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Abase
- verb - belittles
- cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
- undermine
Blase
- adjective - nonchalantly unconcerned; "a blase attitude about housecleaning"
- uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; "his blase indifference"; "a petulant blase air"; "the bored gaze of the successful film star"
- very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"
Cease
- noun -
- (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
- STOP
Chase
- noun - a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time
- cut a furrow into a columns
- cut a groove into; "chase silver"
- go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"
- pursue someone sexually or romantically
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"
- United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873)
Crase
- - To break in pieces; to crack.
Erase
- verb - remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
- remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
- wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?"
Lease
- noun - a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
- engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
- grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
- Hire
- hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"
- property that is leased or rented out or let
- the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect
Mease
- - Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings.
Pease
- noun - a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
- seed of a pea plant used for food
- the fruit or seed of a pea plant
Phase
- noun - (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon"
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"
- a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle
- adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition; "he phased the intake with the output of the machine"
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"
- arrange in phases or stages; "phase a withdrawal"