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checked

[chekt] / tʃɛkt /






ADJECTIVE
measured
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG








ADJECTIVE
smothered
Synonyms




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Fare thee well Dame, what ere becomes of me, This is a Soldiers kisse: rebukeable, And worthy shamefull checke it were, to stand On more Mechanicke Complement, Ile leaue thee.

From Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare, William

Howbeit when the Loutea called his checke roll, and with the keeper vieweth them, they all weare their liuerses, that is, boords at their necks, yronned hand and foot.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard

The common game is chesse, almost the simplest will Both giue a checke and eke a mate, by practise comes their skill.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Hakluyt, Richard

And what, be there no officers trow we, in towne To checke idle loytrers, braggyng vp and downe?

From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Arber, Edward




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