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trough | strong |
A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
Any similarly shaped container.
# (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
(Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
(agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough
Capable of producing great physical force.
Capable of withstanding great physical force.
fast moving water, wind, etc, which has a lot of power.
Determined; unyielding.
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Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.
Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.
(specifically) Having a high alcoholic content.
(grammar) Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.
(military) Not easily subdued or taken.
(slang, US) Impressive, good.
Having a specified number of people or units.
(of a disease or symptom) (l) (very bad or intense)
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(mathematics, logic) Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a statement which it implies.)
In a strong manner.
As a noun trough
is a long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.As a verb trough
is to eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough.As a proper noun strong is
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(wikipedia trough)Noun
(en noun)- One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
- Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
- There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
- The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
- The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
Verb
(en verb)- he troughed his way through 3 meat pies.
References
* Oxford English Dictionary OnlineSee also
* crib * ditch * trenchstrong
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* (dialectal)Adjective
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