addict | (noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or activity | - |
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(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: freak, junkie, junky, nut |
(verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: hook |
addicted | (adjective) compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming | - |
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addiction | (noun) (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master | - |
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(noun) an abnormally strong craving | - |
(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: dependance, dependence, dependency, habituation |
addictive | (adjective) causing or characterized by addiction | Synonyms: habit-forming |
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afflict | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: smite |
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(verb) cause great unhappiness for; distress | - |
afflicted | (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: stricken |
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(adjective) mentally or physically unfit | Synonyms: impaired |
affliction | (noun) a cause of great suffering and distress | - |
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(noun) a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health | - |
(noun) a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity | - |
afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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amphictyony | (noun) an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center | - |
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anicteric | (adjective) without jaundice | - |
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(adjective) not affected by jaundice | - |
apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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apodictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodeictic |
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apomict | (noun) a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis | - |
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apomictic | (adjective) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis | Synonyms: apomictical |
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(adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, agamous, parthenogenetic |
apomictical | (adjective) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis | Synonyms: apomictic |
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benedict | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedick |
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benedictine | (noun) a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks | - |
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benediction | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
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(noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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benedictory | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictive |
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conflict | (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, struggle |
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(noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, engagement, fight |
(noun) an incompatibility of dates or events | - |
(noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: difference, difference of opinion, dispute |
(noun) opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings | - |
(noun) opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) | - |
(noun) a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests | - |
(verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: contravene, infringe, run afoul |
(verb) be in conflict | - |
conflicting | (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, contradictory, self-contradictory |
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(adjective) on bad terms | - |
constrict | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constringe, narrow |
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(verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, contract, press, squeeze |
constricted | (adjective) drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically | - |
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(adjective) especially tense; especially in some dialects | - |
constricting | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constrictive, narrowing |
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constriction | (noun) the action or process of compressing | - |
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(noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: tightness |
(noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: coarctation |
(noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, chokepoint |
constrictive | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, narrowing |
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(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, limiting, restricting |
constrictor | (noun) any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | - |
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contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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(verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
(verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
contradiction | (noun) the speech act of contradicting someone | - |
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(noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false | Synonyms: contradiction in terms |
(noun) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas | - |
contradictorily | (adverb) in a contradictory manner | - |
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contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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(adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
(adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
(adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
(noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
convict | (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird |
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(noun) a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense | - |
(verb) find or declare guilty | - |
convictfish | (noun) greenling with whitish body marked with black bands | Synonyms: convict fish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling |
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conviction | (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: condemnation, judgment of conviction, sentence |
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(noun) an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence | Synonyms: article of faith, strong belief |
deictic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use | - |
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(noun) a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs | Synonyms: deictic word |
depict | (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: describe, draw |
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(verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: picture, render, show |
(verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: limn, portray |
depicted | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: pictured, portrayed |
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depicting | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal, portraying |
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depiction | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, portrayal |
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(noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, limning, line drawing |
(noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, portrayal, portraying |
(noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, picture, word-painting, word picture |
depictive | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: delineative |
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derelict | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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(adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, neglectful, remiss |
(adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, deserted |
(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
(noun) a ship abandoned on the high seas | Synonyms: abandoned ship |
(noun) a person without a home, job, or property | - |
dereliction | (noun) willful negligence | - |
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(noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: delinquency, willful neglect |
derestrict | (verb) make free from restrictions | - |
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dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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(noun) an authoritative rule | - |
(verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording | - |
(verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: order, prescribe |
(verb) rule as a dictator | - |
dictated | (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: determined, set |
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dictation | (noun) speech intended for reproduction in writing | - |
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(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, command |
(noun) matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage | - |
dictator | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: potentate |
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(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: authoritarian |
(noun) a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine | - |
dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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(adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
dictatorially | (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, magisterially |
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dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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diction | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage, wording |
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(noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: enunciation |
dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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dictostylium | (noun) any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium | - |
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dictum | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: pronouncement, say-so |
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(noun) an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding | Synonyms: obiter dictum |
dictyopteran | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera | - |
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dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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(verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: zone |
edict | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript |
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(noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation | - |
epideictic | (adjective) designed primarily for rhetorical display | Synonyms: epideictical |
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epideictical | (adjective) designed primarily for rhetorical display | Synonyms: epideictic |
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evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
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(verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
eviction | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster |
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(noun) action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved | Synonyms: constructive eviction |
fictile | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of pottery | - |
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(adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: moldable, plastic |
(adjective) susceptible to being led or directed | Synonyms: pliable |
fiction | (noun) a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact | - |
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(noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fable, fabrication |
fictional | (adjective) related to or involving literary fiction | - |
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(adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fabricated, fancied, fictitious |
fictionalisation | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalization |
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(noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalization |
fictionalise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalize, novelise, novelize |
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(verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalize, retell |
fictionalization | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalisation |
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(noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalisation |
fictionalize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, novelise, novelize |
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(verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, retell |
fictitious | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictive, pretended, put on, sham |
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(adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fabricated, fancied, fictional |
fictitiously | (adverb) in a fictional manner (created by the imagination) | - |
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(adverb) in a false manner intended to mislead | - |
fictive | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham |
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(adjective) capable of imaginative creation | - |
friction | (noun) effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | Synonyms: detrition, rubbing |
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(noun) the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another | Synonyms: rubbing |
(noun) a state of conflict between persons | Synonyms: clash |
frictional | (adjective) pertaining to or worked or produced by friction | - |
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frictionless | (adjective) lacking all friction | - |
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ictal | (adjective) of or relating to a seizure or convulsion | Synonyms: ictic |
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icteric | (adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: jaundiced, yellow |
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icterogenic | (adjective) producing jaundice | - |
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icterus | (noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: jaundice |
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ictic | (adjective) of or relating to a seizure or convulsion | Synonyms: ictal |
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ictodosaur | (noun) intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals | - |
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ictus | (noun) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease | Synonyms: raptus, seizure |
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indict | (verb) accuse formally of a crime | - |
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indictability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: impeachability |
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indictable | (adjective) liable to be accused, or cause for such liability | Synonyms: chargeable |
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indiction | (noun) a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms | - |
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indictment | (noun) a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense | Synonyms: bill of indictment |
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(noun) an accusation of wrongdoing | - |
inflict | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, impose, visit |
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infliction | (noun) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) | Synonyms: imposition |
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(noun) an act causing pain or damage | - |
(noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
interdict | (noun) an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district | - |
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(noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdiction |
(verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
(verb) destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | - |
interdiction | (noun) authoritative prohibition | - |
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(noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdict |
jurisdiction | (noun) (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law | Synonyms: legal power |
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(noun) in law; the territory within which power can be exercised | - |
jurisdictional | (adjective) restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction | - |
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kernicterus | (noun) an abnormal accumulation of bile pigment in the brain and other nerve tissue; causes yellow staining and tissue damage | - |
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maledict | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, accurst |
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(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
malediction | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: imprecation |
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micturate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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micturition | (noun) the discharge of urine | Synonyms: urination |
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