(of a person or thing) In a state of breakdown or failure; ruined or destroyed. Also used to describe a person feeling extremely tired or overwhelmed. Can also be used as a mild expletive indicating frustration or disappointment.

(of a person or thing) In a state of breakdown or failure; ruined or destroyed. Also used to describe a person feeling extremely tired or overwhelmed. Can also be used as a mild expletive indicating frustration or disappointment.

Artificial selection is the process of intentionally selecting and breeding organisms with specific traits or characteristics to produce desired offspring with those same traits over several generations. This process is performed by humans and differs from natural selection, where nature selects organisms for survival based on their fitness in the environment.

ten′et, n. any opinion, principle, or doctrine which a person holds or maintains as true. [L. tenet, he holds—tenēre, to hold.]

in deplorable condition

(US, Canada) The period of the late fall and early winter when several holidays occur, such as American Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa

something of sentimental value

The interaction between the surfaces of a solid and liquid in contact that distorts the normal geometry of the liquid surface; especially the rise or fall of a liquid in a fine tube.

mo-har′am, n. the first month of the Mohammedan year: the great fast held during the first ten days of this month.—Also Muharr′am.

One who departs from orthodoxy.

Any of the twenty naturally occurring u03B1-amino acids (having the amino, and carboxylic acid groups on the same carbon atom), and a variety of side chains, that combine, via peptide bonds, to form proteins.