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ENABLE (Words with Friends)

Meaning of instead

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  instead
      adv 1: in place of, or as an alternative to; "Felix became a
             herpetologist instead"; "alternatively we could buy a
             used car" [syn: {alternatively}, {instead}, {or else}]
      2: on the contrary; "rather than disappoint the children, he did
         two quick tricks before he left"; "he didn't call; rather (or
         instead), he wrote her a letter"; "used English terms instead
         of Latin ones" [syn: {rather}, {instead}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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