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 | - |
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 |
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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nonrecreational | (adjective) involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby | Synonyms: paid |
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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 |
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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stonecress | (noun) any Old World herb of the genus Aethionema; native of sunny limestone habitats | Synonyms: stone cress |
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undersecretary | (noun) a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government | - |
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