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3017 lines
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{
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"drub":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": drum , stamp":[],
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": to beat severely":[],
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": to berate critically":[],
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": to defeat decisively":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"a crowd was drubbing the purse snatcher when the police arrived on the scene",
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"we drubbed our traditional football rivals so badly that it was basically no contest",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"This isn\u2019t the first time Kansas completely morphed in the second half this tournament, having trailed Miami (Fla.) by six in the first half of the Sweet 16 and then coming back to drub the Hurricanes by 26. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 5 Apr. 2022",
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"The Trojans might have found something during Williams\u2019 first game as coach, as USC scored 38 second-half point to drub Washington State. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 Sep. 2021",
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"Baylor inched one step closer to cutting down the nets as the best team in the sport, riding Butler's hot shooting to drub Houston 78-59 and reach the men's national championship game. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 3 Apr. 2021",
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"Kevin Brown gives up five runs on five hits in the second inning and the San Francisco Giants go on to drub the Dodgers 9-2 on opening day. \u2014 John Scheibe, Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2020",
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"Some Fox personalities quickly drubbed Mr. Barr for crossing the president. \u2014 Katie Benner, New York Times , 13 Feb. 2020",
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"The Scots have responded by beating Samoa 34-0 and then drubbing Russia, with 95 points scored and none conceded in their last two games. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Oct. 2019",
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"Oregon baseball avoided a four-game sweep in Hawaii by drubbing the host Warriors in Sunday\u2019s series finale. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2020",
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"The man who drubbed him and his painful left shoulder out of the Open \u2013 6-4, 7-5, 2-1 (retired) - was Stan Wawrinka, one of the toughest, hardest-hitting, big-hearted competitors in the sport \u2013 and one of the most talented, too. \u2014 Wayne Coffey, USA TODAY , 2 Sep. 2019"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1634, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"perhaps from Arabic \u1e0daraba":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8dr\u0259b"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bash",
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"baste",
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"bat",
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"batter",
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"beat",
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"belabor",
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"belt",
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"birch",
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"bludgeon",
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"buffet",
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"bung up",
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"club",
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"curry",
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"do",
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"fib",
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"flog",
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"hammer",
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"hide",
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"lace",
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"lambaste",
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"lambast",
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"lash",
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"lather",
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"lick",
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"maul",
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"mess (up)",
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"paddle",
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"pelt",
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"pommel",
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"pound",
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"pummel",
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"punch out",
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"rough (up)",
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"slate",
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"slog",
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"switch",
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"tan",
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"thrash",
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"thresh",
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"thump",
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"tromp",
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"wallop",
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"whale",
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"whip",
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"whop",
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"whap",
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"whup",
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"work over"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022137",
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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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"drubbing":{
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to beat severely":[],
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": to berate critically":[],
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": to defeat decisively":[],
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": drum , stamp":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8dr\u0259b"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"bash",
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"baste",
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"bat",
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"batter",
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"beat",
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"belabor",
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"belt",
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"birch",
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"bludgeon",
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"buffet",
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"bung up",
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"club",
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"curry",
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"do",
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"fib",
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"flog",
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"hammer",
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"hide",
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"lace",
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"lambaste",
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"lambast",
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"lash",
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"lather",
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"lick",
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"maul",
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"mess (up)",
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"paddle",
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"pelt",
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"pommel",
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"pound",
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"pummel",
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"punch out",
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"rough (up)",
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"slate",
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"slog",
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"switch",
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"tan",
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"thrash",
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"thresh",
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"thump",
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"tromp",
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"wallop",
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"whale",
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"whip",
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"whop",
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"whap",
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"whup",
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"work over"
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],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"a crowd was drubbing the purse snatcher when the police arrived on the scene",
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"we drubbed our traditional football rivals so badly that it was basically no contest",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"This isn\u2019t the first time Kansas completely morphed in the second half this tournament, having trailed Miami (Fla.) by six in the first half of the Sweet 16 and then coming back to drub the Hurricanes by 26. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 5 Apr. 2022",
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"The Trojans might have found something during Williams\u2019 first game as coach, as USC scored 38 second-half point to drub Washington State. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 Sep. 2021",
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"Baylor inched one step closer to cutting down the nets as the best team in the sport, riding Butler's hot shooting to drub Houston 78-59 and reach the men's national championship game. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 3 Apr. 2021",
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"Kevin Brown gives up five runs on five hits in the second inning and the San Francisco Giants go on to drub the Dodgers 9-2 on opening day. \u2014 John Scheibe, Los Angeles Times , 2 Apr. 2020",
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"Some Fox personalities quickly drubbed Mr. Barr for crossing the president. \u2014 Katie Benner, New York Times , 13 Feb. 2020",
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"The Scots have responded by beating Samoa 34-0 and then drubbing Russia, with 95 points scored and none conceded in their last two games. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 9 Oct. 2019",
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"Oregon baseball avoided a four-game sweep in Hawaii by drubbing the host Warriors in Sunday\u2019s series finale. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2020",
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"The man who drubbed him and his painful left shoulder out of the Open \u2013 6-4, 7-5, 2-1 (retired) - was Stan Wawrinka, one of the toughest, hardest-hitting, big-hearted competitors in the sport \u2013 and one of the most talented, too. \u2014 Wayne Coffey, USA TODAY , 2 Sep. 2019"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"perhaps from Arabic \u1e0daraba":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1634, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-103252"
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},
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"drudge":{
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"antonyms":[
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"dogsbody",
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"drone",
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"drudger",
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"fag",
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"foot soldier",
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"grub",
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"grubber",
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"grunt",
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"laborer",
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"peon",
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"plugger",
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"slave",
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"slogger",
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"toiler",
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"worker"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": menial or tedious labor":[],
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": one who is obliged to do menial work":[],
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": one whose work is routine and boring":[],
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": to do hard, menial, or monotonous work":[],
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": to force to do hard, menial, or monotonous work":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"factory workers who must drudge all day at repetitive tasks",
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"Noun",
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"She was tired of working as an office drudge .",
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"worked like a drudge at a low-paying job that had few benefits",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"While the House drudged through a partisan back-and-forth, top Republicans and Democrats in the Senate hatched a deal. \u2014 Andrew Oxford, azcentral , 24 Mar. 2020",
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"As ambitious Jim heads east, \u00c1ntonia is a disgraced, unmarried mother drudging on the farm for a churlish brother. \u2014 Robert Garnett, WSJ , 14 Sep. 2018",
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"So spare a thought on Tuesday for the half-million teenagers drudging through derivatives. \u2014 James Markarian, WSJ , 14 May 2018",
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"While drudging through hateful comments can definitely make a negative impact on your mental health, reading kind comments out loud could act as an antidote. \u2014 Brittney Mcnamara, Teen Vogue , 20 June 2017",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Samuel Johnson used similar language\u2014harmless drudge \u2014to describe the lexicographer who compiles a dictionary. \u2014 Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic , 16 Mar. 2022",
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"As any power-walker, commuter or chore drudge could tell you, the podcast is the multitasker\u2019s best friend. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Nov. 2021",
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"It\u2019s a Cinderella story, minus everything but the drudge and the stepmother. \u2014 Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times , 12 Nov. 2021",
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"Chances are, you\u2019ve been told to do all your high-level creative tasks in the morning and to save the boring drudge work (like answering emails) until later in the day. \u2014 Pia Silva, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
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"This type of automation can also lead to a better employee experience as drudge work slides off their plates. \u2014 Gil Allouche, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2021",
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"His subsequent doldrums include encounters with the Greys, conformist drudges who dress in black and white and often plod around with their eyes glued to their phones. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 July 2019",
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"Buy Photo Is automation destroying familiar jobs, reducing drudge work, collecting more information than anyone expected, and opening opportunities",
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"Sure, a competent operating person would be nice, to offload some of the drudge work. \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 30 Dec. 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English druggen":"Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8dr\u0259j"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bang away",
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"beaver (away)",
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"dig (away)",
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"endeavor",
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"fag",
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"grub",
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"hump",
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"hustle",
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"labor",
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"moil",
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"peg (away)",
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"plod",
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"plow",
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"plug",
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"slave",
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"slog",
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"strain",
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"strive",
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"struggle",
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"sweat",
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"toil",
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"travail",
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"tug",
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"work"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222359",
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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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"drudger":{
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"antonyms":[
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"dogsbody",
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"drone",
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"drudger",
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"fag",
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"foot soldier",
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"grub",
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"grubber",
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"grunt",
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"laborer",
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"peon",
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"plugger",
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"slave",
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"slogger",
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"toiler",
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"worker"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": menial or tedious labor":[],
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": one who is obliged to do menial work":[],
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": one whose work is routine and boring":[],
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": to do hard, menial, or monotonous work":[],
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": to force to do hard, menial, or monotonous work":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Verb",
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"factory workers who must drudge all day at repetitive tasks",
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"Noun",
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"She was tired of working as an office drudge .",
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"worked like a drudge at a low-paying job that had few benefits",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"While the House drudged through a partisan back-and-forth, top Republicans and Democrats in the Senate hatched a deal. \u2014 Andrew Oxford, azcentral , 24 Mar. 2020",
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"As ambitious Jim heads east, \u00c1ntonia is a disgraced, unmarried mother drudging on the farm for a churlish brother. \u2014 Robert Garnett, WSJ , 14 Sep. 2018",
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"So spare a thought on Tuesday for the half-million teenagers drudging through derivatives. \u2014 James Markarian, WSJ , 14 May 2018",
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"While drudging through hateful comments can definitely make a negative impact on your mental health, reading kind comments out loud could act as an antidote. \u2014 Brittney Mcnamara, Teen Vogue , 20 June 2017",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Samuel Johnson used similar language\u2014harmless drudge \u2014to describe the lexicographer who compiles a dictionary. \u2014 Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic , 16 Mar. 2022",
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"As any power-walker, commuter or chore drudge could tell you, the podcast is the multitasker\u2019s best friend. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Nov. 2021",
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"It\u2019s a Cinderella story, minus everything but the drudge and the stepmother. \u2014 Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times , 12 Nov. 2021",
