| awl | (noun) a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes | - |
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| awless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: aweless |
| awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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| bawl | (verb) cry loudly | - |
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| (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bellow |
| (verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: yawp |
| bawler | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| (noun) a loud weeper | - |
| bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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| bradawl | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: pricker |
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| brawl | (noun) a noisy fight in a crowd | Synonyms: free-for-all |
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| (noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, do |
| (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: wrangle |
| brawler | (noun) a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) | - |
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| clawlike | (adjective) resembling a claw | - |
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| crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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| (noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
| (noun) a very slow movement | - |
| (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
| (verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| (verb) be full of | - |
| (verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
| crawler | (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: angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
| crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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| crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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| drawl | (noun) a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels | - |
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| (verb) lengthen and slow down or draw out | - |
| drawler | (noun) someone who speaks with a drawl | - |
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| flawless | (adjective) without a flaw | Synonyms: unflawed |
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| flawlessly | (adverb) smoothly and without difficulty; precisely and deftly | Synonyms: cleanly |
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| flawlessness | (noun) the state of being without a flaw or defect | Synonyms: ne plus ultra, perfection |
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| jawless | (adjective) of animals having no jaw | - |
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| lawless | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchic, anarchical |
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| (adjective) disobedient to or defiant of law | Synonyms: outlaw |
| (adjective) lax in enforcing laws | Synonyms: wide-open |
| lawlessly | (adverb) in an illegal manner | Synonyms: illegally, illicitly |
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| lawlessness | (noun) illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law | Synonyms: outlawry |
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| (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: anarchy |
| nightcrawler | (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: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| pawl | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, detent, dog |
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| scrawl | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scribble |
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| (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
| scrawler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scribbler |
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| shawl | (noun) cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders | - |
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| spawl | (noun) a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge | Synonyms: spall |
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| sprawl | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawling |
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| (noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: conurbation, urban sprawl |
| (verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
| sprawler | (noun) a person who sprawls | - |
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| sprawling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, straggling, straggly |
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| (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawl |
| sprawly | (adjective) extended out irregularly | - |
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| trawl | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: dragnet, trawl net |
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| (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, spiller, trawl line, trotline |
| (verb) fish with trawlers | - |
| trawler | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: dragger |
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| (noun) a fisherman who use a trawl net | - |
| wawl | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, waul |
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| wrawl | (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, yammer, yowl |
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| yawl | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: dandy |
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| (noun) a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars) | - |
| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, wail, yaup |