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Straw Wine
- noun - sweet wine from grapes partially sun-dried on the vine or on straw mats
Streamline
- verb - contour economically or efficiently
Stretching
- verb - act of expanding by lengthening or widening
- become longer by being stretched and pulled; "The fabric stretches"
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- extend one's body or limbs; "Let's stretch for a minute--we've been sitting here for over 3 hours"
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body; "Stretch your legs!"; "Extend your right arm above your head"
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna"
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly; "Stretch the limits"; "stretch my patience"; "stretch the imagination"
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance; "stretch the soup by adding some more cream"; "extend t
Strickling
- verb - level off with a strickle in a measuring container; "strickle sand"
- smooth with a strickle; "strickle the grain in the measure"
Strip Mine
- noun - an open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surface
- extract (ore) from a strip-mine
Strobiline
- - Of or pertaining to a strobile; strobilaceous; strobiliform; as, strobiline fruits.
Struggling
- verb - be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists"
- make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"
- to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope"
Strychnine
- noun - an alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant
Stupefying
- verb - be a mystery or bewildering to;
- make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
- make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
- making physically stupid or dull or insensible; "a stupefying blow to the head"; "the stupefying effects of hemp"
- shocking with surprise and consternation; "the stupefying impact of the tragedy"
- so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"
Stuttering
- verb - speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"