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