cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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covering | (noun) the act of protecting something by covering it | - |
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(noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: application, coating |
(noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, masking, screening |
(noun) an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) | - |
(noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: cover, natural covering |
culverin | (noun) a medieval musket | - |
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(noun) a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
feverishness | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, pyrexia |
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(noun) A state of wildly excited activity or emotion. | - |
impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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(noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |
maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
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(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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overinterpretation | (noun) Excessive interpretation. | - |
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papaverine | (noun) an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium; used to relax smooth muscles; it is nonaddictive | Synonyms: Kavrin |
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pulverisation | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverization |
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(noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverization |
(noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverization |
pulverization | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverisation |
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(noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverisation |
(noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverisation |
quivering | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quiver, vibration |
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(noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
reverie | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: revery |
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(noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, revery |
severing | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severance |
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severity | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness |
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(noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: badness, severeness |
(noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness |
(noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: austereness, severeness |
shivering | (noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: chill |
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uncovering | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: discovery, find |
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(noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, stripping |
verifiability | (noun) The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability. | - |
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verification | (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, substantiation |
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(noun) (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement | - |
verifier | (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: voucher |
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verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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verity | (noun) an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth | - |
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(noun) conformity to reality or actuality | Synonyms: the true, trueness, truth |
wavering | (noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: fluctuation |
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(noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: hesitation, vacillation |
wolverine | (noun) stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: carcajou, Gulo luscus, skunk bear |
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(noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: glutton, Gulo gulo |