| acute | (adjective) having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course | - |
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| (adjective) of an angle; less than 90 degrees | - |
| (adjective) of critical importance and consequence | - |
| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, needlelike, sharp |
| (adjective) extremely sharp or severe | Synonyms: intense |
| (noun) a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: acute accent, ague |
| acutely | (adverb) having a rapid onset | - |
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| (adverb) in a keen or penetrating way | Synonyms: keenly |
| (adverb) changing suddenly in direction and degree | Synonyms: sharp, sharply |
| (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: astutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly |
| acuteness | (noun) the quality of having a sharp edge or point | - |
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| (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, keenness, sharpness |
| (noun) a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed | - |
| allocution | (noun) (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts | - |
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| canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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| charcuterie | (noun) a delicatessen that specializes in meats | - |
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| circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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| (noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
| circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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| clearcutness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of precision | Synonyms: preciseness |
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| consecutive | (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: straight |
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| (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: sequent, sequential, serial, successive |
| (adjective) one after the other | Synonyms: back-to-back |
| (adverb) in a sequential manner | Synonyms: sequentially |
| consecutively | (adverb) in a consecutive manner | - |
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| crosscut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: cutoff, shortcut |
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| (noun) a diagonal path | - |
| (verb) cut using a diagonal line | Synonyms: cut across |
| cut | (adjective) separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument | - |
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| (adjective) (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit | - |
| (adjective) fashioned or shaped by cutting | - |
| (adjective) (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine | Synonyms: mown |
| (adjective) made neat and tidy by trimming | Synonyms: trimmed |
| (adjective) with parts removed | Synonyms: shortened |
| (adjective) (of a male animal) having the testicles removed | Synonyms: emasculated, gelded |
| (adjective) (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply | Synonyms: slashed |
| (adjective) mixed with water | Synonyms: thinned, weakened |
| (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cutting, cutting off |
| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) a refusal to recognize someone you know | Synonyms: cold shoulder, snub |
| (noun) the act of reducing the amount or number | - |
| (noun) an unexcused absence from class | - |
| (noun) in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball | Synonyms: baseball swing, swing |
| (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball | Synonyms: undercut |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation | Synonyms: gash |
| (noun) a canal made by erosion or excavation | - |
| (noun) the style in which a garment is cut | - |
| (noun) (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next | - |
| (noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: deletion, excision |
| (noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: stinger |
| (noun) a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc | Synonyms: track |
| (noun) a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass | Synonyms: cut of meat |
| (noun) a share of the profits | - |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: gash, slash, slice |
| (noun) a step on some scale | - |
| (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: geld |
| (verb) have grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) cease, stop | Synonyms: cut off |
| (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: prune, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: dilute, reduce, thin, thin out |
| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: edit, edit out |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) have a reducing effect | - |
| (verb) shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of | - |
| (verb) dissolve by breaking down the fat of | - |
| (verb) make out and issue | Synonyms: issue, make out, write out |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: disregard, ignore, snub |
| (verb) separate with or as if with an instrument | - |
| (verb) divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult | - |
| (verb) hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch | Synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out |
| (verb) make an incision or separation | - |
| (verb) allow incision or separation | - |
| (verb) function as a cutting instrument | - |
| (verb) fell by sawing; hew | - |
| (verb) penetrate injuriously | - |
| (verb) reap or harvest | - |
| (verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: tailor |
| (verb) form by probing, penetrating, or digging | - |
| (verb) record a performance on (a medium) | - |
| (verb) make a recording of | - |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: burn |
| (verb) form or shape by cutting or incising | - |
| (verb) perform or carry out | - |
| (verb) stop filming | - |
| (verb) make an abrupt change of image or sound | - |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) pass through or across | - |
| (verb) pass directly and often in haste | - |
| (verb) move (one's fist) | - |
| (verb) give the appearance or impression of | - |
| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) discharge from a group | - |
| (verb) intentionally fail to attend | Synonyms: skip |
| cutaneal | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneous, dermal |
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| cutaneous | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, dermal |
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| cutaway | (noun) a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees | - |
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| (noun) a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts | Synonyms: cutaway drawing, cutaway model |
| cutback | (noun) a reduction in quantity or rate | - |
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| cutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: kutch |
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| cute | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: precious |
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| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cunning |
| cutely | (adverb) in an attractive manner | Synonyms: cunningly |
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| cuteness | (noun) the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) | Synonyms: prettiness |
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| cuticle | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, shell, shield |
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| (noun) the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Synonyms: epidermis |
| (noun) the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail | - |
| cuticula | (noun) the outer body wall of an insect | - |
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| cuticular | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: dermal, epidermal, epidermic |
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| cutin | (noun) (biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids | - |
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| cutinize | (verb) convert into cutin | - |
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| cutis | (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: skin, tegument |
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| cutlas | (noun) a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors | Synonyms: cutlass |
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| cutlass | (noun) a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors | Synonyms: cutlas |
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| cutlassfish | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: frost fish, hairtail |
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| cutler | (noun) a dealer in cutlery | - |
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| cutlery | (noun) tableware implements for cutting and eating food | Synonyms: eating utensil |
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| (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutter, cutting tool |
| cutlet | (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: escallop, scallop, scollop |
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| cutoff | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, shortcut |
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| (noun) a device that terminates the flow in a pipe | - |
| (noun) a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated | - |
| cutout | (noun) a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out | - |
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| (noun) a photograph from which the background has been cut away | - |
| (noun) a switch that interrupts an electric circuit in the event of an overload | - |
| cutpurse | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: dip, pickpocket |
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| cuttable | (adjective) able to be chewed or cut | Synonyms: chewable |
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| cutter | (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutlery, cutting tool |
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| (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: pinnace, ship's boat, tender |
| (noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop | - |
| (noun) someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) | - |
| (noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: carver |
| (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: stonecutter |
| cutthroat | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: bowelless, fierce |
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| (noun) someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat | - |
