| besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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| bethink | (verb) consider or ponder something carefully | - |
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| (verb) cause oneself to consider something | - |
| blink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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| (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: nictate, nictitate, wink |
| (verb) keep back by blinking | Synonyms: blink away, wink |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: flash, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| blinker | (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: flasher |
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| (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, winker |
| (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal |
| (verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
| blinks | (noun) small Indian lettuce of northern regions | Synonyms: blinking chickweed, Montia lamprosperma, water chickweed |
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| bobolink | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird, ricebird |
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| brink | (noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: verge |
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| (noun) the edge of a steep place | - |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: threshold, verge |
| brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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| cheewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: cheewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chink | (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: click, clink |
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| (noun) a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall | - |
| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent | Synonyms: Chinaman |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: check |
| (verb) fill the chinks of, as with caulking | - |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle |
| chinkapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinquapin |
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| chinked | (adjective) having narrow opening filled | Synonyms: stopped-up |
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| clink | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer |
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| (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, click |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, tink, tinkle |
| (verb) make a high sound typical of glass | - |
| clinker | (noun) a hard brick used as a paving stone | Synonyms: clinker brick |
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| (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: cinder |
| (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
| (verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| countersink | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: counterbore, countersink bit |
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| (noun) a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface | - |
| (verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: set |
| crinkle | (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
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| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinkleroot | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort |
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| crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| cufflink | (noun) jewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt | - |
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| diesinker | (noun) someone who makes dies | Synonyms: die-sinker, diemaker |
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| dink | (noun) a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net | Synonyms: drop shot |
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| dinkey | (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinky |
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| dinky | (adjective) (British informal) pretty and neat | - |
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| (adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: insignificant |
| (noun) a small locomotive | Synonyms: dinkey |
| doublethink | (noun) believing two contradictory ideas at the same time | - |
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| drink | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drinking, drunkenness |
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| (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, swallow |
| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drinkable, potable |
| (noun) a single serving of a beverage | - |
| (noun) any large deep body of water | - |
| (verb) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to | Synonyms: drink in |
| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: imbibe |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: tope |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail |
| drinkable | (adjective) suitable for drinking | Synonyms: potable |
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| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drink, potable |
| drinker | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: imbiber, juicer, toper |
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| (noun) a person who drinks liquids | - |
| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| fink | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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| (verb) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure | Synonyms: confess, squeal |
| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
| freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| ginkgo | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: gingko, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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| groupthink | (noun) decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility) | - |
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| hijinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, jinks |
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| hoodwink | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, juggle |
| hyperlink | (noun) a link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen | - |
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| ink | (noun) dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods | - |
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| (noun) a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing | - |
| (verb) fill with ink | - |
| (verb) mark, coat, cover, or stain with ink | - |
| (verb) append one's signature to | - |
| inkberry | (noun) evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries | Synonyms: evergreen winterberry, gall-berry, gallberry, Ilex glabra |
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| inkblot | (noun) a blot made with ink | - |
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| inkiness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, blackness |
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| inkle | (noun) a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration | - |
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| inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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| inkpad | (noun) a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp | Synonyms: inking pad, pad, stamp pad |
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| inkpot | (noun) a bottle of ink | Synonyms: ink bottle |
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| inkstand | (noun) a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink | - |
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| (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkwell |
| inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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| inky | (adjective) of the color of black ink | Synonyms: ink-black, inky-black |
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| interlink | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interconnect |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interconnect |
| interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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| jinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, hijinks |
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| kink | (noun) a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation | - |
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| (noun) an eccentric idea | - |
| (noun) a person with unusual sexual tastes | - |
| (noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: twirl, twist |
| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, rick, wrick |
| (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, curve |
| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up |
| kinkajou | (noun) a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) | Synonyms: Perodicticus potto, potto |
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| (noun) arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail | Synonyms: honey bear, Potos caudivolvulus, Potos flavus, potto |
