abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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acinar | (adjective) pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinic, acinose, acinous |
calcination | (noun) the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature | - |
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calycinal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycine |
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circinate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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(verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
deracination | (noun) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence | Synonyms: excision, extirpation |
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(noun) to move something from its natural environment | Synonyms: displacement |
discina | (noun) any fungus of the genus Discina | - |
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fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
(verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
fascinated | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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fascinating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing |
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(adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, gripping, riveting |
fascinatingly | (adverb) in a fascinating manner | - |
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fascination | (noun) the capacity to attract intense interest | - |
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(noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, enthrallment |
(noun) the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) | Synonyms: captivation |
hallucinate | (verb) perceive what is not there; have illusions | - |
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hallucinating | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: delirious |
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hallucination | (noun) a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea | Synonyms: delusion |
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(noun) an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode | - |
(noun) illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder | - |
hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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lancinate | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
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lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
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medicinal | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicative |
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medicinally | (adverb) in a medicinal manner | - |
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nonmedicinal | (adjective) not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed | Synonyms: unmedical, unmedicative, unmedicinal |
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pseudohallucination | (noun) an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal | - |
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ratiocinate | (verb) reason methodologically and logically | - |
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ratiocination | (noun) logical and methodical reasoning | - |
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(noun) the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism) | Synonyms: conclusion |
ratiocinative | (adjective) based on exact thinking | - |
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ratiocinator | (noun) someone who reasons logically | Synonyms: reasoner |
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runcinate | (adjective) having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves | - |
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unmedicinal | (adjective) not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed | Synonyms: nonmedicinal, unmedical, unmedicative |
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unvaccinated | (adjective) not vaccinated | - |
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vaccina | (noun) a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar | Synonyms: vaccinia, variola vaccina, variola vaccine, variola vaccinia |
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vaccinate | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, immunize, inoculate |
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vaccinated | (adjective) having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease | Synonyms: immunised, immunized |
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vaccinating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: inoculating |
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vaccination | (noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease | Synonyms: inoculation |
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(noun) the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine | - |
vaccinator | (noun) a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | Synonyms: inoculator |
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vaticinate | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophesy |
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(verb) foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy | - |
vaticination | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prognostication, prophecy |
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vaticinator | (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophesier, prophet, seer |
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vicinal | (adjective) belonging to or limited to a vicinity | - |
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