How do you quickly define a list of words in excel?

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I have a large list of words in column A. I would like to use excel to lookup the google or bing definition for each word in bulk. Excel has a built in function under research that will show you the bing definition, but you have to do it for each word manually.

I tried the method listed at the link below, but it is old and the function keeps returning the error "A value used in the formula is of the wrong data type" Finding the English definition of a word in VBA

If someone knows a program or website that will lookup the google definitions for a large list of words that would be helpful as well.
 

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I tried stepping through the function, but it hangs on the WinHttpReq.Send, so I cannot check where you get your error and or if this function works (it doesn't work on my PC).
 
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