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  • 121dash — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. shatter, smash; frustrate, dishearten; hurl, cast; dart. See destruction, dejection, haste, propulsion. n. élan, spirit; spurt, soupçon, trace. See activity, velocity, littleness, energy, ostentation …

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  • 122dirty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unclean, filthy, soiled, foul; murky, miry, stormy; vile, sordid, mean; pornographic; dishonest. See uncleanness, dimness, impurity, cloudiness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Containing dirt] Syn.… …

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  • 123slosh — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. splash, slop, spill. See water, moisture. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. splash, slop, spill, overflow, spatter, gush. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To hurl or scatter liquid upon: bespatter, dash …

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  • 124spray — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. spindrift, spume, scud; fusillade, barrage; sprinkler, atomizer; sprig. v. t. sprinkle, atomize; pepper, riddle (with bullets). See vapor, vegetable, dispersion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. splash,… …

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  • 125Uncleanness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Uncleanness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 uncleanness uncleanness &c.???adj. Sgm: N 1 impurity impurity Sgm: N 1 immundity immundity immundicity Sgm: N 1 impurity impurity &c.???of mind ???>961 …

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  • 126splatter — splat|ter [ˈsplætə US ər] v [I always + adverb/preposition, T] [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: Probably from splash + spatter] if liquid splatters somewhere, or if someone splatters it, it falls or is thrown onto a surface = ↑spatter splatter sth with… …

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  • 127spiracle —    [ volcanic ]    A small tubular opening or chimney formed by fluid lava congealing and mounding around a fumarolic vent in a basaltic lava flow, usually about 1 m in diameter and up to 5 m high, although in the northwestern USA where spiracles …

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  • 128be- — prefix with a wide range of meaning: thoroughly, completely; to make, cause seem; to provide with; at, on, to, for, from O.E. be on all sides (also used to make transitive verbs and as a privative or intensive prefix), from weak form of O.E. bi… …

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