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Noun: vice  vIs
  1. A holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place
    "He clamped the wood in the vice before starting to saw";
    - vise [US], bench vise [US], bench vice
     
  2. A specific form of evildoing
    "vice offends the moral standards of the community"
     
  3. Moral weakness
    "She struggled to overcome her vices";
    - frailty
Preposition: vice  vIs
  1. In place of

Sounds like: vials, vic

Derived forms: vices

Type of: evil, evildoing, evilness, holding device, ill, transgression

Encyclopedia: Vice