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  • 11abroad — /euh brawd /, adv. 1. in or to a foreign country or countries: famous at home and abroad. 2. in or to another continent: Shall we go to Mexico or abroad this summer? 3. out of doors; from one place to another; about: No one was abroad in the… …

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  • 12abroad — a•broad [[t]əˈbrɔd[/t]] adv. 1) in or to a foreign country or countries: famous at home and abroad[/ex] 2) in or to another continent 3) out of doors; away from one s home: There was no one abroad in the noonday heat[/ex] 4) spread around; in… …

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  • 13abroad — adv. 1 in or to a foreign country or countries. 2 over a wide area; in different directions; everywhere (scatter abroad). 3 at large; freely moving about; in circulation (there is a rumour abroad). 4 archaic in or into the open; out of doors. 5… …

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  • 14FROM — prep. expressing separation or origin, followed by: 1 a person, place, time, etc., that is the starting point of motion or action, or of extent in place or time (rain comes from the clouds; repeated from mouth to mouth; dinner is served from 8;… …

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  • 15Abroad — A*broad , adv. [Pref. a + broad.] 1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. [1913 Webster] The fox roams far abroad. Prior. [1913 Webster] 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from… …

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  • 16abroad — (adv.) mid 13c., widely apart, from O.E. on brede, which meant something like at wide (see BROAD (Cf. broad) (adj.)). The sense out of doors, away from home (late 14c.) led to the main modern sense of out of one s country, overseas (mid 15c.) …

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  • 17abroad — 1. adverb a) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space A tree spreads its branches abroad. b) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from ones abode to walk abroad Syn: overseas 2 …

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  • 18abroad — [13] It was only in the 15th century that abroad came to mean ‘in foreign parts’. Earlier, it had been used for ‘out of doors’, a sense still current today, if with a rather archaic air; but originally it meant ‘widely’ or ‘about’ (as in ‘noise… …

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  • 19abroad — [13] It was only in the 15th century that abroad came to mean ‘in foreign parts’. Earlier, it had been used for ‘out of doors’, a sense still current today, if with a rather archaic air; but originally it meant ‘widely’ or ‘about’ (as in ‘noise… …

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  • 20From Beyond the Grave — Infobox Film name = From Beyond the Grave image size = caption = German poster director = Kevin Connor producer = Max Rosenberg Milton Subotsky writer = Raymond Christodoulou Robin Clarke starring = Peter Cushing Donald Pleasence Ian Bannen Diana …

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