| coir | (noun) stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut | - |
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| commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| confirm | (verb) make more firm | - |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
| (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: reassert |
| (verb) administer the rite of confirmation to | - |
| (verb) support a person for a position | - |
| confirmable | (adjective) capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation | Synonyms: falsifiable, verifiable |
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| confirmation | (noun) a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church | - |
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| (noun) a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism | - |
| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, substantiation, verification |
| (noun) information that confirms or verifies | - |
| (noun) making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it | Synonyms: ratification |
| confirmative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| confirmed | (adjective) having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation | - |
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| (adjective) of persons; not subject to change | - |
| confirming | (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
| conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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| conspiracy | (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) | Synonyms: cabal |
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| (noun) a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act | Synonyms: confederacy |
| (noun) a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: confederacy |
| conspirative | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspiratorial |
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| conspirator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, machinator, plotter |
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| conspiratorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspirative |
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| conspire | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, machinate |
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| (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: collude |
| cookfire | (noun) a fire for cooking | - |
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| coronavirus | (noun) a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020 | Synonyms: 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, corona, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, novel coronavirus pneumonia, Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan flu, Wuhan pneumonia, Wuhan virus |
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| corsair | (noun) a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction) | - |
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| (noun) a pirate along the Barbary Coast | Synonyms: Barbary pirate |
| counterfire | (noun) fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons | - |
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| counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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| cowbird | (noun) North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests | - |
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| cowgirl | (noun) a woman cowboy | - |
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| coxsackievirus | (noun) enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis | Synonyms: Coxsackie virus |
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| crossfire | (noun) fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross | - |
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| (noun) a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions | - |
| crosshairs | (noun) a center of interest | - |
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| cuirass | (noun) medieval body armor that covers the chest and back | - |
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| cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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| cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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| daiquiri | (noun) a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice | Synonyms: rum cocktail |
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| dairy | (noun) a farm where dairy products are produced | Synonyms: dairy farm |
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| dairying | (noun) the business of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farming |
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| dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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| dairyman | (noun) the owner or manager of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farmer |
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| (noun) a man who works in a dairy | - |
| daygirl | (noun) a day boarder who is a girl | - |
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| debonair | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonaire, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonaire, debonnaire, suave |
| debonaire | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonnaire, suave |
| debonnaire | (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, suave |
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| deinocheirus | (noun) lightly built medium-sized theropod with long limbs and neck | - |
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| delavirdine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Rescriptor) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Rescriptor |
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| delirious | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: hallucinating |
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| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained |
| deliriously | (adverb) as if in a delirium | - |
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| (adverb) in a delirious manner | - |
| delirium | (noun) a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations | - |
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| (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, frenzy, fury, hysteria |
| desirability | (noun) the quality of being worthy of desiring | Synonyms: desirableness |
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| (noun) attractiveness to the opposite sex | Synonyms: desirableness, oomph, sex appeal |
| desirable | (adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving | - |
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| (adjective) worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse | Synonyms: suitable, worthy |
| desirableness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of desiring | Synonyms: desirability |
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| (noun) attractiveness to the opposite sex | Synonyms: desirability, oomph, sex appeal |
| desire | (noun) an inclination to want things | - |
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| (noun) the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state | - |
| (noun) something that is desired | - |
| (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: want |
| (verb) express a desire for | - |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: hope, trust |
| desired | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: craved |
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| desirous | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: wishful |
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| despair | (noun) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: desperation |
| (verb) abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart | - |
| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| despairingly | (adverb) with desperation | Synonyms: despondently |
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| devoir | (noun) formal expression of respect | - |
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| diapir | (noun) a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata | - |
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| dickeybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dicky-bird, dickybird |
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| dickybird | (noun) small bird; adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds | Synonyms: dickey-bird, dickeybird, dicky-bird |
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| dire | (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: desperate |
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| (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| direct | (adjective) direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | - |
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| (adjective) (of a current) flowing in one direction only | - |
| (adjective) straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | - |
| (adjective) similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
| (adjective) in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | Synonyms: lineal |
| (adjective) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth | - |
