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Stumpy
- adjective - short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
Stymie
- noun - a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole
- a thwarting and distressing situation
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn"
Submit
- verb - accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut"
- hand over formally
- make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF"
- make over as a return; "They had to render the estate"
- put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
- refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"
- refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"
- yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"
- yield to the control of another
Summed
- verb - be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"
- determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
Summer
- noun - Anne Fairhurst Summers AO (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian writer and columnist, best known as a leading feminist, editor and publisher.
Her first book, Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia, was published in 1975.
- season between spring and autumn
- spend the summer; "We summered in Kashmir"
- the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty; "the golden summer of his life"
- the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox; "they spent a lazy summer at the shore"
Summit
- noun -
- a meeting of heads of governments
- reach the summit (of a mountain); "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit"
Summon
- verb - ask to come; "summon a lawyer"
- call in an official matter, such as to attend court
- Called to court
- gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage"
- make ready for action or use; "marshal resources"
Swamps
- noun - a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
Swampy
- adjective - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
Talmud
- noun - the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism