cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪftɪd/
rhymes: -ɪftɪd
Forms: form: more lifted
form: most lifted
Etymology: From lift + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Raised up; held aloft.
examples: text: Here, it is said, MacDonalds of Glencoe hid their lifted beasts when retribution threatened.
ref: 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 24:
glosses: Stolen.
Derived terms: unlifted
liked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪkt/
rhymes: -aɪkt
Forms: form: more liked
form: most liked
Derived terms: unliked
liked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪkt/
rhymes: -aɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of like
anticoagulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticoagulants
Etymology: From anti- + coagulant.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of pathological hypercoagulative conditions such as thrombosis and embolism, 4-hydroxycoumarin based oral anticoagulants, including warfarin as a well-known example, are administered to block the enzymatic function of VKORC1, effectively diminishing turnover of the vitamin K cycle.
ref: 2015 July 29, Carville G. Bevans et al., “Phylogeny of the Vitamin K 2,3-Epoxide Reductase (VKOR) Family and Evolutionary Relationship to the Disulfide Bond Formation Protein B (DsbB) Family”, in Nutrients, volume 7, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: blood thinner
antonyms: coagulant#Noun
;
styptic#Noun
glosses: A substance that prevents coagulation (stops blood from clotting); especially, any of a group of pharmaceutical drugs that reduce the clotting speed or affinity of the blood by any of several mechanisms (e.g., inhibiting platelet function, inhibiting clotting factor (protein) production or function, increasing antithrombin function).
Derived terms: anticoagulantly
nonanticoagulant
Related terms: -arol
-grel
-parin
anticoagulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticoagulant
form: most anticoagulant
Etymology: From anti- + coagulant.
Senses: examples: text: The posologies employed require careful clinical and electrical supervision, and the same anticoagulant measures as for electrical cardioversion are necessary.
ref: 2012, Y. Grosgogeat, “Cerebral Ischemic Accidents of Cardiac Origin”, in Jacques Bories, editor, Cerebral Ischaemia: A Neuroradiological Study (Neuroradiology; volume 27, number 6), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 130:
antonyms: coagulant#Adjective
;
styptic#Adjective
glosses: That prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting.
anticonvulsant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticonvulsants
Etymology: From anti- + convulsant.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An agent that prevents, stops, or lessens convulsions.
Synonyms: word: anticonvulsant
Hypernyms: word: pharmaceutical
Hyponyms: word: antiepileptic
word: neurostabilizer
word: paraldehyde
word: stiripentol
word: phenobarbital
word: methylphenobarbital
word: metharbital
word: barbexaclone
word: clobazam
word: clonazepam
word: clorazepate
word: diazepam
word: midazolam
word: lorazepam
word: potassium bromide
word: felbamate
word: carbamazepine
word: oxcarbazepine
word: eslicarbazepine acetate
word: valproic acid
word: sodium valproate
word: divalproex sodium
word: vigabatrin
word: progabide
word: tiagabine
word: topiramate
word: gabapentin
word: pregabalin
word: ethotoin
word: phenytoin
word: mephenytoin
word: fosphenytoin
word: paramethadione
word: trimethadione
word: ethadione
word: beclamide
word: primidone
word: brivaracetam
word: levetiracetam
word: seletracetam
word: ethosuximide
word: phensuximide
word: mesuximide
word: acetazolamide
word: sultiame
word: methazolamide
word: zonisamide
word: lamotrigine
word: pheneturide
word: phenacemide
word: valpromide
word: valnoctamide
anticonvulsant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + convulsant.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Acting as an anticonvulsant.
anticorrosive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticorrosives
Senses: glosses: An agent that prevents or stops corrosion.
anticorrosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticorrosive
form: most anticorrosive
Senses: glosses: Preventing or counteracting corrosion.
hoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊpt/
ipa: /həʊpt/
rhymes: -əʊpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hope
Related terms: hoped for
unhoped
antidepressant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: antidepressants
Etymology: From anti- + depressant.
