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  • 11cold — coldish, adj. coldly, adv. coldness, n. /kohld/, adj., colder, coldest, n., adv. adj. 1. having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day. 2. feeling an uncomfortable lack of warmth; chilled: The skaters… …

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  • 12In cold blood — Cold Cold (k[=o]ld), a. [Compar. {Colder} ( [ e]r); superl. {Coldest}.] [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS. kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall, Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of AS. calan …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 13To give one the cold shoulder — Cold Cold (k[=o]ld), a. [Compar. {Colder} ( [ e]r); superl. {Coldest}.] [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS. kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall, Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of AS. calan …

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  • 14indifferent — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking interest] Syn. apathetic, unconcerned, uninterested, disinterested, detached, unaroused, listless, cold, cool, unemotional, unsympathetic, emotionless, passionless, heartless, unresponsive, incurious, lymphatic,… …

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  • 15cold — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ceald, cald; akin to Old High German kalt cold, Latin gelu frost, gelare to freeze Date: before 12th century 1. a. having or being a temperature that is uncomfortably low for humans < it is …

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  • 16cold — Synonyms and related words: Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, Laodicean, Olympian, Siberian, abruptly, absolutely, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, affectless, ague, aguey, aguish, algid, aloof, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anesthetized, anthracosilicosis,&#8230; …

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  • 17cold-hearted — Synonyms and related words: apathetic, callous, cold, cool, cruel, frigid, heartless, indifferent, insensitive, mean, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, thick skinned, thoughtless, uncaring, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unsympathetic …

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  • 18indifferent — Synonyms and related words: Laodicean, Olympian, airy, aloof, apathetic, average, backward, balking, balky, benumbed, betwixt and between, blah, blase, bored, by the way, callous, careless, casual, centrist, chill, cold, comatose, commonplace,&#8230; …

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  • 19cold-blooded — Synonyms and related words: apathetic, barbaric, barbarous, brutal, callous, cool, cruel, dispassionate, heartless, imperturbable, indifferent, inhuman, insensitive, merciless, pitiless, poikilothermic, ruthless, savage, steely, stony, thick&#8230; …

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  • 20Longformacus and Ellim —    LONGFORMACUS and ELLIM, a parish, in the county of Berwick, 7 miles (W. N. W.) from Dunse; containing 390 inhabitants. The name of this place has been variously written at different periods, and its derivation is involved in much obscurity. In …

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