backdown | (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: climb-down, withdrawal |
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beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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breakdown | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: dislocation |
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(noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: partitioning |
(noun) a cessation of normal operation | Synonyms: equipment failure |
(noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: decomposition, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
(noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition, decomposition reaction |
(noun) a mental or physical breakdown | Synonyms: crack-up |
clampdown | (noun) sudden restriction on an activity | - |
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closedown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closing, closure, shutdown |
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comedown | (noun) decline to a lower status or level | - |
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countdown | (noun) counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle) | - |
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crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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dowager | (noun) a widow holding property received from her deceased husband | - |
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dowdily | (adverb) in a dowdy unfashionable manner | Synonyms: frumpily, frumpishly |
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dowdiness | (noun) having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | Synonyms: drabness, homeliness |
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dowdy | (adjective) lacking in smartness or taste | - |
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(adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: frumpish, frumpy |
(noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: pandowdy |
dowel | (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel pin, joggle |
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doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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dower | (noun) a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband | - |
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(noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dowery, dowry, portion |
(verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: endow |
dowered | (adjective) supplied with a dower or dowry | - |
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dowerless | (adjective) lacking a dowry | - |
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dowery | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowry, portion |
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dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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down | (adjective) being or moving lower in position or less in some value | - |
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(adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
(adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: downward |
(adjective) becoming progressively lower | - |
(adjective) not functioning (temporarily or permanently) | - |
(adjective) lower than previously | Synonyms: depressed |
(adjective) shut | - |
(adjective) being put out in a game of baseball | - |
(adjective) understood perfectly | Synonyms: down pat, mastered |
(noun) (American football) a complete play to advance the football | - |
(noun) soft fine feathers | Synonyms: down feather |
(noun) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | Synonyms: pile |
(noun) (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil | - |
(adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | Synonyms: downward, downwardly, downwards |
(adverb) away from a more central or a more northerly place | - |
(adverb) paid in cash at time of purchase | - |
(adverb) in an inactive or inoperative state | - |
(adverb) to a lower intensity | - |
(adverb) from an earlier time | - |
(verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: fine-tune, polish, refine |
(verb) bring down or defeat (an opponent) | - |
(verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off |
(verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, devour, go through |
(verb) cause to come or go down | Synonyms: cut down, knock down, pull down, push down |
(verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: land, shoot down |
downbeat | (noun) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) | - |
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downbound | (adjective) heading in any direction that is conventionally down | - |
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downcast | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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(adjective) directed downward | - |
(noun) a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine | - |
downdraft | (noun) a strong downward air current | - |
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downer | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, sedative, sedative drug |
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downfall | (noun) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance | Synonyms: fall |
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(noun) failure that results in a loss of position or reputation | Synonyms: ruin, ruination |
(noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: precipitation |
downfield | (adjective) located at, or relatively closer to, the defending team's end of the playing field | - |
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(adverb) in the direction of the defending team's end of the playing field | - |
downgrade | (noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends | - |
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(verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
downhearted | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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downheartedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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downhill | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: declivitous, downward-sloping |
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(noun) a ski race down a trail | - |
(noun) the downward slope of a hill | - |
(adverb) toward the bottom of a hill | - |
(adverb) toward a lower or inferior state | - |
downiness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: featheriness, fluffiness |
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downlike | (adjective) like down or as soft as down | Synonyms: downy, flossy, fluffy |
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download | (verb) transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location | - |
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downmarket | (adjective) designed for low-income consumers | - |
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downplay | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: background, play down |
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(verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, minimize, understate |
downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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downright | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
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(adjective) characterized by plain blunt honesty | - |
(adverb) thoroughgoing | Synonyms: outright |
downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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downriver | (adverb) away from the source or with the current | Synonyms: downstream |
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downscale | (adjective) intended for people with low incomes | - |
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downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
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(noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
downside | (noun) a negative aspect of something that is generally positive | - |
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downsize | (verb) (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees | - |
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(verb) design or manufacture in a smaller size | - |
(verb) dismiss from work | - |
downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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downspin | (noun) a swift and dangerous downturn | - |
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downstage | (adjective) of the front half of a stage | - |
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(noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
(adverb) at or toward the front of the stage | - |
downstair | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstairs |
