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800	spent	©
1. adj. Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
a spent cartridge
2. adj. Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.
3. v. simple past tense and past participle of spend
	spend
1. v. To pay out (money).
2. v. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
3. v. (dated) To squander.
801	involved	©
1. adj. Complicated.
He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
2. adj. Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
He was involved in the project for three years.
He got involved in a bar fight.
	involve
1. v. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
2. v. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
3. v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
4. v. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
802	seven
1. num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••).
2. num. Describing a group or set with seven elements.
3. n. The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.
He wrote three sevens on the paper.
4. n. (cards) A card bearing seven pips.
803	view	©
1. n. (physical) Visual perception.
2. n. The act of seeing or looking at something.
He changed seat to get a complete view of the stage.
3. n. (Internet) A pageview.
4. n. The range of vision.
804	fighting
1. v. present participle of fight
2. adj. Engaged in war or other conflict.
3. adj. Apt to provoke a fight.
4. n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
	fight
1. v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
2. v. (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.
3. v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
805	picks
1. n. plural of pick
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of pick
	pick
1. n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
2. n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
3. n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
4. n. A choice; ability to choose.
5. n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
806	seeing	©
1. v. present participle of see
2. adj. Having vision; not blind.
3. n. The action of the verb to see; eyesight.
4. n. (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
5. conj. (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
	see
1. v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
2. v. To witness or observe by personal experience.
807	king	©
1. n. A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.
Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
2. n. A powerful or majorly influential person.
Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
3. n. Something that has a preeminent position.
808	hot
1. adj. (of an object) Having a high temperature.
He forgot the frying pan was hot, and dropped it suddenly.
2. adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.
It is too hot to be outside. It is hotter in summer than in winter.
3. adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
809	earlier
1. adj. comparative form of early: more early
2. adj. occurring previously
I shall be late because I missed the earlier train.
3. adv. comparative form of early: more early
4. adv. previously; before now; sooner
810	he'd
1. contraction. he had
2. contraction. he would
	he
1. pron. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
2. pron. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
3. pron. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.
4. n. The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
	would
1. v. As a past-tense form of will.:
2. v. (obsolete) Wished, desired (something).
3. v. (archaic) Wanted to ( + bare infinitive).
4. v. Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to ( + bare infinitive); indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
5. v. Used with bare infinitive to form the "anterior future", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
	will
1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).
811	deep	©
1. adj. (heading, of a physical distance) Extending far away from a point of reference, especially downwards.
2. adj. Extending far down from the top or surface; having its bottom far down.
We hiked into a deep valley between tall mountains.
There was a deep layer of dust on the floor; the room had not been disturbed for many years.
3. adj. Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction away from a point of reference.
812	class
1. n. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
Often used to imply membership of a large class.
This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
813	step	©
1. n. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
2. n. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
3. n. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
He improved step by step, or by steps.
The first step is to find a job.
814	join	©
1. n. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
2. n. (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
3. n. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
4. v. To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe. We joined our efforts to get an even better result.
815	using
1. v. present participle of use
2. n. use; utilization
	use
1. n. The act of using.
2. n. (followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
3. n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
816	land
1. n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Most insects live on land.
2. n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
3. n. A country or region.
817	spend	©
1. v. To pay out (money).
He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
2. v. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
3. v. (dated) To squander.
to spend an estate in gambling
818	quiet	©
1. adj. With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
I can't hear the music; it is too quiet.
2. adj. Having little motion or activity; calm.
the sea was quiet
a quiet night at home
819	form	©
1. n. To do with shape.:
2. n. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
3. n. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
4. n. (dated) A long bench with no back.
5. n. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

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