| freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
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| freeloader | (noun) someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others | - |
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| freely | (adverb) in a free manner | - |
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| freemail | (noun) a service providing free email delivery in exchange for exposure to advertising | - |
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| freeman | (noun) a male person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freemasonry | (noun) a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests | - |
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| freeperson | (noun) a person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freesia | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or pink tubular flowers | - |
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| freestanding | (adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything | Synonyms: separate |
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| freestone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit | - |
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| freestyle | (noun) a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use | - |
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| freestyling | (noun) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping. | - |
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| freetail | (noun) small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions | Synonyms: free-tailed bat, freetailed bat |
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| freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| freeware | (noun) software that is provided without charge | - |
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| freeway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| freewheel | (noun) a clutch (as on the rear wheel of a bicycle) that allows wheels to turn freely (as in coasting) | - |
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| (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: drift |
| freewheeler | (noun) someone acting freely or even irresponsibly | Synonyms: free agent, free spirit |
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| freewheeling | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of restraints or rules | - |
| freewill | (adjective) done of your own accord | - |
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| freewoman | (noun) a female person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freeze | (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: halt |
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| (noun) fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level | - |
| (noun) weather cold enough to cause freezing | Synonyms: frost |
| (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freezing |
| (verb) be cold | - |
| (verb) anesthetize by cold | - |
| (verb) suddenly behave coldly and formally | - |
| (verb) change to ice | - |
| (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: suspend |
| (verb) cause to freeze | - |
| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize |
| (verb) change from a liquid to a solid when cold | Synonyms: freeze down, freeze out |
| (verb) stop moving or become immobilized | Synonyms: stop dead |
| (verb) be very cold, below the freezing point | - |
| freezer | (noun) electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time | Synonyms: deep-freeze, deep freezer, Deepfreeze |
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| freezing | (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freeze |
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| fricassee | (noun) pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings | - |
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| (verb) make a fricassee of by cooking | - |
| frostweed | (noun) perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts | Synonyms: Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostwort, Helianthemum canadense |
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| (noun) tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: frost-weed, Verbesina virginica, Virginia crownbeard |
| fusee | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fuze, fuzee, primer, priming |
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| (noun) a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind | Synonyms: fuzee |
| (noun) a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains | Synonyms: fuzee |
| (noun) a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring | Synonyms: fusee drive |
| fuzee | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, primer, priming |
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| (noun) a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind | Synonyms: fusee |
| (noun) a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains | Synonyms: fusee |
| gadgeteer | (noun) a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets | - |
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| gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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| garnishee | (noun) a wage earner who is served with a garnishment | - |
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| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnish |
| gatekeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) someone who controls access to something | - |
| gazetteer | (noun) a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas) | - |
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| (noun) a journalist who writes for a gazette | - |
| gee | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated | Synonyms: g-force, g |
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| (verb) give a command to a horse to turn to the right side | - |
| (verb) turn to the right side | - |
| geebung | (noun) any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits | - |
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| geek | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball |
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| (noun) a carnival performer who does disgusting acts | - |
| (verb) to be intoxicated | - |
| geeked | (adjective) High on a drug such as cocaine | - |
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| geezer | (noun) a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric | - |
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| geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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| genteel | (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, polite |
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| genteelly | (adverb) in a genteel manner | - |
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| genteelness | (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: breeding, gentility |
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| germfree | (adjective) free from germs or pathogenic organisms; sterile | - |
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| ghee | (noun) clarified butter used in Indian cookery | - |
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| gidgee | (noun) scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms | Synonyms: Acacia cambegei, stinking wattle |
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| glee | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: gleefulness, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: gloat, gloating |
| gleeful | (adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, joyful, jubilant |
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| gleefully | (adverb) in a joyous and gleeful manner | Synonyms: joyfully, joyously |
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| gleefulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness |
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| gleet | (noun) a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea | - |
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| goalkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
| goatee | (noun) a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard | - |
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| goateed | (adjective) having a small pointed chin beard | - |
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| grandee | (noun) a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal | - |
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| grantee | (noun) a recipient of a grant | - |
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| (noun) someone to whom the title of property is transferred | Synonyms: alienee |
| gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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| greed | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, rapacity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves | - |
| greedily | (adverb) in a greedy manner | Synonyms: avariciously, covetously |
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| greediness | (noun) an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts) | Synonyms: rapaciousness, voraciousness |
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| (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: hoggishness, piggishness |
| greedy | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, prehensile |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, esurient |
| (adjective) wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume | - |
| greegree | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: gres-gris, grigri |
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| green | (adjective) not fully developed or mature; not ripe | Synonyms: immature, unripe, unripened |
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| (adjective) concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party | - |
| (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, greenish, light-green |
| (adjective) looking pale and unhealthy | - |
| (adjective) naive and easily deceived or tricked | Synonyms: fleeceable, gullible |
| (noun) street names for ketamine | Synonyms: cat valium, honey oil, jet, K, special K, super acid, super C |
| (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: greenness, viridity |
| (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: greens, leafy vegetable |
| (noun) an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course | Synonyms: putting green, putting surface |
| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, commons, park |
| (verb) turn or become green | - |
| greenback | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, note |
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| greenbelt | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenway |
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| greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
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| greenbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| greenery | (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: verdure |
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| greeneye | (noun) bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster | - |
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| greenfly | (noun) greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants | - |
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| greengage | (noun) sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum | Synonyms: greengage plum |
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| greengrocer | (noun) a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables | - |
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| greengrocery | (noun) a greengrocer's grocery store | - |
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| (noun) groceries sold by a greengrocer | - |
| greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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| greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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| greenhouse | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect | - |
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| (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: glasshouse |
| greening | (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: rejuvenation |
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| greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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| greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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| greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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| greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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| greenly | (adverb) with green color | - |
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| greenmail | (noun) (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
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| greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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| greenness | (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: green, viridity |
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| (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: verdancy, verdure |
| (noun) the state of not being ripe | - |
| greenockite | (noun) ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form | Synonyms: cadmium sulphide |
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| greenroom | (noun) a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors | - |
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| greens | (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: green, leafy vegetable |
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| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| greenshank | (noun) large European sandpiper with greenish legs | Synonyms: Tringa nebularia |
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| greensick | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: chlorotic |
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| greensickness | (noun) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin | Synonyms: chlorosis |
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| greenside | (adjective) adjacent to a putting green | - |
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| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| greenway | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenbelt |
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| greenweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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| greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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| greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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| greet | (verb) react to in a certain way | - |
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| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) send greetings to | - |
| (verb) be perceived by | - |