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complement
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complement as in:  the color complements her eyes

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    The color complements her eyes.
    complements = combines well with
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    Everything Six eats is only eaten to complement her main course of Nutella.  (source)
    complement = make better
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    First they went to Decor Botanicals, where a team of five seniors was developing Smart Wallpaper that would change colour on the walls of your room to complement your mood.  (source)
    complement = combine well with
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    He was starting to fuse science and religion …. showing that they complement each other in most unanticipated ways.  (source)
    complement = combine well with
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    She was tall and her perfectly long face complemented her beautiful cheekbones and big brown eyes.  (source)
    complemented = combined well with
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    He even brought me a gift—a heathery violet turtleneck sweater to wear—and I notice it complements both the blanket and Desi's deep green sweater.  (source)
    complements = goes well with
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    My cowardice is of such a passion, complementing the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow, I was forced to design this. [Faber explaining why he designed his communication device]  (source)
    complementing = combining well with
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    Still less is it acted upon for the good of the complemental being alluded to.†  (source)
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    There's no doubt [water's] the most versatile of the five elements.... Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water.  (source)
    complement = something that combines with something else to make it better
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    I followed Geneva's own footprints down the snowy path and found the outhouse at the end of it. It was a simple one-holer, complemented by the inevitable Sears, Roebuck catalog.  (source)
    complemented = made better or complete
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    It neither fits your character nor complements mine.†  (source)
    complements = combines well with
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    In front of the counter were two people, an obese elderly man and a woman in a dark red dress, the rich color of the silk complementing her long, titian hair ...Auburn hair.†  (source)
    complementing = combining well with
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    COMPLEMENTAL VERSES The Pretensions of Poverty Thou dost presume too much, poor needy wretch, To claim a station in the firmament Because thy humble cottage, or thy tub, Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue In the cheap sunshine or by shady springs, With roots and pot-herbs; where thy right hand, Tearing those humane passions from the mind, Upon whose stocks fair blooming virtues flourish, Degradeth nature, and benumbeth sense, And, Gorgon-like, turns active men to stone.†  (source)
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complement as in:  a full complement of crew

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We'll sail with a full complement of crew.
complement = a quantity of something that is considered complete
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    The jet was loaded with a full complement of weaponry.
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    Far above them, the pilot counted eight battleships, the Pacific Fleet's full complement.  (source)
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    He gathered together some supplies — not too much, not too heavy, he'd have to carry it all — and loaded up his spraygun with the full complement of virtual bullets.  (source)
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    Kelp did a quick head count. Eleven. One short of a full complement.  (source)
    complement = a quantity of something that is considered complete
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    Well, sure we did, I agreed, and of course we would lay in a full complement before the baby arrived.  (source)
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    Is there a full complement?  (source)
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    Columbia, he said, should run a full complement of the advertising created by his firm in the local editions of TV Guide and Parade magazine in twenty-six media markets around the United States.  (source)
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    There were fifteen of us in Hall's group: three guides, a full complement of eight clients, and Sherpas Ang Dorje, Lhakpa Chhiri, Ngawang Norbu, and Kami.  (source)
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    I remember standing beneath a big, muscular Harrier, already loaded up with its complement of weaponry.  (source)
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    A new statue of the Holy Mother watched over a full complement of votive glasses on the tiered rack.  (source)
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    His only issue, he tells me, is the program, explaining that Serenade in D major, Op. 8, Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3, and String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18, No. 5, are not among Beethoven's more celebrated works, nor will we see the entire orchestra "in its full complement."  (source)
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    It's known around camp that they're scheduled to be here soon, and I've received messages for the quartermaster that the supply transport and complement will likely arrive by tomorrow.  (source)
    complement = entire crew
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