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This tag is for questions about verbs. Verbs are words that express an action, occurrence, or a state of being. Add this tag to single-word-requests if you are looking for a verb. Add the tag word-usage if you are asking about the usage of the verb.
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Does 'develop' in "In Chapter 2 we develop essential aspects of elliptic curve cryptography.... [closed]
The quote in question comes from the Introduction, page 12, to this book:
In our quest for comprehensiveness, we have chosen to present all the basic elements of cryptography needed to understand the …
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What does "to skin your eyes for sth" mean?
The expression in question occurs in the following passage from Moby-Dick
“It’s a white whale, I say,” resumed Ahab, as he threw down the topmaul: “a white whale. Skin your eyes for him, men; look sh …
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"She feels some ghastly fright come up and stop to look at her" v. "She feels some ghastly f...
The Soul has Bandaged moments —
When too appalled to stir —
She feels some ghastly Fright come up
And stop to look at her —
What is the difference in meaning between the phrase contained in the last t …
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What does the verb bound mean in this sentence of Thoreau's? [closed]
In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Thoreau writes:
When he was here, some years ago, he showed to a few a little manuscript book,—his “orderly book” I think he called it,—containing the names of his c …
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What do 'fain' and 'unfained' mean in this paragraph from Milton's "The Doctrine & Disciplin...
In book one, chapter VI, of The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, it is written:
Fourthly, Mariage is a cov’nant the very beeing wherof consists, not in a forc’t cohabitation, and counterfet performa …
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Why are these two verbs in infinitive in this poem of Emily Dickinson?
The Soul has Bandaged moments —
When too appalled to stir —
She feels some ghastly Fright come up
And stop to look at her —
I can't help rewriting in my head the last two lines of this stanza, like so …
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What does "The by-gone-day proclaym'd" mean in scene ii, act I of The Winter's Tale?
In the second scene of The Winter's Tale, Hermione says:
I had thought (Sir) to haue held my peace, vntill
You had drawne Oathes from him, not to stay: you (Sir)
Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you …
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Meaning of "Bore many gentlemen" in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure"? [closed]
In act I, scene 5, of Measure for Measure, Lucio says:
Lucio. This is the point.
The Duke is very strangely gone from hence;
Bore many gentlemen (my selfe being one)
In hand, and hope of action: but …
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What does 'attorney' mean in this passage from The Winter's Tale
In The Winter's Tale, it is written:
Cam[illo]. Sicilia cannot shew himselfe ouer-kind to Bohemia: They were trayn'd together in their Child-hoods; and there rooted betwixt them then such an affectio …
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