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injurious to health: deleterious gases.
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harmful; injurious: deleterious influences. |
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lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
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restrained or reserved in manner, conduct, etc.
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Archaic. distrustful. |
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verb (used with object)
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to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken. Synonyms: enfeeble, debilitate, sap, exhaust. |
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verb (used with object), en·fran·chised, en·fran·chis·ing.
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to grant a franchise to; admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting.
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to endow (a city, constituency, etc.) with municipal or parliamentary rights.
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to set free; liberate, as from slavery. |
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noun, plural e·piph·a·nies.
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( initial capital letter ) a Christian festival, observed on January 6, commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi; Twelfth-day.
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an appearance or manifestation, especially of a deity.
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a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.
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a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight. |
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the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
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either of the equinoctial points. |
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| common Currency of the European union economic zone |
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vanishing; fading away; fleeting.
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tending to become imperceptible; scarcely perceptible. |
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verb (used with object), ex·pur·gat·ed, ex·pur·gat·ing.
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to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
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to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness. |
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not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
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amusing; humorous.
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lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person. |
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ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing.
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having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy. |
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Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another. |
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U.S. politics.
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the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority.
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an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a day or days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose.
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a member of a legislature who makes such a speech. |
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noun Biology .
a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism. |
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