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  • 31prick — prick1 [ prık ] verb 1. ) transitive to make a very small hole in the surface of something with a sharp object: He pricked his finger and drew blood. Prick the sausages with a fork. 2. ) intransitive or transitive to cause or experience a guilty… …

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  • 32prick — I UK [prɪk] / US verb Word forms prick : present tense I/you/we/they prick he/she/it pricks present participle pricking past tense pricked past participle pricked 1) [transitive] to make a very small hole in the surface of something with a sharp… …

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  • 33prick — [prik] n. [ME prike < OE prica, point, dot, akin to Du prik, MHG pfrecken] 1. a very small puncture or, formerly, dot, made by a sharp point 2. Archaic any of various pointed objects, as a thorn, goad, etc. 3. PRICKING 4. a sharp pain caused… …

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  • 34SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE — The literary culture of the Scandinavian countries dates back about one millennium, the Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish languages having developed on separate paths from the original Germanic root from about the ninth century.… …

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