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Chicane
- noun - a bridge hand that is void of trumps
- a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- raise trivial objections
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Chicano
- noun - a person of Mexican descent
Chiding
- verb - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- rebuking a person harshly
- Scold
- Tell off
Chiming
- verb - emit a sound; "bells and gongs chimed"
Chining
- verb - cut through the backbone of an animal
Chitins
- noun - a tough semitransparent horny substance; the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi
Chitons
- noun - 1 Noun: A shellfish characterized by a broad oval foot and a symmetrical dorsal shell composed of a series of eight overlapping plates.
2 Noun: A long woollen tunic worn in ancient Greece.
- a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece
- primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
Choking
- verb - a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
- be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat"
- become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband"
- cause to retch or choke
- check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger"
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience"
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffoc
Choline
- noun - a B-complex vitamin that is a constituent of lecithin; essential in the metabolism of fat