| cutting | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: bleak, raw |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
| (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: edged, stinging |
| (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cut, cutting off |
| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film | Synonyms: film editing |
| (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: thinning |
| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: carving |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| (noun) a piece cut off from the main part of something | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: slip |
| cuttingly | (adverb) in an intentionally unkind way | - |
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| cuttle | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttlefish |
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| cuttlefish | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttle |
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| cutwork | (noun) embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away | - |
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| cutworm | (noun) North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground | - |
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| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electrocution | (noun) killing by electric shock | - |
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| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: burning |
| electrocutioner | (noun) an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person | - |
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| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elocution | (noun) an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture | - |
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| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| escutcheon | (noun) a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms | Synonyms: scutcheon |
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| (noun) (nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed | - |
| (noun) a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers | Synonyms: finger plate, scutcheon |
| executability | (noun) capability of being executed | - |
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| executable | (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: feasible, practicable, viable, workable |
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| executant | (noun) a performer (usually of musical works) | - |
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| execute | (verb) sign in the presence of witnesses | - |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, fulfil, fulfill |
| (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, perform |
| (verb) kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment | Synonyms: put to death |
| (verb) murder in a planned fashion | - |
| (verb) carry out the legalities of | - |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: run |
| executed | (adjective) put to death as punishment | - |
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| executing | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, execution |
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| execution | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, executing |
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| (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: murder, slaying |
| (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, performance |
| (noun) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | Synonyms: carrying out, implementation |
| (noun) a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out | Synonyms: writ of execution |
| (noun) (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable | Synonyms: execution of instrument |
| (noun) (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer | Synonyms: instruction execution |
| executioner | (noun) an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant | Synonyms: public executioner |
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| executive | (adjective) having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc. | - |
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| (noun) persons who administer the law | - |
| (noun) a person responsible for the administration of a business | Synonyms: executive director |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: administrator |
| executor | (noun) a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will | - |
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| executrix | (noun) a woman executor | - |
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| haircut | (noun) the act of cutting the hair | - |
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| (noun) the style in which hair has been cut | - |
| interlocutor | (noun) a person who takes part in a conversation | Synonyms: conversational partner |
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| (noun) the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk | Synonyms: middleman |
| interlocutory | (adjective) consisting of dialogue | - |
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| intracutaneous | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intradermal, intradermic |
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| linecut | (noun) engraving consisting of a block that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: line block, line engraving |
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| (noun) a print obtained from a line drawing | Synonyms: line engraving |
| linocut | (noun) a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum | - |
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| (noun) a print that is made from a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum | - |
| locution | (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: expression, saying |
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| mucocutaneous | (adjective) of or relating to the mucous membranes and skin | - |
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| opencut | (adjective) (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface | Synonyms: opencast |
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| percutaneous | (adjective) through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches) | Synonyms: transcutaneous, transdermal, transdermic |
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| persecute | (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: oppress |
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| persecution | (noun) the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion) | - |
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| persecutor | (noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: tormenter, tormentor |
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| prosecute | (verb) bring a criminal action against (in a trial) | - |
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| (verb) conduct a prosecution in a court of law | - |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, pursue |
| prosecution | (noun) the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior | Synonyms: criminal prosecution |
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| (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: pursuance |
| (noun) the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant | - |
| prosecutor | (noun) a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state | Synonyms: prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, public prosecutor |
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| scut | (noun) a short erect tail | - |
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| scutcheon | (noun) a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms | Synonyms: escutcheon |
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| (noun) a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers | Synonyms: escutcheon, finger plate |
| scute | (noun) large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake | - |
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| scuttle | (noun) container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire | Synonyms: coal scuttle |
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| (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, opening |
| (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
| scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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| shortcut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, cutoff |
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| stonecutter | (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: cutter |
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| subacute | (adjective) less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it | - |
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| subcutaneous | (adjective) relating to or located below the epidermis | Synonyms: hypodermic |
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| subcutaneously | (adverb) below the skin | - |
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| transcutaneous | (adjective) through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches) | Synonyms: percutaneous, transdermal, transdermic |
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| uncut | (adjective) not cut | - |
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| (adjective) (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge | - |
| (adjective) not shaped by cutting or trimming | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine | Synonyms: unmown |
| (adjective) not trimmed | Synonyms: untrimmed |
| (adjective) complete | Synonyms: full-length |
| (adjective) not injured by cutting | - |
| undercut | (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball | Synonyms: cut |
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| (noun) a cut made underneath to remove material | - |
| (noun) a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall | - |
| (noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: tenderloin |
| (noun) the material removed by a cut made underneath | - |
| (verb) strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot | - |
| (verb) cut away the underpart of | - |
| (verb) cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief | - |
| (verb) cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall | - |
| (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undersell |
| uppercut | (noun) a swinging blow directed upward (especially at an opponent's chin) | - |
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| woodcut | (noun) engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints | Synonyms: wood block, wood engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from a woodcut | Synonyms: wood engraving |
| woodcutter | (noun) cuts down trees and chops wood as a job | - |
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