Definitions
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- adjective of or like a catapult
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Examples
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Gualtier did not know what to make of this, but thought it only a little preliminary play, after which he would be flung headlong into the river by some catapultian kick.
The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille
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Every moment he expected to see a gigantic figure in a dress-coat and a broad-brimmed hat of Tuscan straw, with stern, relentless face and gleaming eyes, striding along the road toward him, to seize him in a resistless grasp, and send him to some awful fate; or, if not that, at any rate to administer to him some tremendous blow, like that catapultian kick, which would hurl him in an instant into oblivion.
The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille
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The flying regiment was going to have a catapultian effect.
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The flying regiment was going to have a catapultian effect.
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The flying regiment was going to have a catapultian effect.
The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895
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The flying regiment was going to have a catapultian effect.
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885
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The flying regiment was going to have a catapultian effect.
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885
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Blows dealt in the fight were enlarged to catapultian power, and stones thrown were alleged to have hurtled with infinite accuracy.
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane 1885
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