| ashram | (noun) (India) a place of religious retreat for Hindus | - |
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| (noun) a place of religious retreat modeled after the Indian ashram | - |
| dishrag | (noun) a cloth for washing dishes | Synonyms: dishcloth |
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| mushroom | (noun) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi | - |
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| (noun) a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) | Synonyms: mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom cloud |
| (noun) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) | - |
| (noun) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium | - |
| shrapnel | (noun) shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight | - |
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| shred | (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: rag, tag, tag end, tatter |
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| (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
| shredder | (noun) a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them) | - |
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| shrew | (noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles | Synonyms: shrewmouse |
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| (noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Synonyms: termagant |
| shrewdness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicaciousness, perspicacity |
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| shrewishness | (noun) a nature given to nagging or scolding | - |
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| shrewmouse | (noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles | Synonyms: shrew |
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| shriek | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
| shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
| shrift | (noun) the act of being shriven | - |
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| shrike | (noun) any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals | - |
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| shrilling | (noun) a continuing shrill noise | - |
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| shrillness | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: stridence, stridency |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharp or harsh to the senses | - |
| shrimp | (noun) small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible | - |
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| (noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: prawn |
| (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, runt |
| shrimper | (noun) a vessel engaged in shrimping | - |
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| shrimpfish | (noun) slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates | Synonyms: shrimp-fish |
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| shrine | (noun) a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person | - |
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| shrink | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, psychiatrist |
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| shrinkage | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shoplifting |
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| (noun) the amount by which something shrinks | - |
| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinking |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
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| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |
| shroud | (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: cerement, pall, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
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| (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, tack, weather sheet |
| (noun) a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute | - |
| shrub | (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: bush |
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| shrubbery | (noun) a collection of shrubs growing together | - |
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| (noun) an area where a number of shrubs are planted | - |
| shrublet | (noun) dwarf shrub | - |
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| shrug | (noun) a gesture involving the shoulders | - |
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| subshrub | (noun) low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base | Synonyms: suffrutex |
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| undershrub | (noun) a low shrub | - |
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| washrag | (noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body | Synonyms: face cloth, flannel, washcloth |
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| washroom | (noun) a lavatory (particularly a lavatory in a public place) | - |
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