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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.
Idioms for horse
Origin of horse
First recorded before 900; Middle English, Old English noun hors; cognate with Old Norse hross, Dutch ros, German Ross (Middle High German ros, Old High German hros ), from Germanic horso-, perhaps from the same Proto-Indo-European root that is the source of Latin currere “to run” (from unattested cursere ); Middle English horsen “to provide with horses,” Old English horsian, derivative of the noun
OTHER WORDS FROM horse
horseless, adjectivehorselike, adjectiveun·der·horse, verb (used with object), un·der·horsed, un·der·hors·ing.WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH horse
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British Dictionary definitions for horse
horse
/ (hɔːs) /
noun
verb
Derived forms of horse
horseless, adjectivehorselike, adjectiveWord Origin for horse
Old English hors; related to Old Frisian hors, Old High German hros, Old Norse hross
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Idioms and Phrases with horse
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