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growing movement towards religious fundamentalism.
movie n. 1 motion picture, film, moving picture, silent (picture),
talking picture, Colloq talkie, flick: Her grandfather was one
of the first actors in silent movies. 2 Usually, movies.
picture show, cinema, flicks, Colloq big or large screen, silver
screen: Why don't we go to the movies instead of watching
television tonight?
moving adj. 1 touching, poignant, emotive, affecting, stirring,
heart-rending, emotional, telling, effective, impressive,
striking, compelling; pathetic, exciting, thrilling, inspiring,
inspirational, impelling, persuasive: He related a moving story
of his years in various concentration camps. 2 active, mobile,
unfixed, unstationary, motile, going, operating, working, in
motion, on the move: Be careful not to touch any of the moving
parts inside the clock.
mow v. 1 cut (down), scythe, trim, shear: You don't need to mow
the lawn so much during a dry spell. 2 mow down. annihilate,
kill, massacre, butcher, slaughter, exterminate, liquidate,
eradicate, wipe out, cut down, cut to pieces, destroy, decimate:
The first platoon was mowed down by machine-gun fire.
13.5 muck...
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muck n. 1 ordure, manure, dung, excrement, faeces, droppings; guano:
The muck is saved for use as fertilizer. 2 dirt, filth, bilge,
slime, sludge, ooze, scum, sewage, mire, mud, feculence, Colloq
gunge, gunk, US grunge: Give me a chance to get the muck off my
shoes.
--v. 3 muck about. fool around, waste time, idle, loiter, mess
around or about: She told me to stop mucking about and get a
job. 4 muck up. ruin, wreck, destroy, make a mess of, botch,
mess up, bungle, Colloq screw up, Slang bugger up, make a muck
of: She's mucked up her own life, and, given the chance, she'll
muck up mine.
mud n. muck, ooze, slime, mire, clay, sludge, silt, dirt, US and
Canadian gumbo or gombo: The mud came up to my ankles.