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n.
1) to give smb. a ~
2) to express; feel; get, have a ~
3) to absorb a ~
4) an emotional; mild, slight; profound, rude, severe, terrible ~
5) (a) culture; electric; future; insulin; shell (old-fashioned) ~
6) a ~ to (his arrest was a ~ to everybody)
7) a ~ to + inf. (it was a ~ to learn of his death = it was a ~ learning of his death)
8) a ~ that + clause (it came as a ~ that he had been released from prison)
9) ~ at (everyone expressed ~ at the hijacking)
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v.
1) ( D ; tr. ) to ~ into (to ~ smb. into doing smt.)
2) ( R ) it ~ed me (to learn) that he had been in prison