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91Churchill's advocacy of chemical strike against German cities — During World War II, Winston Churchill issued a memorandum advocating a chemical strike on German cities using poison gas and possibly anthrax. Although the idea was rejected, it has provoked debate.[1] In July 1944, fearing that rocket attacks… …
92pour — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. flow, emerge; decant, fill; is sue; rain, flood, shower. See egress, water, sufficiency. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To flow] Syn. discharge, emit, issue; see drain 3 , flow 2 . 2. [To allow to flow] Syn.… …
93sop — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. morsel, pacifier; bribe, inducement, compensation, propitiation, token; milksop. See payment, moderation. v. steep, dunk, dip, soak; wet, moisten. See moisture. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. soak,… …
94water — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) A clear liquid and major component of all living things Nouns 1. water, moisture, wetness; drinking water, spring water, mineral water; sea or salt water, fresh water; serum, serosity; lymph; rheum;… …
95Remedy — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Remedy >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 remedy remedy help redress Sgm: N 1 anthelmintic anthelmintic Sgm: N 1 antidote antidote antifebrile antipoison counterpoison antitoxin antispasmodic …
96drink — [OE] Drink comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic verb *drengkan, which is widely represented in other modern Germanic languages: German trinken, for instance, Dutch drinken, Swedish dricka, and Danish drikke. Variants of it also produced… …
97drown — [13] Drown is not found in texts until the end of the 13th century (when it began to replace the related drench in the sense ‘suffocate in water’) but an Old English verb *drūnian could well have existed. The earliest occurrences of the word are… …
98physic — I. n. 1. Medicine, medical art, science of medicine, art of healing. 2. Drug, medicine, remedy, medicament. 3. Cathartic, purge, purgative, drench, drastic, scourer. II. v. a. 1. Purge, drench, scour. 2. Cure, heal, treat with remedies …
99soak — vb Soak, saturate, drench, steep, impregnate, sop, waterlog can mean to permeate or be permeated with or as if with water. Soak suggests immersion in a liquid so that the substance absorbs the moisture and usually becomes thoroughly wetted,… …
100καταβεβρεγμένον — καταβρέχω drench perf part mp masc acc sg καταβρέχω drench perf part mp neut nom/voc/acc sg …
