| angle | (noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something | Synonyms: slant |
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| (noun) the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians | - |
| (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: slant, weight |
| (verb) fish with a hook | - |
| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: fish |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip |
| (verb) move or proceed at an angle | - |
| angled | (adjective) forming or set at an angle | - |
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| angledozer | (noun) a bulldozer with an angled moldboard to push earth to one side | - |
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| angler | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| (noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: troller |
| (noun) a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage | - |
| anglerfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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| anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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| angling | (noun) fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) | - |
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| anglophil | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophile |
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| anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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| anglophobe | (noun) a person who hates England and everything English | - |
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| bangle | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bracelet |
| bespangle | (verb) dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects | - |
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| (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: spangle |
| dangle | (verb) cause to dangle or hang freely | - |
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| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: drop, swing |
| dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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| dangling | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: hanging, suspension |
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| disentangle | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb, comb out |
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| (verb) extricate from entanglement | Synonyms: straighten out, unsnarl |
| (verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: unwind |
| (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, extricate, untangle |
| (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disinvolve |
| disentangled | (adjective) straightened out | Synonyms: loosened, unsnarled |
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| disentanglement | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: extrication, unsnarling, untangling |
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| disentangler | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: unraveler, unraveller |
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| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| entangle | (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: mat, snarl, tangle |
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| (verb) entrap | Synonyms: mire |
| entangled | (adjective) deeply involved especially in something complicated | Synonyms: embroiled |
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| (adjective) involved in difficulties | - |
| (adjective) twisted together in a tangled mass | - |
| entanglement | (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: web |
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| gangland | (noun) underworld organizations | Synonyms: gangdom, organized crime |
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| gangling | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangly, lanky, rangy |
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| (adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangly, lanky |
| gangliocyte | (noun) a nerve cell whose body is outside the central nervous system | Synonyms: ganglion cell |
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| ganglion | (noun) an encapsulated neural structure consisting of a collection of cell bodies or neurons | - |
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| gangly | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, lanky, rangy |
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| (adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangling, lanky |
| jangle | (noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jingle |
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| (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jingle-jangle, jingle |
| jangling | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangly |
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| jangly | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangling |
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| langlaufer | (noun) a cross-country skier | - |
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| langley | (noun) unit of solar radiation | - |
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| mangle | (noun) clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers | - |
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| (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mutilate |
| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: murder, mutilate |
| (verb) press with a mangle | - |
| (verb) injure badly by beating | Synonyms: maul |
| mangled | (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerate, lacerated, torn |
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| mangler | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mutilator |
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| manglietia | (noun) a genus of flowering tree of the family Magnoliaceae found from Malay to southern China | Synonyms: genus Manglietia |
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| newfangled | (adjective) (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new | Synonyms: new-fangled |
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| otoganglion | (noun) an autonomic ganglion whose postganglionic fibers are distributed to the parotid gland | Synonyms: otic ganglion |
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| pentangle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentacle, pentagram |
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| postganglionic | (adjective) beyond or distal to a ganglion (referring especially to the unmyelinated fibers that originate from cells in autonomic ganglia) | - |
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| quadrangle | (noun) a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings | Synonyms: quad |
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| (noun) a four-sided polygon | Synonyms: quadrilateral, tetragon |
| rectangle | (noun) a parallelogram with four right angles | - |
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| spangle | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: diamante, sequin |
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| (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: bespangle |
| (verb) glitter as if covered with spangles | - |
| spangled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangly |
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| spangly | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled |
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| strangle | (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: choke |
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| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, suffocate |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, hamper |
| (verb) die from strangulation | - |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangulate, throttle |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, stifle |
| strangled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, stifled, suppressed |
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| stranglehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe | - |
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| (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold |
| strangler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler |
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| (noun) an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree | Synonyms: strangler tree |
| strangles | (noun) an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes | Synonyms: equine distemper |
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| strangling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangulation, throttling |
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| tangle | (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: maze, snarl |
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| (noun) a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven | - |
| (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl |
| (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tousle |
| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, ravel |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up |
| tanglebush | (noun) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana |
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| tangled | (adjective) in a confused mass | - |
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| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tortuous |
| triangle | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | - |
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| (noun) any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles | - |
| (noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: trigon, trilateral |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a triangle | - |
| untangle | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble |
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| (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, disentangle, extricate |
| untangled | (adjective) not tangled | - |
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| untangling | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, extrication, unsnarling |
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| wangle | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangling |
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| (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, manage |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent |
| wangler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: finagler |
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| wangling | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangle |
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| wrangle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangling |
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| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words |
| (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: brawl |
| (verb) herd and care for | - |
| wrangler | (noun) a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses | Synonyms: horse wrangler |
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| (noun) someone who argues noisily or angrily | - |
| wrangling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangle |
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