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This tag is for questions about the meaning of a word or a phrase in a specific context, which a dictionary cannot answer. Please give as much context as possible.
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What does "chatter" mean here? [closed]
I just know chatter is something related to talking.
Counter-terrorism police in Sydney have arrested two men, charging one with possession of documents designed to facilitate a terrorist attack. …
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What do "reckless" and "deed" here means?
I really have no clue about these two words meaning, even though i looked up the dictionary.
“Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest,” an unidentified spokes …
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What do “torment” and “rough up” here means?
torment means torture either physically or mentally?
Rough us up means beat up physically?
Freed rebel fighter Denis Balbukov said: "I want to eat fried potatoes and talk to my relatives."
But he ad …
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What does "disjoint" here means?
In what aspects are the Opponents disjointed? The team they followed?
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What does "dogged" here mean?
What does "dogged" here mean? I have no idea
I tried looking up dogged in a dictionary, and found several meanings, but none of them seemed to make sense in the context of this article:
Having the …
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What does “relayed” mean here?
What does “relayed” mean here? It means "delivered"?
When I looked up relayed in a dictionary, I found a definition that said:
relayed (verb trans.) to tell something you heard :
I relayed th …
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What does "ebb away" here mean?
Looked up the dictionary. It says flow back. Does it mean "come back" here?
It is an agony that people here are beginning to get used to as time drags on and optimism and hope ebb away. (source)
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