| quake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: earthquake, seism, temblor |
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| (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quiver |
| (verb) shake with seismic vibrations | Synonyms: tremor |
| quaker | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: trembler |
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| rainmaker | (noun) American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain | - |
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| (noun) executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm | - |
| rainmaking | (noun) activity intended to produce rain | - |
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| rake | (noun) a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil | - |
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| (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: pitch, slant |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rakehell, rip, roue |
| (verb) gather with a rake | - |
| (verb) level or smooth with a rake | - |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: crease, graze |
| (verb) move through with or as if with a rake | - |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, run down, scan, skim |
| (verb) sweep the length of | - |
| rakehell | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rip, roue |
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| rakish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, raffish |
| rakishly | (adverb) in a rakish manner | Synonyms: carelessly, raffishly |
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| rakishness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, nattiness |
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| (noun) the quality of a rake | - |
| rattlesnake | (noun) pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken | Synonyms: rattler |
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| reawaken | (verb) awaken once again | - |
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| remake | (noun) creation that is created again or anew | Synonyms: remaking |
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| (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, redo, refashion |
| remaking | (noun) creation that is created again or anew | Synonyms: remake |
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| retake | (noun) a shot or scene that is photographed again | - |
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| (verb) photograph again | - |
| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: recapture |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: recapture |
| retaking | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: recapture |
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| reuptake | (noun) a process of using up or consuming again | Synonyms: re-uptake |
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| ropemaker | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, roper |
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| safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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| sailmaker | (noun) a maker of sails | - |
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| sake | (noun) a reason for wanting something done | Synonyms: interest |
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| (noun) the purpose of achieving or obtaining | - |
| (noun) Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot | Synonyms: rice beer, saki |
| saki | (noun) small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail | - |
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| (noun) Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot | Synonyms: rice beer, sake |
| saltshaker | (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt | Synonyms: salt shaker |
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| screak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screech, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| screakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, creakingly |
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| screaky | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: creaky |
| seaquake | (noun) an earthquake at the sea bed | Synonyms: submarine earthquake |
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| seedcake | (noun) a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon | Synonyms: seed cake |
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| shakable | (adjective) capable of being weakened | Synonyms: shakeable |
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| shake | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, tremble |
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| (noun) causing to move repeatedly from side to side | Synonyms: wag, waggle |
| (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, handshaking |
| (noun) a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it | Synonyms: trill |
| (noun) frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream | Synonyms: milk shake, milkshake |
| (noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shingle |
| (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: didder |
| (verb) undermine or cause to waver | - |
| (verb) bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking | - |
| (verb) shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state | - |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: agitate |
| (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: judder |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, sway |
| (verb) get rid of | Synonyms: escape from, shake off, throw off |
| shakeable | (adjective) capable of being weakened | Synonyms: shakable |
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| shakedown | (adjective) intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system | - |
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| (noun) extortion of money (as by blackmail) | - |
| (noun) a very thorough search of a person or a place | - |
| (noun) initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state | - |
| shaken | (adjective) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock | Synonyms: jolted |
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| shakeout | (noun) an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry | - |
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| shaker | (noun) a container in which something can be shaken | - |
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| (noun) a person who wields power and influence | Synonyms: mover and shaker |
| shakeup | (noun) the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes) | Synonyms: reorganisation, reorganization, shake-up |
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| shakily | (adverb) in a manner characterized by trembling or shaking | - |
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| (adverb) in an insecurely shaky manner | - |
| shakiness | (noun) the quality of being unstable and insecure | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| shaking | (noun) the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, trembling, vibration |
| shako | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: bearskin, busby |
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| shaky | (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: precarious |
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| (adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: rickety, wobbly, wonky |
| (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shivering, trembling |
| sheldrake | (noun) Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill | - |
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| (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sawbill |
| shiitake | (noun) edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe | Synonyms: Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Lentinus edodes, Oriental black mushroom, shiitake mushroom |
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| shirtmaker | (noun) a maker of shirts | - |
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| shoemaker | (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: cobbler |
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| shoemaking | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: cobbling, shoe repairing |
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| shortcake | (noun) very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream | - |
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| skreak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, squeak, whine |
| slake | (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: abate, slack |
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| (verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water | Synonyms: slack |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, quench |
| slaked | (adjective) allayed | Synonyms: quenched, satisfied |
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| snake | (noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous | Synonyms: ophidian, serpent |
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| (noun) something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake | - |
| (noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake |
