becloud | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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cerecloth | (noun) a waterproof waxed cloth once used as a shroud | - |
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cheesecloth | (noun) a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses | - |
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declaim | (verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: recite |
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(verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: inveigh |
declamation | (noun) vehement oratory | - |
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(noun) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric | - |
declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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declarable | (adjective) that must be declared | - |
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declaration | (noun) a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written) | - |
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(noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: resolution, resolve |
(noun) (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction | - |
(noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, proclamation |
(noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | Synonyms: contract |
(noun) a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties | - |
declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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(adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
(noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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declare | (verb) state emphatically and authoritatively | - |
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(verb) state firmly | - |
(verb) make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official | - |
(verb) declare to be | Synonyms: adjudge, hold |
(verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: announce |
(verb) proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against | - |
(verb) designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand | - |
(verb) authorize payments of | - |
declared | (adjective) made known or openly avowed | - |
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(adjective) declared as fact; explicitly stated | Synonyms: stated |
declarer | (noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: contractor |
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(noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, avower |
declassification | (noun) reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon | - |
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declassified | (adjective) having had security classification removed | - |
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declassify | (verb) lift the restriction on and make available again | - |
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declaw | (verb) remove the claws from | - |
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declension | (noun) a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms | - |
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(noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
(noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: decline in quality, deterioration, worsening |
(noun) the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages | - |
declination | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: regrets |
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(noun) (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere | Synonyms: celestial latitude, dec |
(noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
(noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: decline |
decline | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
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(noun) a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current | Synonyms: decay |
(noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: diminution |
(noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: declination |
(verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: go down, wane |
(verb) grow worse | Synonyms: worsen |
(verb) show unwillingness towards | Synonyms: refuse |
(verb) inflect for number, gender, case, etc. | - |
(verb) go down | - |
(verb) fall in value | Synonyms: correct, slump |
(verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: pass up, refuse, reject, turn down |
declinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring magnetic declination | Synonyms: transit declinometer |
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declivitous | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: downhill, downward-sloping |
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declivity | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, descent, downslope, fall |
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declutch | (verb) disengage the clutch of a car | - |
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eclair | (noun) oblong cream puff | - |
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eclampsia | (noun) a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy | - |
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eclat | (noun) brilliant or conspicuous success or effect | - |
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(noun) ceremonial elegance and splendor | Synonyms: pomp |
(noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, plaudit, plaudits |
eclectic | (adjective) selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas | - |
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(noun) someone who selects according to the eclectic method | Synonyms: eclecticist |
eclecticism | (noun) making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style | Synonyms: eclectic method |
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eclecticist | (noun) someone who selects according to the eclectic method | Synonyms: eclectic |
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eclipse | (noun) one celestial body obscures another | Synonyms: occultation |
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(verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: occult |
(verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, overshadow |
eclipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: ellipsis |
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ecliptic | (noun) the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator | - |
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eclogue | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, idyl, idyll |
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fireclay | (noun) a heat-resistant clay | - |
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foreclose | (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage | - |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent |
foreclosure | (noun) the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default | - |
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horsecloth | (noun) a cloth for the trapping of a horse | - |
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houseclean | (verb) clean and tidy up the house | Synonyms: clean, clean house |
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housecleaning | (noun) the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house | - |
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(noun) (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions | - |
irreclaimable | (adjective) insusceptible of reform | Synonyms: irredeemable, unredeemable, unreformable |
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meclizine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Antivert) used to treat or prevent motion sickness | Synonyms: Antivert, meclizine hydrochloride |
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meclofenamate | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Meclomen) used to treat arthritis | Synonyms: meclofenamate sodium, Meclomen |
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pipeclay | (noun) fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather | Synonyms: terra alba |
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preclinical | (adjective) of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared | Synonyms: presymptomatic |
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preclude | (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, prevent |
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(verb) make impossible, especially beforehand | Synonyms: close out, rule out |
preclusion | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: forestalling, obviation |
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preclusive | (adjective) made impossible | Synonyms: obviating |
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preeclampsia | (noun) abnormal state of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and fluid retention and albuminuria; can lead to eclampsia if untreated | Synonyms: pre-eclampsia |
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reclaim | (verb) make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state | - |
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(verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame |
(verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: rectify, reform, regenerate |
(verb) claim back | Synonyms: repossess |
(verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: recover |
reclaimable | (adjective) capable of being used again | Synonyms: recyclable, reusable |
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reclaimed | (adjective) delivered from danger | Synonyms: rescued |
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reclamation | (noun) rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course | Synonyms: reformation |
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(noun) the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation | Synonyms: rehabilitation, renewal |
(noun) the recovery of useful substances from waste products | - |
reclassification | (noun) classifying something again (usually in a new category) | - |
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reclassify | (verb) classify anew, change the previous classification | - |
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recline | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recumb, repose |
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(verb) cause to recline | - |
(verb) move the upper body backwards and down | Synonyms: lean back |
recliner | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: lounger, reclining chair |
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reclining | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position | - |
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recluse | (adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | Synonyms: reclusive, withdrawn |
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(noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
reclusive | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, secluded, sequestered |
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(adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | Synonyms: recluse, withdrawn |
reclusiveness | (noun) a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation | - |
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saddlecloth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle | Synonyms: horse blanket, saddle blanket |
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seclude | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: sequester, sequestrate, withdraw |
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secluded | (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secret |
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(adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, reclusive, sequestered |
seclusion | (noun) the act of secluding yourself from others | - |
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(noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privacy, privateness |
tablecloth | (noun) a covering spread over a dining table | - |
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undeclared | (adjective) not announced or openly acknowledged | - |
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