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n.
One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
n.
One excessively ambitious.
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Devoid of ambition.
v. t.
To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.
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Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something.
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A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.
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Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
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Extravagant in opinions or ambition.
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Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
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To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
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The absence of ambition.
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To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up.
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Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction.
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Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition.
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Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction.
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To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
v. t.
To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.
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The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
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Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring.
adv.
In an ambitious manner.
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