Senses: examples: text: Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.
ref: 1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216:
text: She had a history of depression and was taking phenelzine, an antidepressant.
ref: 2009 March 3, Barron H. Lerner, “A Life-Changing Case for Doctors in Training”, in The New York Times:
text: Dr. Melanie met with Annabelle and delivered her diagnosis: Benny was in the prodromal phase of schizoaffective disorder, and she was recommending that they stop the Ritalin and start him on an antidepressant for the mood disorder and an antipsychotic to treat the auditory hallucinations.
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 102:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
antonyms: depressogenic
glosses: An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.
Synonyms: word: antidepressant
Hypernyms: word: pharmaceutical
Hyponyms: word: SSRI
word: SNRI
word: NRI
word: NDRI
word: SSRE
word: TCA
word: MAOI
word: citalopram
word: paroxetine
word: fluoxetine
word: fluvoxamine
word: sertraline
word: desvenlafaxine
word: duloxetine
word: milnacipran
word: venlafaxine
word: atomoxetine
word: mazindol
word: reboxetine
word: viloxazine
word: bupropion
word: dexmethylphenidate
word: methylphenidate
word: amphetamine
word: dextroamphetamine
word: dextromethamphetamine
word: lisdexamfetamine
word: amitriptyline
word: clomipramine
word: desipramine
word: dosulepin
word: doxepin
word: imipramine
word: lofepramine
word: nortriptyline
word: protriptyline
word: trimipramine
word: amoxapine
word: maprotiline
word: mianserin
word: mirtazapine
word: isocarboxazid
word: moclobemide
word: phenelzine
word: selegiline
word: tranylcypromine
Related terms: word: fluoxetine
word: Prozac
word: W:List of antidepressants
antidepressant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more antidepressant
form: most antidepressant
Etymology: From anti- + depressant.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Preventing or counteracting depression.
thoroughly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈθɜɹ.ə.li/
note: Indic
ipa: /t̪ʰəˈroli/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈt̪ʰərəli/
Forms: form: more thoroughly
form: most thoroughly
form: thorowly
Etymology: From thorough + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He went out in the rain and came back thoroughly drenched.
text: The editor looked thoroughly for any mistakes in the paper.
text: Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.
ref: 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN:
glosses: In a thorough or complete manner.
Synonyms: but good
in spades
completely
antidiuretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidiuretics
Etymology: From anti- + diuretic.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: an agent that prevents or counteracts diuresis
Derived terms: antidiuretically
antidiuretic hormone
antidiuretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + diuretic.
Senses: glosses: preventing or counteracting diuresis, especially by the reduction of urination
Related terms: antidiuresis
shoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃoʊldɚz/
ipa: /ˈʃəʊldəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The two shoulders and the upper portion of the back.
examples: text: The responsibility for the job was placed on his shoulders.
glosses: Capacity for bearing a task or blame.
Derived terms: broad shoulders
shoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃoʊldɚz/
ipa: /ˈʃəʊldəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoulder
diuresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪjʊˈɹiːsɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Forms: form: diureses
Etymology: From New Latin diūrēsis, from Ancient Greek διουρέω (diouréō, “to urinate”) + -σις (-sis).
Morphologically, δῐουρέω (dĭouréō) can be analysed as δι- (di-) + οὐρέω (ouréō).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Excessive production of urine; polyuria.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: (more often) The physiologic process that produces such an increase.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: (most often) The administration of medications to encourage that process.
Derived terms: word: antidiuresis
english: back-formation
translation: back-formation
word: diurese
word: overdiuresis
word: underdiuresis
Related terms: diuretic
yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑɹdz/
ipa: /jɑːdz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dz
Senses: glosses: plural of yard
yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑɹdz/
ipa: /jɑːdz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dz
Senses: examples: text: Her yards were bare and cockabill.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The totality of the sailing rig.
yards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑɹdz/
ipa: /jɑːdz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yard
antimonarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimonarchists
Etymology: From anti- + monarchist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: One who is opposed to monarchy.
antimonarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimonarchist
form: most antimonarchist
Etymology: From anti- + monarchist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposed to monarchy.
antimutagen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimutagens
Etymology: From anti- + mutagen.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: an agent which counteracts one or more mutagens
listened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪsn̩d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of listen
whispered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪspɚd/
ipa: /ˈhwɪspɚd/
ipa: /ˈwɪspəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whisper
sentiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.tɪ.mənt/
Forms: form: sentiments
Etymology: From Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.
