e4m-n\u0259-b\u0259l",
|
|
"-\u02c8b\u00e4-m\u0259-",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u00e4-m\u0259-n\u0259-b\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abhorrent",
|
|
"appalling",
|
|
"awful",
|
|
"disgusting",
|
|
"distasteful",
|
|
"dreadful",
|
|
"evil",
|
|
"foul",
|
|
"fulsome",
|
|
"gross",
|
|
"hideous",
|
|
"horrendous",
|
|
"horrible",
|
|
"horrid",
|
|
"loathsome",
|
|
"nasty",
|
|
"nauseating",
|
|
"nauseous",
|
|
"noisome",
|
|
"noxious",
|
|
"obnoxious",
|
|
"obscene",
|
|
"odious",
|
|
"offensive",
|
|
"rancid",
|
|
"repellent",
|
|
"repellant",
|
|
"repugnant",
|
|
"repulsive",
|
|
"revolting",
|
|
"scandalous",
|
|
"shocking",
|
|
"sickening",
|
|
"ugly"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232306",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abominate":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"love"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to hate or loathe intensely : abhor":[
|
|
"Above all he abominated intolerance \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 G. R. Elton"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a politician who is revered by his supporters and abominated by his enemies",
|
|
"we abominate jokes that make fun of people who have mental or physical disabilities",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"And there is nothing more deflating than watching someone who has put his foot wrong in this culture subject himself to performative self-criticism, abominating himself as a bearer of privilege. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 2 July 2019"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1597, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin ab\u014dmin\u0101tus , past participle of ab\u014dmin\u0101r\u012b \"to avert (an event forecast by an omen) by prayer, to abhor, detest,\" from ab- ab- + \u014dmin\u0101r\u012b \"to know by means of an omen, presage,\" verbal derivative of \u014dmin-, \u014dmen omen":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u00e4-m\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abominate hate , detest , abhor , abominate , loathe mean to feel strong aversion or intense dislike for. hate implies an emotional aversion often coupled with enmity or malice. hated the enemy with a passion detest suggests violent antipathy. detests cowards abhor implies a deep often shuddering repugnance. a crime abhorred by all abominate suggests strong detestation and often moral condemnation. abominates all forms of violence loathe implies utter disgust and intolerance. loathed the mere sight of them",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abhor",
|
|
"despise",
|
|
"detest",
|
|
"execrate",
|
|
"hate",
|
|
"loathe"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213249",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abomination":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"love"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": extreme disgust and hatred : loathing":[
|
|
"a crime regarded with abomination"
|
|
],
|
|
": something regarded with disgust or hatred : something abominable":[
|
|
"considered war an abomination"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Some people view the sculpture as art while others see it as an abomination .",
|
|
"although once common, torture is now an abomination to the civilized peoples of the earth",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"And, at a time of historic inequality, the Trump-G.O.P. tax cuts for the rich were an abomination . \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 1 June 2022",
|
|
"To witness millions living one step away from famine, while there is so much excess, is an abomination . \u2014 Abby Maxman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"From a public health standpoint, the draft decision leaked on Monday is an abomination . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"From his pulpit Knox preached that female rule was an abomination in the eyes of God. \u2014 Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books , 6 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Over the course of the 18th century, inoculation transformed in the public imagination from a potential abomination to a gift from God that humans could use to save themselves. \u2014 Peter Manseau, Smithsonian Magazine , 22 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The state's favorite Valentine's Day candy apparently is cupid corn \u2014 a red, white and pink version of the waxy abomination that plagues our shelves around Halloween. \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 2 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Colts legend Jeff Saturday joined Pat McAfee on Monday afternoon to discuss the Colts' abomination of a loss against Jacksonville. \u2014 Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star , 11 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"This year\u2019s is an abomination : Jersey, Vegas, Denver in December. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 18 Oct. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English abhomynacioun , borrowed from Anglo-French abhomination , borrowed from Late Latin ab\u014dmin\u0101ti\u014dn-, ab\u014dmin\u0101ti\u014d , from Latin ab\u014dmin\u0101r\u012b \"to detest, abominate \" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02ccb\u00e4-m\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"abhorrence",
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"anathema",
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"antipathy",
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"aversion",
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"b\u00eate noire",
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"detestation",
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"execration",
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"hate"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180559",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"aboriginal":{
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"antonyms":[
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"aborigine",
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"autochthon",
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"indigene",
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"indigen",
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"native"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": aborigine sense 1":[],
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": aborigine sense 2":[],
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": being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region":[
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"aboriginal forests",
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"aboriginal rocks"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"the aboriginal peoples of Australia",
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"the aboriginal peoples of northern Alaska are known as Inupiats, which in their language literally means \u201creal people\u201d",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"Once an ancient aboriginal trail, the path became a well-trodden byway for the workmen who built the Gilded Age mansions. \u2014 Amy Gamerman, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
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"Lake has travelled to Australia to learn from aboriginal practitioners. \u2014 The New Yorker , 18 Mar. 2022",
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"Cathy Freeman represented aboriginal Australia in Sydney in 2000. \u2014 Amy Bass, CNN , 4 Feb. 2022",
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"Between the early 1910s and the 1970s, children of aboriginal descent were removed from their homes and families by the federal and state government, as well as by churches. \u2014 Britt Clennett, ABC News , 11 Jan. 2022",
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"Their aboriginal lands include parts of the Salt Lake, Cache Valley, and into parts of Idaho and Wyoming, Parry said. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 4 Jan. 2022",
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"The kidnapping and deportation of biracial children by Belgium under colonial rule echo policies against Indigenous and aboriginal children in other countries like Australia, Canada, and the United States. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Nov. 2021",
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"Mining accidents happen \u2013 in Australia in 2020 a mining giant, Rio Tinto, blasted and destroyed a 46,000 year-old sacred cave that was rich in aboriginal artefacts. \u2014 Ian Palmer, Forbes , 7 Oct. 2021",
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"Mesopotamia began to emerge in force around 3400 BC, but aboriginal civilization in Australia predates it by tens of thousands of years. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 Aug. 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Those clauses were removed in the 1960s, leaving no mention of aboriginals at all. \u2014 The Economist , 5 July 2018",
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"These people are too far away to show a direct link between them and the Clovis in such a way that indicates the Clovis being the aboriginals of South America. \u2014 Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic , 3 Oct. 2017",
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"The students paddled and portaged through the park, following the routes once traveled by aboriginals and French-Canadian voyageurs. \u2014 Daily Southtown , 30 Aug. 2017",
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"Our criminals built nice roads in Australia but aboriginals keep using them as a bed. \u2014 Alan Feuer And Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times , 2 June 2017",
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"Pay up, and the British Navy will keep the Frenchmen, pirates, and aboriginals away. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 15 May 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1650, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"1749, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"aborigine + -al entry 1":"Adjective",
|
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"noun derivative of aboriginal entry 1":"Noun"
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02cca-b\u0259-\u02c8rij-n\u0259l",
|
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"\u02cca-b\u0259-\u02c8ri-j\u0259-n\u1d4al",
|
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"-\u02c8ri-j\u0259-n\u1d4al"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for aboriginal Adjective native , indigenous , endemic , aboriginal mean belonging to a locality. native implies birth or origin in a place or region and may suggest compatibility with it. native tribal customs indigenous applies to that which is not only native but which, as far as can be determined, has never been introduced or brought from elsewhere. indigenous plants endemic implies being peculiar to a region. a disease endemic in Africa aboriginal implies having no known others preceding in occupancy of a particular region. the aboriginal peoples of Australia",
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"synonyms":[
|
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"autochthonous",
|
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"born",
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"domestic",
|
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"endemic",
|
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"indigenous",
|
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"native"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063502",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
|
"aborigine":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a member of the original people to inhabit an area especially as contrasted with an invading or colonizing people":[],
|
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": a member of any of the indigenous peoples of Australia":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02c8ri-j\u0259-",
|
|
"\u02cca-b\u0259-\u02c8rij-(\u02cc)n\u0113",
|
|
"\u02cca-b\u0259-\u02c8ri-j\u0259-n\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
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"aboriginal",
|
|
"autochthon",
|
|
"indigene",
|
|
"indigen",
|
|
"native"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"nonnative"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the aborigines had no immunity against the raft of diseases brought by the invaders",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The bill\u2019s sponsors insisted their motives were not racist, although, one of the sponsors, state Sen. Scott Beason, later recorded himself referring to black people as aborigines while wearing a wire for the FBI. \u2014 Kyle Whitmire, al , 22 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"For long, appropriation of identities and assets by the privileged has been among the key challenges faced by aborigines across the world. \u2014 K A Shaji, Quartz India , 30 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"In Kerala, one of India\u2019s most socially advanced states, aborigines form 1.45% of the 33.4 million population (2011 Census), but have remained alienated. \u2014 K A Shaji, Quartz India , 30 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"Markets just happened among Australian aborigines buying boomerangs from better-skilled bands hundreds of miles distant. \u2014 Deirdre Mccloskey, WSJ , 7 Sep. 2018",
|
|
"The key ingredient is a thorny acacia shrub the aborigines prized for its medicinal properties. \u2014 Hilda Hoy, Slate Magazine , 8 May 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"back-formation from aborigines , plural, borrowed from Latin Abor\u012bgin\u0113s , a pre-Roman people of Latium":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1593, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145723"
|
|
},
|
|
"abort":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"continue",
|
|
"keep"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the premature termination of a flight (as of an aircraft or spacecraft), a mission, or an action or procedure relating to a flight":[
|
|
"a launch abort"
|
|
],
|
|
": to become checked in development so as to degenerate or remain rudimentary":[],
|
|
": to bring forth stillborn, nonviable, or premature offspring":[],
|
|
": to induce the abortion of or give birth to prematurely":[],
|
|
": to stop in the early stages":[
|
|
"abort a disease"
|
|
],
|
|
": to terminate a procedure prematurely":[
|
|
"the pilot decided to abort due to mechanical difficulties"
|
|
],
|
|
": to terminate prematurely : cancel":[
|
|
"abort a project",
|
|
"abort a spaceflight"
|
|
],
|
|
": to terminate the pregnancy of before term":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"They decided to abort the pregnancy.",
|
|
"abort the launch of a rocket",
|
|
"I suggest that you abort the project.",
|
|
"The mission had to be aborted .",
|
|
"When problems occurred during the launch, it was necessary to abort .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Despite the urging of doctors to abort most of the fetuses to increase the chances that some would survive, called multifetal reduction, the Kempels refused. \u2014 Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"Ina had tried to abort the baby herself, even, a hand up the girl\u2019s sheath, clawing at the tiny thing inside, but the baby had persisted. \u2014 Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
|
|
"But even among other lower-income groups, such as Hispanics, black women still abort at significantly higher rates. \u2014 Jason L. Riley, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
|
|
"The 67-year-old took a walk up to take a look at the ball suspended in the air, sized it up and gave it a running start before deciding to abort the attempt. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 4 June 2022",
|
|
"The decision to abort a pregnancy is not reached easily. \u2014 Judy Sammon, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"Anne\u2019s journey is a tough one, and includes her own attempt to abort with a knitting needle. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"Following a plan laid out by Kwon on Wednesday, his Terraform Labs company has tried to resume normal function on the blockchain network on Thursday, only to later abort the attempt after just 4,089 new blocks were added to its chain. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"Cows who contract Trich generally abort the fetus after breeding, and then clear the infection. \u2014 Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Choose Life works with crisis pregnancy counseling centers that encourage women to give birth rather than abort . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"Weather at both the launch site and for the downrange abort zones looks fine. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"They are designed with cameras, guidance systems and abort systems. \u2014 Celina Tebor, USA TODAY , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Sunday's launch marked SpaceX's second Falcon 9 flight since October 2 when a last-second abort blocked launch of a Space Force Global Positioning System navigation satellite. \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 19 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"Add to that a slate of PR headaches, and Peloton in February was forced to lay off 2,800 global employees and abort plans to build a US factory. \u2014 Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG , 10 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Chemical abortions often occur in private homes far away from medical supervision, meaning women are left to self- abort and cope with any harrowing complications \u2014 including potentially life-threatening bleeding or infection \u2014 on their own. \u2014 Marjorie Dannenfelser, National Review , 18 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"It's not known what plans SpaceX might have in place to rescue the Inspiration4 crew if an abort or unplanned landing should happen. \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 13 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Instead, even as fires rose around the three cores, the rocket stayed put during a hotfire abort . \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 30 Sep. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1540, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
|
|
"1944, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"in part borrowed from Latin abortus , past participle of abor\u012br\u012b \"to pass away, be lost, (of a fetus) miscarry, be aborted, (of a woman) miscarry,\" from ab- ab- + or\u012br\u012b \"to rise, come into existence, be born\"; in part borrowed from Late Latin abort\u012bre and abort\u012br\u012b \"(of a woman) to miscarry,\" derivatives of Latin abor\u012br\u012b \u2014 more at orient entry 2":"Verb",
|
|
"noun derivative of abort entry 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u022frt",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u022f(\u0259)rt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abandon",
|
|
"call",
|
|
"call off",
|
|
"cancel",
|
|
"cry off",
|
|
"drop",
|
|
"recall",
|
|
"repeal",
|
|
"rescind",
|
|
"revoke",
|
|
"scrap",
|
|
"scrub"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073043",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"intransitive verb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"aborted":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": failing to achieve the desired result : ending without success : abortive":[
|
|
"He made several aborted attempts to escape."
|
|
],
|
|
": stopped before completion especially because of problems or danger":[
|
|
"an aborted rocket launch"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Nevertheless the scene of his aborted proposal to Varya is played with admirable tenderness by both, although the piles of blue plastic bags in which the family\u2019s belongings are being transported tend, again, to distract. \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"She is seen in a dozen postures of numbed despair and disbelief after the surgeon\u2019s interference, the aborted life casually present in a bucket. \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"The Justice Department inspector general is investigating the aborted plan and could ultimately ask prosecutors to consider whether crimes were committed. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 16 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Malec said that the group once planted flags on a campus lawn to memorialize aborted fetuses. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
|
|
"Outside the court, a middle-aged man held a loudspeaker in one hand and a six-foot photo of an aborted fetus in the other. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Pfizer and Moderna didn't use cell lines derived from an aborted fetus to develop the vaccine but did use human fetal cells to test the vaccine's efficacy. \u2014 Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press , 14 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"In some instances, such as the aborted merger with Fiat Chrysler in 2019, the Nissan link has appeared to be a brake on bold thinking. \u2014 Stephen Wilmot, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
|
|
"If Breen had seen a gas station the night of his aborted escape, the course of his life might have been different. \u2014 David Hill, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-t\u0259d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213925",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abortifacient":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an agent (such as a drug) that induces abortion":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Enter Norma, a thirteen-year-old girl who becomes pregnant after being serially raped by her stepfather, and receives an abortifacient from the Witch. \u2014 The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
|
|
"Kamala Harris, in her role as attorney general of California, joined an amicus brief from the attorney general of Massachusetts arguing that Hobby Lobby should be required to provide abortifacient coverage for its employees. \u2014 Sean Spicer, National Review , 22 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"In one of the cases Walker referenced, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., ADF represented the home goods store from an Obama-era mandate that would require it to buy abortifacient contraceptives. \u2014 Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner , 15 Apr. 2020",
|
|
"And nationwide, antiabortion activists are gearing up for another round of efforts to curb access, with parental-notification requirements and bans on abortifacient medications. \u2014 Tim Craig, Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"The Obama Administration tried to force the Catholic nuns and other religious groups to provide their employees with contraceptives, including abortifacients , in violation of their beliefs. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 18 Jan. 2019",
|
|
"In 2016 the foundation filed a judicial protest, signed by 100 Maltese women, claiming that the nationwide ban of the morning-after pill (which is not abortifacient ) was a violation of their human rights. \u2014 The Economist , 27 July 2019",
|
|
"Nowhere in any of its representations in court does the university distinguish between its sincerely held religious beliefs regarding contraception and those regarding abortifacients . \u2014 Elizabeth Kirk, National Review , 10 Feb. 2018",
|
|
"The rule on moral objections cited a case brought against the Obama administration in 2015 by the March for Life, an antiabortion group that contends certain types of emergency contraception could be abortifacients . \u2014 Louise Radnofsky, WSJ , 6 Oct. 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1840, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from New Latin abortifacient-, abortifaciens , from Latin abortus \"miscarriage, abortion\" (from abor\u012br\u012b \"to pass away, (of a fetus) miscarry, be aborted\" + -tus , suffix of verbal action) + -i- -i- + -facient-, -faciens -facient \u2014 more at abort entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02ccb\u022frt-\u0259-\u02c8f\u0101-sh\u0259nt",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02ccb\u022fr-t\u0259-\u02c8f\u0101-sh\u0259nt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061913",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abortin":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an extract made from cultures of a bacterium ( Brucella abortus ) and used in the diagnosis of contagious abortion of cattle":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1909, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"abort(ion) + -in (as in tuberculin )":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259\u02c8b\u022frt\u1d4an"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183450",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abortion":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"continuation"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a misshapen thing or person : monstrosity":[],
|
|
": expulsion of a fetus by a domestic animal often due to infection at any time before completion of pregnancy \u2014 compare contagious abortion":[],
|
|
": induced expulsion of a human fetus":[],
|
|
": something regarded as horrifically or disgustingly bad":[],
|
|
": spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation \u2014 compare miscarriage":[],
|
|
": the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus : such as":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a doctor who performs abortions",
|
|
"She chose to have an abortion ."
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1537, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin aborti\u014dn-, aborti\u014d , from abor\u012br\u012b \"to miscarry, abort entry 1 \" + -ti\u014dn-, ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-sh\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abandonment",
|
|
"calling",
|
|
"calling off",
|
|
"cancellation",
|
|
"cancelation",
|
|
"dropping",
|
|
"recall",
|
|
"recision",
|
|
"repeal",
|
|
"rescission",
|
|
"revocation"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-115107",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abortion pill":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1857, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075249",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abortionist":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": one who induces abortions":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1844, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"abortion + -ist entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-sh(\u0259-)nist",
|
|
"-sh(\u0259-)n\u0259st",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-sh\u0259-nist"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032816",
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"abortive":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"deadly",
|
|
"effective",
|
|
"effectual",
|
|
"efficacious",
|
|
"efficient",
|
|
"fruitful",
|
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"potent",
|
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"productive",
|
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"profitable",
|
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"successful",
|
|
"virtuous"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": fruitless , unsuccessful":[],
|
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": imperfectly formed or developed":[],
|
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": prematurely born":[],
|
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": tending to cut short":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"an abortive attempt to recover the sunken pirate ship",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Asha Sharma, who had been in charge of Meta\u2019s messaging apps, also headed for the exits, as did David Marcus, who had run Meta\u2019s nascent efforts in building payments technology, including its abortive crypto currency project. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 2 June 2022",
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"Prior to the 19th century, people in what is now the U.S. engaged in a wide range of largely unregulated and culturally specific abortive practices. \u2014 Treva B. Lindsey, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 May 2022",
|
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"The Ukrainian military's general staff said Friday that its forces repelled 11 attacks in the Donbas region and destroyed tanks and armored vehicles, further frustrating Putin's ambitions after his abortive attempt to seize Kyiv. \u2014 Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 7 May 2022",
|
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"That lack of infantry, so evident during Russia\u2019s abortive attempt to occupy Kyiv early in the current campaign, means that an attacking Russian force often struggles to defend its rear. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
|
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"The ads were signed by none other than Donald Trump as part of his abortive presidential campaign. \u2014 Craig Unger, The New Republic , 2 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Below is a breakdown of the most common abortive and preventative treatment options. \u2014 Abigail Libers, SELF , 9 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Meanwhile, SpaceX disclosed in 2020 that each Falcon 9 launch costs around $30 million so, in total, this abortive operation could have cost SpaceX around $50 million in sunk costs. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 10 Feb. 2022",
|
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"The consumer goods giant is underperforming at the moment, and investors strongly opposed its abortive plan to buy GSK\u2019s health care business. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 24 Jan. 2022"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English abortyffe , borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French abbortif , borrowed from Latin abort\u012bvus , from abortus , past participle of abor\u012br\u012b \"to miscarry, abort entry 1 \" + -\u012bvus -ive":""
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u022frt-iv",
|
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"\u0259-\u02c8b\u022fr-tiv"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
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"barren",
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"bootless",
|
|
"empty",
|
|
"fruitless",
|
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"futile",
|
|
"ineffective",
|
|
"ineffectual",
|
|
"inefficacious",
|
|
"otiose",
|
|
"profitless",
|
|
"unavailing",
|
|
"unproductive",
|
|
"unprofitable",
|
|
"unsuccessful",
|
|
"useless",
|
|
"vain"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052030",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abound":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to be copiously supplied":[
|
|
"\u2014 used with in or with life abounded in mysteries \u2014 Norman Mailer institutions abound with evidence of his success \u2014 Johns Hopkins Magazine"
|
|
],
|
|
": to be present in large numbers or in great quantity : to be prevalent":[
|
|
"a business in which opportunities abound",
|
|
"errors and inconsistencies abound"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"They live in a region where oil abounds .",
|
|
"a city that abounds with art museums and private galleries",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"From white water rafting trips to curated wine tastings, summer travel options abound for LGBTQ visitors. \u2014 Ellen Wulfhorst, USA TODAY , 11 June 2022",
|
|
"Options abound for buying delicious, sustainably caught seafood from online retailers, including as regular subscription boxes. \u2014 Marygrace Taylor, SELF , 15 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The main point, for Fury, Wilder and fans, is that options abound for entertaining, high-stakes fights. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"And although there's no cure (yet, anyway) for these itchy, inflamed skin conditions, over-the-counter options abound for those looking to get mild cases under control. \u2014 Maura Brannigan, Allure , 4 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Despite the lack of brick-and-mortar locations in Alaska for these companies, and others with a devoted following nationwide, options for similar goods and services abound locally. \u2014 Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News , 13 July 2021",
|
|
"Utilitarian options abound , but this one from Wrangler stands out for its retro tailoring and cheerful western details. \u2014 Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online , 17 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"From street fare to fancy, options abound in Irving. \u2014 Sarah Bahari, Dallas News , 1 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"The new 76-page inspection report shows problems continue to abound at Homestead. \u2014 Tony Cook, The Indianapolis Star , 26 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abounden , borrowed from Anglo-French abunder , borrowed from Latin abund\u0101re \"to overflow, be full, be plentifully supplied (with),\" from ab- ab- + und\u0101re \"to rise in waves, surge, flood,\" verbal derivative of unda \"wave\" \u2014 more at water entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8bau\u0307nd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"brim",
|
|
"bristle",
|
|
"bulge",
|
|
"burst",
|
|
"bustle",
|
|
"buzz",
|
|
"crawl",
|
|
"hum",
|
|
"overflow",
|
|
"pullulate",
|
|
"swarm",
|
|
"teem"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171814",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abound in/with":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to be filled with (something) : contain a very large amount of (something)":[
|
|
"They live in a region that abounds in/with oil.",
|
|
"a stream abounding in/with fish"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103035",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"phrasal verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abounding":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": existing in or providing a great or plentiful quantity or supply":[
|
|
"It's simply full of \u2026 villains, impossible heroics and abounding clich\u00e9s.",
|
|
"\u2014 Newgate Callendar",
|
|
"My willingness to do so was hampered by an abounding ignorance of how it should be done \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Maya Angelou",
|
|
"an area of research abounding in/with new developments"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1560, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8bau\u0307n-di\u014b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abundant",
|
|
"awash",
|
|
"flush",
|
|
"fraught",
|
|
"lousy",
|
|
"replete",
|
|
"rife",
|
|
"swarming",
|
|
"teeming",
|
|
"thick",
|
|
"thronging"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213421",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"about":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"apropos",
|
|
"apropos of",
|
|
"as far as",
|
|
"as for",
|
|
"as regards",
|
|
"as respects",
|
|
"as to",
|
|
"concerning",
|
|
"of",
|
|
"on",
|
|
"regarding",
|
|
"respecting",
|
|
"touching",
|
|
"toward",
|
|
"towards"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": almost":[
|
|
"about starved",
|
|
"just about finished"
|
|
],
|
|
": around sense 2":[
|
|
"There is a scarcity of jobs about ."
