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| Bloody Sunday |
March 7, 1965, the day on which American civil rights activists, led by John Lewis and others, marched onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and were beaten and tear-gassed by waiting police officers and deputies on the other side. |
| canaliculus |
a small bodily channel or tubular passage, such as a tear duct, or a tiny groove, as in a bone. |
| chew |
to tear or grind between the teeth. |
| claw |
to scratch, tear, dig, or pull with or as if with claws. [2/4 definitions] |
| cut |
the act or result of opening or breaking something with a sharp tool; wound; tear. [1/2 definitions] |
| darning |
the act of mending a hole or tear, esp. by using interwoven stitches. [1/2 definitions] |
| demolish |
to tear down or destroy. |
| dismantle |
to tear down; take apart. |
| dismember |
to sever or tear the members or limbs from. [1/2 definitions] |
| excoriate |
to abrade or tear away the skin of. [1/2 definitions] |
| fang |
a long, pointed tooth. Some animals use their fangs to hold and tear prey. Some snakes have hollow fangs through which they inject poison. |
| fritter1 |
to shred or tear into small bits. [1/3 definitions] |
| heteronym |
a word that is spelled the same as another but has a different pronunciation and meaning, such as "tear," meaning "to rip," and "tear," meaning the liquid discharge from the eye. |
| homograph |
a word that has the same spelling as another but a different meaning and history. Homographs are often pronounced differently from each other. In the sentence, "She shed a tear over the tear in her dress," the two words spelled "t-e-a-r" are homographs. |
| laceration |
a rough, jagged tear or injury, esp. a wound or cut. [1/2 definitions] |
| lachrymator |
a substance such as tear gas that causes tears by irritating the eyes. |
| lacrimal bone |
the thin membrane bone that forms the front part of the inner wall of each eye socket, near the tear glands. |
| level |
to tear down or destroy. [1/10 definitions] |
| osteoarthritis |
the most common form of arthritis, resulting from wear and tear on joints and usually occurring after middle age. |
| patch |
a small piece of material used to cover a hole or tear or to make a weak place stronger. [1/6 definitions] |
| peel1 |
to pull, tear, or cut the outer covering from something. [1/2 definitions] |
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