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He pounded his fist on the table in anger.
She pounded on the door with both fists.
He defiantly shook his fist at the policeman.
Recent Examples of fist from the Web
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From then on her reaction to bad raps, dozens of counts of fraud and theft as well as the killings, was to raise a defiant fist, then to wait as the ANC retreated from her, then to appeal.
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The hole was about the size of a fist, his mother recalled.
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The hole was about the size of a fist, his mother recalled.
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Two dozen hands clench into a fist, their arms raise.
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Herrick can make a fist, something the scar tissue refused to accommodate the first couple months after the Lilac Fire tore through the horse training facility near Bonsall.
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Both are playing with unbridled joy, pumping their fists, and showing their emotions after scoring.
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Taylor has been charged with murder in Florida for allegedly beating Douglas John Bowling to death over two hours with a frying pan, an aluminum baseball bat and his fists, PEOPLE confirms.
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More than one young man raised a shirt to show Chuck a badge of honor in a bruise shaped like a fist, over his ribs.
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Origin and Etymology of fist
Middle English, from Old English fȳst; akin to Old High German fūst fist, Polish pięść, and probably to Old English fīf five
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First Known Use: before 12th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Recent Examples of fist from the Web
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Then Moustakas fisted a two-RBI single into center field, Billy Burns and Whit Merrifield scored in the Royals' 12-4 win over the Padres, and nearly everything felt normal again.
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But that's just scratching the surface of how ham-fisted and bad faith this PR is.
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The Michigan lacrosse team managers offered up this not-so-hot take heading into Tuesday's game vs. Bellarmine, trashing the Knights and the commonwealth with this ham-fisted tweet.
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And bright and early Sunday morning, Shawn Germain, husband of Canadian curler Rachel Homan, quieted his own nerves by double-fisting beers in the rink in Pyeongchang.
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Favourite Olympic moment so far: Canadian curler Rachel Homan's husband double-fisting his third and fourth beers while watching his wife compete against Japan.
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Amnesty International said last year that North Koreans caught using mobile phones to call families abroad risk being sent to political prison camps under an increasingly iron-fisted regime that is jamming devices and stepping up surveillance.
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In lesser hands, this could become — in many works of contemporary literary fiction, does become — ham-fisted or preachy.
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Set aside the pros and cons to partnering with an NFL team, and that the Chargers initiative was bloated and hastily presented — and that the NFL was far too ham-fisted and unimaginative to solve venue issues in both San Diego and Oakland.
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First Known Use of fist
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Definition of fist for English Language Learners
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: the hand with its fingers bent down into the palm
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Medical Dictionary
noun
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medical Definition of fist
: the hand clenched with the fingers doubled into the palm and the thumb doubled inward across the fingers
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See words that rhyme with fist Spanish Central: Translation of fist Nglish: Translation of fist for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of fist for Arabic speakers
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