| abject | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: low-down, low, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
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| (adjective) showing utter resignation or hopelessness | Synonyms: unhopeful |
| (adjective) showing humiliation or submissiveness | - |
| (adjective) most unfortunate or miserable | - |
| abjection | (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abasement, degradation |
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| abjectly | (adverb) in a hopeless resigned manner | Synonyms: resignedly |
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| adjectival | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjective |
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| adjectivally | (adverb) as an adjective; in an adjectival manner | - |
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| adjective | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: procedural |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjectival |
| (noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something | - |
| (noun) the word class that qualifies nouns | - |
| adjectively | (adverb) as an adjective | - |
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| autoinjector | (noun) a hypodermic syringe to use in injecting yourself with a liquid | - |
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| bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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| bubblejet | (noun) a kind of ink-jet printer | Synonyms: bubble-jet printer, bubble jet printer |
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| conjectural | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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| conjecturally | (adverb) in a manner involving or inclined to conjecture and supposition | - |
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| conjecture | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence | - |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| counterproject | (noun) a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty. | - |
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| deject | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| dejected | (adjective) affected or marked by low spirits | - |
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| dejectedly | (adverb) in a dejected manner | Synonyms: in low spirits |
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| dejectedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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| dejection | (noun) a state of melancholy depression | - |
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| (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool |
| dejeuner | (noun) a midday meal | Synonyms: lunch, luncheon, tiffin |
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| eject | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, exhaust, expel, release |
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| (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: force out, squeeze out, squirt |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, exclude, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule | - |
| ejection | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: exclusion, expulsion, riddance |
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| (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: expulsion, forcing out, projection |
| ejective | (noun) a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis. | Synonyms: ejective consonant |
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| ejector | (noun) a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing | Synonyms: cartridge ejector |
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| (noun) An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump. | Synonyms: eductor-jet pump, injector, steam ejector, steam injector, thermocompressor |
| (noun) a person who ousts or supplants someone else | Synonyms: ouster |
| fanjet | (noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet engine, turbofan, turbofan engine, turbojet, turbojet engine |
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| (noun) an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine | Synonyms: fan-jet, turbofan, turbojet |
| inject | (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: shoot |
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| (verb) to introduce (a new aspect or element) | - |
| (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, interject, interpose, put in, throw in |
| (verb) feed intravenously | - |
| (verb) take by injection | - |
| (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: shoot |
| injectable | (adjective) (used of drugs) capable of being injected | - |
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| injectant | (noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | Synonyms: injection |
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| injection | (noun) the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure | - |
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| (noun) the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | Synonyms: injectant |
| injectiveness | (noun) (mathematics) The state or quality of relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain). | - |
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| injector | (noun) a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.) | - |
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| (noun) An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump. | Synonyms: eductor-jet pump, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, thermocompressor |
| interject | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interpose, put in, throw in |
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| interjection | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interpellation, interpolation, interposition |
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| (noun) an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion | Synonyms: ejaculation |
| introject | (noun) (psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child; the voice of conscience is usually a parent's voice internalized | - |
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| (verb) incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously | - |
| introjected | (adjective) incorporated unconsciously into your own psyche | - |
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| introjection | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the internalization of the parent figures and their values; leads to the formation of the superego | - |
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| (noun) (psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects | - |
| jealous | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, envious |
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| (adjective) suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival | Synonyms: green-eyed, overjealous |
| jealously | (adverb) with jealousy | - |
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| (adverb) with jealousy; in an envious manner | Synonyms: covetously, enviously |
| jealousy | (noun) zealous vigilance | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) | Synonyms: green-eyed monster |
| jean | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, dungaree |
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| jeans | (noun) (used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear | Synonyms: blue jeans, denim |
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| jeep | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: landrover |
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| jeer | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
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| (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, scoff |
| jeerer | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, mocker, scoffer |
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| jeering | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, mocking, taunting |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
| jeeringly | (adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner | Synonyms: gibingly, mockingly |
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| jehad | (noun) a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | Synonyms: jihad |
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| jejune | (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, juvenile, puerile |
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| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, poor, short |
| (adjective) lacking interest or significance or impact | Synonyms: insipid |
| jejunely | (adverb) in an immature manner | Synonyms: immaturely |
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| jejuneness | (noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejunity, tameness, vapidity, vapidness |
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| (noun) quality of inadequate nutritive value | Synonyms: jejunity |
| (noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: callowness, juvenility |
