Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Intoxicated.
- Spotted from disease.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed
Examples
“I had been waiting for his call primed with a remark which had not occurred to me till after he had gone away.”
“He realized he would have to become the Philosopher’s Stone himself, his brain primed by this device utilizing the secrets he so fortuitously discovered …”
“Their intense emphasis on reducing budget deficits "primed" participants to focus on deficits rather than on the needs of retirees when evaluating Social Security policy.”
The Huffington Post: Lawrence Jacobs: Deficits, Social Security, and the American Public
“When a person is exposed to a list of words (or "primed") in one setting, than later asked to come up with words from a specific category, say "types of fruit," in another setting, the person is more likely to name fruit that had appeared during the priming session than fruit that hadn't.”
“For some of the volunteers, they "primed" their political identity with photos of party leaders and party logos; the idea was to bring this particular strand of identity to the mind's forefront.”
“So I was kind of primed for the vicarious necro-erotic thrill of seeing this very real young woman hung up for hurting like a pinata but when the scene rolled around I already had one foot out the door.”
“So basically, the figures amounted to nothing more than a "primed" figure.”
“For instance, it does not matter what background or culture we belong too, we are still "primed" by a pretty face.”
“Now in industrial-strength concentrations one can't even keep this stuff in glass it eats glass, so there's going to be some interesting evolutionary thinking, where these people's intestines have been 'primed' with 'natural plastics', polyethylene-like substances.”
“And, last but not least, here's the coolest sump-pump-baking-trivia...the sump pump must to be "primed" with 1/2 teaspoon of vegetable oil every time you start it...which, of course, they provide in 3 little plastic packages!”
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besotted, altricial, consecrate, consternate, desuetude, detractor, dissolute, divisive, emaciated, enamored, ensconce, garishly and 76 more...
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like nobody's bui..., soap up, plug away, country club, horse whisperer, cease and desist, eye of the beholder, small-claims court, nut job, heebie-jeebies, hole in the wall, black-tie and 101 more...
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Tunie: And the Band Played Waltzing M...
I used to sing this as a lullaby to my spawn—till said spawn grew big enough to understand the words, and asked me to sing something else.
Written by Eric Bogle, c. 1971.
...billabong, ghosts, no one, fewer, the call, question, what are they mar..., forgotten war, forgotten, sore, stiff, bent and 66 more...
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