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n. - A consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords adj. - Produced without vibration of the vocal cords.

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  • Or, rather of what ab-surd things does it make its votaries guilty?
  • Jeremy Piven winning an Emmy three years in a row for that role, is up surd.
  • So even though she may find her own action inexplicable or “surd,” she is in fact acting rationally, although she does not know it.
  • Must it needs be, that a daughter of the same father and mother must be more silly, more unsteady, more ab-surd, more impertinent, than her brother?
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