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bout

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noun

a contest or trial of strength, as of boxing.

period; session; spell: a bout of illness.

a turn at work or any action.

a going and returning across a field, as in mowing or reaping.

Origin:
1535–45; variant of obsolete bought bend, turn, derivative of bow bow¹; see bight

Synonyms
1. match, fray, encounter.

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The weight of the work overpowered this first spouse's bout of nerves.

But a bout of nerves that began last month seems to be worsening.

After a bout of the flu, lingering germs can wreak havoc on the weakened immune system.

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The weight of the work overpowered this first spouse's bout of nerves.

But a bout of nerves that began last month seems to be worsening.

After a bout of the flu, lingering germs can wreak havoc on the weakened immune system.

Still, it was pretty exciting, especially when the gloves were removed for a bare-knuckle bout.

The process literally plunged me into a bout with clinical depression.

The current sell-off may be even more dangerous because it follows a recent bout of exuberance.

For those who have a bout with gout, the experience is not easily forgotten.

The tunnel exits bout two-thirds of the way to the top of the silo.

Mom had health problems all her life, including a bout with uterine cancer.

The danger is often expressed as one of an over-reaction to the excesses, of an excessive bout of regulation on business.

And in many cases, allergies can trigger a bout of asthma, or make it worse.

If he presses ahead, he could provoke another bout of anger in the streets.

The danger is that over time, without another bout of reform, sclerosis will set in.

How bout giving advantages to folks that where raised in poverty.

Something-a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change, or.

She was often ill and became bedridden for an entire year after a bout with the measles.

Please forgive us, then, for this short bout of self-congratulatory.

Oakland is trying to return to normal after a horrendous and atypical bout of black-white racial tension.

Once it is warmed, all it takes is a bout of heavy rain to cause a rockslide-with deadly results.

Twenty years before, she had survived a bout of breast cancer, increasing her risk for ovarian cancer in the future.

Now that plan is the subject of a rather un-American bout of introspection and self-examination.

But if this is the victim's first bout of malaria, the immune response is mostly ineffective.

There have been longstanding concerns bout the safety of transporting nuclear material over the nation's highways.

Nigeria's recent bout of elections has been a fiasco.

Hokkaido suffered a bout of severe cold and blizzards.

Engage in anything that could be deemed as misconduct and you'll be ejected from the bout.

But politics did not set off the latest bout of collective angst.

Piers examines his foot after a bout of blood letting.

The country's leaders at last ended a ludicrously irresponsible bout of fiscal brinkmanship, removing.

We get a bad stomach for a brief spell or a bout of vomiting or diarrhea.

Please forgive us, then, for this short bout of self-congratulatory excitement.

It has been bruised in the latest bout of debt woes, but less so than last year.

But if this is the victim's first bout of malaria, the immune response is more ineffective.

It was there that people learned he had had a serious bout of pneumonia some years earlier.

But it has to begin somewhere and, to happen at all, has to come before the next bout of repression.

But the ramifications of this latest bout of hooliganism will still be considerable.

Britons put out by the current bout of cold weather will get little satisfaction from the thought that it could have been worse.

It may be too late to avoid another bout of price rises.

Finally, a further bout of consolidation will begin when liquidity eases.

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bout (baʊt)

—n
1.	a. a period of time spent doing something, such as drinking
	b. a period of illness
2.	a contest or fight, esp a boxing or wrestling match

[C16: variant of obsolete bought turn; related to German Buchtbight; see about]

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Word Origin & History

bout

1540s, from M.E. bught, probably from an unrecorded O.E. variant of byht "a bend," from P.Gmc. *bukhta-. Sense evolved from "a circuit of any kind" (as of a plow) to "a round at any kind of exercise" (1570s), "a round at fighting" (1590s), "a fit of drinking" (1660s).

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