| beneath | (adverb) in or to a place that is lower | Synonyms: at a lower place, below, to a lower place |
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| bequeath | (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: leave, will |
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| breath | (noun) the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing | - |
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| (noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: hint, intimation |
| (noun) a slight movement of the air | - |
| (noun) the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration | - |
| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| breathalyse | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyze |
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| breathalyser | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyzer |
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| breathalyze | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyse |
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| breathalyzer | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyser |
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| breathe | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: emit, pass off |
| (verb) reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked | - |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather |
| (verb) utter or tell | - |
| (verb) manifest or evince | - |
| (verb) impart as if by breathing | - |
| (verb) be alive | - |
| (verb) allow the passage of air through | - |
| breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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| (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
| breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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| (adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
| (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
| breathlessly | (adverb) in a breathless manner | - |
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| breathlessness | (noun) a dyspneic condition | Synonyms: shortness of breath, SOB |
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| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| death | (noun) the act of killing | - |
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| (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: decease, expiry |
| (noun) the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | - |
| (noun) the absence of life or state of being dead | - |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: destruction, end |
| (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: demise, dying |
| (noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: last |
| deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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| (noun) the last few hours before death | - |
| deathblow | (noun) the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | Synonyms: coup de grace |
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| deathless | (adjective) never dying | Synonyms: undying |
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| deathlike | (adjective) having the physical appearance of death | Synonyms: deathly |
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| deathly | (adjective) having the physical appearance of death | Synonyms: deathlike |
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| (adjective) causing or capable of causing death | Synonyms: deadly, mortal |
| (adverb) to a degree resembling death | - |
| (adverb) to an extreme degree | Synonyms: exceedingly, extremely, super |
| deathrate | (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, fatality rate, mortality, mortality rate |
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| deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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| deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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| (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
| feather | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feathering |
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| (noun) branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds | - |
| (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
| (verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) cover or fit with feathers | - |
| (verb) join tongue and groove, in carpentry | - |
| featherbed | (noun) a mattress stuffed with feathers | Synonyms: feather bed |
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| (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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| featherbrained | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| feathered | (adjective) having or covered with feathers | - |
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| (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathery, plumy |
| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| featheredged | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, deckled |
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| featherfoil | (noun) a plant of the genus Hottonia | Synonyms: feather-foil |
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| featheriness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: downiness, fluffiness |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| featherless | (adjective) having no feathers | Synonyms: unfeathered |
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| featherlike | (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: feathery |
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| feathertop | (noun) northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles | Synonyms: feathertop grass, Pennistum villosum |
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| (noun) a variety of reed grass | Synonyms: Calamagrostis acutiflora, feather reed grass |
| featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
| feathery | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, plumy |
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| (adjective) characterized by a covering of feathers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: featherlike |
| gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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| greathearted | (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: magnanimous |
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| heath | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heathland |
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| (noun) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers | - |
| heathen | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathenish, pagan |
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| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, infidel, pagan |
| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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| heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
| heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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| heathland | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heath |
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| heathlike | (adjective) resembling heath | - |
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| leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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| (verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
| leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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| leathered | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leatherlike, leathery |
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| leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| leatherleaf | (noun) north temperate bog shrub with evergreen leathery leaves and small white cylindrical flowers | Synonyms: Chamaedaphne calyculata |
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| (noun) stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib | Synonyms: coast polypody, leathery polypody, Polypodium scouleri |
| leatherlike | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leathery |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| leatherwood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, moose-wood, moosewood, ropebark, wicopy |
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| (noun) shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage | Synonyms: cyrilla, Cyrilla racemiflora, white titi |
| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| megadeath | (noun) the death of a million people | - |
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| sheath | (noun) a protective covering (as for a knife or sword) | - |
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| (noun) a dress suitable for formal occasions | Synonyms: cocktail dress |
| (noun) an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part | Synonyms: case |
| sheathe | (verb) enclose with a sheath | - |
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| (verb) cover with a protective sheathing | - |
| (verb) plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh | - |
| sheathed | (adjective) enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| sheathing | (noun) protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior | Synonyms: overlay, overlayer |
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| underneath | (adverb) under or below an object or a surface; at a lower place or level; directly beneath | - |
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| (adverb) on the lower or downward side; on the underside of | - |
| unfeathered | (adjective) having no feathers | Synonyms: featherless |
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| (adjective) not having feathers | - |
| unsheathe | (verb) draw from a sheath or scabbard | - |
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| unsheathed | (adjective) not having a protective covering | Synonyms: bare |
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| unweathered | (adjective) not worn by exposure to the weather | - |
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| weather | (adjective) towards the side exposed to wind | Synonyms: upwind |
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| (noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation | Synonyms: atmospheric condition, conditions, weather condition |
| (verb) change under the action or influence of the weather | - |
| (verb) cause to slope | - |
| (verb) sail to the windward of | - |
| (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, endure |
| weatherboard | (noun) the side toward the wind | Synonyms: weather side, windward side |
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| (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: clapboard, weatherboarding |
| weatherboarding | (noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: clapboard, weatherboard |
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| weathercock | (noun) weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster | - |
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| weathered | (adjective) worn by exposure to the weather | Synonyms: weather-beaten, weatherworn |
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| weatherglass | (noun) a simple barometer for indicating changes in atmospheric pressure | - |
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| weatherliness | (noun) (of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind) | - |
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| weatherly | (adjective) (of a sailing vessel) making very little leeway when close-hauled | - |
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| weatherman | (noun) predicts the weather | Synonyms: weather forecaster |
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| weatherproof | (adjective) able to withstand exposure to weather without damage | - |
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| (verb) make resistant to bad weather | - |
| weatherstrip | (noun) a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold | Synonyms: weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstripping |
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| (verb) provide with weatherstripping | - |
| weatherstripping | (noun) a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold | Synonyms: weather strip, weather stripping, weatherstrip |
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| weathervane | (noun) mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: vane, weather vane, wind vane |
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| weatherworn | (adjective) worn by exposure to the weather | Synonyms: weather-beaten, weathered |
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| wreath | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, garland, lei |
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| wreathe | (verb) form into a wreath | Synonyms: wind |
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| (verb) decorate or deck with wreaths | - |
| (verb) move with slow, sinuous movements | - |