cor-

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cor-

pref.

Variant of com-.

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cor-

var. of com- before r : correlate.

Cor.

1. Corinthians.

2. Coroner.

cor.

1. corner.

2. coroner.

3. corpus.

4. correct.

5. correction.

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You're rich -- yes, -- suddenly rich -- for about a day, maybe a week; then somebody cor- ners the market on YOU, and down goes your bucket- shop; ain't that so, Sandy?"

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She was immediately buried, but had not been in her untimely grave but a few hours before she was taken up and examined by the cor- oner, who decided that she had come to her death by severe beating.

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The youth sat down obediently and the cor- poral, laying aside his rifle, began to fumble in the bushy hair of his comrade.