| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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| decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decry | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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| decrypt | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decode |
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| decryption | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decoding |
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| democracy | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives | - |
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| (noun) the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group | Synonyms: majority rule |
| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: commonwealth, republic |
| democrat | (noun) an advocate of democratic principles | - |
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| democratic | (adjective) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality | - |
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| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: popular |
| democratically | (adverb) in a democratic manner; based on democratic principles | - |
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| democratisation | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratization |
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| democratise | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
| democratism | (noun) the theory, system, or principles of democracy. | - |
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| democratization | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratisation |
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| democratize | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
| desacralize | (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: secularize |
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| describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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| describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
| described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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| description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
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| (noun) the act of describing something | - |
| (noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| descriptively | (adverb) by giving a description | - |
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| descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
| descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
| descry | (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: espy, spot, spy |
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| desecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, unhallow |
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| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: outrage, profane, violate |
| desecrated | (adjective) treated with disrespect and contempt | - |
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| desecration | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, profanation, sacrilege |
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| diacritic | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritical |
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| (noun) a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: diacritical mark |
| diacritical | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritic |
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| discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: disrepute |
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| (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: disbelieve |
| (verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved | - |
| (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: disgrace |
| discreditable | (adjective) tending to bring discredit or disrepute; blameworthy | - |
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| discreditably | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ignominiously, ingloriously, shamefully |
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| discredited | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: disgraced, dishonored, shamed |
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| (adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: damaged |
| discreet | (adjective) marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint | - |
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| (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: circumspect |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discerning |
| discreetly | (adverb) with discretion; prudently and with wise self-restraint | - |
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| discreetness | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: delicacy, diplomacy, finesse |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discretion, prudence |
| discrepancy | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: variance, variant |
| discrepant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, dissonant |
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| (adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: inconsistent |
| (adjective) not compatible with other facts | Synonyms: incompatible |
| discrete | (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: distinct |
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| discreteness | (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness, severalty |
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| discretion | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discernment |
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| (noun) the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies | Synonyms: free will |
| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discreetness, prudence |
| (noun) refined taste; tact | Synonyms: delicacy |
| (noun) freedom to act or judge on one's own | - |
| discretional | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretionary |
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| discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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| (adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
| discriminable | (adjective) capable of being discriminated | - |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
| (verb) distinguish | - |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
| discriminating | (adjective) showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| discrimination | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: favoritism, favouritism |
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| (noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: secernment |
| discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
| discriminator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: differentiator |
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| discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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| (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
| dolichocranial | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranic |
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| dolichocranic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranial |
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| dyscrasia | (noun) an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body | - |
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| eccrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell; important in regulating body temperature | - |
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| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| ecru | (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: beige |
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| encrimson | (verb) make crimson | - |
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| encroach | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: impinge, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: entrench, impinge, trench |
| encroacher | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: invader |
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| encroaching | (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: invasive, trespassing |
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| encroachment | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: impact, impingement |
| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: intrusion, invasion |
| encrust | (verb) form a crust or a hard layer | Synonyms: incrust |
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| (verb) cover or coat with a crust | Synonyms: incrust |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: beset, incrust |
| encrustation | (noun) a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay | Synonyms: incrustation |
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| (noun) a hard outer layer that covers something | Synonyms: crust, incrustation |
| (noun) the formation of a crust | Synonyms: incrustation |
| encrusted | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crustlike, crusty |
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| encrypt | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, inscribe, write in code |
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| encryption | (noun) the activity of converting data or information into code | Synonyms: encoding |
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| endocranium | (noun) membrane lining the inside of the skull | - |
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| endocrinal | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrine |
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| endocrine | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrinal |
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| (noun) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect | Synonyms: hormone, internal secretion |
| (noun) any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: ductless gland, endocrine gland |
| endocrinologist | (noun) physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system | - |
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| endocrinology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the endocrine glands and their secretions | - |
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| epacris | (noun) any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers | - |
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| epicranium | (noun) the muscle and aponeurosis and skin covering the cranium | - |
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| escritoire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: secretaire, secretary, writing table |
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| escrow | (noun) a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition | - |
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| excrement | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product |
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| excrescence | (noun) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body | - |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| excrescent | (adjective) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) | - |
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| excreta | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excrement, excretion, excretory product |
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| excrete | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, pass |
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| excreting | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excretion, voiding |
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| excretion | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excreting, voiding |
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| (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product |
| excretory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of excretion | - |
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| excruciate | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: rack, torment, torture |
| excruciating | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| excruciatingly | (adverb) in a very painful manner | Synonyms: agonizingly, torturously |
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| excruciation | (noun) the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering | Synonyms: crucifixion |
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| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: agony, suffering |
| execrable | (adjective) deserving to be execrated | Synonyms: damnable |
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| (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, detestable, odious |
| (adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, miserable, woeful, wretched |
| execrate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate |
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| (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, abominate, loathe |
| execration | (noun) the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated | - |
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| (noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, curse |
| (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, loathing, odium |
| exocrine | (adjective) of or relating to exocrine glands or their secretions | - |
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| (noun) a gland that secretes externally through a duct | Synonyms: duct gland, exocrine gland |
| ferroconcrete | (noun) concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses | Synonyms: reinforced concrete |
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| firecracker | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, cracker |
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| fulcrum | (noun) the pivot about which a lever turns | - |
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| gatecrasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: crasher, unwelcome guest |
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| gerontocracy | (noun) a political system governed by old men | - |
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| gimcrack | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
| gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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| goldcrest | (noun) European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow crown patch | Synonyms: golden-crested kinglet, Regulus regulus |
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