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/ ɜː /
plural noun
- the text of a part of an actor, etc
- the text or lyrics of a song, as opposed to the music
- angry speech (esp in the phrase have words with someone )
- eat one's wordsto retract a statement
- for wordspreceded bytoo and an adjective or adverb indescribably; extremely
the play was too funny for words
- have no words forto be incapable of describing
- in other wordsexpressing the same idea but differently
- in so many wordsexplicitly or precisely
- of few wordsnot talkative
- of many wordstalkative
- put into wordsto express in speech or writing as well as thought
- say a few wordsto give a brief speech
- take the words out of someone's mouthto say exactly what someone else was about to say
- words fail meI am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
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I wanted something where you could take someone’s head off with the words.
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"Those words never left my mouth," says Ms Imran, who tells us she had previously asked Mr Adler to remove it.
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Other chroniclers, film-makers and diarists struggled to convey in words and pictures the scenes that made unwanted incursions into their minds.
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The concern behind the very public worry about losing hundreds and hundreds of seats is that "we might not yet actually have hit the bottom", in the words of another veteran.
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As an experienced London Marathon-er, does she have any words of wisdom for her fellow parliamentarian?
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