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Definition of inhibit, incarcerate, blight, obtrude, nettle, discourse, expatriate, low, countenance, entreat

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Definition of inhibit (verb)
to check; to hinder; to hold back; to prevent

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We need a system of assessment that will encourage, not inhibit, the development of the imagination, and the new emphasis on practical skills as of equal importance with scholarship and learning.

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Definition of incarcerate (verb)
to imprison; to detain; to jail

Examples
The house is built on the site of a Saxon prison, which was still used in the twelfth century to incarcerate cattle rustlers.

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Definition of blight (verb)
to ruin; to decay; to destroy

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Look, I don't want to blight the whole thing before we start, but suppose we fail?

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Definition of obtrude (verb)
to force oneself or one's ideas upon another; to thrust forward; to eject; to invade; to interrupt

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The inquisitive coworker obtrudes into the conversation often.

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Definition of nettle (verb)
to annoy; to irritate

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The younger brother nettled his older sister until she slapped him.
The boy will nettle the father into agreeing.

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Definition of discourse (verb)
to communicate in an orderly fashion; to talk

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The scientists discoursed on a conference call for just five minutes but were able to solve three major problems.
The interviewee discoursed so fluently, she was hired on the spot.

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Definition of expatriate (verb)
to banish; to exile; to withdraw from one's country; to expel

Examples
Winters in California perhaps thought himself securely distant from the seat of the infection; he never visited Europe, still less was he tempted to expatriate himself.

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Definition of low (verb)
to moo; to utter the sound made by cattle

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It did not but the lowing herd wound its way to and from the milking sheds, and left the world to darkness and to us each night.
Using samplers, slowed-down tapes, echo-box, fuzz, wah wah, bullhorns, saws, car doors (from which they got slowed-down squeaking sounds), and tapes of cattle lowing, they plumbed new depths of the bass-spectrum, new limits in the degradation and deterioration of sound.

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Definition of countenance (verb)
to approve; to support; to tolerate; to permit

Examples
She criticized Mr Major's election soap-box as 'naff'; during the recent campaign, but the Prime Minister was prepared to overlook that and countenance her rehabilitation.

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Definition of entreat (verb)
to beg earnestly; to implore; to plead

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For a just example of vengeance, I entreat that the thieving tribe of Glencoe may be rooted out in earnest.

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