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    POKE AT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    To push against gentlyplay

    Example:

    She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant

    Synonyms:

    nudge; poke at; prod

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "poke at" is one way to...):

    force; push (move with force)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "poke at"):

    jog (give a slight push to)

    elbow (shove one's elbow into another person's ribs)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody

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