Senses: examples: text: The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.
text: "Now, my dear young friend," continued the bookseller, "you seem fond of reason; let me talk a little reason to you. Here, take your pamphlet again: there is good material in it, but it requires the making up. Leave out some of your arguments, and throw in a few sentiments,—something about free-born Britons and wooden shoes! Englishmen like to have a few sentiments ready for after-dinner use, in case of a speech...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 15:
text: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
synonyms: emotion
;
affect
glosses: A general thought, feeling, or sense.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: feels; maudlinness
text: Good decision-making is not governed by mere sentiment.
text: To do the job thoroughly sentiment must be ignored and it seems inevitable that the famous Great Hall and the Doric Arch will have to be sacrificed to progress.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:
text: Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref: 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
hypernyms: emotion
glosses: Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.
Derived terms: sentiment analysis
sentimental
complexify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: complexifies
form: complexifying
form: complexified
form: complexified
Etymology: From complex + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: A surveilled target using properly encrypted VOIP can greatly complexify the task of wire-tapping.
antonyms: simplify
glosses: To make more complex; to complicate.
Related terms: complex
complexification
complexified
complexifying
complexity
decomplexification
decomplexified
decomplexify
decomplexifying
complexification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: complexifications
Etymology: From complex + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: All this represents a change in American society, and a complexification of it.
ref: 1918, Hartley Burr Alexander, Liberty and democracy: and other essays in war-time, page 161:
text: This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of 'complexification'.
ref: 1955, Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, page 48:
text: In Elise Boulding's analysis, the conservative qualities of woman's mysteries chose not to keep pace with the complexification of urban life.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 154:
text: For rational beings will of course try simple things first and thereafter be driven step by step towards an ever enhanced complexification
ref: 1998, Nicholas Rescher, Complexity: A Philosophical Overview, page 56:
text: A new complexification occurs when the situation becomes desperate through crashing marginal returns on increasing complicatedness.
ref: 2002, Charles J. Kibert, Jan Sendzimir, and G. Bradley Guy (editors), Timothy F.H. Allen, Construction Ecology, Nature as the basis for green buildings, page 114, Taylor & Francis, page 114
text: The development of protolanguage into modern human language, and the complexification of language more generally, can only occur when language users can successfully communicate even while they maintain different internal representations of language.
ref: 2006 April, Andrew D. M. Smith, “Semantic reconstructibility and the complexification of language”, in The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6), World Scientific, →ISBN, page 307:
glosses: The act or process of making something more complex.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An extension from a basis on real numbers to a basis on complex numbers.
Related terms: complex
complexified
complexify
complexifying
complexity
decomplexification
decomplexified
decomplexify
decomplexifying
assured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈʃʊəd/
ipa: /əˈʃɔːd/
ipa: /əˈʃʊɹd/
ipa: /əˈʃɝd/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assure
assured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈʃʊəd/
ipa: /əˈʃɔːd/
ipa: /əˈʃʊɹd/
ipa: /əˈʃɝd/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more assured
form: most assured
Senses: glosses: Guaranteed; secure.
examples: text: Youngster Townsend caught the eye on the wing, with his fantastic goal capping a classy performance, while Danny Rose continued his rapid development with an assured display at full-back.
ref: 2011 December 15, Marc Higginson, “Shamrock Rovers 0 - 4 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Self-confident; self-assured; sure.
examples: text: What thinkſt thou man, ſhal come of our attempts?
For euen as from aſſured oracle,
I take thy doome for ſatiſfaction.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
glosses: Reliable, confirmed.
