Thesaurus / KO
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Kano's transient flowers were grown, for the most part in pots, and these his daughter Um-ko loved to tend.
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Um-ko and her father were well known at the temple, and worshipped often before its golden altars.
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Um-ko sat motionless against the silver fusuma, an ivory image, crowned and robed in shimmering gray.
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All at once it seemed to Um-ko an unbearable thing for any spark of life to be so prisoned.
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She went into her tiny chamber, and from her treasures brought out a metal mirror given her by the young wife, Uta-ko.
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Unfortunately for the acquisition of paltry news, it was Um-ko, not Mata, who came out to purchase.
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Without waiting for Mata's rejoinder, Um-ko, who had heard the words of the priest, now came swiftly to the veranda.
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Um-ko in her room forgot her sewing, and leaned a delicate ear closer to the shoji.
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Um-ko, watching the moving shadows pass under her father's gate-roof, closed her eyes quickly and caught her breath.
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Um-ko lifted them, dusted the velvet thongs, and placed them with mathematical precision side by side upon the flat stone.
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WORDS RELATED TO KO
- KO
- abate
- alleviate
- anesthetize
- benumb
- blunt
- check
- chloroform
- consume
- cushion
- damp
- dampen
- depress
- deprive
- desensitize
- destroy
- devitalize
- dim
- dope
- drown
- dull
- etherize
- exhaust
- freeze
- frustrate
- gas
- hush
- impair
- incapacitate
- injure
- knock out
- lay out
- lessen
- mute
- numb
- paralyze
- put out of order
- put to sleep
- quieten
- reduce
- repress
- retard
- slow
- smother
- soften
- stifle
- stun
- stupefy
- suppress
- tire
- tone down
- unnerve
- weaken
- KO
- abate
- alleviate
- anesthetize
- benumb
- blunt
- check
- chloroform
- consume
- cushion
- damp
- dampen
- depress
- deprive
- desensitize
- destroy
- devitalize
- dim
- dope
- drown
- dull
- etherize
- exhaust
- freeze
- frustrate
- gas
- hush
- impair
- incapacitate
- injure
- knock out
- lay out
- lessen
- mute
- numb
- paralyze
- put out of order
- put to sleep
- quieten
- reduce
- repress
- retard
- slow
- smother
- soften
- stifle
- stun
- stupefy
- suppress
- tire
- tone down
- unnerve
- weaken
- KO
- ambush
- annihilation
- beating
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- conquest
- count
- debacle
- defeasance
- destruction
- discomfiture
- downthrow
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- insuccess
- killing
- licking
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- nonsuccess
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- vanquishment
- waxing
- whaling
- whipping
- whitewashing
- KO
- ambush
- annihilation
- beating
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- conquest
- count
- debacle
- defeasance
- destruction
- discomfiture
- downthrow
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- insuccess
- killing
- licking
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- nonsuccess
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- vanquishment
- waxing
- whaling
- whipping
- whitewashing
- KO
- bang
- bash
- bat
- batter
- beat
- belt
- blast
- blitz
- box
- brain
- buffet
- bump
- clap
- clip
- clobber
- clout
- club
- crack
- cudgel
- cuff
- dab
- ding
- flail
- flax
- flog
- give a black eye
- hammer
- hook
- jab
- kick
- knock
- knock around
- knock out
- lace
- lambaste
- larrup
- lather
- let fly
- let have it
- lob
- nail
- pellet
- pelt
- percuss
- pop
- pound
- punch
- rap
- ride roughshod
- slap
- smack
- sock
- stone
- swat
- tap
- thrash
- thump
- thwack
- trash
- uppercut
- wallop
- whack
- whang
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