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  • 21Shaitan Singh — Major Shaitan Singh Bhati was born on December 1, 1924 at Jodhpur in Rajasthan. He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Hem Singhji Bhati, and was commissioned in the Kumaon Regiment on 01 August 1949. Major Shaitan Singh Bhati was awarded Param Vir …

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  • 22Francis Wright — THE WOMANA Brief Biography of Frances Wright, With Particular Emphasis on NashobaA Scottish (upper middle class) born radical free thinker who visited America in 1818 1820, became a passionate friend of Lafayette starting September 1821. Followed …

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  • 23narcotic — narcotically, adv. /nahr kot ik/, n. 1. any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation… …

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  • 24intermit — verb /ɪntəˈmɪt/ To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend. Idleness [...] of body is nothing but a kind of of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[...] makes them unapt to… …

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  • 25benumbingly — adverb in a benumbing manner …

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  • 26aftermovement — Involuntary arm abduction that follows sustained isometric contraction of the deltoid and supraspinatus muscles (usually performed by pushing the upper extremity forcibly and against an immovable vertical surface while standing closely beside it) …

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  • 27torpent — 1. SYN: torpid. 2. A benumbing agent. [L. torpeo, pres. p. ens, to be sluggish] * * * tor·pent (torґpənt) [L. torpere to be sluggish] 1. torpid. 2. an agent that reduces irritation …

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  • 28chilling effect — n: a usu. undesirable discouraging effect or influence the chilling effect it will have on the assertion of legitimate claims S. V. Bomse used esp. of First Amendment violations Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 29heavy — I (burdened) adjective benumbing, careworn, clumsy, dejected, depressed with sorrow, dull, dulled, gloomy, languid, leaden, serious, sluggish, somber, stolid, tempestuous, tiresome, torpid, violent, weary associated concepts: heavy burden to… …

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  • 30lifeless — I (dead) adjective abrogated, annihilated, annulled, at rest, bereft of life, breathless, cadaveric, cadaverous, canceled, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, destitute of life, devoid of life, ended, exanimate, exanimus, expired, extinct, gone …

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