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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of auger.

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Examples

  • He said he saw the plane veer to the right, and then "it just augered straight into the ground."

    At least 3 dead, scores hurt in air races crash 2011

  • He said he saw the plane veer to the right, and then "it just augered straight into the ground."

    At least 3 dead, scores hurt in air races crash 2011

  • The surety of that has augered its way into my brain, stirring up all those buried childhood fears.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • The surety of that has augered its way into my brain, stirring up all those buried childhood fears.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • The surety of that has augered its way into my brain, stirring up all those buried childhood fears.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • The surety of that has augered its way into my brain, stirring up all those buried childhood fears.

    Fallout Ellen Hopkins 2010

  • If Ted's plane had not augered into the mountain could his vouch have bamboozled enough Republican voters into believing that Lisa shares their politics or have motivated enough independent and nonpartisan voters to have saved Lisa from her own party by voting the Republican ballot?

    Donald Craig Mitchell: Lisa Murkowski Adios? 2010

  • If Ted's plane had not augered into the mountain could his vouch have bamboozled enough Republican voters into believing that Lisa shares their politics or have motivated enough independent and nonpartisan voters to have saved Lisa from her own party by voting the Republican ballot?

    Donald Craig Mitchell: Lisa Murkowski Adios? Donald Craig Mitchell 2010

  • And to that end, Lisa had television commercials featuring Ted ready for broadcast during the last week of the campaign when on August 9 Ted Stevens died when the small plane in which he was flying to a fishing camp in Bristol Bay augered into the side of a mountain in bad weather.

    Donald Craig Mitchell: Lisa Murkowski Adios? 2010

  • And to that end, Lisa had television commercials featuring Ted ready for broadcast during the last week of the campaign when on August 9 Ted Stevens died when the small plane in which he was flying to a fishing camp in Bristol Bay augered into the side of a mountain in bad weather.

    Donald Craig Mitchell: Lisa Murkowski Adios? Donald Craig Mitchell 2010

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