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I . sicken [ˈsɪkən] VB intr (become sick)

II . sicken [ˈsɪkən] VB trans (upset)

rickets [ˈrɪkɪts] N no pl

chicken [ˈtʃɪkɪn] N

1. chicken (bird):

3. chicken (coward):

medroso(-a) m (f)

quicken [ˈkwɪkən] VB intr, trans

I . thicken [ˈθɪkən] VB trans

II . thicken [ˈθɪkən] VB intr

dick [dɪk] N vulg (penis)

pau m

nickel [ˈnɪkl] N

1. nickel no pl chem:

2. nickel Am (coin):

picket [ˈpɪkɪt] N MIL

ticket [ˈtɪkɪt] N

2. ticket (tag):

wicked [ˈwɪkɪd] ADJ

2. wicked sl (very good):

isso é o máximo!

wicker [ˈwɪkər, Brit -əʳ] N no pl

wicket [ˈwɪkɪt] N SPORTS

rickety [ˈrɪkət̬i, Brit -ti] ADJ

dike [daɪk] N

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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Dickens called a council of war, and believed that to save the situation, the one thing to be done was for him to strike in.
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Dickens was taken to this then-impoverished and unsavory location by the officers of the river police, with whom he would occasionally go on patrol.
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Dickens wrote of it that it was dreaded by even the most dauntless highwaymen and bearable only to toads and rats.
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The expression "what the dickens" was originally a euphemistic reference to the devil.
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Dickens portrays him as immoral, miserly, and disgusting to look at.
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Dickens described him as a wry-necked boy in a nightgown who seems to have received a poke playing in an adjacent gutter.
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Dickens mocks the hypocrisies of his time by surrounding the novel's serious themes with sarcasm and dark humour.
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Dickens expressed repugnance for them and their way of life, recommending that they ought to be civilized out of existence.
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