| denigrative | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denigratory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| depigmentation | (noun) absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair | - |
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| design | (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: designing |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: figure, pattern |
| (noun) a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something | - |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, excogitation, innovation, invention |
| (noun) an arrangement scheme | Synonyms: plan |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, pattern |
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, intent, intention, purpose |
| (verb) plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect | - |
| (verb) intend or have as a purpose | - |
| (verb) create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner | - |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, plan, project |
| (verb) create designs | - |
| (verb) conceive or fashion in the mind; invent | - |
| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| designation | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, assignment, naming |
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| (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, denomination |
| designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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| designatum | (noun) something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| designed | (adjective) done or made or performed with purpose and intent | Synonyms: intentional, unintentional |
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| designedly | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| designer | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: architect |
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| (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer |
| (noun) a person who specializes in interior design | Synonyms: interior designer |
| (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: intriguer |
| (noun) someone who specializes in graphic design | Synonyms: graphic designer |
| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: design |
| dig | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: digging, excavation |
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| (noun) the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow | Synonyms: jab |
| (noun) a small gouge (as in the cover of a book) | - |
| (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
| (noun) the site of an archeological exploration | Synonyms: archeological site, excavation |
| (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
| (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, delve, turn over |
| (verb) create by digging | Synonyms: dig out |
| (verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: excavate, hollow |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: jab, poke, prod, stab |
| (verb) thrust down or into | - |
| (verb) remove, harvest, or recover by digging | Synonyms: dig out, dig up |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| digenesis | (noun) alternation of sexual and asexual generations | Synonyms: metagenesis |
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| digest | (noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: compilation |
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| (noun) a periodical that summarizes the news | - |
| (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
| (verb) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing | - |
| (verb) become assimilated into the body | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture | - |
| (verb) arrange and integrate in the mind | - |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) convert food into absorbable substances | - |
| digester | (noun) autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested | - |
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| digestibility | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibleness |
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| digestible | (adjective) capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal | - |
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| digestibleness | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibility |
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| digestion | (noun) learning and coming to understand ideas and information | - |
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| (noun) the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body | - |
| (noun) the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat | - |
| digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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| (noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |
| digger | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: excavator, power shovel, shovel |
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| (noun) a laborer who digs | - |
| digging | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: dig, excavation |
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| diggings | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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| (noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: digs |
| dighted | (adjective) dressed or adorned (as for battle) | - |
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| digit | (noun) a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: dactyl |
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| (noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: figure |
| (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: finger's breadth, finger, fingerbreadth |
| digital | (adjective) of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or performed with the fingers | - |
| (adjective) displaying numbers rather than scale positions | - |
| digitalin | (noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalis, digitalis glycoside |
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| digitalis | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: foxglove |
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| (noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalin, digitalis glycoside |
| digitalisation | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalization |
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| digitalise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalize, digitise, digitize |
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| digitalization | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalisation |
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| digitalize | (verb) administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects | - |
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| (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitise, digitize |
| digitally | (adverb) in terms of integers | - |
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| (adverb) by means of the fingers | - |
| digitate | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: fingerlike |
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| digitately | (adverb) in a digitate manner | - |
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| digitigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) | - |
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| (noun) an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses | Synonyms: digitigrade mammal |
| digitisation | (noun) conversion of analog information into digital information | Synonyms: digitization |
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| digitise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitize |
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| digitiser | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitizer |
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| digitization | (noun) conversion of analog information into digital information | Synonyms: digitisation |
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| digitize | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitise |
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| digitizer | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitiser |
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| digitoxin | (noun) digitalis preparation used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia | - |
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| dignified | (adjective) having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) having or showing self-esteem | Synonyms: self-respectful, self-respecting |
| dignify | (verb) raise the status of | - |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: ennoble |
| dignifying | (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: ennobling |
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| dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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| dignity | (noun) the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect | Synonyms: self-regard, self-respect, self-worth |
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| (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: gravitas, lordliness |
| (noun) high office or rank or station | - |
| digoxin | (noun) digitalis preparation (trade name Lanoxin) used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia; helps the heart beat more forcefully | Synonyms: Lanoxin |
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| digram | (noun) two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe') | Synonyms: digraph |
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| digraph | (noun) two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe') | Synonyms: digram |
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| digress | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: divagate, stray, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, sidetrack, straggle |
| digression | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, divagation, diversion |
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| (noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: excursion |
| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, divagation, excursus, parenthesis |
| digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
| digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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| digs | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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| (noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: diggings |
| diligence | (noun) a diligent effort | Synonyms: application |
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| (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: industriousness, industry |
| (noun) conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation | - |
| diligent | (adjective) characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks | - |
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| (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: persevering |
| diligently | (adverb) with diligence; in a diligent manner | - |
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| dirigible | (adjective) capable of being steered or directed | Synonyms: steerable |
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| (noun) a steerable self-propelled aircraft | Synonyms: airship |
| 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 |
| disoblige | (verb) ignore someone's wishes | - |
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| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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| dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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| (noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
| (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
| (noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
| (verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
| (verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
| dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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| dojigger | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| downright | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
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| (adjective) characterized by plain blunt honesty | - |
| (adverb) thoroughgoing | Synonyms: outright |
| downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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| dziggetai | (noun) Mongolian wild ass | Synonyms: chigetai, Equus hemionus hemionus |
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| earwig | (noun) any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen | - |
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| effigy | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: image, simulacrum |
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| eigenvalue | (noun) (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant | Synonyms: characteristic root of a square matrix, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix |
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| eight | (adjective) being one more than seven | Synonyms: 8, viii |
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| (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
| eighteen | (adjective) being one more than seventeen | Synonyms: 18, xviii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one | Synonyms: 18, XVIII |
| eighteenth | (adjective) coming next after the seventeenth in position | Synonyms: 18th |
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| (noun) position 18 in a countable series of things | - |
| eighter | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
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| eightfold | (adjective) having eight units or components | Synonyms: eight-fold, octuple |
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| eighth | (adjective) coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position | Synonyms: 8th |
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| (noun) one part in eight equal parts | Synonyms: one-eighth |
| (noun) position eight in a countable series of things | - |
| eighties | (noun) the time of life between 80 and 90 | Synonyms: mid-eighties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1980 to 1989 | Synonyms: 1980s |
| (noun) the decade from 1880 to 1889 | Synonyms: 1880s |
| eightieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of eighty in counting order | Synonyms: 80th |
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| (noun) position 80 in a countable series of things | - |
| eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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| eightpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 1/2 in or 6.4 cm long | - |
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| eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
| eightvo | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves | Synonyms: 8vo, octavo |
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| eighty | (adjective) being ten more than seventy | Synonyms: 80, fourscore, lxxx |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, fourscore, LXXX |
| eligibility | (noun) the quality or state of being eligible | - |
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| eligible | (adjective) qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen | - |
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| emigrant | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigre, emigree, outgoer |
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| emigrate | (verb) leave one's country of residence for a new one | - |
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| emigration | (noun) migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) | Synonyms: expatriation, out-migration |
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| emigre | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigrant, emigree, outgoer |
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| emigree | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigrant, emigre, outgoer |
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| enigma | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, mystery, secret |
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| (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, riddle |