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  • 111steep — I adj 1. sheer, abrupt, precipitous, sudden, high, upright, plumb, sharp, bold, bluff, arduous; perpendicular, vertical; declivitous, descending; acclivi tous, ascending. n 2. height, elevation, rise, hill, acclivity; cliff, bluff, crag, alp,… …

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  • 112suffuse — v overspread, cover, mantle; bathe, color, dye, tint, tincture; imbue, imbrue, permeate, infiltrate, transfuse, diffuse, infuse, steep, soak, saturate …

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  • 113tincture — n 1. infusion, insinuation, injection, imbuement, imbruement, instillation, inculcation, impregnation, implantation, infiltration; intermixture, strain, vein, streak, element. 2. tint, coloring, shade. See tinge(def. 3). 3. trace, hint,… …

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  • 114tint — n 1. hue, shade, tone, cast. See tinge(def. 3). 2. pastel, soft or delicate color, subtle or subdued or muted color, light or pale or faint color. 3. dye, hair coloring, wash, solution, Chem. aniline dye, Obs. taint; coloring, colorant, pigment,… …

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  • 115embrue — em•brue [[t]ɛmˈbru[/t]] v. t. brued, bru•ing imbrue …

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  • 116imbue — im•bue [[t]ɪmˈbyu[/t]] v. t. bued, bu•ing 1) to permeate or inspire profoundly 2) to saturate deeply with moisture or color 3) to imbrue • Etymology: 1545–55; < L imbuere to wet, drench im•bue′ment, n …

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  • 117drench — [v] wet thoroughly deluge, dip, douse, drown, duck, dunk, flood, imbrue, immerse, impregnate, inundate, pour, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, sop, souse, steep, submerge, teem; concept 256 Ant. dry, parch …

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  • 118impregnate — [v] infuse, fill; make pregnant charge, conceive, drench, fecundate, fertilize, imbrue, implant, inoculate, inseminate, leaven, overflow, percolate, permeate, pervade, procreate, produce, reproduce, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, souse, steep,… …

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  • 119soak — [v] drench, wet absorb, assimilate, bathe, damp, dip, drink, drown, dunk, flood, imbrue, immerge, immerse, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, macerate, marinate, merge, moisten, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pour into, pour on, saturate, seethe,… …

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  • 120broth — [OE] Broth comes ultimately from the Indo European base *bhreu or *bhru ‘heat, boil’, which also produced brew and fervent. Etymologically, therefore, it means ‘liquid in which something has been boiled’. The notion of ‘heating’ has now… …

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