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  • 61empoverish — v. a. [Written also Impoverish.] 1. Make poor, bring to want, reduce to indigence. 2. Make less fertile, deprive or strip of fertility …

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  • 62impoverish — v. a. 1. Make poor, bring to want, reduce to poverty, reduce to indigence. 2. Exhaust the fertility of, make sterile, render barren or unfertile …

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  • 63beggar — I. n. Mendicant, pauper, starveling, poor or indigent person. II. v. a. 1. Impoverish, ruin, render poor, reduce to poverty, bring to want. 2. Exhaust, surpass, exceed, baffle, go beyond, be above, put at fault, show to be inadequate …

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  • 64ruin — I. n. 1. Destruction, discomfiture, overthrow, defeat, wreck, perdition, fall, downfall, prostration, subversion, undoing, shipwreck. 2. Bane, pest, mischief, destruction, perdition. 3. Wreck. II. v. a. 1. Destroy, demolish, overthrow, subvert,… …

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  • 65reduce — To lessen. To break a thing down into its various elements. To analyze a problem so that it can be solved. To impoverish. To bring to want. Anno: 2 ALR 1265 …

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  • 66call someone to heel — bring/call/someone to heel phrase to make someone do what you want them to do Thesaurus: to nag or force someone to do somethingsynonym Main entry: heel …

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  • 67Cyndi Lauper — Lauper redirects here. For the curler, see Erwin Lauper. Cyndi Lauper Cyndi Lauper in 2011 Background information Birth name Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper …

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  • 68performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 69United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …

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  • 70UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, country in N. America. This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction Colonial Era, 1654–1776 Early National Period, 1776–1820 German Jewish Period, 1820–1880 East European Jewish Period,… …

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