Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- To intensify the meaning.
- To render an intransitive verb transitive.
- To make the action of a verb particular or definite.
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- prefix
By ,near ,next to ,around ,close to . - prefix
Around ;about . - prefix
About ,regarding ,concerning ,over . - prefix
On ,upon ,at ,to , incontact with something. - prefix
Off ,away ,over ,across - prefix As an
intensifier ; i.e.thoroughly ,excessively ;completely ;utterly . - prefix All
around ;about ;abundantly ;all over . - prefix Forming
verbs derived fromnouns oradjectives , usually with the sense of "to make, become, or cause to be". - prefix Used to intensify adjectives meaning "
adorned with something" often those with the suffix-ed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's called the use tax, and each year, on your tax return for the state, you're supposed to be-
FAIR Thee Well? 2011
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It's called the use tax, and each year, on your tax return for the state, you're supposed to be-
FAIR Thee Well? 2011
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Since I'd seen it before, I knew that while the Hope Diamond is rather big for a cut diamond, and especially for a rare blue diamond, it's not as big as most people imagine it will be- it's about the size of a walnut.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- Better the Second Time Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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"The real sad thing is if somebody is accused, does the perp-walk, and turns out not to be- have been guilty," he said then.
Mayor Backtracks on 'Perp Walks' Michael Howard Saul 2011
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If this is a political strategy, and he seems to be-
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Since I'd seen it before, I knew that while the Hope Diamond is rather big for a cut diamond, and especially for a rare blue diamond, it's not as big as most people imagine it will be- it's about the size of a walnut.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- Better the Second Time Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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Since I'd seen it before, I knew that while the Hope Diamond is rather big for a cut diamond, and especially for a rare blue diamond, it's not as big as most people imagine it will be- it's about the size of a walnut.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- Better the Second Time Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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I knew who my heroes were and would cling to them with all my might, my surviving legacies of what I could be- a superior id in underoos.
What Comes With the Recession of Time Amy Geeleher 2011
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Since I'd seen it before, I knew that while the Hope Diamond is rather big for a cut diamond, and especially for a rare blue diamond, it's not as big as most people imagine it will be- it's about the size of a walnut.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- Better the Second Time Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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OWS is not in itself important—it is obvious at this point that it's less a political movement than a be-in.
This Is No Time for Moderation Peggy Noonan 2011
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