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  • 1choke — I. verb (choked; choking) Etymology: Middle English, alteration of achoken, from Old English ācēocian, from ā , perfective prefix + cēoce, cēace jaw, cheek more at abide, cheek Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to check or block normal… …

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  • 2The Onedin Line — Soren Larson, one of the ships filmed The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886[1] and deals with the rise of a shipping …

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  • 3choke — 1 verb 1 STOP BREATHING (I, T) to prevent someone from breathing, or to be prevented from breathing, because your throat is blocked or because there is not enough air: The fumes were choking me. (+ on): He choked to death on a fish bone. 2 INJURE …

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  • 4Tetrapod — Taxobox name = Tetrapods fossil range = Late Devonian to Recent image width = 200px image caption = A Fire Salamander. regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata superclassis = Tetrapoda superclassis authority = Broili, 1913… …

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  • 5Hélio Gracie — Infobox martial artist name = Hélio Gracie residence = other names = imagesize = caption = birth name = birth date = birth date and age|1913|10|01 birth place = Belém do Pará, Brazil death date = death place = death cause = martial art = Gracie… …

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  • 6speech — /speech/, n. 1. the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one s thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity. 2. the act of speaking: He expresses… …

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  • 7syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …

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  • 8Poltergeist curse — The Poltergeist curse is the rumor of a supposed curse attached to the Poltergeist motion picture series and its stars.The rumor is superstition largely derived from the fact that four cast members died in a relatively short span of time (six… …

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  • 9Choking — Chocking redirects here. For the mechanical tool, see Wheel chock. For the act of compressing someone s neck, see Strangling. For other uses, see Choke. Choking Classification and external resources ICD 10 F41.0, R06.8, T17, W78 W80 ICD 9 …

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  • 10India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …

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