|
|
],
|
|
": around the outside":[],
|
|
": at the command of":[
|
|
"has his wits about him"
|
|
],
|
|
": concerned with":[],
|
|
": engaged in":[
|
|
"\u2026 act as if they know what they're about \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 T. S. Matthews"
|
|
],
|
|
": fundamentally concerned with or directed toward":[
|
|
"\u2026 poker is about money.",
|
|
"\u2014 David Mamet"
|
|
],
|
|
": in a circle around : on every side of : around":[
|
|
"People gathered about him."
|
|
],
|
|
": in many different directions : here and there":[
|
|
"walked about for hours"
|
|
],
|
|
": in rotation":[
|
|
"They go about in circles."
|
|
],
|
|
": in the immediate neighborhood of : near":[
|
|
"Fish are abundant about the reefs."
|
|
],
|
|
": in the makeup of":[
|
|
"a mature wisdom about him"
|
|
],
|
|
": in the opposite direction":[
|
|
"face about",
|
|
"the other way about"
|
|
],
|
|
": in the vicinity : near":[
|
|
"He spoke to the people standing about ."
|
|
],
|
|
": on all sides : around":[
|
|
"looked about for a place to park"
|
|
],
|
|
": on or near the person of":[
|
|
"had a pleasing fragrance about her"
|
|
],
|
|
": on the verge of":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually used with be and a following infinitive is about to join the army \u2014 used with a negative to express intention or determination not about to quit"
|
|
],
|
|
": over or in different parts of":[
|
|
"He traveled about the country."
|
|
],
|
|
": reasonably close to":[
|
|
"about a year ago"
|
|
],
|
|
": with regard to : concerning":[
|
|
"spoke about his past"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adverb",
|
|
"We're about ready to go.",
|
|
"This one is about as bad as that one.",
|
|
"That's about all I know at this point.",
|
|
"It's about time to go.",
|
|
"That's about all the time we have.",
|
|
"We tried just about everything we could think of.",
|
|
"Preposition",
|
|
"a poignant story about a young man who goes off to war",
|
|
"about the hedge there was a picket fence",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
|
|
"Furthermore, no indicator is perfect, just about every recession indicator has been wrong before, or has been unable to predict the timing to within a year or two. \u2014 Simon Moore, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"Weight Just about every carrier sets maximum allowances for checked and carry-on luggage. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"The 6-foot-4, 215-pound Louisiana native received a rare perfect grade from 247Sports and held offers from just about every noteworthy FBS program before narrowing his list down to three earlier this year: Texas, Georgia and Alabama. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Our review unit, which featured the M2 chip (10 GPU cores) with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, was noticeably faster in just about every benchmark. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"In Cambridge alone, Police Department spokesperson Jeremy Warnick said police get a call over a missing converter just about every day. \u2014 Simon Levien, BostonGlobe.com , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"Which brought Oliver to the meat of his main story: the tech monopolies that currently control just about every aspect of our online lives. \u2014 Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"And just about every walk by the water takes me back to an uneasy memory: One May day in 1987, some buddies and I walked out onto the Golden Gate Bridge to join its 50th-anniversary celebration. \u2014 Tribune News Service, oregonlive , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"In just about every aspect of the world, male bodies have always been the default\u2013from office air conditioning to crash test dummies. \u2014 Laine Bruzek, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition",
|
|
"Though the messenger RNA vaccines \u2014 those made by Pfizer and Moderna \u2014 are the easiest to update, Marks said whatever decision is made about updating the vaccines will probably apply to all vaccines sold in the U.S. market. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"Well, it\u2019s all about providing a stellar customer experience (CX) based on the granular type of data being collected. \u2014 Jesse Redniss, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Democrats trying to overcome Biden\u2019s low approval ratings as well as high gas prices and violent crime have been searching for ways to shift the focus to other issues and give voters second thoughts about replacing them with Republicans. \u2014 Annie Linskey, Colby Itkowitz, Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Police were unable to answer questions from the Globe about why they were charged or why the men were assaulted. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Anyone who is suffering or who is curious about how to get help should reach out to All Secure Foundation (allsecurefoundation.org), which offers thoughtful insight and workshops. \u2014 Fox News , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, this tiny Texas school system began worrying about what would happen if a shooter attacked the sun-scorched campus, where fewer than 200 students attend classes. \u2014 Moriah Balingit, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Williams is set to appear on Tuesday in her first Grand Slam match in a year after an extended break that has generated rampant speculation about what the future may hold for her already illustrious career. \u2014 Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"The violinist Keir GoGwilt sauntered about playing Bach\u2019s Chaconne in D Minor while tensions among the artists built to a moment of violence. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"Huggins, shifting his sights on the 2022-23 campaign, his 16th at the helm of the Mountaineers program and 41st as a head coach, was about to take a break when he was interrupted by a visitor. \u2014 Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"Add in an infrastructure bill committing $100 billion to deploy broadband access, which is about to take effect, and some might start thinking everything is set to fall into place on its own. \u2014 Cheri Beranek, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
|
|
"After the Bidens met with one family and were about to move on to the next, a father stopped them, the archbishop recalled. \u2014 New York Times , 29 May 2022",
|
|
"When word of the shooting began to circulate on Tuesday, the Dodgers were about to take the field for their second game of this week\u2019s three-game series against the Nationals. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 25 May 2022",
|
|
"Some traders are betting that cushion might be about to take a hit as well. \u2014 Gunjan Banerji, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"The never-ending back-and-forth between automakers and safety rating agencies is about to take another step forward. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 7 May 2022",
|
|
"The rainiest weather of the year, by far, is about to move into the Washington region. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
|
|
"Ryan Poles\u2019 remodeling project is about to take a big step forward. \u2014 Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1745, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Preposition",
|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adverb"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abuten, aboute , going back to Old English ab\u016btan, ab\u016bton , from a- a- entry 1 + b\u016btan \"outside, without\" \u2014 more at but entry 1":"Adverb",
|
|
"Middle English, derivative of about about entry 1":"Adjective",
|
|
"Middle English, going back to Old English ab\u016btan , derivative of ab\u016btan about entry 1":"Preposition"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8bau\u0307t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"around",
|
|
"round"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211319",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"preposition"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"about-turn":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": about-face":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1893, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8bau\u0307t-\u02c8t\u0259rn"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"about-face",
|
|
"flip-flop",
|
|
"reversal",
|
|
"turnabout",
|
|
"turnaround",
|
|
"U-turn",
|
|
"volte-face"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195537",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"above":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"over"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a higher authority":[],
|
|
": a person whose name is written above":[
|
|
"Contact any of the above for more information."
|
|
],
|
|
": above zero":[
|
|
"10 degrees above"
|
|
],
|
|
": as distinct from and in addition to":[
|
|
"heard the whistle above the roar of the crowd"
|
|
],
|
|
": exceeding in number, quantity, or size : more than":[
|
|
"men above 50 years old"
|
|
],
|
|
": heaven":[],
|
|
": higher on the same page or on a preceding page":[
|
|
"except as stated above"
|
|
],
|
|
": in addition : besides":[],
|
|
": in or to a higher place":[],
|
|
": in or to a higher place than : over":[
|
|
"a room above the store"
|
|
],
|
|
": in or to a higher rank or number":[
|
|
"30 and above"
|
|
],
|
|
": in or to heaven":[],
|
|
": in preference to":[
|
|
"puts his child's needs above his own needs"
|
|
],
|
|
": in the sky : overhead":[
|
|
"the clouds above"
|
|
],
|
|
": out of reach of":[
|
|
"above suspicion"
|
|
],
|
|
": something that is above":[
|
|
"Select one of the above ."
|
|
],
|
|
": superior to (as in rank, quality, or degree)":[
|
|
"A sergeant is above a corporal."
|
|
],
|
|
": too proud or honorable to stoop to":[
|
|
"not above taking undue credit"
|
|
],
|
|
": upriver of":[
|
|
"anchored about 10 miles above the city"
|
|
],
|
|
": upstage":[],
|
|
": upstairs":[],
|
|
": written or discussed higher on the same page or on a preceding page":[
|
|
"Contact me at the above address."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adverb",
|
|
"up above and down below",
|
|
"Temperatures range from 5 below to 5 above .",
|
|
"Preposition",
|
|
"He raised his arms above his head.",
|
|
"They hung a mirror above the mantel.",
|
|
"We rented an apartment above a restaurant.",
|
|
"Temperatures were above average all week.",
|
|
"men above 50 years old",
|
|
"She values her private time above her fame.",
|
|
"He puts his child's needs above his own.",
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"in her dying days she was supposedly visited by an angel from above",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
|
|
"If that prediction comes true, 2022 would be the seventh consecutive year with an above -normal season. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 July 2022",
|
|
"The 2022 season runs from June 1-Nov. 30 is predicted to be another above -normal year for storms following the 30 named storms of 2020 and 21 of 2021. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
|
|
"By the weekend, though, San Antonio's temps should return to above -normal. \u2014 Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"This site is protected by recaptcha Privacy Policy | Terms of Service Last month, forecasters with NOAA said there is a 65% chance of an above -normal hurricane season along the Atlantic seaboard. \u2014 Daniella Silva, NBC News , 22 June 2022",
|
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"Daily highs in June were also above -normal, including some days that broke records, until a cooler weather arrived over the past few days. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2022",
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"The above -normal tightening is also something of an admission that, until now, the Fed has been too timid. \u2014 Norbert Michel, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
|
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"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above -normal hurricane season for 2022. \u2014 Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star , 15 June 2022",
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"And in many parts of the country, the summer months have a high chance of above -normal temperatures, according to forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and reported by WSJ. \u2014 Andrew Marquardt, Fortune , 13 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition",
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"In 2015, Kennedy realized that his wares could find success above ground, so to speak. \u2014 Benedict Browne, Robb Report , 29 June 2022",
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"The Aiper 1500 is designed to effectively clean the interior of an in-ground or above -ground pool of any shape or material (except ceramic tiles on vertical surfaces), up to 1,614 square feet in size, and up to 8.2 feet in depth. \u2014 Brad Moon, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
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"The theater that has made its name in a Broad Ripple basement is about to move above ground. \u2014 Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star , 28 June 2022",
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"The bronze Minerva rises 30 feet above the ground on a stainless-steel arch. \u2014 Kelly Kazek | Kkazek@al.com, al , 28 June 2022",
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"The first level is above ground with a two-car garage, a furnace/utility room, and the cellar itself. \u2014 Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com , 26 June 2022",
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"At this distance from the radar, the lowest scan beam was several thousand feet above the ground, so these values do not reflect wind speeds at the ground. \u2014 Jeff Halverson, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
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"There are also three campgrounds and over 13 backcountry sites for campers to enjoy a more above -ground experience. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 23 June 2022",
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"Take Airbnb, which has been known for renting out some of the world\u2019s wackiest properties, from UFO shuttles to above -ground submarines to real-life hobbit holes. \u2014 Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor , 23 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"All of the above should be clearly documented so new salespeople can be quickly trained and sales can be scaled. \u2014 Pradeep Aradhya, Forbes , 13 June 2022",
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"Though the above seems daunting, the answer is yes! \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 28 Mar. 2022",
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"All of the above comes at something of a rocky time for crypto, as leading digital currencies bitcoin and ether have weathered steep declines of more than 20 percent in recent weeks. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Feb. 2022",
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"All of the above is only a brief overview of the many immunological tricks SARS-CoV-2 has in its repertoire. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
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"All of the above is easier said than done, but what isn\u2019t? \u2014 New York Times , 28 Dec. 2021",
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"As the above makes clear, the problem continues to plague the U.S. \u2014 Michael Ashley, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
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"Experiences like the above will influence expectations from a hybrid workplace. \u2014 Babu Sivadasan, Forbes , 27 Sep. 2021",
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"All of the above is only a brief overview of the many immunological tricks SARS-CoV-2 has in its repertoire. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"Figure 9 compares Magellan\u2019s historical NOPAT to the NOPAT implied in each of the above DCF scenarios. \u2014 David Trainer, Forbes , 5 July 2022",
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"Not sure where to start looking, however, for all of the above ? \u2014 Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant , 2 July 2022",
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"And a lot of new startups are striving to monetize one (or all of the above ) in a unique way that will especially appeal to millennial and Generation Z consumers. \u2014 Rachel King, Fortune , 26 June 2022",
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"The amazing thing is that Jason Bourne gets to be all of the above , and more. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 15 June 2022",
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"Of course, all of the above has been said about many prospects over the decades. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 June 2022",
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"Figure 10 compares TotalEnergies\u2019 historical NOPAT to the NOPAT implied in each of the above DCF scenarios. \u2014 David Trainer, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
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"Whether any of the above fits the bill, doubtless you and your dad (uncle, grandpa or otherwise amazing father figure) have enjoyed more than a meal or two, and mostly at his expense \u2014 so why not return the favor? \u2014 Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel , 10 June 2022",
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"While all of the above are certainly true, there\u2019s more to the story behind the entrepreneur. \u2014 Reegan Von Wildenradt, Men's Health , 2 June 2022"
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],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Preposition",
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"1691, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":"Noun",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adverb",
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"circa 1515, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English above \"a higher position,\" derivative of above, aboven above entry 1":"Noun",
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"Middle English above, aboven , derivative of above, aboven above entry 1":"Preposition",
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"Middle English above, aboven , going back to Old English abufan , from a- a- entry 1 + bufan \"above\" (akin to Old Saxon bi-o\u0180an , Middle Dutch b\u014dven , Old Frisian bova , Middle High German bobene ), from be- be- + ufan \"above, from above,\" going back to Germanic *uban- (whence Old Saxon o\u0180ana \"from above,\" Old High German obana ), from *ub- \"above, on\" + *-an- , adverbial suffix \u2014 more at over entry 1":"Adverb",
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"derivative of above entry 1":"Adjective"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259v"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"aloft",
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"over",
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"overhead"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120859",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"noun",
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"preposition"
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]
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},
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"above par":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": better than normal or expected : very good":[
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"The performance was above par ."
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"type":[
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]
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},
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"above the fray":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": not directly involved in an angry or difficult struggle or disagreement":[
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"His political aides handled the controversy while he remained above the fray ."
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121057",
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"type":[
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"idiom"
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]
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},
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"above/beyond suspicion":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": considered to be innocent for certain":[
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"They are not above/beyond suspicion ."
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]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123953",
|
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"type":[
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"idiom"
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]
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},
|
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"aboveboard":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": free from all traces of deceit or duplicity":[],
|
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": in a straightforward manner : openly":[]
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Adjective",
|
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"The committee tried to be fair and aboveboard in its hiring.",
|
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"an aboveboard and responsible proposal",
|
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"She acted in a completely open and aboveboard way.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
|
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"But now that going legal is an option, legacy businesses like Buddy\u2019s are being watched over by officials who hope to see the entire industry move aboveboard . \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
|
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"Live bands already perform at Catonsville establishments, and the bill will bring current practices aboveboard . \u2014 Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com , 8 Oct. 2019",
|
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"Nearly a century later, Morris\u2019s great-nephew Kevin is also in the beverage business\u2014but aboveboard , as the owner of Loma Brewing Company in Northern California. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 2 July 2019",
|
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"Nearly a century later, Morris\u2019s great-nephew Kevin is also in the beverage business\u2014but aboveboard , as the owner of Loma Brewing Company in Northern California. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 2 July 2019",
|
|
"Nearly a century later, Morris\u2019s great-nephew Kevin is also in the beverage business\u2014but aboveboard , as the owner of Loma Brewing Company in Northern California. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 2 July 2019",
|
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"Nearly a century later, Morris\u2019s great-nephew Kevin is also in the beverage business\u2014but aboveboard , as the owner of Loma Brewing Company in Northern California. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 2 July 2019",
|
|
"Nearly a century later, Morris\u2019s great-nephew Kevin is also in the beverage business\u2014but aboveboard , as the owner of Loma Brewing Company in Northern California. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 2 July 2019",
|
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"Nearly a century later, Morris\u2019s great-nephew Kevin is also in the beverage business\u2014but aboveboard , as the owner of Loma Brewing Company in Northern California. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 2 July 2019",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
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"Nevertheless, questions remain about how public officials and regulators will ensure everyone from the company\u2019s top investors to the subcontractor who paves the parking lot is aboveboard . \u2014 Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune , 15 May 2022",
|
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"Few of the family\u2019s other aboveboard ventures have worked out. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2021",
|
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"Spur someone to constructive action by being direct and aboveboard . \u2014 Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive , 18 Aug. 2021",
|
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"Surely, everything happening behind the scenes in the act of crafting self-driving cars is completely aboveboard and hunky-dory. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 23 June 2021",
|
|
"That type of crime-solving approach would be an aboveboard use of self-driving cars as an aid in crimefighting. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 12 June 2021",
|
|
"Assume that self-driving cars will potentially be explicitly programmed with such a capability and are aiming to be used when the driving situation is aboveboard for the use of brake checking. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 17 May 2021",
|
|
"His defense lawyers maintained the transactions were all aboveboard . \u2014 Kim Chandler, Star Tribune , 11 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"His defense lawyers maintained the transactions were all aboveboard . \u2014 Kim Chandler, Star Tribune , 11 Sep. 2020"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1594, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
|
|
"1615, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"above entry 2 + board entry 1 ; from the difficulty of cheating at cards when the hands are above the table":"Adverb"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259v-\u02ccb\u022frd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014643",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"abracadabra":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a magical charm or incantation":[],
|
|
": unintelligible language":[]
|
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},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"originally, an abracadabra was a cryptogram of the word \u201cabracadabra\u201d that was repeated in diminishing form until it disappeared entirely\u2014supposedly just like the targeted evil or misfortune",
|
|
"after some abracadabra the spiritualist announced that we had made contact with \u201cthe other side\u201d",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"And there\u2019s an abracadabra quality of pulling a bed out nowhere. \u2014 Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine , 11 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The smoke from Luka Doncic\u2019s latest abracadabra moment still hangs in the air, along with our collective state of disbelief. \u2014 Dallas News , 15 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"When someone pushed the button \u2014 abracadabra \u2014 the bus went from Boston to New York, just like that. \u2014 James Barron, New York Times , 11 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"And that the shareholders will then subsequently spend that money buying things\u2014a new car, a new refrigerator, perhaps\u2014and abracadabra , the economy will be set on fire for the first time in more than a decade. \u2014 William D. Cohan, The Hive , 13 Dec. 2017",
|
|
"Take Loren Brichter, the designer who created pull-to-refresh (the downward abracadabra swipe that prompts new app content to load). \u2014 Catherine Cusick, Longreads , 11 Oct. 2017"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Late Latin, of obscure origin":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02cca-br\u0259-k\u0259-\u02c8da-br\u0259"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bewitchment",
|
|
"charm",
|
|
"conjuration",
|
|
"enchantment",
|
|
"glamour",
|
|
"glamor",
|
|
"hex",
|
|
"incantation",
|
|
"invocation",
|
|
"spell",
|
|
"whammy"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055011",
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abrade":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": to irritate or roughen by rubbing":[],
|
|
": to rub or wear away especially by friction : erode":[],
|
|
": to undergo abrasion":[],
|
|
": to wear down in spirit : irritate , weary":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"ropes abraded by the rocks were a huge danger to the climbers",
|
|
"the prisoner's manacles abraded his wrists and ankles until they bled",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Like dirt, those teeth will abrade fabrics during a wash cycle. \u2014 Joe Lindsey, Outside Online , 17 July 2021",
|
|
"This parodic picaresque finds Sturges at the zenith of his formidable powers to abrade and delight. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 July 2021",
|
|
"Anyway, to get back to the subject, the definitions for chafe are broad and grumpy: to irritate and vex, to abrade , to rub so as to wear away, to make sore, to feel irritation, discontent or impatience. \u2014 Bernadette Kinlaw, Arkansas Online , 31 May 2021",
|
|
"Another great crossover from the auto-body industry is rubbing compound that cleans and abrades the surface at the same time. \u2014 Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics , 26 Apr. 2020",
|
|
"The findings from the cave also included a number of pumice stones that the Neanderthals likely used as an abrading tool to sharpen other tools. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 15 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"The important thing is to abrade off shiny spots, rust, deep scratches, and the like. \u2014 Dan Roe, Popular Mechanics , 20 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"Olefin is stain- and fade-resistant but can abrade with use. \u2014 Charlyne Mattox, Country Living , 23 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"And under high braking pressure, the pads dig into the rotor surface like a microscopic hook-and-loop fastener\u2014 abrading the rotor and generating some dust, but delivering massive stopping power, too. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics , 2 Aug. 2019"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"1675, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin abr\u0101dere \"to remove by rubbing, scrape off,\" from ab- ab- + r\u0101dere \"to scrape\" \u2014 more at rase":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8br\u0101d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"chafe",
|
|
"corrade",
|
|
"erode",
|
|
"fray",
|
|
"frazzle",
|
|
"fret",
|
|
"gall",
|
|
"rasp",
|
|
"rub",
|
|
"wear"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092850",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abrasive":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a substance (such as emery or pumice) used for abrading , smoothing, or polishing":[
|
|
"used an abrasive for polishing the rough stones"
|
|
],
|
|
": causing damage, wear, or removal of surface material by grinding or rubbing : tending to abrade":[
|
|
"abrasive compounds for whitening teeth",
|
|
"an abrasive surface"
|
|
],
|
|
": causing irritation":[
|
|
"abrasive manners",
|
|
"an abrasive personality"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"The waves had an abrasive action on the rocks.",
|
|
"an abrasive display of rude behavior",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"The moon's fine, powdery rocks can be abrasive on a car's structural components. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"Their manners were often abrasive and their rhetoric unnecessarily personalized. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 30 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"While other hair dryers can be abrasive , blasting intense, friction-inducing air that loosens curls and causes hair to fuzz, the Supersonic successfully simulates naturally drying your hair\u2014just with a bit more oomph and impact. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The absence of L\u00f3pez Obrador, leader of a major hemispheric economy and the United States\u2019 biggest Latin American trade partner, was hardly salved by the abrasive presence of the president of Latin America\u2019s largest economy. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"Avoid anything that will exfoliate the tan off, like body scrubs, shaving, retinol or chemical exfoliants, or abrasive exfoliating cloths. \u2014 Jailynn Taylor, Essence , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"There are consequences for being an abrasive troll in face-to-face discussions. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"Any suit that will be worn on the moon also has to be more rugged than a spacewalking suit, to resist damage from the powder-fine, abrasive dust that covers the lunar surface. \u2014 Jeffrey Kluger, Time , 3 June 2022",
|
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"After some serious wobbles in practice at IMS, an incident with Dalton Kellett on Monday and a general reputation for an abrasive on-track attitude, my eyes will be focused on how Grosjean's first taste of the 500 goes. \u2014 Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star , 28 May 2022",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
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"Baking soda is a gentle abrasive that cleans surfaces without scratching. \u2014 Carolyn Forte, Good Housekeeping , 17 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"The tool has three sides, each with a different abrasive that\u2019s designed for dry sharpening. \u2014 Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics , 23 Feb. 2021",
|
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"While the abrasive also has a big impact, slow-speed air sanders tend to bog down on softer surfaces like wood. \u2014 Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com , 12 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"Stubborn marks may need a gentle abrasive that won't scratch off paint finishes. \u2014 Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful , 7 Aug. 2020",
|
|
"When using a whitening toothpaste, always be sure to apply it with a soft or extra-soft bristled toothbrush to help counter the harsh abrasives in the paste that scrub off stains, says Sammadar. \u2014 Brittany Loggins, Health.com , 22 Apr. 2020",
|
|
"Though Clorox wipes are okay to use, Apple still advises against using bleach, aerosol sprays, and abrasives . \u2014 Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful , 10 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Specifically, the multi-heavy mineral prospect consists of abrasives garne and epidote, and zircon, magnetite and gold. \u2014 Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Nov. 2019",
|
|
"The gentle abrasives in these formulas will help loosen stubborn residue that needs a bit of a nudge but isn\u2019t totally welded onto your glass. \u2014 Carolyn Forte, Good Housekeeping , 30 Apr. 2019"
|
|
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|
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|
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"1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
|
|
"1850, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Latin abr\u0101sus , past participle of abr\u0101dere \"to scrape off, abrade \" + -ive":"Adjective",
|
|
"derivative of abrasive entry 1":"Noun"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-ziv",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8br\u0101-siv"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"aggravating",
|
|
"annoying",
|
|
"bothersome",
|
|
"carking",
|
|
"chafing",
|
|
"disturbing",
|
|
"exasperating",
|
|
"frustrating",
|
|
"galling",
|
|
"irksome",
|
|
"irritating",
|
|
"maddening",
|
|
"nettlesome",
|
|
"nettling",
|
|
"peeving",
|
|
"pesky",
|
|
"pestiferous",
|
|
"pestilent",
|
|
"pestilential",
|
|
"pesty",
|
|
"plaguey",
|
|
"plaguy",
|
|
"rankling",
|
|
"rebarbative",
|
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"riling",
|
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"vexatious",
|
|
"vexing"
|
|
],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205737",
|
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|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb",
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"abreaction":{
|
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|
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": the expression and emotional discharge of unconscious material (such as a repressed idea or emotion) by verbalization especially in the presence of a therapist":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"All must be resolved now by collective abreaction , whereby literary critics will be the handmaidens of a sort of universal truth-and-reconciliation event: cathartic Rapture. \u2014 Will Self, Harper's Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1912, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"partial translation of German Abreagieren , noun use of abreagieren \"to release or express (an emotion previously repressed or forgotten),\" from ab \"down, from\" (going back to Old High German aba ) + reagieren \"to react,\" borrowed from French r\u00e9agir , borrowed (with adaptation to agir \"to act, take effect\") from New Latin reagere \u2014 more at of entry 1 , react":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-br\u0113-\u02c8ak-sh\u0259n",
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"\u02ccab-r\u0113-\u02c8ak-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-175148",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"abreaction?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=a&file=abreac01":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": the expression and emotional discharge of unconscious material (such as a repressed idea or emotion) by verbalization especially in the presence of a therapist":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"All must be resolved now by collective abreaction , whereby literary critics will be the handmaidens of a sort of universal truth-and-reconciliation event: cathartic Rapture. \u2014 Will Self, Harper's Magazine , 23 Nov. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1912, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"partial translation of German Abreagieren , noun use of abreagieren \"to release or express (an emotion previously repressed or forgotten),\" from ab \"down, from\" (going back to Old High German aba ) + reagieren \"to react,\" borrowed from French r\u00e9agir , borrowed (with adaptation to agir \"to act, take effect\") from New Latin reagere \u2014 more at of entry 1 , react":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02cca-br\u0113-\u02c8ak-sh\u0259n",
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"\u02ccab-r\u0113-\u02c8ak-sh\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-183954",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"abreast":{
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"antonyms":[
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"ignorant",
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"unacquainted",
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"unfamiliar",
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"uninformed",
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"unknowledgeable"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": beside one another in line":[
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"columns of men five abreast",
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"with seats two abreast on each side of the aisle",
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"They drew abreast of [=alongside of] each other."
