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1 : a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river
2 : a violent disruption (as of an army) : rout
3 a : a great disaster b : a complete failure : fiasco |
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1 : a binding or thickening agent used in cooking
2 a : a close bond or connection : interrelationship b : an illicit sexual relationship : affair 3a
3 a : communication for establishing and maintaining mutual understanding and cooperation (as between parts of an armed force) b : one that establishes and maintains liaison |
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NOUN 1 archaic : a person sent ahead to provide lodgings
2 a : one that pioneers in or initiates a major change : precursor b : one that presages or foreshadows what is to come
TRANSITIVE VERB : to be a harbinger of : presage |
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Etymology: Middle English, from Latin praesagium, from praesagus having a foreboding, from prae- + sagus prophetic — more at seek
Date: 14th century
1 : something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen
2 : an intuition or feeling of what is going to happen in the future
3 archaic : prognostication
4 : warning or indication of the future |
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NOUN 1 : a person who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration
2 : a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
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| : using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
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ADJECTIVE 1 : drunk enough to be emotionally silly
2 : weakly and effusively sentimental |
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| ADJECTIVE : flagrantly wicked or impious |
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| ADJECTIVE of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning b : caused by or indicating acute discernment |
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ADJECTIVE 1.commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
2.of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry. |
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| A plant, such as a cycad or conifer, whose seeds are not enclosed within an ovary |
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1. To make soft by soaking or steeping in a liquid.
2. To separate into constituents by soaking.
3. To cause to become lean, usually by starvation; emaciate. |
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| To cause (a solid or gas) to change state without becoming a liquid. |
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1. A cover for a coffin, bier, or tomb, often made of black, purple, or white velvet.
2. A coffin, especially one being carried to a grave or tomb.
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a. A covering that darkens or obscures: a pall of smoke over the city.
b. A gloomy effect or atmosphere |
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