beefburger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: burger, hamburger |
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bourgeois | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: burgher |
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(noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: businessperson |
bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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burger | (noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, hamburger |
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burgess | (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgher |
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cheeseburger | (noun) a hamburger with melted cheese on it | - |
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chemosurgery | (noun) use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer | - |
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counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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courgette | (noun) small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green | Synonyms: zucchini |
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(noun) marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small | Synonyms: zucchini |
cryosurgery | (noun) the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers) | - |
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demiurge | (noun) a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe | - |
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electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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hamburger | (noun) beef that has been ground | Synonyms: ground beef |
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(noun) a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients | Synonyms: beefburger, burger |
insurgence | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgency |
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insurgency | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgence |
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insurgent | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurrectionist, rebel |
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(noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, irregular |
microsurgery | (noun) surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures | - |
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neurosurgeon | (noun) someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain) | Synonyms: brain surgeon |
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neurosurgery | (noun) any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves) | - |
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psychosurgery | (noun) brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems | - |
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purge | (noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purging |
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(noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purging |
(noun) an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place | - |
resurgence | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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scourge | (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: flagellum |
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(noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: terror, threat |
(noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, nemesis |
scourger | (noun) a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) | Synonyms: flogger |
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splurge | (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: binge, orgy |
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(noun) an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.) | - |
spurge | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | - |
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sturgeon | (noun) large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone | - |
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surge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: upsurge |
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(noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, upsurge |
(noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: billow |
surgeon | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, sawbones |
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surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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surgery | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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(noun) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations | Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR |
(noun) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted | - |
(noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | - |
thaumaturge | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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tunaburger | (noun) a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef | - |
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upsurge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: surge |
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(noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, surge |
urge | (noun) a strong restless desire | Synonyms: itch |
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(noun) an instinctive motive | Synonyms: impulse |
urgency | (noun) pressing importance requiring speedy action | - |
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(noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: importunity, urging |
(noun) the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity | - |
(noun) an urgent situation calling for prompt action | - |