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],
|
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": up to a particular standard or level especially of knowledge of recent developments":[
|
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"tries to keep abreast of [=to stay informed about] the news"
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]
|
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"There is deep history in the field of 33 with 11 rows, three cars abreast creating one of the most iconic, spectacular, and breathtaking moments in all of sport. \u2014 Bruce Martin, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
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"Staying abreast of new technology, like hypertargeting, can help small businesses reap the rewards of their marketing efforts. \u2014 Michael Plummer, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Theory has evolved considerably even in the past ten years, so make sure your trainer is keeping abreast of current science and that their philosophy jives with your own. \u2014 Kate Siber, Outside Online , 11 May 2021",
|
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"An open, honest relationship with journalists is one of the most effective ways to keep voters abreast of developments. \u2014 Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Staying abreast of the latest news and current trends is the first step. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
|
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"So picture me, with an unexpectedly large amount of car to my left, trying to balance on the clutch as cars nip and tuck down a street not wide enough for two to drive abreast , with a two-foot-thick medieval wall just beyond my rearview mirror. \u2014 Mike Mcshane, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"Out of office, Ms. Hurchalla remained abreast of all the goings-on around town. \u2014 Patricia Mazzei, New York Times , 5 Mar. 2022",
|
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"But Bargreen kept their designers on staff, to help customers change their layouts to deal with COVID-19 requirements and to keep them abreast of evolving regulations. \u2014 Robert Sher, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021"
|
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English abrest , from a- a- entry 1 + brest breast entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8brest"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"acquainted",
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"au courant",
|
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"conversant",
|
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"familiar",
|
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"informed",
|
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"knowledgeable",
|
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"up",
|
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"up-to-date",
|
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"versed",
|
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"well-informed"
|
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052544",
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"type":[
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"adverb or adjective"
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]
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},
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"abreed":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":[
|
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"Definition of abreed chiefly Scottish variant of abroad"
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],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
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"history_and_etymology":[],
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-000943",
|
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"type":[]
|
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},
|
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"abrenunciation":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": renunciation , repudiation":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1557, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Late Latin abren\u016bnti\u0101ti\u014dn-, abren\u016bnti\u0101ti\u014d , from abren\u016bnti\u0101re \"to repudiate, renounce\" (from Latin ab- ab- entry 1 + ren\u016bnti\u0101re \"to report, retract, renounce\") + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , noun suffix":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-201006",
|
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"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
|
"abri":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"1761, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from French, going back to Old French, noun derivative of abrier \"to shelter, protect,\" going back to Late Latin apr\u012bc\u0101re \"to expose to the sun (and hence protect from wind, cold, etc.), \" alteration of the Latin deponent verb apr\u012bc\u0101r\u012b \"to sun oneself, bask in the sunshine,\" derivative of apr\u012bcus \"exposed to the sun, sunny\"":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0227br\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061541",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abridge":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"elongate",
|
|
"extend",
|
|
"lengthen",
|
|
"prolong",
|
|
"protract"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
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": deprive":[],
|
|
": to reduce in scope : diminish":[
|
|
"attempts to abridge the right of free speech"
|
|
],
|
|
": to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense":[
|
|
"abridge a novel",
|
|
"an abridged dictionary"
|
|
],
|
|
": to shorten in duration or extent":[
|
|
"Tess wished to abridge her visit as much as possible \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Thomas Hardy"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"abridge a dictionary by omitting rare words",
|
|
"the library's hours have been drastically abridged to cut costs",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"One way to measure these mores and practices is to count state laws: How many states recognize a putative right and how many try to abridge it? \u2014 Akhil Reed Amar, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"The Ninth Circuit has interpreted the case in a way that would allow states to abridge a business\u2019s right to exclude people from its property. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 19 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"Indeed, at the most significant moments in African-American history, the Court reflected the most reactionary elements of the culture in its efforts to abridge , degrade, or simply eliminate the rights of African-Americans. \u2014 Keeanga-yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker , 25 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"A few hours later, the trio would depart for the airport to board a Sunday night flight back to Waters\u2019 native Portland, his season abridged by the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. \u2014 Hillel Kuttler, oregonlive , 30 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"Some of Avila\u2019s answers have been abridged for length. \u2014 Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press , 8 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"But the First Amendment prohibits the government, not private companies, from abridging people's free speech rights. \u2014 Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica , 5 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"The 19th amendment was a transformative constitutional amendment that guaranteed that the right of citizens to vote would not be denied or abridged by the government because of a person\u2019s gender. \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 14 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"To many of Zuckerberg\u2019s critics, however, the First Amendment\u2014which prohibits the government from abridging free speech\u2014has nothing at all to do with a corporation like Facebook. \u2014 Wired , 7 Nov. 2019"
|
|
],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abreggen, abriggen \"to reduce, diminish, shorten,\" borrowed from Anglo-French abreger , going back to Late Latin abbrevi\u0101re , from Latin ad- ad- + brevi\u0101re \"to shorten, abridge,\" verbal derivative of brevis \"short\" \u2014 more at brief entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8brij"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abridge shorten , curtail , abbreviate , abridge , retrench mean to reduce in extent. shorten implies reduction in length or duration. shorten a speech curtail adds an implication of cutting that in some way deprives of completeness or adequacy. ceremonies curtailed because of rain abbreviate implies a making shorter usually by omitting some part. using an abbreviated title abridge implies a reduction in compass or scope with retention of essential elements and a relative completeness in the result. the abridged version of the novel retrench suggests a reduction in extent or costs of something felt to be excessive. declining business forced the company to retrench",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abbreviate",
|
|
"curtail",
|
|
"cut back",
|
|
"dock",
|
|
"elide",
|
|
"shorten",
|
|
"syncopate",
|
|
"truncate"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045824",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abridgement":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a shortened form of a work retaining the general sense and unity of the original":[
|
|
"reading an abridgment of the original book"
|
|
],
|
|
": the action of abridging something : the state of being abridged":[
|
|
"abridgment of rights",
|
|
"a book shortened by careful abridgment"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"this Italian-English pocket dictionary is an abridgment of the hardback edition",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Project Veritas also sent a letter to Politico stating its views on the news outlet\u2019s abridgment . \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"But Oakeshott\u2019s most vehement critique of rationalism was its abridgment of the poetic aspect of the human condition. \u2014 Nate Hochman, National Review , 18 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"On the other hand, his decision to allow the country\u2019s security services to electronically monitor the movements of those who have been ordered into quarantine does raise real concerns about the abridgment of civil liberties. \u2014 Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review , 20 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"The conductor Lothar Koenigs, working with an abridgment of the score that loses the overture and entire numbers, drew elegance and breadth from the Met orchestra and chorus. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Businesses are routinely targeted with six- or seven-figure lawsuits over what are often clerical or good-faith abridgments of the state\u2019s 1,100-page labor code. \u2014 Tom Manzo, The Mercury News , 13 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"In 40 years, researchers have failed to build abridgments of QCD that fit the data much better than the naive quark model. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 27 Aug. 2014",
|
|
"Lawyers for Eric Loomis stood before the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in April 2016, and argued that their client had experienced a uniquely 21st-century abridgment of his rights: Mr. Loomis had been discriminated against by a computer algorithm. ... \u2014 Christopher Mims, WSJ , 23 Mar. 2019",
|
|
"The abridgment resulted in the loss of fully half the oratorio. \u2014 Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com , 19 Jan. 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abbreggement , borrowed from Anglo-French abregement , from abreger \"to abridge \" + -ment -ment":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8brij-m\u0259nt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abbreviation",
|
|
"bowdlerization",
|
|
"condensation",
|
|
"digest"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183301",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abridgment":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a shortened form of a work retaining the general sense and unity of the original":[
|
|
"reading an abridgment of the original book"
|
|
],
|
|
": the action of abridging something : the state of being abridged":[
|
|
"abridgment of rights",
|
|
"a book shortened by careful abridgment"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"this Italian-English pocket dictionary is an abridgment of the hardback edition",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Project Veritas also sent a letter to Politico stating its views on the news outlet\u2019s abridgment . \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"But Oakeshott\u2019s most vehement critique of rationalism was its abridgment of the poetic aspect of the human condition. \u2014 Nate Hochman, National Review , 18 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"On the other hand, his decision to allow the country\u2019s security services to electronically monitor the movements of those who have been ordered into quarantine does raise real concerns about the abridgment of civil liberties. \u2014 Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review , 20 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"The conductor Lothar Koenigs, working with an abridgment of the score that loses the overture and entire numbers, drew elegance and breadth from the Met orchestra and chorus. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Businesses are routinely targeted with six- or seven-figure lawsuits over what are often clerical or good-faith abridgments of the state\u2019s 1,100-page labor code. \u2014 Tom Manzo, The Mercury News , 13 Aug. 2019",
|
|
"In 40 years, researchers have failed to build abridgments of QCD that fit the data much better than the naive quark model. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 27 Aug. 2014",
|
|
"Lawyers for Eric Loomis stood before the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in April 2016, and argued that their client had experienced a uniquely 21st-century abridgment of his rights: Mr. Loomis had been discriminated against by a computer algorithm. ... \u2014 Christopher Mims, WSJ , 23 Mar. 2019",
|
|
"The abridgment resulted in the loss of fully half the oratorio. \u2014 Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com , 19 Jan. 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abbreggement , borrowed from Anglo-French abregement , from abreger \"to abridge \" + -ment -ment":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8brij-m\u0259nt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abbreviation",
|
|
"bowdlerization",
|
|
"condensation",
|
|
"digest"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072404",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abroach":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": in a condition for letting out a liquid (such as wine)":[],
|
|
": in action or agitation : astir":[
|
|
"mischiefs that I set abroach",
|
|
"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abroche , from a- a- entry 1 + broche \"pointed rod, broach entry 1 \"":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8br\u014dch"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135817",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb or adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abroad":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": away from one's home":[
|
|
"doesn't go walking abroad at night"
|
|
],
|
|
": beyond the boundaries of one's country : in or to a foreign country":[
|
|
"traveling abroad",
|
|
"hopes to study abroad next year",
|
|
"both at home and abroad",
|
|
"a family that came here from abroad [=from a foreign country] several years ago"
|
|
],
|
|
": in wide circulation : about":[
|
|
"There are rumors abroad that the company is in trouble."
|
|
],
|
|
": over a wide area : widely":[
|
|
"wolves venturing abroad in increasing numbers"
|
|
],
|
|
": wide of the mark : astray":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Hundreds of veterans have traveled to psychedelic retreat centers abroad and many have become advocates for expanding access to hallucinogens. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"During his MICA days, his work often took him abroad to France, where Mr. Jones, an accomplished painter in his own right, produced more than 50 oil paintings of the French countryside and seacoast, family members said. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"Some pandemic experts have warned that if the outbreak worsens, European officials could institute an export ban on Jynneos and limit shipments abroad . \u2014 Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Through his work at Centre, Fieberg teaches a study abroad course in France. \u2014 Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Some pandemic experts have warned that if the outbreak worsens, European officials could institute an export ban on Jynneos and limit shipments abroad . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"This week, the princess journeyed to Oslo alongside her husband, Prince Albert, and their twin children, Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella\u2014the trip marks her first royal visit abroad since last spring. \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Some pandemic experts have warned that if the outbreak worsens, European officials could institute an export ban on Jynneos and limit shipments abroad . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"That mirrors decisions from health authorities abroad , including in the United Kingdom and Canada, which have also broadened monkeypox vaccinations. \u2014 Alexander Tin, CBS News , 23 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abrod, abrood , from a- a- entry 1 + brod, brood broad entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8br\u022fd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192220",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb or adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abrocome":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": either of two ratlike hystricomorph rodents having fine soft fur and large rounded ears and constituting a genus ( Abrocoma ) restricted to the Andes mountains":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1911, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from New Latin Abrocoma , borrowed from Greek habr\u00f3s \"graceful, delicate\" + k\u00f3m\u0113 \"hair\"":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8abr\u0259\u02cck\u014dm"
|
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200619",
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
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"abrogate":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": to abolish by authoritative action : annul":[
|
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"abrogate a treaty"
|
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],
|
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": to suppress or prevent (a biological function or process and especially an immune response)":[
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"Continued progress in measurement and characterization of antibodies and strategies to abrogate antibody production both prior to and following heart transplant have been encouraging.",
|
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"\u2014 Peter M Eckman"
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],
|
|
": to treat as nonexistent : to fail to do what is required by (something, such as a responsibility)":[
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"The company's directors are accused of abrogating their responsibilities."
