| accede | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: bow, defer, give in, submit |
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| (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: acquiesce, assent |
| (verb) take on duties or office | Synonyms: enter |
| angioedema | (noun) recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs | Synonyms: atrophedema, giant hives, periodic edema, Quincke's edema |
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| antecede | (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antedate, forego, forgo, precede, predate |
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| antecedence | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority |
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| antecedency | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority |
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| antecedent | (adjective) preceding in time or order | - |
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| (noun) the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun | - |
| (noun) a preceding occurrence or cause or event | - |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: forerunner |
| antecedently | (adverb) at an earlier time or formerly | Synonyms: previously |
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| antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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| arrivederci | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| atrophedema | (noun) recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs | Synonyms: angioedema, giant hives, periodic edema, Quincke's edema |
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| azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| baedeker | (noun) any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker | - |
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| bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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| bedesman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: beadsman |
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| bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| bedevilment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, torment, worrying |
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| bedew | (verb) cover with drops of dew or as with dew | - |
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| bedewed | (adjective) wet with dew | Synonyms: dewy |
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| belvedere | (noun) a gazebo sited to command a fine view | - |
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| (noun) densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn | Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress |
| birdfeeder | (noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds | Synonyms: bird feeder, feeder |
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| bleeder | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| breeder | (noun) a person who breeds animals | Synonyms: stock breeder |
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| cede | (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: deliver, give up, surrender |
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| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: concede, grant, yield |
| centipede | (noun) chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors | - |
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| cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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| concede | (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: confess, profess |
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| (verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: grant, yield |
| (verb) acknowledge defeat | - |
| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, grant, yield |
| confederacy | (noun) a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act | Synonyms: conspiracy |
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| (noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederation, federation |
| (noun) a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: conspiracy |
| confederate | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederative |
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| (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: accomplice |
| (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: collaborator, henchman, partner in crime |
| (verb) form a group or unite | Synonyms: band together |
| (verb) form a confederation with; of nations | - |
| confederation | (noun) the act of forming an alliance or confederation | Synonyms: alliance |
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| (noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederacy, federation |
| (noun) the state of being allied or confederated | Synonyms: alliance |
| confederative | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederate |
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| credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
| credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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| credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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| credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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| credenza | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credence |
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| daredevil | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: temerarious |
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| (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| decedent | (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, departed |
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| diapedesis | (noun) passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue | - |
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| edelweiss | (noun) alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts | Synonyms: Leontopodium alpinum |
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| edema | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: dropsy, hydrops, oedema |
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| edematous | (adjective) swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid | Synonyms: dropsical |
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| edental | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edentate, edentulate |
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| edentate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentulate |
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| (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | - |
| edentulate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentate |
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| edentulous | (adjective) having lost teeth | - |
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| fedelline | (noun) extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli | - |
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| federal | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the central government of a federation | - |
| (adjective) national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units | - |
| federalisation | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
| federalise | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalize |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
| federalism | (noun) the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units | - |
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| federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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| federalization | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
| federalize | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalise |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
| federally | (adverb) by federal government | - |
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| federate | (adjective) united under a central government | Synonyms: federated |
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| (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
| federated | (adjective) united under a central government | Synonyms: federate |
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| federation | (noun) the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs | - |
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| (noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederacy, confederation |
| (noun) an organization formed by merging several groups or parties | - |
| federita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: feterita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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| feeder | (noun) an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening | - |
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| (noun) an animal that feeds on a particular source of food | - |
| (noun) a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material | Synonyms: self-feeder |
| (noun) an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds | Synonyms: bird feeder, birdfeeder |
| (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, tributary |
| (noun) someone who consumes food for nourishment | Synonyms: eater |
| foredeck | (noun) the deck between the bridge and the forecastle | - |
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| gamedev | (noun) someone who develops a game | - |
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| hobbledehoy | (noun) an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy | - |
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| impede | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: hinder |
| impeded | (adjective) made difficult or slow | - |
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| intercede | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| irredeemable | (adjective) (of paper money) not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder | - |
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| (adjective) insusceptible of reform | Synonyms: irreclaimable, unredeemable, unreformable |
| irredenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irridenta |
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| irredentism | (noun) the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related | Synonyms: irridentism |
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| irredentist | (noun) an advocate of irredentism | Synonyms: irridentist |
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| lede | (noun) the introductory section of a story | Synonyms: lead-in, lead |
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| lederhosen | (noun) leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria | - |
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| lespedeza | (noun) shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States | Synonyms: bush clover |
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| lymphedema | (noun) swelling (usually in the legs) caused by lymph accumulating in the tissues in the affected areas | - |
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| medevac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medical evacuation, medivac |
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| millepede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: milliped, millipede |
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| millipede | (noun) any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs | Synonyms: millepede, milliped |
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| mouthbreeder | (noun) any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths | - |
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| mujahedeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| myxedema | (noun) hypothyroidism marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration | Synonyms: myxoedema |
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| myxoedema | (noun) hypothyroidism marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration | Synonyms: myxedema |
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| needed | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needful, required, requisite |
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| needer | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: wanter |
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| oedema | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: dropsy, edema, hydrops |
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| paederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, pederast |
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| paederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: pederastic |
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| paederasty | (noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | Synonyms: pederasty |
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| papilledema | (noun) swelling of the optic disc (where the optic nerve enters the eyeball); usually associated with an increase in intraocular pressure | - |
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| pedelec | (noun) a bicycle built with a motor to aid the cyclist to turn the pedals | - |
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| pederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, paederast |
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| pederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: paederastic |
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| pederasty | (noun) sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | Synonyms: paederasty |
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| pedesis | (noun) the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid | Synonyms: Brownian motion, Brownian movement |
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| pedestal | (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: base, stand |
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| (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, plinth |
| (noun) a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority) | - |
| pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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| (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: footer, walker |
| precede | (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, preface, premise |
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| (verb) move ahead (of others) in time or space | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be the predecessor of | Synonyms: come before |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, predate |
| (verb) come before | Synonyms: predate |
| precedence | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedency, precession |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency, priority |
| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedency, priority |
| precedency | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedence, precession |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, priority |
| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedence, priority |