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bout

[ bout ]

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noun

a contest or trial of strength, as of boxing.
Synonyms: encounter, fray, match
period; session; spell:
a bout of illness.
a turn at work or any action.
a going and returning across a field, as in mowing or reaping.

bout

/ baʊt /

1. a period of time spent doing something, such as drinking
2. a period of illness
a contest or fight, esp a boxing or wrestling match

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Origin of bout¹

1535–45; variant of obsolete bought bend, turn, derivative of bow bow ¹; bight

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Origin of bout¹

C16: variant of obsolete bought turn; related to German Bucht bight ; see about

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A “simple bout of flu” is incapable of mutating into an Ebola infection.

Regardless of how one wrestles with Noam Chomsky, one does always wrestle, leaving the bout much smarter and stronger.

Omran managed to finish high school despite his bout with cancer and two wars in three years.

Then he pauses and looks up, doing a quick bout of surveying in his head.

A bout with a life-threatening—though not life-ending—illness is always good awards bait.

I don't b'lieve nothin', and try to keep a close mouth 'bout what I do b'lieve.

Whales, sir—a whole school of 'em—off the star-b'd quarter 'bout five miles away—big ones!

Sometimes dey'd pull up at de sho' en take a res' b'fo' dey started acrost, so by de talk I got to know all 'bout de killin'.

Strange to see what a deal of money is flung to them both upon the stage between every bout.

But you take a man dat's got 'bout five million chillen runnin' roun' de house, en it's diffunt.

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