belong

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At age 29, I made the drastic decision to lift "the girls" up off my waist and put them back where they belong -- in other words, breast reduction surgery.

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  1. intransitive verb To be proper, appropriate, or suitable: A napkin belongs at every place setting.
  2. intransitive verb To be in an appropriate situation or environment: That plant belongs outdoors.
  3. intransitive verb To be a member of a group, such as a club.

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  • For the sepulchres which are found in such numbers in some mounds down to a certain depth, belong, as is shown by their very position, to later races, mostly even to the modern Turks and Arabs. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • The same applies to the subdivisions of the great white race (the whitest of all) to which nearly all the European nations belong, and which is personified in the Bible under the name of Japhet, third son of Noah,--and to those of a third great race, also originally white, which is broken up into very many fractions, both great nations and scattered tribes, all exhibiting a decided likeness to each other. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • This is exactly the state of things revealed by the great collection of texts discovered by Sir H. Rawlinson and G. Smith. They contain forms for conjuring all the different kinds of demons, even to evil dreams and nightmares, the object of most such invocations being to drive them away from the habitations of men and back to where they properly belong--the depth of the desert, the inaccessible mountain tops, and all remote, waste and uninhabited places generally, where they can range at will, and find nobody to harm 13. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • Those of which we possess the fossil remains belong, almost without exception, to extinct species. —  A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'
  • This was the secret society to which every girl in Three Towers longed to belong, and they, Billie, Laura, Vi, were being asked to join. —  Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion
 

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belong:   belonged ·  belonging ·  belongs
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  1. Middle English bilongen : probably bi-, be- + longen, to belong (probably from long, dependent, from Old English gelang, along, depending; see del-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English belongen (= Dutch belangen, concern, = Old High German belangēn, Middle High German G. belangen, reach to, attain, concern, affect; associated with the adjective, early Middle English belong (= Old Saxon bilang = Middle Dutch belangh), equivalent to Anglo-Saxon gelang, Middle English ylong, ilong, along, long, modern English along, long, belonging, along), from be- + longen, belong (there is no Anglo-Saxon *belangian or *belang): see along, long, long.
 

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