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| to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade. |
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| to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner: |
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| the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course. |
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| continuing without change; enduring; steadfast: |
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| repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome: |
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| any material or substance used for grinding, polishing, etc., as emery, pumice, or sandpaper. |
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| the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: |
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| easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use. |
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| to accustom or become accustomed to a new climate or environment; adapt. |
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| any award, honor, or laudatory notice: |
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| precipitation, as rain, snow, or sleet, containing relatively high concentrations of acid-forming chemicals, as the pollutants from coal smoke, chemical manufacturing, and smelting, that have been released into the atmosphere and combined with water vapor: harmful to the environment. |
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| the highest point; summit; peak: |
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(used with a singular verb) Physics. the branch of physics that deals with sound and sound waves.
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(used with a plural verb) the qualities or characteristics of a room, auditorium, stadium, etc., that determine the audibility or fidelity of sounds in it. |
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| tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: |
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| to relieve from a charge of fault or crime; declare not guilty: |
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| a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation. |
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| Insurance. a person who computes premium rates, dividends, risks, etc., according to probabilities based on statistical records. |
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| to put into action; start a process; turn on: |
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for the special purpose or end presently under consideration: |
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| to a sickening or disgusting degree. |
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| to bring forward in argument or as evidence; cite as pertinent or conclusive: |
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| to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence |
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| to charge, bind, or command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty. |
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| to improvise all or part of (a speech, a piece of music, etc.): |
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| tending or serving to admonish; warning: |
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