| become | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: get, go |
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| (verb) come into existence | - |
| (verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: suit |
| becoming | (adjective) displaying or setting off to best advantage | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
| becomingly | (adverb) in a becoming manner | - |
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| becomingness | (noun) the quality of being becoming | - |
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| decommission | (verb) withdraw from active service | - |
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| decomposable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: analyzable |
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| decompose | (verb) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | Synonyms: break down, break up |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: molder, moulder, rot |
| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, disintegrate |
| decomposition | (noun) the analysis of a vector field | Synonyms: vector decomposition |
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| (noun) the organic phenomenon of rotting | Synonyms: decay |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, 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: breakdown, chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: disintegration |
| decompositional | (adjective) causing organic decay | - |
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| decompound | (adjective) of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound | - |
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| decompress | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: depressurise, depressurize |
| (verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: uncompress |
| decompressing | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompression |
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| decompression | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompressing |
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| (noun) restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display | - |
| gynecomastia | (noun) excessive development of the breasts in males; usually the result of hormonal imbalance or treatment with certain drugs (including some antihypertensives) | - |
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| homecoming | (noun) a coming to or returning home | Synonyms: return |
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| (noun) an annual school or university reunion for graduates | - |
| latecomer | (noun) someone who arrives late | - |
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| recombinant | (adjective) of or relating to recombinant DNA | - |
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| (noun) a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred | - |
| recombination | (noun) (genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles | - |
| recombine | (verb) undergo genetic recombination | - |
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| (verb) cause genetic recombination | - |
| (verb) to combine or put together again | - |
| recommence | (verb) begin again | - |
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| (verb) cause to start anew | - |
| recommencement | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: resumption |
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| recommend | (verb) make attractive or acceptable | - |
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| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, urge |
| recommendation | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: passport |
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| (noun) something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable | - |
| (noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | Synonyms: good word, testimonial |
| recommit | (verb) send back to a committee | - |
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| (verb) commit again | - |
| (verb) commit once again, as of a crime | - |
| recompense | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: compensation |
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| (noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered) | - |
| (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, remunerate |
| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, repair |
| telecom | (noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecommunication |
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| telecommerce | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telemarketing, teleselling |
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| telecommunicate | (verb) communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail | - |
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| telecommunication | (noun) (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance | - |
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| (noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecom |
| telecommuting | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: teleworking |
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| unbecoming | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, uncomely, unseemly, untoward |
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| unbecomingly | (adverb) without decorousness | Synonyms: indecorously |
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| unbecomingness | (noun) the quality of being unbecoming | - |
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| (noun) The state of not being flattering, attractive or appropriate. | - |
| undecomposable | (adjective) representing the furthest possible extent of analysis or division into parts | Synonyms: unanalyzable |
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| undecomposed | (adjective) not decayed | Synonyms: incorrupt |
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