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583 lines
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{
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"enfant terrible":{
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"antonyms":[
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"conformer",
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"conformist"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a child whose inopportune remarks cause embarrassment":[],
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": a person known for shocking remarks or outrageous behavior":[],
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": a usually young and successful person who is strikingly unorthodox, innovative, or avant-garde":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"an author who reveled in his role as the enfant terrible of American letters",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Hopper, the movies\u2019 enfant terrible , and Hayward, the taste-making daughter of showbiz royalty, made for one of Hollywood\u2019s more unlikely yet influential power couples during the 1960s. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 May 2022",
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"Elon Musk does relish playing to the crowd as the enfant terrible of auto manufacturing, generating an insulating admiration from his fans, but Kanye and Jay-Z are truly in a bind. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
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"Now, fashion\u2019s enfant terrible returns to the ever-versatile seating, this time for a bold new outdoor edition that debuts just in time for the warmer months. \u2014 Helena Madden, ELLE Decor , 11 Mar. 2022",
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"After rave reviews but slow sales, Lollapalooza kick-started the career of enfant terrible de la Rocha and his band of merry muckrakers. \u2014 Katherine Turman, SPIN , 26 Feb. 2022",
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"His style earned him the title of the German opera world\u2019s enfant terrible . \u2014 New York Times , 9 Feb. 2022",
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"Humored my enfant terrible by inquiring about a tattoo. \u2014 Washington Post , 31 Dec. 2021",
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"Architecture's enfant terrible Odile Decq is known for her distinct style inspired by punk and goth, a result of her spending time in London in the early 1980s. \u2014 Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure , 28 Oct. 2021",
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"In the summer of 2004, Hoffman, who had recently founded LinkedIn, and Sean Parker, the Silicon Valley enfant terrible , introduced Thiel to Mark Zuckerberg, who was looking for a major investor in Facebook, then a site for college students. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1851, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French, literally, terrifying child":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u00e4\u207f-f\u00e4\u207f-te-\u02c8r\u0113bl\u1d4a"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bohemian",
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"boho",
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"counterculturist",
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"deviant",
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"free spirit",
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"heretic",
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"iconoclast",
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"individualist",
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"lone ranger",
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"lone wolf",
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"loner",
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"maverick",
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"nonconformer",
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"nonconformist"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030839",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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},
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"enfeeble":{
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"antonyms":[
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"beef (up)",
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"fortify",
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"strengthen"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to make feeble : deprive of strength":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"long periods of being confined to a hospital bed will enfeeble anyone",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
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"The goal is to blunt criticism and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2021",
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"The move may, in effect, enfeeble America's technology sector and, worse yet, leave the root problem\u2014investigating terrorism, child predation, and criminality\u2014unresolved as wrongdoers flock to alternative products. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 29 June 2020",
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"India entered its sixth week of a stringent nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, pushing an economy already enfeebled before the pandemic to the brink of collapse. \u2014 Fox News , 12 May 2020",
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"Whatever the truth, the risk is the Anwar and Azmin camps wear each other down and enfeeble the Pakatan Harapan alliance, which Mahathir chairs. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 July 2019",
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"Meanwhile, the danger AI poses is rather of human tyranny, with machines enfeebling most people, physically and intellectually, so as to leave them at the mercy of a master-class. \u2014 K.n.c., The Economist , 19 July 2019",
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"More often than not, the result is to blunt the impact of the critique and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com , 25 June 2018",
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"Mr Macron has been helped by a big parliamentary majority, and an opposition enfeebled by his new party\u2019s rise. \u2014 The Economist , 14 Apr. 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English enfeblen , from Anglo-French enfebler, enfeblir , from en- + feble feeble":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"en-",
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"in-\u02c8f\u0113-b\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for enfeeble weaken , enfeeble , debilitate , undermine , sap , cripple , disable mean to lose or cause to lose strength or vigor. weaken may imply loss of physical strength, health, soundness, or stability or of quality, intensity, or effective power. a disease that weakens the body's defenses enfeeble implies a condition of marked weakness and helplessness. enfeebled by starvation debilitate suggests a less marked or more temporary impairment of strength or vitality. the debilitating effects of surgery undermine and sap suggest a weakening by something working surreptitiously and insidiously. a poor diet undermines your health drugs had sapped his ability to think cripple implies causing a serious loss of functioning power through damaging or removing an essential part or element. crippled by arthritis disable suggests bringing about impairment or limitation in a physical or mental ability. disabled by an injury sustained at work",
