cecropia | (noun) North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees | Synonyms: cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia |
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consecrate | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrated, dedicated |
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(verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify |
(verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: vow |
(verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give |
(verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate |
consecrated | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicated |
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(adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: sacred, sanctified |
consecration | (noun) (religion) sanctification of something by setting it apart (usually with religious rites) as dedicated to God | - |
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(noun) a solemn commitment of your life or your time to some cherished purpose (to a service or a goal) | - |
deconsecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: desecrate, unhallow |
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deconsecrated | (adjective) divested of consecration | - |
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decrease | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down |
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(noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrement |
(noun) a change downward | Synonyms: drop-off, lessening |
(noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrement |
(verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
(verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
decreased | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: reduced |
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decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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(adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
decree | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: edict, fiat, order, rescript |
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(verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: rule |
(verb) issue a decree | - |
decreed | (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, ordained, prescribed |
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decrement | (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrease |
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(noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrease |
decrementation | (noun) the operation of subtracting one from the operand. | - |
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decrepit | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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(verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
decrepitation | (noun) the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated | - |
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decrepitude | (noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: dilapidation |
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(noun) The quality or state of being wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age. | - |
decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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(noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
(verb) grow quieter | - |
decriminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalization |
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decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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decry | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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decrypt | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decode |
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decryption | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decoding |
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desecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, unhallow |
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(verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: outrage, profane, violate |
desecrated | (adjective) treated with disrespect and contempt | - |
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desecration | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, profanation, sacrilege |
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ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
ecru | (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: beige |
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execrable | (adjective) deserving to be execrated | Synonyms: damnable |
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(adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, detestable, odious |
(adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, miserable, woeful, wretched |
execrate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate |
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(verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, abominate, loathe |
execration | (noun) the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated | - |
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(noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, curse |
(noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, loathing, odium |
firecracker | (noun) firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing | Synonyms: banger, cracker |
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gatecrasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: crasher, unwelcome guest |
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housecraft | (noun) skill in domestic management | - |
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hypersecretion | (noun) excessive secretion | - |
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icecream | (noun) frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring | Synonyms: ice cream |
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myonecrosis | (noun) localized death of muscle cell fibers | - |
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necrobiosis | (noun) (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells) | Synonyms: cell death |
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necrolatry | (noun) superstitious worship or veneration of the dead. | - |
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necrology | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: obit, obituary |
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(noun) a list of people who died recently | - |
necrolysis | (noun) disintegration and dissolution of dead tissue | - |
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necromancer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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(noun) one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead | - |
necromancy | (noun) conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying | - |
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(noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, sorcery |
necromania | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necrophilia, necrophilism |
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necromantic | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantical |
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(adjective) given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead | - |
necromantical | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantic |
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necrophagia | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagy |
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necrophagy | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagia |
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necrophilia | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilism |
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necrophilism | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilia |
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necropolis | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, graveyard, memorial park |
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necropsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: autopsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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necrose | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, sphacelate |
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necrosis | (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: gangrene, mortification, sphacelus |
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necrotic | (adjective) relating to or affected by necrosis | - |
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needlecraft | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlework |
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(noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlework |
nonrecreational | (adjective) involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby | Synonyms: paid |
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olecranon | (noun) process of the ulna that forms the outer bump of the elbow and fits into the fossa of the humerus when the arm is extended | Synonyms: olecranon process |
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reconsecrate | (verb) consecrate anew, as after a desecration | - |
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recreant | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: craven |
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(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle | Synonyms: renegade |
(noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: craven, poltroon |
(noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, renegade, turncoat |
recreate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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(verb) form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind | Synonyms: re-create |
(verb) produce or make another of | Synonyms: re-create |
(verb) make a replica of | Synonyms: copy, re-create |
(verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, hearten |
(verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: play |
recreation | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: diversion |
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(noun) activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation | Synonyms: refreshment |
recreational | (adjective) of or relating to recreation | - |
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(adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: amateur, unpaid |
recriminate | (verb) return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return | - |
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recrimination | (noun) mutual accusations | - |
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recriminative | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminatory |
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recriminatory | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminative |
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recrudesce | (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, erupt |
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(verb) happen | Synonyms: break, develop |
recrudescence | (noun) a return of something after a period of abatement | - |
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recrudescent | (adjective) the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement | - |
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recruit | (noun) any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) | Synonyms: enlistee |
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(noun) a recently enlisted soldier | Synonyms: military recruit |
(verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: levy, raise |
(verb) seek to employ | - |
(verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, inscribe, raise |
recruiter | (noun) an official who enlists personnel for military service | - |
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(noun) someone who supplies members or employees | - |
recruitment | (noun) the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | Synonyms: enlisting |
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safecracker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safebreaker |
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scarecrow | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarer, straw man, strawman |
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scarecrowish | (adjective) resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged | - |
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secrecy | (noun) the trait of keeping things secret | Synonyms: secretiveness, silence |
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(noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privacy, privateness |
secret | (adjective) the next to highest level of official classification for documents | - |
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(adjective) not open or public; kept private or not revealed | - |
(adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic |
(adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: private |
(adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: confidential |
(adjective) not openly made known | Synonyms: unavowed |
(adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
(adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: hidden |
(adjective) indulging only covertly | - |
(adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secluded |
(adjective) communicated covertly | - |
(noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, enigma, mystery |
(noun) something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on) | - |
(noun) information known only to a special group | Synonyms: arcanum |
secretaire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretary, writing table |
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secretarial | (adjective) of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work | - |
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secretariat | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariate |
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secretariate | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariat |
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secretary | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretaire, writing table |
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(noun) an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization | Synonyms: secretarial assistant |
(noun) a person who is head of an administrative department of government | - |
(noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: repository |
secretaryship | (noun) the position of secretary | - |
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secretase | (noun) a set of enzymes believed to snip pieces off a longer protein producing fragments of amyloid protein that bunch up and create amyloid protein plaques in brain tissue (the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's) | - |
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secrete | (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | Synonyms: release |
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(verb) place out of sight; keep secret | - |
secreter | (noun) any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: gland, secretor, secretory organ |
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secretin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of water and bicarbonate from the pancreas and bile ducts whenever the stomach empties too much acid into the small intestine | - |
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secretion | (noun) a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell | - |
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(noun) the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance | Synonyms: secernment |
secretive | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, tightlipped |
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secretively | (adverb) in a secretive manner; with a preference for secrecy | - |
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secretiveness | (noun) characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) | Synonyms: closeness |
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(noun) the trait of keeping things secret | Synonyms: secrecy, silence |
secretly | (adverb) in secrecy; not openly | Synonyms: in secret, on the Q.T., on the QT |
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(adverb) not openly; inwardly | - |
secretor | (noun) any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: gland, secreter, secretory organ |
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secretory | (adjective) of or relating to or producing a secretion | - |
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sharecropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: cropper, sharecrop farmer |
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spacecraft | (noun) a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun | Synonyms: ballistic capsule, space vehicle |
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stagecraft | (noun) skill in writing or staging plays | - |
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