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kuhm pown duhd

  • v  make more intense, stronger, or more marked
  • v  put or add together
  • v  calculate principal and interest
  • v  create by mixing or combining
  • v  combine so as to form a whole; mix
  • s  combined into or constituting a chemical compound
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  • Paving complete on Staten Island's Clarke Avenue, following a nightmarish morning
    The situation was compounded by stubborn, impatient motorists who honked and yelled as they were stuck in gridlock.
    June 11, 2013 - Staten Island Advance
  • Haverford graduates have good fortune
    VILLANOVA — Increased traffic from the U.S. Open, compounded by heavy rainfall all afternoon, did little to diminish the joy and excitement of Haverford High School commencement exercises, held at Villanova Pavillion on Monday night.
    June 11, 2013 - Delaware County Daily Times
  • UN envoy: 'Streets are heating up' in south Yemen
    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy to Yemen warned Tuesday that "the streets are heating up" in the country's restive south and pent-up resentment over more than two decades of unaddressed grievances is reaching "a tipping point." Calls for an autonomous state in the south — which was once a separate country — have compounded Yemen's many problems as the impoverished nation struggles with a ...
    June 11, 2013 - The Wenatchee World
Quotes

  • Mike Beebe in Ninemsn
    This was an extraordinary night,said Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe. "When it's compounded by darkness, that makes it that much more difficult."
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton in Reuters
    There is a great need for us to sound the alarm again about Darfur. It is a terrible humanitarian crisis compounded by a corrupt and very cruel regime in Khartoum,Clinton said at a Senate hearing to confirm her nomination as secretary of state.
  • Tiger Wood in New York Daily News
    The recent military offensives by the CNDP have radically compounded the situation, led to severe humanitarian consequences and thrust the eastern DRC once more into a phase of heightened crisis. This crisis could engulf the broader... Ban Ki-moon http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFIDDDOdKd-qT9hUhe56NEPnY21Lw BBC News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7715936.stm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHvloHgVMNiNzyyFe6lpm-CLI0DzQ Nov 7, 2008 20405 28297 compounding I was 1 under par after seven holes and just right there in the championship," said Woods, who missed the cut by one stroke at 5-over 145. "It was just problem after problem. I kept compounding my problems out there."

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