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Definition of 'meek'English
Adjective
( er)
Humble, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
* 1848:
- Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
* "Blessed are the meek , for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5)
Submissive, dispirited.
* 1920: , Main Street [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=432765822&tag=Lewis,+Sinclair:+Main+Street,+1920&query=+meek&id=LewMain]
- 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.
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Verb
( en-verb)
(US) (of horses) To .
Similar to 'meek'mock, mask, muck, musk, mick, mawk, mack, mak, myek, mook, meck, mosk, meak, mmk
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