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flint
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noun
a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
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adjective
(= flinty, obdurate)
showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
his flinty gaze
the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart
Flint
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noun
a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
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noun
a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
flake
Noun
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A flake is a small, flat piece of something, often broken off something larger.
London was silent with snow; soft flakes of it dropping evenly into the white streets.
When your head is dry, white flakes of skin appear on your hair and clothing.
flake
Verb
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If something flakes, it breaks into small, flat pieces.
The paint had started to flake off the wall.