| abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| abbreviation | (noun) shortening something by omitting parts of it | - |
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| (noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase | - |
| abbreviator | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abridger |
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| abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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| affiliate | (noun) a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization | - |
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| (noun) a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization | - |
| (verb) join in an affiliation | - |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: associate, assort, consort |
| affiliated | (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: attached, connected |
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| affiliation | (noun) the act of becoming formally connected or joined | - |
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| (noun) a social or business relationship | Synonyms: association, tie-up, tie |
| alleviate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: assuage, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: ease, facilitate |
| alleviated | (adjective) (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear | Synonyms: eased, relieved |
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| alleviation | (noun) the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Synonyms: easement, easing, relief |
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| (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: assuagement, relief |
| alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alleviator | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, palliative |
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| (noun) a therapist who makes suffering more endurable | - |
| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alluviation | (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: deposit, sedimentation |
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| ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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| ammoniated | (adjective) combined or treated with ammonia | - |
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| annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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| annunciation | (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, declaration, proclamation |
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| annunciator | (noun) an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard) | - |
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| annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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| appoggiatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: acciaccatura, grace note |
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| appreciate | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, revalue |
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| (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| (verb) be fully aware of; realize fully | Synonyms: take account |
| (verb) recognize with gratitude; be grateful for | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: prize, treasure, value |
| appreciated | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: apprehended, comprehended |
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| appreciation | (noun) a favorable judgment | Synonyms: admiration |
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| (noun) an increase in price or value | - |
| (noun) understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something | Synonyms: grasp, hold |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: discernment, perceptiveness, taste |
| (noun) an expression of gratitude | - |
| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| appreciatively | (adverb) with appreciation; in a grateful manner | Synonyms: gratefully |
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| appreciativeness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: gratefulness, thankfulness |
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| appreciator | (noun) a person who is fully aware of something and understands it | - |
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| appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, earmark, reserve, set aside |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: capture, conquer, seize |
| appropriately | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: befittingly, duly, fitly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
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| appropriateness | (noun) the quality of being specially suitable | - |
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| (noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: rightness |
| appropriation | (noun) a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner | - |
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| (noun) incorporation by joining or uniting | Synonyms: annexation |
| (noun) money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose | - |
| appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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| appropriator | (noun) someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission) | - |
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| archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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| asphyxiate | (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: stifle, suffocate |
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| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: smother, suffocate |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate |
| asphyxiated | (adjective) in a state of asphyxia | - |
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| asphyxiating | (adjective) tending to deprive of oxygen | - |
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| asphyxiation | (noun) killing by depriving of oxygen | Synonyms: suffocation |
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| (noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) | Synonyms: suffocation |
| asphyxiator | (noun) a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires | Synonyms: extinguisher, fire extinguisher |
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| associate | (adjective) having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status | - |
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| (noun) a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies | Synonyms: associate degree |
| (noun) any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another | - |
| (noun) a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor | - |
| (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: companion, comrade, familiar, fellow |
| (noun) a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise | - |
| (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
| (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: consociate |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, assort, consort |
| associateship | (noun) the position of associate (as in an office or academy) | - |
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| association | (noun) the act of consorting with or joining with others | - |
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| (noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
| (noun) a formal organization of people or groups of people | - |
| (noun) (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding | - |
| (noun) a relation resulting from interaction or dependence | - |
| (noun) a social or business relationship | Synonyms: affiliation, tie-up, tie |
| (noun) the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination | - |
| associational | (adjective) of or relating to associations or associationism | - |
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| associationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity | Synonyms: association theory |
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| associative | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associatory |
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| associatory | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associative |
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| asteriated | (adjective) (of some crystals especially gemstones) exhibiting asterism | - |
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| aviate | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: fly, pilot |
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| aviation | (noun) travel via aircraft | Synonyms: air, air travel |
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| (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: airmanship |
| (noun) the aggregation of a country's military aircraft | Synonyms: air power |
| (noun) the operation of aircraft to provide transportation | - |
| aviator | (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aeronaut, flier, flyer |
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| aviatress | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: airwoman, aviatrix |
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| aviatrix | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: airwoman, aviatress |
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| beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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| beneficiation | (noun) crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques | Synonyms: mineral dressing, mineral extraction, mineral processing, ore dressing, ore processing |
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| benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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| bifoliate | (adjective) having two leaves | - |
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| bilabiate | (adjective) having two lips | Synonyms: two-lipped |
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| bioremediation | (noun) the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances | - |
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| (noun) the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems | - |
| bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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| bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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| brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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| (adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
| (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
| brachiation | (noun) swinging by the arms from branch to branch | - |
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| branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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| brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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| (verb) form into breccia | - |
| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| calumniation | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
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| calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| ciliate | (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliary |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliary |
| (adjective) having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections | Synonyms: ciliated |
| (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran |
| ciliated | (adjective) having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections | Synonyms: ciliate |
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| circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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| collegiate | (adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegial |
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| columniation | (noun) (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure | - |
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| commissariat | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: provender, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| conciliate | (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, reconcile |
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| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: make up, patch up, reconcile, settle |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| conciliation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: placation, propitiation |
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| (noun) any of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitration | - |
| (noun) the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled | - |
| conciliative | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliatory |
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| conciliator | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler |
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| conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
| consociate | (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: associate |
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| consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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| (verb) unite in one common substance | - |
| consubstantiation | (noun) the doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine | - |
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| covariation | (noun) (statistics) correlated variation | - |
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| craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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| cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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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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| 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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| denunciation | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denouncement |
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| denunciative | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciatory |
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| denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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| depreciate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) lower the value of something | - |
| (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend |
| depreciating | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory |
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| depreciation | (noun) a decrease in price or value | - |
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| (noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: derogation, disparagement |
| (noun) decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use | Synonyms: wear and tear |
| depreciative | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting |