American English pronunciation
How to pronounce bouts
IPA transcription: ['baʊts]
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Noun
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(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
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a period of illness
“a bout of fever”
“a bout of depression”
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a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
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an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
“they went on a bust that lasted three days”
Usage examples
- Its whereabouts still remain unknown.
- Whereabouts, may I ask?
- To date, Eeva's whereabouts remain unknown.
- Akins' reasons for leaving his job and his current whereabouts are unknown.
- He had fifty-nine amateur bouts, knocking out forty-six of his opponents.
- This was to be the only pole position of Boutsen's career.
- These two raindrop roundabouts are fused together, forming a single "squashed" roundabout.
- LeTour gives the police a lead to Marianne's last whereabouts.
- Its present whereabouts are unknown.
- She also lost bouts to Chevelle Hallback and Alicia Ashley.