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adjective
2.
dull, spiritless, or gloomy, as in mood or thought: leaden prose; a leaden atmosphere.
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of a dull gray color: leaden skies.
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oppressive; heavy: a leaden silence.
5.
EXPANDsluggish; listless: They moved at a leaden pace.
verb (used with object)
8.
to make leaden, sluggish, dull, etc.: Fatigue had leadened his brain and step.
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Leadenness
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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