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/bˈaʊt/
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[ US /ˈbaʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈbaʊt/ ]
NOUN
- (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
- a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
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a period of illness
a bout of fever
a bout of depression -
an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
they went on a bust that lasted three days
How To Use bout In A Sentence
- If you wonder about ‘furphy’, as I did, here's a gloss and explanation.
- The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
- But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
- Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
- As he ran past, the arquebusier shouted something about Susanoo, the kami of storms, and how he was punishing them for their arrogance. Blood Ninja II
- The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
- As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
- A boa made from black water mink is worth about 50 dollars, a collarette about $100,00 and a coat reaching down to the hips would cost about $250,00. Black Beaver The Trapper
- As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
- We learn a little more about how interconnected the world is. Times, Sunday Times