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lapped

verb as in slosh, wash against

verb as in overlap

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The student also was sent to timeout while in the lap belt after throwing food.

Others with advanced pharma industries, such as India and Europe, are equally desperate not to get left behind as this race enters its final laps.

From Ozy

The park will see the occasional snowstorm, particularly at higher elevations, and you’ll even find Nordic skiers doing laps at Big Meadows after deep storms.

With increasing urgency, Farah and Kenenisa battled around the final turn before the last lap with Tariku just off their heels—but Farah would not be denied.

From Fortune

I can fold the legs shut and it can work as a lap desk that helps keep my laptop from overheating, or I can stretch the legs out and it’s the perfect height to work with my low camping chairs.

The winner that year, who offered voters beer, rum punch, wine and whiskey, lapped him seven times.

I was the only person in high-school history to be lapped in a mile race on a quarter-mile track.

I recall the events well, not least because the media lapped it up (it was even the second lead item on British television news).

There was one other arena in which the two Deadspin reporters, Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey, lapped the mainstream types.

The Bangkok metro continued to operate even as a foot of water lapped at the entrances during the 2011 monsoon.

A very usual one is a double layer of roofing slates laid in neat Portland cement (fig. 8), the joints being well lapped.

There was a mighty slab of black rock, which the waves lapped listlessly, at one side of the river pool.

He brought it in his hat and gave it to the dog, who lapped it slowly at first, but afterwards much faster, and wagging his tail.

Raymond ordered, pointing to a litter of handbills where the wavelets lapped the marge of seaweed.

Riggs made no reply, and went on rolling down his trousers leg, lapped a fold over at the bottom and pulled on his boot.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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