| (adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: exact |
| (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: verbatim |
| (adjective) having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | Synonyms: unmediated |
| (adjective) being an immediate result or consequence | - |
| (adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: directly, straight |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
| (verb) command with authority | - |
| (verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
| (verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) govern or manage | - |
| directed | (adjective) manageable by a supervising agent | - |
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| (adjective) (often used in combination) having a specified direction | - |
| directing | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directional, directive, guiding |
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| direction | (noun) the act of managing something | Synonyms: management |
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| (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: guidance, steering |
| (noun) a general course along which something has a tendency to develop | - |
| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
| (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, guidance |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: charge, commission |
| (noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: instruction |
| (noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: way |
| (noun) the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves | - |
| directional | (adjective) relating to or indicating directions in space | - |
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| (adjective) relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal | - |
| (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directive, guiding |
| directionality | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directivity |
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| (noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction | - |
| directioner | (noun) a fan on the band One Direction | - |
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| directionless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
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| directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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| (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
| directiveness | (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directivity |
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| directivity | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directionality |
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| (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directiveness |
| directly | (adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: direct, straight |
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| (adverb) in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly | Synonyms: flat, straight |
| (adverb) without anyone or anything intervening | - |
| (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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| directness | (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: straightness |
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| (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, forthrightness, frankness |
| director | (noun) someone who controls resources and expenditures | Synonyms: manager, managing director |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: conductor, music director |
| (noun) someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show | Synonyms: theater director, theatre director |
| (noun) member of a board of directors | - |
| (noun) the person who directs the making of a film | Synonyms: film director |
| directorate | (noun) a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution | Synonyms: board of directors |
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| directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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| directory | (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) | - |
| direful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| direfully | (adverb) in a direful manner | - |
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| dirge | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, lament, requiem, threnody |
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| dirham | (noun) worth one tenth of a Kuwaiti dinar; equal 100 fils | Synonyms: Kuwaiti dirham |
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| (noun) 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Libya | Synonyms: Libyan dirham |
| (noun) 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Tunisia | Synonyms: Tunisian dirham |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Morocco; equal to 100 centimes | Synonyms: Moroccan dirham |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in the United Arab Emirates; equal to 100 fils | Synonyms: United Arab Emirate dirham |
| (noun) 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal in Qatar | Synonyms: Qatari dirham |
| dirigible | (adjective) capable of being steered or directed | Synonyms: steerable |
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| (noun) a steerable self-propelled aircraft | Synonyms: airship |
| dirk | (noun) a relatively long dagger with a straight blade | - |
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| dirndl | (noun) a dress with a tight bodice and full skirt | - |
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| (noun) a full skirt with a gathered waistband | - |
| dirt | (adjective) (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel | Synonyms: ungraded |
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| (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: malicious gossip, scandal |
| (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
| (noun) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock | Synonyms: soil |
| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, poop, shit, shite, turd |
| dirtily | (adverb) in a filthy unclean manner | Synonyms: filthily |
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| (adverb) in a sordid manner | - |
| dirtiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: smuttiness |
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| (noun) the state of being unsanitary | Synonyms: uncleanness |
| (noun) the state of containing dirty impurities | - |
| dirty | (adjective) soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime | Synonyms: soiled, unclean |
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| (adjective) (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency | - |
| (adjective) spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: contaminating |
| (adjective) unethical or dishonest | Synonyms: shoddy, sordid |
| (adjective) expressing or revealing hostility or dislike | - |
| (adjective) obtained illegally or by improper means | Synonyms: ill-gotten |
| (adjective) (of a manuscript) defaced with changes | Synonyms: foul, marked-up |
| (adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | Synonyms: dingy, muddied, muddy |
| (adjective) vile; despicable | Synonyms: filthy, lousy |
| (adjective) contaminated with infecting organisms | Synonyms: pestiferous |
| (adjective) unpleasantly stormy | - |
| (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
| (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, grime, soil |
| dirtying | (noun) the act of soiling something | Synonyms: soiling, soilure |
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| disaffirmation | (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: denial |
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| disconfirming | (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: invalidating |
| dispirit | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, get down |
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| dispirited | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | Synonyms: listless |
| dispiritedly | (adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope | Synonyms: hopelessly |
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| dispiritedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| dispiriting | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening |
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| disrepair | (noun) in need of repairs; in need of repair | - |
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| disulfiram | (noun) a drug (trade name Antabuse) used in the treatment of alcoholism; causes nausea and vomiting if alcohol is ingested | Synonyms: Antabuse |
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| doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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| (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
| downstair | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstairs |
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| downstairs | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstair |
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| (adverb) on a floor below | Synonyms: below, down the stairs, on a lower floor |
| drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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