power
/ˈpaʊ̯.ɚ/ noun A2- The ability to do or undergo something. · He has lost the power to speak.
- extraordinary or supernatural ability. · Witches and mages have magic powers.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- The ability to affect or influence. · the power of the written word
- The ability or authority to control, govern, command, coerce, etc., such as in a legal, political or business sphere. · He's nominally president, but he does not have any real power.
- The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
- A strong or influential nation, company, or other such body. · In the 19th century, Britain and France were major colonial powers.· Britain is no longer the maritime power that it once was.
- Physical force or strength. · He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.
Plural powers
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Anne go to your room and stay there until I come up,” said Marilla, recovering her powers of speech with difficulty.
Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one’s self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power.
Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
If you wish me to use my magic power to send you home again you must do something for me first.
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