backdown | (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: climb-down, withdrawal |
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breakdown | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: dislocation |
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(noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: partitioning |
(noun) a cessation of normal operation | Synonyms: equipment failure |
(noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: decomposition, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
(noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition, decomposition reaction |
(noun) a mental or physical breakdown | Synonyms: crack-up |
clampdown | (noun) sudden restriction on an activity | - |
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closedown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closing, closure, shutdown |
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comedown | (noun) decline to a lower status or level | - |
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countdown | (noun) counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle) | - |
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crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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dowager | (noun) a widow holding property received from her deceased husband | - |
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dowdiness | (noun) having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | Synonyms: drabness, homeliness |
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dowdy | (noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: pandowdy |
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dowel | (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel pin, joggle |
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doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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dower | (noun) a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband | - |
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(noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dowery, dowry, portion |
dowery | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowry, portion |
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dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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down | (noun) (American football) a complete play to advance the football | - |
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(noun) soft fine feathers | Synonyms: down feather |
(noun) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | Synonyms: pile |
(noun) (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil | - |
downbeat | (noun) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) | - |
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downcast | (noun) a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine | - |
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downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
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downer | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, sedative, sedative drug |
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downfall | (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: fall |
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(noun) failure that results in a loss of position or reputation | Synonyms: ruin, ruination |
(noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: precipitation |
downgrade | (noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends | - |
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downheartedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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downhill | (noun) a ski race down a trail | - |
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(noun) the downward slope of a hill | - |
downiness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: featheriness, fluffiness |
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downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
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(noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
downside | (noun) a negative aspect of something that is generally positive | - |
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downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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downspin | (noun) a swift and dangerous downturn | - |
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downstage | (noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
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downstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in a downward direction | - |
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downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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(noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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downtime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions) | - |
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downtown | (noun) the central area or commercial center of a town or city | Synonyms: business district |
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downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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dowry | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, portion |
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dowse | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowsing, rhabdomancy |
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dowser | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowsing rod, water finder, waterfinder |
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(noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: rhabdomancer, water witch |
dowsing | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, rhabdomancy |
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eiderdown | (noun) down of the eider duck | - |
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(noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, duvet |
endowment | (noun) the act of endowing with a permanent source of income | - |
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(noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: gift, natural endowment, talent |
(noun) the capital that provides income for an institution | Synonyms: endowment fund |
eyeshadow | (noun) makeup consisting of a cosmetic substance used to darken the eyes | - |
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foreshadowing | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, prefiguration |
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godown | (noun) (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse | - |
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knockdown | (noun) a blow that knocks the opponent off his feet | - |
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landowner | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landholder, property owner |
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letdown | (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: disappointment |
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lockdown | (noun) the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot) | - |
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lookdown | (noun) similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead | Synonyms: lookdown fish, Selene vomer |
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meadow | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: hayfield |
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meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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meltdown | (noun) a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown | - |
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(noun) severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping | Synonyms: nuclear meltdown |
pandowdy | (noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: dowdy |
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rubdown | (noun) the act of rubbing down, usually for relaxation or medicinal purposes | - |
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rundown | (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: summation, summing up |
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shadow | (noun) refuge from danger or observation | - |
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(noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom |
(noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: tincture, trace, vestige |
(noun) a premonition of something adverse | - |
(noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, darkness |
(noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadower, tail |
(noun) an inseparable companion | - |
(noun) a dominating and pervasive presence | - |
(noun) shade within clear boundaries | - |
shadowboxing | (noun) sparring with an imaginary opponent (for exercise or training) | - |
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shadower | (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadow, tail |
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shadowgraph | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, skiagram, skiagraph |
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shadowiness | (noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shade, shadiness |
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shadowing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: tailing |
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shakedown | (noun) extortion of money (as by blackmail) | - |
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(noun) a very thorough search of a person or a place | - |
(noun) initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state | - |
shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
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showdown | (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off |
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shutdown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closing, closure |
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slowdown | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, retardation |
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spelldown | (noun) a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | Synonyms: spelling bee, spelling contest |
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splashdown | (noun) a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight | - |
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standdown | (noun) (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action | Synonyms: stand-down |
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(noun) a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness | Synonyms: stand-down |
sundown | (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sunset |
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sundowner | (noun) a drink taken at sundown | - |
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(noun) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown | - |
takedown | (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, squelcher |
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(noun) (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position | - |
thistledown | (noun) pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle | - |
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touchdown | (noun) a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line | - |
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(noun) a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes | - |
turndown | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: nonacceptance |
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widow | (noun) a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widow woman |
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widower | (noun) a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widowman |
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widowhood | (noun) the state of being a widow who has not remarried | - |
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(noun) the time of a woman's life when she is a widow | - |
widowman | (noun) a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widower |
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window | (noun) a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air | - |
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(noun) a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened | - |
(noun) a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material | - |
(noun) (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen | - |
(noun) a pane of glass in a window | Synonyms: windowpane |
(noun) an opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served | - |
(noun) an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function | - |
(noun) the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something | - |
windowpane | (noun) very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: Scophthalmus aquosus |
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(noun) a pane of glass in a window | Synonyms: window |
windowsill | (noun) the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame | - |
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