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  • 101Painfulness — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Capability of giving pain PARAG:Painfulness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 painfulness painfulness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 trouble trouble care &c.(pain) 828 Sgm: N 1 trial trial Sgm: N 1 affliction affliction infliction …

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  • 102shy — 1 (I) adjective 1 nervous and embarrassed about talking to other people, especially people you do not know: Billy s very shy with adults, but he s fine with other children. | a shy smile | painfully shy (=extremely shy): At 15, I was painfully… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 103slow — I UK [sləʊ] / US [sloʊ] adjective Word forms slow : adjective slow comparative slower superlative slowest *** 1) a) a slow movement or action does not happen fast a long slow walk to the top of the hill A slow smile spread across her face. b)… …

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  • 104hard — [adj1] rocklike adamantine, callous, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, consolidated, dense, firm, hardened, impenetrable, indurate, indurated, inflexible, iron*, packed, rigid, rocky, set, solid, stiff, stony, strong, thick, tough,… …

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  • 105pinch — [pinch] vt. [ME pinchen < NormFr * pincher < OFr pincier < VL * pinctiare < ? punctiare, to prick (see PUNCHEON1), infl. by * piccare: see PICADOR] 1. to squeeze between a finger and the thumb or between two surfaces, edges, etc. 2.… …

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  • 106pinch — v. & n. v. 1 tr. a grip (esp. the skin of part of the body or of another person) tightly, esp. between finger and thumb (pinched my finger in the door; stop pinching me). b (often absol.) (of a shoe, garment, etc.) constrict (the flesh) painfully …

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  • 107SMOLENSKIN, PEREZ — (1840 or 1842–1885), Hebrew novelist, editor, and publicist. A leading exponent of the haskalah in Eastern Europe and an early advocate of Jewish nationalism, Smolenskin is best known for the important Hebrew monthly Ha Shaḥar which he founded in …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 108to one's feet — {adv. phr.} To a standing position; up. * /After Henry had been tackled hard by four big players, he got to his feet slowly and painfully./ * /When Sally saw the bus coming, she jumped to her feet and ran out./ Compare: ON ONE S FEET …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 109to one's feet — {adv. phr.} To a standing position; up. * /After Henry had been tackled hard by four big players, he got to his feet slowly and painfully./ * /When Sally saw the bus coming, she jumped to her feet and ran out./ Compare: ON ONE S FEET …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 110dragging — adj. painfully or tediously slow and boring; as, the dragging minutes. [WordNet 1.5] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English