| accidence | (noun) the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words | Synonyms: inflectional morphology |
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| accident | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: chance event, fortuity, stroke |
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| (noun) an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury | - |
| accidental | (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: incidental, nonessential |
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| (adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: inadvertent |
| (noun) a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature | - |
| accidentally | (adverb) without advance planning | Synonyms: by chance, circumstantially, unexpectedly |
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| (adverb) without intention; in an unintentional manner | Synonyms: unintentionally |
| (adverb) of a minor or subordinate nature | Synonyms: incidentally |
| addend | (noun) a number that is added to another number (the augend) | - |
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| addendum | (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: postscript, supplement |
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| adenine | (noun) (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA | Synonyms: A |
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| adenitis | (noun) inflammation of a gland or lymph node | - |
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| adenocarcinoma | (noun) malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium | Synonyms: glandular cancer, glandular carcinoma |
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| adenocarcinomatous | (adjective) of or pertaining to adenocarcinoma | - |
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| adenohypophysis | (noun) the anterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature | Synonyms: anterior pituitary, anterior pituitary gland |
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| adenoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling lymphatic glands or lymphoid tissue | - |
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| (noun) a collection of lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula (on the posterior wall and roof of the nasopharynx) | Synonyms: Luschka's tonsil, pharyngeal tonsil, third tonsil, tonsilla adenoidea, tonsilla pharyngealis |
| adenoidal | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adenoids | - |
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| (adjective) sounding as if the nose were pinched | Synonyms: nasal, pinched |
| adenoidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the adenoids; commonly performed along with tonsillectomy | - |
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| adenoma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor of glandular origin | - |
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| adenomegaly | (noun) gland enlargement | - |
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| adenomyosarcoma | (noun) malignant renal tumor of young children characterized by hypertension and blood in the urine and the presence of a palpable mass | Synonyms: embryoma of the kidney, nephroblastoma, Wilms' tumor, Wilms tumour |
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| adenomyosis | (noun) the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea | Synonyms: endometriosis |
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| adenopathy | (noun) a glandular disease or enlargement of glandular tissue (especially of the lymph glands) | - |
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| adenosine | (noun) (biochemistry) a nucleoside that is a structural component of nucleic acids; it is present in all living cells in a combined form as a constituent of DNA and RNA and ADP and ATP and AMP | - |
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| adenosis | (noun) a disorder of the glands of the body | Synonyms: gland disease, glandular disease, glandular disorder |
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| adenovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye | - |
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| antecedence | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority |
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| antecedency | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority |
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| antecedent | (adjective) preceding in time or order | - |
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| (noun) the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun | - |
| (noun) a preceding occurrence or cause or event | - |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: forerunner |
| antecedently | (adverb) at an earlier time or formerly | Synonyms: previously |
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| ardent | (adjective) glowing or shining like fire | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| ardently | (adverb) in an ardent manner | - |
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| ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
| bedridden | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedfast, bedrid, sick-abed |
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| beholden | (adjective) under a moral obligation to someone | - |
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| bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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| bounden | (adjective) morally obligatory | - |
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| broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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| (verb) make broader | - |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
| (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
| broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
| (noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
| burden | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: load, loading |
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| (noun) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | - |
| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| burdened | (adjective) bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities | - |
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| (adjective) bearing a physically heavy weight or load | Synonyms: heavy-laden, loaded down |
| burdenless | (adjective) not encumbered with a physical burden or load | Synonyms: unburdened |
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| burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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| burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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| cadence | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadency |
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| (noun) the close of a musical section | - |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, measure, meter, metre |
| cadenced | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadent |
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| cadency | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadence |
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| cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
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| cadenza | (noun) a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music | - |
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| caladenia | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Caladenia | - |
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| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| churchwarden | (noun) an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters | - |
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| coincidence | (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction |
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| (noun) the quality of occupying the same position or area in space | - |
| (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: happenstance |
| coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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| (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
| coincidental | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| coincidentally | (adverb) happening at the same time | Synonyms: coincidently |
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| coincidently | (adverb) happening at the same time | Synonyms: coincidentally |
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| condensate | (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensation |
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| (noun) a product of condensation | - |
| condensation | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensing |
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| (noun) (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams | - |
| (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, abridgment, capsule |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, contraction |
| (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensate |
| (noun) the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state | - |
| condense | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, digest |
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| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: distil, distill |
| (verb) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid | - |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, contract |
| (verb) remove water from | - |
| (verb) become more compact or concentrated | - |
| (verb) develop due to condensation | - |
| condenser | (noun) lens used to concentrate light on an object | Synonyms: optical condenser |
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| (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, capacitor, electrical condenser |
| (noun) a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat | - |
| (noun) an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid | - |
| condensing | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensation |
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| confidence | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, authority, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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| (noun) a secret that is confided or entrusted to another | - |
| (noun) a feeling of trust (in someone or something) | - |
| (noun) a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable | - |
| (noun) a trustful relationship | Synonyms: trust |
| confident | (adjective) having or marked by confidence or assurance | - |
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| (adjective) not liable to error in judgment or action | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: convinced, positive |
| confidential | (adjective) the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified | - |
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| (adjective) denoting confidence or intimacy | - |
| (adjective) entrusted with private information and the confidence of another | - |
| (adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: secret |
| confidentiality | (noun) discretion in keeping secret information | - |
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| (noun) the state of being secret | - |
| confidentially | (adverb) in a confidential manner | - |
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| confidently | (adverb) with confidence; in a confident manner | - |
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| corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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| correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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| (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
| (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
| correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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| (noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
| (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
| credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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| credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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| credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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| credenza | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credence |
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| crudeness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudity, gaucheness |
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| (noun) an unpolished unrefined quality | Synonyms: roughness |
| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
| deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
| (verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
| (verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
| deadened | (adjective) made or become less intense | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: dead |
| deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
| decadence | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadency, degeneracy, degeneration |
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| decadency | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, degeneracy, degeneration |
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| decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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| (adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
| (noun) a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) | - |
| decedent | (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, departed |
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| den | (noun) a room that is comfortable and secluded | - |
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| (noun) a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts | - |
| (noun) the habitation of wild animals | Synonyms: lair |
| (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: hideaway, hideout |
| denary | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: ten-fold, tenfold |
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| (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: decimal |
| denationalisation | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalization, privatisation, privatization |
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| denationalise | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalize |
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| denationalization | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, privatisation, privatization |
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| denationalize | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalise |
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| denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
| denaturalize | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalise |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalise |
| denaturant | (noun) any substance that serves as a denaturing agent | - |
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| denature | (verb) make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes | - |
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| (verb) modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished | - |
| (verb) add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb | - |
| denatured | (adjective) changed in nature or natural quality | Synonyms: denaturised, denaturized |
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| denaturised | (adjective) changed in nature or natural quality | Synonyms: denatured, denaturized |
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| denaturized | (adjective) changed in nature or natural quality | Synonyms: denatured, denaturised |
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| denazification | (noun) social process of removing Nazis from official positions and giving up any allegiance to Nazism | Synonyms: de-Nazification |
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| denazify | (verb) free from Nazi ideology or detach from Nazi allegiance | - |
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