| draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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| (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
| (noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
| (noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
| (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draft |
| draughts | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: checkers |
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| draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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| draughty | (adjective) not airtight | Synonyms: drafty |
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| draw | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: haul, haulage |
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| (noun) poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer | Synonyms: draw poker |
| (noun) (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: draw play |
| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: hook, hooking |
| (noun) a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack | - |
| (noun) anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random | Synonyms: lot |
| (noun) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided | Synonyms: standoff, tie |
| (noun) a gully that is shallower than a ravine | - |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractor, drawing card |
| (verb) cause to localize at one point | - |
| (verb) shrink | - |
| (verb) flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching | - |
| (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate |
| (verb) reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die | - |
| (verb) bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition | - |
| (verb) steep; pass through a strainer | - |
| (verb) make, formulate, or derive in the mind | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) select or take in from a given group or region | - |
| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, describe |
| (verb) finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. | Synonyms: tie |
| (verb) choose at random | Synonyms: cast |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, puff |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, line, trace |
| (verb) move or pull so as to cover or uncover something | - |
| (verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: pull |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw in, pull, pull in |
| (verb) stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow) | Synonyms: pull back |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: guide, pass, run |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: string, thread |
| (verb) represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface | - |
| (verb) earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) engage in drawing | - |
| (verb) write a legal document or paper | - |
| (verb) elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc. | - |
| (verb) take liquid out of a container or well | Synonyms: take out |
| (verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: get out, pull, pull out, take out |
| (verb) move or go steadily or gradually | - |
| (verb) to obtain a liquid from somewhere | - |
| (verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: pull |
| (verb) get or derive | Synonyms: reap |
| (verb) remove (a commodity) from (a supply source) | Synonyms: draw off, take out, withdraw |
| (verb) pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him | Synonyms: draw and quarter, quarter |
| (verb) allow a draft | - |
| (verb) require a specified depth for floating | - |
| drawback | (noun) the quality of being a hindrance | - |
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| drawbar | (noun) a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled | - |
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| drawbridge | (noun) a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it | Synonyms: lift bridge |
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| drawee | (noun) the person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment | - |
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| drawer | (noun) a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out | - |
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| (noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: draftsman |
| (noun) the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else | - |
| drawers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, knickers, pants |
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| (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, shorts, underdrawers |
| drawing | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, draftsmanship |
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| (noun) act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source | Synonyms: drawing off |
| (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: lottery |
| (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, draught |
| (noun) a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines | - |
| (noun) an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper | - |
| drawknife | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawshave |
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| drawl | (noun) a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels | - |
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| (verb) lengthen and slow down or draw out | - |
| drawler | (noun) someone who speaks with a drawl | - |
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| drawn | (adjective) having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut | - |
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| (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, haggard, raddled, worn |
| drawnwork | (noun) ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns | - |
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| drawshave | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawknife |
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| drawstring | (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, string |
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| dray | (noun) a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage | Synonyms: camion |
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| drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
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| dread | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness |
| (verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: fear |
| dreaded | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| dreadful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) extremely disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| dreadfully | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, horribly |
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| (adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dismally |
| dreadfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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| dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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| dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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| dream | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dreaming |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dreaming |
| (noun) a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) | Synonyms: pipe dream |
| (noun) a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality | - |
| (noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: ambition, aspiration |
| (noun) someone or something wonderful | - |
| (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather |
| (verb) experience while sleeping | - |
| dreamed | (adjective) conceived of or imagined or hoped for | - |
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| dreamer | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: escapist, wishful thinker |
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| (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: idealist |
| (noun) someone who is dreaming | - |
| dreamfully | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamily, moonily |
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| dreamily | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamfully, moonily |
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| dreaminess | (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: languor |
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| dreaming | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dream |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dream |
| dreamland | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamworld, never-never land |
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| dreamless | (adjective) untroubled by dreams | - |
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| dreamlike | (adjective) resembling a dream | Synonyms: surreal |
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| dreamworld | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamland, never-never land |
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| dreamy | (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: moony, woolgathering |
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| (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: lackadaisical, languid, languorous |
| drear | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| drearily | (adverb) in a cheerless manner | Synonyms: dismally |
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| dreariness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, insipidity, insipidness |
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| dreary | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| (adjective) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise | Synonyms: drab |
| dreck | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: schlock, shlock |
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| dredge | (noun) a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed | - |
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| (verb) remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | - |
| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: drag |
| (verb) cover before cooking | - |
| dredger | (noun) a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
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| dreg | (noun) a small amount of residue | - |
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| dregs | (noun) sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid | Synonyms: settlings |
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| drekkar | (noun) a Viking longship, described in historical sources as elegant and ornately decorated, and used by those who went raiding and plundering. | - |
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| drench | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: imbrue |
| (verb) force to drink | - |
| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: swamp |
| drenched | (adjective) abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination | Synonyms: drenched in |
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| drenching | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: soaking, souse, sousing |
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| dress | (adjective) (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes | Synonyms: full-dress |
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| (adjective) suitable for formal occasions | Synonyms: full-dress |
| (noun) a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice | Synonyms: frock |
| (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: attire, garb |
| (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: apparel, clothes, wearing apparel |
| (verb) put on clothes | Synonyms: get dressed |
| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| (verb) apply a bandage or medication to | - |