Synonyms: sense: guaranteed
word: sicker
Derived terms: assuredly
assuredness
mutual assured destruction
overassured
self-assured
unassured
underassured
assured
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈʃʊəd/
ipa: /əˈʃɔːd/
ipa: /əˈʃʊɹd/
ipa: /əˈʃɝd/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: assureds
Senses: synonyms: insured
glosses: An insured person.
rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːmz/
ipa: /ɹʊmz/
rhymes: -uːmz
rhymes: -ʊmz
Senses: glosses: plural of room
rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːmz/
ipa: /ɹʊmz/
rhymes: -uːmz
rhymes: -ʊmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of room
provisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈvɪʒ.ənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of provision
provisions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈvɪʒ.ənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of provision
formats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.mæts/
ipa: /ˈfɔː.mæts/
Senses: glosses: plural of format
formats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.mæts/
ipa: /ˈfɔː.mæts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of format
souls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊlz/
ipa: /soʊlz/
rhymes: -əʊlz
rhymes: -oʊlz
homophone: soles
Senses: glosses: plural of soul
souls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊlz/
ipa: /soʊlz/
rhymes: -əʊlz
rhymes: -oʊlz
homophone: soles
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soul
clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaʊdz/
rhymes: -aʊdz
Senses: glosses: plural of cloud
clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaʊdz/
rhymes: -aʊdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cloud
doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːz/
ipa: /dɔɹz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /do(ː)ɹz/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /doəz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of door
examples: text: Doors are at six, the show's at seven
text: [The loudspeaker] only has sound coming out of the left side, can we please do something about this, Don? It's 10 minutes before doors.
ref: 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 67:
glosses: Opening time
doors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːz/
ipa: /dɔɹz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /do(ː)ɹz/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /doəz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of door
habits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæb.ɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of habit
habits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæb.ɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of habit
dreadful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛd.fl̩/
Forms: form: more dreadful
form: most dreadful
form: dreadfull
form: dredful
Etymology: From Middle English dredful, dredfull, dredeful (also dreful), equivalent to dread + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: "...Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning..."
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Full of something causing dread, whether
Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
examples: text: Here some... Look dreadful gay in their own sparkling blood.
ref: 1682, T. Creech's translation of Lucretius, De Natura Rerum, Book II, 52
text: [I]ndeed I began ſincerely to hate my ſelf for a Dog, a VVretch that had been a Thief, and a Murtherer; […] I vvent about vvith my Heart full of theſe Thoughts, little better than a diſtracted Fellovv; in ſhort, running headlong into the dreadfulleſt Deſpair, and premeditated nothing but hovv to rid my ſelf out of the VVorld; […] nothing lay upon my Mind for ſeveral Days, but to ſhoot my ſelf into the Head vvith my Piſtol.
ref: 1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC, page 331:
text: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: After a dreadful performance in the opening 45 minutes, they upped their game after the break...
ref: 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1-2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Full of something causing dread, whether
Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).
glosses: Full of something causing dread, whether
Awesome, awe-inspiring, causing feelings of reverence.
examples: text: Shame to the slothful and woe to the weak one.
Death to the dreadful who turn to flee.
Blood to the tearing, the talon’d, the beaked one.
Timor Mortis are We.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter VIII, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
glosses: Full of dread, whether
Scared, afraid, frightened.
glosses: Full of dread, whether
Timid, easily frightened.
glosses: Full of dread, whether
Reverential, full of pious awe.
dreadful
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛd.fl̩/
Forms: form: more dreadful
form: most dreadful
form: dreadfull
form: dredful
Etymology: From Middle English dredful, dredfull, dredeful (also dreful), equivalent to dread + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I'm sorry, Miz Terrigan. I'm dreadful sorry.
ref: 2003, David Davis, Of Preachers and Pagans, page 199:
text: You don't look so dreadful poor in the face as you did a while back.
ref: 2007, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Professor At The Breakfast Table, page 130:
text: "No," she replied, coolly, "and I shall want my dinner dreadful bad afore I get it, I know. You don't often feel dreadful hungry, do you, sir?
ref: 2015, Hesba Stretton, Jessica's first prayer: A Christian Fiction of Hesba Stretton:
glosses: Dreadfully.
Synonyms: frightening
bad
Derived terms: dreadfully
dreadfulness
something dreadful
undreadful
dreadful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛd.fl̩/
Forms: form: dreadfuls
form: dreadfull
form: dredful
Etymology: From Middle English dredful, dredfull, dredeful (also dreful), equivalent to dread + -ful.
