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he
1. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
2. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
3. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.
4. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
5. n. (informal) A male.
Alex totally is a he.
6. n. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
bashed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of bash
bash
1. v. To strike heavily.
He bashed himself against the door.
The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
2. v. To collide.
Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
3. v. To criticize harshly.
He bashed my ideas.
4. v. (UK, slang) To masturbate.
He said that he bashes daily.
5. n. A large party; gala event.
They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
6. n. An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists.
7. v. (obsolete, transitive) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
Himself
1. pron. honoraltcaps, himself
2. pron. (reflexive pronoun) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
He injured himself.
3. pron. (emphatic) He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate
He was injured himself.
4. pron. (Ireland, otherwise archaic) (The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate;) he himself.
5. pron. (Ireland) (The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate;) he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
Has himself come down to breakfast yet?
Have you seen himself yet this morning?
against
1. prep. A close but separated relationship.:
2. prep. In a contrary direction to.
If you swim against the current, you must work harder.
3. prep. Close to.
The kennel was put against the back wall.
4. prep. In front of; before a background.
The giant was silhouetted against the door.
5. prep. In physical contact with.
The puppy rested its head against a paw.
6. prep. In physical opposition to, or in collision with.
The rain pounds against the window.
7. prep. (heading, social) A contrasting or competitive relationship.
8. prep. In contrast and/or comparison with.
He stands out against his local classmates.
9. prep. In competition with, versus.
The Tigers will play against the Bears this weekend.
10. prep. In opposition to.
Are you against freedom of choice? I'd bet against his succeeding.
11. prep. In exchange for.
The vouchers are redeemable against West End shows and theatre breaks.
12. prep. As protection from.
He turned the umbrella against the wind.
13. prep. In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
14. prep. (Hollywood) To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
The studio weren't sure the movie would ever get made, so they only paid $50,000 against $200,000. That way they wouldn't be out very much if filming never began.
15. conj. (obsolete) By the time that (something happened); before.
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.
door
1. n. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to ho
I knocked on the vice president's door
2. n. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
3. n. (immigration) An entry point.
4. n. (figurative) A means of approach or access.
Learning is the door to wisdom.
5. n. (figurative) A barrier.
Keep a door on your anger.
6. n. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
7. v. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

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