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  • 91bag — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. receptacle, case, container, pouch, sack. v. trap, capture, take, catch; sag, droop, hang; bulge, protrude, swell. See acquisition, pendency, convexity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A container] Syn. purse …

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  • 92overhang — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. project over, jut; impend, threaten. See convexity, prediction. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. protrusion, obtrusion, overlap, overlie, droop, suspension, imbrication, beetling, jutting, extension; see… …

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  • 93swell — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. expand, dilate, bulge, protrude; billow; increase, grow, surge. See water, feeling, pride. n. swelling, increase; billow, wave, groundswell, sea, roller; rise, slope, knoll. See convexity,… …

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  • 94stick out — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. jut, show, come through; see protrude . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To curve outward past the normal or usual limit: bag, balloon, beetle, belly, bulge, jut, overhang, pouch, project, protrude, protuberate, stand… …

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  • 95toil — English has two words toil, one of them now used only in the plural. Toil ‘work’ comes via Anglo Norman toiler ‘stir, agitate, wrangle’ from Latin tudiculāre ‘stir around’. This was derived from tudicula ‘mill for crushing olives’, a diminutive… …

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  • 96protrusion — 1640s, from Fr. protrusion, noun of action from L. protrudere (see PROTRUDE (Cf. protrude)) …

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  • 97swell — swel n. act of swelling, distention; swollen part, protuberance; gradual increase; surge of feeling or emotion; long unbroken wave; elevation of land, slope; crescendo followed by a diminuendo (Music) adj. (Informal) amazing, excellent, great;… …

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  • 98swelled — swel n. act of swelling, distention; swollen part, protuberance; gradual increase; surge of feeling or emotion; long unbroken wave; elevation of land, slope; crescendo followed by a diminuendo (Music) adj. (Informal) amazing, excellent, great;… …

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  • 99sweller — swel n. act of swelling, distention; swollen part, protuberance; gradual increase; surge of feeling or emotion; long unbroken wave; elevation of land, slope; crescendo followed by a diminuendo (Music) adj. (Informal) amazing, excellent, great;… …

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  • 100swellest — swel n. act of swelling, distention; swollen part, protuberance; gradual increase; surge of feeling or emotion; long unbroken wave; elevation of land, slope; crescendo followed by a diminuendo (Music) adj. (Informal) amazing, excellent, great;… …

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