Senses: glosses: A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
glosses: A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
glosses: A shocking or sensational crime.
Derived terms: penny dreadful
hurried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɹid/
note: US, accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger
ipa: /ˈhɝid/
note: US, accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger
ipa: /ˈhʌɹid/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation; US, accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger) -ʌɹid
Forms: form: more hurried
form: most hurried
form: hurryed
Senses: glosses: Done in a hurry; rushed.
Derived terms: hurriedly
hurriedness
overhurried
unhurried
hurried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɹid/
note: US, accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger
ipa: /ˈhɝid/
note: US, accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger
ipa: /ˈhʌɹid/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation; US, accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger) -ʌɹid
Forms: form: hurryed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hurry
colonnade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒləˈneɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: colonnades
Etymology: Borrowed from French colonnade.
Senses: glosses: A series of columns at regular intervals.
glosses: A peristyle.
glosses: A portico or stoa.
glosses: A regular row of anything, such as trees.
Derived terms: colonnaded
stepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of step
stepped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Senses: examples: text: a stepped key
text: a stepped gear
text: steeply stepped stairs
text: He informs us that the unusual cars with stepped floors are not those of the original pair of lines […].
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 708:
glosses: Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs.
Derived terms: stepped cycle track
stepped pyramid
stepped reckoner
stepped-up
doubtless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊ̯tləs/
ipa: /ˈdʌʊ̯tləs/
Forms: form: doubtlesse
form: doutless
Etymology: From Middle English douteles, dowteles, equivalent to doubt + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There are those who have doubtless faith in revelation.
ref: 1880, B. Stewart, P. G. Tait, The Unseen Universe, London: Macmillan, page xiii:
text: It is doubtless that the old reprobate who sued for his daughter's hand heard some unsavory truths from the man.
ref: 1927, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 7, in The Outlaw of Torn:
glosses: Characterized by or experiencing no doubt at all, certain; undoubted; undoubting.
examples: text: And, pretty childe, ſleepe doubtleſſe, and ſecure, / That Hubert for the wealth of all the world, / Will not offend thee.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 14, column 2:
glosses: Free from fear or suspicion.
Derived terms: doubtlessly
doubtlessness
doubtless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊ̯tləs/
ipa: /ˈdʌʊ̯tləs/
Forms: form: doubtlesse
form: doutless
Etymology: From Middle English douteles, dowteles, equivalent to doubt + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] And, doubtless, unto thee is given
⁠A life that bears immortal fruit
⁠In such great offices as suit
The full-grown energies of heaven.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 61:
text: I cannot remember that I spoke a word, though doubtless I did.
ref: 1893, Ambrose Bierce, The Realm Of The Unreal:
text: The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards. But the little woman was doubtless much older: her face was covered with wrinkles, her hair was nearly white, and she walked rather stiffly.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Council with The Munchkins”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 21:
text: There is also in these matters of Science (though many scientific men would doubtless deny this) a great deal of "Fashion".
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 9:
text: Thom Yorke’s onstage pronouncements became less abstract and more effusive, they played the songs the less committed audience members doubtless wanted to hear in the first place: Paranoid Android, Creep, Fake Plastic Trees and Karma Police. At the end of the latter, Yorke happily led an audience singalong.
ref: 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2017:
synonyms: indubitably
undoubtably
undoubtedly
unquestionably
without a doubt
without doubt
indisputably
see also probably § Synonyms
glosses: Without doubt; certainly; definitely; very probably, in all likelihood; doubtlessly.
curette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjʊˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: curettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French curette, from curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).
Senses: examples: text: Curettes are used for the subgingival removal of dental deposits and for root planing. They can also be used supragingivally. The working tip of a curette is more slender than that of a scaler.
ref: 2008, Cecilia Gorrel, Small Animal Dentistry, Elsevier (Saunders), page 223:
text: Beginning in the 1880s, the curette quickly became the popular choice for those doctors on the lookout for instrumental aid in cases of pregnancy loss.
ref: 2019, Shannon Withycombe, Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America, Rutgers University Press, unnumbered page:
text: 2020, Yu Matsumoto, 10: Bone Curette Handle for Improved Bone Removal in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Seiji Kakehata, Tsukasa Ito, Daisuke Yamauchi (editors), Innovations in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Springer, page 86,
Curettes with an octagonal-shaped shaft are readily available and widely distributed in Japan.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.
Derived terms: curetter
microcurette
curette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjʊˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: curettes
form: curetting
form: curetted
form: curetted
Etymology: Borrowed from French curette, from curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To scrape with a curette.
adoptive mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adoptive mothers
Senses: glosses: A woman who has adopted a child, as opposed to a biological mother.
Hypernyms: adoptive parent
Coordinate terms: adoptive father
dihydrotestosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydrotestosterones
Etymology: By surface analysis, di- + hydro- + testosterone.
Senses: examples: text: However, high levels of the nonaromatizable androgen dihydrotestosterone and of sex-hormone binding globulin that inhibit fat accumulation in the abdomen might also contribute to reducing the waist.
ref: 2015 August 17, Ricardo Mondragón-Ceballos et al., “Waist-to-Hip Ratio, but Not Body Mass Index, Is Associated with Testosterone and Estradiol Concentrations in Young Women”, in International Journal of Endocrinology, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An androgenic metabolite of testosterone; used to treat certain breast cancers.
Related terms: dehydrotestosterone
scanlate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈskænleɪt/
Forms: form: scanlates
form: scanlating
form: scanlated
form: scanlated
Etymology: Blend of scan + translate.
Senses: glosses: To scan and translate (a Korean or Japanese manga) in order to distribute it to speakers of other (usually Western) languages.
Related terms: scanlation
scanlator
testosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˈstɒ.stə.ɹəʊn/
ipa: /tɛˈstɑ.stəˌɹoʊn/
Forms: form: testosterones
Etymology: From test(is) + -o- + -sterone (“steroid hormone”).
Senses: examples: text: Mammalian testes contain almost no testosterone because it is sent out into the body as quickly as it is made.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 168:
text: The text recounts a 2011 experiment: Researchers tested 136 healthy young men’s testosterone levels, asked them about their political party affiliations, then gave them either a placebo or ten grams of AndroGel one percent, a high-end dose of a common form of testosterone often used in hormone replacement therapies.
ref: 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.
examples: text: Mother encouraged James to rely more on intelligence and less on testosterone to deal with the neighbor's son.
text: The MPS is a male orientated and misogynistic environment filled with testosterone, notches on bed posts and conquests.
ref: 2023, Louise Casey, Baroness Casey of Blackstock, “9.2.5”, in Baroness Casey Review Final Report: An independent review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service, page 268:
glosses: Manly behavior, often of an aggressive or foolishly reckless nature.
Derived terms: cloxotestosterone
dehydrotestosterone
dihydroxytestosterone
epitestosterone
hydroxytestosterone
ketotestosterone
methyltestosterone
nortestosterone
testosteronal
testosteroned
testosteronemia
testosterone undecanoate
testosteroney
testosteronic
testosterony
metabolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈtæbəlaɪt/
Forms: form: metabolites
Etymology: From metabolism + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Cannabis and some of its metabolites, for example, persist in the fat stores of the body for several weeks after a single dose.
ref: 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 33:
text: In addition to looking at gene expression, Bozek and her colleagues analyzed levels of metabolites, a diverse group of small molecules that includes sugars, nucleic acids and neurotransmitters. Many metabolites are either necessary for metabolism or produced by it.
ref: 2015, Ferris Jabr, How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains Wired:
glosses: Any substance produced by, or taking part in, a metabolic reaction.
Derived terms: antimetabolite
biometabolite
cometabolite
eigenmetabolite
endometabolite
epimetabolite
exometabolite
hydroxymetabolite
immunometabolite
metabolitic
metabolomics
micrometabolite
multimetabolite
neurometabolite
oncometabolite
phosphometabolite
photometabolite
phytometabolite
radiometabolite
secondary metabolite
selenometabolite
sialometabolite
manners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.ɚz/
homophone: manors
Senses: glosses: plural of manner
manners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.ɚz/
homophone: manors
Senses: examples: text: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,
When thou art all the better part of me?
