eager
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Is eager a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.Examples: "an eager algorithm"
2. (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.Examples: "gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself"dated
3. (obsolete, literal) Sharp; sour; acid.Examples: "like eager droppings into milk"obsolete
4. (obsolete, figurative) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.Examples: "If so thou thinkest, vex him with eager words."; "It is a nipping and an eager air."figurativelyobsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To be or become eager.Examples: "Now everybody considered it a high privilege (valued it at a high consideration) to see him and to hear him speak, and to obey his command (him commanding), whereas he, though being such a person, eagered to be unknown, and to escape notice in solitude."; "Our spirits fret and chafe like sea waves on the rocks eagering to climb the shore."; "The buggy jolted on, the stout, wellkept team eagering, homing, barning."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To express eagerness.Examples: "His hair crinkled towards her fondly. "Yes," he eagered."; "Peg! eager voices eagered voicely."; "[…] Sister Clare saying Oh look a greenfinch and the name was a gift to me as much as the three and a half more minutes the green vision danced and fretted and eagered and preened in front of me […]"intransitive
3. (transitive) To make or encourage to be eagerExamples: "Physicians also admit to eagering patients to turn to specialised web sites in order to read further."; "But they only eagered him to be off ."; "Its presence gave him no thought of condemnation, but only eagered his longing for the redemption body."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary