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beach
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n 1: an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
v 1: land on a beach; "the ship beached near the port"
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beech
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n 1: any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading
crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible
triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions
[syn: beech, beech tree]
2: wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and
containers and plywood and tool handles [syn: beech,
beechwood]
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beseech
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v 1: ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people
to become good persons" [syn: bid, beseech, entreat,
adjure, press, conjure]
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bleach
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n 1: the whiteness that results from removing the color from
something; "a complete bleach usually requires several
applications"
2: an agent that makes things white or colorless [syn:
bleaching agent, bleach, blanching agent, whitener]
3: the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it
to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
v 1: remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt" [syn:
bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour,
decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise,
discolorize, discolourise, discolorise]
2: make whiter or lighter; "bleach the laundry"
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breach
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n 1: a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
2: an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
3: a personal or social separation (as between opposing
factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn:
rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling
out]
v 1: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises;
"offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or
human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" [syn:
transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against,
breach, break] [ant: keep, observe]
2: make an opening or gap in [syn: gap, breach]
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breech
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n 1: opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets
can be loaded [syn: breech, rear of barrel, rear of
tube]
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each
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adv 1: to or from every one of two or more (considered
individually); "they received $10 each" [syn: each, to
each one, for each one, from each one, apiece]
adj 1: (used of count nouns) every one considered individually;
"each person is mortal"; "each party is welcome"
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horseleech
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n 1: any of several large freshwater leeches
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impeach
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v 1: challenge the honesty or veracity of; "the lawyers tried to
impeach the credibility of the witnesses"
2: charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor
committed while in office; "The President was impeached"
3: bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "The
neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse" [syn: accuse,
impeach, incriminate, criminate]
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leach
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n 1: the process of leaching [syn: leach, leaching]
v 1: cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate
2: permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into
the ground" [syn: leach, percolate]
3: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the
soil" [syn: leach, strip]
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leech
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n 1: carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms
typically having a sucker at each end [syn: leech,
bloodsucker, hirudinean]
2: a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the
host) in hope of gain or advantage [syn: leech, parasite,
sponge, sponger]
v 1: draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled
patients as part of the treatment" [syn: bleed, leech,
phlebotomize, phlebotomise]
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outreach
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n 1: the act of reaching out; "the outreach toward truth of the
human spirit"
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overreach
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v 1: fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
2: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She
outfoxed her competitors" [syn: outwit, overreach,
outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent]
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peach
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n 1: cultivated in temperate regions [syn: peach, peach
tree, Prunus persica]
2: a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher,
stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart,
peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish]
3: downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
4: a shade of pink tinged with yellow [syn: yellowish pink,
apricot, peach, salmon pink]
v 1: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--
his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat
out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach,
babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep
one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]
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preach
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v 1: deliver a sermon; "The minister is not preaching this
Sunday" [syn: preach, prophesy]
2: speak, plead, or argue in favor of; "The doctor advocated a
smoking ban in the entire house" [syn: preach, advocate]
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reach
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n 1: the limits within which something can be effective; "range
of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire" [syn:
range, reach]
2: an area in which something acts or operates or has power or
control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a
greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal
legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within
the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the
law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" [syn:
scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit]
3: the act of physically reaching or thrusting out [syn:
reach, reaching, stretch]
4: the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"
[syn: compass, range, reach, grasp]
v 1: reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit
Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We
barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC
machine before the weekend starts" [syn: reach, make,
attain, hit, arrive at, gain]
2: reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The
thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of
140 miles per hour" [syn: reach, hit, attain]
3: move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a
metaphorical sense; "Government reaches out to the people"
[syn: reach, reach out]
4: be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements
reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he
emigrated to Australia" [syn: reach, get through, get
hold of, contact]
5: to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"
[syn: achieve, accomplish, attain, reach]
6: to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he
reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall" [syn: reach,
extend to, touch]
7: reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!";
"She may not make the grade" [syn: reach, make, get to,
progress to]
8: place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon,
please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over
the prisoner to his lawyers" [syn: pass, hand, reach,
pass on, turn over, give]
9: to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear"
[syn: strive, reach, strain]
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screech
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n 1: a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at
the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the
brakes" [syn: screech, screeching, shriek,
shrieking, scream, screaming]
2: sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors"
[syn: scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking,
screech, screeching]
v 1: make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked
when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining
noise" [syn: whine, squeak, screech, creak,
screak, skreak]
2: utter a harsh abrupt scream [syn: squawk, screak,
skreak, skreigh, screech]
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speech
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n 1: the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an
audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
[syn: address, speech]
2: (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was
garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the
spoken language of the streets" [syn: speech, speech
communication, spoken communication, spoken language,
language, voice communication, oral communication]
3: something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry
speeches"
4: the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly
comfortable together without speech"
5: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself
orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her
speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight
accent in his speech" [syn: manner of speaking, speech,
delivery]
6: a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of
discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" [syn:
lecture, speech, talking to]
7: words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his
speech" [syn: actor's line, speech, words]
8: the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language
sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals" [syn:
language, speech]
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teach
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n 1: an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the
Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) [syn:
Teach, Edward Teach, Thatch, Edward Thatch,
Blackbeard]
v 1: impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He
instructed me in building a boat" [syn: teach, learn,
instruct]
2: accustom gradually to some action or attitude; "The child is
taught to obey her parents"
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pleach
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v 1: form or weave into a braid or braids; "braid hair" [syn:
braid, pleach] [ant: unbraid]
2: interlace the shoots of; "pleach a hedge" [syn: pleach,
plash]
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unteach
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v 1: cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he
or she had learned earlier
2: cause to unlearn; "teach somebody to unlearn old habits or
methods"
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creach
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creech
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cheech
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leitch
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meech
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pietsch
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reeche
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veatch
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veech
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weech
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wiech
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misteach
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