| deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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| (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
| devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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| devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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| (adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
| deviously | (adverb) in a devious manner | - |
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| deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
| devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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| devise | (noun) (law) a gift of real property by will | - |
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| (noun) a will disposing of real property | - |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
| (verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
| devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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| deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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| devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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| devisor | (noun) someone who devises real property in a will | - |
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| devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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| devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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| devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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| devitalize | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalise |
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| devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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| (verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
| devoice | (verb) utter with tense vocal chords | - |
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| devoid | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, free, innocent |
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| devoir | (noun) formal expression of respect | - |
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| devolution | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolvement |
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| (noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: degeneration |
| devolve | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, drop |
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| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: fall, pass, return |
| (verb) pass on or delegate to another | - |
| devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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| devote | (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: give, pay |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, give |
| (verb) set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use | - |
| devoted | (adjective) (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use | - |
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| (adjective) zealous in devotion or affection | - |
| devotedly | (adverb) with devotion | - |
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| devotedness | (noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotion |
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| devotee | (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, fan, lover |
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| devotion | (noun) (usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently) | - |
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| (noun) commitment to some purpose | - |
| (noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: cultism, veneration |
| (noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotedness |
| devotional | (adjective) relating to worship | - |
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| (noun) a short religious service | - |
| devour | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: guttle, pig, raven |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, down, go through |
| (verb) to consume | - |
| (verb) enjoy avidly | - |
| devourer | (noun) someone who eats greedily or voraciously | - |
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| devouring | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, esurient, greedy |
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| devout | (adjective) deeply religious | Synonyms: god-fearing |
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| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, earnest, heartfelt |
| devoutly | (adverb) in a devout and pious manner | Synonyms: piously |
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| devoutness | (noun) piety by virtue of being devout | Synonyms: religiousness |
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| disbelieve | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: discredit |
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| disbelieving | (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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| disbelievingly | (adverb) in an incredulous manner | Synonyms: incredulously, unbelievingly |
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| dishevel | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: tangle, tousle |
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| disheveled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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| dishevelled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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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 |
| elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| elevated | (adjective) increased in amount or degree | Synonyms: raised |
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| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| (adjective) raised above the ground | - |
| (noun) a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level | Synonyms: el, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway |
| elevation | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, aggrandizement |
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| (noun) drawing of an exterior of a structure | - |
| (noun) distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level) | - |
| (noun) (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump | - |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: lift, raising |
| (noun) a raised or elevated geological formation | Synonyms: natural elevation |
| (noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, altitude, EL |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| elevator | (noun) lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building | Synonyms: lift |
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| (noun) the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend | - |
| eleven | (adjective) being one more than ten | Synonyms: 11, xi |
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| (noun) a team that plays football | Synonyms: football team |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one | Synonyms: 11, XI |
| eleventh | (adjective) coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 11th |
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| (noun) position 11 in a countable series of things | - |
| evacuant | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, purgative |
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| evacuate | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, void |
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| (verb) remove content from | - |
| (verb) create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel) | - |
| (verb) move people from their homes or country | - |
| (verb) move out of an unsafe location into safety | - |
| evacuation | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: emptying, voidance |
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| (noun) the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection | - |
| (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, excreting, excretion, voiding |
| evacuee | (noun) a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place | - |
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| evade | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid | - |
| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, elude |
| (verb) practice evasion | - |
| evaluate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, measure, valuate, value |
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| (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: judge, pass judgment |
| evaluation | (noun) act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of | Synonyms: rating |
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| (noun) an appraisal of the value of something | Synonyms: rating, valuation |
| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evaluator | (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: judge |
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| evanesce | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, fade, fleet, pass, pass off |
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| evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| evangel | (noun) the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings | Synonyms: Gospel, Gospels |
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| evangelical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels | - |
| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelistic |
| evangelicalism | (noun) stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation | - |
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| evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
| evangelism | (noun) zealous preaching and advocacy of the gospel | - |
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| evangelist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: gospeler, gospeller, revivalist |
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| evangelistic | (adjective) relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel | - |
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| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelical |
| evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |
| evaporable | (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporizable, vapourific, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
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| evaporate | (verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | Synonyms: vaporise, vaporize |
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| (verb) change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) cause to change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, melt |
| evaporated | (adjective) drawn off in the form of vapor | - |
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| evaporation | (noun) the process of becoming a vapor | Synonyms: vapor, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour |
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| (noun) the process of extracting moisture | Synonyms: dehydration, desiccation, drying up |
| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| evaporite | (noun) the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater | - |
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| evaporometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: atmometer |
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| evasion | (noun) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver | - |
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| (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: dodging, escape |
| (noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: nonpayment |
| (noun) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth | Synonyms: equivocation |
| evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
| evasively | (adverb) with evasion; in an evasive manner | - |
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| evasiveness | (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, prevarication |
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| eve | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: even, evening, eventide |
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| (noun) the day before | - |
| (noun) the period immediately before something | - |
| even | (adjective) being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with) | - |
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| (adjective) divisible by two | - |
| (adjective) occurring at fixed intervals | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) symmetrically arranged | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced | Synonyms: fifty-fifty |
| (adjective) of the score in a contest | Synonyms: level, tied |
| (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, evening, eventide |
| (adverb) used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected | - |
| (adverb) to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons | Synonyms: still, yet |
| (adverb) in spite of; notwithstanding | - |
| (adverb) to the full extent | - |
| (verb) become even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
| (verb) make even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even out, flush, level |
| evenfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| evenhanded | (adjective) without partiality | - |
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| evenhandedly | (adverb) without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner | Synonyms: fair, fairly |
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| evening | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, eventide |
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| (noun) a later concluding time period | - |
| (noun) the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way | - |
| eveningwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, formalwear |
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| evenly | (adverb) in a level and regular way | - |
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| (adverb) in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way | Synonyms: equally |
| evenness | (noun) a quality of uniformity and lack of variation | Synonyms: invariability |
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| (noun) the quality of being balanced | - |
| (noun) the parity of even numbers (divisible by two) | - |
| evensong | (noun) (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer | Synonyms: Evening Prayer |
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| (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: vespers |
| event | (noun) something that happens at a given place and time | - |
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| (noun) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory | - |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a special set of circumstances | Synonyms: case |
| eventful | (adjective) full of events or incidents | - |
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| (adjective) having important issues or results | Synonyms: consequential |
| eventide | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, evening |
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| eventration | (noun) protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall | - |
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| eventual | (adjective) expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating | - |
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| eventuality | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, contingency |
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| eventually | (adverb) after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay | Synonyms: finally |
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| eventuate | (verb) come out in the end | - |
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| ever | (adverb) at all times; all the time and on every occasion | Synonyms: always, e'er |
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| (adverb) at any time | Synonyms: of all time |
| (adverb) (intensifier for adjectives) very | Synonyms: ever so |
| evergreen | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year | - |
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| (noun) a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year | Synonyms: evergreen plant |