| kinky | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: perverted |
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| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, nappy |
| (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, offbeat, quirky, way-out |
| link | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: linkup, tie-in, tie |
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| (noun) a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network | Synonyms: radio link |
| (noun) an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data | Synonyms: data link |
| (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, liaison |
| (noun) (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list | - |
| (noun) a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain | - |
| (noun) the means of connection between things linked in series | Synonyms: nexus |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, connection |
| (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link up, relate, tie in |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: connect, link up, tie |
| (verb) link with or as with a yoke | Synonyms: yoke |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, join, link up, unite |
| linkage | (noun) the act of linking things together | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion | - |
| (noun) (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) | Synonyms: gene linkage |
| (noun) an associative relation | - |
| linkboy | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkman |
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| linked | (adjective) connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks | Synonyms: coupled, joined |
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| linkman | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkboy |
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| links | (noun) a golf course that is built on sandy ground near a shore | Synonyms: golf links |
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| linksman | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, golfer |
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| linkup | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: link, tie-in, tie |
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| mink | (noun) slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur | - |
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| (noun) fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks | Synonyms: mink coat |
| (noun) the expensive fur of a mink | - |
| nondrinker | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, abstinent |
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| oink | (noun) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs | Synonyms: grunt |
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| (verb) utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs | Synonyms: squeal |
| overthink | (verb) to spend to much time considering something and thus reach the wrong conclusion | - |
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| pachinko | (noun) a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board | - |
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| painkiller | (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne, pain pill |
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| periwinkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: winkle |
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| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: winkle |
| (noun) chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers | - |
| (noun) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers | Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea |
| pink | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pinkish |
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| (noun) a light shade of red | - |
| (noun) a person with mildly leftist political views | Synonyms: pinko |
| (noun) any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers | Synonyms: garden pink |
| (verb) cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing | - |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: knock, rap, tap |
| (verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: knock, ping |
| pinkeye | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: conjunctivitis |
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| pinkie | (noun) the finger farthest from the thumb | Synonyms: little finger, pinky |
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| pinkify | (verb) make pink | - |
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| pinkish | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pink |
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| pinkness | (noun) the quality of being pink | - |
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| pinko | (noun) a person with mildly leftist political views | Synonyms: pink |
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| pinkroot | (noun) a fungal disease of onions | - |
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| pinky | (noun) the finger farthest from the thumb | Synonyms: little finger, pinkie |
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| prink | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| (verb) dress very carefully and in a finicky manner | - |
| rethink | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, reconsideration, second thought |
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| (verb) change one's mind | - |
| rink | (noun) building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating | Synonyms: skating rink |
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| rinkhals | (noun) highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet | Synonyms: Hemachatus haemachatus, ringhals, spitting snake |
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| shrink | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, psychiatrist |
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| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: contract |
| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: reduce |
| (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrivel, shrivel up, wither |
| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrivel |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince |
| shrinkable | (adjective) capable of being shrunk | - |
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| shrinkage | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shoplifting |
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| (noun) the amount by which something shrinks | - |
| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinking |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
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| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |
| shrinkwrap | (verb) wrap something tightly with heated plastic that shrinks upon cooling | - |
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| sink | (noun) plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe | - |
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| (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sump |
| (noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sinkhole, swallow hole |
| (noun) (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system | - |
| (verb) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly | Synonyms: fall off, slump |
| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: bury |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, settle |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop, drop down |
| (verb) cause to sink | - |
| (verb) fall or sink heavily | Synonyms: slide down, slump |
| (verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: dip |
| (verb) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, pass |
| sinkable | (adjective) capable of being sunk | - |
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| sinker | (noun) a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate | - |
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| (noun) a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water) | - |
| (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, doughnut |
| sinkhole | (noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sink, swallow hole |
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| sinking | (noun) a descent as through liquid (especially through water) | - |
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| (noun) a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength) | - |
| (noun) a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension | Synonyms: sinking feeling |
| skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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| slink | (verb) walk stealthily | - |
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| sprinkle | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling |
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| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling |
| (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| sprinkler | (noun) mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden | - |
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| sprinkles | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: jimmies |
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