sound
/ˈsaʊ̯nd/ adjective B2- Healthy. · He was safe and sound.· In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
- Complete, solid, or secure. · Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
- Having the property of soundness.
- Quiet and deep. · Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, and often deeply.· Her sleep was sound.
- Heavy; laid on with force. · a sound beating
- Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective. · a sound title to land
Comparative sounder · Superlative soundest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But having heard the neigh of the horse, they were so enchanted with the sound, that they tried to imitate it; and, in trying to neigh, they forgot how to sing.
The bride blushed, while Fernand, restless and uneasy, seemed to start at every fresh sound, and from time to time wiped away the large drops of perspiration that gathered on his brow.
“Is all safe and sound, M.
“Do you know, my dear Villefort,” cried the Comte de Salvieux, “that is exactly what I myself said the other day at the Tuileries, when questioned by his majesty’s principal chamberlain touching the singularity of an alliance between the son of a Girondin and the daughter of an officer of the Duc de Condé; and I assure you he seemed fully to comprehend that this mode of reconciling political differences was based upon sound and excellent principles.
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