To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
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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 strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
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Vexation; mortification.
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To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
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To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
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The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
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To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
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It.
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of Hit
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Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
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To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.
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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
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To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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of Strike
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Act of succeeding; succession.
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A violent gust of wind.
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The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.
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The act of impinging.
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One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
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A violent gust of wind.
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A violent gust of wind.
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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
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To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
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A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
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To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
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That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
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A violent gust of wind.
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A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.
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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 break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…
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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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It.
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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
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the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
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Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.
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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
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One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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