| darkness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: duskiness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) having a dark or somber color | - |
| (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, wickedness |
| darkroom | (noun) a room in which photographs are developed | - |
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| darky | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darkie |
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| darling | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, dear |
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| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| darmstadtium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 110 | Synonyms: atomic number 110, Ds, element 110 |
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| darn | (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: mend, patch |
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| (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
| (verb) repair by sewing | - |
| darned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| darnel | (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum, tare |
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| darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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| darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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| dart | (noun) a sudden quick movement | Synonyms: flit |
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| (noun) a tapered tuck made in dressmaking | - |
| (noun) a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: fleet, flit, flutter |
| (verb) move with sudden speed | - |
| dartboard | (noun) a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts | Synonyms: dart board |
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| darter | (noun) a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly | - |
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| (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, snakebird |
| darts | (noun) a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard | - |
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| das | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, dassie, hyrax |
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| dash | (noun) a quick run | Synonyms: sprint |
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| (noun) the act of moving with great haste | Synonyms: bolt |
| (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: elan, flair, panache, style |
| (noun) the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dah |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text | Synonyms: hyphen |
| (noun) a footrace run at top speed | - |
| (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: smash |
| (verb) add an enlivening or altering element to | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: crash |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) destroy or break | - |
| dashboard | (noun) instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls | Synonyms: fascia |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | Synonyms: splashboard, splasher |
| dashcam | (noun) A camera filming from the dashboard of a car | - |
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| dashed | (adjective) having gaps or spaces | Synonyms: dotted |
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| dasheen | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, edda, taro, taro root |
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| (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, taro, taro plant |
| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, eddo, taro |
| dashiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: daishiki |
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| dashing | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) lively and spirited | Synonyms: gallant |
| dashingly | (adverb) in a highly fashionable manner | - |
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| dassie | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, das, hyrax |
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| dastard | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastardly |
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| (noun) a despicable coward | - |
| dastardliness | (noun) despicable cowardice | - |
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| dastardly | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastard |
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| dasymeter | (noun) densimeter consisting of a thin glass globe that is weighed in a gas to determine its density | - |
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| dasyure | (noun) any of several more or less arboreal marsupials somewhat resembling martens | - |
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| dasyurid | (noun) small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania | Synonyms: dasyurid marsupial |
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| data | (noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: information |
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| database | (noun) an organized body of related information | - |
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| datable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: dateable |
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| date | (noun) sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed | - |
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| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, engagement |
| (noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: escort |
| (noun) the specified day of the month | Synonyms: day of the month |
| (noun) the present | - |
| (noun) the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred | - |
| (noun) a particular day specified as the time something happens | - |
| (verb) assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of | - |
| (verb) provide with a dateline; mark with a date | - |
| (verb) stamp with a date | Synonyms: date stamp |
| (verb) go on a date with | - |
| (verb) date regularly; have a steady relationship with | Synonyms: go out, go steady, see |
| dateable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: datable |
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| dated | (adjective) marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past | - |
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| dateless | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: endless, sempiternal |
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| (adjective) unaffected by time | Synonyms: timeless |
| (adjective) not bearing a date | Synonyms: undated |
| (adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date | - |
| dateline | (noun) a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch | - |
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| (noun) an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian | Synonyms: date line, International Date Line |
| (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, datemark |
| datemark | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, dateline |
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| dating | (noun) use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens | Synonyms: geological dating |
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| dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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| datum | (noun) an item of factual information derived from measurement or research | Synonyms: data point |
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| daub | (noun) an unskillful painting | - |
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| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
| (noun) material used to daub walls | - |
| (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: smear |
| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: plaster |
| (verb) apply to a surface | - |
| dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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| daubing | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: plastering |
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| daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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| daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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| daunt | (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
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| daunted | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: bothered, fazed |
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| daunting | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: intimidating |
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| dauntingly | (adverb) to a degree or in a manner that daunts | - |
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| dauntless | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
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| dauntlessly | (adverb) without fear | Synonyms: fearlessly, intrepidly |
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| dauntlessness | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: intrepidity |
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| dauphin | (noun) formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne | - |
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| davallia | (noun) any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes | - |
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| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| davit | (noun) a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat) | - |
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| daw | (noun) common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery | Synonyms: Corvus monedula, jackdaw |
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| dawah | (noun) missionary work for Islam | Synonyms: da'wah |
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| dawdle | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: linger |
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| (verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: fall back, fall behind, lag |
| (verb) waste time | Synonyms: dally |
| dawdler | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
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| dawdling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, trifling |
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| dawn | (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: morning |
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| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
| (noun) an opening time period | - |
| (verb) become light | - |
| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
| (verb) appear or develop | - |
| dawning | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| day | (noun) a period of opportunity | - |
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| (noun) time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis | Synonyms: 24-hour interval, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours |
| (noun) a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance | - |
| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: daylight, daytime |
| (noun) a point or period in time | - |
| (noun) the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working) | - |
| (noun) an era of existence or influence | - |
| (noun) the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day | Synonyms: sidereal day |
| (noun) the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis | - |
| daybed | (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise, chaise longue |
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| (noun) an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night | Synonyms: divan bed |
| daybook | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: ledger |
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| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: journal |
| dayboy | (noun) a day boarder who is a boy | - |
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| daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| daycare | (noun) childcare during the day while parents work | Synonyms: day care |
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| daydream | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgather |
| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: moon |
| daydreamer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: woolgatherer |
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| daydreaming | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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| dayfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: mayfly, shadfly |
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| daygirl | (noun) a day boarder who is a girl | - |
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| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| daylily | (noun) any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day | Synonyms: day lily |
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| daylong | (adjective) lasting through an entire day | - |
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| (adverb) during the entire day | Synonyms: all day long |
| days | (noun) the time during which someone's life continues | Synonyms: years |
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| dayspring | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| daystar | (noun) a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky | Synonyms: Lucifer, morning star, Phosphorus |
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| daytime | (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daylight |
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| daze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: fog, haze |
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| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: shock, stupor |
| (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: bedaze, stun |
| (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, dazzle |
| dazed | (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: stunned, stupefied, stupid |
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| (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous |
| dazedly | (adverb) in a daze; in a dazed manner | Synonyms: torpidly |
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| dazzle | (noun) brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily | - |
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| (verb) amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill | - |
| (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, daze |
| dazzled | (adjective) having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light | - |
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| (adjective) stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering | - |
| dazzling | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous |
| dazzlingly | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder | - |
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| defendable | (adjective) capable of being defended | Synonyms: defensible |
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| defendant | (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: suspect |
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| degradation | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: debasement |
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| (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abasement, abjection |
| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| dendroidal | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| denudate | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denuded |
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| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denude, strip |
| denudation | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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| deodar | (noun) tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber | Synonyms: Cedrus deodara, deodar cedar, Himalayan cedar |
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| dependability | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness |
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