| craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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| (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
| (noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
| craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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| crafty | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| cragfast | (adjective) stranded on or as if on a crag | - |
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| crampfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: electric ray, numbfish, torpedo |
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| crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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| crateful | (noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crate |
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| crawfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
| crayfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse |
| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| creaseproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, wrinkleproof |
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| crestfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated |
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| croft | (noun) a small farm worked by a crofter | - |
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| crofter | (noun) an owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain | - |
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| crossfire | (noun) fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross | - |
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| (noun) a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions | - |
| crossruff | (verb) trump alternately in two hands | - |
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| crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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| crowfoot | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, goldcup, kingcup |
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| crucifer | (noun) any of various plants of the family Cruciferae | Synonyms: cruciferous plant |
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| cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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| crucifix | (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings when the gymnast supports himself with both arms extended horizontally | - |
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| (noun) representation of the cross on which Jesus died | Synonyms: rood-tree, rood |
| crucifixion | (noun) the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross | - |
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| (noun) the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering | Synonyms: excruciation |
| cruciform | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciate |
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| crucify | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, pillory, savage |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: mortify, subdue |
| (verb) kill by nailing onto a cross | - |
| cubiform | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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| cuff | (noun) the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg | Synonyms: turnup |
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| (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: handcuff, handlock, manacle |
| (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: whomp |
| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: handcuff, manacle |
| (verb) to get involved in a relationship with another person | - |
| cufflink | (noun) jewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt | - |
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| cumfrey | (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: comfrey |
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| cumuliform | (adjective) shaped like a cumulus cloud | - |
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| cuneiform | (adjective) of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones) | - |
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| (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneal, wedge-shaped |
| (noun) an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | - |
| cupflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: nierembergia |
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| (noun) Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat | Synonyms: chalice vine, Solandra guttata, trumpet flower |
| cupful | (noun) the quantity a cup will hold | Synonyms: cup |
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| curfew | (noun) a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions | - |
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| (noun) an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited | - |
| (noun) the time that the curfew signal is sounded | - |
| cutlassfish | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: frost fish, hairtail |
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| cutoff | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, shortcut |
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| (noun) a device that terminates the flow in a pipe | - |
| (noun) a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated | - |
| cuttlefish | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttle |
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| cybercafe | (noun) a cafe whose customers sit at computer terminals and log on to the internet while they eat and drink | - |
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| cycloolefin | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloalkene |
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| daffodil | (noun) any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown | Synonyms: Narcissus pseudonarcissus |
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| daft | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| daftly | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, dottily, nuttily, wackily |
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| daftness | (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: craziness, flakiness |
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| damselfish | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: demoiselle |
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| damselfly | (noun) slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest | - |
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| dandified | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandyish, foppish |
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| dandify | (verb) dress like a dandy | - |
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| dandruff | (noun) loose scales shed from the scalp | - |
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| (noun) a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp | - |
| daraf | (noun) a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad | - |
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| dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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| dayfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: mayfly, shadfly |
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| deadlift | (noun) a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground | - |
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| deaf | (adjective) lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed | Synonyms: indifferent |
| (noun) people who have severe hearing impairments | - |
| (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deafen |
| deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
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| (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
| (verb) be unbearably loud | - |
| deafened | (adjective) caused to hear poorly or not at all | - |
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| deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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| deafness | (noun) partial or complete loss of hearing | Synonyms: hearing loss |
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| dealfish | (noun) deep-sea ribbonfish | Synonyms: Trachipterus arcticus |
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| debrief | (verb) put someone through a debriefing and make him report | - |
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| debriefing | (noun) report of a mission or task | - |
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| decaf | (noun) coffee with the caffeine removed | Synonyms: decaffeinated coffee |
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| decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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| decalcification | (noun) loss of calcium from bones or teeth | - |
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| decalcify | (verb) remove calcium or lime from | - |
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| (verb) lose calcium or calcium compounds | - |
| deceitful | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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| (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: fallacious, fraudulent |
| deceitfully | (adverb) in a corrupt and deceitful manner | Synonyms: dishonestly, venally |
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| deceitfulness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful | - |
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| decertify | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: derecognise, derecognize |
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| declassification | (noun) reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon | - |
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| declassified | (adjective) having had security classification removed | - |
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| declassify | (verb) lift the restriction on and make available again | - |
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| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| deface | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, disfigure |
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| defacement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: disfiguration, disfigurement, mutilation |
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| defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| defalcation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| (noun) the sum of money that is misappropriated | - |
| defalcator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: embezzler, peculator |
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| defamation | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, denigration, slander |
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| (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
| defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| defame | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| defamer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| defang | (verb) remove the fangs from | - |
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| defat | (verb) remove the fat from | - |
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| default | (noun) loss due to not showing up | - |
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| (noun) an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified | Synonyms: default option |
| (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: nonpayment, nonremittal |
| (noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: nonpayment, nonremittal |
| (verb) fail to pay up | Synonyms: default on |
| defaulter | (noun) a contestant who forfeits a match | - |
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| (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: deadbeat |
| (noun) someone who fails to make a required appearance in court | - |
| defeasible | (adjective) capable of being annulled or voided or terminated | - |
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| defeat | (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: licking |
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| (noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals | Synonyms: frustration |
| (verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: get the better of, overcome |
| (verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
| defeated | (adjective) beaten or overcome; not victorious | - |
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| (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
| (noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: discomfited |
| defeatism | (noun) acceptance of the inevitability of defeat | - |
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| defeatist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: negativist |
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| defecate | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| defecation | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: laxation, shitting |
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| defecator | (noun) (obsolete) that which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and syrups. | - |
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| (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: shitter, voider |
| defect | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: blemish, mar |
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| (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: shortcoming |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: fault, flaw |
| (noun) an imperfection in a bodily system | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: desert |
| defection | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: apostasy, renunciation |
| defective | (adjective) markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior | - |
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| (adjective) having a defect | Synonyms: faulty |
| (adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: bad |
| defectively | (adverb) in a defective manner | - |
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| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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| defector | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: deserter |
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