Definition of "-al" []

• Of, relating to, or characterized by: parental. (suffix)
• Action; process: retrieval. (suffix)
• Aldehyde: citronellal. (suffix)

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• "So he dropped the -al from sensual and substituted -ous, writing, “The Soule … finding the ease she had from her visible, and sensuous colleague the body.”"
• ""Convention"-al wisdom questioned by expert who studies economics of event spaces Prof."
• "La agresividad del sonido de sus guitarras y el estilo atrevido de esta banda nos llevan en un viaje hacia el pasado -al movimiento feminista punk que floreció en Olympia, Washington y en Washington, D.C. durante el comienzo de la década de los 90."