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Look up: covet

  1. covet
    [v] - wish, long, or crave for (something, esp. the property of another person)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Covet
    Cov'et transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Covered ; present participle & verbal noun Coveting .] [ Old French coveitier , covoitier , French convoiter , from a derivative from Latin cupere to desire; confer Sanskrit kup to become excited. Confer Cupidity .] 1. To wish for ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/176

  3. Covet
    Cov'et intransitive verb To have or indulge inordinate desire. « Which [ money] while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith. 1 Tim. vi. 10. »
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/176

  4. covet
    verb wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person); `She covets her sister`s house`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Covet
    • (v. i.) To have or indulge inordinate desire. • (v. t.) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense. • (v. t.) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. covet
    covet 1. To have a strong desire to possess something that belongs to someone else. 2. A strong desire to possess something very much. 3. Etymology: from Old French coveitier; ultimately from Latin cupiditas, 'passionate desire'; from cupidus, 'very desirous', from cupere, 'to long for, to desire'.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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