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meek
UK /miːk/ US /mik/
adj 2name 2verb 1
Definitions
adj
1
Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.
Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
2
Submissive, dispirited, cowed.
What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.
verb
1
To tame; to break (a horse)
name
1
A surname.
2
An unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska, United States.
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