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rime/rhyme

rime (rīm)

Noun

    • A coating of ice, as on grass and trees, formed when extremely cold water droplets freeze almost instantly on a cold surface.
    • A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film.

rhyme (rīm)

Noun

    • Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
    • A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
    • A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold.

Verb. rhymed, rhym·ing rim·ing, rhymes rimes.

Verb. Intransitive

    • To form a rhyme.
    • To compose rhymes or verse.
    • To make use of rhymes in composing verse.

Verb. Transitive

    • To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes.
    • To use (a word or words) as a rhyme.

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