excerpt
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~ take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
exchange
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~ hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent; "exchange prisoners"; "exchange employees between branches of the company"
exchange
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~ give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
exchange
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~ change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
exchange
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~ put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk for fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
exchange
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~ exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares"
exchange
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~ exchange a penalty for a less severe one
excise
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~ remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"
excise
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~ remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
excite
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~ stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
excite
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~ act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates"
excite
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~ raise to a higher energy level; "excite the atoms"
excite
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~ stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
excite
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~ cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
excite
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~ arouse or elicit a feeling
excite
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~ stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"
excite
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~ produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons"
exclaim
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~ utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!' he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost"
exclaim
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~ state or announce; "`I am not a Communist,' he exclaimed"; "The King will proclaim an amnesty"