| cubiform | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cuboid, cuboidal |
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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 | - |
| 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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| defog | (verb) free from mist | Synonyms: demist |
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| defoliant | (noun) a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off | - |
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| defoliate | (adjective) deprived of leaves | Synonyms: defoliated |
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| (verb) strip the leaves or branches from | - |
| defoliated | (adjective) deprived of leaves | Synonyms: defoliate |
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| defoliation | (noun) causing the leaves of trees and other plants to fall off (as by the use of chemicals) | - |
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| (noun) the loss of foliage | - |
| defoliator | (noun) an insect that strips the leaves from plants | - |
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| deforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: disafforest, disforest |
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| deforestation | (noun) the removal of trees | Synonyms: disforestation |
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| (noun) the state of being clear of trees | - |
| deform | (verb) become misshapen | - |
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| (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: distort, strain |
| (verb) assume a different shape or form | Synonyms: change form, change shape |
| (verb) make formless | - |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, flex, turn, twist |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, distort, wring |
| deformation | (noun) the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) | Synonyms: contortion |
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| (noun) a change for the worse | Synonyms: distortion |
| (noun) alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it | - |
| deformational | (adjective) relating to or causing change in either shape or size of a material body or geometric figure | - |
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| deformed | (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen |
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| deformity | (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: disfiguration, disfigurement |
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| (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: malformation, misshapenness |
| dendriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| disciform | (adjective) having a round or oval shape like a disc | - |
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| discomfort | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: irritation, soreness |
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| (noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: uncomfortableness |
| disforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disafforest |
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| disforestation | (noun) the removal of trees | Synonyms: deforestation |
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| disinformation | (noun) misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | - |
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| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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| dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| dumbfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dumbfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumfounding |
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| dumfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dumfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumbfounding |
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| effort | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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| (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
| (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: exploit, feat |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement |
| effortful | (adjective) requiring great physical effort | - |
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| effortfulness | (noun) the quality of requiring deliberate effort | - |
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| effortless | (adjective) requiring or apparently requiring no effort | - |
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| (adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: casual |
| effortlessly | (adverb) without effort or apparent effort | - |
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| effortlessness | (noun) the quality of requiring little effort | - |
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| eightfold | (adjective) having eight units or components | Synonyms: eight-fold, octuple |
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| eisteddfod | (noun) any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing) | - |
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| enfold | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
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| enfolding | (noun) the action of enfolding something | Synonyms: involution |
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| enforce | (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, implement |
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| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, impose |
| enforceable | (adjective) capable of being enforced | - |
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| enforced | (adjective) forced or compelled or put in force | Synonyms: implemented |
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| enforcement | (noun) the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to | - |
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| enforcer | (noun) one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior | Synonyms: hatchet man |
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| ensiform | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| exfoliate | (verb) grow by producing or unfolding leaves | - |
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| (verb) cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters | - |
| (verb) remove the surface, in scales or laminae | - |
| (verb) spread by opening the leaves of | - |
| (verb) come off in a very thin piece | - |
| exfoliation | (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: scale, scurf |
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| (noun) the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin | - |
| falciform | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falcate, sickle-shaped |
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| featherfoil | (noun) a plant of the genus Hottonia | Synonyms: feather-foil |
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| filiform | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, threadlike, thready |
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| fivefold | (adjective) having five units or components | Synonyms: five-fold, quintuple |
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| flatfoot | (noun) a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | Synonyms: pes planus, splayfoot |
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| (noun) a policeman who patrols a given region | Synonyms: patrolman |
| flatfooted | (adjective) forthright and explicit | Synonyms: flat-footed |
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| (adjective) with feet flat on the ground; not tiptoe | Synonyms: flat-footed |
| (adjective) having broad flat feet that usually turn outward | Synonyms: flat-footed |
| (adjective) unprepared and unable to react quickly | Synonyms: flat-footed |
| fluoroform | (noun) colorless gas haloform CHF3 (similar to chloroform) | Synonyms: trifluoromethane |
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| foal | (noun) a young horse | - |
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| (verb) give birth to a foal | - |
| foam | (noun) a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid | Synonyms: froth |
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| (noun) a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture | - |
