| ablepharia | (noun) a congenital absence of eyelids (partial or complete) | - |
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| athar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: atar, attar, ottar |
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| becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
| bilharzia | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharziasis, schistosomiasis |
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| bilharziasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, schistosomiasis |
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| blepharism | (noun) condition in which a person blinks continuously | - |
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| blepharitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelids characterized by redness and swelling and dried crusts | - |
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| blepharospasm | (noun) spasm of the eyelid muscle resulting in closure of the eye | - |
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| blowhard | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| cardsharp | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| cardsharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| catharsis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: abreaction, katharsis |
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| (noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: katharsis, purgation |
| cathartic | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: releasing |
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| (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: evacuant, purgative |
| (adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: psychotherapeutic |
| (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, physic, purgative |
| cathartid | (noun) large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures | Synonyms: New World vulture |
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| char | (noun) any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus | Synonyms: charr |
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| (noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
| (noun) a charred substance | - |
| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, scorch, sear |
| (verb) burn to charcoal | Synonyms: coal |
| charabanc | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| characid | (noun) any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae | Synonyms: characin, characin fish |
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| characin | (noun) any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae | Synonyms: characid, characin fish |
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| character | (noun) (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes | - |
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| (noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
| (noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: lineament, quality |
| (noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: part, persona, role, theatrical role |
| (noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: graph, grapheme, graphic symbol |
| (noun) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | Synonyms: character reference, reference |
| (noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, eccentric, type |
| (noun) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) | Synonyms: fictional character, fictitious character |
| (noun) good repute | - |
| (verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
| characterisation | (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
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| (noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterization |
| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
| (noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
| (noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
| characteristically | (adverb) in characteristic manner | - |
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| characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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| characterization | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: enactment, personation, portrayal |
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| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
| (noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterisation |
| characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
| characterless | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: nondescript |
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| charade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: masquerade |
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| (noun) a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades | - |
| charades | (noun) guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess | - |
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| charcoal | (adjective) of a very dark grey | Synonyms: charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey |
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| (noun) a stick of black carbon material used for drawing | Synonyms: fusain |
| (noun) a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material | - |
| (noun) a very dark grey color | Synonyms: charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey |
| (noun) a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air | Synonyms: wood coal |
| (verb) draw, trace, or represent with charcoal | - |
| charcuterie | (noun) a delicatessen that specializes in meats | - |
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| chard | (noun) long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves | Synonyms: leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard |
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| (noun) beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks | Synonyms: Beta vulgaris cicla, chard plant, leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard |
| charge | (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, guardianship, tutelage |
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| (noun) an impetuous rush toward someone or something | - |
| (noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: commission, mission |
| (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge |
| (noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, bearing, heraldic bearing |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: complaint |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: commission, direction |
| (noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: billing |
| (noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | Synonyms: accusation |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
| (noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: cathexis |
| (noun) a person committed to your care | - |
| (noun) the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons | Synonyms: electric charge |
| (noun) financial liabilities (such as a tax) | - |
| (noun) the price charged for some article or service | - |
| (verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge | - |
| (verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on | - |
| (verb) saturate | - |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: blame |
| (verb) set or ask for a certain price | - |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: file, lodge |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, saddle |
| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: accuse |
| (verb) make an accusatory claim | - |
| (verb) instruct or command with authority | - |
| (verb) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence | - |
| (verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle | Synonyms: bear down |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: level, point |
| (verb) fill or load to capacity | - |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: load |
| (verb) place a heraldic bearing on | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt | - |
| (verb) enter a certain amount as a charge | - |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: bill |
| (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: consign |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: appoint |
| chargeable | (adjective) liable to be accused, or cause for such liability | Synonyms: indictable |
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| (adjective) capable of being charged | - |
| charged | (adjective) of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge | - |
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| (adjective) supplied with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: aerated |
| (adjective) fraught with great emotion | Synonyms: supercharged |
| (adjective) capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy | - |
| chargeman | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: blaster |
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| charger | (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: courser |
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| (noun) a device that can hold a rechargeable battery by means of an electrical cable | Synonyms: battery charger |
| charily | (adverb) with great caution; warily | - |
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| chariness | (noun) the trait of being cautious and watchful | Synonyms: wariness |
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| chariot | (noun) a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage | - |
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| (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome | - |
| (verb) ride in a chariot | - |
| (verb) transport in a chariot | - |
| charioteer | (noun) the driver of a chariot | - |
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| charisma | (noun) a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others | Synonyms: personal appeal, personal magnetism |
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| charismatic | (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: magnetic |
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| charitable | (adjective) full of love and generosity | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by charity | - |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| charitableness | (noun) generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate) | - |
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| charitably | (adverb) in a charitable manner | - |
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| charity | (noun) an activity or gift that benefits the public at large | - |
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| (noun) a kindly and lenient attitude toward people | Synonyms: brotherly love |
| (noun) a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals) | - |
