| constrainedly | (adverb) in a constrained manner | - |
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| constraining | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
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| constraint | (noun) the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others | - |
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| (noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: restraint |
| (noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: restraint |
| contain | (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, check, hold back, stop, turn back |
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| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: comprise, incorporate |
| (verb) be divisible by | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, carry, hold |
| (verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: hold, take |
| contained | (adjective) gotten under control | - |
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| container | (noun) any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | - |
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| containerful | (noun) the quantity that a container will hold | - |
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| containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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| containerize | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerise |
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| containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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| containment | (noun) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | - |
| (noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | - |
| contrail | (noun) an artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust | Synonyms: condensation trail |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contraindication | (noun) (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment | - |
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| copaiba | (noun) an oleoresin used in varnishes and ointments | Synonyms: balsam capivi, copaiba balsam |
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| corsair | (noun) a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction) | - |
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| (noun) a pirate along the Barbary Coast | Synonyms: Barbary pirate |
| cottontail | (noun) common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) | Synonyms: cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit |
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| counterclaim | (noun) a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action | - |
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| (verb) set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim | - |
| counterstain | (noun) a stain of contrasting color that is used when the principal stain does not show the structure clearly | - |
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| countervail | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize |
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| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: offset |
| coxswain | (noun) the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew | Synonyms: cox |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| cremains | (noun) the remains of a dead body after cremation | - |
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| crosshairs | (noun) a center of interest | - |
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| crowbait | (noun) an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows | Synonyms: crow-bait |
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| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
| (noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
| curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
| (verb) provide with drapery | - |
| curtained | (adjective) furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies | - |
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| curtainless | (adjective) not provided with curtains | Synonyms: uncurtained |
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| dadaism | (noun) a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty | Synonyms: dada |
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| daikon | (noun) radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Japanese radish, radish, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus |
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| daily | (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, everyday |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to or occurring every day | Synonyms: day-after-day, day-by-day, day-to-day |
| (noun) a newspaper that is published every day | - |
| (adverb) every day; without missing a day | - |
| (adverb) gradually and progressively | Synonyms: day by day |
| daimon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, demon, devil, fiend |
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| daintily | (adverb) in a dainty and fastidious manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner suggestive of delicate beauty or grace | - |
| daintiness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: delicacy, fineness |
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| dainty | (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: exquisite |
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| (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
| (adjective) especially pleasing to the taste | - |
| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat |
| daiquiri | (noun) a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice | Synonyms: rum cocktail |
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| dairy | (noun) a farm where dairy products are produced | Synonyms: dairy farm |
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| dairying | (noun) the business of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farming |
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| dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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| dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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| (noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
| dais | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox, stump |
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| daishiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: dashiki |
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| daisy | (noun) any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl | - |
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| daisybush | (noun) any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays | Synonyms: daisy-bush, daisy bush |
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| daisylike | (adjective) resembling a daisy | - |
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| danaid | (noun) large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste | Synonyms: danaid butterfly |
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| debonair | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonaire, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonaire, debonnaire, suave |
| debonaire | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonnaire, suave |
| debonnaire | (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, suave |
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| declaim | (verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: recite |
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| (verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: inveigh |
| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| derail | (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: jump |
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| (verb) cause to run off the tracks | - |
| derailment | (noun) an accident in which a train runs off its track | - |
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| despair | (noun) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: desperation |
| (verb) abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart | - |
| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| despairingly | (adverb) with desperation | Synonyms: despondently |
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| destain | (verb) remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast | - |
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| detail | (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, point |
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| (noun) extended treatment of particulars | - |
| (noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: contingent |
| (noun) a crew of workers selected for a particular task | - |
| (noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, particular |
| (verb) assign to a specific task | - |
| (verb) provide details for | - |
| detailed | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: elaborate, elaborated |
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| detailing | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: particularisation, particularization |
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| details | (noun) true confidential information | Synonyms: inside information |
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| detain | (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: delay, hold up |
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| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, stay |
| (verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: confine |
| detainee | (noun) some held in custody | Synonyms: political detainee |
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| detainment | (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detention, hold |
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| detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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| dibucaine | (noun) a local anesthetic that is administered by injection | - |
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| disclaim | (verb) make a disclaimer about | - |
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| (verb) renounce a legal claim or title to | - |
| disclaimer | (noun) (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something | - |
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| (noun) denial of any connection with or knowledge of | Synonyms: disavowal |
| disdain | (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: condescension, patronage |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, scorn |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, scorn |
| disdainful | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, insulting, scornful |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| disdainfully | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contemptuously, contumeliously, scornfully |
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| (adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: cavalierly |
| disdainfulness | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: condescension, superciliousness |
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| dispraise | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: disparagement |
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| disrepair | (noun) in need of repairs; in need of repair | - |
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| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| distraint | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distress |
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| distrait | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distracted |
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| doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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| (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
| domain | (noun) the content of a particular field of knowledge | Synonyms: knowledge base, knowledge domain |
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| (noun) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest | Synonyms: world |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: domain of a function |
| (noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: demesne, land |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, field, orbit, sphere |
| doornail | (noun) a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
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| dovetail | (noun) a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | Synonyms: dovetail joint |
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| (verb) fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail | - |
| downstair | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstairs |
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| downstairs | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstair |
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| (adverb) on a floor below | Synonyms: below, down the stairs, on a lower floor |
| drain | (noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | Synonyms: drainage |
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| (noun) a gradual depletion of energy or resources | - |
| (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drainpipe, waste pipe |
| (noun) tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material | - |
| (verb) empty of liquid; drain the liquid from | - |
| (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, enfeeble |
| (verb) deplete of resources | - |
| (verb) flow off gradually | Synonyms: run out |
| drainage | (noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | Synonyms: drain |
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| drainboard | (noun) a board beside a kitchen sink and inclined to drain into the sink | Synonyms: draining board |
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| drained | (adjective) emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid) | - |
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| (adjective) extremely exhausted | Synonyms: knackered |
| (adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged | Synonyms: dead |
| draining | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: exhausting |
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| drainpipe | (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drain, waste pipe |
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| drainplug | (noun) a removable plug for holding water in a tub or basin | - |
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| dumbwaiter | (noun) a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another | Synonyms: food elevator |
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| dziggetai | (noun) Mongolian wild ass | Synonyms: chigetai, Equus hemionus hemionus |
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| eclair | (noun) oblong cream puff | - |
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| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| email | (noun) (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in | Synonyms: e-mail, electronic mail |
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| (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, netmail |
| encainide | (noun) antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients | Synonyms: Enkaid |
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| enchain | (verb) restrain or bind with chains | - |
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| enchained | (adjective) bound with chains | Synonyms: chained, in chains |
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