| (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
| foamflower | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: coolwart, false miterwort, false mitrewort, Tiarella cordifolia |
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| foaminess | (noun) the property of being foamy | - |
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| foaming | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease | Synonyms: foamy, frothing |
| foamy | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease | Synonyms: foaming, frothing |
| fob | (noun) short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest | Synonyms: watch chain, watch guard |
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| (noun) an adornment that hangs from a watch chain | - |
| (noun) a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch | Synonyms: watch pocket |
| (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick |
| focal | (adjective) of or relating to a focus | - |
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| (adjective) having or localized centrally at a focus | - |
| focalisation | (noun) the act of bringing into focus | Synonyms: focalization, focusing |
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| (noun) the confinement of an infection to a limited area | Synonyms: focalization |
| focalise | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus |
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| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus, sharpen |
| (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalize, focus |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalize, localise, localize |
| focalization | (noun) the act of bringing into focus | Synonyms: focalisation, focusing |
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| (noun) the confinement of an infection to a limited area | Synonyms: focalisation |
| focalize | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus |
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| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus, sharpen |
| (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focus |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, localise, localize |
| focally | (adverb) in a focal manner | - |
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| focus | (noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system | - |
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| (noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea | - |
| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focusing, focussing |
| (noun) a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section | - |
| (noun) a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges | Synonyms: focal point |
| (noun) a central point or locus of an infection in an organism | Synonyms: focal point, nidus |
| (noun) special emphasis attached to something | Synonyms: stress |
| (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize |
| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, sharpen |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, pore, rivet |
| (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focalize |
| (verb) cause to converge on or toward a central point | - |
| focused | (adjective) being in focus or brought into focus | Synonyms: focussed |
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| (adjective) of an optical system (e.g. eye or opera glasses) adjusted to produce a clear image | - |
| (adjective) (of light rays) converging on a point | Synonyms: focussed |
| focusing | (noun) the act of bringing into focus | Synonyms: focalisation, focalization |
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| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focus, focussing |
| focussed | (adjective) being in focus or brought into focus | Synonyms: focused |
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| (adjective) (of light rays) converging on a point | Synonyms: focused |
| focussing | (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focus, focusing |
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| fodder | (noun) coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop | - |
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| (noun) soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire | Synonyms: cannon fodder, fresh fish |
| (verb) give fodder (to domesticated animals) | - |
| foe | (noun) a personal enemy | Synonyms: enemy |
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| (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foeman, opposition |
| foehn | (noun) a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps | Synonyms: fohn |
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| foeman | (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foe, opposition |
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| foetal | (adjective) of or relating to a fetus | Synonyms: fetal |
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| foetid | (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking |
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| foetology | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the fetus in the uterus | Synonyms: fetology |
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| foetometry | (noun) measurement of a fetus (especially the diameter of the head) | Synonyms: fetometry |
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| foetoprotein | (noun) any of several antigens that occur naturally in the fetus and sometimes in adults with cancer | Synonyms: fetoprotein |
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| foetor | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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| foetoscope | (noun) a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat | Synonyms: fetoscope |
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| foetoscopy | (noun) prenatal diagnosis that allows direct observation of a fetus in the uterus and the withdrawal of fetal blood | Synonyms: fetoscopy |
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| foetus | (noun) an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal | Synonyms: fetus |
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| fog | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: daze, haze |
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| (noun) droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground | - |
| (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fogginess, murk, murkiness |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
| fogbank | (noun) a large mass of fog on the sea (as seen from a distance) | - |
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| fogbound | (adjective) enveloped in fog | - |
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| fogey | (noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: dodo, fogy, fossil |
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| fogged | (adjective) obscured by fog | Synonyms: foggy |
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| fogginess | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness |
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| (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, murk, murkiness |
| foggy | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: brumous, hazy, misty |
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| (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
| (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, groggy, logy, stuporous |
| (adjective) obscured by fog | Synonyms: fogged |
| foghorn | (noun) a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone | - |
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| (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: fogsignal |
| foglamp | (noun) headlight that provides strong beam for use in foggy weather | - |
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| fogsignal | (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: foghorn |
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| fogy | (noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: dodo, fogey, fossil |
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| fogyish | (adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy |
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| fohn | (noun) a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps | Synonyms: foehn |
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