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• (incise)- to cut into, as with a sharp instrument, ( / ;
); Drafts for similar inscriptions have been found on clay tablets, written
for the use of the workmen who were to incise them on stone. — Assyrian
Historiography;
• (incision)- the act of incising, ( ; ); Jorgenson pressed four-by-
four pads into the incision, but the blood continued to flow. — Critical
Condition;
• (slit)- a long, straight, narrow cut or opening, ( ); It was
the work of a moment with his belt dagger to make a slit, to which he put his
eye. — Conan the Defender;
• (dent)- a depression in a surface made by pressure or a blow, (
; ); He ran his finger down
the dent, then dusted off his hands as he stood up. — The crush;
• (dint)- force; power, ( ); By dint of hard work I am
now Chief Editor;
• (means)- how a result is obtained or an end is achieved;
incise # excise = expunge
• (excise)- to cut out or off, as a tumor, ( ); If the tumour is seated
close to the membrana tympani, and has a broad and sessile base, then it
cannot be excised or noosed with any degree of success;
• an internal tax or duty on certain commodities, as liquor or tobacco, levied
on their manufacture, sale, or consumption within the country, ( );
Reductions in the duties of customs, excise, and stamps had all been followed
by increase in their proceeds. — The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of
3) 1809-1859;
• (expunge)- to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate, ( ;
); Were it possible to expunge these details of
their records, and clearly it is not, to do so would be to re-write history in the
utterly mendacious way of the worst totalitarian regimes;
acidity ~ acerbity = acrimony = bitterness = tartness
• (acidity)- sourness; tartness; Bogotas of good grade are noted for
their acidity, body, and flavor. — All About Coffee;
• (acerbity)- harshness or severity, as of temper or expression, ( ,
, ; ); He perceived in Bonaparte a kind
of acerbity and bitter irony, of which he long endeavoured to discover the
cause. — Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon;
• (bitterness)- having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin,