Definition of "express" []

• To set forth in words; state. (verb-transitive)
• To manifest or communicate, as by a gesture; show. See Synonyms at vent1. (verb-transitive)
• To make known the feelings or opinions of (oneself), as by statement or art. (verb-transitive)
• To convey or suggest a representation of; depict: The painting expresses the rage of war victims. (verb-transitive)
• To represent by a sign or a symbol; symbolize: express a fraction as a decimal. (verb-transitive)

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• "If the law pronounced him the master, _nibû_, to whom they owed obedience and fidelity, they were mistresses of the house, _nîbît pirû_, as well as wives, _himitû_, and the two words of the title express their condition."
• "Another theme which I hardly know how to express is to do with considering the extremes."
• "Travel advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office warns that street crime is high, and that armed robbery, and what it calls "express kidnappings" - short-term abductions to extort money - also take place, and that tourists have been among those targeted; resistance to robbers had resulted in people being shot dead, it added."