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(verb) throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo |
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Related Words: get over, master, overcome, subdue, surmount, swim |
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(verb) attack viciously and ferociously |
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Related Words: assail, assault, attack, set on |
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(noun) a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting |
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Synonyms: English bulldog |
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Related Words: French bulldog, working dog |
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(satellite adjective) stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" |
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Synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
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(adjective) resembling or pertaining to a bulldog; "A bulldog appearance" |
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