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If you qualify a statement, you make it less strong or less general by adding a detail or explanation to it. I would qualify that by putting it into context.
I can't think of the situation/context that adding a detail or explanation to a statement makes it less strong. Is it natural that adding sth to sth makes it more strong. Am I wrong?
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Dictionaries vary. You should look at several for a word, and some of them will be, if not exactly wrong, inferior to the others. MW has four definitions for this sense of "qualify", and the AHD has two and mentions "moderate" as a synonym.
- Dictionaries vary.
- You should look at several for a word, and some of them will be, if not exactly wrong, inferior to the others.
- MW has four definitions for this sense of "qualify", and the AHD has two and mentions "moderate" as a synonym.
- Collins tried to cram too much into a single definition.
- com is a good place to start.
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Dictionaries vary. You should look at several for a word, and some of them will be, if not exactly wrong, inferior to the others. MW has four definitions for this sense of "qualify", and the AHD has two and mentions "moderate" as a synonym. Collins tried to cram too much into a single definition. Onelook.com is a good place to start.
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