dorsiflexion | (noun) the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part) | - |
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rifle | (noun) a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore | - |
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(verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way | Synonyms: go |
(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip |
riflebird | (noun) velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail | Synonyms: Ptloris paradisea |
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rifled | (adjective) of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel | - |
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rifleman | (noun) a soldier whose weapon is a rifle | - |
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(noun) someone skilled in the use of a rifle | - |
stifle | (noun) joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee | Synonyms: knee |
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(verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: dampen |
(verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
(verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, strangle |
(verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, suffocate |
stifled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, strangled, suppressed |
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stifler | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: smotherer |
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trifle | (noun) something of small importance | Synonyms: small beer, trivia, triviality |
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(noun) a detail that is considered insignificant | Synonyms: triviality |
(noun) a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate | - |
(verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, play |
(verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: frivol |
(verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, wanton, wanton away |
trifler | (noun) one who behaves lightly or not seriously | - |
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unrifled | (adjective) of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel | Synonyms: smoothbore |
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