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"Chances are, you\u2019ve been told to do all your high-level creative tasks in the morning and to save the boring drudge work (like answering emails) until later in the day. \u2014 Pia Silva, Forbes , 1 Nov. 2021",
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"This type of automation can also lead to a better employee experience as drudge work slides off their plates. \u2014 Gil Allouche, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2021",
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"His subsequent doldrums include encounters with the Greys, conformist drudges who dress in black and white and often plod around with their eyes glued to their phones. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 July 2019",
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"Buy Photo Is automation destroying familiar jobs, reducing drudge work, collecting more information than anyone expected, and opening opportunities",
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"Sure, a competent operating person would be nice, to offload some of the drudge work. \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 30 Dec. 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English druggen":"Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8dr\u0259j"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bang away",
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"beaver (away)",
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"dig (away)",
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"endeavor",
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"fag",
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"grub",
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"hump",
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"hustle",
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"labor",
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"moil",
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"peg (away)",
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"plod",
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"plow",
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"plug",
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"slave",
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"slog",
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"strain",
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"strive",
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"struggle",
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"sweat",
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"toil",
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"travail",
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"tug",
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"work"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045428",
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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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"drudging":{
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"antonyms":[
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"absorbing",
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"engaging",
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"engrossing",
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"gripping",
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"interesting",
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"intriguing",
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"involving",
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"riveting"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": monotonous , tiring":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"the hours of drudging effort that went into straightening out the company's books"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1548, 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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"\u02c8dr\u0259-ji\u014b"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"arid",
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"boring",
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"colorless",
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"drab",
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"dreary",
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"dry",
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"dull",
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"dusty",
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"flat",
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"heavy",
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"ho-hum",
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"humdrum",
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"jading",
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"jejune",
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"leaden",
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"mind-numbing",
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"monochromatic",
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"monotonous",
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"numbing",
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"old",
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"pedestrian",
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"ponderous",
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"slow",
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"stale",
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"stodgy",
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"stuffy",
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"stupid",
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"tame",
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"tedious",
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"tiresome",
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"tiring",
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"uninteresting",
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"wearisome",
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"weary",
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"wearying"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042305",
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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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"drug":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a commodity that is not salable or for which there is no demand (see demand entry 1 sense 3a )":[
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"\u2014 used in the phrase drug on the market"
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],
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": a substance intended for use as a component of a medicine but not a device or a component, part, or accessory of a device":[],
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": a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease":[
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"prescription drugs",
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"drugs for treating high blood pressure"
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],
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": a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body":[],
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": a substance recognized in an official pharmacopoeia or formulary (see formulary sense 3 )":[],
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": a substance used as a medication or in the preparation of medication":[],
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": a substance used in dyeing or chemical operations":[],
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": something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation (see habituation sense 2b ), or a marked change in consciousness":[
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"keeping teens off drugs",
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"heroin and other hard drugs"
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],
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": to administer a drug to":[
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"drugged against pain"
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],
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": to lull or stupefy as if with a drug":[
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"the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics",
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"\u2014 Time"
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],
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": to take drugs for narcotic effect":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"a new drug used to treat people with high blood pressure",
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"an experimental drug for the treatment of AIDS",
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"Have you ever taken any illegal drugs ",
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"I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs .",
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"Verb",
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"He looks like he's been drugged .",
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"Someone could have drugged your drink.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"The drug charges carry a potential 10-year sentence. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
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"Arrested at the Moscow airport in February on drug charges, Griner has regular phone contact with her Russian lawyers, the official said, but U.S. consular personnel have not seen her since May 19. \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Laura King And Tracy Wilkinson, Anchorage Daily News , 22 June 2022",
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"These drug charges include conspiracy to supply cocaine and amphetamine. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 22 June 2022",
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"Griner was detained in Russia on drug charges in February when hashish oil was allegedly discovered in her luggage when entering the country to play there during the WNBA\u2019s off-season. \u2014 Marisa Dellatto, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
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"Drug raids at two Leeds homes led to the arrests of two people on drug charges, and a third for obstructing government operations. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
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"In October 2021, Fetty Wap was apprehended at hip-hop fest Rolling Loud \u2014 also held at Citi Field \u2014 on federal drug charges. \u2014 Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone , 12 June 2022",
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"The suspects, both are in their 20s and were wanted for felony drug charges. \u2014 Joan Rusek, cleveland , 8 June 2022",
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"The Barry County Sheriff's Office said in Facebook posts that the men, two of whom were booked on drug charges and the other on a stealing charge, broke out of jail overnight. \u2014 Will Mcduffie, ABC News , 7 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"Linda Joy Traitz, a former waitress at a restaurant owned in part by Cosby, wrote a long Facebook post accusing him of trying to drug her in the early '70s. \u2014 Chris Francescani, ABC News , 30 June 2021",
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"Huntsville police drug their feet in working with the committee. \u2014 Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al , 28 Apr. 2021",
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"One chapter was about a profoundly disabled man who tried and then tried again to starve himself to death\u2014until finally, at his rabid insistence, his mother agreed to drug him and hold a plastic bag over his head. \u2014 Katie Engelhart, The Atlantic , 2 Mar. 2021",
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"The famed comedian\u2019s first trial, on charges of drugging and assaulting one woman, ended with a hung jury in June 2017. \u2014 Deanna Paul, WSJ , 22 Jan. 2020",
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"Another consultant delivered similar findings in early 2013, although his credibility was undermined when he was accused of drugging and assaulting several women in Portland. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Apr. 2020",
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"Shortly after Garrison left the company, an employee named Mary Ann Olszewski sued Bloomberg LP in 1996, alleging that she was drugged and raped by her supervisor. \u2014 Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Feb. 2020",
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"Prosecutors have called to the stand five other women who said Cosby drugged and assaulted them, too. \u2014 Michael R. Sisak, chicagotribune.com , 16 Apr. 2018",
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"Prosecutors have called to the stand five other women who said Cosby drugged and assaulted them, too. \u2014 Tyler Mccarthy, Fox News , 16 Apr. 2018"
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"1611, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Noun",
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English drogge":"Noun and Verb"
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},
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"\u02c8dr\u0259g"
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],
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"medicine",
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"pharmaceutical",
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"physic",
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"remedy",
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],
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"They pass around a joint and exchange druggy mumbles. Another night to get bored, get stoned.",
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"\u2014 Richard Corliss",
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"Combining the revelry of disco and the disorientation of psychedelia , rave music tends to be brazenly druggy , in both its sound and its lyrical allusions.",
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"\u2014 Simon Reynolds"
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]
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"an old college classmate who became a druggie and ended up on skid row",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"To coming back and being mentally out, a druggie and an alcoholic\u2014all of the rest of the stuff\u2014I\u2019m not ashamed of it. \u2014 Josh Katzowitz, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"The Factory was a porous, chaotic arena for scene-making, drawing in exhibitionists, druggies , socialites, rock stars, movie stars, Ivy Leaguers and, most critically, journalists. \u2014 Stephen Metcalf, Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 2020",
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"Blake Lively stars as a druggie prostitute whose family was lost in a plane crash. \u2014 Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com , 8 Feb. 2020",
|
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"With the murder finally solved \u2014 Emmett was killed during a grocery store hold-up by a druggie robber \u2014 Bassett says a huge weight will be lifted off of her character\u2019s shoulders and her heart. \u2014 Rosy Cordero, EW.com , 5 Nov. 2019",
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"Burroughs\u2019 connection with Smith feels deeper, beyond druggie antics and glam personae, partly because she was drawn to him as a man, not just as an idol. \u2014 Alexander C. Kafka, Houston Chronicle , 29 June 2019",
|
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"Burroughs\u2019s connection with Patti Smith feels deeper, beyond druggie antics and glam personae, partly because she was drawn to him as a man, not just as an idol. \u2014 Alexander C. Kafka, Washington Post , 21 June 2019",
|
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"She\u2019s interrupted by the arrival of two hard-core druggie brothers who proceed to cook up an appalling batch of low-rent meth. \u2014 Jean Thompson, New York Times , 27 Apr. 2018",
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"It\u2019s participants were scorned as troublemakers and druggies . \u2014 Jacob Feldman, SI.com , 2 July 2018"
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"1966, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"\u02c8dr\u0259-g\u0113"
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],
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"addict",
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"dopehead",
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"doper",
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"fiend",
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"freak",
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"head",
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"hophead",
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"hype",
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"junkie",
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"junky",
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"stoner",
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"user"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085503",
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
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": associated with, affected by, or suggestive of drugs or drug use":[
|
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"They pass around a joint and exchange druggy mumbles. Another night to get bored, get stoned.",
|
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"\u2014 Richard Corliss",
|
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"Combining the revelry of disco and the disorientation of psychedelia , rave music tends to be brazenly druggy , in both its sound and its lyrical allusions.",
|
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"\u2014 Simon Reynolds"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"examples":[],
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|
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"1583, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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"\u02c8dr\u0259-g\u0113"
|
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190450",
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"type":[
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|
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"noun"
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]
|
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},
|
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"drum":{
|
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"antonyms":[
|
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"beat",
|
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"rap",
|
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"tap"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a cylindrical machine or mechanical device or part":[],
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": a disk-shaped magazine for an automatic weapon":[],
|
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": a long narrow hill or ridge":[],
|
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": a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow shell or cylinder with a drumhead stretched over one or both ends that is beaten with the hands or with some implement (such as a stick or wire brush)":[],
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": a round wall or structure that supports a dome":[],
|
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": any of the cylindrical blocks that form the shaft of a column":[],
|
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": any of various chiefly marine bony fishes (family Sciaenidae) that make a drumming or croaking noise using their air bladder and associated muscles":[],
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": drumlin":[],
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": something resembling a drum in shape: such as":[],
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": to beat a drum":[],
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": to dismiss ignominiously : expel":[
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"\u2014 usually used with out"
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],
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": to drive or force by steady effort or reiteration":[
|
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"drummed the speech into her head"
|
|
],
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": to make a succession of strokes or vibrations that produce sounds like drumbeats":[],
|
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": to produce (rhythmic sounds) by such action":[],
|
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": to stir up interest : solicit":[],
|
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": to strike or tap repeatedly":[],
|
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": to summon or enlist by or as if by beating a drum":[
|
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"were drummed into service"
|
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],
|
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": to throb or sound rhythmically":[],
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": tympanic membrane":[]
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},
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"examples":[
|
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"Verb",
|
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"She drummed while he played the guitar.",
|
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"Her fingers drummed nervously on the table.",
|
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"He was nervously drumming a pencil on the desk."
