| brainworker | (noun) someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems | Synonyms: brain-worker |
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| brainy | (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brilliant, smart as a whip |
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| braise | (verb) cook in liquid | - |
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| braised | (adjective) cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container | - |
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| braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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| brake | (noun) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle | - |
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| (noun) anything that slows or hinders a process | - |
| (noun) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant | - |
| (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
| (noun) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants | - |
| (verb) cause to stop by applying the brakes | - |
| (verb) stop travelling by applying a brake | - |
| brakeman | (noun) a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
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| brakes | (noun) a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle | Synonyms: brake system |
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| braky | (adjective) abounding with bracken | - |
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| (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: brambly |
| braless | (adjective) having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity | Synonyms: bare-breasted, topless |
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| bramble | (noun) any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines | - |
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| brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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| brambly | (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: braky |
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| bran | (noun) food prepared from the husks of cereal grains | - |
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| (noun) broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting | - |
| branch | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, limb |
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| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, subdivision |
| (noun) a stream or river connected to a larger one | - |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant | - |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: leg, ramification |
| (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
| branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
| branchia | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: gill |
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| branchial | (adjective) of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) | - |
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| branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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| branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
| (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
| branchiopod | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous |
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| (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
| branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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| (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
| branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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| branchless | (adjective) having no branches | - |
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| branchlet | (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: sprig, twig |
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| branchy | (adjective) having many branches | - |
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| brand | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, steel, sword |
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| (noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: make |
| (noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma |
| (noun) identification mark on skin, made by burning | - |
| (noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: firebrand |
| (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
| branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
| branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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| brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| brandy | (noun) distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | - |
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| brandyball | (noun) a British candy flavored with brandy | - |
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| brandysnap | (noun) a gingersnap flavored with brandy | - |
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| brant | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant goose, brent, brent goose |
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| brash | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: cheeky, nervy |
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| brashly | (adverb) in a brash cheeky manner | Synonyms: cheekily, nervily |
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| brashness | (noun) the trait of being rash and hasty | - |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
| brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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| brass | (noun) a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece | Synonyms: brass instrument |
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| (noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: memorial tablet, plaque |
| (noun) an ornament or utensil made of brass | - |
| (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, cheek, face, nerve |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments | Synonyms: brass section |
| (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc | - |
| brassard | (noun) armor plate that protects the arm | - |
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| brassavola | (noun) any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7 | - |
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| brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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| (adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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| brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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| brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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| brasslike | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brassy |
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| brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| brat | (noun) a very troublesome child | Synonyms: holy terror, little terror, terror |
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| (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: bratwurst |
| brattice | (noun) a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine | - |
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| (verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
| brattiness | (noun) The state or condition of acting like a brat, being unruly and impolite. | - |
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| brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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| brattle | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: clack, clatter |
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| bratty | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: brattish |
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| bratwurst | (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: brat |
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| bravado | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bluster |
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| brave | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: courageous |
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| (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
| (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: braw, gay |
| (noun) people who are brave | - |
| (noun) a North American Indian warrior | - |
| (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave out, endure, weather |
| bravely | (adverb) in a courageous manner | Synonyms: courageously |
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| braveness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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| bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
| bravo | (noun) a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance | - |
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| (noun) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed | Synonyms: assassin, assassinator |
| (verb) applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava' | - |
| bravura | (noun) brilliant and showy technical skill | - |
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| braw | (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, gay |
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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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| brawn | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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| brawniness | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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| brawny | (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy |
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| bray | (noun) the cry of an ass | - |
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| (verb) laugh loudly and harshly | - |
| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash |
| (verb) braying characteristic of donkeys | Synonyms: hee-haw |
| braze | (verb) solder together by using hard solder with a high melting point | - |
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| brazen | (adjective) made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) | - |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent |
| (verb) face with defiance or impudence | - |
| brazenly | (adverb) in a brazen manner | - |
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| brazenness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: shamelessness |
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| brazier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brasier |
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| brazil | (noun) three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell | Synonyms: brazil nut |
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| brazilwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood |
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| (noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods | - |
| calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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| (verb) measure the caliber of | - |
| (verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
| calibrated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: graduated |
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| calibration | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: standardisation, standardization |
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| candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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| canebrake | (noun) a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) | - |
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| celebrant | (noun) an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist | - |
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| (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrater, celebrator |
| celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
| (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
| celebrated | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: historied, storied |
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| (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
| celebrater | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrator |
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| celebration | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: festivity |
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| (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: solemnisation, solemnization |
| (noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: jubilation |
| celebrator | (noun) a person who is celebrating | Synonyms: celebrant, celebrater |
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| celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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| cerebral | (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: intellectual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cerebrum or brain | - |
| cerebrally | (adverb) in the brain | - |
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| (adverb) in an intellectual manner | - |
| cerebrate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cogitate, think |
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| cerebration | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process |
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| chambray | (noun) a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp | - |
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| clofibrate | (noun) a drug (trade name Atromid-S) that reduces lipids in the blood serum; used to treat some cardiovascular diseases | Synonyms: Atromid-S |
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| cobra | (noun) venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood | - |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| cytomembrane | (noun) a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell | Synonyms: cell membrane, plasma membrane |
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| decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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| dermabrasion | (noun) removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer | - |
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| dibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables | Synonyms: pyrrhic |
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