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- pronunciation:
- vih
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
experienced through imagined participation in someone else's actions, sufferings, or the like.
Listening to his friend's adventures gave him vicarious pleasure. |
| definition 2: |
done, felt, endured, or the like in place of another person.
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| definition 3: |
acting in place of another.
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| definition 4: |
occurring in or performed by an organ or part of the body in place of the normal one.
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| derivations: |
vicariously (adv.), vicariousness (n.) |
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