|
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],
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|
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"1582, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
|
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"1732, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
|
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"circa 1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"Scottish Gaelic druim back, ridge, from Old Irish druimm":"Noun",
|
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"probably from Dutch trom ; akin to Middle High German trumme drum":"Noun"
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259m"
|
|
],
|
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|
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|
|
"barrel",
|
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"can",
|
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"canister",
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"cannister",
|
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"tin"
|
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],
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081955",
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"noun",
|
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"verb"
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211531",
|
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|
|
"phrasal verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"drum stuffing":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a rapid method of stuffing a leather by rotating it in a heated drum until warm, adding liquid grease to the drum, and then rotating again for a short time":[]
|
|
},
|
|
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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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|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"drum switch":{
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
": an electric switch in which the connecting parts are held by spring pressure against contact surfaces in a revolving cylinder or sector":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200037",
|
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|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
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|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a round-topped table supported on a central pedestal with a deep apron often containing drawers":[]
|
|
},
|
|
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|
|
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|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014744",
|
|
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|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"drum up":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": invent , originate":[
|
|
"drum up a new method"
|
|
],
|
|
": to bring about by persistent effort":[
|
|
"drum up some business"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune"
|
|
],
|
|
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|
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"1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"concoct",
|
|
"construct",
|
|
"contrive",
|
|
"cook (up)",
|
|
"devise",
|
|
"excogitate",
|
|
"fabricate",
|
|
"invent",
|
|
"make up",
|
|
"manufacture",
|
|
"think (up)",
|
|
"trump up",
|
|
"vamp (up)"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105948",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"drum washer":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a drum for washing paper pulp":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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|
|
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|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
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|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064405",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"drum winding":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": an armature winding in which the coils are arranged upon the outer surface of a cylinder with those under consecutive poles being united by end connections":[
|
|
"\u2014 distinguished from ring winding"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
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|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012002",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"drum-stretch":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": to fasten (as fabric) to another material by drawing taut and securing at the edges":[],
|
|
": to flatten and dry out (pasted or wet materials) by fastening clamps or weights to the edges":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[],
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
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|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005032",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"transitive verb"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"drumbeat":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": drumfire sense 2":[],
|
|
": vociferous advocacy of a cause":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"I could hear the drumbeat of a parade down the street.",
|
|
"a dizzying drumbeat of interviews in the hours following her winning of the Academy Award",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Democratic strategists argued that such a massive change in the legal landscape will trigger a drumbeat of news coverage as states adapt to the new legal realities, keeping the issue front of mind for a sustained period. \u2014 Annie Linskey, Colby Itkowitz, Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Initiated by police officers, school officials and panicked family members, the Suffolk County cases sounded a drumbeat of domestic mayhem and potential disaster. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
|
|
"Beijing, meantime, has rolled a steady drumbeat of tightening measures in recent weeks that have prompted a small number of residents to flee the city and many others to restock their pantries. \u2014 Jonathan Cheng, WSJ , 8 May 2022",
|
|
"But a drumbeat of humiliation for Russia could further sow discord inside the military, political and intelligence elites. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 1 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Happy to take up that drumbeat , though, is Kemp's challenger David Perdue, a former senator who lost to Jon Ossoff but who has embraced a MAGA-edge in his campaigning to return to office. \u2014 Isabella Murray, ABC News , 24 May 2022",
|
|
"Against the drumbeat of violence in Northern Ireland, author Audrey Magee juxtaposes an exploration of art, language, and love. \u2014 Staff, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"But the drumbeat to defund the police has been drowned out by the reality of rising crime rates in cities around the country. \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 May 2022",
|
|
"In a video uploaded to YouTube by a concert attendee, Arroyo is seen having some banter with frontman Eddie Vedder before the whole band helps him get started on the drumbeat . \u2014 Rania Aniftos, Billboard , 13 May 2022"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1817, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259m-\u02ccb\u0113t"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"barrage",
|
|
"blitz",
|
|
"blitzkrieg",
|
|
"bombardment",
|
|
"cannonade",
|
|
"drumfire",
|
|
"flurry",
|
|
"fusillade",
|
|
"hail",
|
|
"salvo",
|
|
"shower",
|
|
"storm",
|
|
"volley"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071603",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"drumfire":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": artillery firing so continuous as to sound like a drumroll":[],
|
|
": something suggestive of drumfire in intensity : barrage":[
|
|
"a drumfire of publicity"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"a rising drumfire of criticism for the president's latest nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1915, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
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},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259m-\u02ccf\u012b(-\u0259)r"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"barrage",
|
|
"blitz",
|
|
"blitzkrieg",
|
|
"bombardment",
|
|
"cannonade",
|
|
"drumbeat",
|
|
"flurry",
|
|
"fusillade",
|
|
"hail",
|
|
"salvo",
|
|
"shower",
|
|
"storm",
|
|
"volley"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-092000",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"drumstick":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a stick for beating a drum":[],
|
|
": the segment of a fowl's leg between the thigh and tarsus":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The town also used to decorate him for every holiday: a pair of cupid\u2019s wings for Valentine\u2019s Day, light-up bunny ears for Easter and a massive drumstick for Thanksgiving. \u2014 Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Tsukune, ground chicken formed in the shape of a drumstick and served with an egg yolk for dipping, is exceptional. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
|
|
"Arrange veal, beef and pork on 6 skewers; pressing pieces of meat closely together forming the shape of a drumstick . \u2014 Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune , 20 May 2022",
|
|
"Kelbie didn't complete his quest to break 21 records but still holds titles for most drumstick flips in one minute, fastest time to build a 10-toilet-roll pyramid, longest duration spinning a basketball on the nose and 10 others. \u2014 Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY , 23 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"To get the rushed snare of the beats from the as-yet-unreleased Fantastic, Vol. 2, Questlove trained himself to let his drumstick fall on the snare just slightly too soon after the kick drum. \u2014 Dan Charnas, Rolling Stone , 23 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"But the biggest prep: Stan spent months learning to play the drums, Tommy Lee style, complete with the drumstick twirl. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 20 Jan. 2022",
|
|
"The 96-cent drumstick was a last-minute addition to an online order her daughter had placed just two hours before. \u2014 David Marcelis, WSJ , 28 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"Collins has said a spinal injury and a long roster of other physical ailments have left him barely able to even hold a drumstick . \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Nov. 2021"
|
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": dominated by an intense feeling":[
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],
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"examples":[
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"Adjective",
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"I don't like being around drunk people.",
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"She was so drunk that she could barely walk.",
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"I was drunk and couldn't think straight.",
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"We got drunk on wine.",
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"Noun",
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"you can't trust anything that old drunk says",
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"after a weeklong drunk he was unable to remember anything",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
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"That\u2019s when the witness confronted the driver, who appeared to be drunk . \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 21 June 2022",
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"The last sips of wine were drunk at a speed that would have made Dionysus proud. \u2014 Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure , 18 June 2022",
|
|
"Giuliani on Tuesday challenged Miller's testimony and denied being drunk on election night at the White House. \u2014 Jonathan Karl, ABC News , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"Indeed, the Talmud spends page after page restricting the circumstances in which the waters are drunk . \u2014 Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel , 6 June 2022",
|
|
"And because Miranda has been drinking too much in general, and is drunk during the scene, and because Che is high, those factors added more layers of nuance. \u2014 Kate Aurthur, Variety , 3 June 2022",
|
|
"The social aspect of coffee drinking in Saudi Arabia is held dearly, with decorum dictating how coffee should be drunk and which hand it should be poured with. \u2014 Hadas Gold And Abeer Salman, CNN , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"The man failed sobriety testing and was found to have a blood-alcohol content of .228, well over the state minimum for drunk driving of .08. \u2014 cleveland , 14 June 2022",
|
|
"That hasn\u2019t deterred Barden in his mission to make gun violence socially and culturally unacceptable, like drunk driving or not wearing a seatbelt; to try, unceasingly, to protect other children and families. \u2014 Michelle Ruiz, Vogue , 3 June 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
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"The preliminary hearing on the felony drunk -driving charges faced by former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was supposed to occur on Thursday in Las Vegas. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 12 June 2022",
|
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"Facing felony drunk -driving charges, former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III is not currently subject to electronic monitoring, according to court records. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 19 May 2022",
|
|
"On average, 28 people are killed in drunk -driving crashes every day in the U.S., according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. \u2014 Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"An outspoken conservative of the 1970s, Martha Mitchell was characterized as a brash, crazy drunk with a wild imagination. \u2014 Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine , 21 Apr. 2022",
|
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"The man had stumbled into the bar drunk and carrying a tumbler of alcohol. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 1 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"For an actor, there\u2019s an obvious showboat appeal to playing a serious out-of-control drunk . \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 25 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"What could be better for an aspiring writer \u2014 or a budding drunk ",
|
|
"Consuming too much tea can make one relax and feel light-headed: tea drunk . \u2014 Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN , 22 Mar. 2022"
|
|
],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
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"1779, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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|
"Middle English drunke , alteration of drunken":"Adjective"
|
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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|
"\u02c8dr\u0259\u014bk"
|
|
],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"besotted",
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|
