| consumption | (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: expenditure, using up |
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| (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake |
| (noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services |
| (noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body | Synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague |
| consumptive | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
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| contemplation | (noun) a long and thoughtful observation | - |
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| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
| contemplative | (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
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| contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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| contemporaneity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneousness |
| contemporaneousness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneity |
| contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
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| contemporariness | (noun) The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age. | - |
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| contemporary | (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: coeval |
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| contempt | (noun) a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body | - |
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| (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: disrespect |
| (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: scorn |
| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: despite, disdain, scorn |
| contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| contemptuousness | (noun) the manifestation of scorn and contempt | - |
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| contretemps | (noun) an awkward clash | - |
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| counterexample | (noun) refutation by example | - |
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| cramp | (noun) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together | Synonyms: cramp iron |
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| (noun) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued | - |
| (noun) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | Synonyms: muscle spasm, spasm |
| crampbark | (noun) deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries | Synonyms: cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus |
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| crampfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: electric ray, numbfish, torpedo |
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| crampon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampoon |
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| (noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampoon |
| crampoon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampon |
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| (noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampon |
| creampie | (noun) Ejaculate inside a vagina or anus | - |
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| crimp | (noun) a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled | - |
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| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimper |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication |
| crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
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| (noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
| crumpet | (noun) a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle | - |
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| damp | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: dampness, moistness |
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| dampener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: moistener |
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| dampening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: moistening |
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| damper | (noun) a depressing restraint | - |
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| (noun) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations | Synonyms: muffler |
| (noun) a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace | - |
| dampness | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: damp, moistness |
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| decampment | (noun) breaking camp | - |
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| (noun) the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest) | Synonyms: abscondment |
| decomposition | (noun) the analysis of a vector field | Synonyms: vector decomposition |
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| (noun) the organic phenomenon of rotting | Synonyms: decay |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, 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: breakdown, chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: disintegration |
| decompressing | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompression |
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| decompression | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompressing |
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| (noun) restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display | - |
| dicamptodon | (noun) salamanders found near cold streams throughout the year | Synonyms: dicamptodontid |
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| dicamptodontid | (noun) salamanders found near cold streams throughout the year | Synonyms: dicamptodon |
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| dimple | (noun) a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin | - |
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| (noun) any slight depression in a surface | - |
| (noun) a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached | Synonyms: dimpled chad, pregnant chad |
| discomposure | (noun) a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure | - |
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| (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, disconcertion, disconcertment |
| distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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| (noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
| (noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
| dump | (noun) a place where supplies can be stored | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs | - |
| (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
| (noun) a coarse term for defecation | Synonyms: shit |
| dumpcart | (noun) a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling | - |
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| dumper | (noun) truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity | Synonyms: dump truck, tip truck, tipper, tipper lorry, tipper truck |
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| dumpiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: squattiness |
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| dumping | (noun) selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market | - |
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| dumpling | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumplings |
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| (noun) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry | - |
| dumplings | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumpling |
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| dumps | (noun) an informal expression for a mildly depressed state | Synonyms: mopes |
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| dumpsite | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
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| eclampsia | (noun) a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy | - |
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| elecampane | (noun) tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally | Synonyms: Inula helenium |
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| empathy | (noun) understanding and entering into another's feelings | - |
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| empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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| emperor | (noun) large richly colored butterfly | Synonyms: emperor butterfly |
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| (noun) large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings | Synonyms: emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia |
| (noun) red table grape of California | - |
| (noun) the male ruler of an empire | - |
| emphasis | (noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: vehemence |
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| (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| (noun) special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. | - |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: accent |
| emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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| emphysema | (noun) an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age | Synonyms: pulmonary emphysema |
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| empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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| (noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
| empiricism | (noun) the application of empirical methods in any art or science | - |
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| (noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: quackery |
| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricist philosophy, sensationalism |
| empiricist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism | - |
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| emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
| employ | (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employment |
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| employable | (noun) a person who is qualified and ready to work | - |
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| employee | (noun) a worker who is hired to perform a job | - |
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| employer | (noun) a person or firm that employs workers | - |
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| employment | (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: work |
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| (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: engagement |
| (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employ |
| emporium | (noun) a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | Synonyms: department store |
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| empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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| empress | (noun) a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor | - |
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| emptiness | (noun) the quality of being valueless or futile | Synonyms: vanity |
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| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: vacancy, vacuum, void |
| (noun) the state of containing nothing | - |
| (noun) having an empty stomach | - |
| emptor | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, purchaser, vendee |
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| empty | (noun) a container that has been emptied | - |
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| emptying | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: evacuation, voidance |
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| empyema | (noun) a collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity) | - |
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| empyrean | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| encampment | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, tenting |
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| (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, cantonment |
| (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite |
| encompassment | (noun) including entirely | - |
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| endolymph | (noun) the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear | - |
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| example | (noun) a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: illustration, instance, representative |
| (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: exemplar, good example, model |
| (noun) a representative form or pattern | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) punishment intended as a warning to others | Synonyms: deterrent example, lesson, object lesson |
| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, instance |
| exemplar | (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, good example, model |
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| exemplariness | (noun) The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example. | - |
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| exemplification | (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: typification |
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| (noun) showing by example | Synonyms: illustration |
| exemption | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: granting immunity, immunity |
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| (noun) a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.) | - |
| (noun) immunity from an obligation or duty | Synonyms: freedom |
| exomphalos | (noun) an umbilical hernia at birth in which some abdominal organs push into the umbilical cord | - |
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| extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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| extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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| farmplace | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmstead |
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| firedamp | (noun) a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air | - |
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| foglamp | (noun) headlight that provides strong beam for use in foggy weather | - |
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| frump | (noun) a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman | Synonyms: dog |
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| gamp | (noun) colloquial terms for an umbrella | Synonyms: brolly |
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| gempylid | (noun) snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide | - |
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| gimp | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| gimpiness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, lameness, limping |
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| glamping | (noun) Camping glamorously, i.e., with expensive equipment | - |
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| glimpse | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glance |
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| (noun) a brief or incomplete view | - |
| (noun) a vague indication | - |
| gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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| goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| gramps | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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| grampus | (noun) slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas | Synonyms: Grampus griseus |
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| (noun) predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas | Synonyms: killer, killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf |
| grump | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, crosspatch, grouch |
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| grumpiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, crotchetiness |
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