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 39”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: Etiquette.
examples: text: When you come to this time of abatement, / To this passing from Summer to Fall, / It is manners to issue a statement / As to what you got out of it all.
ref: 1936, Dorothy Parker, “The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk”, in The collected poetry of Dorothy Parker, page 170:
glosses: Good manners.
Derived terms: bad manners
comedy of manners
fantasy of manners
forget one's manners
good manners
ill-mannered
make one's manners
manners maketh man
mismanners
table manners
well-mannered
fall through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls through
form: falling through
form: fell through
form: fallen through
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, through.
examples: text: Their plans to go hiking Saturday fell through because it rained.
text: Lynton & Barnstaple Railway revivalists have unexpectedly been given a second chance to purchase the station, after the original sale deal fell through.
ref: 2020 July 1, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Western: Bratton Fleming”, in Rail, page 24:
glosses: To be unsuccessful, come to nothing; to be cancelled; not to proceed.
Derived terms: fallthrough
fall-through
fellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fellatio.
fellator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellators
Etymology: From Latin fēllātor. By surface analysis, fellate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who performs fellatio.
Synonyms: word: blow jobber
word: cocksucker
word: dicksucker
word: pole-smoker
Related terms: fellatrix
go back to the drawing board
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes back to the drawing board
form: going back to the drawing board
form: went back to the drawing board
form: gone back to the drawing board
Senses: examples: text: After the original plan failed miserably, they decided to go back to the drawing board and come up with something new.
glosses: To start again; to scrap a previous idea or plan and try again from the beginning.
LIFO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfəʊ/
rhymes: -aɪfəʊ
Senses: topics: accounting
business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of last in first out.
make a stink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a stink
form: making a stink
form: made a stink
form: made a stink
Senses: examples: text: If nothing happens when you ask nicely, make a stink until something gets done.
glosses: To complain; to demand attention or remedy for a problem.
APB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APBs
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of all-points bulletin.
Synonyms: BOLO
STI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STIs
Senses: examples: text: For example, in the US army during the 21 months of the war that they were involved in, 6·8 million man days were lost due to STIs, and more than 10% of all disease admissions were for STIs.
ref: 2014 November 8, Prof G Dennis Shanks, MD, “How World War 1 changed global attitudes to war and infectious diseases”, in The Lancet, volume 384, number 9955, →DOI, page 1703b of 1699–1707:
text: This, of course, is something only people with that STI would know. For example, herpes is 437737.
ref: 2017 June 24, Arti Patel, “Dating with an STI: 7 ways to navigate the (often harsh) dating world”, in Global News:
text: Although both acute PID and STIs may remain asymptomatic, some of their shared long-term sequelae are tubal factor infertility (TFI), salpingitis, and adhesions and scarring of the fallopian tubes, ovaries, and surrounding peritoneal tissue. These sequelae have been further identified as factors potentially associated with EOC risk.
ref: 2023 December 11, Elizaveta Skarga, Heljä-Marja Surcel, Rudolf Kaaks, Tim Waterboer, Renée T Fortner, “Sexually Transmitted Infections and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Results From the Finnish Maternity Cohort”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 228, number 11, →DOI, pages 1621–1629:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: STD
glosses: Initialism of sexually transmitted infection (also S.T.I.).
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of sexually transmitted illness.
STI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of STI College.
make a mountain out of a molehill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a mountain out of a molehill
form: making a mountain out of a molehill
form: made a mountain out of a molehill
form: made a mountain out of a molehill
Senses: examples: text: If you’re stuck in traffic, try not to make a mountain out of a molehill worrying about it too much. You could be making it much worse.
text: 1573, John Bridges, The Supremacie of Christian Princes Over All Persons Throughout Theor Dominions, London: Humphrey Toye, Division 18, p. 553,
to slaunder the Gospell ye aggrauate many lies, & will make a mountaine of a mole hill
text: 1642, James Howell, Instructions for Forreine Travell, London: Humphrey Mosley, Section 14, p. 176-177,
Others have a custome to bee always relating strange things and wonders, […] they make Mountaines of Mole-hils, like Charenton-Bridge-Eccho, which doubles the sound nine times.
