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contain
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to have as part of a whole
- The contract contains several new clauses.
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to be made up of
- The recipe contains several parts.
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to gain emotional or mental control of
- Kay could hardly contain herself when she heard that she had won the scholarship.
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to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)
- frantic efforts to contain the spread of the disease
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contain, hold, accommodate mean to have or be capable of having within. contain implies the actual presence of a specified substance or quantity within something.
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- the can contains a quart of oil
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- the bookcase will hold all my textbooks
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- the hall can accommodate 500 people
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