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  • 111amplify — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. enlarge, swell, magnify. See expansion. Ant., summarize, shorten, compress. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. expand, augment, magnify, elaborate; see increase 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. increase …

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  • 112develop — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. evolve, unfold, mature, grow; bring about, cultivate, produce, amplify; elaborate, train, improve. See increase, teaching, improvement, expansion. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To improve] Syn. enlarge,… …

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  • 113dilate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. expatiate, descant; stretch, distend, enlarge. See increase, expansion, diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. stretch, expand, enlarge, widen; see increase 1 , stretch 2 . See Synonym Study at expand …

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  • 114magnify — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. enlarge, augment; laud, glorify. See increase, approbation, exaggeration. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To enlarge] Syn. amplify, blow up, expand; see increase 1 . 2. [To exaggerate] Syn. overstate,… …

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  • 115Distend — Dis*tend , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distending}.] [L. distendere, distentum, distensum; dis + tendere to stretch, stretch out: cf. F. distendre to distend, d[ e]tendre to unbend. See {Tend}, and cf. {Detent}.] 1. To… …

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  • 116Distended — Distend Dis*tend , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distending}.] [L. distendere, distentum, distensum; dis + tendere to stretch, stretch out: cf. F. distendre to distend, d[ e]tendre to unbend. See {Tend}, and cf. {Detent}.] 1.… …

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  • 117Distending — Distend Dis*tend , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distending}.] [L. distendere, distentum, distensum; dis + tendere to stretch, stretch out: cf. F. distendre to distend, d[ e]tendre to unbend. See {Tend}, and cf. {Detent}.] 1.… …

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  • 118Spirit rover — (MER A) Artist s concept of Rover on Mars Operator NASA Mission type Rover Launch date …

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  • 119City and South London Railway — A picture of a City South London Railway train from the Illustrated London News, 1890 The City and South London Railway (C SLR) was the first deep level underground tube railway in the world,[1][note 1 …

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  • 120Japanese military strategies in 1942 — Immediately after the fall of Singapore in 1942 certain Army circles argued that Japan should exploit her advantage and seek peace with Great Britain. The heart of this reasoning was the fact that Japan could not knock out both the United States… …

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