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else adverb [ ɛls ]

• in addition; besides.
• "anything else you need to know?"
• different; instead.
• "isn't there anyone else you could ask?"
• short for or else.
• "keep your mouth shut, else you might contradict my story"
Origin: Old English elles, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch els and Swedish eljest .

or else

• used to introduce the second of two alternatives.
"he always had a cold or else was getting over an earache"



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