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"If UAL continues to bleed red ink, some analysts say bankruptcy\u2014which would allow it to abrogate its union contracts\u2014may be its only hope. \u2014 Business Week , 12 Nov. 2001",
|
|
"We may not always like what we hear but we are always the poorer if we close down dialogue; if we abrogate free speech, and the open exchange of ideas. \u2014 Nikki Giovanni , Sacred Cows \u2026 and Other Edibles , 1988",
|
|
"For their part, some of the pipeline companies saddled with these contracts for high-priced, deregulated gas have declared that they will simply abrogate them \u2026 \u2014 Barry Commoner , New Yorker , 2 May 1983",
|
|
"The company's directors are accused of abrogating their responsibilities.",
|
|
"the U.S. Congress can abrogate old treaties that are unfair to Native Americans",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"But Saied\u2019s steps to abrogate the country\u2019s institutions or place them under his control have raised alarms among democracy and human rights advocates in Tunisia and abroad \u2014 including the United States. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"After the meeting, McKay and McCabe suggested the highway be renamed in honor of astronaut John Glenn, which would abrogate the need for new road signs. \u2014 James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The Russian Foreign Ministry had earlier demanded that NATO officially abrogate a 2008 promise, known as the Bucharest Declaration, that Ukraine and Georgia would be welcomed into the alliance. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Immediately after the war, a federal grand jury specifically indicted Lee for treason \u2013 and only avoided charges when Grant interceded, claiming such charges would abrogate the surrender agreement at Appomattox. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 6 Sep. 2021",
|
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"Duterte moved to abrogate the Visiting Forces Agreement with the U.S. early this year but later delayed the effectivity of his decision to next year, a move welcomed by O'Brien. \u2014 Jim Gomez, Star Tribune , 23 Nov. 2020",
|
|
"The sanctions imposed by the United States in 2018, after President Trump abrogated the nuclear agreement between the two countries, have aggravated those failures and intensified the corruption of the governing \u00e9lite. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 18 May 2020",
|
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"In 2018, President Trump abrogated the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by President Obama and imposed crippling economic sanctions on Tehran. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2020",
|
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"Duterte first threatened to abrogate the VFA in late 2016 after a U.S. aid agency put on hold funds for anti-poverty projects in the Philippines. \u2014 Jim Gomez, Anchorage Daily News , 11 Feb. 2020"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1520, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin abrog\u0101tus , past participle of abrog\u0101re , \"to repeal (a law), repudiate, cancel,\" from ab- ab- + rog\u0101re \"to ask, ask an assembly for approval of\" \u2014 more at rogation":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8a-br\u0259-\u02ccg\u0101t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abrogate nullify , negate , annul , abrogate , invalidate mean to deprive of effective or continued existence. nullify implies counteracting completely the force, effectiveness, or value of something. a penalty nullified the touchdown negate implies the destruction or canceling out of each of two things by the other. the arguments negate each other annul suggests making ineffective or nonexistent often by legal or official action. the treaty annuls all previous agreements abrogate is like annul but more definitely implies a legal or official act. a law to abrogate trading privileges invalidate implies making something powerless or unacceptable by declaration of its logical or moral or legal unsoundness. the court invalidated the statute",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abate",
|
|
"abolish",
|
|
"annul",
|
|
"avoid",
|
|
"cancel",
|
|
"disannul",
|
|
"dissolve",
|
|
"invalidate",
|
|
"negate",
|
|
"null",
|
|
"nullify",
|
|
"quash",
|
|
"repeal",
|
|
"rescind",
|
|
"roll back",
|
|
"strike down",
|
|
"vacate",
|
|
"void"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213525",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abronia":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a genus of herbs (family Nyctaginaceae) native to western North America having showy fragrant flowers in bracted heads and with the salver-shaped calyx having a 3-winged base \u2014 see sand verbena":[],
|
|
": any plant of the genus Abronia":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1806, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from New Latin, from Greek habr\u00f3s \"graceful, delicate\" + New Latin -onia (probably as in Paeonia peony and the names of other flowering plants)":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259\u02c8br\u014dn\u0113\u0259"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060134",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abrood":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": on a hatch":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abrode, a broode from a- a- entry 1 + brod, brood brood entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259\u02c8br\u00fcd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134753",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abrupt":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"circuitous",
|
|
"mealymouthed"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": characterized by or involving action or change without preparation or warning : sudden and unexpected":[
|
|
"came to an abrupt stop",
|
|
"an abrupt turn",
|
|
"an abrupt decision to retire"
|
|
],
|
|
": lacking smoothness or continuity":[
|
|
"an abrupt transition"
|
|
],
|
|
": rudely or unceremoniously curt":[
|
|
"She has an abrupt manner.",
|
|
"an abrupt reply"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"There was an abrupt change in the weather.",
|
|
"The road came to an abrupt end.",
|
|
"The storm caused an abrupt power failure.",
|
|
"She has an abrupt manner.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"But first: Big, abrupt change doesn\u2019t happen that often in this country. \u2014 Mark Murray, NBC News , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"This abrupt change in economic circumstances may have made Eastern a bit less eager to add government business right now, opening an opportunity for a motivated company to really undercut on price. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"Symptoms to look out for include pain and swelling in limbs, chest pain, numbness on one side of the body, and an abrupt change in mental faculties, among others. \u2014 Serena Coady, SELF , 7 May 2022",
|
|
"Cleveland State University will also be under new leadership following a abrupt change in leadership. \u2014 Sean Mcdonnell, cleveland , 4 May 2022",
|
|
"In such instances, a strong executive can ram through an abrupt policy change in one moment, explains Mr. Barker. \u2014 Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"For Russians who built a career at McKinsey or Goldman Sachs before the war, this would be an abrupt change. \u2014 Clare Sebastian, CNN , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Other passengers were confused, startled and angered by the abrupt change, however, especially those who booked trips in the belief that their unvaccinated children would be traveling in a masked environment. \u2014 Curt Anderson And Heather Hollingsworth, Anchorage Daily News , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"An abrupt change in leadership opened the door to the Timilty\u2019s decline. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 16 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1576, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin abruptus \"steep, sheer, broken or cut off too short,\" from past participle of abrumpere \"to break, rupture, break off short,\" from ab- ab- + rumpere \"to cause to break or burst,\" going back to Indo-European *ru-n-p- , nasal present formation from the base *reu\u032fp- \"break, tear\" \u2014 more at reave":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8br\u0259pt"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abrupt precipitate , headlong , abrupt , impetuous , sudden mean showing undue haste or unexpectedness. precipitate stresses lack of due deliberation and implies prematureness of action. the army's precipitate withdrawal headlong stresses rashness and lack of forethought. a headlong flight from arrest abrupt stresses curtness and a lack of warning or ceremony. an abrupt refusal impetuous stresses extreme impatience or impulsiveness. an impetuous lover proposing marriage sudden stresses unexpectedness and sharpness or violence of action. flew into a sudden rage steep , abrupt , precipitous , sheer mean having an incline approaching the perpendicular. steep implies such sharpness of pitch that ascent or descent is very difficult. a steep hill a steep dive abrupt implies a sharper pitch and a sudden break in the level. a beach with an abrupt drop-off precipitous applies to an incline approaching the vertical. the river winds through a precipitous gorge sheer suggests an unbroken perpendicular expanse. sheer cliffs that daunted the climbers",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bluff",
|
|
"blunt",
|
|
"brusque",
|
|
"brusk",
|
|
"crusty",
|
|
"curt",
|
|
"downright",
|
|
"short",
|
|
"short-spoken",
|
|
"snippy",
|
|
"unceremonious"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071255",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abruptly":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": in an abrupt manner : in a sudden and unexpected way":[
|
|
"He left abruptly .",
|
|
"The car swerved abruptly onto the exit ramp.",
|
|
"Her career as a psychologist ended abruptly several years ago when a hacker broke into some of her private client files and made them public \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 Michael Logan",
|
|
"The small, rocky Anacapa Island [California] has steep cliffs which rise abruptly from the ocean on almost every side \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 David J. Rutherford"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1565, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8br\u0259p(t)-l\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"short",
|
|
"suddenly"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-114907",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abscond":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to depart secretly and hide oneself":[
|
|
"He absconded with the stolen money."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The suspect absconded to Canada.",
|
|
"Several prisoners absconded from the jail.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Our Reviews of the 10 Best-Picture Oscar Nominees Before that, but after the Oscars, Buckley plans to abscond to her 500-year-old house in rural England. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Even fraudsters holding billions in crypto won\u2019t blush at the chance to abscond with a little more fiat. \u2014 Ben Mckenzie, The New Republic , 10 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"After his many years of romantic hijinks, none of us should be surprised if Mr. Big actually faked his death to abscond with his Peloton instructor, yet again leaving Carrie to pick up the pieces on her own. \u2014 Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF , 13 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Everyone knows full well that Michael has left their kids with the nanny to abscond to whatever King Street haunt tickles his fancy. \u2014 Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture , 24 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"The rest of the family, whose yacht vacation is unfortunately truncated, tries to decide how to respond, and which country without an extradition treaty to abscond to. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 15 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"He had been implicated in a criminal affair and had to abscond , sort of betraying his closest friend. \u2014 Nick Vivarelli, Variety , 9 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"DeFi projects are frequently run by anonymous teams that sometimes abscond with investors\u2019 funds in scams known as rug pulls. \u2014 Alexander Osipovich, WSJ , 17 July 2021",
|
|
"South Africa is the world\u2019s sixth-largest avocado exporter, and farmers like Mr. Alcock are entangled in a cat-and-mouse game with fruit thieves who abscond with thousands of pounds at a time. \u2014 Alexandra Wexler, WSJ , 17 June 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1652, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin abscondere \"to conceal, hide,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + condere \"to put, store up, put away, conceal\" \u2014 more at recondite":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"ab-\u02c8sk\u00e4nd",
|
|
"\u0259b-",
|
|
"ab-\u02c8sk\u00e4nd, \u0259b-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"break out (of)",
|
|
"clear out",
|
|
"escape",
|
|
"flee",
|
|
"fly",
|
|
"get out",
|
|
"lam",
|
|
"run away",
|
|
"run off"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013710",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"intransitive verb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absence":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a failure to be present at a usual or expected place : the state of being absent":[
|
|
"an unexplained absence from work",
|
|
"His absence was noted by the teacher.",
|
|
"The meeting continued in his absence . [=without him being present]",
|
|
"They were conspicuous by their absence . [=it was very noticeable that they were not present]"
|
|
],
|
|
": a state or condition in which something expected, wanted, or looked for is not present or does not exist : a state or condition in which something is absent":[
|
|
"an absence [=lack] of detail",
|
|
"In the absence of reform [=without reform] , progress will be slow."
|
|
],
|
|
": inattention to present surroundings or occurrences":[
|
|
"\u2014 usually used in the phrase absence of mind blamed the error on absence of mind"
|
|
],
|
|
": the period of time that one is absent":[
|
|
"She recently returned to work after a long absence ."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Moreover, he has this field pretty much to himself, for while there are many popular writers on science, there are few on engineering, an absence that is all the more remarkable since without engineering our technological world could not function. \u2014 Witold Rybczynski , New York Review of Books , 9 June 2005",
|
|
"The 1990 census revealed that 21 percent of 25-year-olds were living with one or both parents, up from 15 percent in 1970. Some young people are not moving out at all before their mid-20s, but many more are doing an extra rotation through the family home after a temporary or lengthy absence . \u2014 Paul McFedries , Word Spy , 2004",
|
|
"Called the Gal\u00e1pagos of the East, the Seychelles Islands, in the Indian Ocean, have been inhabited for only the past 200 years. In humanity's absence , nature ran wild: Tens of thousands of giant tortoises still lumber along the beaches, and a palm forest shelters \u2026 rare black parrots. \u2014 Audubon , September-October 1998",
|
|
"Only five to six inches long and weighing less than two ounces, the elf owl is the smallest bird of prey in the world. Its bobbed tail, white \"eyebrows,\" and absence of ear tufts give this tiny mothlike predator its impish appearance. \u2014 Ken Lamerton , Bird Watcher's Digest , May/June 1996",
|
|
"The products showed a remarkable absence of defects.",
|
|
"He had many absences from work.",
|
|
"I expected to see her and was surprised by her absence .",
|
|
"She returned to the company after a long absence .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"During Gronkowski\u2019s injury absence last season, Brate failed to impress. \u2014 Dj Siddiqi, Forbes , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"At 10:30 Sunday morning 200 motorcycles will start up and roar in unison to announce that Pride is back after a two-year, too-quiet absence . \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 June 2022",
|
|
"That\u2019s why Apple\u2019s absence from the Forum should surprise nobody. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"Distraught by Sloane\u2019s absence , Luther attempts to squeeze\u2014literally\u2014answers out of Five, so Five tries to teleport out of his brother\u2019s grasp. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"This was a visceral, textural portrayal of a profound puzzle: how to reconcile physical absence with the lingering sensations of presence. \u2014 Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"This was not yet apparent in the most recent collective grosses, with all shows grossing a more muted $29.5 million last week, albeit with two show closings and Jackman\u2019s absence . \u2014 Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Naturally, their critique of institutions like The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with its all-male priesthood, is built on women\u2019s lack of decision-making power and absence from the hierarchy. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Young\u2019s absence at the tribute was felt by many, including him. \u2014 Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone , 21 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin absentia , noun derivative of absent-, absens absent entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ab-s\u0259ns",
|
|
"\u02c8ab-s\u0259n(t)s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"lack",
|
|
"need",
|
|
"needfulness",
|
|
"want"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231320",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absence of blade":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": absence sense 5":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1892, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225743",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absent":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"minus",
|
|
"sans",
|
|
"wanting",
|
|
"without"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": in the absence of (something) : without":[
|
|
"Absent any objections, the plan will proceed."
|
|
],
|
|
": not existing : lacking":[
|
|
"\u2026 danger in a situation where power is absent \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 M. H. Trytten",
|
|
"a gene that occurs in mammals but is absent in birds"
|
|
],
|
|
": not present at a usual or expected place : missing":[
|
|
"was absent from class today",
|
|
"sharing memories of absent friends",
|
|
"She was conspicuously absent [=her absence was very noticeable] at the meeting."
|
|
],
|
|
": showing a lack of attention to what is happening or being said : not attentive":[
|
|
"had an absent look on her face",
|
|
"an absent reply"
|
|
],
|
|
": to keep (oneself) away":[
|
|
"He absented himself from the meeting."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Adjective",
|
|
"an absent father who is not home most of the time",
|
|
"a gene that occurs in mammals but that is absent in birds",
|
|
"a landscape in which vegetation is almost entirely absent",
|
|
"He made an absent reply to her question as he continued to watch the TV.",
|
|
"Preposition",
|
|
"Absent any objections, the plan will proceed.",
|
|
"Absent such an agreement we can go no further.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
|
"The Maphead author has been absent on the show since early May when Mayim took over hosting duties. \u2014 Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping , 28 June 2022",
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"Playerwise, the tournament lacks anyone from Russia and Belarus, following its decision to ban contestants from those countries because of Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, meaning that men\u2019s No. 1 Daniil Medvedev, among others, is absent . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 27 June 2022",
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"Another big change: the CW shows, such as Flash, Superman & Lois, or the upcoming Supernatural prequel, will be absent as that broadcast network is facing a possible sale and had cancelled many of its shows. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 27 June 2022",
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"And a bill in Texas to prohibit abortions based on fetal abnormality was brought up for a committee vote after the House had recessed and Democrats were absent . \u2014 New York Times , 25 June 2022",
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"Eleven voted at the meeting, but two commissioners \u2014 Mai Xiong, D-Warren, and Antoinette Wallace, D-Mount Clemens \u2014 were absent and did not vote. \u2014 Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press , 23 June 2022",
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"Our film is very clearly about what happens when terrorism seeps in and when humanity is absent . \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 21 June 2022",
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"Board member Nikki Angel, proxy for Clerk Lorenzo Arredondo, abstained from the vote, and board member John Reed was absent . \u2014 Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune , 21 June 2022",
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"The team discovered that babbling baby parrots articulated a collection of quiet sounds, usually without opening their beaks and often when their siblings were asleep and their parents were absent . \u2014 Grrlscientist, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"But absent the intelligence from the United States, Ukraine would have struggled to target the warship with the confidence necessary to expend two valuable Neptune missiles, which were in short supply, according to people familiar with the strike. \u2014 Dan Lamothe, Washington Post , 11 May 2022",
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"The complaint listed particular bruises and the broken collarbone and concludes such conditions do not occur in nonmobile infants absent some abuse. \u2014 Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 May 2022",
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"But even absent those trends, the factors that have pushed up prices may be hard to unwind. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Apr. 2022",
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"The Electro looks and flies like an ordinary light aircraft, but absent the roar of internal combustion, its single propeller makes a sound like beating wings. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Apr. 2022",
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"Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, its oldest members, are just 73 and 72, respectively; absent a health issue, that means this majority couldo remain the ultimate arbiter of the nation's laws for as much as another decade. \u2014 Ronald Brownstein, CNN , 12 Apr. 2022",
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"The war will not create a global recession \u2014 absent an escalation. \u2014 Ken Silverstein, Forbes , 27 Mar. 2022",
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"Journal Editorial Report: But do the federal agencies have this power absent a specific grant of authority from Congress? \u2014 Sherman Joyce, WSJ , 12 Jan. 2022",
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"The tranche of records will be turned over by March 3, absent a court order, officials said. \u2014 Benjamin Siegel, ABC News , 2 Feb. 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition",
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"Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
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"Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
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"Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
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"Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
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"Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
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"Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
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"Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018",
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"Under no circumstances should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed absent a full and complete investigation. \u2014 Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News , 27 Sep. 2018"
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
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"1944, in the meaning defined above":"Preposition"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English absenten , borrowed from Anglo-French absenter , borrowed from Late Latin absent\u0101re , verbal derivative of Latin absent-, absens absent entry 1":"Verb",
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"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin absent-, absens , present participle of abesse \"to be away, be absent,\" from ab- ab- + -sens , present participle (attested only with prefixes) of esse \"to be\" \u2014 more at is entry 1":"Adjective",
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"derivative of absent entry 1":"Preposition"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ab-\u02ccsent",
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"ab-\u02c8sent",
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"\u02c8ab-s\u0259nt"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for absent Adjective abstracted , preoccupied , absent , absentminded , distracted mean inattentive to what claims or demands consideration. abstracted implies absorption of the mind in something other than one's surroundings, and often suggests reflection on weighty matters. walking about with an abstracted air preoccupied often implies having one's attention so taken up by thoughts as to neglect others. too preoccupied with her debts to enjoy the meal absent stresses inability to fix the mind on present concerns due more to mental wandering than to concentration on other matters. an absent stare absentminded implies that the mind is fixed elsewhere and often refers to a habit of abstractedness. so absentminded , he's been known to wear mismatched shoes distracted may suggest an inability to concentrate caused by worry, sorrow, or anxiety. was too distracted by grief to continue working",
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"synonyms":[
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"away",
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"missing",
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"out"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073243",
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"adjective",
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"adverb",
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"preposition",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"absentation":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": an absenting of oneself":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1800, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Medieval Latin absentation-, absentatio , from Late Latin absentatus (past participle of absentare to be absent) + Latin -ion-, -io -ion":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccabs\u0259n\u2027\u02c8t\u0101sh\u0259n",
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"-\u02ccsen\u2027-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102024",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"absentee":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a proprietor that lives away from his or her estate or business":[],
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": one missing from work or school":[],
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": one that is absent : such as":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"There were 10 sick absentees that day.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The return process for absentee ballots varies by mail, online or in person with different deadlines than casting ballots in person. \u2014 Julia Mueller, USA TODAY , 1 July 2022",
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"According to its website, Vote.org helped more than 4.2 million people register to vote, and more than 3.4 million people to request absentee ballots, in 2020. \u2014 Essence , 27 June 2022",
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"Herrell claimed absentee ballots, which overrode her lead, were irregular. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
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"The claim spurred months of misinformation about absentee ballots in the state. \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 17 June 2022",
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"Elections workers in Ohio have begun mailing absentee ballots to military members and other overseas voters for the state\u2019s upcoming Aug. 2 special primary election. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 17 June 2022",
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"The suit disputes the counting of absentee ballots in Crawford County. \u2014 Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online , 14 June 2022",
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"Now that Juneteenth is a state holiday, voters who intend to hand deliver their absentee ballots to election officials must do so by June 17 at 5 p.m., according to Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis. \u2014 Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al , 3 June 2022",
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"Clerks will begin sending out absentee ballots to military and overseas voters on Jun. 18. \u2014 Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press , 2 June 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1537, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from Anglo-French abscent\u00e9 \"person holding property in Ireland but illegally resident in England,\" from past participle of absenter \"to be absent,\" verbal derivative of absent absent entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccab-s\u0259n-\u02c8t\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220959",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"absentee ballot":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a ballot submitted (as by mail) in advance of an election by a voter who is unable to be present at the polls":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Last Wednesday \u2014 more than a week after the primary \u2014 her absentee ballot finally showed up at her home. \u2014 Paul J. Weber And Acacia Coronado, Chron , 16 Mar. 2022",
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"Gaskin, a League of Women Voters member and an active voter for years, did ultimately get her absentee ballot on the third try and after nearly a month of effort. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 14 Feb. 2022",
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"Actually getting people to turn in their absentee ballot or go vote on Election Day. \u2014 cleveland , 24 July 2021",
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"The lawsuit seeks to prevent voters from having someone else return their absentee ballot for them. \u2014 Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 3 July 2021",
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"During the 2020 presidential election, Tootle struggled to fill out his own absentee ballot . \u2014 Sanya Mansoor, Time , 14 Apr. 2021",
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"But the difference in when voters can apply for their absentee ballot in Georgia under the new rule isn\u2019t all that significant compared to some blue states. \u2014 Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner , 9 Apr. 2021",
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"The man had gotten his absentee ballot , but didn\u2019t know where to deliver it. \u2014 Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times , 24 Dec. 2020",
|
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"That legislation would also bar election officials from sending voters unsolicited absentee ballot applications. \u2014 Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 Feb. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1889, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112422",
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
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"absentee landlord":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": someone who owns and rents property but does not live on or near the property and rarely visits it":[]
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},
|
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135555",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
|
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"absenteeism":{
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": prolonged absence of an owner from his or her property":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Most school districts continue to see significant declines in student enrollment and high rates of chronic absenteeism . \u2014 Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 May 2022",
|
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"In addition, the school district is tackling the issue of chronic absenteeism , which was a problem before COVID-19 and further exacerbated by the pandemic, Torres-Rodriguez said. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 1 June 2022",
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"Estimates show that untreated mental illness may cost companies up to $300 billion annually, largely due to impacts on productivity, absenteeism , and increases in medical and disability expenses, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune , 9 May 2022",
|
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"Estimates show that untreated mental illness may cost companies up to $300 billion annually, largely due to impacts on productivity, absenteeism , and increases in medical and disability expenses, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Anchorage Daily News , 8 May 2022",
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"Chronic absenteeism , defined as students who miss 18 or more days at a single school, or 10% of the school year, also increased after the pandemic, the study showed. \u2014 AZCentral.com , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
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"When more employers place an emphasis on employee health and wellness programs, greater strides can be made to combat employee absenteeism , which not only pertains to physical health but also has a significant financial impact. \u2014 Michael Timmes, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
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"The classes are so popular that absenteeism drops to virtually nil on the days they are held. \u2014 Courtland Milloy, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
|
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"Universal meals can also help improve students\u2019 health, reduce absenteeism and increase earnings later in life. \u2014 Katherine G. Yewell, The Conversation , 3 May 2022"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1829, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"absentee + -ism":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccab-s\u0259n-\u02c8t\u0113-\u02cci-z\u0259m"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103653",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absentminded":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"alert"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": indicative of or resulting from preoccupation or absence of mind":[
|
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"gave an absentminded reply"
|
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],
|
|
": lost in thought and unaware of one's surroundings or actions : preoccupied":[
|
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"was too absentminded to notice what time it was"
|
|
],
|
|
": tending to forget or fail to notice things : given to absence of mind (see absence sense 3 )":[
|
|
"Her absentminded husband forgot their anniversary."
