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1. flēn v.(2)

76 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) To strip the skin from (a person, a part of someone's body); also, to tear the skin to shreds (by blows, scourging, etc.); to strip (the skin from the flesh); flen of, to flay off (the skin); flen……

2. relaxen v.

16 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To loosen (a bandage, compress, stitches), ease tension or pressure on (sth.); diminish (swelling), soften (hardness of a bodily part); relax (muscles), ease (rigidness in the body); (b) to……

3. replēten v.

10 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Med. & pathol. To fill (a wound) with new flesh, cause tissue to generate in (a wound); also, of humors, fat: fill or distend (part of the body); ppl. repleting as adj.: regenerative of tissue……

4. rīsen v.

425 quotations in 15 senses
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(a) To stand up, rise to one's feet from a sitting, kneeling, or reclining position; get up from table; of an animal: get to its feet; of a toad: rear up (from a crouching position); risen ayen……

5. scolkeren v.

3 quotations in 1 sense
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Pathol. to alter the nature of (a humor) by unnatural heat. …

6. scorklen v.

10 quotations in 1 sense
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Usually as past participle or participial adjective. (a) To singe (sb. or sth.), scorch; pathol. to alter the nature of (a humor) by unnatural heat; (b) to heat so as to parch (sb.). …

7. tọ̄̆brēken v.

182 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) To break up, break into pieces, shatter; of a ship: suffer shipwreck; also fig.; tobreken in peces; (b) to shatter (sth.), smash; cause (sth.) to be smashed; also, crush (sb.) [quot. c1275, 1st]……

8. wẹ̄pen v.

295 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) To shed tears, weep, sob aloud, cry; also fig.; of an infant: cry instinctively, wail, squall; of Christ: weep as a sign of his humanity; wepen with eien; al wepinge, weeping copiously; bresten……

9. wrọ̄ten v.

30 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Of an animal: to dig in the earth with its snout, root around; wroten in, Fig. of a military formation: attack in a wedge (b) of a worm: to slither about, wriggle; (c) of a person: to dig, work……

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