bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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cardigan | (noun) knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper | - |
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condign | (adjective) fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment | - |
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dig | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: digging, excavation |
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(noun) the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow | Synonyms: jab |
(noun) a small gouge (as in the cover of a book) | - |
(noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
(noun) the site of an archeological exploration | Synonyms: archeological site, excavation |
(verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
(verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, delve, turn over |
(verb) create by digging | Synonyms: dig out |
(verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: excavate, hollow |
(verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: jab, poke, prod, stab |
(verb) thrust down or into | - |
(verb) remove, harvest, or recover by digging | Synonyms: dig out, dig up |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
digenesis | (noun) alternation of sexual and asexual generations | Synonyms: metagenesis |
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digest | (noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: compilation |
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(noun) a periodical that summarizes the news | - |
(verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
(verb) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing | - |
(verb) become assimilated into the body | - |
(verb) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture | - |
(verb) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture | - |
(verb) arrange and integrate in the mind | - |
(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
(verb) convert food into absorbable substances | - |
digester | (noun) autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested | - |
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digestibility | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibleness |
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digestible | (adjective) capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal | - |
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digestibleness | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibility |
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digestion | (noun) learning and coming to understand ideas and information | - |
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(noun) the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body | - |
(noun) the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat | - |
digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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(noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |
digger | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: excavator, power shovel, shovel |
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(noun) a laborer who digs | - |
digging | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: dig, excavation |
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diggings | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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(noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: digs |
dighted | (adjective) dressed or adorned (as for battle) | - |
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digit | (noun) a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: dactyl |
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(noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: figure |
(noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: finger's breadth, finger, fingerbreadth |
digital | (adjective) of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits | - |
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(adjective) relating to or performed with the fingers | - |
(adjective) displaying numbers rather than scale positions | - |
digitalin | (noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalis, digitalis glycoside |
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digitalis | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: foxglove |
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(noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalin, digitalis glycoside |
digitalisation | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalization |
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digitalise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalize, digitise, digitize |
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digitalization | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalisation |
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digitalize | (verb) administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects | - |
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(verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitise, digitize |
digitally | (adverb) in terms of integers | - |
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(adverb) by means of the fingers | - |
digitate | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: fingerlike |
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digitately | (adverb) in a digitate manner | - |
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digitigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) | - |
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(noun) an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses | Synonyms: digitigrade mammal |
digitisation | (noun) conversion of analog information into digital information | Synonyms: digitization |
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digitise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitize |
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digitiser | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitizer |
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digitization | (noun) conversion of analog information into digital information | Synonyms: digitisation |
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digitize | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitise |
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digitizer | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitiser |
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digitoxin | (noun) digitalis preparation used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia | - |
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dignified | (adjective) having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance | - |
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(adjective) having or showing self-esteem | Synonyms: self-respectful, self-respecting |
dignify | (verb) raise the status of | - |
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(verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: ennoble |
dignifying | (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: ennobling |
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dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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dignity | (noun) the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect | Synonyms: self-regard, self-respect, self-worth |
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(noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: gravitas, lordliness |
(noun) high office or rank or station | - |
digoxin | (noun) digitalis preparation (trade name Lanoxin) used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia; helps the heart beat more forcefully | Synonyms: Lanoxin |
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digram | (noun) two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe') | Synonyms: digraph |
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digraph | (noun) two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe') | Synonyms: digram |
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digress | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: divagate, stray, wander |
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(verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, sidetrack, straggle |
digression | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, divagation, diversion |
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(noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: excursion |
(noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, divagation, excursus, parenthesis |
digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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(adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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digs | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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(noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: diggings |
gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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indigen | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigene, native |
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indigence | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: need, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
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indigene | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, native |
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indigenous | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic |
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indigenously | (adverb) in an indigenous manner | - |
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indigenousness | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: autochthony, endemism |
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indigent | (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
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indigestibility | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibleness |
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indigestible | (adjective) digested with difficulty | - |
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indigestibleness | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibility |
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indigestion | (noun) a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea | Synonyms: dyspepsia, stomach upset, upset stomach |
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indignant | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: incensed, outraged, umbrageous |
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indignantly | (adverb) in an indignant manner | - |
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indignation | (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: outrage |
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indignity | (noun) an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem | - |
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indigo | (adjective) having a color between blue and violet | - |
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(noun) a blue-violet color | - |
(noun) deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria |
(noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigotin |
indigotin | (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigo |
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nondigestible | (adjective) not digestible | - |
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paradigm | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, image, prototype |
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(noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time | - |
(noun) the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) | Synonyms: substitution class |
(noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word | - |
paradigmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a typical example | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a grammatical paradigm | - |
(adjective) related as members of a substitution class | - |
pedigree | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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(noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: bloodline |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
(noun) line of descent of a purebred animal | - |
pedigreed | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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predigest | (verb) digest (food) beforehand | - |
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predigested | (adjective) artificially partially digested as by enzymatic action | - |
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prestidigitation | (noun) manual dexterity in the execution of tricks | Synonyms: sleight of hand |
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prestidigitator | (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, magician |
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prodigal | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, profligate, spendthrift |
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(noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: profligate, squanderer |
prodigality | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, lavishness |
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(noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: extravagance, profligacy |
prodigally | (adverb) to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree | Synonyms: wastefully |
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prodigious | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, surpassing |
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(adjective) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe | Synonyms: colossal, stupendous |
(adjective) of momentous or ominous significance | Synonyms: portentous |
prodigiously | (adverb) to a prodigious degree | - |
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prodigy | (noun) an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality | - |
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(noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication |
(noun) an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration | - |
secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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tardigrade | (noun) an arthropod of the division Tardigrada | - |
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undigested | (adjective) not digested | - |
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(adjective) not thought over and arranged systematically in the mind; not absorbed or assimilated mentally | - |
undignified | (adjective) lacking dignity | - |
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verdigris | (noun) a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time | - |
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(noun) a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment | Synonyms: cupric acetate |
(verb) color verdigris | - |