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vulcanize to inflict severe burns on a victim, causing him to become a stoon.
These maternally inherited bacteria inflict an impressive arsenal of reproductive alterations to increase the frequency of infected female offspring, often at the expense of their hosts.
In contrast, when the microarray clustering was performed on the basis of genes involved in oxidative stress defense, (the top 24 genes belonging to cluster 4), diamide was most similar to hydrogen peroxide and menadione, which inflict oxidative damage by generating reactive oxygen species (Figure 8c).
His daily stimulant--"If you can call it that," he remarked to his partner and close friend, Harold Epison, "--the daily ingestion of poison I inflict on myself"--was what he referred to with some scorn as "the McCarthy page" in the morning's newspaper.
The Campaigning Conservatives walk a delicate line: They want to inflict the maximum possible punishment on Clinton in the minimal possible time.