| (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, set |
| (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: plume, preen, primp |
| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: curry, groom |
| (verb) dress in a certain manner | Synonyms: dress up |
| (verb) kill and prepare for market or consumption | Synonyms: dress out |
| (verb) convert into leather | - |
| (verb) put a dressing on | - |
| (verb) put a finish on | - |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: decorate |
| (verb) cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width | - |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: garnish, trim |
| (verb) arrange in ranks | Synonyms: line up |
| dressage | (noun) maneuvers of a horse in response to body signals by the rider | - |
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| dressed | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| (adjective) (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth | Synonyms: polished |
| (adjective) treated with medications and protective covering | - |
| (adjective) dressed in fancy or formal clothing | Synonyms: dolled up, dressed-up, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, spiffed up, spruced up, togged up |
| dresser | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: bureau, chest, chest of drawers |
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| (noun) a cabinet with shelves | - |
| (noun) low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup | Synonyms: dressing table, toilet table, vanity |
| (noun) a wardrobe assistant for an actor | Synonyms: actor's assistant |
| (noun) a person who dresses in a particular way | - |
| dressing | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: grooming |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, binding |
| (noun) processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering for a wound or sore | Synonyms: medical dressing |
| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
| (noun) savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type | Synonyms: salad dressing |
| (noun) a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables | Synonyms: stuffing |
| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| dressy | (adjective) in fancy clothing | - |
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| drey | (noun) the nest of a squirrel | - |
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| drib | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: driblet, drop |
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| dribble | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribbling |
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| (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slobber |
| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: drip, trickle |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| (verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
| dribbler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: driveller, drooler, slobberer |
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| (noun) a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it | - |
| dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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| driblet | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, drop |
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| dried | (adjective) not still wet | - |
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| (adjective) preserved by removing natural moisture | Synonyms: dehydrated, desiccated |
| drier | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: dryer |
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| (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drying agent, siccative |
| drift | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: gallery, heading |
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| (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: purport |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: movement, trend |
| (noun) a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents | - |
| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
| (noun) the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) | - |
| (noun) a process of linguistic change over a period of time | - |
| (verb) be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current | - |
| (verb) be subject to fluctuation | - |
| (verb) drive slowly and far afield for grazing | - |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: err, stray |
| (verb) move in an unhurried fashion | - |
| (verb) cause to be carried by a current | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: freewheel |
| (verb) vary or move from a fixed point or course | - |
| driftage | (noun) the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting | - |
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| drifter | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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| driftfish | (noun) small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide | - |
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| (noun) larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico | - |
| drifting | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
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| (noun) aimless wandering from place to place | - |
| driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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| drill | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practice session, recitation |
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| (noun) (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms | - |
| (noun) similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored | Synonyms: Mandrillus leucophaeus |
| (noun) a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) | - |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise |
| (verb) teach by repetition | - |
| (verb) train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons | - |
| (verb) undergo military training or do military exercises | - |
| (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: bore |
| drilled | (adjective) trained in a skill by repetitious practice | - |
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| drilling | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: boring, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: boring |
| drily | (adverb) in a dry laconic manner | Synonyms: dryly, laconically |
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| drink | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drinking, drunkenness |
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| (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, swallow |
| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drinkable, potable |
| (noun) a single serving of a beverage | - |
| (noun) any large deep body of water | - |
| (verb) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to | Synonyms: drink in |
| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: imbibe |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: tope |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail |
| drinkable | (adjective) suitable for drinking | Synonyms: potable |
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| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drink, potable |
| drinker | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: imbiber, juicer, toper |
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| (noun) a person who drinks liquids | - |
| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| drip | (noun) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) | Synonyms: drip mold, drip mould |
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| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: dripping |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drop |
| (verb) fall in drops | - |
| dripless | (adjective) designed to prevent dripping | - |
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| drippage | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: dripping |
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| drippily | (adverb) in a mawkish and emotional manner | Synonyms: mawkishly |
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| drippiness | (noun) the physical property of being soft and drippy | - |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| dripping | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: drippage |
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| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: drip |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: soaking, sopping |
| drippings | (noun) fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried | - |
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| drippy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) leaking in drops | - |
| (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drizzly |
| dripstone | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: hoodmold, hoodmould |
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| (noun) the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites | - |
| drive | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: ride |
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| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: driving |
| (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: driving force, thrust |
| (noun) (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | - |
| (noun) the act of driving a herd of animals overland | - |
| (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: parkway |
| (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: driveway, private road |
| (noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium | - |
| (noun) the trait of being highly motivated | - |
| (noun) a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, get |
| (verb) (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground | - |
| (verb) (hunting) search for game | - |
| (verb) cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling | - |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: force, ram |
| (verb) cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force | - |
| (verb) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally | - |
| (verb) strike with a driver, as in teeing off | - |
| (verb) excavate horizontally | - |
| (verb) push, propel, or press with force | - |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse |
| (verb) compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment | - |
| (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: motor |
| (verb) operate or control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) cause someone or something to move by driving | - |
| (verb) move by being propelled by a force | - |
| (verb) urge forward | - |
| (verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug |
| (verb) to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly | - |
| (verb) work as a driver | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: ride |
| drivel | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: garbage |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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| (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
| driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
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| (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
| (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |
| driver | (noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | Synonyms: number one wood |
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| (noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device | Synonyms: device driver |
| (noun) the operator of a motor vehicle | - |
| (noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver | - |
| (noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle | - |
| driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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| driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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