| brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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| brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
| bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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| (noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
| crushing | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
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| demolishing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: leveling, razing, tearing down |
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| dishwashing | (noun) the act of washing dishes | Synonyms: washup |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| fishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: sportfishing |
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| (noun) the occupation of catching fish for a living | - |
| flashiness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| flashing | (noun) sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing | - |
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| (noun) a short vivid experience | Synonyms: flash |
| fleshiness | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: corpulency, obesity |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| hushing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hissing, sibilation |
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| imperishingness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishableness |
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| lashing | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, tanning, whipping |
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| (noun) rope that is used for fastening something to something else | - |
| lashings | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| meshing | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, mesh |
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| (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshwork, net, network |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, mesh |
| moonshine | (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor |
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| (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonlight |
| moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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| mushiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: pulpiness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| polishing | (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: shining |
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| publishing | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publication |
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| pushiness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, cockiness, forwardness |
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| pushing | (noun) the act of applying force in order to move something away | Synonyms: push |
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| relinquishing | (noun) the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
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| (noun) a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
| relishing | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, savoring, savouring, tasting |
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| republishing | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republication |
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| rushing | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rush |
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| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rush |
| shin | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin bone, shinbone, tibia |
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| (noun) the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
| (noun) the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| (noun) a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg | Synonyms: shin bone |
| shinbone | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin, shin bone, tibia |
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| shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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| shindy | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindig |
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| shine | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency |
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| shiner | (noun) any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis | - |
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| (noun) important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales | Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus |
| (noun) something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) | - |
| (noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, mouse |
| shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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| (noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
| (noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |
| shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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| shingles | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster |
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| shingling | (noun) the laying on of shingles | - |
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| (noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction | - |
| shininess | (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: luster, lustre, sheen |
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| shining | (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: polishing |
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| shinleaf | (noun) North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters | Synonyms: Pyrola elliptica, wild lily of the valley |
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| shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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| shinny | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinney |
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| shinpad | (noun) a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins | Synonyms: shin guard |
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| shinplaster | (noun) paper money of little value issued on insufficient security | - |
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| shoeshine | (noun) the act of shining shoes | - |
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| (noun) a shiny finish put on shoes with polish and buffing | - |
| smashing | (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: shattering |
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| splashiness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness |
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| splashing | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splattering |
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| (noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splash |
| sportfishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: fishing |
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| sunshine | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, cheerfulness, sunniness |
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| (noun) the rays of the sun | Synonyms: sun, sunlight |
| (noun) moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: fair weather, temperateness |
| thrashing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| threshing | (noun) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw | - |
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| trashiness | (noun) the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better | Synonyms: shoddiness |
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| vanishing | (noun) a sudden disappearance from sight | - |
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| (noun) a sudden or mysterious disappearance | - |
| washing | (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: lavation, wash |
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| (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, wash, washables |
| wishing | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wish |
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