Definitions
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- verb obsolete To
bear , give birth to. (Usually in past participle.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital
Etymologies
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Examples
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Spectators of a car race in Brazil on Sunday were t aken off guard when the bleacher they were sitting in collapsed.
Brazil Bleacher Collapse VIDEO: More Than 100 Hurt In Parana 2010
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"[T] aken as a whole, cogent piece of work, Paris makes an underwhelming survey of the state of the art house - nothing here even whiffs at the rarified abjection found in Antonioni's segment in 1953's similarly conceived, Rome-set L'Amore in citta," writes Nick Pinkerton at indieWIRE.
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Everybody -- they represent -- they represented the whole federation, all four provinces and as aken schmear (ph) and they asked me to do this.
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Napamahal na sa aken ng todo-todo ang bansang iyon.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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Sõitsin läbi linna uue punase Fiat Pandaga, aken natuke lahti, mängimas Viva L'Italia.
tatsutahime Diary Entry tatsutahime 2007
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"Hmm. It is a matter of paying a little less attention to what she says and more to the tone of her voice and the look in her eyes, the way she moves," Sit-aken-te explained.
Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006
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Surely Sit-aken-te would stare at her in uncomprehending astonishment.
Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006
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The lily pads moved a little as Sit-aken-te shrugged.
Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006
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Only Sit-aken-te was there, and the lanky young woman waved languidly at Peri from where she was immersed up to her neck in cool water.
Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006
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"So have others, on both sides," Sit-aken-te pointed out with justification.
Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006
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