(n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
(n.) An old woman; and old gossip.
(n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.
Example Sentences:
(1) The muscle fibers were hypotrophic and predominantly of type I. Biopsy specimens of the muscles of the mother and maternal aunt had increased numbers of centrally located nuclei.
(2) She comes from the "cursed" political dynasty in Pakistan : her grandfather, the former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979, three years before Fatima was born; her father, the radical politician Murtaza Bhutto, was shot dead by police in 1996; and her aunt, the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a bombing in 2007.
(3) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(4) Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT).
(5) His report, which has been obtained by The Observer, shows that Mubanga had asked for his sister, aunt and brother to testify in his defence.
(6) I'll try to visit Jeffrey when I can and if I have kids in the future I'll tell them the whole story, and I hope that I can introduce them to Jeffrey and their aunts and uncles.
(7) In the patient muscular biochemistry revealed a major reduction in NADH oxydase activity and in the aunt a diminished level of carnitin compatible with carnitin deficiency.
(8) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
(9) My father had died six months previously and on the day of my birth my great-aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, arrived unexpectedly at my mother's house.
(10) Their aunt Teema Kurdi, a hairdresser in Vancouver, heard the news from her brother Mohammad’s wife, Ghuson.
(11) She also spoke of her "suspicion" of memoir as a form: a form that her younger sister the novelist Margaret Drabble – who spoke at the festival on Thursday but was notably absent from Byatt's event – undertook in her 2009 book The Pattern in the Carpet, about the writers' aunt Phyllis.
(12) We report on 2 male propositi, their mothers, and a maternal aunt with a new skeletal dysplasia associated with a unique pattern of digital malformation, variable mild short stature, and mild bowleg with proximal overgrowth of the fibula.
(13) The novel, first published in 1911, features the escapades of a 15-year-old hero who impregnates three women, one of them his own aunt.
(14) Similar phenotypes were present in a maternal aunt and uncle.
(15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
(16) An uncle of the boy died at the age of 42, an aunt at the age of 16 years, both of atrophic kidneys.
(17) This paper evaluates the perceived genetic risk, the perceived burden, the impact on reproductive decision making, and the attitudes of aunts and uncles of a child with cystic fibrosis toward carrier identification, prenatal diagnosis, and pregnancy termination.
(18) Karimova blamed her latest problems firmly on her mother, who she claimed had promised to "destroy" her for trying (unsuccessfully) in October to prevent the arrest of Akbarali Abdullayev, Gulnara Karimova's cousin and Tatyana Karimova's nephew, who she suggested knew too much about the allegedly shady business affairs of his aunt.
(19) The long discussion between Elizabeth Bennet and her aunt is remarkably open: "But can you think that Lydia is so lost to everything but love of him, as to consent to live with him on any other terms than marriage?"
(20) When I was younger I used to call them aunt and uncle, but they were actually sister and brothers."
Daunt
Definition:
(v. t.) To overcome; to conquer.
(v. t.) To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.
Example Sentences:
(1) But to endure a cut of £100m just after becoming the mayor and a further £23m this year has been daunting.
(2) Despite campaign pledges from both leading parties that, if elected, they will try to cushion the blow, the measures add amount to a daunting legislative programme from which Greece’s new prime minister – whatever his name – will find it difficult, if not impossible, to deviate.
(3) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
(4) It's daunting, but St Louis have the bats and thus the best chance of any team in the NL to wipe out LA, who, despite losing Matt Kemp for the season, can hit a little bit as well.
(5) "In the past that kind of thing has been quite daunting.
(6) With pressure mounting in the US for the launch of a full-blooded inquiry into News Corporation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the daunting consequences of such a move are becoming evident.
(7) Here's a summary of where things stand: • A Senate hearing on the crisis of child immigration to the United States laid bare a daunting tangle of overlapping bureaucracies charged with handling each child's case.
(8) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(9) After a successful convention they came back thrilled by the speeches and daunted by the prospects .
(10) It is very important now to continue that good vibe.” Spurs have already played the four clubs ahead of them in the table, as well as the four directly below, and now embark on a sequence of fixtures that, on paper at least, would appear to be less daunting.
(11) It is a story that is rarely told in large part because of the technical difficulties — the physics and maths underlying the technique can appear daunting.
(12) The planning, establishment, financing and general organization of a Diabetic Screening Service within a District Health Authority can be a daunting task if not handled correctly.
(13) There is, however, no mention of the service for which the co-operative has now become famous – as the alleged headquarters of a mafia-style criminal gang that through a network of links with politicians and businessmen appears to hold a daunting influence over the Italian capital.
(14) Hurley stated, "Protracted fever of obscure cause remains one of the more daunting clinical challenges facing the physician.
(15) Roy Hodgson oversaw England's return to the top of Group H but still left the national stadium frustrated after admitting a comfortable victory had been "overshadowed" by a harsh booking for Danny Welbeck that will rule him out of Tuesday's daunting game in Ukraine.
(16) Meanwhile for victims and defendants, the court process is slow, inefficient and daunting .
(17) Keith Forsyth had trouble picking the lock, which was daunting.
(18) That may well be a tongue-in-cheek comment, but Musk's determination to tackle daunting technological challenges is undoubted.
(19) "At the moment things look daunting, but everyone said that the opening up of television in America to cable would result in a race to the lowest common denominator and just look at the list of wonderful programmes that has brought us.
(20) It’s a big ask.” West Brom, who remain seven points above the bottom three but face a daunting set of fixtures that includes the top three and Liverpool, had designated this fixture Jeff Astle Day, in memory of the striker who died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 2002.