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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rife/rʌɪf/
▶adjective (especially of something undesirable) widespread: male chauvinism was rife in medicine.
■ (rife with) full of.
– derivatives
rifeness noun.
rifeness noun.
– origin OE rȳfe, prob. from ON rīfr ‘acceptable’.
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... died of plague that was [rife and rampant]/raging in ...
human behaviour was rife
rife can means spread or not
rife with caverns and peculiar glitterings and plateaus
human behaviour was rife
rife can means spread or not
rife with caverns and peculiar glitterings and plateaus
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