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black Noun

— The darkest color; with no light; the color of the sky at night. He stood alone in the black of the night. — Blacks are people of a race with dark coloured skin. There were many whites, some blacks and native Americans, and a few Asians. — If a company is in the black, it is making a profit. (opposite = in the red) It took a year for the restaurant to get in the black.

black Adjective

— colored black The black dog was the color of night. — If someone is black, they belong to a race with dark-coloured skin. It's still difficult for a black person to become a manager. About 30 percent of Southfield's 80,000 citizens are black. — About a race with dark-coloured skin. More and more universities are offering courses in black history. — Black coffee or tea has no milk in it. — If something is black, it is very bad. The day the war started was a black day in history.

black Verb

— If you black something, you color it black. He blacked his boots before the party. They blacked out the windows so the light would not be seen outside. A number of lines in the report were blacked out. — If you black out, you stop seeing and hearing everything around you and you fall down. After his tenth beer, he blacked out and we couldn't wake him up.

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root Noun

— A root is a part of a tree or plant that is under the ground. The tree was supported by strong roots. — A root is the important part or the beginning part of something. I've lived here so long that I have roots here. The root of the word "being" is "be".

root Verb

— To root is to give or enable to something to develop roots; to fix or implant by or as if by roots — To root is to remove altogether by or as if by pulling out by the roots - usually used with out The school authorities will root out the troublemakers. — To root is to grow roots or take root. — To root is to have an origin or base. The love of money has its roots in greed.

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rot Verb

— If something rots it spoils. Rotting is how something turns into dirt (soil) because of bacteria and fungus. We threw out the fruit that rots. The police found the rotting body of someone who was killed.

rot Noun

— Rot is material is decaying (rotting) and has decayed (rotted) a lot already. The log was full of rot so it broke easily. — Rot is the act of decaying (rotting). We put our food in the freezer to avoid rot.

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