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- verb Present participle of
serrate .
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I am currently suffering from blogaversion, brought on by too much soul-serrating work.
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I am currently suffering from blogaversion, brought on by too much soul-serrating work.
SeeLight: 2007
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Eric yelled, the ragged edge of panic serrating her name.
VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005
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Eric yelled, the ragged edge of panic serrating her name.
VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005
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Eric yelled, the ragged edge of panic serrating her name.
Vanishing Acts Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2005
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Eric yelled, the ragged edge of panic serrating her name.
VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005
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From time to time the surface of the absorbent is renewed by serrating it with a comb-like instrument.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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Leagues beyond the shadowy hills serrating the purple horizon, it was lost like a bad dream yielding to the light of day.
The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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So nearly do they meet at the gap that one great assertive crag, beetling far above, intercepts the view of the wide landscape beyond, leaving its substituted profile jaggedly serrating the changing sky.
'way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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It was quaintly awry, like most of the mountaineers 'cabins, and the ridgepole, with its irregularly projecting clapboards serrating the sky behind it, described a negligently oblique line.
In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885
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