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Her absentminded husband forgot their anniversary.",
|
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"She did the chores in an absentminded way.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"But as happens to absentminded professors worldwide (at least according to my dear wife), my mind started to wander from the task at hand to something related to plants. \u2014 Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal , 6 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"In their own seemingly innocent, absentminded way, slow drivers pose just as much of a threat to society as fast ones. \u2014 Joe Queenan, WSJ , 12 Apr. 2018",
|
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"Megyn Kelly\u2019s dog took a brief sojourn in a total stranger\u2019s lavish Montana villa after her absentminded caretakers unintentionally abandoned her there during their vacation in the Big Sky Country. \u2014 Amanda Arnold, The Cut , 26 Mar. 2018",
|
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"Over on the side, two men played an absentminded game of pool, more interested in the discussion than the 6 in the side pocket. \u2014 The Root , 16 June 2017"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1824, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccab-s\u0259nt-\u02c8m\u012bn-d\u0259d"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for absentminded abstracted , preoccupied , absent , absentminded , distracted mean inattentive to what claims or demands consideration. abstracted implies absorption of the mind in something other than one's surroundings, and often suggests reflection on weighty matters. walking about with an abstracted air preoccupied often implies having one's attention so taken up by thoughts as to neglect others. too preoccupied with her debts to enjoy the meal absent stresses inability to fix the mind on present concerns due more to mental wandering than to concentration on other matters. an absent stare absentminded implies that the mind is fixed elsewhere and often refers to a habit of abstractedness. so absentminded , he's been known to wear mismatched shoes distracted may suggest an inability to concentrate caused by worry, sorrow, or anxiety. was too distracted by grief to continue working",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"absent",
|
|
"abstracted",
|
|
"distracted",
|
|
"preoccupied"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220626",
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
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},
|
|
"absolute":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
|
"limited"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": being self-sufficient and free of external references or relationships":[
|
|
"an absolute term in logic",
|
|
"absolute music"
|
|
],
|
|
": being the true distance from an aircraft to the earth's surface":[
|
|
"absolute altitude"
|
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],
|
|
": being, governed by, or characteristic of a ruler or authority completely free from constitutional or other restraint":[
|
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"absolute power"
|
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],
|
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": free from imperfection : perfect":[
|
|
"\u2026 it is a most absolute and excellent horse.",
|
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"\u2014 William Shakespeare"
|
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],
|
|
": free or relatively free from mixture : pure":[
|
|
"absolute alcohol"
|
|
],
|
|
": fundamental , ultimate":[
|
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"absolute knowledge"
|
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],
|
|
": having no object in the particular construction under consideration though normally transitive":[
|
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"Kill in \"if looks could kill\" is an absolute verb."
|
|
],
|
|
": having no restriction, exception, or qualification":[
|
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"an absolute requirement",
|
|
"absolute freedom"
|
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],
|
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": independent of arbitrary standards of measurement":[],
|
|
": outright , unmitigated":[
|
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"an absolute lie"
|
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],
|
|
": perfectly embodying the nature of a thing":[
|
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"absolute justice"
|
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],
|
|
": positive , unquestionable":[
|
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"absolute proof"
|
|
],
|
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": relating to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of length, mass, and time":[
|
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"absolute electric units"
|
|
],
|
|
": standing alone without a modified substantive":[
|
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"Blind in \"help the blind\" and ours in \"your work and ours\" are absolute ."
|
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],
|
|
": standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence elements":[
|
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"the absolute construction this being the case in the sentence \"this being the case, let us go\""
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"You can't predict the future with absolute certainty.",
|
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"I have absolute faith in her ability to get the job done.",
|
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"He swore an oath of absolute secrecy.",
|
|
"When it comes to using computers, I'm an absolute beginner.",
|
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"The country is ruled by an absolute dictator.",
|
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"The country is an absolute monarchy.",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Coming from a company that has spoiled shareholders with automotive gross margins north of 30% for three straight quarters\u2014among the absolute best in the industry\u2014those words are bound to cause investors to worry. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 23 June 2022",
|
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"Which of the wide range of chest exercises work the absolute best? \u2014 Jeff Tomko, Men's Health , 22 June 2022",
|
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"Just as toxic, just as absolute , and just as deadly. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 31 May 2022",
|
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"Despite the absolute necessity of diapers, in 33 states they're taxed like a luxury good. \u2014 Gwyneth Paltrow, CBS News , 8 May 2022",
|
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"North Korea is extremely sensitive about any outside attempt to undermine Kim Jong Un\u2019s leadership and weaken his absolute control over the country\u2019s 26 million people, most of whom have little access to foreign news. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Adding Matt Olson was an absolute necessity with Freeman leaving. \u2014 Daniel Kohn, SPIN , 6 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Enhanced communication is a pillar of my platform and an absolute necessity for the city. \u2014 Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The best-selling scent refreshes and entices with an amber foug\u00e9re blend of zesty bergamot and mandarin atop robust base and heart notes of Virginian cedar, Sri Lankan sandalwood, and Papuan vanilla absolute . \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 June 2022"
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English absolut , borrowed from Latin absol\u016btus , from past participle of absolvere \"to set free, acquit, finish, complete\" \u2014 more at absolve":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8ab-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u00fct",
|
|
"\u02ccab-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fct"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"arbitrary",
|
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"autocratic",
|
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"autocratical",
|
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"czarist",
|
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"tsarist",
|
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"tzarist",
|
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"despotic",
|
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"dictatorial",
|
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"monocratic",
|
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"tyrannical",
|
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"tyrannic",
|
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"tyrannous"
|
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],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105205",
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb",
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"absolute altimeter":{
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": an aircraft altimeter that determines distance to the earth by radio measuring the time needed for an emitted wave to reach the earth and reflect back to the aircraft":[]
|
|
},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1930, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110225",
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"absolute altitude":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": the vertical distance between an aircraft and the surface over which it is flying":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1916, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124648",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"absolute blocking":{
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"definitions":{
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": block system":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1891, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125649",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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},
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"absolute magnitude":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a measure of the intrinsic luminosity of a celestial body (such as a star) expressed as the apparent magnitude the body would have if viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The really amazing thing about Katy Perry\u2019s 110 million Twitter followers is not its absolute magnitude as much as the fact that the site\u2019s entire monthly active user base is only about three times that size. \u2014 Felix Salmon, WIRED , 5 June 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1885, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194225",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"absolute majority":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": majority sense 3a":[],
|
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": more than half of the number of qualified voters":[],
|
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": more than half of the votes actually cast":[],
|
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": more than half of the votes: such as":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1782, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202908",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"absolute time":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
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": empty time apart from the events that occupy it":[]
|
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},
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"examples":[],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"circa 1805, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-200813",
|
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"type":[
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"noun"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"absolute value":{
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a nonnegative number equal in numerical value to a given real number":[],
|
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": the positive square root of the sum of the squares of the real and imaginary parts of a complex number":[]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Mental accounting is a term that describes how people think in terms of relative value rather than absolute value . \u2014 Brian Boswell, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Its rolling sound off the tongue? Ascribing arbitrary but absolute value to words and letters came to me naturally. \u2014 Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker , 20 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"One way to evaluate an asset\u2019s absolute value -creation potential is by focusing on profitability per joule unit of energy (USD/J) instead of cost per barrel. \u2014 Muqsit Ashraf, Forbes , 11 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"The number of extra cars on the more crowded road is simply the absolute value of the difference between these numbers: |j \u2013 (200 \u2013 j)|. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 25 Sep. 2015",
|
|
"This correlates with a higher absolute value of the second number in the pair (\u201315 versus \u201311). \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 30 Oct. 2015",
|
|
"DoorDash also surpassed Grubhub in market share as measured among the online food delivery companies that Second Measure tracks using anonymized credit transaction data, though the absolute value of those sales has grown for both companies. \u2014 Alison Griswold, Quartz , 23 June 2019",
|
|
"China also beat the United States in absolute value of national power in 2016. \u2014 Simon Saradzhyan, Washington Post , 20 June 2018",
|
|
"If safety were an absolute value in transportation policy, the national highway speed limit would be fifteen miles an hour. \u2014 William Finnegan, The New Yorker , 2 July 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1803, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184229",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absolutely":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": completely or totally":[
|
|
"absolutely certain",
|
|
"an absolutely clear explanation",
|
|
"\u2014 often used as an intensive an absolutely brilliant performance an absolutely awful experience You're absolutely right."
|
|
],
|
|
": in an absolute manner: such as":[],
|
|
": with respect to absolute values":[
|
|
"an absolutely convergent series"
|
|
],
|
|
": with unlimited power":[
|
|
"ruling absolutely"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He is absolutely certain who will win.",
|
|
"Let me make one thing absolutely clear.",
|
|
"Keep absolutely quiet during the movie.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Safety Safety gear, like a first aid kit and headlamp, may not be fun to think about but should absolutely be in your car camping kit. \u2014 Hannah Singleton, SELF , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"To suggest that this study shows any kind of systematic genetic difference between white and Black Americans that makes the former innately more intelligent than the latter is absolutely a misreading that was not intended by the study\u2019s authors. \u2014 Emily Klancher Merchant, STAT , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"But Weltman sees no reason to decide anything before it\u2019s absolutely necessary, especially given the opportunity that Orlando has by holding this No. 1 pick. \u2014 Tim Reynolds, ajc , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"Moving in is absolutely the wrong thing to do and will make an already difficult situation far worse. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 19 June 2022",
|
|
"Arguably the most nerve-wracking movie of all in a list full of contenders, Buried is absolutely not a good choice for the claustrophobic. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"Sammi Jefcoate is absolutely a luxury fashion girl. \u2014 Jihan Forbes, Allure , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"The wedding of Britney Spears and Sam Asghari was absolutely star-studded, and those stars aligned to create a beautiful moment during the reception between Spears and her good friend, Madonna. \u2014 Aim\u00e9e Lutkin, ELLE , 12 June 2022",
|
|
"As a mere practical and logistical matter, the answer is absolutely yes. \u2014 Patrick Rishe, Forbes , 9 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from absolut absolute + -ly -ly entry 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccab-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fct-",
|
|
"\u02c8ab-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u00fct-l\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184025",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absolutely convergent":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": remaining convergent even if the signs of negative terms are changed":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
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"1882, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184717",
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"absolution":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"penalty",
|
|
"punishment",
|
|
"retribution"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"He asked the priest to give him absolution for his sins.",
|
|
"the jury's verdict of \u201cnot guilty\u201d was absolution in the eyes of the law, but the verdict would always be \u201cguilty\u201d in the court of public opinion",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"National Historical Park, where ruling chiefs would grant absolution to Hawaiian lawbreakers and vanquished warriors. \u2014 Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic , 2 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Ruth\u2019s defense and absolution of the priest becomes a personal crusade. \u2014 Emilio Mayorga, Variety , 21 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Buckley and Wilkins spent many years brooding over their respective roles in the Smith saga\u2014seeking comfort, if not absolution , from each other. \u2014 Sam Adler-bell, The New Republic , 7 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"In making its announcement, the Spanish prosecutor stressed its decision did not mean absolution . \u2014 Peter Mikelbank And Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. \u2014 WSJ , 11 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"There can be no soft-pedaling what happened and no absolution for those who planned, encouraged and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 8 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"Rather than feeling a sense of moral absolution by dint of her role as a prosecutor, Coates fully accepts the moral consequences of her decisions. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Was religious absolution even possible with the geopolitical recriminations involved? \u2014 Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone , 22 Jan. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English absoluciun , borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin absol\u016bti\u014dn-, absol\u016bti\u014d \"completion, acquittal, release,\" from absol\u016b- (stem, before consonants, of absolvere \"to set free, acquit, finish\") + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at absolve":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccab-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fc-sh\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"amnesty",
|
|
"forgiveness",
|
|
"pardon",
|
|
"remission",
|
|
"remittal"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193137",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absolutism":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers":[],
|
|
": advocacy of a rule by absolute standards or principles":[],
|
|
": an absolute standard or principle":[],
|
|
": government by an absolute ruler or authority : despotism":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"concerning absolutism Lord Acton famously observed that \u201cabsolute power corrupts absolutely\u201d",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Those victories have come amid the Republican Party\u2019s embrace of Second Amendment absolutism and guns as central to its identity, a fervor that gun control proponents have not been able to match, said Mr. Miller of the Duke firearms law center. \u2014 New York Times , 18 June 2022",
|
|
"That might sound like good news to gun reform advocates, who have for decades seen the NRA as the primary driver of gun absolutism in the United States. \u2014 Nicole Hemmer, CNN , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"The Democrats' democratic absolutism is largely opportunistic. \u2014 W. James Antle Iii, The Week , 13 May 2022",
|
|
"Musk's free speech absolutism , Daniyal says, doesn't make much sense in India because there have not been many curbs on speech on the platform to begin with. \u2014 Barbara Ortutay, ajc , 14 May 2022",
|
|
"Musk\u2019s free speech absolutism , Daniyal says, doesn\u2019t make much sense in India because there have not been many curbs on speech on the platform to begin with. \u2014 Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News , 14 May 2022",
|
|
"Then there\u2019s the question of Musk\u2019s alleged free-speech absolutism . \u2014 Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Over several decades, National Review devoted countless pages and pixels to the profound witness of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to the spiritual darkness of communist absolutism and its inevitable gulag. \u2014 Peter J. Travers, National Review , 29 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"In a still-free country, such unfettered absolutism was never sustainable. \u2014 Daniel Henninger, WSJ , 9 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"absolute + -ism (in political sense after French absolutisme )":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ab-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u00fc-\u02ccti-z\u0259m"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"autarchy",
|
|
"authoritarianism",
|
|
"autocracy",
|
|
"Caesarism",
|
|
"czarism",
|
|
"tsarism",
|
|
"tzarism",
|
|
"despotism",
|
|
"dictatorship",
|
|
"totalism",
|
|
"totalitarianism",
|
|
"tyranny"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164142",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"noun or adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absolutive":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": of, relating to, or being an inflectional morpheme that typically marks the subject of an intransitive verb or the direct object of a transitive verb in an ergative language":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1874, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"absolute + -ive":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02ccab-s\u0259-\u02c8l\u00fc-tiv"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081951",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absolutization":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1863, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082418",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absolutize":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to make absolute : convert into an absolute":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1865, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"absolute + -ize":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8ab-s\u0259-\u02ccl\u00fc-\u02cct\u012bz"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111950",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absolve":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"criminate",
|
|
"incriminate"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to pardon or forgive (a sin) : to remit (a sin) by absolution":[
|
|
"asked the priest to absolve his sins"
|
|
],
|
|
": to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt":[
|
|
"The jury absolved the defendants of their crimes.",
|
|
"Her youth does not absolve her of responsibility for her actions."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"no amount of remorse will absolve shoplifters who are caught, and all cases will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Acting on orders does not absolve individual soldiers of responsibility for war crimes, according to experts. \u2014 Claire Parker, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Acting on orders does not absolve individual soldiers of responsibility for war crimes, according to experts. \u2014 Steve Hendrix And Claire Parker, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"Percy farmed out the work to consultants and contracted with a search firm (Collegiate Sports Associates) and will undoubtedly try to absolve himself of what happens next. \u2014 John Canzano, oregonlive , 1 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Kyiv considers these authorities to be Russian proxies and says that agreeing to negotiate with them would absolve Moscow of its responsibility for the eight-year conflict. \u2014 Matthew Dalton, WSJ , 8 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Madison\u2019s countersuit, a request for declaratory judgment that would absolve him of harm in the matter, will continue nevertheless. \u2014 Frederick Reimers, Outside Online , 11 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"As the quartet bonds, their secret games emerge from the wood and take on adult dimensions\u2014but their growing psychic capacities do not absolve them of the petty resentments, tantrums, and retributions of adolescence. \u2014 Erik Morse, Vogue , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"Smith has received his punishment, but that doesn\u2019t absolve the Academy nor Rock\u2019s responsibility and their need to make amends to more than one party. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 10 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The lack of criminal charges does not absolve the officers from any wrongdoing, but indicates that prosecutors do not believe that a jury would be able to find the officers guilty beyond a reasonable doubt given the available evidence and testimony. \u2014 Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English absolven , borrowed from Latin absolvere \"to release, acquit, finish, complete,\" from ab- ab- + solvere \"to loosen, release\" \u2014 more at solve":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02c8z\u022flv",
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8z\u00e4lv, -\u02c8s\u00e4lv",
|
|
"-\u02c8s\u00e4lv",
|
|
"-\u02c8s\u022flv",
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8z\u00e4lv",
|
|
"also without l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for absolve exculpate , absolve , exonerate , acquit , vindicate mean to free from a charge. exculpate implies a clearing from blame or fault often in a matter of small importance. exculpating himself from the charge of overenthusiasm absolve implies a release either from an obligation that binds the conscience or from the consequences of disobeying the law or committing a sin. cannot be absolved of blame exonerate implies a complete clearance from an accusation or charge and from any attendant suspicion of blame or guilt. exonerated by the investigation acquit implies a formal decision in one's favor with respect to a definite charge. voted to acquit the defendant vindicate may refer to things as well as persons that have been subjected to critical attack or imputation of guilt, weakness, or folly, and implies a clearing effected by proving the unfairness of such criticism or blame. her judgment was vindicated",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"acquit",
|
|
"clear",
|
|
"exculpate",
|
|
"exonerate",
|
|
"vindicate"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035719",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun,",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absorb":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": assume , bear":[
|
|
"The expenses were absorbed by the company."
|
|
],
|
|
": endure , sustain":[
|
|
"absorbing hardships"
|
|
],
|
|
": to engage or engross wholly":[
|
|
"an interest that absorbs her completely",
|
|
"absorbed in thought"
|
|
],
|
|
": to receive without recoil or echo":[
|
|
"provided with a sound- absorbing surface"
|
|
],
|
|
": to take in (knowledge, attitudes, etc.) : acquire , learn":[
|
|
"\u2026 convictions absorbed in youth \u2026",
|
|
"\u2014 M. R. Cohen"
|
|
],
|
|
": to take in (something, such as water) in a natural or gradual way":[
|
|
"a sponge absorbs water",
|
|
"charcoal absorbs gas",
|
|
"plant roots absorb water"
|
|
],
|
|
": to take in and make part of an existent whole":[
|
|
"the capacity of a country to absorb new immigrants"
|
|
],
|
|
": to transform (radiant energy) into a different form especially with a resulting rise in temperature":[
|
|
"The earth absorbs the sun's rays."
|
|
],
|
|
": use up , consume":[
|
|
"The fever absorbed her strength.",
|
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"His work absorbs all his time and attention."
