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   shore

   /ʃɔː/

   noun

   • 1. the land along the edge of a sea, lake, or other large body of water: "I took the tiller and made for the shore"
   • ▪ the land between ordinary high- and low-water marks.
   • ▪ a country or other geographic area bounded by a coast: "record companies have been anxious to import the music to American shores"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schōre; perhaps related to the verb shear.

   Derivatives

   • 1. shoreless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • S

     1

   • H

     4

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • E

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