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• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• dispassionate

• resisting weight or pressure

• produced without vibration of the vocal cords

• (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

• (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

• with effort or force or vigor

• with firmness

• earnestly or intently

• causing great damage or hardship

• slowly and with difficulty

• indulging excessively

• into a solid condition

• very near or close in space or time

• with pain or distress or bitterness

• to the full extent possible; all the way

• very strong or vigorous

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• dried out

• unable to see

• people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group

• a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)

• a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight

• something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

• unable or unwilling to perceive or understand

• not based on reason or evidence

• render unable to see

• make blind by putting the eyes out

• make dim by comparison or conceal