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Repugning
- verb - to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race"
Rerunning
- verb - broadcast again, as of a film
- cause to perform again; "We have to rerun the subjects--they misunderstood the instructions"
- rerun a performance of a play, for example
- run again for office; "Bush wants to rerun in 1996"
Resigning
- verb - accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
- give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"
- part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"
Retaining
- verb - allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings"
- hold back within; "This soil retains water"; "I retain this drug for a long time"; "the dam retains the water"
- keep in one's mind; "I cannot retain so much information"
- secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"
Returning
- verb - answer back
- be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
- be restored; "Her old vigor returned"
- bring back to the point of departure
- elect again
- give back; "render money"
- give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
- go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
- go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean"
- make a return; "return a kickback"
- pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
- pay back; "Please refund me my money"
Saddening
- verb - come to feel sad
- make unhappy; "The news of her death saddened me"
Safranine
- noun - any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes
Safranins
- noun - any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes
Saturnine
- adjective - bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
- showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
Screening
- verb - examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
- examine methodically; "screen the suitcases"
- fabric of metal or plastic mesh
- prevent from entering; "block out the strong sunlight"
- project onto a screen for viewing; "screen a film"
- protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection; "screen the blood for the HIV virus"
- testing objects or persons in order to identify those with particular characteristics
- the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it; "the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft"
- the display of a motion picture