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growing movement towards religious fundamentalism.<br />

movie n. 1 motion picture, film, moving picture, silent (picture),<br />

talking picture, Colloq talkie, flick: Her grandfather was one<br />

of the first actors in silent movies. 2 Usually, movies.<br />

picture show, cinema, flicks, Colloq big or large screen, silver<br />

screen: Why don't we go to the movies instead of watching<br />

television tonight?<br />

moving adj. 1 touching, poignant, emotive, affecting, stirring,<br />

heart-rending, emotional, telling, effective, impressive,<br />

striking, compelling; pathetic, exciting, thrilling, inspiring,<br />

inspirational, impelling, persuasive: He related a moving story<br />

of his years in various concentration camps. 2 active, mobile,<br />

unfixed, unstationary, motile, going, operating, working, in<br />

motion, on the move: Be careful not to touch any of the moving<br />

parts inside the clock.<br />

mow<br />

v. 1 cut (down), scythe, trim, shear: You don't need to mow<br />

the lawn so much during a dry spell. 2 mow down. annihilate,<br />

kill, massacre, butcher, slaughter, exterminate, liquidate,<br />

eradicate, wipe out, cut down, cut to pieces, destroy, decimate:<br />

The first platoon was mowed down by machine-gun fire.<br />

13.5 muck...<br />

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=muck<br />

n. 1 ordure, manure, dung, excrement, faeces, droppings; guano:<br />

The muck is saved for use as fertilizer. 2 dirt, filth, bilge,<br />

slime, sludge, ooze, scum, sewage, mire, mud, feculence, Colloq<br />

gunge, gunk, US grunge: Give me a chance to get the muck off my<br />

shoes.<br />

--v. 3 muck about. fool around, waste time, idle, loiter, mess<br />

around or about: She told me to stop mucking about and get a<br />

job. 4 muck up. ruin, wreck, destroy, make a mess of, botch,<br />

mess up, bungle, Colloq screw up, Slang bugger up, make a muck<br />

of: She's mucked up her own life, and, given the chance, she'll<br />

muck up mine.<br />

mud<br />

n. muck, ooze, slime, mire, clay, sludge, silt, dirt, US and<br />

Canadian gumbo or gombo: The mud came up to my ankles.

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