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gazelle
/ɡəˈzɛl/
verb 2noun 1name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, beautiful, closer, moving, scared, still, young
VERB + GAZELLE
gutted, hunted, judge, killed, like, made, means, name
GAZELLE + NOUN
lions, tom, ziri
PREP.
from
ADV.
again, away, away, suddenly
Definitions
noun
1
An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods.
“One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it,” replied Tarzan.
verb
1
To leap like a gazelle.
And all of the pine trees were in a bad state of repair, owning charred stumps of arms and blasted heads. Quite a number of them were dead; some of the corpses leaned starkly back in the arms of a live brother, but most of them preferred to fall across the road. Owing to this the car was soon gazelling again.
The biplane gazelled into the air.
2
To go fast; to speed; to rush.
Nadezhda and I biked over together, me dressed in colonial whites, trundling along with other cyclists gazelling by me on both sides […]
I actually heard the air move as about five people gazelled towards Lord Mandelson to try to stop another of his ill-timed leaks.
name
1
A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
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“One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it,” replied Tarzan.
Wiktionary02
And all of the pine trees were in a bad state of repair, owning charred stumps of arms and blasted heads. Quite a number of them were dead; some of the corpses leaned starkly back in the arms of a liv
Wiktionary03
The biplane gazelled into the air.
Wiktionary04
When I started off [spacewalking] I didn’t run straight away—I started at a fairly fast walk, three or four miles an hour—but by the end I was jogging, well, gazelling, at almost six miles an hour.
Wiktionary05
The lioness finally gave chase to the gazelle.
Tatoeba · #85112606
The girls ran to the corner. Mai Ai runs like a gazelle. She was still running in place when they stopped at the corner.
Tatoeba · #2053910Usage Notes
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