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"synonyms":[
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"debilitate",
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"devitalize",
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"enervate",
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"etiolate",
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"prostrate",
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"sap",
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"soften",
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"tire",
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"waste",
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"weaken"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112459",
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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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"enfeebled":{
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"antonyms":[
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"beef (up)",
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"fortify",
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"strengthen"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to make feeble : deprive of strength":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"long periods of being confined to a hospital bed will enfeeble anyone",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
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"The goal is to blunt criticism and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2021",
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"The move may, in effect, enfeeble America's technology sector and, worse yet, leave the root problem\u2014investigating terrorism, child predation, and criminality\u2014unresolved as wrongdoers flock to alternative products. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 29 June 2020",
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"India entered its sixth week of a stringent nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, pushing an economy already enfeebled before the pandemic to the brink of collapse. \u2014 Fox News , 12 May 2020",
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"Whatever the truth, the risk is the Anwar and Azmin camps wear each other down and enfeeble the Pakatan Harapan alliance, which Mahathir chairs. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 July 2019",
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"Meanwhile, the danger AI poses is rather of human tyranny, with machines enfeebling most people, physically and intellectually, so as to leave them at the mercy of a master-class. \u2014 K.n.c., The Economist , 19 July 2019",
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"More often than not, the result is to blunt the impact of the critique and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com , 25 June 2018",
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"Mr Macron has been helped by a big parliamentary majority, and an opposition enfeebled by his new party\u2019s rise. \u2014 The Economist , 14 Apr. 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English enfeblen , from Anglo-French enfebler, enfeblir , from en- + feble feeble":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"en-",
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"in-\u02c8f\u0113-b\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for enfeeble weaken , enfeeble , debilitate , undermine , sap , cripple , disable mean to lose or cause to lose strength or vigor. weaken may imply loss of physical strength, health, soundness, or stability or of quality, intensity, or effective power. a disease that weakens the body's defenses enfeeble implies a condition of marked weakness and helplessness. enfeebled by starvation debilitate suggests a less marked or more temporary impairment of strength or vitality. the debilitating effects of surgery undermine and sap suggest a weakening by something working surreptitiously and insidiously. a poor diet undermines your health drugs had sapped his ability to think cripple implies causing a serious loss of functioning power through damaging or removing an essential part or element. crippled by arthritis disable suggests bringing about impairment or limitation in a physical or mental ability. disabled by an injury sustained at work",
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"synonyms":[
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"debilitate",
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"devitalize",
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"enervate",
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"etiolate",
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"prostrate",
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"sap",
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"soften",
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"tire",
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"waste",
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"weaken"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075228",
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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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"enfeeblement":{
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"antonyms":[
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"beef (up)",
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"fortify",
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"strengthen"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to make feeble : deprive of strength":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"long periods of being confined to a hospital bed will enfeeble anyone",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
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"The goal is to blunt criticism and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2021",
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"The move may, in effect, enfeeble America's technology sector and, worse yet, leave the root problem\u2014investigating terrorism, child predation, and criminality\u2014unresolved as wrongdoers flock to alternative products. \u2014 Robert Hackett, Fortune , 29 June 2020",
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"India entered its sixth week of a stringent nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, pushing an economy already enfeebled before the pandemic to the brink of collapse. \u2014 Fox News , 12 May 2020",
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"Whatever the truth, the risk is the Anwar and Azmin camps wear each other down and enfeeble the Pakatan Harapan alliance, which Mahathir chairs. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 July 2019",
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"Meanwhile, the danger AI poses is rather of human tyranny, with machines enfeebling most people, physically and intellectually, so as to leave them at the mercy of a master-class. \u2014 K.n.c., The Economist , 19 July 2019",
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"More often than not, the result is to blunt the impact of the critique and enfeeble the opposition. \u2014 Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com , 25 June 2018",
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"Mr Macron has been helped by a big parliamentary majority, and an opposition enfeebled by his new party\u2019s rise. \u2014 The Economist , 14 Apr. 2018"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English enfeblen , from Anglo-French enfebler, enfeblir , from en- + feble feeble":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"en-",
