| dowager | (noun) a widow holding property received from her deceased husband | - |
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| dowdiness | (noun) having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | Synonyms: drabness, homeliness |
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| dowdy | (noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: pandowdy |
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| dowel | (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel pin, joggle |
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| doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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| dower | (noun) a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband | - |
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| (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dowery, dowry, portion |
| dowery | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowry, portion |
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| dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| down | (noun) (American football) a complete play to advance the football | - |
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| (noun) soft fine feathers | Synonyms: down feather |
| (noun) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | Synonyms: pile |
| (noun) (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil | - |
| downbeat | (noun) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) | - |
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| downcast | (noun) a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine | - |
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| downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
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| downer | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, sedative, sedative drug |
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| downfall | (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: fall |
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| (noun) failure that results in a loss of position or reputation | Synonyms: ruin, ruination |
| (noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: precipitation |
| downgrade | (noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends | - |
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| downheartedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| downhill | (noun) a ski race down a trail | - |
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| (noun) the downward slope of a hill | - |
| downiness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: featheriness, fluffiness |
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| downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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| downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
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| (noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
| downside | (noun) a negative aspect of something that is generally positive | - |
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| downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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| downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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| downspin | (noun) a swift and dangerous downturn | - |
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| downstage | (noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
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| downstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in a downward direction | - |
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| downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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| (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
| downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| downtime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions) | - |
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| downtown | (noun) the central area or commercial center of a town or city | Synonyms: business district |
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| downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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| dowry | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, portion |
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| dowse | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowsing, rhabdomancy |
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| dowser | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowsing rod, water finder, waterfinder |
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| (noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: rhabdomancer, water witch |
| dowsing | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, rhabdomancy |
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