| jejunitis | (noun) inflammation of the jejunum of the small intestine | - |
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| jejunity | (noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness |
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| (noun) quality of inadequate nutritive value | Synonyms: jejuneness |
| jejunoileitis | (noun) inflammation of the jejunum and the ileum of the small intestine | - |
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| jejunostomy | (noun) surgical creation of an opening between the jejunum and the anterior abdominal wall; will allow artificial feeding | - |
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| jejunum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum | - |
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| jell | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: congeal, set |
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| jellaba | (noun) a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa | - |
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| jelled | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: congealed, jellied |
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| jellied | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: congealed, jelled |
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| jellify | (verb) become jelly | - |
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| (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jelly |
| jello | (noun) fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder | Synonyms: Jell-O |
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| jelly | (noun) a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit | - |
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| (noun) an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods | Synonyms: gelatin |
| (noun) any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin | - |
| (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jellify |
| jellyfish | (noun) any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | - |
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| (noun) large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles | Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war |
| jellyleaf | (noun) herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute; sometimes an aggressive weed | Synonyms: Queensland hemp, Sida rhombifolia |
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| jellylike | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, gelatinous |
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| jellyroll | (noun) thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake | Synonyms: Swiss roll |
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| jemmy | (noun) a short crowbar | Synonyms: jimmy |
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| jennet | (noun) female donkey | Synonyms: jenny, jenny ass |
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| jenny | (noun) female donkey | Synonyms: jennet, jenny ass |
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| jeopardise | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| jeopardize | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, stake, venture |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, menace, peril, threaten |
| jeopardy | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, peril, risk |
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| jerboa | (noun) mouselike jumping rodent | - |
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| jeremiad | (noun) a long and mournful complaint | - |
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| jerk | (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerking, jolt, saccade |
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| (noun) a sudden abrupt pull | Synonyms: tug |
| (noun) raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms | - |
| (noun) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun | Synonyms: jerked meat, jerky |
| (noun) a dull stupid fatuous person | Synonyms: dork |
| (noun) (mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration | - |
| (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: twitch |
| (verb) throw or toss with a quick motion | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) pull, or move with a sudden movement | Synonyms: yank |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: twitch |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, hitch |
| jerker | (noun) someone who gives a strong sudden pull | Synonyms: yanker |
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| jerkily | (adverb) with jerking motions | - |
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| (adverb) with spasms | Synonyms: spasmodically |
| jerkin | (noun) a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times | - |
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| jerkiness | (noun) the quality of being spasmodic and irregular | Synonyms: fitfulness |
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| jerking | (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerky |
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| (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jolt, saccade |
| jerkwater | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: one-horse, pokey, poky |
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| jerky | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy |
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| (adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: choppy |
| (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerking |
| (noun) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun | Synonyms: jerk, jerked meat |
| jeroboam | (noun) a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon) | Synonyms: double-magnum |
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| jersey | (noun) a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric | - |
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| (noun) a close-fitting pullover shirt | Synonyms: T-shirt, tee shirt |
| jessamine | (noun) a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea | Synonyms: common jasmine, Jasminum officinale, true jasmine |
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| jest | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jocularity, joke |
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| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, joke, laugh |
| (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: joke |
| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: joke |
| jester | (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: fool, motley fool |
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| jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
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| jestingly | (adverb) in jest | Synonyms: jokingly |
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| jet | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty |
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| (noun) an airplane powered by one or more jet engines | Synonyms: jet-propelled plane, jet plane |
| (noun) an artificially produced flow of water | Synonyms: fountain |
| (noun) street names for ketamine | Synonyms: cat valium, green, honey oil, K, special K, super acid, super C |
| (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: spirt, spurt, squirt |
| (noun) atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward | Synonyms: blue jet, reverse lightning |
| (noun) a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation | - |
| (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: gush |
| (verb) fly a jet plane | - |
| jetliner | (noun) a large jet plane that carries passengers | - |
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| jetsam | (noun) the floating wreckage of a ship | Synonyms: flotsam |
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| (noun) the part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm | - |
| jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
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| jettison | (verb) throw as from an airplane | - |
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| (verb) throw away, of something encumbering | - |
| jetty | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groin, groyne, mole, seawall |
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| jewel | (noun) a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: gem, precious stone |
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| (noun) a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: gem |
| (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: bejewel |
| jeweled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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| jeweler | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweller |
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| (noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweller, jewelry maker |
| jewelled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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| jeweller | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler |
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| (noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler, jewelry maker |