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begrime
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v 1: make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes
when you play outside!" [syn: dirty, soil, begrime,
grime, colly, bemire] [ant: clean, make clean]
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chime
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n 1: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells
that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral
instrument [syn: chime, bell, gong]
v 1: emit a sound; "bells and gongs chimed"
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climb
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n 1: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't
make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise,
raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension,
declination, decline, declivity, descent,
downslope, fall]
2: an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in
altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: climb,
climbing, mounting]
3: the act of climbing something; "it was a difficult climb to
the top" [syn: climb, mount]
v 1: go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you
ever climb up the hill behind your house?" [syn: climb,
climb up, mount, go up]
2: move with difficulty, by grasping
3: go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were
lowered" [syn: wax, mount, climb, rise] [ant: wane]
4: slope upward; "The path climbed all the way to the top of the
hill"
5: improve one's social status; "This young man knows how to
climb the social ladder"
6: increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed
steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
[syn: rise, go up, climb]
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clime
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n 1: the weather in some location averaged over some long period
of time; "the dank climate of southern Wales"; "plants from
a cold clime travel best in winter" [syn: climate,
clime]
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crime
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n 1: (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered
an evil act; "a long record of crimes" [syn: crime,
offense, criminal offense, criminal offence,
offence, law-breaking]
2: an evil act not necessarily punishable by law; "crimes of the
heart"
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anaheim
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n 1: a city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles);
site of Disneyland
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durkheim
0
n 1: French sociologist and first professor of sociology at the
Sorbonne (1858-1917) [syn: Durkheim, Emile Durkheim]
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sondheim
0
n 1: United States composer of musicals (born in 1930) [syn:
Sondheim, Stephen Sondheim]
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waldheim
0
n 1: Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United
Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president
of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had
direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II
(born in 1918) [syn: Waldheim, Kurt Waldheim]
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guggenheim
0
n 1: United States philanthropist; son of Meyer Guggenheim who
created several foundations to support the arts (1861-1949)
[syn: Guggenheim, Solomon Guggenheim]
2: United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with
his sons established vast mining and metal processing
companies (1828-1905) [syn: Guggenheim, Meyer Guggenheim]
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trondheim
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n 1: a port in central Norway on Trondheim Fjord [syn:
Trondheim, Nidaros]
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mannheim
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n 1: a city in southwestern Germany at the confluence of the
Rhine and Neckar rivers
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hildesheim
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