Word Finder - soundest

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Healthy.

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He was safe and sound.

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Complete, solid, or secure.

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Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.

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Having the property of soundness.

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Good; acceptable; decent.

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"How are you?" - "I'm sound."

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(of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.

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Her sleep was sound.

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Heavy; laid on with force.

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a sound beating

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Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.

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a sound title to land

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To produce a sound.

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When the horn sounds, take cover.

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To convey an impression by one's sound.

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He sounded good when we last spoke.

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To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.

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To resound.

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(often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.

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To cause to produce a sound.

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He sounds the instrument.

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(of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.

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The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.

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Dive downwards, used of a whale.

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The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.

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To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.

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When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.

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Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.

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Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.

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To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.

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to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra

Meanwhile a headless statue of a king named Khyan, found at Bubastis, was attributed on various grounds to the Hyksos, the soundest arguments being his foreign name and the boastful un-Egyptian epithet "beloved of his ka," where "beloved of Ptah" or some other god was to be expected.

A loud alarm clock can wake up even the soundest of sleepers!

Rohricht present the soundest, if not the brightest, account of the Crusades.

The soundest history of Lithuania, before its union with Poland, is still Lelewel's History of Lithuania (Pol., Leipzig, 1839), of which a French translation was published at Paris in 1861.

It must, however, be remembered in Henry's favour, that the supporters of the princes, both in England and in the foreign provinces, were animated by resentment against the soundest features of the king's administration; and that, in the rebellion of 1173, he received from the English commons such hearty support that any further attempt to raise a rebellion in England was considered hopeless.

In the professor's chair, as in the pulpit, his strength lay in the tact with which he selected the soundest results of biblical criticism, whether his own or that of others, and presented them in a clear and connected form, with a constant view to their practical bearing.

These were cut from the water-worn rocks at the Cataractthe soundest source for large masses, as any incipient flaws are well exposed by wear.

Horn had clearly perceived this; and his cautious neutrality was therefore the soundest statesmanship. But the politicians who had ousted Horn thought differently.

Probably the soundest opinion is that the British Crown reserved no other rights than those expressly stated in the convention of 1884.

The roof was the soundest part, though a good deal warped and made brittle by the sun.

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.