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  • 62weakness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of strength Nouns 1. weakness, feebleness, debility, debilitation, infirmity, decrepitude, inanition; weariness, enervation, impotence; paleness, colorlessness; disability, attenuation, senility,… …

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  • 63Weakness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Weakness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 weakness weakness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 debility debility atony relaxation languor enervation Sgm: N 1 impotence impotence &c. 158 Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 64puffy — /ˈpʌfi / (say pufee) adjective (puffier, puffiest) 1. gusty. 2. short winded. 3. inflated or distended. 4. fat. 5. conceited. 6. bombastic. –puffiness, noun …

  • 65pursy — /ˈpɜsi/ (say persee) adjective (pursier, pursiest) 1. short winded, especially from corpulence or fatness. 2. corpulent or fat: *He sat with his hands resting on his pursy thighs, very deliberate. –patrick white, 1955. {earlier pursive, Middle… …

  • 66pursy —   a. short winded, especially because stout …

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  • 67puffy — [puf′ē] adj. puffier, puffiest 1. blowing or coming in puffs 2. panting; short winded 3. puffed up; swollen; inflated 4. fat; obese puffily adv. puffiness n …

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  • 68pursy — pursy1 [pʉr′sē] adj. pursier, pursiest [ME purcy < purcyfe < Anglo Fr pursif, for OFr polsif < polser, to push, also breathe, pant < L pulsare, to beat < pulsus: see PULSE1] 1. short winded, esp. from being obese 2. obese; fat… …

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  • 69puffy — adj. (puffier, puffiest) 1 swollen, esp. of the face etc. 2 fat. 3 gusty. 4 short winded; puffed out. Derivatives: puffily adv. puffiness n …

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  • 70pursy — adj. 1 short winded; puffy. 2 corpulent. Derivatives: pursiness n. Etymology: ME, earlier pursive f. AF porsif f. OF polsif f. polser breathe with difficulty f. L pulsare (as PULSATE) …

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