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terms

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??mz/
  • (US) IPA(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

  1. plural of term

Verb

terms

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

  • ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

  1. indefinite genitive singular of term

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gainstrive

English

Etymology

From gain- +? strive.

Verb

gainstrive (third-person singular simple present gainstrives, present participle gainstriving, simple past gainstrived or gainstrove, past participle gainstrived or gainstriven)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose. [16th century]
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To resist; to fight back. [16th century]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:
      For on the spoile of women he doth live, / Whose bodies chast, when ever in his powre / He may them catch unable to gainstrive, / He with his shamefull lust doth first deflowre, / And afterwardes themselves doth cruelly devoure.

Derived terms

  • gainstriving

Related terms

  • gainstrife

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