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Meanings of funk in English
Music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, psychedelic rock, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B)
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Examples for "shrink"
Examples for "shrink"
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But perhaps money market funds need to shrink for the greater good.
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As a result they no longer work and they start to shrink.
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Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.
4
Its economy is expected to shrink this year due to austerity measures.
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Investors paid up for companies that did not shrink potential future production.
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However, the Vaqueros didn't flinch and drew within seven points at intermission.
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She had never seen him flinch from the dangers his research entailed.
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They didn't even flinch at the gunfire, just kept right on coming.
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Erius gave no sign that he'd heard, but Tobin saw Korin flinch.
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He took a step forward, but stopped when he saw her flinch.
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Kiril fought a sympathetic wince; they were neither of them young anymore.
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It embarrassed the Collector; the girl did not so much as wince.
3
Often, she saw him wince, and she asked him concerning his expressions.
4
Tania had added more Tabasco than usual today, but Celeste didn't wince.
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I wince, remembering a time when I was held down and forced.
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She said, 'I suppose there will be a certain amount of recoil.'
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This was a good weapon, well-balanced, large trigger, rubber grip, short recoil.
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The recoil would bury it in the earth if they tried that.
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But I was ashamed to recoil in the presence of the hunter.
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Some recoil in terror before that test; others, feeble and affrighted, vacillate.
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The quail on the side-hills were still sounding the clear water call.
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Others ran up the mountain-side, and cowered in the brush like quail.
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And Paul was not the most daring cock quail in the stubble.
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Again he heard the distant report of the shot-gun from the quail-hunters.
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A quail whistled from the tangle of blackberry briars by the roadside.
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It's not great either, but it's far from an entirely cringe-worthy catastrophe.
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I used to cringe whenever his name came up in history class.
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They will make you cringe, cry and not question making better choices.
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What is meant to look macho is actually the cringe of panic.
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Within the treasure cards deck, there are three cringe-inducing Waters Rise cards.
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Just saying that name makes my lips squinch up like I ate something bad.
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She's no soft-heart to squinch at the sight of blood, and that sort of foolery.
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They used to talk 'bout ha'nts and squinch owls.
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Okada rose and bowed his squinch-owl bow.
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That there's what comes o' being so dad-blame' hongry that ye can't squinch fair atween the gun-sights.
United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
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The chap in the near-by funk hole began to amuse me now.
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From the opening dialled-up funk salvo of Music: Response I was hooked.
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The funk does half the business in a man of that build.
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Major misstep: an inexplicable lack of Brazilian favela funk tracks about butts.
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Two days later, I'm still in a funk about my roommates' gay-bashing.
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Constable Harris is in a dead funk, and has telephoned the sheriff.
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Always I used to funk at the top of the Cresta run.
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And I believe he is now gone to Matson in a funk.
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The Canadians can find time to bring Martin's funk, but not CNN?
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They had faith in their funk that they were going to die.
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But could funk be undergoing something of a resurrection at the moment?
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The controversy has done nothing to stop the popularity of baile funk.
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I funk horribly, though I never get the least credit for it.
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So take heed, kiddies: drugs will make you pledge allegiance to funk.
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Maybe it's a set of reflexive behaviors freakishly short-circuited by the funk.
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The air in the room was hot, stale, heavy with Whale funk.
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