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The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction.

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The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade;…

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To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

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The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriag…

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The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

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A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect.

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A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

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the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)

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To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

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To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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of Close

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The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

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A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

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The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.

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The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

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The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal author…

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The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, t…

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The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.

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The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

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The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

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The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as,…

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Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

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Dismission; discharge.

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The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

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The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

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of Die

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.

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The act of expiring

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Expiration.

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The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

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of Extinguish

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Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

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Close; termination

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An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.

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To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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The act of disharging firearms.

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3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.

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A kiln.

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of Kill

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of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

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The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

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of Lick

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That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.

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The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.

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That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

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To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

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A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.

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A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix.

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of Quench

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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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of Relinquish

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The act of relinquishing.

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To leap back; to rebound.

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Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence.

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The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.

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A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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of Sack

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The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.

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Limitation; abridgment.

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The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

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A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.

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The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph;…

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The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

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of Happen

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The smallest meaningful part of a word.

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A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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To appoint.

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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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To aim; to direct.

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The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

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The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting,…

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To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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of Close

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The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

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