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     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.
feeling
     1. adj. Emotionally sensitive.
           Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
     2. adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
           He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
     3. n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
           The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
     4. n. Emotion; impression.
           The house gave me a feeling of dread.
     5. n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
           You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
     6. n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
           Many people still have feelings for their first love.
     7. n. Intuition.
           He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
           I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
     8. n. An opinion, an attitude.
     9. v. present participle of feel
     feel
          1. v. To use the sense of touch.:
          2. v.          (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
                        You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.
                        I felt cold and miserable all night.
          3. v.          To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
                        I felt my way through the darkened room.
                        I felt my way cautiously through the dangerous business maneuver.
          4. v.          (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
          5. v.          (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
                        He felt for the light switch in the dark.
          6. v. To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.:
          7. v.          To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
                        I can feel the sadness in his poems.
          8. v.          To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
                        I feel that we need to try harder.
          9. v.          (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
                        He obviously feels strongly about it.
                        She felt even more upset when she heard the details.
          10. v.          (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
                        I feel for you and your plight.
          11. v. To be or become aware of.
          12. v. To experience the consequences of.
                Feel my wrath!
          13. v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
                It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic.
                This is supposed to be a party, but it feels more like a funeral!
          14. v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
                I don't want you back here, ya feel me?
          15. n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
                Bark has a rough feel.
          16. n. A vague mental impression.
                You should get a feel of the area before moving in.
          17. n. An act of fondling.
                She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
          18. n. A vague understanding.
                I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
          19. n. An intuitive ability.
                She has a feel for music.
          20. n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
                I know that feel.
          21. pron. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele
          22. adj. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele
          23. adv. (dialectal, or obsolete) alternative form of fele
does
     1. v. third-person singular present indicative of do
     2. n. plural of doe
     do
          1. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker
          2. v.          (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
                        Do you go there often?
          3. v.          (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
                        I do not go there often.
                        Do not listen to him.
          4. v.          (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
                        But I do go sometimes.
                        Do tell us.
                        It is important that he do come see me.
          5. v.          (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not generally used with auxiliari
                        I play tennis; she does too.
                   #     They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
          6. v. To perform; to execute.
                All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?
          7. v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
          8. v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
                it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do;  this will do me, thanks.
          9. v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
                It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.
          10. v. To have (as an effect).
                The fresh air did him some good.
          11. v. (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
                Our relationship isn't doing very well;  how do you do?
          12. v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
                What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.
          13. v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
                "Don't forget to do your report" means something quite different depending on whether you're a student or a programmer.
          14. v. To cook.
                I'll just do some eggs.
          15. v. To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
                Let’s do New York also.
          16. v. To treat in a certain way.
          17. v. To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
          18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
          19. v. (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
                I did five years for armed robbery.
          20. v. To impersonate or depict.
                They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.
          21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
          22. v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
          23. v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
                He got done for speeding.
                Teacher'll do you for that!
          24. v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
          25. v. To cheat or swindle.
                That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!
          26. v. To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
                the novel has just been done into English;  I'm going to do this play into a movie
          27. v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
                Aren't you done yet?
          28. v. (dated) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
          29. v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
          30. v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
          31. v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
                Do they do haircuts there?
                Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
          32. v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
          33. v. To take drugs.
                I do cocaine.
          34. v. (transitive, in the form be doing somewhere) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
                What's that car doing in our swimming pool? -
          35. n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
                We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
          36. n. (informal) A hairdo.
                Nice do!
          37. n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
          38. n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
          39. n. (archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
          40. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
          41. n. (obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
          42. n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
          43. adv. (rare) (abbreviation of ditto)
not
     1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
           Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
           Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
     2. adv. To no degree.
           That is not red; it's orange.
     3. conj. And not.
           I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
           He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
     4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
           I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
           Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
     5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
           You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
     6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not.
go
     1. v. To move:
     2. v.          (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like
                   Why don’t you go with us?   This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago.   Chris, where are you going? &nbs
     3. v.          (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's m
                    Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
                    Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library.
     4. v.          (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
     5. v.          To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
                   We've only gone twenty miles today.   This car can go circles around that one.
     6. v.          (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
                   We went swimming.   Let's go shopping.
     7. v.          (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
                   Please don't go!   I really must be going.   Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night.
     8. v.          (obsolete, intransitive) To walk; to travel on one's feet.
     9. v. (intransitive, chiefly of a, machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
           The engine just won't go anymore.
     10. v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
           Get ready, get set, go!   On your marks, get set, go!   On your marks, set, go!
           Here goes nothing.   Let's go and hunt.
     11. v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
           It’s your turn; go.
     12. v. (intransitive) To attend.
           I go to school at the schoolhouse.   She went to Yale.   They only go to church on Christmas.
     13. v. To proceed:
     14. v.         (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
                   That went well.   "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks.".
     15. v.          (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
                   Why'd you have to go and do that?
                   Why'd you have to go do that?
                   He just went and punched the guy.
     16. v. To follow or travel along (a path):
     17. v.          To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
                   Let's go this way for a while.
                    She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was.
     18. v.          To travel or pass along.
     19. v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
           This property goes all the way to the state line.
     20. v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
           Does this road go to Fort Smith?
     21. v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
           You'll go blind.   I went crazy / went mad.   After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.
     22. v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
     23. v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
           I don't want my children to go hungry.   We went barefoot in the summer.
