To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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of Dice
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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…
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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…
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Gone.
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Gone.
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Suffocated; choked.
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Suffocated; choked.
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To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
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To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]
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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…
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To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
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The ear, or its lobe.
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To die sooner than.
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Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
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To die; to perish.
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The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…
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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
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To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
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Suffocated; choked.
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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…
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A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.
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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…
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To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
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To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
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Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
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To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or…
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To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.
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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
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To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
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To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.
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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.
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To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
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A kind of frock for children.
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Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to di…
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To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…
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To shut up; to close.
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An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…
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To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.
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To make sick; to disease.
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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…
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The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…
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To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
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To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
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To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
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The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.
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The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.
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One who, or that which, chokes.
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One who, or that which, chokes.
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The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
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The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
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Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.
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Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.
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One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
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One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
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The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
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To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]
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That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
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To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.
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To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
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Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
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of Dice
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He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
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To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
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A bird.
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See 1st Frith.
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To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…
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Gone.
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
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Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
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The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…
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To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…
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Suffocated; choked.
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The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.
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