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now
1. adj. Present; current.
2. adj. (archaic, legal) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marria
Now wife.
3. adj. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
I think this band's sound is very now.
4. adv. At the present time.
Now I am six.
5. adv. (sentence) Used to introduce a point, a remonstration or a rebuke.
Now, we all want what is best for our children. Now, stop that Jimmy!
6. adv. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
Now I am ready. We all now want the latest toys for our children. We all want what is now best for our children.
7. adv. Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
Now all the children have grown up and left, the house is very quiet. Now that my sister has gotten rid of their cat, we can go to her house this coming Thanksgiving.
8. adv. At the time reached within a narration.
Now, he remembered why he had come. He now asked her whether she had made pudding. The pudding was now ready to be served.
9. adv. In the context of urgency.
Now listen, we must do something about this.
10. adv. (obsolete) As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
11. conj. Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.
We can play football now that the rain has stopped.
Now that you mention it, I am kind of hungry.
Now that we're all here, let's start the meeting. = Let's start the meeting now that everyone's here.
12. interj. Indicates a signal to begin.
Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!
13. n. The present time.
Now is the right time.
There is no better time than now.
14. n. (often, with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
She is living in the now.
15. n. (chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
16. v. misspelling of know
I don't now. (intended: I don't know.)
rare
1. adj. Very uncommon; scarce.
Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable.
2. adj. (of a gas) Thin; of low density.
3. adj. (cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
4. v. (US, intransitive) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
5. v. (US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise.
6. adj. (obsolete) early
dated
1. adj. Marked with a date.
The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922.
2. adj. Outdated.
"Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus.
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of date
crippled
1. adj. (usually offensive) Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
1848 "A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?" — Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
2. adj. (usually offensive) Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
1893 The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate. — Mark Twain, '
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of cripple
cripple
1. adj. (now rare, dated) Crippled.
2. n. (sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
He returned from war a cripple.
3. n. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
4. n. (dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
5. n. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
6. v. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired
The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
7. v. (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
8. v. to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
9. v. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered.

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