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21prostrates — pros·trate || prÉ‘ streɪt /prÉ’ v. render powerless, subdue; bring down, cast down; lie flat, lie face down adj. lying low, subjugated; beaten, defeated; helpless, defenseless, unprotected; exhausted, feeble, frail …
22prostrating — pros·trate || prÉ‘ streɪt /prÉ’ v. render powerless, subdue; bring down, cast down; lie flat, lie face down adj. lying low, subjugated; beaten, defeated; helpless, defenseless, unprotected; exhausted, feeble, frail …
23disarm — I. v. a. 1. Deprive of arms or weapons. 2. Disable, incapacitate, render powerless, harmless, or innocuous. II. v. n. Lay down arms, reduce the military establishment, dismiss or disband troops, reduce forces to a peace footing …
24demoralize — v 1. destroy the morale of, take the fight out of, take the heart out of, take the spirit out of, Inf. take the spunk out of, Inf. take the starch out of, Dial. take the tuck out of; dispirit, dishearten, daunt, subdue, break down, unman; crush,… …
25hamstring — ham•string [[t]ˈhæmˌstrɪŋ[/t]] n. v. strung, string•ing 1) anat. zool. (in humans) a) any of the tendons in the region behind the knee b) Achilles tendon 2) zool. (in quadrupeds) the great tendon at the back of the hock 3) pat to disable by… …
26paralyse — n. (US paralyze) 1 affect with paralysis. 2 render powerless; cripple. Derivatives: paralysation n. paralysingly adv. Etymology: F paralyser f. paralysie: cf. PALSY …
27Put the whammy on — render useless, motionless or powerless …
28Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
29France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
30Care of the Poor by the Church — Care of the Poor by the Church † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Care of the Poor by the Church I. OBJECTS, HISTORY, AND ORGANIZATION A. The care of the poor is a branch of charity. In the narrow sense charity means any exercise of mercy… …
