| adamance | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: obduracy, unyieldingness |
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| adamant | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent |
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| (noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: diamond |
| adamantine | (adjective) consisting of or having the hardness of adamant | - |
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| (adjective) having the hardness of a diamond | - |
| (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
| adamantly | (adverb) inflexibly; unshakably | - |
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| afterdamp | (noun) a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine | - |
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| bedamn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| beldam | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldame |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldame, crone, hag, witch |
| beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
| blackdamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: chokedamp |
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| cardamom | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces | Synonyms: cardamon, cardamum |
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| (noun) rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning | Synonyms: cardamon, Elettaria cardamomum |
| cardamon | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces | Synonyms: cardamom, cardamum |
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| (noun) rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning | Synonyms: cardamom, Elettaria cardamomum |
| cardamum | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces | Synonyms: cardamom, cardamon |
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| chokedamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: blackdamp |
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| chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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| cofferdam | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: caisson, pneumatic caisson |
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| dam | (noun) female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock | - |
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| (noun) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea | Synonyms: dike, dyke |
| (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: decameter, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
| (verb) obstruct with, or as if with, a dam | Synonyms: dam up |
| damage | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: harm, hurt, scathe |
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| (noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right | Synonyms: legal injury, wrong |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: harm, impairment |
| (noun) loss of military equipment | Synonyms: equipment casualty |
| (noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: price, terms |
| (verb) inflict damage upon | - |
| (verb) suffer or be susceptible to damage | - |
| damaged | (adjective) harmed or injured or spoiled | - |
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| (adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: discredited |
| damages | (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution |
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| damaging | (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious |
| damar | (noun) any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine | Synonyms: dammar, dammar resin, gum dammar |
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| damascene | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Damascus or its people | - |
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| (adjective) (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals | - |
| (noun) a design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel | - |
| (verb) inlay metal with gold and silver | - |
| damask | (adjective) having a woven pattern | - |
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| (noun) a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it | - |
| (noun) a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern | - |
| dame | (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, doll, skirt, wench |
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| (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam |
| daminozide | (noun) a chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be harvested at one time | Synonyms: Alar |
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| dammar | (noun) any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine | Synonyms: damar, dammar resin, gum dammar |
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| damn | (adjective) used as expletives | Synonyms: goddamn |
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| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
| (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
| (adverb) extremely | Synonyms: all-fired, all-firedly, bloody |
| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, imprecate, maledict |
| damnable | (adjective) deserving to be execrated | Synonyms: execrable |
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| damnably | (adverb) in a damnable manner | Synonyms: cursedly, damned |
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| damnation | (noun) the act of damning | - |
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| (noun) the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell | Synonyms: eternal damnation |
| damnatory | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damning |
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| damned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: cursed, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved |
| (noun) people who are condemned to eternal punishment | - |
| (adverb) in a damnable manner | Synonyms: cursedly, damnably |
| damning | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damnatory |
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| damoiselle | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| damosel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| damourite | (noun) a variety of muscovite | - |
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| damozel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| damp | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: dampish, moist |
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| (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: dampness, moistness |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, dampen, soften, weaken |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: dampen, deaden |
| (verb) restrain or discourage | - |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: dampen, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
| dampen | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken |
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| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: moisten, wash |
| (verb) check; keep in check (a fire) | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, deaden |
| (verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) | - |
| (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: stifle |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
| dampener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: moistener |
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| dampening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: moistening |
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| damper | (noun) a depressing restraint | - |
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| (noun) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations | Synonyms: muffler |
| (noun) a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace | - |
| dampish | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: damp, moist |
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| damply | (adverb) in a damp manner | Synonyms: moistly |
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| dampness | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: damp, moistness |
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| damsel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, demoiselle |
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| damselfish | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: demoiselle |
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| damselfly | (noun) slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest | - |
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| damson | (noun) dark purple plum of the damson tree | Synonyms: damson plum |
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| endameba | (noun) any ameba of the genus Endamoeba | - |
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| firedamp | (noun) a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that form in coal mines and become explosive when mixed with air | - |
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| fundament | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork |
| fundamental | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: rudimentary, underlying |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, key, primal |
| (adjective) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | Synonyms: profound |
| (noun) the lowest tone of a harmonic series | Synonyms: first harmonic, fundamental frequency |
| (noun) any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business | - |
| fundamentalism | (noun) a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth | - |
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| (noun) the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc. | - |
| fundamentalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
| (noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
| (noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
| fundamentalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
| fundamentally | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: basically, essentially |
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| fundamentalness | (noun) The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance. | - |
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| fundamentals | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle |
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| goddam | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddamn, goddamned |
| goddamn | (adjective) used as expletives | Synonyms: damn |
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| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamned, infernal |
| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddam, goddamned |
| goddamned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, infernal |
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| (adverb) expressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise | Synonyms: goddam, goddamn |
| liquidambar | (noun) any tree of the genus Liquidambar | - |
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| (noun) aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree | Synonyms: sweet gum |
| macadam | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: tarmac, tarmacadam |
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| (noun) broken stone used in macadamized roadways | - |
| (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadamise, macadamize, tarmac |
| macadamia | (noun) any tree of the genus Macadamia | Synonyms: macadamia tree |
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| macadamise | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamize | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, tarmac |
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| madam | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, gentlewoman, lady, ma'am |
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| (noun) a woman who runs a house of prostitution | Synonyms: brothel keeper |
| madame | (noun) title used for a married Frenchwoman | - |
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| mandamus | (noun) an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail | Synonyms: writ of mandamus |
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| milldam | (noun) dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill | - |
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| quondam | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, sometime |
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| tarmacadam | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: macadam, tarmac |
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| (noun) a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving | Synonyms: tarmac |
| undamaged | (adjective) not harmed or spoiled; sound | - |
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