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harelip
[ hair-lip ]
harelip
/ ˈ³óɛəˌ±ôɪ±è /
noun
- a congenital cleft or fissure in the midline of the upper lip, resembling the cleft upper lip of a hare, often occurring with cleft palate Preferred form cleft lip
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Sensitive Note
The term harelip is usually perceived as insulting because it compares the deformity in humans to the normal cleft lip of a hare. The accepted term for this medical condition is cleft lip.
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Derived Forms
- ˈ³ó²¹°ù±ðËŒ±ô¾±±è±è±ð»å, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³ó²¹°ù±ðl¾±±è±è±ð»å adjective
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Example Sentences
Examples have not been reviewed.
Their romance is more awkward than whirlwind as he fears she will dislike him because of his severe harelip and recurring nightmares.
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There was the Brad, a master rigger of industrial cranes, whose gruff diatribes against bankers, bike lanes, hipsters, and “harelips†we surreptitiously recorded, for laughs.
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It is Coetzee’s Michael K, with a harelip that so limits his speech that communication with him is virtually impossible.
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Whenever somebody with a harelip or T.B. came into the place he would set him up to beer.
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“Lunch!†the little man with the almost harelip calls down the hall.
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