"blasted",
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"blind",
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"blotto",
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"bombed",
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|
"boozy",
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|
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|
"cockeyed",
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|
"crocked",
|
|
"drunken",
|
|
"fried",
|
|
"gassed",
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|
"hammered",
|
|
"high",
|
|
"impaired",
|
|
"inebriate",
|
|
"inebriated",
|
|
"intoxicated",
|
|
"juiced",
|
|
"lit",
|
|
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|
"loaded",
|
|
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|
"oiled",
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|
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|
"pie-eyed",
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|
"plastered",
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|
"potted",
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|
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|
"sloshed",
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|
"smashed",
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"squiffed",
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"stinking",
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"stoned",
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"tanked",
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|
"tiddly",
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"tight",
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|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073812",
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|
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
|
|
": one who is habitually drunk":[]
|
|
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|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Her father was a drunkard .",
|
|
"accused him of being a no-good drunkard who needed professional help for his problem",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The Irish tell a story about a notorious drunkard and trickster named Jack. \u2014 Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 Oct. 2021",
|
|
"In several, his character died as a frustrated lover and a drunkard . \u2014 Ashok Sharma, USA TODAY , 7 July 2021",
|
|
"In several, his character died as a frustrated lover and a drunkard . \u2014 Ashok Sharma, ajc , 7 July 2021",
|
|
"The Duke is a louche drunkard , trying to drown out his family\u2019s brutal legacy. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 4 May 2021",
|
|
"Imagine a drunkard stumbling around a room and bouncing off the walls. \u2014 Kenneth Chang, New York Times , 18 Mar. 2020",
|
|
"The mansion is a masterclass in Korean modernism, made by a and filled with , with a manicured green lawn and hedges to keep the world\u2014and its unwieldy drunkards \u2014out. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 8 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"Kudos to those who refused to kowtow to the fears that drunkards might declare the tree to be their own private Everest. \u2014 al , 5 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"Does this mean that the calculation for the drunkard \u2019s walk doesn\u2019t work on a rectangular grid"
|
|
],
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|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259\u014b-k\u0259rd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
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|
|
"alkie",
|
|
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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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|
|
"sot",
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233110",
|
|
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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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|
|
"straight"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": drunk sense 1":[
|
|
"a drunken driver"
|
|
],
|
|
": given to habitual excessive use of alcohol":[],
|
|
": of, relating to, or characterized by intoxication":[
|
|
"they come from \u2026 broken homes, drunken homes",
|
|
"\u2014 P. B. Gilliam"
|
|
],
|
|
": resulting from or as if from intoxication":[
|
|
"a drunken brawl"
|
|
],
|
|
": saturated with liquid":[],
|
|
": unsteady or lurching as if from alcoholic intoxication":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"The streets were filled with drunken revelers on New Year's Eve.",
|
|
"He lives in an apartment with his drunken mother.",
|
|
"He fell into a drunken stupor.",
|
|
"A drunken brawl broke out at the bar.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The prosecutor also said Cripe had a 2000 arrest for drunken driving in Nevada. \u2014 Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Jondi Lopez-Celestino, 30, of Joliet, was arrested and accused of drunken driving May 21 at U.S. 30 and Interstate 80, police said. \u2014 Daily Southtown Staff, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill this week that would require drunken drivers convicted of killing anyone with children to pay child support, in a first for a U.S. state. \u2014 Allison Prang, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"In Troy, where patrol officers receive advanced training for detecting impaired drivers, police arrested six drunken drivers on just one recent night in January. \u2014 Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press , 7 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"That includes drunken drivers or those with criminal intent. \u2014 Fox News , 25 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The study had found that 100 of the 222 bars, restaurants and other businesses serving alcohol within the court\u2019s jurisdiction had produced 249 drunken drivers since September of 1982. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 July 2021",
|
|
"Troopers from each of the agency\u2019s 11 barracks will be on the lookout for drunken drivers during roving patrols from Thursday through Monday nights, state police said. \u2014 Christine Dempsey, courant.com , 27 May 2021",
|
|
"Hell, this is a league that has given second, third and fourth chances to accused murderers, wife beaters, dog killers, drug addicts and drunken drivers who\u2019ve killed people. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com , 22 May 2021"
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
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|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Old English druncen , from past participle of drincan to drink":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259\u014b-k\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"besotted",
|
|
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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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|
|
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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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|
|
"plastered",
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"sloshed",
|
|
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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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|
|
"tiddly",
|
|
"tight",
|
|
"tipsy",
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
},
|
|
"drunkenness":{
|
|
"antonyms":[
|
|
"sober",
|
|
"straight"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": drunk sense 1":[
|
|
"a drunken driver"
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"\u2014 P. B. Gilliam"
|
|
],
|
|
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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":[
|
|
"The streets were filled with drunken revelers on New Year's Eve.",
|
|
"He lives in an apartment with his drunken mother.",
|
|
"He fell into a drunken stupor.",
|
|
"A drunken brawl broke out at the bar.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The prosecutor also said Cripe had a 2000 arrest for drunken driving in Nevada. \u2014 Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
|
|
"Jondi Lopez-Celestino, 30, of Joliet, was arrested and accused of drunken driving May 21 at U.S. 30 and Interstate 80, police said. \u2014 Daily Southtown Staff, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
|
|
"Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill this week that would require drunken drivers convicted of killing anyone with children to pay child support, in a first for a U.S. state. \u2014 Allison Prang, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"In Troy, where patrol officers receive advanced training for detecting impaired drivers, police arrested six drunken drivers on just one recent night in January. \u2014 Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press , 7 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"That includes drunken drivers or those with criminal intent. \u2014 Fox News , 25 Nov. 2021",
|
|
"The study had found that 100 of the 222 bars, restaurants and other businesses serving alcohol within the court\u2019s jurisdiction had produced 249 drunken drivers since September of 1982. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 July 2021",
|
|
"Troopers from each of the agency\u2019s 11 barracks will be on the lookout for drunken drivers during roving patrols from Thursday through Monday nights, state police said. \u2014 Christine Dempsey, courant.com , 27 May 2021",
|
|
"Hell, this is a league that has given second, third and fourth chances to accused murderers, wife beaters, dog killers, drug addicts and drunken drivers who\u2019ve killed people. \u2014 Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com , 22 May 2021"
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
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|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English, from Old English druncen , from past participle of drincan to drink":""
|
|
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|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259\u014b-k\u0259n"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"besotted",
|
|
"blasted",
|
|
"blind",
|
|
"blitzed",
|
|
"blotto",
|
|
"bombed",
|
|
"boozy",
|
|
"canned",
|
|
"cockeyed",
|
|
"crocked",
|
|
"drunk",
|
|
"fried",
|
|
"gassed",
|
|
"hammered",
|
|
"high",
|
|
"impaired",
|
|
"inebriate",
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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|
|
"lit",
|
|
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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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|
|
"ripped",
|
|
"sloshed",
|
|
"smashed",
|
|
"sottish",
|
|
"soused",
|
|
"sozzled",
|
|
"squiffed",
|
|
"squiffy",
|
|
"stewed",
|
|
"stiff",
|
|
"stinking",
|
|
"stoned",
|
|
"tanked",
|
|
"tiddly",
|
|
"tight",
|
|
"tipsy",
|
|
"wasted",
|
|
"wet",
|
|
"wiped out"
|
|
],
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-184939",
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective",
|
|
"adverb",
|
|
"noun"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"druthers":{
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": free choice : preference":[
|
|
"\u2014 used especially in the phrase if one had one's druthers"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"Someone has to pay, and if businesses have their druthers that someone is someone else. \u2014 Justin Lahart, WSJ , 14 July 2021",
|
|
"If Peter DeBoer had his druthers , the Vegas Golden Knights coach would roll his regular four lines and rely on his team's depth to score. \u2014 Randy Johnson, Star Tribune , 18 May 2021",
|
|
"Given their druthers , the Spurs would prefer to enter any kind of extra game soaring instead of sliding. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 5 May 2021",
|
|
"Given their druthers , at least a couple of his should-be peers bound for Atlanta would just as soon skip it all, too. \u2014 Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News , 25 Feb. 2021"
|
|
],
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1870, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"druther , alteration of would rather":""
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259-t\u035fh\u0259rz"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"alternative",
|
|
"choice",
|
|
"discretion",
|
|
"election",
|
|
"liberty",
|
|
"option",
|
|
"pick",
|
|
"preference",
|
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"selection",
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"volition",
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"way"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163017",
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"type":[
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"plural noun"
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]
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},
|
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"drugget":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a wool or partly wool fabric formerly used for clothing":[],
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": a coarse durable cloth used chiefly as a floor covering":[],
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": a rug having a cotton warp and a wool filling":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8dr\u0259-g\u0259t"
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],
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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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"Middle French droguet , diminutive of drogue trash, drug":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1564, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150937"
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},
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"drumhead court-martial":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a summary court-martial that tries offenses on the battlefield":[]
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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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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"And men like Lang Long, a Cambodian who was trafficked and sold into the Thai fishing industry, are modern-day Billy Budds in a system that lacks even the rough justice of a drumhead court-martial . \u2014 Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post , 12 Sep. 2019"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
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"from the use of a drumhead as a table":""
|
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},
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1796, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-184740"
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},
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"drum into":{
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"type":[
|
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"phrasal verb"
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": to force (something) to be learned by (someone) by repeating it over and over again":[
|
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"Our teacher drummed the lesson into our heads.",
|
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"The importance of saying \"please\" and \"thank you\" was drummed into us as children."
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]
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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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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194235"
|
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},
|
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"druggery":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
|
],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": drugs , medicine":[],
|
|
": the practice of giving drugs":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8dr\u0259g\u0259r\u0113"
|
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],
|
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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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"Middle French droguerie , from drogue drug (from Middle Dutch dr\u014dge ) + -erie -ery":""
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},
|
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-203019"
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},
|
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"drumhead":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": the material (such as skin or plastic) stretched over one or both ends of a drum":[],
|
|
": the top of a capstan that is pierced with sockets for the levers used in turning it":[]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"-\u02cched",
|
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"\u02c8dr\u0259m-\u02cched"
|
|
],
|
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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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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
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"The court in Ashe Stadium stayed dry as torrential rain pounded on its drumhead of a closed roof. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Sep. 2021",
|
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"The recipes that began arriving were indeed simple and quick to make\u2014time being stretched tight as a drumhead for all parents. \u2014 Joshua David Stein, WSJ , 25 June 2021",
|
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"There\u2019s also a drumhead with ephemera signed by Foo Fighters. \u2014 Paul Grein, Billboard , 29 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Bongo: More musical than a tin can or the back of a frying pan, McFadden says a drumhead will deliver rhythm but not melody. \u2014 oregonlive , 13 Apr. 2020",
|
|
"In many cases, NEMs decoupled from their nearest neighbors and remotely synchronized, vibrating in phase with tiny drumheads elsewhere in the ring. \u2014 Natalie Wolchover, WIRED , 7 Apr. 2019",
|
|
"Tying all of it together is Baker, sitting upright in his kit like a proper gentleman but smashing drumheads and cymbals like a toddler throwing a tantrum. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Oct. 2019",
|
|
"In many cases, NEMs decoupled from their nearest neighbors and remotely synchronized, vibrating in phase with tiny drumheads elsewhere in the ring. \u2014 Natalie Wolchover, WIRED , 7 Apr. 2019",
|
|
"In many cases, NEMs decoupled from their nearest neighbors and remotely synchronized, vibrating in phase with tiny drumheads elsewhere in the ring. \u2014 Natalie Wolchover, WIRED , 7 Apr. 2019"
|
|
],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-224701"
|
|
},
|
|
"drum gate":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a hinged gate at the top of a dam consisting of a horizontal cylindrical sector that can be raised from its compartment to increase the height of the spillway":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"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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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-235004"
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},
|
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"druggist":{
|
|
"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a person who sells or dispenses drugs and medicines: such as":[],
|
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": pharmacist":[],
|
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": one who owns or manages a drugstore":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259-gist",
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259g-\u0259st",
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259-g\u0259st"
|
|
],
|
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"synonyms":[
|
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"apothecary",
|
|
"chemist",
|
|
"pharmacist"
|
|
],
|
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"antonyms":[],
|
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"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[
|
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"Your local druggist can fill the prescription.",
|
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"she got her prescription for antibiotics filled by the druggist",
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"White supports his theories with some crucial pieces of overlooked evidence, such as a brief mention in a newspaper story connecting Berner to a druggist who would have had access to strychnine. \u2014 Maia Silber, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
|
|
"His father, a druggist and the village president of Blue River, Wisconsin, had served in the 54th Infantry during World War I. \u2014 Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com , 2 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"Some were tradesmen\u2014people like coach and harness maker Charles Bebee, goldsmith Jean Claude Mairot, and druggist Joseph Dufilho. \u2014 Joshua D. Rothman, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"Pemberton, a pharmacist, sold the formula to a fellow- druggist , Asa Griggs Candler, and for years it could be found only at white soda fountains. \u2014 Charles Bethea, The New Yorker , 19 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"Yet questioning both the medical student and the druggist led the police nowhere, and over the next few days, all leads ran dry. \u2014 Paula Larsson, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2021",
|
|
"Back in 1833, two men \u2014 a miller and a druggist who grew herbs \u2014 decided to make and sell drugs and essential oils. \u2014 Dallas News , 17 Jan. 2021",
|
|
"Francis was sentenced to die for the murder of St. Martinville, Louisiana, druggist Andrew Thomas, who once employed Francis. \u2014 CBS News , 30 Dec. 2020",
|
|
"Rosebud Salve was invented in 1892 by a druggist as a family salve that works for chapped lips, skin, blemishes, diaper rash, or detergent burn. \u2014 Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science , 27 Oct. 2020"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1608, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000338"
|
|
},
|
|
"drum kit":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a set of drums and cymbals":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"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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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000845"
|
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},
|
|
"druggister":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": druggist":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dru\u0307g-",
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259g(\u0259\u0307)st\u0259(r)"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"French droguiste + English -er":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-015923"
|
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},
|
|
"drugger":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": druggist":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"drug + -er":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-041144"
|
|
},
|
|
"drugs":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun",
|
|
"verb"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a substance used as a medication or in the preparation of medication":[],
|
|
": a substance recognized in an official pharmacopoeia or formulary (see formulary sense 3 )":[],
|
|
": a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease":[
|
|
"prescription drugs",
|
|
"drugs for treating high blood pressure"
|
|
],
|
|
": a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body":[],
|
|
": a substance intended for use as a component of a medicine but not a device or a component, part, or accessory of a device":[],
|
|
": something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation (see habituation sense 2b ), or a marked change in consciousness":[
|
|
"keeping teens off drugs",
|
|
"heroin and other hard drugs"
|
|
],
|
|
": a commodity that is not salable or for which there is no demand (see demand entry 1 sense 3a )":[
|
|
"\u2014 used in the phrase drug on the market"
|
|
],
|
|
": a substance used in dyeing or chemical operations":[],
|
|
": to administer a drug to":[
|
|
"drugged against pain"
|
|
],
|
|
": to lull or stupefy as if with a drug":[
|
|
"the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics",
|
|
"\u2014 Time"
|
|
],
|
|
": to take drugs for narcotic effect":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259g"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[
|
|
"cure",
|
|
"medicament",
|
|
"medication",
|
|
"medicinal",
|
|
"medicine",
|
|
"pharmaceutical",
|
|
"physic",
|
|
"remedy",
|
|
"specific"
|
|
],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Noun",
|
|
"a new drug used to treat people with high blood pressure",
|
|
"an experimental drug for the treatment of AIDS",
|
|
"Have you ever taken any illegal drugs ",
|
|
"I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs .",
|
|
"Verb",
|
|
"He looks like he's been drugged .",
|
|
"Someone could have drugged your drink.",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
|
|
"The drug charges carry a potential 10-year sentence. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"Arrested at the Moscow airport in February on drug charges, Griner has regular phone contact with her Russian lawyers, the official said, but U.S. consular personnel have not seen her since May 19. \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Laura King And Tracy Wilkinson, Anchorage Daily News , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"These drug charges include conspiracy to supply cocaine and amphetamine. \u2014 Lawrence Richard, Fox News , 22 June 2022",
|
|
"Griner was detained in Russia on drug charges in February when hashish oil was allegedly discovered in her luggage when entering the country to play there during the WNBA\u2019s off-season. \u2014 Marisa Dellatto, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
|
|
"Drug raids at two Leeds homes led to the arrests of two people on drug charges, and a third for obstructing government operations. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 16 June 2022",
|
|
"In October 2021, Fetty Wap was apprehended at hip-hop fest Rolling Loud \u2014 also held at Citi Field \u2014 on federal drug charges. \u2014 Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone , 12 June 2022",
|
|
"The suspects, both are in their 20s and were wanted for felony drug charges. \u2014 Joan Rusek, cleveland , 8 June 2022",
|
|
"The Barry County Sheriff's Office said in Facebook posts that the men, two of whom were booked on drug charges and the other on a stealing charge, broke out of jail overnight. \u2014 Will Mcduffie, ABC News , 7 June 2022",
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
|
|
"Linda Joy Traitz, a former waitress at a restaurant owned in part by Cosby, wrote a long Facebook post accusing him of trying to drug her in the early '70s. \u2014 Chris Francescani, ABC News , 30 June 2021",
|
|
"Huntsville police drug their feet in working with the committee. \u2014 Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al , 28 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"One chapter was about a profoundly disabled man who tried and then tried again to starve himself to death\u2014until finally, at his rabid insistence, his mother agreed to drug him and hold a plastic bag over his head. \u2014 Katie Engelhart, The Atlantic , 2 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"The famed comedian\u2019s first trial, on charges of drugging and assaulting one woman, ended with a hung jury in June 2017. \u2014 Deanna Paul, WSJ , 22 Jan. 2020",
|
|
"Another consultant delivered similar findings in early 2013, although his credibility was undermined when he was accused of drugging and assaulting several women in Portland. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Apr. 2020",
|
|
"Shortly after Garrison left the company, an employee named Mary Ann Olszewski sued Bloomberg LP in 1996, alleging that she was drugged and raped by her supervisor. \u2014 Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Feb. 2020",
|
|
"Prosecutors have called to the stand five other women who said Cosby drugged and assaulted them, too. \u2014 Michael R. Sisak, chicagotribune.com , 16 Apr. 2018",
|
|
"Prosecutors have called to the stand five other women who said Cosby drugged and assaulted them, too. \u2014 Tyler Mccarthy, Fox News , 16 Apr. 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"Middle English drogge":"Noun and Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1611, in the meaning defined at sense 4":"Noun",
|
|
"1667, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":"Verb"
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-045227"
|
|
},
|
|
"drugged":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"adjective"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": affected, intoxicated, or stupefied by a narcotic drug or by the habitual use of such drugs":[
|
|
"\u2026 teens and subteens abandoned or abused by parents too drunk, drugged , or crazed to care for them.",
|
|
"\u2014 Myron Magnet",
|
|
"I like sane people, and loathe drunk people, drugged people, crazy people.",
|
|
"\u2014 George Bernard Shaw",
|
|
"\u2014 often used in combination with -out or -up Russell Brand, known for a movie role as a drugged-out rock star, has a new show premiering Thursday. \u2014 Bill Brioux \u2026 she's hired to investigate death threats sent to the depressed, drugged-out husband of sexy soap star Clemency Courtney \u2026 \u2014 Publishers Weekly \u2026 his portrayal of Byron deftly exposes the whimpering, drugged-up prima donna behind the rock idol's image. \u2014 Monty Brower"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u0259gd"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"1812, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054751"
|
|
},
|
|
"drunk driver":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a person who drives a vehicle while drunk":[
|
|
"He was killed by a drunk driver ."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
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"examples":[],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{},
|
|
"first_known_use":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-064526"
|
|
},
|
|
