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US
/ˈpaʊ/
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[ UK /pˈaʊ/ ]
[ UK /pˈaʊ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war
How To Use POW In A Sentence
- Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
- Liberal democracy is a fraud, a cover for the power of the elite. Times, Sunday Times
- This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
- The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
- The captain's armband must have special powers because he's been brilliant. Times, Sunday Times
- Add a little freshly sliced green chilli or a hint of chilli powder if you wish. Times, Sunday Times
- ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
- A substantial element of the system is the set of physical exercises performed in pairs and again based on the idea of the power of co-operation.
- The 100-acre wind farm near Strabane is currently capable of producing 6.6 kilo watts of power per hour.
- For now, it's a relief to see that she is not included in Forbes magazine's recent list of the world's 100 most powerful women.