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1. v. t. To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
2. v. t. To break to pieces; to shatter.
3. v. t. To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; — said especially of tumors.
4. v. t. To shake; to put away; to finish.
5. v. t. To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.
6. v. t. To deal with, in eating or drinking.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.