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"in-\u02c8f\u0113-b\u0259l"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for enfeeble weaken , enfeeble , debilitate , undermine , sap , cripple , disable mean to lose or cause to lose strength or vigor. weaken may imply loss of physical strength, health, soundness, or stability or of quality, intensity, or effective power. a disease that weakens the body's defenses enfeeble implies a condition of marked weakness and helplessness. enfeebled by starvation debilitate suggests a less marked or more temporary impairment of strength or vitality. the debilitating effects of surgery undermine and sap suggest a weakening by something working surreptitiously and insidiously. a poor diet undermines your health drugs had sapped his ability to think cripple implies causing a serious loss of functioning power through damaging or removing an essential part or element. crippled by arthritis disable suggests bringing about impairment or limitation in a physical or mental ability. disabled by an injury sustained at work",
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"synonyms":[
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"debilitate",
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"devitalize",
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"enervate",
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"etiolate",
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"prostrate",
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"sap",
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"soften",
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"tire",
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"waste",
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"weaken"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215016",
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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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"enfetter":{
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"antonyms":[
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"unbind",
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"unfetter",
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"unshackle"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to bind in fetters : enchain":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"enfettered by debt, she was in no position to take early retirement"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1599, 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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"en-",
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"in-\u02c8fe-t\u0259r"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bind",
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"chain",
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"enchain",
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"fetter",
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"gyve",
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"handcuff",
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"manacle",
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"pinion",
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"shackle",
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"trammel"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191904",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"enflame":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to become affected with inflammation":[],
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": to become excited or angered":[],
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": to burst into flame":[],
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": to cause inflammation in (bodily tissue)":[],
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": to cause to redden or grow hot from anger or excitement":[
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"a face inflamed with passion"
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],
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": to make more heated or violent : intensify":[
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"insults served only to inflame the feud"
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],
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": to set on fire : kindle":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102210",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"enflamed":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to become affected with inflammation":[],
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": to become excited or angered":[],
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": to burst into flame":[],
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": to cause inflammation in (bodily tissue)":[],
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": to cause to redden or grow hot from anger or excitement":[
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"a face inflamed with passion"
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],
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": to make more heated or violent : intensify":[
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"insults served only to inflame the feud"
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],
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": to set on fire : kindle":[]
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},
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174214",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"enfold":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": to clasp within the arms : embrace":[],
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": to cover with or as if with folds : envelop":[],
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": to surround with a covering : contain":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"The dish is made of vegetables enfolded in a pastry crust.",
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"We watched as darkness enfolded the city.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The permafrost around Fairbanks is discontinuous; jagged pieces of it finger north-facing slopes and enfold the low-lying valleys. \u2014 Lois Parshley, Anchorage Daily News , 3 May 2022",
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"Ambient keyboard chords chase and enfold themselves around Moody\u2019s voice, heightening the sparseness that always made Johnston\u2019s music great. \u2014 Kory Grow, Rolling Stone , 14 Feb. 2022",
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"It's all headed somewhere, nominally, but the storyline doesn't so much unfold on screen as enfold the viewer into its discursive world of dilapidated car parks and sad-eyed pitbulls, Marlboro Reds and backlit oil rigs. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 29 Sep. 2021",
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"But more than anything else, this enchantingly odd movie grows to enfold you in a lingering sense of melancholy that rings eerily true, especially right now. \u2014 Sara Stewart, CNN , 12 Aug. 2021",
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"Part of their narcissistic behavior in child support litigation will enfold as them trying to prove you wrong. \u2014 Patricia Fersch, Forbes , 20 May 2021",
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"Fourteen suites and guest rooms (with four more in the pipeline) and a pair of apartments enfold a courtyard shaded by umbrella pines and a century-old Lebanon cedar. \u2014 Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure , 1 May 2021",
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"Darkness enfolds the great room and all its alcoves. \u2014 Seija Rankin, EW.com , 26 May 2020",
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"But their satiny sound remained intimate, the instrumentation enfolding drummer Julien Ehrlich\u2019s upper-register vocals and Max Kakacek\u2019s economical guitar fills. \u2014 Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com , 3 Dec. 2019"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"in-\u02c8f\u014dld",
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"en-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bosom",
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"bower",
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"circumfuse",
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"cocoon",
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"embosom",
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"embower",
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"embrace",
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"enclose",
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"inclose",
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"encompass",
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"enshroud",
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"enswathe",
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"envelop",
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"enwrap",
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"invest",
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"involve",
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"lap",
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"mantle",
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"muffle",
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"shroud",
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"swathe",
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"veil",
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"wrap"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220108",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"enforce":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": constrain , compel":[
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"enforce obedience"
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],
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": to carry out effectively":[
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"enforce laws"
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],
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": to effect or gain by force":[],
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": to give force to : strengthen":[],
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": to urge with energy":[
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"enforce arguments"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Police will be enforcing the parking ban.",
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"the duty of the police is to enforce the law",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"City officials still need to approve the regulations \u2014 including whether citations will include a fine \u2014 and the budget to fund dedicated staff positions to enforce the law. \u2014 Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle , 29 June 2022",
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"Both chambers of Michigan's legislature are controlled by Republicans, who want to enforce the 1931 law. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 26 June 2022",
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"Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to let the state immediately enforce the 2019 law. \u2014 Alia Malik, ajc , 25 June 2022",
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"Failure to fully enforce the law is likely to prompt an outcry from Congress, which is in charge of oversight. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
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"The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act unlocked $27 million in new funding for customs to enforce the law, but experts are unsure if that's enough money to cover the legislation's massive scope. \u2014 Yvonne Lau, Fortune , 20 June 2022",
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"But since only the federal government has the power to enforce immigration law, Texas troopers and state guardsman can only make arrests if migrants trespass onto private property. \u2014 Amanda Su, ABC News , 20 June 2022",
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"The Supreme Court\u2019s unanimous decision allows for monetary damages under Title IX, opening a new way to help enforce the law. \u2014 USA Today , 13 June 2022",
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"Attorney General Garland has refused to enforce the law, while Democrats refuse to condemn confrontational protests against the justices. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 8 June 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French enforcer , from en- + force force":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"in-\u02c8f\u022frs",
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"en-"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"administer",
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"apply",
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"execute",
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"implement"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104640",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun",
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"transitive verb",
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"verb"
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},
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"transitive verb",
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"verb"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": to set free (as from slavery)":[],
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": to endow with a franchise: such as":[],
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": to admit to the privileges of a citizen and especially to the right of suffrage":[],
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": to admit (a municipality) to political privileges or rights":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"en-",
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"in-\u02c8fran-\u02ccch\u012bz"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"discharge",
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"disenthrall",
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"disenthral",
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"emancipate",
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"enlarge",
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"free",
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"liberate",
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"loose",
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"loosen",
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"manumit",
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"release",
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"spring",
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"unbind",
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"uncage",
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"unchain",
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"unfetter"
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],
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"antonyms":[