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"a fabric that absorbs sweat",
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"The walls are made of a material that absorbs sound.",
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"absorbing heat from the sun",
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"She is good at absorbing information.",
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"He has retained the values that he absorbed as a young man.",
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"a country that has absorbed many immigrants",
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"smaller countries invaded and absorbed by bigger ones",
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"His interest in photography absorbs him completely.",
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"I was so absorbed by her story that I lost track of time.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"People are going to be able to absorb this over time. \u2014 ABC News , 26 June 2022",
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"For a while, Capstone was able to absorb the costs, but low testing volume in recent weeks eventually made operations financially unsustainable, Jones said this week. \u2014 Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
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"And adidas in its history has been able to absorb innumerable transformations. \u2014 Tiziana Cardini, Vogue , 7 June 2022",
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"During tests, the water harvesting gel was able to absorb 13 liters (3.4 gallons) of water per day in an area with a humidity of 30 percent. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 25 May 2022",
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"The goal, the company\u2019s founders say, is a market better able to absorb big spikes in trading volume and loan demand. \u2014 David Benoit, WSJ , 23 May 2022",
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"Owners able to absorb additional deductions can look at other methods to maximize deductions. \u2014 David Mcguire, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
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"Hall sees the project, however, as a way to cram as many homes as possible on land that is not able to absorb septic effluents without endangering public health or the Provo River, a crucial water source for Utah and Salt Lake counties. \u2014 Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 May 2022",
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"While surging prices have historically come amid sputtering economic growth, many economists see the U.S.'s current financial picture as one that has been able to largely absorb recent leaps in the cost of goods. \u2014 Rob Wile, NBC News , 4 May 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from Middle French assorber, absorber, asorbir, absorbir , going back to Old French, borrowed (with conjugation changes) from Latin absorb\u0113re , from ab- ab- + sorb\u0113re \"to suck up, draw in, engulf,\" going back to Indo-European *s\u1e5bb h -eii\u032f\u032fe- , probably re-formed from *srob h -eii\u032f\u032fe- , iterative derivative from the verb base *sreb h - \"suck up, drink noisily\"; akin to Greek roph\u00e9\u014d, rophe\u00een \"to drink in gulps,\" Armenian arbi \"drank,\" Lithuanian srebi\u00f9, sr\u0117\u0303bti \"to gulp,\" Old Russian sereblyu, serebati":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02c8z\u022frb",
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"-\u02c8z\u022f(\u0259)rb",
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"\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022f(\u0259)rb",
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"\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022frb"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"drink",
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"imbibe",
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"soak (up)",
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"sponge",
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"suck (up)",
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"take up"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062606",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"transitive verb",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"absorbed":{
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"antonyms":[
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"absent",
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"absentminded",
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"abstracted",
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"distracted",
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"inattentive",
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"inobservant",
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"unabsorbed",
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"unfocused",
|
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"unfocussed"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": having one's attention wholly engaged or occupied":[
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"\u2026 was so absorbed in the business of his journey that he never turned his head \u2026",
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"\u2014 Thomas Hardy",
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"I was too absorbed in my own problems and too uninterested in politics to remember that it was also a momentous day in Washington.",
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"\u2014 Russell Baker"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"As the refrigerant expands, a pump takes it away, and a radiator dumps its absorbed heat. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 18 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1722, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022frbd",
|
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"-\u02c8z\u022frbd"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
|
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"attentive",
|
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"deep",
|
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"engrossed",
|
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"enthralled",
|
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"focused",
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"focussed",
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"immersed",
|
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"intent",
|
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"observant",
|
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"rapt"
|
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014453",
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"type":[
|
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"adjective",
|
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"adverb"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"absorbing":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"boring",
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"drab",
|
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"dry",
|
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"dull",
|
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"heavy",
|
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"monotonous",
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"tedious",
|
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"uninteresting"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": fully taking one's attention : engrossing":[
|
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"an absorbing novel"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
|
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"shell collecting can be so absorbing that you don't notice the tide coming in",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"And some of the most absorbing contributions are abstract. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
|
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"Sequences like these are the best parts of the Hulu show\u2014the funniest, the most absorbing and surprising. \u2014 Lidija Haas, The New Republic , 4 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti American who\u2019s made some of the most absorbing and transportive electronic music of the last decade. \u2014 Carrie Battan, The New Yorker , 15 Dec. 2021",
|
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"But the most absorbing composition is Number 196T (2019). \u2014 Benjamin Lima, Dallas News , 21 Oct. 2020",
|
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"Below are the essentials for more absorbing gameplay. \u2014 Popular Science , 22 Apr. 2020",
|
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"All this is absorbing enough without generating much in the way of real terror, tension or surprise. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2020",
|
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"Whereas some Infiniti vehicles\u2014including the previous generation of this one\u2014have been overly flinty, the ride quality here is relaxed but not lazy, absorbing road imperfections while maintaining secure and stable body control. \u2014 Jared Gall, Car and Driver , 10 Mar. 2020",
|
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"Python [the high-level, general-purpose programming language] is so absorbing . \u2014 Gab Ginsberg, Billboard , 1 Mar. 2019"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1806, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"from present participle of absorb":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02c8z\u022fr-",
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022fr-bi\u014b"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"arresting",
|
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"consuming",
|
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"engaging",
|
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"engrossing",
|
|
"enthralling",
|
|
"fascinating",
|
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"gripping",
|
|
"immersing",
|
|
"interesting",
|
|
"intriguing",
|
|
"involving",
|
|
"riveting"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200010",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absorption":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"inattention"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": entire occupation of the mind":[
|
|
"his absorption in his work"
|
|
],
|
|
": interception of radiant energy or sound waves":[],
|
|
": the process of absorbing something or of being absorbed":[
|
|
"absorption of water"
|
|
],
|
|
"\u2014 compare adsorption":[
|
|
"absorption of water"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"forgot to return the phone call due to his absorption in setting up the new computer system",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Each extremely thin layer has a lattice structure that binds hydrogen and prevents other elements from interfering with its absorption . \u2014 Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Until the Russian invasion, the main threat posed by this contamination was its absorption into mosses and trees that can burn in wildfires, disseminating the poisons in smoke, or through birds that eat radioactive, ground-dwelling insects. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Traditional diapers often contain chemicals, and the moisture and heat inside a diaper after urination can maximize their absorption into skin. \u2014 Angela Yang, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Sweden has in recent years accepted an influx of refugees, then dealt with challenges related to their absorption and a rise in far-right political activity aimed at rejecting immigrants. \u2014 Katarzyna Andersz, sun-sentinel.com , 17 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"This recipe from Alison Ladman incorporates all the stuffing essentials: Sage, thyme, rosemary, and plenty of stale bread (which is a good thing -- the drier the bread, the better its absorption of flavorful liquids). \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Other ingredients to avoid include hydroquinine and alpha arbutin, chemical sunscreens due to their absorption into the bloodstream and concerns about hormone disruption, and products containing CBD. \u2014 Angela Lei, Forbes , 17 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"One knew that one was in the presence of extreme seriousness, absorption , and force of intellect. . . . \u2014 Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
|
|
"Bump absorption is fairly good, without the excess ride motions that comes with ride compliance. \u2014 Tribune News Service, cleveland , 13 Nov. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from French & Late Latin; French, borrowed from Late Latin absorpti\u014dn-, absorpti\u014d , from absorb\u0113re \"to absorb \" + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022frp-sh\u0259n, -\u02c8z\u022frp-",
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8s\u022frp-sh\u0259n",
|
|
"-\u02c8z\u022frp-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"attention",
|
|
"concentration",
|
|
"engrossment",
|
|
"enthrallment",
|
|
"immersion"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053403",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absque impetitione vasti":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": without impeachment of waste":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1767, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8abzkw\u0113\u02ccimp\u0259\u02cctish\u0113\u02c8\u014dn\u0113\u02c8va\u02ccst\u012b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-111533",
|
|
"type":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"abstain":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"bow (to)",
|
|
"give in (to)",
|
|
"submit (to)",
|
|
"succumb (to)",
|
|
"surrender (to)",
|
|
"yield (to)"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice":[
|
|
"abstain from drinking"
|
|
],
|
|
": to choose not to vote":[
|
|
"Ten members voted for the proposal, six members voted against it, and two abstained ."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Ten members voted for the proposal, six members voted against it, and two abstained .",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Hinz released Ryan on his own recognizance on Tuesday, and ordered him to not possess any weapons, abstain from drugs and alcohol, and to not have any contact with witnesses or investigating officers connected to his case. \u2014 Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic , 28 June 2022",
|
|
"The possibility remains that NFL officials opt to abstain from handing down a suspension before the completion of the legal process. \u2014 Mike Jones, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"Whether China and Russia will use their veto power to block the measure or abstain remains to be seen. \u2014 Editors, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"The rules should change so that we, as fund shareholders, are either allowed to vote our own shares in any company held by the ETF or fund, or abstain by default. \u2014 WSJ , 11 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"There are also women who abstain for religious, cultural or health reasons; women who don\u2019t particularly like to drink; women who are allergic; and drinkers who enjoy the clarity and sincerity of alcohol-free socializing. \u2014 Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com , 2 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The walkability is crucial for religious Jews, who abstain from work and technology from sundown Friday to after dark on Saturday, the Jewish day of rest called Shabbat. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 June 2021",
|
|
"Most recently, India was among the 58 countries to abstain from a vote to remove Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. \u2014 Manavi Kapur, Quartz , 11 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"All were undecided, ready to change their minds, or planning to abstain . \u2014 John Irish And Noemie Olive, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English absteinen, abstenen , borrowed from Anglo-French asteign-, absteign- , stem of astenir, abstenir , borrowed (with conjugation change, conformed to tenir ) from Latin abstin\u0113re \"to keep from, hold back, refrain, withhold oneself from,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + ten\u0113re \"to hold, occupy, possess\" \u2014 more at tenant entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8st\u0101n, ab-",
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8st\u0101n",
|
|
"ab-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abjure",
|
|
"forbear",
|
|
"forgo",
|
|
"forego",
|
|
"keep (from)",
|
|
"refrain (from)",
|
|
"withhold (from)"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171613",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"intransitive verb",
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abstain (from)":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":[
|
|
"to resist the temptation of had to abstain from solid food before her surgery"
|
|
],
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":[],
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-144252",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abstemious":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"self-indulgent"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She is known as an abstemious eater and drinker.",
|
|
"being abstemious diners, they avoid restaurants with all-you-can-eat buffets",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Carter was consistently ethical, abstemious , frugal and ascetic in the White House. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2021",
|
|
"This woman, Margaret Bolden Wilson, was a Seventh-day Adventist who would have been considered abstemious even by the most devout. \u2014 Colin Asher, The New Republic , 19 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"People grow more risk-averse, abstemious , religious. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"In a nation with an abstemious Protestant cultural heritage, self-indulgence\u2014and comfort for its own sake\u2014will always find hackles to raise. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 8 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"Gay, bow-tied, effusive, charismatic, and possessed of a lavish appetite, Beard had the misfortune to live in an era at once bigoted, repressed, paranoid, abstemious , and uninterestingly dressed. \u2014 Aaron Timms, The New Republic , 4 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"Glenn is abstemious , churchgoing, devoted to his childhood sweetheart wife; Shepard lives the rock star life away from his wife, Louise (Shannon Lucio), drinking and philandering and cruising Florida\u2019s Cocoa Beach in a Corvette convertible. \u2014 cleveland , 9 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"Freddy was an awkward fit in a proud, humorless, abstemious family. \u2014 Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books , 8 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"This year\u2019s exercise, which runs from August 17th to 31st, will be a more abstemious affair. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Aug. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1609, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin abst\u0113mius \"refraining from wine, careful with one's means,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + -t\u0113mius , from a base t\u0113m- \"intoxicating\" (also in t\u0113m\u0113tum \"intoxicating beverage,\" t\u0113mulentus \"drunken\"); if going back to an Indo-European root *temH- , akin to Sanskrit t\u0101myati \"(he/she) is stunned, loses consciousness, is exhausted,\" tamayati \"(he/she) chokes (someone),\" Armenian t\u02bfmrim \"(he/she) is stunned\" (perhaps going back to *t\u0113miro- )":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"ab-\u02c8st\u0113-m\u0113-\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abstentious",
|
|
"abstinent",
|
|
"continent",
|
|
"self-abnegating",
|
|
"self-denying",
|
|
"sober",
|
|
"temperate"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055804",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abstemiousness":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"self-indulgent"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"She is known as an abstemious eater and drinker.",
|
|
"being abstemious diners, they avoid restaurants with all-you-can-eat buffets",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Carter was consistently ethical, abstemious , frugal and ascetic in the White House. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2021",
|
|
"This woman, Margaret Bolden Wilson, was a Seventh-day Adventist who would have been considered abstemious even by the most devout. \u2014 Colin Asher, The New Republic , 19 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"People grow more risk-averse, abstemious , religious. \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 15 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"In a nation with an abstemious Protestant cultural heritage, self-indulgence\u2014and comfort for its own sake\u2014will always find hackles to raise. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 8 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"Gay, bow-tied, effusive, charismatic, and possessed of a lavish appetite, Beard had the misfortune to live in an era at once bigoted, repressed, paranoid, abstemious , and uninterestingly dressed. \u2014 Aaron Timms, The New Republic , 4 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"Glenn is abstemious , churchgoing, devoted to his childhood sweetheart wife; Shepard lives the rock star life away from his wife, Louise (Shannon Lucio), drinking and philandering and cruising Florida\u2019s Cocoa Beach in a Corvette convertible. \u2014 cleveland , 9 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"Freddy was an awkward fit in a proud, humorless, abstemious family. \u2014 Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books , 8 Sep. 2020",
|
|
"This year\u2019s exercise, which runs from August 17th to 31st, will be a more abstemious affair. \u2014 The Economist , 16 Aug. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1609, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Latin abst\u0113mius \"refraining from wine, careful with one's means,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + -t\u0113mius , from a base t\u0113m- \"intoxicating\" (also in t\u0113m\u0113tum \"intoxicating beverage,\" t\u0113mulentus \"drunken\"); if going back to an Indo-European root *temH- , akin to Sanskrit t\u0101myati \"(he/she) is stunned, loses consciousness, is exhausted,\" tamayati \"(he/she) chokes (someone),\" Armenian t\u02bfmrim \"(he/she) is stunned\" (perhaps going back to *t\u0113miro- )":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"ab-\u02c8st\u0113-m\u0113-\u0259s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"abstentious",
|
|
"abstinent",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"At the end of a five-hour board meeting, during which dozens of Bay Area residents voiced their opinions on the subject, the seven-member board voted 4-2 (with one abstention ) to uphold its ban on ebikes on the majority of its trails. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
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"The vote was 11-1, with one abstention , that the CDC should make its strongest recommendation. \u2014 Matthew Herper, STAT , 24 May 2022",
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"Her hopes now largely rest on the potential for high abstention rates among voters who lean toward Macron. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2022",
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"France\u2019s estimated six million Muslims account for 10 percent of the population, but their political influence has long been undermined by high abstention rates and divisions based on class and ancestry. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one GOP abstention . \u2014 Zeke Miller, Star Tribune , 24 Nov. 2020",
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"The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one GOP abstention . \u2014 Arkansas Online , 24 Nov. 2020",
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"Referring to China\u2019s behavior so far since the conflict began, Psaki pointed to the country\u2019s abstention in United Nations Security Council votes on the war and its echoing of unsubstantiated claims of American biochemical labs, in Ukraine. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
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"Referring to China\u2019s behavior since the conflict began, Psaki pointed to the country\u2019s abstention in United Nations Security Council votes on the war and its echoing of unsubstantiated claims of American biochemical labs in Ukraine. \u2014 Ellen Nakashima, Adela Suliman, Lily Kuo, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Mar. 2022"
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"a high rate of voter abstention",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"At the end of a five-hour board meeting, during which dozens of Bay Area residents voiced their opinions on the subject, the seven-member board voted 4-2 (with one abstention ) to uphold its ban on ebikes on the majority of its trails. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 June 2022",
|
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"The vote was 11-1, with one abstention , that the CDC should make its strongest recommendation. \u2014 Matthew Herper, STAT , 24 May 2022",
|
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"Her hopes now largely rest on the potential for high abstention rates among voters who lean toward Macron. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Apr. 2022",
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"France\u2019s estimated six million Muslims account for 10 percent of the population, but their political influence has long been undermined by high abstention rates and divisions based on class and ancestry. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one GOP abstention . \u2014 Zeke Miller, Star Tribune , 24 Nov. 2020",
|
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"The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote with one GOP abstention . \u2014 Arkansas Online , 24 Nov. 2020",
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"Referring to China\u2019s behavior so far since the conflict began, Psaki pointed to the country\u2019s abstention in United Nations Security Council votes on the war and its echoing of unsubstantiated claims of American biochemical labs, in Ukraine. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
|
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"Referring to China\u2019s behavior since the conflict began, Psaki pointed to the country\u2019s abstention in United Nations Security Council votes on the war and its echoing of unsubstantiated claims of American biochemical labs in Ukraine. \u2014 Ellen Nakashima, Adela Suliman, Lily Kuo, Anchorage Daily News , 18 Mar. 2022"
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"history_and_etymology":{
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],
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|
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|
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]
|
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},
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle French, from Latin abstersus (past participle of absterg\u0113re ) + Middle French -ion":""
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-rzh\u0259n",
|
|
"-rsh-"
|
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],
|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
"-rz-",
|
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"-rsiv"
|
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|
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|
|
]
|
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},
|
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|
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"antonyms":[
|
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|
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|
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": the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable":[
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"\u2026 ate with a haste and an apparent relish, that seemed to betoken long abstinence from food.",
|
|
"\u2014 Walter Scott"
|
|
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|
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|
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|
|
"The program promoted sexual abstinence for young people.",
|
|
"a cleric vainly preaching abstinence in a world where self-indulgence is regarded as almost a virtue",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"If the findings are concerning for myocarditis, the ACC recommends abstinence from exercise for three to six months. \u2014 Dr. Nicholas P. Kondoleon, ABC News , 16 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Instead of pushing abstinence , the approach aims to lower the risk of dying or acquiring infectious diseases by offering sterile equipment \u2014 through needle exchanges, for example \u2014 or tools to check drugs for the presence of fentanyl. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 May 2022",
|
|
"Instead of pushing abstinence , the approach aims to lower the risk of dying or acquiring infectious diseases by offering sterile equipment \u2014 through needle exchanges, for example \u2014 or tools to check drugs for the presence of fentanyl. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
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"In 1988, the litmus tests included abstinence and prayer in school. \u2014 M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press , 24 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Varakin has three rules for his snipers: abstinence from alcohol, dedication to service above all else and a willingness to do anything to achieve high performance. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Gaudenzia began offering outpatient treatment and started programs for patients being treated with medications such as methadone and buprenorphine, while reducing the use of live-in, abstinence -only programs. \u2014 Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Some proponents of temperance required that churchgoers keep pledges of abstinence , on pain of damnation. \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, Wired , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"According to USA Today, fasting \u2014 which includes abstinence from liquids, food and more \u2014 helps Muslims practice self-restraint and is a pillar of Islam. \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022"
|
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|
|
],
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"\u2014 Walter Scott"
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"The program promoted sexual abstinence for young people.",
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"a cleric vainly preaching abstinence in a world where self-indulgence is regarded as almost a virtue",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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|
"If the findings are concerning for myocarditis, the ACC recommends abstinence from exercise for three to six months. \u2014 Dr. Nicholas P. Kondoleon, ABC News , 16 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Instead of pushing abstinence , the approach aims to lower the risk of dying or acquiring infectious diseases by offering sterile equipment \u2014 through needle exchanges, for example \u2014 or tools to check drugs for the presence of fentanyl. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 May 2022",
|
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"Instead of pushing abstinence , the approach aims to lower the risk of dying or acquiring infectious diseases by offering sterile equipment \u2014 through needle exchanges, for example \u2014 or tools to check drugs for the presence of fentanyl. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
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"In 1988, the litmus tests included abstinence and prayer in school. \u2014 M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press , 24 Apr. 2022",
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"Varakin has three rules for his snipers: abstinence from alcohol, dedication to service above all else and a willingness to do anything to achieve high performance. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Mar. 2022",
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"Gaudenzia began offering outpatient treatment and started programs for patients being treated with medications such as methadone and buprenorphine, while reducing the use of live-in, abstinence -only programs. \u2014 Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com , 20 Sep. 2021",
|
|
"Some proponents of temperance required that churchgoers keep pledges of abstinence , on pain of damnation. \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, Wired , 19 Apr. 2022",
|
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"According to USA Today, fasting \u2014 which includes abstinence from liquids, food and more \u2014 helps Muslims practice self-restraint and is a pillar of Islam. \u2014 Natasha Dye, PEOPLE.com , 13 Apr. 2022"
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"r\u00e9sum\u00e9",
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"resume",
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"rundown",
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"sum-up",
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"summa",
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"summarization",
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"summary",
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"abstract science"
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"abstract problems"
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": disassociated from any specific instance":[
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"an abstract entity"
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],
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": expressing a quality apart from an object":[
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"the word poem is concrete, poetry is abstract"
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],
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": having only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content":[
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"abstract painting"
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],
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": impersonal , detached":[
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"the abstract compassion of a surgeon",
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"\u2014 Time"
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],
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": insufficiently factual : formal":[
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"possessed only an abstract right"
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],
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": remove , separate":[],
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": steal , purloin":[
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"She abstracted important documents from the safe."
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],
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": to consider apart from application to or association with a particular instance":[],
|
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": to draw away the attention of":[
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"His imagination had so abstracted him that his name was called twice before he answered.",
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"\u2014 James Joyce"
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],
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": to make a summary or abstract of : summarize":[
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"abstract an academic paper"
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],
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"Adjective",
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"It is true that the atrocities that were known remained abstract and remote, rarely acquiring the status of knee-buckling knowledge among ordinary Americans. Because the savagery of genocide so defies our everyday experience, many of us failed to wrap our minds around it. \u2014 Samantha Power , New York Times Book Review , 14 Mar. 2002",
|
|
"A glance into the classrooms of the Los Angeles public school system \u2026 fleshes out the abstract debates with the faces of children. \u2014 Jared Diamond , Guns, Germs, and Steel , 1997",
|
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"I take my photographs and print them on a laser copying machine in the \"photo\" mode; the resulting image is more stark and abstract than a traditional photographic print, which tends to dominate the page regardless of the text. \u2014 Leslie Marmon Silko , Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit , 1996",
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"abstract ideas such as love and hate",
|
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"\u201cHonesty\u201d is an abstract word.",
|
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"The word \u201cpoem\u201d is concrete, the word \u201cpoetry\u201d is abstract .",
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"Noun",
|
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"an artist admired for his abstracts",
|
|
"the scientist wrote a bare-bones abstract of his research and conclusions",
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"Verb",
|
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"\u2026 artists in the group put the emphasis on geometric abstraction rather than images abstracted from nature. \u2014 Robert Atkins , Art Spoke , 1993",
|
|
"\u2026 the Romantic project was to abstract from religion its essential \"feeling\" and leave contemptuously behind its traditional formulations. \u2014 Theodore Roszak , The Making of a Counter Culture , 1969",
|
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"\u2026 conscientiously and with great purity made the uncompromising effort to abstract his view of life into an art work \u2026 \u2014 Norman Mailer , Advertisements for Myself , 1959",
|
|
"\u2026 basic esthetic criteria and standards he has abstracted from long intimacy with time-tested masterpieces. \u2014 Aline B. Saarinen , New York Times Book Review , 7 Nov. 1954",
|
|
"Data for the study was abstracted from hospital records.",
|
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"personal problems abstracted him so persistently that he struggled to keep his mind on his work",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
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"In the twentieth century, the quest for objectivity became more rarefied and abstract . \u2014 Hari Kunzru, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"However, these goals are difficult to achieve with multicloud and hybrid distributed, cloud-native applications and platforms that are complex and abstract . \u2014 Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
|
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"Brutalism began to be criticized for seeming too severe, grim, and abstract , while brutalist structures fell into disrepair as dirty, graffitied eyesores. \u2014 Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"And this could be particularly good for climate politics\u2014because while the climate crisis can feel abstract and theoretical at the global level, its local effects are concrete, perceivable, and urgent. \u2014 Liza Featherstone, The New Republic , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"The worst-case scenario for the Great Salt Lake is neither hypothetical nor abstract . \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
|
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"Aviv \u2014 whose legal name is Gavin Mays \u2014 glides on the track with ease, even when its sonics float between abstract and industrial. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 3 June 2022",
|
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"Describing a complicated issue in an abstract or impersonal way can lead to confusion. \u2014 Chicago Tribune , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"Unlike most solid-color duvet covers, Mildly offers a ton of floral, abstract and modern designs to match any style preference. \u2014 Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"Opening a store seems like a solid enough plan in the abstract , although these characters \u2014 impulsive, immature and all-around irresponsible \u2014 could almost certainly be counted on to screw it up. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 25 May 2022",
|
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"The conceptual drawings of what would eventually become $5-billion SoFi Stadium impressed players in the abstract . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Resolving to change course sounds appealing in the abstract . \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 1 Feb. 2022",
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"Such statistics have become hard to fathom in the abstract . \u2014 Tim Carman, Washington Post , 7 Feb. 2022",
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"In the video abstract , Brennan says this seems to be the case for dolphins as well. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Jan. 2022",
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"In the study\u2019s abstract and conclusions, the researchers noted that the environment of the time may have supported multiple creatures the same size. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 2 Jan. 2022",
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"From the Indonesian American heritage to the Canadian Midwest, Paris in the pandemic and the human body, these new books travel across worlds and into the abstract . \u2014 New York Times , 22 Dec. 2021",
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"Her expressions of creativity with a focus on the abstract are a part of her life that contributes to her bold outlook on the world. \u2014 Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News , 10 Dec. 2021",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"From there, determine the context analytics must abstract for each of those sub-domains. \u2014 Amandeep Midha, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
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"Cloud platforms continually move up the infrastructure stack to simplify and abstract extraordinarily complex concepts like pub-sub, container orchestration, queueing and more. \u2014 Jack Naglieri, Forbes , 15 Sep. 2021",
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"In order to transform this pain point into a competitive advantage in 2022, businesses will seek new tools such as API gateways and microservices management tools that abstract away complexity and align with existing IT and DevOps processes. \u2014 Augusto Marietti, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
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"For four years, Dot Benedict and Kathryn Riley teamed up to abstract the minutes of the Carroll County Orphan\u2019s Court from 1837 through 1885. \u2014 Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 14 Nov. 2021",
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"Patch\u2019s platform seeks to abstract away the complexity of managing carbon offsets, making offset projects accessible via an API and a few lines of code. \u2014 Rob Toews, Forbes , 31 Oct. 2021",
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"The data layer would then be able to consume and utilize RAN data in an accessible, open and aligned manner, abstract it and then normalize it. \u2014 Ofir Zemer, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
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"Humans, on the other hand, are often able to abstract away from existing examples in order to recognize new never-before-seen items. \u2014 Ryan Khurana, Scientific American , 2 Jan. 2021",
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"In essence, such mathematical descriptions abstract away unnecessary details about the biological implementation. \u2014 Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes , 27 May 2021"
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"Middle English, derivative of abstract abstract entry 1 (or borrowed directly from Medieval Latin abstractus )":"Noun"
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": a branch of mathematics in which algebraic concepts are generalized by using symbols to represent basic arithmetical operations":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Getting the most popular programs to work may approach abstract algebra . \u2014 Sonja Sharp Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 12 Apr. 2021",
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"Until Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and others revolutionized literary studies, specialist writing was reserved for specialized disciplines\u2014 abstract algebra , for example. \u2014 James Campbell, WSJ , 19 Mar. 2021",
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"The mathematician who follows the ice queen often dislikes concrete applications or specific cases \u2014 Alexander Grothendieck, one of the high priests of abstract algebra , once famously picked 57 as an example of a prime number. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 June 2020",
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"Five of them will be taking college courses in differential equations, abstract algebra and discrete mathematics as 10th-graders at Pasadena High School this fall. \u2014 Jay Mathews, Washington Post , 6 July 2019",
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"Complete high school math, including calculus, in middle school and devote high school to more complex subjects: multivariable calculus, abstract algebra , probability, game theory and other college subjects. \u2014 Jay Mathews, Washington Post , 17 Sep. 2017",
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"At the height of her mathematical powers, doing new work on abstract algebra , Noether died after an operation on an ovarian cyst. \u2014 Kat Eschner, Smithsonian , 23 Mar. 2017"
