asyndetic | (adjective) lacking conjunctions | - |
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asyndeton | (noun) the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used | - |
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bidet | (noun) a basin for washing genitals and anal area | - |
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cadet | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: plebe |
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cadetship | (noun) the position of cadet | - |
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codetalker | (noun) a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II | Synonyms: windtalker |
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detach | (verb) come to be detached | Synonyms: come away, come off |
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(verb) cause to become detached or separated; take off | - |
(verb) separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment | - |
detachable | (adjective) designed to be unfastened or disconnected without damage | - |
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detached | (adjective) used of buildings; standing apart from others | - |
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(adjective) being or feeling set or kept apart from others | Synonyms: isolated, separated, set-apart |
(adjective) showing lack of emotional involvement | Synonyms: degage, uninvolved |
(adjective) no longer connected or joined | Synonyms: separated |
(adjective) not fixed in position | Synonyms: free |
(adjective) lacking affection or warm feeling | Synonyms: unaffectionate, uncaring |
detachment | (noun) the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | Synonyms: disengagement |
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(noun) coming apart | Synonyms: breakup, separation |
(noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: withdrawal |
(noun) a small unit of troops of special composition | - |
(noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: insularism, insularity, insulation |
detail | (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, point |
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(noun) extended treatment of particulars | - |
(noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: contingent |
(noun) a crew of workers selected for a particular task | - |
(noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, particular |
(verb) assign to a specific task | - |
(verb) provide details for | - |
detailed | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: elaborate, elaborated |
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detailing | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: particularisation, particularization |
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details | (noun) true confidential information | Synonyms: inside information |
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detain | (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: delay, hold up |
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(verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, stay |
(verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: confine |
detainee | (noun) some held in custody | Synonyms: political detainee |
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detainment | (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detention, hold |
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detect | (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: discover, find, notice, observe |
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detectability | (noun) The state of being noticeable. | - |
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detectable | (adjective) easily seen or detected | Synonyms: perceptible |
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(adjective) capable of being detected | Synonyms: noticeable |
detected | (adjective) perceived or discerned | - |
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(adjective) perceived with the mind | - |
detecting | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detection, detective work, sleuthing |
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detection | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, espial, spotting, spying |
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(noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detecting, detective work, sleuthing |
(noun) the perception that something has occurred or some state exists | Synonyms: sensing |
(noun) the detection that a signal is being received | Synonyms: signal detection |
detective | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: investigator, police detective, tec |
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(noun) an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public | - |
detector | (noun) any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner | Synonyms: sensing element, sensor |
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(noun) electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity | - |
(noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: demodulator |
detent | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, dog, pawl |
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detente | (noun) the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations) | - |
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detention | (noun) a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home | - |
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(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detainment, hold |
deter | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: dissuade |
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(verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: discourage |
deterge | (verb) wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body | - |
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detergence | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergency |
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detergency | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergence |
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detergent | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detersive |
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(noun) a cleansing agent that differs from soap but can also emulsify oils and hold dirt in suspension | - |
(noun) a surface-active chemical widely used in industry and laundering | - |
deteriorate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, devolve, drop |
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(verb) become worse or disintegrate | - |
deterioration | (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: declension, decline in quality, worsening |
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(noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: impairment |
determent | (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: deterrence, intimidation |
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determinable | (adjective) capable of being determined or limited or fixed | - |
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determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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(noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor |
(noun) a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations | - |
(noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope |
determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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(adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
(adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
determinateness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: definiteness |
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determination | (noun) the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation | Synonyms: finding |
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(noun) the act of making up your mind about something | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
(noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: purpose |
(noun) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
(noun) deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature | - |
determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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(noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
(noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
determine | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind |
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(verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively | Synonyms: set |
(verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: influence, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
(verb) fix in scope; fix the boundaries of | - |
(verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out |
(verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch |
(verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify |
(verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: settle, square off, square up |
determined | (adjective) having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation | - |
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(adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, driven |
(adjective) characterized by great determination | - |
(adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: dictated, set |
(adjective) devoting full strength and concentrated attention to | - |
determinedly | (adverb) with determination; in a determined manner | Synonyms: unfalteringly, unshakably |
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(adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: ambitiously |
determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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(noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
(noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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determinism | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will | - |
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determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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deterrence | (noun) the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety | - |
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(noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, intimidation |
(noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: disincentive |
deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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detest | (verb) dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards | Synonyms: hate |
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detestable | (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, execrable, odious |
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(adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
detestably | (adverb) in an offensive and hateful manner | Synonyms: abominably, odiously, repulsively |
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detestation | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, execration, loathing, odium |
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detested | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: despised, hated, scorned |
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dethaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
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dethrone | (verb) remove a monarch from the throne | - |
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dethronement | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | Synonyms: deposition |
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detick | (verb) free (a pet) of ticks | - |
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detonate | (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, explode, set off |
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(verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, explode |
detonation | (noun) the act of detonating an explosive | - |
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(noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: blowup, explosion |
detonative | (adjective) exploding almost instantaneously | - |
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detonator | (noun) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive | Synonyms: cap, detonating device |
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detour | (noun) a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) | Synonyms: roundabout way |
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(verb) travel via a detour | - |
detox | (noun) the hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified | - |
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(verb) treat for alcohol or drug dependence | Synonyms: detoxify |
detoxicate | (verb) remove poison from | Synonyms: detoxify |
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detoxification | (noun) treatment for poisoning by neutralizing the toxic properties (normally a function of the liver) | - |
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(noun) a treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to remove the physiological effects of the addictive substances | - |
detoxify | (verb) treat for alcohol or drug dependence | Synonyms: detox |
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(verb) remove poison from | Synonyms: detoxicate |
detract | (verb) take away a part from; diminish | Synonyms: take away |
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detraction | (noun) the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander) | - |
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(noun) a petty disparagement | Synonyms: petty criticism |
detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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detractor | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, disparager, knocker |
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detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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detribalisation | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalization |
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(noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalization |
detribalise | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalize |
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detribalization | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalisation |
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(noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalisation |
detribalize | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalise |
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detriment | (noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: hurt |
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detrimental | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious |
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detrimentally | (adverb) in a detrimental manner | Synonyms: harmfully, noxiously |
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detrition | (noun) effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | Synonyms: friction, rubbing |
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(noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, grinding |
(noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, corrasion |
detritus | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, dust, junk, rubble |
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(noun) loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks | - |
detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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detusk | (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: tusk |
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eidetic | (adjective) of visual imagery of almost photographic accuracy | - |
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geodetic | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesic, geodesical |
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indeterminable | (adjective) not capable of being definitely decided or ascertained | Synonyms: undeterminable |
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(adjective) incapable of being definitely ascertained or calculated | - |
indeterminably | (adverb) in an indeterminable manner | - |
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indeterminacy | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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indeterminate | (adjective) not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance | Synonyms: undetermined |
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(adjective) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex | - |
(adjective) of uncertain or ambiguous nature | - |
(adjective) not leading to a definite ending or result | - |
(adjective) (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved | - |
indeterminateness | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminacy, indetermination |
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indetermination | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminacy, indeterminateness |
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podetium | (noun) an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne | - |
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polysyndeton | (noun) using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy') | - |
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predetermination | (noun) the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place | - |
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(noun) a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something | - |
(noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predestination, preordination |