Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pull; a haul; a seizure; a disturbance.
- To tear or pull apart; rend.
- To tease; comb.
- To harass; worry; plague.
- To pull about; handle roughly or carelessly; hence, to rumple; dishevel; tousle.
- To bustle; exert one's self vigorously; struggle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A pulling; a disturbance.
- verb Prov. Eng. To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
pull to pieces - noun a
noisy disturbance
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Among those American writers who were originally identified as "minimalists," a group that would include Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ann Beattie, and Tobias Wolff, Mary Robisonmay have been the most minimalist of them all -- or, touse the word she hassaid she prefers to describethenarrative/expository strategy employed by these writers, the most radically "subtractionist."
Dashed to the Ground 2009
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David V.: Which brings it back to comparing against other Federal programs like SSI and Medicare – compelled to pay in to but not compelled touse.
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It's National Wear Red Day! Wear Red For Women's Heart Health The Huffington Post 2011
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Among those American writers who were originally identified as "minimalists," a group that would include Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ann Beattie, and Tobias Wolff, Mary Robisonmay have been the most minimalist of them all -- or, touse the word she hassaid she prefers to describethenarrative/expository strategy employed by these writers, the most radically "subtractionist."
Narrative Strategies 2009
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Drones are only inexpensive or simple in comparison to the manned aircraft we would otherwise have touse.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing 2010
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High-tech companies are concerned about a provision in the annual defense-spending bill that makes it harder touse foreign subcontractors.
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That urgent query could be the search for a message within a short passage or a story, something to motivate the reader touse that message to better his day or week; an emotional catharsis which will lift his mood for days to come.
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Among those American writers who were originally identified as "minimalists," a group that would include Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ann Beattie, and Tobias Wolff, Mary Robisonmay have been the most minimalist of them all -- or, touse the word she hassaid she prefers to describethenarrative/expository strategy employed by these writers, the most radically "subtractionist."
November 2009 2009
bilby commented on the word touse
While in cavalcade, with band and blade,
Came Marshals, Princes, Kings;
And the town was theirs…. Ay, as simple maid,
My mother saw these things!
And whenever those notes in the street begin,
I recall her, and that far scene,
And her acting of how the Allies marched in,
And her touse of the tambourine!
- Thomas Hardy, 'Leipzig'.
September 18, 2009