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": an artistic movement of the mid-20th century comprising diverse styles and techniques and emphasizing especially an artist's liberty to convey attitudes and emotions through nontraditional and usually nonrepresentational means":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Works from the museum\u2019s collection that test the boundaries between 1950s-60s abstract expressionism and figurative painting are on view through Aug. 22. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 July 2022",
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"His art, primarily abstract expressionism , encompasses the North American continent and beyond. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
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"Works from the museum\u2019s collection that test the boundaries between 1950s-60s abstract expressionism and figurative painting are on view through Aug. 22. \u2014 Matt Cooperlistings Coordinator, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
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"Works from the museum\u2019s collection that test the boundaries between 1950s-60s abstract expressionism and figurative painting are on view May 13 through Aug. 22. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
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"The Second World War had irrevocably changed the American art world, fomenting the form-meets-function of modern design and the abstract expressionism of painters like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Dec. 2021",
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"So often, abstract expressionism is treated as deadly serious: angry young men attacking their canvases and slaying art shibboleths in the process. \u2014 Max Holleran, The New Republic , 14 Dec. 2021",
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"Unlike American novelist Tom Wolfe\u2019s claim in The Painted Word that abstract expressionism only makes sense with copious accompanying explanations, Schloss attests to its ability to move viewers even when the subject matter is unclear. \u2014 Max Holleran, The New Republic , 14 Dec. 2021",
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"The free-flowing compositions of abstract expressionism now represent a planet that\u2019s burning and melting. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Sep. 2021"
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": a comprehensive record maintained by a title-insurance company indicating liens, encumbrances, and defects affecting the title to properties located in the community where the company operates as insurer":[
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"\u2014 not often in formal use"
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"abstract universal":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-115947",
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"abstracta":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-081848",
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"abstracted":{
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"antonyms":[
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"alert"
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"abstracted geometric shapes"
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": withdrawn in mind : inattentive to one's surroundings":[
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"said hello but seemed abstracted"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
|
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"She said hello but she seemed a bit abstracted .",
|
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"the man on the train seemed somewhat abstracted , and he did indeed forget to get off at his stop",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"The works are lightly abstracted landscapes, along with a few figure studies, rendered in either watercolor or oil paint. \u2014 James Tarmy, Bloomberg.com , 21 May 2020",
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"The new format won\u2019t really illuminate how oral arguments go normally because certain rules have been instituted to ensure order in this abstracted courtroom. \u2014 Ephrat Livni, Quartz , 4 May 2020",
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"As one scrolls through her river of photos and videos, more than a thousand in all, the hands become alien and abstracted things, creatures that exist independently of the bodies that bear them. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2020",
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"After all, what is social media but an abstracted world, facilitated conversations and social performances that have been exfiltrated from a real, existing social context? \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 24 Jan. 2020",
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"Even the abstracted spaces that obscure most of the board fit the overall aesthetic. \u2014 Charlie Theel, Ars Technica , 14 Dec. 2019",
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"The piece, produced as part of the gallery\u2019s Box Blur initiative that is sponsored by Dance Film SF, is set in an abstracted re-creation of a 1950s Korean shoji room and features instructional video and audio pieces. \u2014 Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com , 3 Nov. 2019",
|
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"Lucy is also conducting an affair of her own, living with the gentle, abstracted Bob while sleeping with the jolly and itinerant Laff. \u2014 Ben Lerner, The New Yorker , 30 Sep. 2019",
|
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"The handful of action scenes, for all their mortal dangers, come and go with an expository brevity and an elusive, abstracted physicality to match. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 8 Aug. 2019"
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"from past participle of abstract entry 3":""
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"ab-\u02c8strak-t\u0259d",
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"\u02c8ab-\u02ccstrak-"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abstracted abstracted , preoccupied , absent , absentminded , distracted mean inattentive to what claims or demands consideration. abstracted implies absorption of the mind in something other than one's surroundings, and often suggests reflection on weighty matters. walking about with an abstracted air preoccupied often implies having one's attention so taken up by thoughts as to neglect others. too preoccupied with her debts to enjoy the meal absent stresses inability to fix the mind on present concerns due more to mental wandering than to concentration on other matters. an absent stare absentminded implies that the mind is fixed elsewhere and often refers to a habit of abstractedness. so absentminded , he's been known to wear mismatched shoes distracted may suggest an inability to concentrate caused by worry, sorrow, or anxiety. was too distracted by grief to continue working",
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"absent",
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"absentminded",
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"distracted",
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"preoccupied"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203131",
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"examples":[
|
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"abstraction of data from hospital records",
|
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"\u201cBeauty\u201d and \u201ctruth\u201d are abstractions .",
|
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"She gazed out the window in abstraction .",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Death is an abstraction to most kids, especially to one who\u2019s this defiantly optimistic about life. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
|
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"But the misery low-earning Britons are experiencing now is not an abstraction . \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
|
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"Nordin says the progressives reminded voters that LGBTQ students exist in the Eau Claire district and aren\u2019t an abstraction , and some of them don\u2019t live in homes where they\u2019re accepted, which makes the role of school pretty important in their lives. \u2014 Michael Tomasky, The New Republic , 25 Apr. 2022",
|
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"But while C\u00e9zanne\u2019s flirtation with and flights into abstraction are ever present \u2014 and with them the invitation to pareidolia \u2014 the show also reminds us how grounded the painter was in actual things. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
|
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"Several younger painters today play at hybridizing representation and abstraction . \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
|
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"Large scale, pastel colored oil paintings, in the German artist\u2019s trademark style that blends abstraction and figuration, are a startling contrast to the heritage building. \u2014 Joanne Shurvell, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Where each of those painters walked right up to the line between figuration and abstraction , often combining the two, Weaver\u2019s own style was highly mannered. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 27 Jan. 2022",
|
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"Money provides an asset abstraction layer for decentralized applications. \u2014 Benjamin Laker, Forbes , 27 May 2022"
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"borrowed from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French, \"abduction (of a woman), removal, extraction (of a foreign body from a wound), (in philosophy) process by which the mind is able to form universal representations of the properties of distinct objects,\" borrowed from Late Latin abstracti\u014dn-, abstracti\u014d , from Latin abstrac- (variant stem of abstrahere \"to remove forcibly\") + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns \u2014 more at abstract entry 1":""
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The song is a departure from Khruangbin\u2019s usual abstractionism , as their own catalogue largely sticks to psychedelia. \u2014 Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR , 14 Mar. 2022",
|
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"In 1958, at the recommendation of Philip Johnson, the Bronfman family, owners of Joseph Seagram, Ltd, offered a commission to Rothko, then a rising star of abstractionism , to paint a series of murals for The Four Seasons. \u2014 Kevin Conley, Town & Country , 25 Feb. 2014",
|
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"Werner Drewes An exhibition of paintings and prints by the German artist (1899-1985), a member of the Bauhaus school who later brought abstractionism to the United States. \u2014 Carrie Donovan, Washington Post , 24 May 2017",
|
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"Khrushchev, who had simple tastes and was facing serious political challenges, flew into a rage against abstractionism and made threats of coercion. \u2014 Raymond H. Anderson, New York Times , 1 Apr. 2017"
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|
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|
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": an abstract entity (such as a universal, a relation, a class name)":[
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"whiteness and virtue are abstracta",
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"\u2014 contrasted with concretum"
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"1728, in the meaning defined above":""
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"ab- entry 1 + Latin strictus , past participle of stringere to draw tight":""
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": the formation of spores by the cutting off of usually successive terminal portions of the sporophore through the growth of septa \u2014 see conidium":[]
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"1879, in the meaning defined above":""
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"ab- entry 1 + Late Latin striction-, strictio act of pressing together, from Latin strictus + -ion-, -io -ion":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013140",
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"abstruse":{
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"antonyms":[
|
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"shallow",
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"superficial"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": difficult to comprehend : recondite":[
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"abstruse concepts/ideas/theories"
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"examples":[
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"Her subject matter is abstruse .",
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"you're not the only one who finds Einstein's theory of relativity abstruse",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
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"The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
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"The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
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"The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
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"The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
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"The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
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"The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
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"The procedures are so abstruse that a parliamentarian must sit below the presiding officer and, essentially, tell him or her what to say. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021"
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"circa 1549, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"borrowed from Latin abstr\u016bsus \"concealed, recondite,\" from past participle of abstr\u016bdere \"to conceal,\" from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t- ) + tr\u016bdere \"to push, thrust\" \u2014 more at threat entry 1":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259b-\u02c8str\u00fcs",
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"ab-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"arcane",
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"deep",
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"esoteric",
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"hermetic",
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"hermetical",
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"profound",
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"recondite"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063153",
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": something that is abstruse":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1646, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"abstruse + -ity":""
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"ab-",
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"\u0259b-\u02c8str\u00fc-s\u0259-t\u0113"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173631",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"absume":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to consume gradually":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1566, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin absumere , from ab- ab- entry 1 + sumere to take":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202909",
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"type":[
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"transitive verb"
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]
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},
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"absurd":{
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"antonyms":[
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"realistic",
|
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"reasonable"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": dealing with the absurd (see absurd entry 2 ) or with absurdism":[
|
|
"absurd theater"
|
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],
|
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": extremely silly or ridiculous":[
|
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"an absurd argument",
|
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"absurd humor"
|
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],
|
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": ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous":[
|
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"an absurd argument",
|
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"absurd humor"
|
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],
|
|
": the state or condition in which human beings exist in an irrational and meaningless universe and in which human life has no ultimate meaning":[
|
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"\u2014 usually used with the the theater of the absurd"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"In an era when federal judges issue rulings that in their impact often rival the lawmaking of any legislature in the land, it is increasingly absurd that their proceedings should remain off-limits to the same wider public scrutiny that news cameras have brought to courts in 48 states. \u2014 Editor & Publisher , 14 July 2003",
|
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"By the time Showalter was fired one day after the end of last season, the stories of how he carried his attention to detail to absurd lengths\u2014including his insistence that the A on the players' socks be completely visible\u2014had been well circulated. \u2014 Phil Taylor , Sports Illustrated , 30 July 2001",
|
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"This criticism, patently absurd to anyone who has read even a handful of Updike's more than 40 books, nevertheless has been made so often that it is worth Pritchard's long rebuttal. \u2014 Jonathan Wilson , New York Times Book Review , 24 Sept. 2000",
|
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"Yet from time to time, virtually every parent falls back on threats, often absurd ones that leave Mom and Dad feeling foolish and the problem unresolved. \u2014 Dorothy Foltz-Gray , Parenting , December/January 1996",
|
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"The charges against him are obviously absurd .",
|
|
"absurd claims of having been abducted by UFO's",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
|
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"Skewing toward the absurd , the grotesque, sometimes the scatological, her books often center on drug- or alcohol-addicted protagonists mired in their own misery. \u2014 Annabel Graham, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
|
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"This can be an absurd question to someone deep in mourning. \u2014 Heather Landy, Quartz , 15 Nov. 2021",
|
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"The payouts here are absurd , and these guys have jets to redecorate like anyone else. \u2014 Jason Gay, WSJ , 13 June 2022",
|
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"For so finicky an operation to take place in 2022 is, from one point of view, absurd . \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
|
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"The notion that Jewish prayer must be silenced in order to keep violent rioters at bay is absurd . \u2014 Erielle Davidson, National Review , 20 May 2022",
|
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"The experience of war is always absurd , but Ukrainians were aware of a singular absurdity in this war. \u2014 James Verini, New York Times , 19 May 2022",
|
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"Other times recommending exercise is simply absurd , says Andre Pascal Kengne, an internist and researcher at the South African Medical Research Council. \u2014 Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American , 19 May 2022",
|
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"This propaganda is absurd , especially regarding its history. \u2014 Carrie Hagen, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 May 2022"
|
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
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"1946, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"borrowed from French (l')absurde , derivative of absurde absurd entry 1":"Noun",
|
|
"borrowed from Middle French absurde , going back to Old French absorde , borrowed from Latin absurdus \"out of tune, uncouth, inappropriate, ridiculous,\" from ab- ab- + surdus \"unhearing, deaf, muffled, dull\" \u2014 more at surd entry 1":"Adjective"
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
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"-\u02c8z\u0259rd",
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8s\u0259rd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bizarre",
|
|
"crazy",
|
|
"fanciful",
|
|
"fantastic",
|
|
"fantastical",
|
|
"foolish",
|
|
"insane",
|
|
"nonsensical",
|
|
"preposterous",
|
|
"unreal",
|
|
"wild"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200514",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
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"absurdity":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": something that is absurd":[
|
|
"the absurdities of life"
|
|
],
|
|
": the quality or state of being absurd : absurdness":[
|
|
"They laughed at the absurdity of the situation."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"to say men can't cook as well as women is of course an absurdity",
|
|
"the absurdity of expecting a 98-year-old woman to adequately supervise four six-year-olds",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The moment was a mild inconvenience but nonetheless illustrative of the absurdity of the night. \u2014 Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Hall\u2019s take-no-prisoners delivery lent the perfect sense of absurdity to the situation. \u2014 Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"Now, the phantom menace known as the Democratic supermajority in Sacramento has counter-attacked with a dose of absurdity that\u2019s hard to comprehend. \u2014 Andrew Deangelo, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"Kravis lean into the relatability of their endeavor, while also adding their trademark touch of absurdity . \u2014 Vogue , 5 May 2022",
|
|
"One side definitely likes to be happy, and the other side is definitely full of absurdity . \u2014 Joe Lynch, Billboard , 13 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Daily training to face a non-existent enemy creates a sense of absurdity , captured by Gregoris Rentis\u02bc camera with great inspiration and precision. \u2014 Lise Pedersen, Variety , 15 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"The accumulation of dire news, one catastrophe after another, was cruel to the point of absurdity . \u2014 Daniel Alarc\u00f3n, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Still, any more serious themes and ideas are overshadowed not just by the size of the supporting characters, but the absurdity necessary to eventually assemble everyone in the same place. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 8 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1525, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English absurditee \"dissonance, unjust practice,\" borrowed from Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French absurdit\u00e9 , borrowed from Late Latin absurdit\u0101t-, absurdit\u0101s , from Latin absurdus absurd entry 1 + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-\u02c8z\u0259r-",
|
|
"\u0259b-\u02c8s\u0259r-d\u0259-t\u0113"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"asininity",
|
|
"b\u00eatise",
|
|
"fatuity",
|
|
"folly",
|
|
"foolery",
|
|
"foppery",
|
|
"idiocy",
|
|
"imbecility",
|
|
"inanity",
|
|
"insanity",
|
|
"lunacy",
|
|
"stupidity"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042744",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abubble":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"asleep",
|
|
"dead",
|
|
"inactive",
|
|
"lifeless",
|
|
"sleepy"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": being in a state of agitated activity or motion : astir":[],
|
|
": being in the process of bubbling":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"when the grandkids come to stay, the house is abubble with their chatter and horseplay"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1766, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"a- entry 1 + bubble entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259-b\u0259l"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"aboil",
|
|
"abuzz",
|
|
"alive",
|
|
"animated",
|
|
"astir",
|
|
"brisk",
|
|
"bustling",
|
|
"busy",
|
|
"buzzing",
|
|
"flourishing",
|
|
"happening",
|
|
"hopping",
|
|
"humming",
|
|
"kinetic",
|
|
"lively",
|
|
"rousing",
|
|
"stirring",
|
|
"thriving",
|
|
"vibrant"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171648",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abuilding":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": being in the process of building or of being built":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1534, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8bil-di\u014b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072655",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abundance":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"ace",
|
|
"bit",
|
|
"dab",
|
|
"dram",
|
|
"driblet",
|
|
"glimmer",
|
|
"handful",
|
|
"hint",
|
|
"lick",
|
|
"little",
|
|
"mite",
|
|
"mouthful",
|
|
"nip",
|
|
"ounce",
|
|
"peanuts",
|
|
"pinch",
|
|
"pittance",
|
|
"scruple",
|
|
"shade",
|
|
"shadow",
|
|
"smidgen",
|
|
"smidgeon",
|
|
"smidgin",
|
|
"smidge",
|
|
"speck",
|
|
"spot",
|
|
"sprinkle",
|
|
"sprinkling",
|
|
"strain",
|
|
"streak",
|
|
"suspicion",
|
|
"tad",
|
|
"taste",
|
|
"touch",
|
|
"trace"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": affluence , wealth":[
|
|
"a life of abundance"
|
|
],
|
|
": an ample quantity : an abundant amount : profusion":[
|
|
"a city that has an abundance of fine restaurants"
|
|
],
|
|
": relative degree of plentifulness":[
|
|
"low abundances of uranium and thorium",
|
|
"\u2014 H. C. Urey"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a plant with an abundance of flowers",
|
|
"a plant known for the abundance of its flowers",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"From Singapore to Tel Aviv, desalination plants have replaced water scarcity with water abundance . \u2014 Edward Ring, National Review , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"The opposite of a scarcity mindset is an abundance mindset, and the opposite of burnout is fulfillment. \u2014 Courtney Mccluney, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"As ocean temperatures increase and oxygen availability drops, marine life abundance plummets, according to the study. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"There is merely the historical awareness, which U.S. policymakers had in abundance circa 1945, of where unchecked anger and grievance can lead. \u2014 Michael Kimmage, The New Republic , 13 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Amid images of abundance lurk problems with pollution, overuse and deteriorating infrastructure. \u2014 John Flesher, Detroit Free Press , 27 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Amid images of abundance lurk problems with pollution, overuse and deteriorating infrastructure. \u2014 John Flesher, chicagotribune.com , 26 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Amid images of abundance lurk problems with pollution, overuse and deteriorating infrastructure. \u2014 John Flesher, ajc , 26 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"The Chao1 formula will look at those species that don't appear often in the abundance data. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 21 Feb. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English aboundaunce, habundaunce , borrowed from Anglo-French abundance, habundance , borrowed from Latin abundantia , noun derivative of abundant-, abundans abundant":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259n-d\u0259ns",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259n-d\u0259n(t)s"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"barrel",
|
|
"basketful",
|
|
"boatload",
|
|
"bucket",
|
|
"bunch",
|
|
"bundle",
|
|
"bushel",
|
|
"carload",
|
|
"chunk",
|
|
"deal",
|
|
"dozen",
|
|
"fistful",
|
|
"gobs",
|
|
"good deal",
|
|
"heap",
|
|
"hundred",
|
|
"lashings",
|
|
"lashins",
|
|
"loads",
|
|
"lot",
|
|
"mass",
|
|
"mess",
|
|
"mountain",
|
|
"much",
|
|
"multiplicity",
|
|
"myriad",
|
|
"oodles",
|
|
"pack",
|
|
"passel",
|
|
"peck",
|
|
"pile",
|
|
"plateful",
|
|
"plenitude",
|
|
"plentitude",
|
|
"plenty",
|
|
"pot",
|
|
"potful",
|
|
"profusion",
|
|
"quantity",
|
|
"raft",
|
|
"reams",
|
|
"scads",
|
|
"sheaf",
|
|
"shipload",
|
|
"sight",
|
|
"slew",
|
|
"spate",
|
|
"stack",
|
|
"store",
|
|
"ton",
|
|
"truckload",
|
|
"volume",
|
|
"wad",
|
|
"wealth",
|
|
"yard"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111059",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abundant":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"bare",
|
|
"minimal",
|
|
"scant",
|
|
"spare"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": amply supplied : abounding":[
|
|
"an area abundant with bird life"
|
|
],
|
|
": existing or occurring in large amounts : ample":[
|
|
"abundant rainfall",
|
|
"abundant food"
|
|
],
|
|
": marked by great plenty (as of resources)":[
|
|
"a fair and abundant land"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Rainfall is more abundant in summer.",
|
|
"It is the most abundant bird in the forest.",
|
|
"an abundant supply of food",
|
|
"He offers abundant evidence that he is right.",
|
|
"a society abundant in things to buy",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Set on an arid plain against the backdrop of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, water \u2013 except for during brief, catastrophic floods \u2013 has never been abundant in Monterrey. \u2014 Marcos Mart\u00ednez Chac\u00f3n, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Whether dining on or off property, options are abundant . \u2014 J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"With any new technology, the unknown variables are abundant . \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 17 June 2022",
|
|
"And since its funding options were abundant , those who wished to attain a piece of the super-unicorn of its time would have to compete for the opportunity. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Rising global temperatures have resulted in longer summers and shorter winters, which consequently are enabling ticks to become more abundant and widespread. \u2014 Aria Bendix, NBC News , 13 June 2022",
|
|
"On Thursday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that in the weeks since, domestic cooking-oil prices had fallen by around 10% and local supplies had become more abundant . \u2014 Jason Douglas, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
|
|
"Calls of this sort from women throughout the Midwest and South were pouring into the clinic all day \u2014 and they\u2019re expected to become even more abundant soon. \u2014 Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune , 12 May 2022",
|
|
"Krill flourish in cold, icy conditions, so as warming has caused sea ice to decline, krill have become less abundant as well. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Apr. 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt , borrowed from Anglo-French abundant, habundant , borrowed from Latin abundant-, abundans , present participle of abund\u0101re \"to abound \"":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259n-d\u0259nt"
|
|
],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abundant plentiful , ample , abundant , copious mean more than sufficient without being excessive. plentiful implies a great or rich supply. peaches are plentiful this summer ample implies a generous sufficiency to satisfy a particular requirement. ample food to last the winter abundant suggests an even greater or richer supply than does plentiful . streams abundant with fish copious stresses largeness of supply rather than fullness or richness. copious examples of bureaucratic waste",
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"synonyms":[
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"ample",
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"aplenty",
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"bounteous",
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"bountiful",
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"comfortable",
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"cornucopian",
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"galore",
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"generous",
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"liberal",
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"plenteous",
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"plentiful",
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"plenty"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113230",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"adverb"
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]
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},
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"abuse":{
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"antonyms":[
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"brutalize",
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"bully",
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"ill-treat",
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"ill-use",
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"kick around",
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"maltreat",
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"manhandle",
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"mess over",
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"mishandle",
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"mistreat",
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"misuse"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a corrupt practice or custom":[
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"the buying of votes and other election abuses"
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],
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": a deceitful act : deception":[],
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": deceive":[],
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": improper or excessive use or treatment : misuse":[
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"drug abuse"
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],
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": language that condemns or vilifies usually unjustly, intemperately, and angrily":[
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"verbal abuse",
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"a term of abuse"
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],
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": physical maltreatment":[
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"child abuse",
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"sexual abuse"
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],
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": to attack in words : revile":[
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"verbally abused the referee"
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],
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": to put to a wrong or improper use":[
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"abuse a privilege"
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],
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": to use or treat so as to injure or damage : maltreat":[
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"abused his wife"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"He subjected his wife to physical and emotional abuse .",
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"the buying of votes and other election abuses",
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"She was subjected to every term of abuse her boss could think of.",
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"a torrent of verbal abuse",
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"The prisoner hurled abuse at the judge.",
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"Verb",
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"He was accused of sexually abusing a child.",
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"He abused his body with years of heavy drinking.",
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"He had abused his first car by not taking care of it.",
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"She abused her friend's trust.",
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"a senator who abuses his power",
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"He abused my confidence by letting this secret be known.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Four women testified during the trial that Epstein abused them and that Maxwell facilitated the abuse and sometimes participated in it as well. \u2014 Lauren Del Valle, CNN , 28 June 2022",
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"The predicate of the abuse was members of Congress. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
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"The lawsuit also said the police department and lieutenant who ran the program conspired to cover up the abuse . \u2014 Kala Kachmar, The Courier-Journal , 27 June 2022",
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"An investigation by the Louisville Metro Police Department did not find evidence of the abuse and Crabtree was awarded custody of their children while Russell had supervised visits two days a week. \u2014 Luke Barr, ABC News , 25 June 2022",
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"The case has gotten particular attention because several abused wrestlers have accused Representative Jim Jordan, who was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State, of knowing about the abuse but not doing anything to stop it. \u2014 Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com , 24 June 2022",
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"Macri also reached out to another board member, Sean King, to report the abuse . \u2014 Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant , 22 June 2022",
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"In the meantime, many students have opted out entirely, never reporting the abuse . \u2014 Heather Hollingsworth, Chicago Tribune , 16 June 2022",
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"Court records said the abuse began as early as 2017. \u2014 Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel , 16 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"Some believe that some iPhone users may abuse the edit/unsend features. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 23 June 2022",
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"Yet fears that some might abuse the credit may also be sapping support for it. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Jan. 2022",
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"As a little boy, M had watched his dad abuse his mom for years, according to treatment records. \u2014 ProPublica , 9 June 2022",
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"Chula Vista\u2019s ordinance also identifies eight more kinds of harassment than the state, including that landlords cannot verbally abuse or threaten a tenant, influence vacancy through fraud or coercion and refuse their rent payment. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 May 2022",
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"McGivern was one of Depp\u2019s security guards and, testifying via video, claimed to have witnessed Heard verbally and physically abuse the actor. \u2014 Melissa Locker, Time , 2 May 2022",
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"To find the best garden hose for your needs, think about the size of the property and how much use and abuse the hose is likely to receive. \u2014 Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping , 18 Apr. 2022",
|
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"Violence remains commonplace within the Russian military, where more senior soldiers routinely abuse junior ones. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Apr. 2022",
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"More recently it\u2019s also been pressed into counterfeit pills resembling prescription drugs that teens sometimes abuse . \u2014 Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com , 12 Apr. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb"
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English abusen , borrowed from Anglo-French abuser , verbal derivative of abuse abuse entry 1":"Verb",
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"Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin ab\u016bsus \"misuse, waste,\" noun derivative from ab\u016bt\u012b \"to exhaust, use up, misuse,\" from ab- ab- + \u016bt\u012b \"to use entry 1 \"":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u0259-\u02c8by\u00fcs",
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"\u0259-\u02c8by\u00fcz"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for abuse Noun abuse , vituperation , invective , obloquy , billingsgate mean vehemently expressed condemnation or disapproval. abuse , the most general term, usually implies the anger of the speaker and stresses the harshness of the language. scathing verbal abuse vituperation implies fluent and sustained abuse. a torrent of vituperation invective implies a comparable vehemence but suggests greater verbal and rhetorical skill and may apply to a public denunciation. blistering political invective obloquy suggests defamation and consequent shame and disgrace. subjected to obloquy and derision billingsgate implies practiced fluency and variety of profane or obscene abuse. directed a stream of billingsgate at the cabdriver",
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"synonyms":[
|
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"billingsgate",
|
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"fulmination",
|
|
"invective",
|
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"obloquy",
|
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"scurrility",
|
|
"vitriol",
|
|
"vituperation"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050647",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
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"noun",
|
|
"transitive verb",
|
|
"verb"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"abusive":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
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"definitions":{
|
|
": harsh and insulting":[
|
|
"abusive language"
|
|
],
|
|
": using harsh, insulting language":[
|
|
"an angry and abusive crowd"
|
|
],
|
|
": using or involving physical violence or emotional cruelty":[
|
|
"abusive behavior",
|
|
"an abusive husband",
|
|
"an abusive relationship"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
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"The fans yelled abusive comments to the referee.",
|
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"protecting wives from abusive husbands",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Federal agencies also don\u2019t routinely disclose whether agents have been disciplined or fired for abusive behavior. \u2014 Hannah Rappleye, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
|
|
"Alex Jones, the creator of Infowars, was permanently banned in 2018 for abusive behavior. \u2014 David Klepper, ajc , 30 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Empowering workers to properly challenge abusive behavior can inspire cultures of accountability and safety. \u2014 Yasmin Dunn, Fortune , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"And, before the controversy over her comments, James-Ward had filed an abusive behavior complaint against Allman. \u2014 Charles T. Clarkcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"For some people, spotting the signs of abusive behavior can be difficult, especially for those who have witnessed the same behaviors during childhood. \u2014 Lizzie Cernik, refinery29.com , 27 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"More than half of perpetrators of mass shootings exhibit warning signs such as agitation, abusive behavior, depression, mood swings, an inability to perform daily tasks, and paranoia. \u2014 Shannon Frattaroli, WSJ , 20 June 2022",
|
|
"More men are emboldened to continue their abusive behavior. \u2014 Patricia Fersch, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Alex Jones, the creator of Infowars, was permanently banned in 2018 for abusive behavior. \u2014 Kelvin Chan, Chicago Tribune , 10 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1538, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"borrowed from Anglo-French abusif \"misplaced, wrong, in error,\" borrowed from Late Latin ab\u016bs\u012bvus \"misused, catachrestic,\" from Latin ab\u016bsus , past participle of ab\u016bt\u012b \"to abuse entry 2 \" + -\u012bvus -ive":""
|
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},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"-ziv",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8by\u00fc-siv, -ziv",
|
|
"also -ziv",
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8by\u00fc-siv"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"contumelious",
|
|
"invective",
|
|
"opprobrious",
|
|
"scurrile",
|
|
"scurril",
|
|
"scurrilous",
|
|
"truculent",
|
|
"vitriolic",
|
|
"vituperative",
|
|
"vituperatory"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074826",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abut":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to border on : to touch along an edge":[
|
|
"Their property abuts our land."
