Synonyms for reed
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1. reednoun

   tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

   Synonyms:
   reed instrument, beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed

2. Reed, John Reednoun

   United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)

   Synonyms:
   reed instrument, beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed

3. Reed, Walter Reednoun

   United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

   Synonyms:
   reed instrument, beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed

4. reed, vibrating reednoun

   a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it

   "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"

   Synonyms:
   reed instrument, beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed

5. beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reednoun

   a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

   Synonyms:
   reed instrument, beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed

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1. • Communist
   • Gramineous Plant
   • Journalist
   • Surgeon
   • Vibrator

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1. List of paraphrases for "reed":

   reid, roseau, red

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1. Robert Dunham:

   2019 came close to being the year of executing the innocent, two prisoners were executed this year despite substantial doubts as to their guilt, and James Dailey in Florida and Rodney Reed in Texas came close to execution despite compelling evidence of innocence.

2. Joey Reed:

   We've said all along, for months and months, that we believe President Biden is a compassionate and kind man, we knew if we talked to President Biden and told President Biden about Trevor Reed President Biden, and what Trevor's gone through as an American, and the way that President Biden's been treated, in particular it would cause President Biden to take action such as an exchange, which they had been reluctant to do up to that point.

3. Feltham:

   It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves.

4. Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940:

   Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.

5. Beau Biden:

   I’ve been at Walter Reed a lot, as vice president, every single Christmas, we spent all of Christmas Day at Walter Reed in 2015. These kids are amazing.