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1.A harsh, grating noise.
"the rasp of the engine"
2.A coarse file or similar metal tool with a roughened surface for scraping, filing, or rubbing down objects of metal, wood, or other hard material. |
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1.To break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space.
2.To become parted, disunited, or severed. |
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1.Having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent:
2.A listless mood; a listless handshake. |
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1.A person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.
2.One making usually showy pretenses to knowledge or ability. |
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1.A disorderly retreat of defeated troops.
"the retreat degenerated into a rout"
2.An assembly of people who have made a move toward committing an illegal act that would constitute an offense of riot. |
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1.Pleasing to the taste; palatable:
a toothsome dish.
2.Pleasing or desirable, as fame or power.
3.Voluptuous; sexually alluring:
a toothsome blonde. |
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1.A very small amount:
a smidgen of jam for your toast. |
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1.To decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of: The fire had depleted the game in the forest. Extravagant spending soon depleted his funds. |
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1.Gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
2.Characterized by or expressing gloom. |
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1.Harsh discordance of sound; dissonance:
a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails.
2.A discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds:
the cacophony produced by city traffic at midday.
3.Fequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand. |
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1.To join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
2.To unite (timbers, spars, or the like) by overlapping and binding their ends.
3.To unite (film, magnetic tape, or the like) by butting and cementing.
4.To join or unite.
5.Genetics. to join (segments of DNA or RNA) together.
6.Informal. to unite in marriage:
They'll be spliced in June. |
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1.A temporary expedient or substitute:
We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
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2.Also, makeshifty. serving as, or of the nature of, a makeshift. |
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1.A slight, superficial, or introductory knowledge of something:A smattering of Latin.
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2.Slight or superficial. |
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1.To linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place:
to loiter around the bus terminal.
2.To move in a slow, idle manner, making purposeless stops in the course of a trip, journey, errand, etc.:
to loiter on the way to work.
3.To waste time or dawdle over work:
He loiters over his homework until one in the morning.
4.To pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):To loiter away the afternoon in daydreaming. |
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1.Impudent; insolent:A cheeky fellow; cheeky behavior. |
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1.Descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
2.Something causing ruin, failure, etc.Liquor was his downfall.
3.A fall, as of rain, snow, or the like, often sudden or heavy.
4.A trap using a falling weight for killing, injuring, or imprisoning the prey. |
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1.To spread out, expand, or extend.
2.To form with an oblique angle; make slanting; bevel.
3.To make with a splay or splays.
4.To disjoin; dislocate.
5.To have an oblique or slanting direction.
6.To spread or flare.
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7.Architecture. a surface that makes an oblique angle with another, as where the opening through a wall for a window or door widens from the window or door proper toward the face of the wall.
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8.Spread out; wide and flat; turned outward.
9.Clumsy or awkward.
10.Oblique or awry. |
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1.Sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc.:
acrid smoke from burning rubber.
2.Extremely or sharply stinging or bitter; exceedingly caustic:
acrid remarks. |
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1.A fight, battle, or skirmish.
2.A competition or contest, especially in sports.
3.A noisy quarrel or brawl.
4.Archaic. fright. |
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1.To damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
2.To disfigure, deface, or scar: The scratch marred the table. |
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1.A past participle of rive.
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2.Rent or split apart.
3.Split radially, as a log. |
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1.Agreement; accord; harmonious relations.
2.A consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity.
3.Music.
Any simultaneous combination of tones.
the simultaneous combination of tones, especially when blended into chords pleasing to the ear; chordal structure, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
the science of the structure, relations, and practical combination of chords.
4.An arrangement of the contents of the Gospels, either of all four or of the first three, designed to show their parallelism, mutual relations, and differences. |
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1.A wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone,
2.Chisel plow.
3.Astronomy. the constellation Caelum.
verb (used with object), chiseled, chiseling or (especially British) chiselled, chiselling.
4.To cut, shape, or fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel.
5.To cheat or swindle (someone):He chiseled me out of fifty dollars.
6.To get (something) by cheating or trickery:He chiseled fifty dollars out of me.
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7.To work with a chisel.
8.To trick; cheat. |
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1.Pleasant to the ear; melodious:
the dulcet tones of the cello.
2.Pleasant or agreeable to the eye or the feelings; soothing.
3.Archaic. sweet to the taste or smell.
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4.An organ stop resembling the dulciana but an octave higher. |
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1.To hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
2.To shape roughly; give crude form to. |
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