| conglobate | (verb) assume a globular shape | Synonyms: conglobe |
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| conglobation | (noun) an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass | Synonyms: conglomeration |
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| (noun) a rounded spherical form | Synonyms: conglomeration |
| conurbation | (noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: sprawl, urban sprawl |
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| debatable | (adjective) capable of being disproved | Synonyms: disputable |
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| (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, disputable, moot |
| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: problematic, problematical |
| debate | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: disputation, public debate |
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| (noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argument, argumentation |
| (verb) argue with one another | - |
| (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: deliberate |
| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, fence |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over |
| debater | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: arguer |
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| diabatic | (adjective) involving a transfer of heat | - |
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| dingbat | (noun) a silly empty-headed person | - |
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| disapprobation | (noun) an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | Synonyms: condemnation |
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| embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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| (verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
| embattled | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, crenelated |
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| (adjective) prepared for battle | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict | - |
| exacerbate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate |
| exacerbating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exasperating |
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| exacerbation | (noun) violent and bitter exasperation | - |
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| (noun) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse | Synonyms: aggravation |
| eyebath | (noun) a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | Synonyms: eye cup, eyecup |
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| footbath | (noun) a small bathtub for warming or washing or disinfecting the feet | - |
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| hyperbaton | (noun) reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love') | - |
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| incubate | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, hatch |
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| (verb) grow under conditions that promote development | - |
| incubation | (noun) maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development | - |
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| (noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: brooding |
| (noun) (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear | - |
| incubator | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: brooder |
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| intubate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, canulate |
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| intubation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization |
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| katabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night | Synonyms: catabatic |
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| libation | (noun) the act of pouring a liquid offering (especially wine) as a religious ceremony | - |
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| (noun) a serving (of wine) poured out in honor of a deity | - |
| (noun) (facetious) a serving of an alcoholic beverage | - |
| lobate | (adjective) having or resembling a lobe or lobes | Synonyms: lobated |
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| (adjective) having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other | Synonyms: lobed |
| lobated | (adjective) having or resembling a lobe or lobes | Synonyms: lobate |
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| masturbate | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank |
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| (verb) stimulate sexually | - |
| masturbation | (noun) manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure | Synonyms: onanism |
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| masturbator | (noun) a person who practices masturbation | Synonyms: onanist |
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| megabat | (noun) large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit | Synonyms: fruit bat |
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| microbat | (noun) typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects; worldwide in distribution | Synonyms: carnivorous bat |
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| noncombatant | (adjective) member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon | - |
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| (adjective) used of civilians in time of war | - |
| (noun) a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon) | - |
| numbat | (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: anteater, banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus |
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| perturbation | (noun) the act of causing disorder | Synonyms: disruption |
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| (noun) a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset | Synonyms: fluster |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: disturbance |
| (noun) (physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly | - |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: disturbance, upset |
| probate | (noun) the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements | - |
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| (noun) a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate | Synonyms: probate will |
| (verb) establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents) | - |
| (verb) put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence | - |
| probation | (noun) (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them; a defendant found guilty of a crime is released by the court without imprisonment subject to conditions imposed by the court | - |
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| (noun) a trial period during which an offender has time to redeem himself or herself | - |
| (noun) a trial period during which your character and abilities are tested to see whether you are suitable for work or for membership | - |
| probationary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: provisional, provisionary, tentative |
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| probationer | (noun) someone released on probation or on parole | Synonyms: parolee |
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| (noun) a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period | Synonyms: student nurse |
| probative | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probatory |
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| probatory | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probative |
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| rabato | (noun) a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century | Synonyms: rebato |
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| rebarbative | (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: repellant, repellent |
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| rebate | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rabbet |
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| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: discount |
| (verb) cut a rebate in (timber or stone) | - |
| (verb) join with a rebate | - |
| (verb) give a reduction in the price during a sale | - |
| rebato | (noun) a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century | Synonyms: rabato |
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| reprobate | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverse, perverted |
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| (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: miscreant |
| (verb) reject (documents) as invalid | - |
| (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate |
| (verb) abandon to eternal damnation | - |
| reprobation | (noun) severe disapproval | - |
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| (noun) rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell | - |
| rubato | (noun) a flexible tempo; not strictly on the beat | - |
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| sabaton | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: solleret |
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| sabbat | (noun) a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy | Synonyms: witches' Sabbath |
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| sabbatia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes | - |
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| sabbatic | (adjective) of or relating to the Sabbath | Synonyms: sabbatical |
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| sabbatical | (adjective) of or relating to sabbatical leave | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Sabbath | Synonyms: sabbatic |
| (noun) a leave usually taken every seventh year | Synonyms: sabbatical leave |
| sorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being taken up by another substance by either absorption or adsorption | - |
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| subatomic | (adjective) of or relating to constituents of the atom or forces within the atom | - |
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| (adjective) of smaller than atomic dimensions | - |
| sunbathe | (verb) expose one's body to the sun | Synonyms: sun |
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| sunbather | (noun) someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan | - |
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| trilobate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) divided into three lobes | Synonyms: three-lobed, trilobated, trilobed |
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| trilobated | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) divided into three lobes | Synonyms: three-lobed, trilobate, trilobed |
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| unabated | (adjective) continuing at full strength or intensity | - |
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| verbatim | (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: direct |
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| (adverb) using exactly the same words | Synonyms: word for word |
| wombat | (noun) burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger | - |
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