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| to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish. |
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to lay waste; render desolate: The invaders devastated the city. Synonyms: destroy, sack, despoil, raze, ruin, level. Antonyms: create, erect, develop.
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to overwhelm. |
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to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
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Archaic. to turn aside. |
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something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
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inciting, as to action; stimulating; provocative. |
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to form into a legal corporation.
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to put or introduce into a body or mass as an integral part or parts: to incorporate revisions into a text.
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to take in or include as a part or parts, as the body or a mass does: His book incorporates his earlier essay.
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to form or combine into one body or uniform substance, as ingredients.
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to embody: His book incorporates all his thinking on the subject. |
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absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
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incapable of being disregarded or neglected: an indispensable obligation.
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a person or thing that is indispensable. |
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stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.
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alternately functioning and not functioning or alternately functioning properly and improperly.
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(of streams, lakes, or springs) recurrent; showing water only part of the time. |
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strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
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the full or extreme severity of laws, rules, etc.
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severity of living conditions; hardship; austerity: the rigor of wartime existence.
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a severe or harsh act, circumstance, etc.
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scrupulous or inflexible accuracy or adherence: the logical rigor of mathematics. |
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to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away ).
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to scatter.
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extravagant or wasteful expenditure. |
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to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
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to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die. |
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