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downstairs | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstair |
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(adverb) on a floor below | Synonyms: below, down the stairs, on a lower floor |
downstream | (adjective) in the direction of a stream's current | - |
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(adverb) away from the source or with the current | Synonyms: downriver |
downstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in a downward direction | - |
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downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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(noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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downtime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions) | - |
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downtown | (adjective) of or located in the lower part of a town, or in the business center | - |
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(noun) the central area or commercial center of a town or city | Synonyms: business district |
(adverb) toward or in the lower or central part of town | - |
downtrodden | (adjective) abused or oppressed by people in power | - |
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downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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downward | (adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: down |
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(adjective) on or toward a surface regarded as a base | - |
(adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | Synonyms: down, downwardly, downwards |
downwardly | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | Synonyms: down, downward, downwards |
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downwards | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | Synonyms: down, downward, downwardly |
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downwind | (adjective) towards the side away from the wind | Synonyms: lee |
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(adverb) with the wind; in the direction the wind is blowing | - |
(adverb) toward the wind | Synonyms: windward |
downy | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: puberulent, pubescent, sericeous |
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(adjective) like down or as soft as down | Synonyms: downlike, flossy, fluffy |
dowry | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, portion |
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dowse | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowsing, rhabdomancy |
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(verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
(verb) slacken | Synonyms: douse |
(verb) use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal | - |
(verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: douse |
dowser | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowsing rod, water finder, waterfinder |
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(noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: rhabdomancer, water witch |
dowsing | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, rhabdomancy |
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eiderdown | (noun) down of the eider duck | - |
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(noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, duvet |
endow | (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: dower |
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(verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endue, gift, indue, invest |
endowed | (adjective) provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature) | - |
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endowment | (noun) the act of endowing with a permanent source of income | - |
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(noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: gift, natural endowment, talent |
(noun) the capital that provides income for an institution | Synonyms: endowment fund |
eyeshadow | (noun) makeup consisting of a cosmetic substance used to darken the eyes | - |
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foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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foreshadowing | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, prefigurative |
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(noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, prefiguration |
godown | (noun) (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse | - |
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knockdown | (adjective) (furniture) easily assembled and dismantled | - |
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(noun) a blow that knocks the opponent off his feet | - |
landowner | (noun) a holder or proprietor of land | Synonyms: landholder, property owner |
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letdown | (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: disappointment |
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lockdown | (noun) the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot) | - |
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lookdown | (noun) similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead | Synonyms: lookdown fish, Selene vomer |
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meadow | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: hayfield |
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meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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meltdown | (noun) a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown | - |
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(noun) severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping | Synonyms: nuclear meltdown |
overshadow | (verb) cast a shadow upon | - |
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(verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, eclipse |
(verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, shadow |
pandowdy | (noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: dowdy |
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putdownable | (adjective) (of a book) poorly written and not entertaining | - |
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rubdown | (noun) the act of rubbing down, usually for relaxation or medicinal purposes | - |
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rundown | (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: summation, summing up |
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shadow | (noun) refuge from danger or observation | - |
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(noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom |
(noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: tincture, trace, vestige |
(noun) a premonition of something adverse | - |
(noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, darkness |
(noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadower, tail |
(noun) an inseparable companion | - |
(noun) a dominating and pervasive presence | - |
(noun) shade within clear boundaries | - |
(verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge | - |
(verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow |
(verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade, shade off |
shadowbox | (verb) go through boxing motions without an opponent | - |
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shadowboxing | (noun) sparring with an imaginary opponent (for exercise or training) | - |
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shadowed | (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowy, shady, umbrageous |
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shadower | (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadow, tail |
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shadowgraph | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, skiagram, skiagraph |
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shadowiness | (noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shade, shadiness |
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shadowing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: tailing |
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shadowy | (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, faint, vague, wispy |
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(adjective) lacking in substance | Synonyms: wraithlike |
(adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageous |
shakedown | (adjective) intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system | - |
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(noun) extortion of money (as by blackmail) | - |
(noun) a very thorough search of a person or a place | - |
(noun) initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state | - |
shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
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