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nail

verb as in fasten, fix with pointed object

verb as in capture, arrest

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This attributes to those awful side effects including hair loss, darkening of finger nails, etc.

Her red lip and nail combination really helped me get into character-it was classic old Hollywood glam.

Air- and heat-activated polish sealant as well as UV-cured gels, standard tools in the nail professional’s arsenal, also owe their origins to this former dentist.

From Ozy

Chicago dentist Maxwell Lappe had created an artificial fingernail for nail biters called Nu Nails in 1934.

From Ozy

Here we are 10 years later, and they have not even gotten to all of them, and the ones they have gotten to, the industry has fought tooth and nail.

But on Tuesday, we saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tightly nailed down coffin of the two-state solution.

The CID speculated that the woman was confirming who lived there before planting a homemade nail bomb.

MOSCOW—Every now and then I run into Anna Chapman at a nail salon called “Little Fingers” on Potapovsky Avenue in downtown Moscow.

Along the way, he accidentally embeds a nail in his foot, which is not symbolic at all.

The phrase means, “the nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer.”

Piegan snorted when I told him we were on the dodge—that they were trying to nail us for holding up the paymaster.

"Well, as far as public opinion goes, I s'pose Tom has hit the nail on the head," observed Bill.

He pulled his heavy sweater down off a nail and put it on, scowling because the sleeves had to be pulled in place on his arms.

He disliked the look of Cash's rough coat and sweater and cap, that hung on a nail over Cash's bunk.

You,” said I. “You drive a nail as if it were an abstruse problem in differential calculus.

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On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nail, such as: attach, hit, pin, tack, whack, and beat.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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