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MASTERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Understood perfectly
Example:
had his algebra problems down
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
perfect (being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb master
Context examples:
He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
(Law, NCI Thesaurus)
Yet the creature was astute; mastered his fury with a great effort of the will; composed his two important letters, one to Lanyon and one to Poole; and that he might receive actual evidence of their being posted, sent them out with directions that they should be registered.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
At last he mastered himself and sat down once more at his desk.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He has mastered papa's weaknesses, fostered them, and taken advantage of them, until—to say all that I mean in a word, Trotwood,—until papa is afraid of him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Von Bork had mastered his anger.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In short, in all its guises she mastered the unexpected.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Our comradeship was becoming tremulous, I had mastered my love long and well, but now it was mastering me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Especially during his stretches of famine he suffered from lack of the weed; but no matter how often he mastered the craving, it remained with him as strong as ever.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I mastered the rising hysteria, lifted up my head, and took a firm stand on the stool.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
