| contiguousness | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: adjacency, contiguity |
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| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| counterargument | (noun) an argument offered in opposition to another argument | - |
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| cunnilingus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilinctus |
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| daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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| decoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant, anticoagulant medication |
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| degust | (verb) taste with relish | - |
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| degustation | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting |
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| demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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| demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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| dengue | (noun) an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints | Synonyms: breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue fever |
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| deoxyguanosine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of guanine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: guanosine |
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| deregulate | (verb) lift the regulations on | - |
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| deregulating | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulation |
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| deregulation | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulating |
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| dialogue | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialog |
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| (noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, duologue |
| (noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialog |
| (noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: negotiation, talks |
| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| disambiguation | (noun) clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity | - |
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| disambiguator | (noun) (computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used | - |
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| disfiguration | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfigurement, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfigurement |
| disfigure | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, deface |
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| disfigured | (adjective) having the appearance spoiled | - |
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| disfigurement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfiguration |
| disguise | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: camouflage |
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| (noun) any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity | - |
| (noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: camouflage |
| (verb) make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mask |
| disguised | (adjective) having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading | Synonyms: cloaked, masked |
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| disgust | (noun) strong feelings of dislike | - |
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| (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, nauseate, revolt, sicken |
| (verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: gross out, repel, revolt |
| disgusted | (adjective) having a strong distaste from surfeit | Synonyms: fed up, sick, sick of, tired of |
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| disgustedly | (adverb) with disgust | - |
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| disgustful | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| disgusting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| disgustingly | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: distastefully, revoltingly, sickeningly |
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| disgustingness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: distastefulness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
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| (noun) the property of being extremely unacceptable to the mind | Synonyms: unsavoriness |
| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| distinguishability | (noun) Capability of being perceived as different or distinct. | - |
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| distinguishable | (adjective) capable of being perceived as different or distinct | - |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality | Synonyms: distinct |
| distinguished | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: grand, imposing, magisterial |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation | - |
| drogue | (noun) a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly | Synonyms: drogue chute, drogue parachute |
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| (noun) restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind | Synonyms: sea anchor |
| (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
| (noun) a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane | - |
| duologue | (noun) a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors | - |
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| (noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, dialogue |
| earthtongue | (noun) any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum | Synonyms: earth-tongue |
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| eclogue | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, idyl, idyll |
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| emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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| engulf | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) flow over or cover completely | - |
| epilogue | (noun) a short passage added at the end of a literary work | Synonyms: epilog |
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| (noun) a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play | Synonyms: epilog |
| equiangular | (adjective) having all angles equal | - |
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| esophagus | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: gorge, gullet, oesophagus |
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| exaugural | (adjective) occurring at or marking the close of a term of office | - |
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| exiguity | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| exiguous | (adjective) extremely scanty | - |
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| exsanguine | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguinous |
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| exsanguinous | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguine |
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| extinguish | (verb) put an end to; kill | Synonyms: snuff out |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, eliminate, get rid of |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, press out, stub, stub out |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, quench, snuff out |
| extinguishable | (adjective) capable of being extinguished or killed | - |
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| extinguished | (adjective) of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement | - |
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| extinguisher | (noun) a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires | Synonyms: asphyxiator, fire extinguisher |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| extralinguistic | (adjective) not included within the realm of language | - |
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| fatigue | (noun) labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) | Synonyms: fatigue duty |
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| (noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something | - |
| (noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: tiredness, weariness |
| (noun) used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress | - |
| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: jade, pall, tire, weary |
| fatigued | (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, gone, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
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| fatigues | (noun) military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor | - |
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| fergusonite | (noun) a dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals | - |
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| figural | (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figurative |
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| figuration | (noun) decorating with a design | - |
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| (noun) representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| figuratively | (adverb) in a figurative sense | - |
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| figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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| (noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
| figure | (noun) a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating | - |
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| (noun) a model of a bodily form (especially of a person) | - |
| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, pattern |
| (noun) the impression produced by a person | - |
| (noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground | - |
| (noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material | Synonyms: fig |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure of speech, image, trope |
| (noun) a well-known or notable person | Synonyms: name, public figure |
| (noun) an amount of money expressed numerically | - |
| (noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: digit |
| (noun) a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape | - |
| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) understand | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: enter |
| figured | (adjective) (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns | - |
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| figurehead | (noun) figure on the bow of some sailing vessels | - |
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| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
| figurer | (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, estimator, reckoner |
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| figurine | (noun) a small carved or molded figure | Synonyms: statuette |
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| figuring | (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, reckoning |
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| fireguard | (noun) a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks) | Synonyms: fire screen |
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| (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: firebreak |
| flashgun | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, photoflash |
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| fugu | (noun) a blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonous | - |
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| fugue | (noun) a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement | - |
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| (noun) a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days | - |
| (noun) dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state | Synonyms: psychogenic fugue |
| fulgurant | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurous |
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| fulgurating | (adjective) sharp and piercing | - |
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| fulgurous | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant |
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| fungus | (noun) an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia | - |
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| funguslike | (adjective) resembling fungi | Synonyms: fungoid |
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| galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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| gigue | (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: jig |
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| guacamole | (noun) a dip made of mashed avocado mixed with chopped onions and other seasonings | - |
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| guacharo | (noun) nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | Synonyms: oilbird, Steatornis caripensis |
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| guaiac | (noun) hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum | Synonyms: guaiacum, lignum vitae |
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| guaiacum | (noun) hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum | Synonyms: guaiac, lignum vitae |
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| (noun) medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree | - |
| guama | (noun) tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers; used as shade for coffee plantations | Synonyms: Inga laurina |
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| guan | (noun) any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food | - |
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| guanabana | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: soursop |
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| guanabenz | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Wytensin) that reduces blood pressure by its effect on the central nervous system | Synonyms: Wytensin |
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| guanaco | (noun) wild llama | Synonyms: Lama guanicoe |
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| guanine | (noun) a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine | Synonyms: G |
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| guano | (noun) the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer | - |
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| guanosine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of guanine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: deoxyguanosine |
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| guar | (noun) drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material | Synonyms: cluster bean, Cyamopsis psoraloides, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus |
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| guarani | (noun) the basic unit of money in Paraguay; equal to 100 centimos | - |
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| guaranine | (noun) Guaranine is the name used to describe caffeine derived from the guarana plant. | - |
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| guarantee | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: warrant, warrantee, warranty |
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| (noun) an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true | - |
| (noun) a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults | Synonyms: guaranty |
| (verb) give surety or assume responsibility | Synonyms: vouch |
| (verb) promise to do or accomplish | Synonyms: undertake |
| (verb) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of | Synonyms: warrant |
| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, insure, secure |
| guarantor | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: surety, warranter, warrantor |
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| guaranty | (noun) a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults | Synonyms: guarantee |
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