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ake - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
See ache .
noun In New Zealand, a small tree, Dodonæa viscosa , of the soapberry family, with very hard variegated wood.
noun In the Chatham Islands, a small tree, Shawia Traversii (Olearia Traversii of Hooker), of the aster family.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adverb forever
verb Archaic spelling of ache .
Etymologies
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Maori.
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Examples
Yet Pepys did not shake their company; instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake" to listen to their mad talk.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
A 'o nā konohiki hana' ole pēlā a ke'ake 'a paha i ke a'o
Starbulletin Headlines 2009
A 'o nā konohiki hana' ole pēlā a ke'ake 'a paha i ke a'o
Starbulletin Headlines 2009
A 'o nā konohiki hana' ole pēlā a ke'ake 'a paha i ke a'o 'ana a ke kumu, ua hemo ia konohiki. "
Starbulletin Headlines 2009
A 'o nā konohiki hana' ole pēlā a ke'ake 'a paha i ke a'o 'ana a ke kumu, ua hemo ia konohiki. "
Starbulletin Headlines 2009
The results showed that when a sound occurs at the same time the ball is struck, participants are slower to react and m ake "significantly more decision errors regarding the direction of the ball."
Week in Ideas 2010
Someone please tell Palin-No-Brains no one really cares what she considers evil or not evil, in fact less than 25% of Americans could care less if she could never talk again and could never call 'Anything' evil again, in my opinion the only thing evil is the 'anti-christ' Palin, after all Christ was a man, would it n ot m ake sense the anti-christ were a woman?
Palin calls news org 'heartless and selfish' 2009
We should all be praying that Greenspan doesn't ake his marching orders from the New York Times, like most Democrats do.
Bernanke on the Jobless Recovery, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
[T] ake a look at a new report issued by the Department of Homeland Security that says right-wing extremism is on the rise throughout the country.
The Tea Party Treason and Plot | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
While the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords seems like a teachable moment, there remains the vexing question of how to t ake advantage of this.
Bob Burnett: Is the Giffords' Shooting a Teachable Moment? Bob Burnett 2011
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