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| Description of inhibit (verb) to check; to hinder; to hold back; to prevent Samples of inhibit We need a system of assessment that will encourage, not inhibit, the development of the imagination, and the new emphasis on practical skills as of equal importance with scholarship and learning.
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| Description of incarcerate (verb) to imprison; to detain; to jail Samples of incarcerate The house is built on the site of a Saxon prison, which was still used in the twelfth century to incarcerate cattle rustlers.
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| Description of blight (verb) to ruin; to decay; to destroy Samples of blight Look, I don't want to blight the whole thing before we start, but suppose we fail?
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| Description of obtrude (verb) to force oneself or one's ideas upon another; to thrust forward; to eject; to invade; to interrupt Samples of obtrude The inquisitive coworker obtrudes into the conversation often.
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| Description of nettle (verb) to annoy; to irritate Samples of nettle The younger brother nettled his older sister until she slapped him. The boy will nettle the father into agreeing.
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| Description of discourse (verb) to communicate in an orderly fashion; to talk Samples of discourse The scientists discoursed on a conference call for just five minutes but were able to solve three major problems. The interviewee discoursed so fluently, she was hired on the spot.
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| Description of expatriate (verb) to banish; to exile; to withdraw from one's country; to expel Samples of expatriate Winters in California perhaps thought himself securely distant from the seat of the infection; he never visited Europe, still less was he tempted to expatriate himself.
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| Description of low (verb) to moo; to utter the sound made by cattle Samples of low It did not but the lowing herd wound its way to and from the milking sheds, and left the world to darkness and to us each night. Using samplers, slowed-down tapes, echo-box, fuzz, wah wah, bullhorns, saws, car doors (from which they got slowed-down squeaking sounds), and tapes of cattle lowing, they plumbed new depths of the bass-spectrum, new limits in the degradation and deterioration of sound.
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| Description of countenance (verb) to approve; to support; to tolerate; to permit Samples of countenance She criticized Mr Major's election soap-box as 'naff'; during the recent campaign, but the Prime Minister was prepared to overlook that and countenance her rehabilitation.
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| Description of entreat (verb) to beg earnestly; to implore; to plead Samples of entreat For a just example of vengeance, I entreat that the thieving tribe of Glencoe may be rooted out in earnest.
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