"drupe":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": a one-seeded indehiscent fruit having a hard bony endocarp, a fleshy mesocarp, and a thin exocarp that is flexible (as in the cherry) or dry and almost leathery (as in the almond)":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[
|
|
"\u02c8dr\u00fcp"
|
|
],
|
|
"synonyms":[],
|
|
"antonyms":[],
|
|
"synonym_discussion":"",
|
|
"examples":[
|
|
"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"But the monumental tree in the village of Vouves does more than make drupe fruit. \u2014 Richard Stenger, CNN , 10 Feb. 2022",
|
|
"Each orb of citrus, berry, or drupe feels like a special gift from the earth, a sweet surprise that can both quench your thirst and fill your stomach. \u2014 Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com , 9 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"Botanically speaking, stone fruits are a type of drupe : thin-skin fruits with soft flesh around a hard stone or pit encasing their seeds. \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 11 Aug. 2020",
|
|
"Milks made from almonds and coconuts (which are technically drupes ) are a couple of the most common, versatile dairy alternatives out there. \u2014 Jenna Birch, Washington Post , 3 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Peanuts are legumes, pine nuts are the seeds of pines, and almonds, pecans, cashews, and walnuts are the seeds of fruits classified as drupes . \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 26 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Botanically, the olive is a drupe , as are cherries, almonds, and plums \u2014 a fair amount of flesh and a stone-hard pit. \u2014 Bill St. John, The Denver Post , 12 June 2019",
|
|
"In any botanist's book that means they're technically classified as fruits \u2014 specifically a kind called drupes , a.k.a. stone fruits. \u2014 Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping , 11 Dec. 2018",
|
|
"Well, fortunately, from drinks to desserts, the fruit\u2014 technically speaking, a drupe \u2014 is one of the more versatile growing in area soils. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 30 May 2018"
|
|
],
|
|
"history_and_etymology":{
|
|
"New Latin drupa , from Latin, overripe olive, from Greek dryppa olive":""
|
|
},
|
|
"first_known_use":{
|
|
"circa 1753, in the meaning defined above":""
|
|
},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-080642"
|
|
},
|
|
"drumfish":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": drum entry 1 sense 5":[]
|
|
},
|
|
"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
|
"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":{},
|
|
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-110457"
|
|
},
|
|
"drunk driving":{
|
|
"type":[
|
|
"noun"
|
|
],
|
|
"definitions":{
|
|
": the act of driving a vehicle while drunk":[
|
|
"He was arrested for drunk driving ."
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[],
|
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"synonyms":[],
|
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": dark and gloomy":[
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"drumlie winter, dark and drear",
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"\u2014 Robert Burns"
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": in a muddle : confused , troubled":[]
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"alteration of Middle English drubly":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-150132"
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"drupelet":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"\u02c8dr\u00fc-pl\u0259t"
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"When weather is dry, sunny, breezy and hot, some of the drupelets may be scalded. \u2014 Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com , 8 Aug. 2019",
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"This is white drupelet disorder, which is a fancy way of saying sunscald. \u2014 Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com , 8 Aug. 2019"
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"1880, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-154526"
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"drug dealer":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-161235"
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"definitions":{
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": dull, irksome , and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor":[
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"the drudgery of his job"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8dr\u0259-j\u0259-r\u0113",
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"\u02c8dr\u0259j-r\u0113"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"donkeywork",
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"drudge",
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"fatigue",
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"grind",
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"labor",
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"moil",
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"slavery",
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"sweat",
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"toil",
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"travail"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"fun",
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"play"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for drudgery work , labor , travail , toil , drudgery , grind mean activity involving effort or exertion. work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force. too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion. farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering. years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor. his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor. an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body. the grind of the assembly line",
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"examples":[
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"He hated the drudgery of his job.",
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"in the \u201cgood old days\u201d household servants led lives filled with much drudgery and little pleasure",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"For her, the tent became an escape from the drudgery and isolation of working the overnight shift at Amazon. \u2014 Greg Jaffe, Washington Post , 12 June 2022",
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"What if access to gear could encourage more people of color to escape into the outdoors, away from the ceaseless drudgery of 2020",
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"While the Inquisitors have tracked lesser Jedi across the galaxy, one in particular, Reva (Moses Ingram), appears obsessed with locating Kenobi, who is living an existence of desert drudgery while hiding in plain view. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 27 May 2022",
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"With features like these, the Hydrow is aiming to make working out more of an experience than daily drudgery . \u2014 Brittany Vincent, SELF , 3 May 2022",
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"The reopening came as employees continued to signal their displeasure with cubicle drudgery . \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 13 Apr. 2022",
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"Going back to work is a return to normalcy after two years of pandemic drudgery . \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 20 Apr. 2022",
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"At least participating in the games provides a real opportunity to get rich - ordinary life promises only drudgery , hardship, and ever-accumulating debt. \u2014 Dani Di Placido, Forbes , 30 Sep. 2021",
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"Their exhaustion came not from the drudgery of commuting to and from a desk job but from the inherent slog of living in a body in 2021 \u2014 a grinding and disappointing year. \u2014 New York Times , 14 Mar. 2022"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"see drudge entry 1":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1550, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-181737"
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},
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"drug test":{
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"noun,",
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"transitive verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a test that examines a bodily specimen (as of urine, saliva, blood, or hair) for the presence of one or more usually illegal or banned substances (such as cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, or anabolic steroids)":[
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"a positive drug test",
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"He was brandishing a shot-gun, and a drug test after his arrest revealed traces of PCP.",
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"\u2014 Alan Light",
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"When an athlete has been using EPO and faces a drug test , a standard way of passing it is to dilute his blood with a saline solution.",
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"\u2014 Samuel Abt",
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"\u2026 the one-year suspension California horse-racing officials gave him for a positive drug test on one of his horses while he was college student and part-time trainer.",
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"\u2014 Joe Drape"
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],
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": a study and especially a clinical trial for testing a therapeutic agent":[
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"The drug tests are blinded so that participating patients and doctors \u2026 don't know who is receiving the drug and who is receiving a placebo.",
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"\u2014 Rhonda L. Rundle"
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]
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},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"first_known_use":{
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"1863, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-183943"
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},
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"drugstore":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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"pronounciation":[
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"-\u02ccst\u014d(\u0259)r, -\u02ccst\u022f(\u0259)r",
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"\u02c8dr\u0259g-\u02ccst\u022fr"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"apothecary",
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"pharmacy"
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],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"we picked up her medicine and some toothpaste at the drugstore",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Gel Extra Hold is about $4 at your local drugstore or Sally Beauty. \u2014 Jihan Forbes, Allure , 31 May 2022",
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"Anyone who has strolled the hair- and skin-care aisles of their local drugstore knows there are a bewildering array of products. \u2014 Kate Murphy, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
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"The pattern is established from the start, when Aldous is in a drugstore with Gerald, sweating through the beginnings of a high that will continue through a mountain hike with his ailing wife. \u2014 Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker , 20 Dec. 2021",
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"Our first voyager, Huxley, played by Harry Hadden-Paton, has his initial drug experience in a Rexall drugstore . \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 13 Dec. 2021",
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"Now, Rita Moreno gives the classic a new way of living, making her version world-wearier, as sung alone in a drugstore by Doc's widow Valentina (an original character written for Moreno, who won an Oscar in 1962 for her portrayal of Anita). \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 10 Dec. 2021",
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"The library didn\u2019t have an official name and was housed in a town drugstore , the website indicates. \u2014 James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com , 30 Oct. 2021",
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"She\u2019s the kind of person who goes along with any plan and can spend 20 minutes in a drugstore trying on funny pairs of reading glasses with you. \u2014 Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic , 9 Aug. 2021",
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"Appointments were encouraged and can be scheduled through the drugstore company's website at walgreens.com/ScheduleVaccine or by calling (800)-Walgreens. Contact IndyStar reporter Shari Rudavsky at shari.rudavsky@indystar.com. \u2014 Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star , 21 June 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1771, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-184352"
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},
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"drupaceous":{
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": of or relating to a drupe":[],
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": bearing drupes":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"dr\u00fc-\u02c8p\u0101-sh\u0259s"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-185051"
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},
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"drum machine":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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"examples":[
|
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
|
|
"The ready-for-the-floor art-pop adventure sees the D.C.-born band and its collaborators paint liberally with jangly guitar, traveling bass lines, drum machine patter, and synths that shimmer one moment and wallop the next. \u2014 Thomas Floyd, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
|
|
"The Crap is at once chaotic and defanged, with rudimentary drum machine grooves doing a poor job of taking the place of Headon. \u2014 Al Shipley, SPIN , 14 May 2022",
|
|
"Antonoff fooled around with some simple keyboard voicings on a warm-sounding vintage synth, then programmed a spare, mid-tempo track on a drum machine . \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
|
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"It can be plugged into keyboard, drum machine or digital audio workstation (DAW), and there\u2019s even a headphone jack so DJs can listen and play without turning the rest of the house into a club. \u2014 Danielle Directo-meston, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 May 2022",
|
|
"On it, Stepney layers his own performances on piano and vibraphone over an early drum machine , for a bare-bones insight into his talents. \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 25 Mar. 2022",
