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rut2    Audio Help   [ruht] Pronunciation Key, noun, verb, rut·ted, rut·ting.
–noun
1.the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
–verb (used without object)
2.to be in the condition of rut.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME rutte < MF rut, ruit < LL rugītus a roaring, equiv. to L rugī(re) to roar + -tus suffix of v. action]
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rut1    Audio Help   [ruht] Pronunciation Key, noun, verb, rut·ted, rut·ting.
–noun
1.a furrow or track in the ground, esp. one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
2.any furrow, groove, etc.
3.a fixed or established mode of procedure or course of life, usually dull or unpromising: to fall into a rut.
–verb (used with object)
4.to make a rut or ruts in; furrow.
[Origin: 1570–80; perh. var. of route]
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Thesaurus Entries
  Synonym Collection v1.1Cite This Source
Main Entry:  rut
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  channel, ditch, furrow, grind, groove, habit, indentation, pattern, rote, routine, track, trench, pothole, roaring (of waves)
Source:  Synonym Collection v1.1
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  Roget's II: The New ThesaurusCite This Source
Main Entry:  grind
Part of Speech:  noun
Definition:  A habitual, laborious, often tiresome course of action.
Synonyms:  routine, treadmill
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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  Roget's II: The New ThesaurusCite This Source
Main Entry:  heat
Part of Speech:  noun
Definition:  A regular period of sexual excitement in female mammals.
Synonyms:  estrus, season
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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