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  • 121smashing — smash·ing || smæʃɪŋ adj. (Slang) amazing, wonderful, sensational; devastating smæʃ n. breaking into pieces, shattering; sound of something breaking into pieces, crash; collision, car crash; bankruptcy; defeat; violent blow v. shatter,… …

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  • 122go —    1. to die    And its northern British alternative, gang, alone or in many phrases:     ... he said I think I m going, Peter. He didn t speak again. (Manning, 1977)    Thus a sailor may go aloft, punning on the ascent of the rigging; a Scot… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 123go — go1 verb (goes, going; past went; past participle gone) 1》 move from one place to another; travel.     ↘engage in a specified activity: she used to go hunting.     ↘(go to) attend or visit for a purpose.     ↘pass time in a particular way: they… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 124go under — (of a business) become bankrupt. → go …

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  • 125suspend — I. v. a. 1. Hang. 2. Make to depend. 3. Interrupt, intermit, stay, delay, hinder. 4. Discontinue, arrest, leave off, give over, stop, break off. 5. Defer, delay, postpone, withhold, lay over, stave off. 6. Debar (as from an office) temporarily …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 126bung — I. /bʌŋ / (say bung) noun 1. a stopper, as for the hole of a cask. 2. → bunghole. 3. Colloquial a memo to an employee, especially of a government department, calling attention to a breach of regulations. –verb (t) 4. Also, bung up. to close up… …

  • 127wall — /wɔl / (say wawl) noun 1. an upright work or structure of stone, brick, or similar material, serving for enclosure, division, support, protection, etc., as one of the upright enclosing sides of a building or a room, or a solid fence of masonry. 2 …

  • 128postmodernism / postmodernity —    by Ashley Woodward   Baudrillard briefly used the term postmodern in the early to mid 1980s before expressing deep dissatisfaction with it and seeking to disassociate himself from it. In response to a request to explain postmodernism, he once… …

    The Baudrillard dictionary