| backbench | (noun) any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons | - |
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| backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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| bench | (noun) a long seat for more than one person | - |
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| (noun) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic | Synonyms: work bench, workbench |
| (noun) (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom | - |
| (noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: judiciary |
| (noun) the reserve players on a team | - |
| (noun) a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) | Synonyms: terrace |
| (verb) To lift a weight using a bench press | - |
| (verb) To exercise using a bench press | - |
| (verb) exhibit on a bench | - |
| (verb) take out of a game; of players | - |
| benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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| (noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
| blench | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, pale |
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| chlorenchyma | (noun) parenchyma whose cells contain chloroplasts | - |
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| clench | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
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| (noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clinch |
| (verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clinch |
| (verb) squeeze together tightly | - |
| clenched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clinched |
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| crossbench | (noun) any of the seats in the House of Commons used by members who do not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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| crossbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who does not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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| disenchant | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disillusion |
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| disenchanted | (adjective) freed from enchantment | - |
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| disenchanting | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disillusioning |
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| disenchantment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disillusion, disillusionment |
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| drench | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: imbrue |
| (verb) force to drink | - |
| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: swamp |
| drenched | (adjective) abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination | Synonyms: drenched in |
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| drenching | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: soaking, souse, sousing |
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| enchain | (verb) restrain or bind with chains | - |
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| enchained | (adjective) bound with chains | Synonyms: chained, in chains |
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| enchant | (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
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| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| enchanted | (adjective) influenced as by charms or incantations | - |
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| enchanter | (noun) a sorcerer or magician | - |
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| enchanting | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| enchantingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: bewitchingly, captivatingly, enthrallingly |
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| enchantingness | (noun) Quality of having the ability to enchant; being charming, delightful. | - |
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| enchantment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: bewitchment |
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| (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enthrallment, fascination |
| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: spell, trance |
| enchantress | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: witch |
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| (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, femme fatale, siren, temptress |
| enchilada | (noun) tortilla with meat filling baked in tomato sauce seasoned with chili | - |
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| enchiridion | (noun) a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location | Synonyms: handbook, vade mecum |
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| enchondroma | (noun) benign slow-growing tumor of cartilaginous cells at the ends of tubular bones (especially in the hands and feet) | - |
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| entrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: intrench |
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| (verb) occupy a trench or secured area | Synonyms: dig in |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, impinge, trench |
| entrenched | (adjective) established firmly and securely | - |
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| (adjective) dug in | - |
| entrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: intrenchment |
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| frontbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is a minister in the government or who holds an official position in an opposition party | - |
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| henchman | (noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: collaborator, confederate, partner in crime |
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| intrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: entrench |
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| intrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: entrenchment |
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| mesenchyme | (noun) mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles | - |
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| oldwench | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish | Synonyms: Balistes vetula, Bessy cerca, oldwife, queen triggerfish |
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| parenchyma | (noun) animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels | - |
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| (noun) the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems | - |
| penchant | (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: predilection, preference, taste |
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| quench | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, squelch |
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| (verb) cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid | - |
| (verb) reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance | - |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, slake |
| (verb) suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device | - |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, extinguish, snuff out |
| quenched | (adjective) allayed | Synonyms: satisfied, slaked |
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| (adjective) subdued or overcome | Synonyms: quelled, squelched |
| quenching | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, extinguishing |
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| quenchless | (adjective) impossible to quench | Synonyms: unquenchable |
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| retrench | (verb) make a reduction, as in one's workforce | - |
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| (verb) tighten one's belt; use resources carefully | - |
| retrenchment | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, downsizing |
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| (noun) entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense | - |
| stench | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stink |
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| tench | (noun) freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water | Synonyms: Tinca tinca |
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| trench | (noun) a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth | - |
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| (noun) any long ditch cut in the ground | - |
| (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: deep, oceanic abyss |
| (verb) cut or carve deeply into | - |
| (verb) dig a trench or trenches | - |
| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: ditch |
| (verb) fortify by surrounding with trenches | - |
| (verb) set, plant, or bury in a trench | - |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge |
| trenchancy | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: incisiveness |
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| trenchant | (adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, distinct |
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| (adjective) characterized by or full of force and vigor | Synonyms: hard-hitting |
| (adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | Synonyms: searching |
| trenchantly | (adverb) in a vigorous and effective manner | - |
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| trencher | (noun) a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved | - |
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| (noun) someone who digs trenches | - |
| trencherman | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer |
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| unquenchable | (adjective) impossible to quench | Synonyms: quenchless |
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| wench | (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, skirt |
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| (verb) frequent prostitutes | - |
| wencher | (noun) someone who patronizes prostitutes | - |
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| workbench | (noun) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic | Synonyms: bench, work bench |
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| wrench | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: spanner |
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| (noun) a jerky pulling movement | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: pull, twist |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: twist |
| (verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wring |
| (verb) make a sudden twisting motion | - |
| wrenching | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: racking |
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