| astringe | (verb) become constricted or compressed | - |
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| (verb) constrict or bind or draw together | - |
| astringence | (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringency |
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| astringency | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: stypsis |
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| (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringence |
| astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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| (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
| (noun) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals | Synonyms: astringent drug, styptic |
| awninged | (adjective) covered with an awning | - |
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| binge | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: bout, bust, tear |
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| (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: orgy, splurge |
| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
| (verb) to watch a large amount of media in a single seating | - |
| binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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| birefringence | (noun) splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly | Synonyms: double refraction |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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| ceilinged | (adjective) provided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface | - |
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| constringe | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, narrow |
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| contingence | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingency, eventuality |
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| contingency | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, eventuality |
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| (noun) the state of being contingent on something | - |
| contingent | (adjective) being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow | Synonyms: contingent on, contingent upon, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on |
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| (adjective) possible but not certain to occur | - |
| (adjective) uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances | - |
| (noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: detail |
| (noun) a gathering of persons representative of some larger group | - |
| cringe | (noun) A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling. | - |
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| (noun) some event or object that causes embarrassment and shame | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, fawn, grovel |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
| cringey | (adjective) embarrassing such that it would cause cringing | - |
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| derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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| dinge | (noun) discoloration due to dirtiness | Synonyms: dinginess |
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| (verb) make dingy | - |
| (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: batter |
| disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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| disingenuously | (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: artfully |
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| disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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| finger | (noun) one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb | - |
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| (noun) any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb) | - |
| (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, fingerbreadth |
| (verb) indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments | - |
| (verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: thumb |
| (verb) search for on the computer | - |
| (verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: feel |
| fingerboard | (noun) a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: clavier, piano keyboard |
| (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerpost |
| fingerbreadth | (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, finger |
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| fingered | (adjective) having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in combination | - |
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| fingerflower | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerroot |
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| fingering | (noun) touching something with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument | - |
| fingerless | (adjective) not having or having lost fingers | - |
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| fingerlike | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: digitate |
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| fingerling | (noun) a young or small fish | - |
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| fingermark | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingerprint |
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| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| fingerpaint | (noun) paint that has the consistency of jelly | Synonyms: finger paint |
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| fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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| fingerpost | (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerboard |
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| fingerprint | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingermark |
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| (noun) a generic term for any identifying characteristic | - |
| (noun) a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations | - |
| (verb) take an impression of a person's fingerprints | - |
| fingerprinting | (noun) the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification | - |
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| fingerroot | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerflower |
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| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| fingerstall | (noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger | Synonyms: cot |
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| fingertip | (noun) the end (tip) of a finger | - |
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| forefinger | (noun) the finger next to the thumb | Synonyms: index, index finger |
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| fringe | (noun) an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels | - |
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| (noun) a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead | Synonyms: bang |
| (noun) a social group holding marginal or extreme views | - |
| (noun) a part of the city far removed from the center | Synonyms: outskirt |
| (noun) one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light | Synonyms: interference fringe |
| (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: outer boundary, periphery |
| (verb) decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe | - |
| (verb) adorn with a fringe | - |
| fringed | (adjective) having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips | - |
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| (adjective) surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination | - |
| (adjective) having edges irregularly and finely slashed | Synonyms: laciniate |
| fringepod | (noun) annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles | Synonyms: lacepod |
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| ginger | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: gingery |
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| (noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: pep, peppiness |
| (noun) dried ground gingerroot | Synonyms: powdered ginger |
| (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: gingerroot |
| (noun) perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems | - |
| (verb) add ginger to in order to add flavor | - |
| gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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| gingerly | (adjective) with extreme care or delicacy | - |
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| (adverb) in a gingerly manner | - |
| gingerol | (noun) derived from ginger; source of the hotness of ginger | - |
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| gingerroot | (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: ginger |
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| gingersnap | (noun) a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, snap |
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| gingery | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: ginger |
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| (adjective) having a taste like that of ginger | - |
| gunslinger | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| 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 |
| hinge | (noun) a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other | Synonyms: flexible joint |
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| (noun) a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend | - |
| (verb) attach with a hinge | - |
| humdinger | (noun) someone of remarkable excellence | - |
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| impinge | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, trench |
| impingement | (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: encroachment, impact |
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| (noun) a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something | Synonyms: impaction |
| infringe | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, impinge |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, contravene, run afoul |
| infringement | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation |
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| (noun) an act that disregards an agreement or a right | Synonyms: violation |
| ingeminate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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| ingenious | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: clever, cunning |
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| ingeniously | (adverb) in an ingenious manner | - |
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| ingeniousness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: cleverness, ingenuity |
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| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
| ingenue | (noun) the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play | - |
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| (noun) an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage) | - |
| (noun) an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl | - |
| ingenuity | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness |
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| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness, inventiveness |
| ingenuous | (adjective) characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious | Synonyms: artless |
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| (adjective) lacking in sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: innocent |
| ingenuously | (adverb) in an ingenuous manner | Synonyms: artlessly |
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| ingenuousness | (noun) openly straightforward or frank | - |
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| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, innocence, naturalness |
| ingest | (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, assimilate, take in |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, have, take, take in |
| ingesta | (noun) solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth | - |
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| ingestion | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, intake, uptake |
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| ladyfinger | (noun) small finger-shaped sponge cake | - |
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| leptomeninges | (noun) the two innermost layers of the meninges; cerebrospinal fluid circulates between these innermost layers | - |
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| lingenberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| linger | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: dawdle |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: tarry |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: hover |
| (verb) remain present although waning or gradually dying | - |
| lingerer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: loiterer |
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| lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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| lingeringly | (adverb) in a slow, leisurely or prolonged way | Synonyms: protractedly |
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| malinger | (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: skulk |
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| malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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| malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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| meningeal | (adjective) relating to the meninges | - |
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| meninges | (noun) a membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord | Synonyms: meninx |
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| minge | (noun) vulgar term for a woman's pubic hair or genitals | - |
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| mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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| mudspringer | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudskipper |
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| myringectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the eardrum | - |
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| nonastringent | (adjective) not astringent | - |
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| oophorosalpingectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both ovaries and the corresponding Fallopian tubes | - |
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| palingenesis | (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: recapitulation |
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| palingenetic | (adjective) of or relating to palingenesis | - |
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| pinger | (noun) a pulse generator used for echo sounding in sonar | - |
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| porringer | (noun) a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) | - |
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| ringed | (adjective) wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married | - |
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| (adjective) having colored rings around the body | - |
| (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped |
| ringer | (noun) (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg | - |
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| (noun) a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses | - |
| (noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: clone, dead ringer |
| (noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | Synonyms: bell ringer, toller |