|
|
],
|
|
": to cause to touch or lean for support":[
|
|
"abut a timber against a post"
|
|
],
|
|
": to lean for support":[],
|
|
": to terminate at a point of contact":[],
|
|
": to touch along a border or with a projecting part":[
|
|
"a parcel of land that abuts on the road"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Their property and our property abut .",
|
|
"our land abuts a nature preserve, so we see a lot of wildlife",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Some back yards of homes in the under-construction, 52-home Montebello luxury home community will also abut Beta Drive back yards, but an agreement has already been reached with the builder and its Beta Drive business neighbor Mars Electric. \u2014 cleveland , 9 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Quite often, opponents, particularly those whose properties would abut a new trail, don\u2019t want change and speak loudest. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 21 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"At times, gangs with territories that abut one another battle over drugs and turf. \u2014 Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times , 22 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"Echoing the geography of apartheid, those neighborhoods often abut vast townships \u2014 with one providing labor to the other. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 July 2021",
|
|
"Hockema, Hinojosa and their allies hope the remaining two, Texas LNG and Rio Grande LNG, which would abut each other on the Brownsville Ship Channel, meet the same fate before they can be built. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 June 2021",
|
|
"The gondola will abut the Granite Chief Wilderness \u2014 its stanchions towering over the treetops and its cables and cabins running above the popular Five Lakes Trail. \u2014 Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle , 12 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"The park will abut part of more than 240 acres of open space that is managed by the Back Country Land Trust, also known as Wright\u2019s Field Preserve. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Greg and Judy Brazeal, who are retirees in their 70s, live in a home that\u2019s across the street from what used to be a lakefront park \u2014 which now abuts overgrown brush that blocks the water\u2019s edge. \u2014 Marina Starleaf Riker, ExpressNews.com , 26 May 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English abutten , borrowed from Anglo-French abuter , from a- , verb-forming prefix (going back to Latin ad- ad- ) + bout, but \"push, thrust, blow, end, extremity,\" noun derivative from bouter, boter \"to push, thrust, strike\" \u2014 more at butt entry 3":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"adjoin",
|
|
"border (on)",
|
|
"butt (on ",
|
|
"flank",
|
|
"fringe",
|
|
"join",
|
|
"march (with)",
|
|
"neighbor",
|
|
"skirt",
|
|
"touch",
|
|
"verge (on)"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215309",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abutting":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"nonadjacent",
|
|
"noncontiguous"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": that abuts or serves as an abutment : adjoining , bordering":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the new neighbors promptly erected fences between their property and the abutting properties"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1616, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259-ti\u014b"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"adjacent",
|
|
"adjoining",
|
|
"bordering",
|
|
"conterminous",
|
|
"contiguous",
|
|
"flanking",
|
|
"flush",
|
|
"fringing",
|
|
"joining",
|
|
"juxtaposed",
|
|
"neighboring",
|
|
"skirting",
|
|
"touching",
|
|
"verging"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113948",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abuzz":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"asleep",
|
|
"dead",
|
|
"inactive",
|
|
"lifeless",
|
|
"sleepy"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"the classroom was abuzz with preparations for that evening's open house for the parents",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"San Jose campus in the heart of Silicon Valley is abuzz with confidence. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"And now, the singer\u2019s fandom is abuzz over a potential new clue. \u2014 Glenn Rowley, Billboard , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Just outside the Westin, and in the employees\u2019 cafeteria, Mejia and her co-workers \u2014 many of them immigrants from Mexico and Central and South America \u2014 were abuzz about which leaders weren\u2019t coming and which had boycotted the summit. \u2014 Cindy Carcamostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"Like any campus approaching the end of a school year, Robb Elementary was abuzz with excitement and anticipation. \u2014 Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY , 28 May 2022",
|
|
"Or maybe the name was just a ploy for attention\u2014which worked, as the internet has been abuzz about the car for months now. \u2014 Joey Capparella, Car and Driver , 26 May 2022",
|
|
"Well more than 12 hours after Wiggins glided through the key and hammered home an emphatic dunk over Doncic, social media, sports talk radio and ESPN were still abuzz about the sequence. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 May 2022",
|
|
"During a crisis, the air will be abuzz with news, rumors, arguments and subjective conclusions. \u2014 Leonid Kozlov, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"Over the next few days, the country will be abuzz with concerts, parades and historic church services, all adorned by festoons of Union Jack flags and with giant television screens set up in major city centers. \u2014 Henry Austin, NBC News , 2 June 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1859, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"a- entry 1 + buzz entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8b\u0259z"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"aboil",
|
|
"abubble",
|
|
"alive",
|
|
"animated",
|
|
"astir",
|
|
"brisk",
|
|
"bustling",
|
|
"busy",
|
|
"buzzing",
|
|
"flourishing",
|
|
"happening",
|
|
"hopping",
|
|
"humming",
|
|
"kinetic",
|
|
"lively",
|
|
"rousing",
|
|
"stirring",
|
|
"thriving",
|
|
"vibrant"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193820",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"abysmal":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"shallow",
|
|
"shoal",
|
|
"skin-deep",
|
|
"superficial",
|
|
"surface"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": abyssal sense 2":[],
|
|
": having immense or fathomless extension downward, backward, or inward":[
|
|
"an abysmal cliff"
|
|
],
|
|
": immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad":[
|
|
"abysmal ignorance/poverty",
|
|
"abysmal living conditions",
|
|
"an abysmal performance"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"They were living in abysmal ignorance.",
|
|
"a desperate cry echoing from the abysmal reaches of the cave",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Still, most of his customers are in South L.A., where access to healthy food has historically been abysmal . \u2014 Kenan Draughornestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 June 2022",
|
|
"As their homes were occupied, looted and even burned, the Unangax\u0302 were interred in abysmal conditions at former cannery and mining sites. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 29 May 2022",
|
|
"Diversity in winter sports remains abysmal -- Jackson is one of few Black athletes on Team USA for the 2022 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. \u2014 Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News , 5 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"As part of the Paris Climate Agreement, nations are supposed to be working to do their part in limiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C, a threshold that is vital to limiting catastrophic natural disasters and abysmal weather conditions. \u2014 Li Cohen, CBS News , 22 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"The media remains abysmal at covering long, slow-moving crises; American foreign policy typically lives in those blind spots, but inequality and climate change seem to reside there as well. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 Aug. 2021",
|
|
"Black education remains abysmal , while more than seventy per cent of top management leaders in the private sector are white. \u2014 Robin Wrigh, The New Yorker , 28 July 2021",
|
|
"Peever isn\u2019t the only student turning his abysmal living conditions at uni into viral TikTok fodder. \u2014 Daisy Schofield, refinery29.com , 9 Feb. 2021",
|
|
"And for a team that posted abysmal offensive numbers on Thursday, the Coyotes could sure use the speed, skill and creativity that Schmaltz brings to the lineup. \u2014 Richard Morin, The Arizona Republic , 14 Aug. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"abysm + -al entry 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u0259-\u02c8biz-m\u0259l",
|
|
"a-"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"bottomless",
|
|
"deep",
|
|
"profound"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013515",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"absolute ceiling":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the maximum height above sea level at which a particular airplane can maintain horizontal flight under standard air conditions":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Luckey goes on to estimate that current VR technology could attract an absolute ceiling of 50 million active users worldwide\u2014and that number only with significant industry effort. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 1 Nov. 2018",
|
|
"Luckey goes on to estimate that current VR technology could attract an absolute ceiling of 50 million active users worldwide\u2014and that number only with significant industry effort. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 1 Nov. 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1918, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141710"
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},
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"above the law":{
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"definitions":{
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": not required to obey the law":[
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"No one is above the law ."
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142059"
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},
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"absolute space":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": space sense 4b":[]
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"1704, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142115"
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"aboveproof":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": overproof":[]
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1731, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142546"
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},
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"absolute convergence":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": convergence of a mathematical series when the absolute values of the terms are taken":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1888, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143043"
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},
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"absolute zero":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a theoretical temperature characterized by complete absence of heat and motion and equivalent to exactly \u2212273.15\u00b0C or \u2212459.67\u00b0F":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"In some materials, at temperatures close to absolute zero , magnetic fields shut down to short range, and electrical resistance disappears. \u2014 Andrew Crumey, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
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"Next, multiple lasers bombard the strontium atoms with photons and magnetic fields that slow atom momentum to a near motionless state, lowering the atom\u2019s temperatures to about one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero . \u2014 Paul Smith-goodson, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
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"One cools loops of wire to near \u2013273.15 degrees Celsius, or absolute zero , turning them into superconductors where current flows with virtually no resistance. \u2014 Neil Savage, Scientific American , 5 July 2017",
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"In the distant future, the universe will approach absolute zero at the end of everything (see below). \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 3 Mar. 2022",
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"Even at absolute zero , spins continue to fluctuate, analogous to how atoms slosh in a liquid. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 2 Dec. 2021",
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"The OpenSuperQ project at Sweden\u2019s Chalmers University of Technology moved the ball forward in June with a new thermometer capable of accurately measuring the extremely low temperatures (close to absolute zero ) required during quantum calculations. \u2014 John Sullivan, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021",
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"Fahrenheit, which is barely warmer than absolute zero . \u2014 Ramin Skibba, Wired , 23 Dec. 2021",
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"Our qubits operate in a dilution refrigerator that\u2019s about the size of a 55-gallon drum, and uses a special isotope of helium to cool them a fraction of a degree above absolute zero (roughly \u2013273 degrees Celsius). \u2014 Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American , 30 May 2018"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1798, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143048"
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},
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"ablative absolute":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a construction in Latin in which a noun or pronoun and its adjunct both in the ablative case form together an adverbial phrase expressing generally the time, cause, or an attendant circumstance of an action":[]
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1631, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143110"
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},
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"absolute constant":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a constant (as \u03c0) that has the same value wherever it occurs in mathematics":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1820, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144137"
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},
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"abandonee":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{},
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1804, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145637"
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},
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"absolute ego":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
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": the Fichtean ego that posits its own existence and through the opposition of subject and object thus created dialectically evolves the universe":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1832, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151355"
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},
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"abolishment":{
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"transitive verb",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul":[
|
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"abolish a law",
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"abolish slavery"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8b\u00e4-lish"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"abate",
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"abrogate",
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"annul",
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"avoid",
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"cancel",
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"disannul",
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"dissolve",
|
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"invalidate",
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"negate",
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"null",
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"nullify",
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"quash",
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"repeal",
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"rescind",
|
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"roll back",
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"strike down",
|
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"vacate",
|
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"void"
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],
|
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"He is in favor of abolishing the death penalty.",
|
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"the U.S. abolished slavery by constitutional amendment on December 6, 1865",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"Drew must fight to abolish the tyranny of the Lionlords and reclaim the throne. \u2014 Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 June 2022",
|
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"Republicans running against Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers have proposed to abolish the commission entirely or fire everyone in top positions, including the commission members. \u2014 Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 May 2022",
|
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"The ballot proposal had roots in the abolish -the-police movement that started after Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 3 Nov. 2021",
|
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"The ballot proposal that goes to voters Tuesday has roots in the abolish -the-police movement that erupted after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year. \u2014 Fox News , 31 Oct. 2021",
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"Mickelwait told me that her title at Exodus Cry, Director of Abolition, was modelled on figures such as William Wilberforce, who led the British movement to abolish the slave trade in the nineteenth century. \u2014 Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
|
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"Friday's decision comes three years after human rights campaigners had criticized the government for making a U-turn on an earlier pledge to abolish capital punishment entirely. \u2014 Heather Chen, CNN , 10 June 2022",
|
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"Since then, Republicans \u2014 including those running for governor \u2014 have cited the move as a reason to abolish the Wisconsin Elections Commission. \u2014 Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel , 5 June 2022",
|
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"With the election a week away, the race has revolved around public safety, and calls made by Hernandez to abolish the police \u2014 a concept Cedillo opposes. \u2014 David Zahniserstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English abolysshen , borrowed from Middle French aboliss- , stem of abolir \"to abolish,\" borrowed from Latin abol\u0113re \"to destroy, efface, put an end to,\" perhaps formed from abol\u0113scere \"to shrivel up, be effaced, fall into disuse,\" from ab- ab- + -ol- , medial form of the base of alere \"to nourish, bring up\" + -\u0113sc- , inchoative suffix \u2014 more at old entry 1":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153256"
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},
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"about-face":{
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"type":[
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"intransitive verb",
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"noun"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
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": a 180\u00b0 turn to the right from the position of attention":[],
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": a reversal of direction":[],
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": a reversal of attitude, behavior, or point of view":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8bau\u0307t-\u02c8f\u0101s"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"about-turn",
|
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"flip-flop",
|
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"reversal",
|
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"turnabout",
|
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"turnaround",
|
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"U-turn",
|
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"volte-face"
|
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"from the imperative phrase about face , from about entry 1 + face entry 2":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153439"
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},
|
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"aboard":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adverb",
|
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"adverb or adjective",
|
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"preposition"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": alongside":[],
|
|
": on, onto, or within a vehicle (such as a car or ship)":[],
|
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": in or into a group, association, or organization":[
|
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"her second promotion since coming aboard"
|
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],
|
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": on base":[],
|
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": on , onto , within":[
|
|
"go aboard ship",
|
|
"aboard a plane"
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u0259-\u02c8b\u022frd"
|
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],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb or adjective",
|
|
"That led to Ortiz, Ramirez, and the others coming aboard . \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
|
|
"With James Bradberry coming aboard , the Philadelphia Eagles will have a pair of Pro Bowl cornerbacks. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 18 May 2022",
|
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"One of the boats had six people aboard and the other carried three people, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement. \u2014 Fox News , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"In 2018, a US-Bangla passenger plane from Bangladesh crashed on landing in Kathmandu, killing 49 of the 71 people aboard . \u2014 Time , 29 May 2022",
|
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"Grant Haggerty, 7, who lives in the Sunset District, had been afraid to ride it but once aboard with his parents, Tom and Alayne Haggerty, was able to enjoy his mom pointing out UCSF Medical Center where Grant was born. \u2014 Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 May 2021",
|
|
"Once aboard , you'll be offered breakfast and coffee before diving below the surface to swim among sea turtles and the vibrant coral reefs. \u2014 Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure , 20 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"Once aboard , the frog woman uses a blaster to save the Child from a handful of spiders while Mando torches a full swarm of the nasty things with his flamethrower. \u2014 Alex Kane, USA TODAY , 6 Nov. 2020",
|
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"Emergency responders flew two helicopters to the site of the crash to carry those aboard , two of whom were in critical condition, to Kona Community Hospital, according to KITV4, the local ABC News affiliate. \u2014 Kevin Shalvey, ABC News , 9 June 2022",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition",
|
|
"Vince Vukelich of Greendale, George's son, was aboard Dumper Dan VI along with Dain Maddox of Wauwatosa, Marcus Stanford of Madison and me. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel , 3 July 2022",
|
|
"Husband and wife Jack and Lois Anderson were aboard one, the West Wind, and their son, Andy, captained the other, the Arctic Wind. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 3 July 2022",
|
|
"Six workers will be aboard each barge when they are towed to various points in the bay by a tug boat for the production. \u2014 Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 July 2022",
|
|
"The 75-minute Lake Erie excursions are aboard the Appledore IV and Inland Seas. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 29 June 2022",
|
|
"The robot is slated to be aboard the Chandrayaan-3 uncrewed mission to the moon. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 24 June 2022",
|
|
"Government lawyer Mathew Gullick said Friday that 37 people were originally scheduled to be aboard Tuesday\u2019s flight, but six had their deportation orders canceled. \u2014 Danica Kirka, ajc , 12 June 2022",
|
|
"Leon\u2019s best shot at winning at Belterra Park last Friday was aboard Rumble Strip Ron in the $100,000 Green Carpet Stakes. \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"Of the more than 2,400 American deaths caused by the attack, nearly half of them were aboard the Arizona. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 6 June 2022"
|
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Middle English abord , probably in part borrowed from Middle French a bord, a bort \"on board,\" in part from Middle English a- a- entry 1 + bord \"board, side of a ship\" \u2014 more at board entry 1":"Adverb or adjective",
|
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"Middle English abord , derivative of abord aboard entry 1":"Preposition"
|
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adverb or adjective",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Preposition"
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154553"
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