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deprive collapse: take away; keep from having, keeping, or obtaining; take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

palpitate collapse: beat rapidly; "His heart palpitated"; cause to throb or beat rapidly; "Her violent feelings palpitated the young woman's heart"

unearth collapse: bring to light; "The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President"

kook collapse: someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

honk collapse: the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this); cry like a goose; "The geese were honking"; use the horn of a car; make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared"

asceticism collapse: rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint; the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state

spawn collapse: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs; lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

fib collapse: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"; tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"

gudgeon collapse: small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers

oust collapse: remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"; remove and replace; "The word processor has ousted the typewriter"

bouillabaisse collapse: highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs

chowder collapse: a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes

jig collapse: any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping; a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it; a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water; music in three-four time for dancing a jig; dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions

bullshit collapse: obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"; talk through one's hat; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"

count collapse: the act of counting; "the counting continued for several hours"; a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl; the total number counted; "a blood count"; include as if by counting; "I can count my colleagues in the opposition"; have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis"; name or recite the numbers; "The toddler could count to 100"; determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change"; have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much"; put into a group; "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members"

coo collapse: the sound made by a pigeon; cry softly, as of pigeons; speak softly or lovingly; "The mother who held her baby was cooing softly"

beating collapse: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows; the act of overcoming or outdoing; expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart"

errand collapse: a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

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