     24. v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
           they went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock, the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global
     25. v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
              The traffic light went straight from green to red.
     26. v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
           How did your meeting with Smith go?
     27. v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
           Well, that goes to show you.   These experiences go to make us stronger.
     28. v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
           qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
     29. v. To pass, to be used up:
     30. v.          (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
                   The time went slowly.
     31. v.          (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
                   After three days, my headache finally went.
     32. v.          (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
                   His money went on drink.
     33. v. (intransitive) To die.
     34. v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
           This chair has got to go.
     35. v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out:
     36. v.          (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
     37. v.          (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
     38. v. To break down or apart:
     39. v.          (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
     40. v.          (intransitive) To break down or decay.
                   This meat is starting to go off.   My mind is going.   She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go.
     41. v. (intransitive) To be sold.
           Everything must go.   The car went for five thousand dollars.
     42. v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
           The property shall go to my wife.   The award went to Steven Spielberg.
     43. v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
           How long can you go without water?   We've gone without your help for a while now.   I've gone ten days now without a cigarette.   Can you two go twenty minutes wi
     44. v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
           They've gone one for three in this series.   The team is going five in a row.
     45. v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
     46. v.          (intransitive) To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
                   Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?
     47. v.          (intransitive) To be accepted.
                   Anything goes around here.
     48. v.          (intransitive) To be valid.
     49. v. To say (something), to make a sound:
     50. v.          (transitive, slang) To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
                   I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!".
                   As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid.".
     51. v.          To make the (specified) sound.
                   Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom".
     52. v.          (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
                   I woke up just before the clock went.
     53. v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
           The tune goes like this.   As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
     54. v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
           I'll go to court if I have to.
     55. v. To apply or subject oneself to:
     56. v.          To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
                    I'm going to join a sports team.   I wish you'd go and get a job.   He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach.
away
     1. adv. From a place, hence.
           He went away on vacation.
     2. adv. Aside; off; in another direction.
     3. adv. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
     4. adv. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
     5. adv. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
           sing away
     6. adv. Without restraint.
           You've got questions? Ask away!
     7. adv. Being so engaged for the entire time.
           That's where tourists go to hear great Cuban bands and dance the night away.
     8. adv. At a distance in time or space.
           Christmas is only two weeks away.
     9. interj. (Northern England) come on!; go on!
     10. adj. Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
           The master is away from home.
           Would you pick up my mail while I'm away.
     11. adj. (following the noun modified) At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
           He's miles away by now.
           Spring is still a month away.
     12. adj. (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.
           Entrance for away supporters.
           Next, they are playing away in Dallas.
     13. adj. (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.
           Two men away in the bottom of the ninth.
     14. adj. misspelling of aweigh
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.
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.)
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
have
           Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
     1. v. To possess, own, hold.
           I have a house and a car.
           Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
     2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
           I have two sisters.
           I have a lot of work to do.
     3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
           I have breakfast at six o'clock.
           Can I have a look at that?
           I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
     4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
           What class do you have right now? I have English.
           Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
     5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
           I have already eaten today.
           I had already eaten.
     6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
           I have to go.
     7. v. To give birth to.
           The couple always wanted to have children.
           My wife is having the baby right now!
           My mother had me when she was 25.
     8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
           He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
     9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
           Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
     10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
           They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
     11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
           He had him arrested for trespassing.
           The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
     12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
           The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
           I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
     13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
           Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
     14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
           We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
           Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
           (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
     15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
           I could have him!
           I'm gonna have you!
     16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
           I have no German.
     17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
           Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
     18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
           He had a cold last week.
     19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
           We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
           He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
           I'm having the time of my life!
     20. v. To trick, to deceive.
           You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
     21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
           The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
           I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
     22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
           I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
     23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
           Thank you for having me!
     24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
           What do you have for problem two?
           I have two contacts on my scope.
     25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
           We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
     26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
     27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
     28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
           They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
achieved
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of achieve
     2. adj. (of a goal or status) Having been reached, attained or accomplished.
     achieve
          1. v. (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
          2. v. To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
          3. v. (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
          4. v. To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
          5. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
          6. v. (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).
                Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
                He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.
it
     1. pron. The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.
           Put it over there.
           Take each day as it comes.
           I heard the sound of the school bus - it was early today.
     2. pron. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.
           She took the baby and held it in her arms.
     3. pron. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
           It's me. John.
           Is it her?
     4. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
           It is nearly 10 o’clock.
           It’s 10:45 read ten-forty-five.
           It’s very cold today.
           It’s lonely without you.
     5. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.
           stick it out
           live it up
           rough it
     6. pron. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject i
           It is easy to see how she would think that. (with the infinitive clause headed by to see)
           I find it odd that you would say that. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
           It is hard seeing you so sick. (with the gerund seeing)
           He saw to it that everyone would vote for him. (with the noun clause introduced by that)
           It is not clear if the report was true. (with the noun clause introduced by if)
     7. pron. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
           Are there more students in this class, or is this it?
           That's it—I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
     8. pron. (chiefly pejorative, offensive) A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male.
     9. pron. (obsolete) (Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun): That which; what.
     10. det. (obsolete) its
     11. n. One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
     12. n. The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
           In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it…
     13. n. (British) The game of tag.
           Let's play it at breaktime.
     14. n. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.
     15. n. (euphemism) Sexual activity.
           caught them doing it
     16. adj. (colloquial) Most fashionable.
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