auberge | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge |
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barge | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter |
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charge | (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, guardianship, tutelage |
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(noun) an impetuous rush toward someone or something | - |
(noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: commission, mission |
(noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge |
(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, bearing, heraldic bearing |
(noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: complaint |
(noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: commission, direction |
(noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: billing |
(noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | Synonyms: accusation |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
(noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: cathexis |
(noun) a person committed to your care | - |
(noun) the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons | Synonyms: electric charge |
(noun) financial liabilities (such as a tax) | - |
(noun) the price charged for some article or service | - |
concierge | (noun) a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter | - |
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countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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(noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
demiurge | (noun) a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe | - |
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dirge | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, lament, requiem, threnody |
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discharge | (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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(noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
(noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: release, waiver |
(noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: venting |
(noun) the sudden giving off of energy | - |
(noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: outpouring, run |
(noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
(noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: emission, expelling |
(noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: emission |
forge | (noun) a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering | Synonyms: smithy |
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(noun) furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping | - |
gorge | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gullet, oesophagus |
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(noun) a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it) | - |
(noun) a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) | Synonyms: defile |
large | (noun) a garment size for a large person | - |
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marge | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, oleo, oleomargarine |
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overcharge | (noun) a price that is too high | - |
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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 | - |
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 |
serge | (noun) a twilled woolen fabric | - |
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sparge | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
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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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surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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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 |
thaumaturge | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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undercharge | (noun) an insufficient charge | - |
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(noun) a price that is too low | - |
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 |
verge | (noun) a grass border along a road | - |
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(noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: brink |
(noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, wand |
(noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, threshold |