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death
1. n. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
The death of my grandmother saddened the whole family.
2. n. (often, capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
When death walked in, a chill spread through the room.
3. n. (the death) The collapse or end of something.
England scored a goal at the death to even the score at one all. death of the feudalism
4. n. (figuratively, esp. followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
This bake sale is gonna be the death of me!
yawned
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of yawn
yawn
1. v. To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
I could see my students yawning, so I knew the lesson was boring them.
2. v. To say while yawning.
3. v. To present a wide opening.
The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.
Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.
4. v. (obsolete) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
5. v. (obsolete) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
to yawn for fat livings
6. n. The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.
7. n. (colloquial) A particularly boring event.
The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn. I was glad when it finished.
before
1. prep. Earlier than (in time).
I want this done before Monday.
2. prep. In front of in space.
He stood before me.
We sat before the fire to warm ourselves.
3. prep. In the presence of.
He performed before the troops in North Africa.
He spoke before a joint session of Congress.
4. prep. Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).
The case laid before the panel aroused nothing but ridicule.
5. prep. In store for, in the future of (someone).
6. prep. In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.
In alphabetical order, "cat" comes before "dog", "canine" before feline".
7. prep. At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.
An entrepreneur puts market share and profit before quality, an amateur intrinsic qualities before economical considerations.
8. adv. At an earlier time.
I've never done this before.
9. adv. In advance.
10. adv. At the front end.
11. conj. in advance of the time when
12. conj. (informal) rather or sooner than
Us
1. n. plural of U
2. pron. (personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
3. pron. (colloquial) Me.
Give us a look at your paper.
Give us your wallet!
4. pron. (Northern England) Our.
We'll have to throw us food out.
5. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
It's not good enough for us teachers.
6. n. plural of u
and
1. conj. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
2. conj. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
3. conj. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
4. conj. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
5. conj. (obsolete) Yet; but.
6. conj. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (not dated); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often
7. conj. (now colloquial, or literary) Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
8. conj. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
9. conj. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
10. conj. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
11. conj. (now regional or somewhat colloquial) Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come,
12. conj. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
13. conj. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
14. conj. Expressing a condition.:
15. conj. (now US dialect) If; provided that.
16. conj. (obsolete) As if, as though.
17. n. (enm, music, often informal) In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
18. n. (UK dialectal) Breath.
19. n. (UK dialectal) Sea smoke; steam fog.
20. v. (UK dialectal, intransitive) To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
I
1. pron. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
(audio, Here I am, sir.ogg, Audio)
2. pron. (nonstandard, hypercorrection) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
3. n. (metaphysics) The ego.
4. n. (US, roadway) Interstate.
5. n. (grammar) (abbreviation of instrumental case)
6. pron. nonstandard spelling of I
hit
1. v. To strike.:
2. v. To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
One boy hit the other.
3. v. To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
The ball hit the fence.
4. v. (intransitive) To strike against something.
5. v. (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
6. v. (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.
7. v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
8. v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late. We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
9. v. To attain, to achieve.:
10. v. (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
I hit the jackpot. The movie hits theaters in December. The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow. We hit Detroit at one in the
11. v. (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
12. v. To guess; to light upon or discover.
13. v. To affect negatively.
The economy was hit by a recession. The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
14. v. (heading, games) To make a play.
15. v. (transitive, cards) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
Hit me.
16. v. (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
Jones hit for the pitcher.
17. v. (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
18. v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
19. v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
I'd hit that.
20. v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
21. n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
The hit was very slight.
22. n. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
23. n. An attack on a location, person or people.
24. n. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
25. n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine
26. n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
27. n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
28. n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
29. n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
Where am I going to get my next hit?
30. n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
31. n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
a happy hit
32. n. (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
33. n. (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
34. adj. Very successful.
The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
35. pron. (dialectal) it, It.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
brakes
1. n. plural of brake
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of brake
brake
1. n. A fern; bracken.
2. n. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
3. n. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
4. n. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
5. n. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.
6. v. To bruise and crush; to knead
The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough
7. v. To pulverise with a harrow
8. n. (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
9. n. (obsolete) The winch of a crossbow.
10. n. (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
11. n. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
12. n. The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
13. n. (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a fr
14. n. (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
15. n. A baker's kneading trough.
16. n. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
17. n. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him.
18. n. An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
19. n. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.W
20. n. A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.W
21. n. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
22. v. (intransitive) To operate (a) brake(s).
23. v. (intransitive) To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.
24. n. (obsolete) A cage.
25. n. (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
26. v. (archaic) simple past tense of break

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