|
|
"Both moods cut just as deep in De Souza\u2019s six-string slow burners, whether jangly or jagged, with bits of Auto-Tune and drum machine patterns sewn in. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Van Etten took on the record\u2019s guitar, synthesizers, piano, drum machine , wurlitzer, keys, and more. \u2014 Marisa Whitaker, SPIN , 6 Apr. 2022",
|
|
"Musician-inventor Roger Linn and his Akai MPC3000 drum machine upended J Dilla\u2019s creative life. \u2014 Randall Roberts Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 25 Feb. 2022"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{
|
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"1976, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191901"
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},
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"drupiferous":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"adjective"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": bearing drupes":[]
|
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},
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"(\u02c8)dr\u00fc\u00a6pif(\u0259)r\u0259s"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210646"
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},
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"drugstore fold":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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|
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-213837"
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},
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"drugster":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": druggist":[]
|
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},
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|
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"drug + -ster":""
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-230702"
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},
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"drugola":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": payola in the form of illicit drugs":[]
|
|
},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02ccdr\u0259g\u02c8\u014dl\u0259"
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|
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"drug entry 1 + -ola (as in payola )":""
|
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-000628"
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},
|
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"drupes":{
|
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"type":[
|
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|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a one-seeded indehiscent fruit having a hard bony endocarp, a fleshy mesocarp, and a thin exocarp that is flexible (as in the cherry) or dry and almost leathery (as in the almond)":[]
|
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8dr\u00fcp"
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],
|
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"But the monumental tree in the village of Vouves does more than make drupe fruit. \u2014 Richard Stenger, CNN , 10 Feb. 2022",
|
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"Each orb of citrus, berry, or drupe feels like a special gift from the earth, a sweet surprise that can both quench your thirst and fill your stomach. \u2014 Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com , 9 Apr. 2021",
|
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"Botanically speaking, stone fruits are a type of drupe : thin-skin fruits with soft flesh around a hard stone or pit encasing their seeds. \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 11 Aug. 2020",
|
|
"Milks made from almonds and coconuts (which are technically drupes ) are a couple of the most common, versatile dairy alternatives out there. \u2014 Jenna Birch, Washington Post , 3 Dec. 2019",
|
|
"Peanuts are legumes, pine nuts are the seeds of pines, and almonds, pecans, cashews, and walnuts are the seeds of fruits classified as drupes . \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 26 Sep. 2019",
|
|
"Botanically, the olive is a drupe , as are cherries, almonds, and plums \u2014 a fair amount of flesh and a stone-hard pit. \u2014 Bill St. John, The Denver Post , 12 June 2019",
|
|
"In any botanist's book that means they're technically classified as fruits \u2014 specifically a kind called drupes , a.k.a. stone fruits. \u2014 Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping , 11 Dec. 2018",
|
|
"Well, fortunately, from drinks to desserts, the fruit\u2014 technically speaking, a drupe \u2014 is one of the more versatile growing in area soils. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 30 May 2018"
|
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],
|
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin drupa , from Latin, overripe olive, from Greek dryppa olive":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1753, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014602"
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},
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"Drupa":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": a mountain-dwelling nomadic people of Tibet":[],
|
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": a member of the Drupa people":[]
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8dr\u00fcp\u0259"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-015354"
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},
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"Drusus":{
|
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"type":[
|
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"biographical name"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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"38\u20139 b.c.":[
|
|
"Nero \\ \u02c8n\u0113-\u200b(\u02cc)r\u014d , \u02c8nir-\u200b(\u02cc)\u014d \\",
|
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"Claudius Drusus Germanicus \\ (\u02cc)jer-\u200b\u02c8ma-\u200bni-\u200bk\u0259s \\"
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],
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"Roman general":[
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"Nero \\ \u02c8n\u0113-\u200b(\u02cc)r\u014d , \u02c8nir-\u200b(\u02cc)\u014d \\",
|
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"Claudius Drusus Germanicus \\ (\u02cc)jer-\u200b\u02c8ma-\u200bni-\u200bk\u0259s \\"
|
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]
|
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},
|
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"pronounciation":[
|
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"\u02c8dr\u00fc-s\u0259s"
|
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],
|
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024844"
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},
|
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"drum one's fingers":{
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"type":[
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"idiom"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
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": to rapidly tap one's fingertips (on a surface)":[
|
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"She was drumming her fingers on the table."
|
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]
|
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-061808"
|
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},
|
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"drugstore cowboy":{
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"type":[
|
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"noun"
|
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],
|
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"definitions":{
|
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": one who wears cowboy clothes but has had no experience as a cowboy":[],
|
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": one who loafs on street corners and in drugstores":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-064617"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Pfizer doesn\u2019t have any long COVID studies underway, but is assessing their possibility, the drugmaker said in an email. \u2014 Jason Gale, Fortune , 15 Apr. 2022",
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"So far, two of the new drugs, both from drugmaker Novo Nordisk, have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. \u2014 Lauren Dunn, NBC News , 10 June 2022",
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"On the short list is Civica Rx, a nonprofit drugmaker based in Utah. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
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"The additional 36,000 doses, from Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic, should arrive in the near future, CNBC reported Monday, citing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 6 June 2022",
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"The drugmaker also plans to provide help with public education, training for health care providers and drug supply management. \u2014 Tom Murphy, BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2022",
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"West Virginia reached a $99 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson\u2019s subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. last month over the drugmaker \u2019s role in perpetuating the opioid crisis in the state that has long led the nation in drug overdose deaths. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 26 May 2022",
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"The drugmaker also plans to provide help with public education, training for health-care providers and drug supply management. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 May 2022",
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"The drugmaker Indivior reported $244 million in revenue from Sublocade last year alone, with a company goal to eventually make $1 billion in annual sales. \u2014 Jenny Gold, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 May 2022"
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": one of an ancient Celtic priesthood appearing in Irish and Welsh sagas and Christian legends as magicians and wizards":[]
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"\u02c8dr\u00fc-id"
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"On the winter solstice, visitors traditionally have had opportunity to enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local pagan and druid groups. \u2014 Forrest Brown, CNN , 21 Dec. 2021",
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"Kobold Press provided a sample item that druid players will find useful. \u2014 Rob Wieland, Forbes , 1 Mar. 2021",
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"That name draws from ancient druid traditions when people harvested mistletoe from oak trees, which was recorded by the Roman historian Pliny the Elder in the first century, according to NASA. \u2014 Ryan Prior, CNN , 1 Dec. 2020",
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"Asterix is indomitable, however, because his druid friend Getafix gives him a special potion to drink. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic , 16 June 2020",
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"People from all over the world including tourists, druids , and pagans come together to watch the sunrise above the stone formation (though this year it has been canceled). \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 19 Mar. 2020",
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"Its folk history may tie it to druids and secretive scholars, but the designs look as current and chic as anything dreamed up today. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2020",
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"Mistletoe had long been revered by druids , while holly and ivy were celebrated in English songs at least from the 15th century. \u2014 Anne Lawrence-mathers, Quartz , 24 Dec. 2019",
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"Another name, the Oak Moon, comes from ties to ancient druid traditions of harvesting mistletoe from oak trees first recorded by the Roman historian Pliny the Elder in the 1st century CE. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 11 Dec. 2019"
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"Latin druides, druidae , plural, from Gaulish druides ; akin to Old Irish dru\u00ed druid, and perhaps to Old English tr\u0113ow tree":""
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"1563, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-072339"
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"drugstore beetle":{
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
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": a small light-brown beetle ( Stegobium paniceum ) of the family Anobiidae that infests stored products (as tobacco and drugs) and old books":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-091743"
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"And that Phil Mickelson was their drum major is even less of a surprise. \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 15 June 2022",
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"Dressed as a drum major in gleaming white for the finale, Jackman could outshine a fairy-tale prince. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
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"Dabney, who plays the trumpet and French horn, is a drum major for the school\u2019s Marching Rams. \u2014 al , 14 Nov. 2021",
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"Nas came out dressed in full drum major regalia and conducted the song's blaring horns. \u2014 Marcus Jones, EW.com , 13 Sep. 2021",
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"His stint as the legendary UC drum major brought him to the attention of Abe Saperstein, the promoter of the Harlem Globetrotters, who hired Poynter to perform during halftime shows twirling batons, machetes and flaming torches. \u2014 Jeff Suess, The Enquirer , 29 Aug. 2021",
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"My mom had gone there; my uncle had been a drum major in the \u201980s; my sister was on the volleyball team. \u2014 Adam Harris, The Atlantic , 26 July 2021",
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"With virtual learning, their son missed out on the senior year traditions of high school and being a drum major . \u2014 Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com , 22 Dec. 2020",
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"As drum major , Knight arranged the intricate ensemble choreography and music \u2014 Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, a little Crime Mob to represent for ATL. \u2014 Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard , 5 Nov. 2020"
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"1807, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-113454"
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"He got drummed out of the military."
