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Smoking can impair your health. |
to damage or make worse by or as if by diminishing in some material respect |
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In context, the word “corruption” summarized the opinion (set forth in some of the books mentioned in the review) that, as a general matter, the growing financial dependence of the medical profession on the pharmaceutical industry is profoundly detrimental to sound public, medical, and scientific policy. —New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2009 |
obviously harmful : damaging detrimental effects> |
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She would not reveal the secret. |
: to make known through divine inspiration : to make (something secret or hidden) publicly or generally known : to open up to view : display |
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notorious as an iconoclast, that music critic isn't afraid to go after sacred cows |
: a person who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration : a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
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imply meaning “to hint at” |
: to involve or indicate by inference, association, or necessary consequence rather than by direct statement : to contain potentially imply obligations> : to express indirectly imply obligations> imply obligations> |
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measured the length of the board precisely |
: exactly —sometimes used as an intensive two> two> |
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It is ironic that the impact of smoking on nonsmokers, rather than on smokers themselves, is what finally transformed the regulation and cultural perception of the cigarette. |
a : awareness of the elements of environment through physical sensation b : physical sensation interpreted in the light of experience perception> |
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There are always naysayers who say it can't be done. |
: one who denies, refuses, opposes, or is skeptical or cynical about something |
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He claims that economic growth is being impeded by government regulations. |
to interfere with or slow the progress of |
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These materials provide the insulation needed in cold weather. |
a : the action of insulating b : the state of being insulated 2: material used in insulating |
