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hairsbreadth

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɛəɹzbɹɛdθ/Part of speech nounSorted aabdehhirrstStarts with HEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a very small distance or space

Word origin

From hair + -s- + breadth.

Used in a sentence

  • [...] I ſee you are obſequious in your loue, and I profeſſe requitall to a haires bredth, [...]
  • [I]t was characteristic of this man, as it is of all men similarly marked, that whatever he did, he overdid, though it were sometimes by only a hair's-breadth [...]
  • We've missed our shot by a hairsbreadth and that's the same as missing by miles.

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