| aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggrandisement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandizement, elevation |
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| anaphrodisia | (noun) decline or absence of sexual desire | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| anodise | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodize |
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| anorchidism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchism |
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| aphrodisia | (noun) a desire for heterosexual intimacy | - |
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| aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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| (noun) a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire | - |
| aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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| aspidistra | (noun) evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant | Synonyms: Aspidistra elatio, bar-room plant, cast-iron plant |
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| bastardisation | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardization |
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| bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
| bastardised | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardized |
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| blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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| blandishment | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: wheedling |
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| (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: cajolery, palaver |
| blastodisc | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastoderm, germinal area, germinal disc |
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| brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| caddish | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: unchivalrous, ungallant |
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| caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| childish | (adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: infantile |
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| childishly | (adverb) in a childlike manner | - |
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| childishness | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: puerility |
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| chiropodist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: foot doctor, podiatrist |
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| cladistics | (noun) a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations | Synonyms: cladistic analysis |
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| cloddish | (adjective) heavy and dull and stupid | Synonyms: doltish |
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| contrabandist | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler |
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| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| cryptorchidism | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidy, cryptorchism |
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| deoxidise | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidize, reduce |
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| disa | (noun) any orchid of the genus Disa; beautiful orchids with dark green leaves and usually hooded flowers; much prized as emblematic flowers in their native regions | - |
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| disability | (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disablement, handicap, impairment |
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| disable | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: handicap, incapacitate, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disenable, incapacitate |
| disabled | (adjective) the total or partial absence of a person's bodily or mental functions, including the absence of a part of a person's body | Synonyms: handicapped |
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| (noun) people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped | Synonyms: handicapped |
| disablement | (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, handicap, impairment |
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| disabling | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disqualifying |
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| (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, incapacitating |
| disabuse | (verb) free somebody (from an erroneous belief) | - |
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| disabused | (adjective) freed of a mistaken or misguided notion | Synonyms: undeceived |
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| disaccharidase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides | - |
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| disaccharide | (noun) any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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| disaccord | (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disagree, discord |
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| disadvantage | (noun) the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position | - |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour |
| disadvantaged | (adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | Synonyms: deprived |
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| disadvantageous | (adjective) involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness | Synonyms: unfavorable, unfavourable |
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| disadvantageously | (adverb) in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage | Synonyms: badly |
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| disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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| disaffected | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious |
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| disaffection | (noun) disloyalty to the government or to established authority | - |
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| (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, estrangement |
| disaffirmation | (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: denial |
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| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| disagree | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, dissent, take issue |
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| (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disaccord, discord |
| disagreeable | (adjective) not to your liking | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasant to interact with | - |
| (adjective) not agreeing with your tastes or expectations | Synonyms: unsympathetic |
| disagreeableness | (noun) an ill-tempered and offensive disposition | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| disagreeably | (adverb) in a disagreeable manner | - |
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| disagreement | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: discrepancy, divergence, variance |
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| (noun) the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing | - |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: dissension, dissonance |
| disallow | (verb) command against | Synonyms: forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| disambiguation | (noun) clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity | - |
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| disambiguator | (noun) (computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used | - |
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| disappear | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
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| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: vanish |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: evaporate, melt |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
| disappearance | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearing |
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| (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: fade |
| (noun) the event of passing out of sight | - |
| (noun) ceasing to exist | - |
| disappearing | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearance |
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| disappoint | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | Synonyms: let down |
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| disappointed | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
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| disappointedly | (adverb) in disappointment; in a disappointed manner | - |
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| disappointing | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: dissatisfactory, unsatisfying |
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| disappointingly | (adverb) in a disappointing manner | - |
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| disappointment | (noun) an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone | Synonyms: dashing hopes |
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| (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: letdown |
| disapprobation | (noun) an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | Synonyms: condemnation |
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| disapproval | (noun) the act of disapproving or condemning | - |
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| (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour, dislike |
| (noun) the expression of disapproval | - |
| (noun) a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing | - |
| disapprove | (verb) consider bad or wrong | - |
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| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: reject |
| disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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| disapprovingly | (adverb) showing disapproval | - |
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| disarm | (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, demilitarize |
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| (verb) take away the weapons from; render harmless | Synonyms: unarm |
| (verb) make less hostile; win over | - |
| disarmament | (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarming |
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| disarmer | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes | Synonyms: pacificist, pacifist |
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| disarming | (adjective) capable of allaying hostility | - |
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| (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarmament |
| disarrange | (verb) disturb the arrangement of | - |
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| (verb) destroy the arrangement or order of | - |
| disarranged | (adjective) having the arrangement disturbed; not in order | - |
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| disarrangement | (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disorganisation, disorganization |
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| disarray | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disorderliness |
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| (noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, mental confusion, muddiness |
| (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disorder |
| disarrayed | (adjective) in disarray | - |
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| disarticulate | (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disjoint |
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| disassemble | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, dismantle, take apart |
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| disassembly | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: dismantlement, dismantling |
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| disassociate | (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
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| disassociation | (noun) a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently | Synonyms: dissociation |
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| (noun) the state of being unconnected in memory or imagination | - |
| disaster | (noun) an act that has disastrous consequences | - |
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| (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, tragedy |
| (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: catastrophe |
| disastrous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful |
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| disastrously | (adverb) in a disastrous manner | - |
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| disavow | (verb) refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with | - |
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| disavowable | (adjective) capable of being disavowed | - |
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| disavowal | (noun) denial of any connection with or knowledge of | Synonyms: disclaimer |
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| disband | (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: dissolve |
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| (verb) cause to break up or cease to function | - |
| disbandment | (noun) the act of disbanding | - |
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| disbar | (verb) remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action | - |
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| disbarment | (noun) the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law | - |
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| disbelief | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: incredulity, mental rejection, scepticism, skepticism |
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| (noun) a rejection of belief | Synonyms: unbelief |
| disbelieve | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: discredit |
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| disbelieving | (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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