| (noun) an institution set up to provide help to the needy | - |
| (noun) pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers | Synonyms: Greek valerian, Jacob's ladder, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae |
| charivari | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, chivaree, shivaree |
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| charlatan | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: mountebank |
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| charlatanism | (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: quackery |
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| charlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, chadlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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| charlotte | (noun) a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard | - |
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| charm | (noun) something believed to bring good luck | Synonyms: good luck charm |
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| (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, appealingness |
| (noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks | - |
| (noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: magic spell, magical spell, spell |
| (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: influence, tempt |
| (verb) protect through supernatural powers or charms | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: becharm |
| charman | (noun) a human male employed to do housework | - |
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| charmed | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: captivated |
| charmer | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: beguiler |
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| (noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker |
| charming | (adjective) pleasing or delighting | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
| charmingly | (adverb) in a charming manner | - |
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| charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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| (noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited | Synonyms: charnel house |
| charr | (noun) any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus | Synonyms: char |
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| chart | (noun) a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea | - |
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| (noun) a visual display of information | Synonyms: graph |
| (noun) (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music | - |
| (verb) plan in detail | - |
| (verb) make a chart of | - |
| (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: graph |
| chartaceous | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: paperlike, papery |
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| charter | (noun) a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation | - |
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| (noun) a contract to hire or lease transportation | - |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: engage, hire, lease, rent, take |
| (verb) grant a charter to | - |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: hire, lease, rent |
| chartered | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: hired, leased |
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| charterhouse | (noun) a Carthusian monastery | - |
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| chartist | (noun) a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities | Synonyms: technical analyst |
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| chartless | (adjective) (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated | Synonyms: uncharted, unmapped |
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| chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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| (noun) a shade of green tinged with yellow | Synonyms: Paris green, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green |
| charwoman | (noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: char, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
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| chary | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, cagy |
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| clochard | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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| countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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| (noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
| diehard | (noun) one who adheres to traditional views | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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| disaccharidase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides | - |
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| disaccharide | (noun) any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | - |
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| discharge | (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: release, waiver |
| (noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: venting |
| (noun) the sudden giving off of energy | - |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: outpouring, run |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
| (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: emission, expelling |
| (noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: emission |
| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: eject, exhaust, expel, release |
| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: empty |
| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate |
| (verb) release from military service | Synonyms: muster out |
| (verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: fire |
| (verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: fire, go off |
| (verb) pour forth or release | - |
| (verb) remove the charge from | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: drop, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, dispatch |
| (verb) free from obligations or duties | Synonyms: free |
| discharged | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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| disharmonize | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: dissonate |
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| disharmony | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: inharmoniousness |
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| eschar | (noun) a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin | - |
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| flowchart | (noun) a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system | Synonyms: flow chart, flow diagram, flow sheet |
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| foolhardiness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: rashness, recklessness |
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| foolhardy | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: heady, rash, reckless |
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| gharry | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage in India | - |
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| glossopharyngeal | (adjective) pertaining to the tongue and throat | - |
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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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| harakiri | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku |
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| harangue | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: rant, ranting |
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| (verb) deliver a harangue to; address forcefully | - |
| haranguer | (noun) a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech | - |
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| harass | (verb) exhaust by attacking repeatedly | - |
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| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| harassed | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harried, pestered, vexed |
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| harasser | (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harrier |
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| (noun) a persistent tormentor | - |
| harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
| harbinger | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
| harbor | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbour |
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| (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbour, haven, seaport |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbour, hold, nurse |
| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbour, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbour |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbour |
| harborage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harbourage |
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| harbour | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbor |
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| (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, haven, seaport |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, hold, nurse |
| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbor |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbor |
| harbourage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harborage |
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| hard | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: surd, unvoiced, voiceless |
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| (adjective) resisting weight or pressure | - |
| (adjective) dispassionate | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum | - |
| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: difficult |
| (adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: tough |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: heavy, intemperate |
| (adjective) dried out | - |
| (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: knockout, severe |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adverb) with effort or force or vigor | - |
| (adverb) to the full extent possible; all the way | - |
| (adverb) slowly and with difficulty | Synonyms: hardly |
| (adverb) causing great damage or hardship | Synonyms: severely |
| (adverb) with firmness | Synonyms: firmly |
| (adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: heavily, intemperately |
| (adverb) earnestly or intently | - |
| (adverb) with pain or distress or bitterness | - |
| (adverb) very near or close in space or time | - |
| (adverb) into a solid condition | - |