thick
/θɪk/ noun C2- The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something. · It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
- A thicket.
- A stupid person; a fool.
Plural thicks
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At nightfall they took shelter in a thick wood.
The tree made a good, thick covering to protect them from the dew, and the Tin Woodman chopped a great pile of wood with his axe and Dorothy built a splendid fire that warmed her and made her feel less lonely.
And as bees cannot live when their stings are broken that was the end of the black bees, and they lay scattered thick about the Woodman, like little heaps of fine coal.
The owner went up after him and quickly drove him down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel.
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