| (noun) a deceitful or treacherous person | Synonyms: snake in the grass |
| (verb) move along a winding path | - |
| (verb) move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake | - |
| (verb) form a snake-like pattern | - |
| snakeberry | (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, redberry |
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| snakebird | (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, darter |
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| snakebite | (noun) a bite inflicted by a (venomous) snake | - |
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| snakeblenny | (noun) found in Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lumpenus lumpretaeformis |
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| snakefish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: lizardfish, snake-fish |
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| snakefly | (noun) predatory insect of western North America having a long necklike prothorax | - |
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| snakehead | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, turtlehead |
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| snakelike | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: serpentine, snaky |
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| snakeroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers | Synonyms: sanicle |
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| (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather |
| snakeweed | (noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads | Synonyms: broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, rabbitweed, turpentine weed |
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| snakewood | (noun) East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents | Synonyms: Rauwolfia serpentina |
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| snaky | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: serpentine, snakelike |
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| sneak | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: prowler, stalker |
| (noun) a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible | - |
| (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, pussyfoot |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, swipe |
| (verb) pass on stealthily | Synonyms: slip |
| (verb) put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner | - |
| sneaker | (noun) a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole | Synonyms: gym shoe, tennis shoe |
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| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| sneakily | (adverb) in a surreptitious manner | Synonyms: surreptitiously |
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| sneakiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, stealthiness |
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| sneaking | (adjective) not openly expressed | Synonyms: unavowed |
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| sneakingly | (adverb) in a sneaky manner | - |
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| sneaky | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneak, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (adjective) marked by deception | Synonyms: underhand, underhanded |
| snowflake | (noun) white Arctic bunting | Synonyms: Plectrophenax nivalis, snow bunting, snowbird |
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| (noun) a crystal of snow | Synonyms: flake |
| soak | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soaking |
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| (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soakage, soaking |
| (verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: imbue |
| (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse |
| (verb) heat a metal prior to working it | - |
| (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, souse |
| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: inebriate, intoxicate |
| (verb) beat severely | - |
| (verb) submerge in a liquid | - |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge |
| (verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: hock, pawn |
| soakage | (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soaking |
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| soaked | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| soaker | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, souse |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, torrent, waterspout |
| soaking | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soak |
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| (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, souse, sousing |
| (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soakage |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: dripping, sopping |
| souvlaki | (noun) made of lamb | Synonyms: souvlakia |
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| souvlakia | (noun) made of lamb | Synonyms: souvlaki |
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| speak | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) exchange thoughts; talk with | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) use language | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) make a characteristic or natural sound | - |
| speakable | (adjective) capable of being uttered in words or sentences | Synonyms: utterable |
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| speakeasy | (noun) (during prohibition) an illegal barroom | - |
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| speaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer |
| speakerphone | (noun) a telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker; can be used without picking up a handset; several people can participate in a call at the same time | - |
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| speakership | (noun) the position of Speaker | - |
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| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking |
| (noun) the utterance of intelligible speech | Synonyms: speech production |
| speechmaker | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier |
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| speechmaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speaking |
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| spinnaker | (noun) a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind | - |
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| squeak | (noun) something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin | Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeaker |
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| (noun) a short high-pitched noise | - |
| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, skreak, whine |
| squeaker | (noun) something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin | Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeak |
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| (noun) any artifact that makes a squeaking sound when used | - |
| squeakiness | (noun) the state of tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak. | - |
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| squeaking | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaky, squealing |
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| squeaky | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaking, squealing |
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| stake | (noun) a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground | - |
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| (noun) instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning | - |
| (noun) a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track) | Synonyms: post |
| (noun) the money risked on a gamble | Synonyms: bet, stakes, wager |
| (noun) (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something | Synonyms: interest |
| (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, punt |
| (verb) mark with a stake | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) tie or fasten to a stake | - |
| (verb) kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole | Synonyms: impale |
| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, jeopardize, venture |
| stakeholder | (noun) someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner | - |
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| stakeout | (noun) surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime) | - |
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| stakes | (noun) the money risked on a gamble | Synonyms: bet, stake, wager |
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| steak | (noun) a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish | - |
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| steakhouse | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in steaks | Synonyms: chophouse |
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| steelmaker | (noun) a worker engaged in making steel | Synonyms: steelman, steelworker |
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| stocktake | (noun) an instance of stocktaking | Synonyms: stock-take |
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