text: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin, John Smith, Volume 3, Book 15, Chapter 10, pp. 170-171,
For of all the Powers exercised by this Passion over our Minds, one of the most wonderful is that of supporting Hope in the midst of Despair. […] Yet it is equally true, that the same Passion will sometimes make Mountans of Mole-hills, and produce Despair in the midst of Hope;
text: “I have now only one remark to offer, on leaving this case in your hands. There is such a thing, Sergeant, as making a mountain out of a molehill. Good morning.”
ref: 1868, Wilkie Collins, chapter 12, in The Moonstone, volume 1, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 207:
text: She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over trifles, made such a mountain of this molehill.
ref: 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 7, p. 181:
glosses: To treat a problem as greater than it is; to blow something out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of something trivial.
Derived terms: molehill mountaineer
Related terms: blow out of proportion
federal case
magnify
make a big thing out of
much ado about nothing
sweat the small stuff
tempest in a teapot
tumblehome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumblehomes
Etymology: From tumble + home.
Senses: examples: text: The bodysides have a gentle tumblehome, which gives the machine impressive solidarity of appearance, well set off by the new B.R. standard livery of light-skirted green.
ref: 1961 August, “The English Electric Type 5 3,300 h.p. "Deltic" diesels for British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 468:
text: Like the Pullmans, however, there would be a familiar curving tumblehome and cant rail, and a similar white window surround […].
ref: 2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]) [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 46:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The inward curve of the topsides of some ship hulls; the term was also used for rolling stock on railways in Britain.
Helmholtz resonator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Helmholtz resonators
Etymology: Named for German physician and physicist Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz.
Senses: glosses: A container with an open hole or neck containing a column of compressible fluid (gas) and frequently used to attenuate a certain frequency, as to eliminate noise.
wikipedia: Hermann Von Helmholtz
prominently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑmɪnəntli/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒmɪnəntli/
Forms: form: more prominently
form: most prominently
Etymology: From prominent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.
ref: 1959 November 24, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 554:
text: He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]
ref: 2011, John O'Loughlin, Two Sides of the Same Coin:
glosses: In a prominent manner.
electronically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛl.ɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk.li/
ipa: /ˌɛl.ɪkˈtɹɒn.ɪk.li/
ipa: /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk.li/
ipa: /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk.li/
ipa: /ˌi.lɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk.li/
Forms: form: more electronically
form: most electronically
Etymology: From electronic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: By means of electronics, or of electronic technology.
plainly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪnli/
rhymes: -eɪnli
Forms: form: plainlier
form: more plainly
form: plainliest
form: most plainly
Etymology: From Middle English playnly, pleinly, pleyneliche, equivalent to plain + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She decorated the room plainly but neatly.
text: 'Tell me plainly what you think of my daughter's little companion.'
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 95:
glosses: In a plain manner; simply; basically.
examples: text: You will see that ours is plainly the better method.
text: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Plainly he was prepared to bark out an interminable succession of charges against the Wanderer.
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 3:
glosses: Obviously; clearly.
Synonyms: sense: obviously, clearly
word: expressly
word: unambiguously
word: explicitly
word: obviously
exceedingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsiːdɪŋli/
Etymology: From exceeding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter II. "Stage-coach Views", page 16.
This coach was an exceedingly narrow one […]
text: I gasped and nearly sank to the ground, for I knew that such a situation must result in some dreadful tragedy, of which it seemed exceedingly probable to me that I should be the first victim.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: It is an exceedingly easy thing for a Governor or a President to go along with the drift of the tide, to veto vicious legislation, to give honest administration, to lead a perfectly peaceful life, and to avoid criticism or attack. Of such are the hundreds of forgotten Governors and the dozens of Presidents whom we have to look up in a history book.
ref: 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 10:
text: American Eagle released a campaign starring the exceedingly charismatic actress Sydney Sweeney.
ref: 2025 August 2, Scottie Andrew, Leah Asmelash, Harmeet Kaur, “What has America learned from the Sydney Sweeney situation? We asked the experts”, in CNN:
glosses: To a great or unusual degree, extent, etc.; extremely