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Outlined in neon lights, a 46-foot-high drum majorette twirling a baton graces the College Grove Shopping Center. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 June 2019",
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"Her ensemble featured a white suit by Catherine Walker with drum majorette gold frogging and epaulettes, along with an impeccable white cap. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR , 11 Mar. 2019",
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"Plastic gold trophies--Miss Nude Brunette among them--line shelves along the wall, and large cardboard boxes brim with the glittery outfits Leah wears onstage: drum majorette , Catholic schoolgirl, even a Nintendo Mario Brother. \u2014 Jennifer Wolff Perrine, Redbook , 15 Feb. 2012",
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"The sophomore and drum majorette was taking shelter from rain in Harsh Park after final exams at King College Prep High School when, prosecutors have said, Ward got out of a car driven by Williams and opened fire. \u2014 Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com , 5 Apr. 2018",
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"Less than two weeks earlier, Pendleton had performed as a drum majorette at President Barack Obama\u2019s inauguration. \u2014 Thom Duffy, Billboard , 24 Mar. 2018",
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"Emily participated in crew, was a drum majorette and excelled in her studies, graduating from high school within 3 years. \u2014 courant.com , 27 Jan. 2018",
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"These dancelines developed out of the drum majorette tradition. \u2014 Zack Arias, Smithsonian , 29 Jan. 2017"
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"1923, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"definitions":{
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": a member of a religious sect originating among Muslims and centered in Lebanon and Syria":[]
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"Arabic Dur\u016bz , plural, from Mu\u1e25ammad ibn-Isma\u02bd\u012bl al- Daraz\u012b \u20201019 Muslim religious leader":""
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"first_known_use":{
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"1855, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-003237"
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"drunk tank":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The Bohemian waxwings that got drunk on fermented berries and then were locked in the government\u2019s avian drunk tank . \u2014 Eva Holland, Outside Online , 23 May 2019",
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"The first week of January was then flooded with other seating position polls, with commenters weighing in on the best seat in a doomsday bunker, a Subway, an NYPD drunk tank , the Golden Globes, and the Seinfeld apartment. \u2014 Andrea Park, Marie Claire , 22 Dec. 2020",
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|
"The young folksinger from upstate New York spent a night in a drunk tank in New Orleans with a man who used the name Mr. Bojangles. \u2014 Eva Hambach, National Geographic , 26 Oct. 2020",
|
|
"Their jail is used primarily as a drunk tank ; 97% of the crimes committed by Alaska natives involve alcohol. \u2014 CBS News , 3 June 2019",
|
|
"The planet is merely a drunk tank for heaven, a pointless stop on a final journey. \u2014 Greg Gutfeld, Fox News , 12 Sep. 2018"
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],
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"1947, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-035116"
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"druidical bead":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
|
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": adder stone":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-043558"
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"type":[
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],
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"definitions":{
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": an elongate or oval hill of glacial drift":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8dr\u0259m-l\u0259n"
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],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Try the Parnell segment for an especially hilly hike along glacial features including moraines, kettles, eskers and drumlins . \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 17 May 2018",
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"At the very back of his lot his garden pitches upward \u2014 as the property was a glacial drumlin . \u2014 Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 25 June 2017",
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"Moraines and gentle drumlins rose and fell along the riverside, creating miniature highlands shrouded in red oak and sugar maple. \u2014 Porter Fox, New York Times , 19 Aug. 2016"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Irish druim back, ridge (from Old Irish druimm ) + English -lin (alteration of -ling )":""
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"1812, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-054405"
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"definitions":{
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": a place for drinking liquor : saloon":[]
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"\u02c8dr\u0259\u014bk\u0259r\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-092505"
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"drummer":{
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"type":[
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],
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"definitions":{
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": one that plays a drum":[
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"\u2014 sometimes used figuratively in phrases denoting unconventional thought or action march to a different drummer"
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],
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": traveling salesman":[]
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"\u02c8dr\u0259-m\u0259r"
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"The band got a new drummer .",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Becker\u2019s grandfather was a studio drummer , his dad plays guitar and sings in rock and roll and blues bands, and his mother is a prolific oil painter. \u2014 Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 July 2022",
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"Well, essentially a lot of the rhythm stuff at the front end, even to this day, was based around playing guitar without a drummer . \u2014 Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer , 1 July 2022",
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"In the front, a drummer is perched on a seat to beat in rhythm with the strokes and motivate the team; in the back, a steerer keeps the boat on course. \u2014 Serena Puang, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
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"As a teen-ager in Calcutta, Anand, who is forty-four, dreamed of being a drummer like Dave Grohl. \u2014 Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
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"Lennon was making a rare live appearance at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival and needed a drummer . \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 26 May 2022",
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"But eventually, Huber, a guitarist, and Breese, a drummer , built an inventory that would make Jimi Hendrix jealous. \u2014 Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press , 15 May 2022",
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"Whereas for example, with the Stones, Charlie was a jazz drummer . \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 8 May 2022",
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"The segment was kicked off with a tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who was scheduled to perform at the awards before his shocking death last week. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 3 Apr. 2022"
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"1574, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-094318"
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"drusy":{
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"type":[
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],
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"definitions":{
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": covered with minute crystals : containing cavities lined with crystals":[
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"a drusy surface",
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"a drusy vein"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-z\u0113"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-101327"
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"definitions":{
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": not using drugs":[
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"drugless therapy"
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"\u02c8dr\u0259gl\u0259\u0307s"
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"town in southern Quebec, Canada, northeast of Montreal population 71,852":[]
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"definitions":{
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"William 1585\u20131649 Scottish poet":[]
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"\u02c8h\u022f-\u02ccth\u022frn-d\u0259n"
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"definitions":{
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": soft ice that slows up the stone in curling":[]
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"drug entry 3":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
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"after Thomas Drummond \u20201840 British engineer":""
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": having decayed spots in the heartwood":[]
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"alteration of earlier dricksie , from obsolete drix decayed part of timber + -y":""
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": a roll on a drum or its sound":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"But despite the chatter surrounding this utilitarian accessory detail, there\u2019s something to be said about a good old-fashioned handbag carried with\u2014 drumroll \u2014your hands. \u2014 Nicole Kliest, Vogue , 1 May 2022",
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"On Easter Sunday, Holmes was photographed in New York City wearing a long brown coat over loose-fitting jeans with ( drumroll , please) a pair of white leather sneakers with strap closures. \u2014 Alex Warner, PEOPLE.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
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"Kardashian's glowing complexion before her and Barker's Vegas ceremony was made possible by\u2026 drumroll please\u2026 a new Charlotte Tilbury product that was sold out when Kardashian walked the Grammys red carpet Sunday evening. \u2014 Eva Thomas, PEOPLE.com , 6 Apr. 2022",
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"The teaser also offers a glimpse of \u2014 drumroll , please \u2014 Oscar and Emmy nominee Uma Thurman as Ariana Huffington, the HuffPost cofounder and Uber board member. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 22 Dec. 2021",
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"The resolution will present the party\u2019s 100-year history as a story of heroic sacrifice and success, a drumroll of preliminary articles in party media indicates. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Nov. 2021",
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"And researchers at the University of Oxford have found both Pfizer and ( drumroll , please) AstraZeneca as effective against the Delta variant (although as mentioned above efficacy fades with time). \u2014 Christine Estima, refinery29.com , 25 Aug. 2021",
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"This is one of those increasingly rare instances where a food product is, drumroll , as advertised. \u2014 Ali Francis, Bon App\u00e9tit , 30 Aug. 2021",
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"Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana announced a new cookie Tuesday called, drumroll please, Adventurefuls. \u2014 Sylvia Goodman, The Courier-Journal , 18 Aug. 2021"
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"1810, in the meaning defined above":""
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"drunken saw":{
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": a circular saw fixed askew on its spindle so as to cut a groove whose width is determined by the angle of tilt of the saw":[]
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": one of an ancient Celtic priesthood appearing in Irish and Welsh sagas and Christian legends as magicians and wizards":[]
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"\u02c8dr\u00fc-id"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"On the winter solstice, visitors traditionally have had opportunity to enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local pagan and druid groups. \u2014 Forrest Brown, CNN , 21 Dec. 2021",
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"Kobold Press provided a sample item that druid players will find useful. \u2014 Rob Wieland, Forbes , 1 Mar. 2021",
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"That name draws from ancient druid traditions when people harvested mistletoe from oak trees, which was recorded by the Roman historian Pliny the Elder in the first century, according to NASA. \u2014 Ryan Prior, CNN , 1 Dec. 2020",
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"Asterix is indomitable, however, because his druid friend Getafix gives him a special potion to drink. \u2014 Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic , 16 June 2020",
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"People from all over the world including tourists, druids , and pagans come together to watch the sunrise above the stone formation (though this year it has been canceled). \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 19 Mar. 2020",
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"Its folk history may tie it to druids and secretive scholars, but the designs look as current and chic as anything dreamed up today. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2020",
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"Mistletoe had long been revered by druids , while holly and ivy were celebrated in English songs at least from the 15th century. \u2014 Anne Lawrence-mathers, Quartz , 24 Dec. 2019",
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"Another name, the Oak Moon, comes from ties to ancient druid traditions of harvesting mistletoe from oak trees first recorded by the Roman historian Pliny the Elder in the 1st century CE. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 11 Dec. 2019"
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"Latin druides, druidae , plural, from Gaulish druides ; akin to Old Irish dru\u00ed druid, and perhaps to Old English tr\u0113ow tree":""
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"1563, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-052711"
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"Drummond's phlox":{
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"definitions":{
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": a phlox ( Phlox drummondii ) native to Texas and widely cultivated in many varieties as an ornamental":[]
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"-m\u0259n(d)z-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"after James Drummond \u20201863 British botanical collector":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-052826"
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"druid stone":{
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"definitions":{
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": one of the sarsen stones of Great Britain often found in ancient stone circles":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-094454"
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"drum sander":{
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"definitions":{
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": a cylindrical wheel with abrasive (as sandpaper) mounted on its outer curved surface and used for sanding flat surfaces of decorative stones":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-100329"
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"drum saw":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-102827"
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"drum scale":{
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"definitions":{
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": cylinder scale":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-115153"
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"drum sieve":{
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": a sieve in a box like a drum used for fine powders":[]
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"definitions":{
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": tympanic membrane":[]
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"Dutch trommenslager, trommelslager , from tromme, trommel drum + slager beater, from slagen to beat (from Middle Dutch slaen ) + -er ; akin to Old English sl\u0113an to beat, slay":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-234038"
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"drum slide":{
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"type":[
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"definitions":{
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": a drawing of the backs of the fingers across the strings of a banjo to produce an arpeggio chord":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-235212"
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