| collectivization | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivisation |
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| compulsivity | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsiveness |
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| concavity | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concaveness |
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| (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, incurvation, incurvature |
| conductivity | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conduction |
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| conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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| connectivity | (noun) the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections | - |
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| conservativism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservatism |
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| conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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| constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| convict | (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird |
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| (noun) a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense | - |
| convictfish | (noun) greenling with whitish body marked with black bands | Synonyms: convict fish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling |
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| conviction | (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: condemnation, judgment of conviction, sentence |
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| (noun) an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence | Synonyms: article of faith, strong belief |
| convincingness | (noun) the power of argument or evidence to cause belief | - |
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| conviviality | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: jollification, merrymaking |
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| (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: joviality |
| coronavirus | (noun) a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020 | Synonyms: 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, corona, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, novel coronavirus pneumonia, Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan flu, Wuhan pneumonia, Wuhan virus |
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| correlativity | (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlation |
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| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| coville | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: creosote bush, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata |
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| coxsackievirus | (noun) enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis | Synonyms: Coxsackie virus |
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| craving | (noun) an intense desire for some particular thing | - |
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| creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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| crevice | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, fissure, scissure |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, fissure |
| cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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| daredevil | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
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| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| davit | (noun) a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat) | - |
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| declivity | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, descent, downslope, fall |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| delavirdine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Rescriptor) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Rescriptor |
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| depravity | (noun) a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice | Synonyms: turpitude |
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| (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, putrefaction |
| deriving | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, etymologizing |
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| dervish | (noun) an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements | - |
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| descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
| deservingness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: merit, meritoriousness |
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| deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
| deviant | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
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| deviate | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
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| deviation | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviance |
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| (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, digression, divagation, diversion |
| (noun) the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances | - |
| (noun) the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function | - |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, difference, divergence |
| deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| device | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: gimmick, twist |
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| (noun) an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | - |
| (noun) an emblematic design (especially in heraldry) | - |
| (noun) any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) | - |
| (noun) something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | - |
| devices | (noun) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' | - |
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| devil | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, dickens |
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| (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, demon, fiend |
| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, fiend, monster, ogre |
| (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: heller, hellion |
| devilfish | (noun) extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned | Synonyms: manta, manta ray |
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| (noun) bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | Synonyms: octopus |
| (noun) medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific | Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale |
| devilishness | (noun) The property of resembling or being characteristic of a devil. | - |
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| devilment | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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| devilry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: deviltry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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| deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
| devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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| devise | (noun) (law) a gift of real property by will | - |
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| (noun) a will disposing of real property | - |
| devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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| deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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| devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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| devisor | (noun) someone who devises real property in a will | - |
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| devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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| devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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| directivity | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directionality |
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| (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directiveness |
| disservice | (noun) an act intended to help that turns out badly | Synonyms: ill service, ill turn |
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| dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| divide | (noun) a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems | Synonyms: water parting, watershed |
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| (noun) a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility) | - |
| dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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| (noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
| (noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
| divider | (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: partition |
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| (noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements | - |
| (noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups | - |
| (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: splitter |
| divination | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophecy |
| (noun) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck | - |
| divine | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic |
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| diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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| diving | (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: dive |
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| (noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water | Synonyms: diving event |
| divinity | (noun) the quality of being divine | - |
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| (noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: theology |
| (noun) white creamy fudge made with egg whites | Synonyms: divinity fudge |
| (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, god, immortal |
| divisibility | (noun) the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
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| division | (noun) the act or process of dividing | - |
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| (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed | - |
| (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
| (noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole | Synonyms: part, section |
| (noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: variance |
| (noun) an army unit large enough to sustain combat | - |
| (noun) a group of ships of similar type | Synonyms: naval division |
| (noun) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings | Synonyms: air division |
| (noun) an administrative unit in government or business | - |
| (noun) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum | - |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category | - |
| (noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: class |
| divisor | (noun) the number by which a dividend is divided | - |
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| (noun) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer | Synonyms: factor |
| dovishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict | - |
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| driving | (noun) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal | - |
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| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: drive |
| echovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants | - |
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| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| effectivity | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectuality, effectualness |
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| effluvium | (noun) a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) | - |
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| electronegativity | (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: negativity |
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| endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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| engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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| (noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
| (noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
| enterovirus | (noun) any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system) | - |
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| enviousness | (noun) a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another | Synonyms: envy |
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| environment | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environs, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) the totality of surrounding conditions | - |
| environmentalism | (noun) the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction | - |
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| (noun) the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth | - |
| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| environs | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) an outer adjacent area of any place | Synonyms: purlieu |
| envisioning | (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: picturing |
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| ergonovine | (noun) an alkaloid derived from ergot (trade name Ergotrate Maleate) that is less toxic than ergot; induces muscular contraction of the uterus and is administered after childbirth or abortion | Synonyms: Ergotrate Maleate |
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| eviction | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster |
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| (noun) action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved | Synonyms: constructive eviction |
| evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
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| (noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
| (noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
| evil | (noun) morally objectionable behavior | Synonyms: immorality, iniquity, wickedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | Synonyms: evilness |
| evildoer | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: sinner |
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| evildoing | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: transgression |
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| evilness | (noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | Synonyms: evil |
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| evisceration | (noun) surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient | - |
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| (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: disembowelment |
| (noun) altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value | - |
| expansivity | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansiveness |
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| (noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansiveness |
| (noun) the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure | Synonyms: coefficient of expansion |
| extractivity | (noun) the amount of extract that grains of malt yield. | - |
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