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"bind",
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"confine",
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"enchain",
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"fetter",
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"restrain"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"in a way, modern labor-saving appliances enfranchised people, giving them much more leisure time",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The measure to enfranchise 16-year-olds failed, but voters approved amending the village charter to allow non-citizens to vote by a margin of 727 to 571, according to the Dayton Daily News. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
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"CNN International reported last week on efforts to enfranchise noncitizens in Germany, where about 14% of the population cannot vote in federal elections like the one recently conducted there. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 12 Dec. 2021",
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"The full scope of the nationwide push to re- enfranchise the formerly incarcerated is difficult to assess because few states keep track of how many people with felony convictions register to vote. \u2014 Nicole Lewis And Andrew R. Calderon, USA TODAY , 23 June 2021",
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"Ultimately, Raskin argued, the question was whether to enfranchise the taxpayers of Washington, D.C. \u2014 Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner , 14 Apr. 2021",
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"This will enfranchise students who are immunocompromised or suffer from severe social anxiety and allow teaching to continue both inside and outside the traditional classroom as necessary. \u2014 Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com , 16 Mar. 2021",
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"Proponents pointed to last year\u2019s elections, which set records for turnout as states emphasized mail-in voting during the pandemic, as evidence of how changing policies could enfranchise more voters. \u2014 Siobhan Hughes, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2021",
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"Antis feared that giving women the right to vote would enfranchise Black citizens. \u2014 USA Today , 24 Aug. 2020",
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"Of course, this move was not applicable to all women; for example, Native American women were not fully enfranchised in Utah until 1956, as a result of a ruling in Utah\u2019s Supreme Court. \u2014 Kate Kelly, Teen Vogue , 29 Oct. 2018"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French enfranchiss- , stem of enfranchir , from en- + franc free \u2014 more at frank":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185253"
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},
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"enfranchisement":{
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"bind",
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"enchain",
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"fetter",
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"restrain"
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": to admit to the privileges of a citizen and especially to the right of suffrage":[],
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},
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"examples":[
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"in a way, modern labor-saving appliances enfranchised people, giving them much more leisure time",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The measure to enfranchise 16-year-olds failed, but voters approved amending the village charter to allow non-citizens to vote by a margin of 727 to 571, according to the Dayton Daily News. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 17 May 2022",
|
|
"CNN International reported last week on efforts to enfranchise noncitizens in Germany, where about 14% of the population cannot vote in federal elections like the one recently conducted there. \u2014 Zachary B. Wolf, CNN , 12 Dec. 2021",
|
|
"The full scope of the nationwide push to re- enfranchise the formerly incarcerated is difficult to assess because few states keep track of how many people with felony convictions register to vote. \u2014 Nicole Lewis And Andrew R. Calderon, USA TODAY , 23 June 2021",
|
|
"Ultimately, Raskin argued, the question was whether to enfranchise the taxpayers of Washington, D.C. \u2014 Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner , 14 Apr. 2021",
|
|
"This will enfranchise students who are immunocompromised or suffer from severe social anxiety and allow teaching to continue both inside and outside the traditional classroom as necessary. \u2014 Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com , 16 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"Proponents pointed to last year\u2019s elections, which set records for turnout as states emphasized mail-in voting during the pandemic, as evidence of how changing policies could enfranchise more voters. \u2014 Siobhan Hughes, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2021",
|
|
"Antis feared that giving women the right to vote would enfranchise Black citizens. \u2014 USA Today , 24 Aug. 2020",
|
|
"Of course, this move was not applicable to all women; for example, Native American women were not fully enfranchised in Utah until 1956, as a result of a ruling in Utah\u2019s Supreme Court. \u2014 Kate Kelly, Teen Vogue , 29 Oct. 2018"
|
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],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French enfranchiss- , stem of enfranchir , from en- + franc free \u2014 more at frank":""
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},
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"in-\u02c8fran-\u02ccch\u012bz",
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"en-"
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"emancipate",
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"enlarge",
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"free",
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"liberate",
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"loose",
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"loosen",
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"manumit",
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"release",
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"spring",
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"unbind",
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"uncage",
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"unchain",
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"unfetter"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110952",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120016",
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"enfranch":{
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"probably by shortening":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173204"
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},
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"type":[
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"transitive verb"
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],
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|
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"French & Latin; French enfumer , from Latin infumare , from in + fumus smoke":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201953"
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