| backlash | (noun) an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence | - |
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| (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: rebound, recoil, repercussion |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
| calash | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash top, caleche |
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| (noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: caleche |
| clash | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, encounter, skirmish |
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| (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, crash |
| (noun) a state of conflict between persons | Synonyms: friction |
| (noun) a state of conflict between colors | - |
| (verb) disagree violently | - |
| (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: collide |
| (verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: collide, jar |
| clashing | (adjective) sharply and harshly discordant | - |
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| eyelash | (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: cilium, lash |
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| flash | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun, photoflash |
| (noun) a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification | - |
| (noun) a momentary brightness | - |
| (noun) a sudden brilliant understanding | - |
| (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: news bulletin, newsbreak, newsflash |
| (noun) a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate | Synonyms: flare |
| (noun) a gaudy outward display | Synonyms: fanfare, ostentation |
| (noun) a sudden intense burst of radiant energy | - |
| (noun) a short vivid experience | Synonyms: flashing |
| (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
| (verb) appear briefly | - |
| (verb) emit a brief burst of light | - |
| (verb) make known or cause to appear with great speed | - |
| (verb) protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank |
| (verb) expose or show briefly | - |
| flashback | (noun) a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story | - |
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| (noun) an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier) | - |
| flashboard | (noun) boarding place along the top of a dam to increase its height | Synonyms: flashboarding |
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| flashboarding | (noun) boarding place along the top of a dam to increase its height | Synonyms: flashboard |
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| flashbulb | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashgun, photoflash |
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| flashcard | (noun) a card with words or numbers or pictures that is flashed to a class by the teacher | Synonyms: flash card |
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| flasher | (noun) an electrical device that automatically turns a lamp on and off (as for an advertising display) | - |
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| (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: blinker |
| (noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: exhibitionist |
| flashflood | (noun) a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration | Synonyms: flash flood |
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| flashgun | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, photoflash |
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| flashily | (adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flamboyantly, showily |
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| (adverb) in a meretricious manner | Synonyms: meretriciously |
| flashiness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| flashing | (noun) sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing | - |
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| (noun) a short vivid experience | Synonyms: flash |
| flashlight | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: torch |
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| flashover | (noun) an unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator) | - |
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| flashpoint | (noun) the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air | Synonyms: flash point |
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| (noun) a place of political unrest and potential violence | Synonyms: hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot |
| (noun) point at which something is ready to blow up | Synonyms: flash point |
| flashy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| goulash | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: gulyas, Hungarian goulash |
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| lash | (noun) a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object | Synonyms: whip, whiplash |
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| (noun) leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip | Synonyms: thong |
| (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: cilium, eyelash |
| (verb) strike as if by whipping | Synonyms: whip |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) bind with a rope, chain, or cord | - |
| (verb) lash or flick about sharply | - |
| lasher | (noun) a driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip | - |
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| lashing | (adjective) violently urging on by whipping or flogging | - |
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| (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, tanning, whipping |
| (noun) rope that is used for fastening something to something else | - |
| lashings | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| newsflash | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsbreak |
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| photoflash | (noun) a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | Synonyms: flash, flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun |
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| plash | (noun) the sound like water splashing | Synonyms: splash |
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| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
| (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
| slash | (noun) a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: gash |
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| (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, solidus, stroke, virgule |
| (noun) an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind) | - |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, gash, slice |
| (verb) cut drastically | - |
| (verb) cut open | Synonyms: gash |
| (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete | Synonyms: cut down |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| slashed | (adjective) having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric | - |
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| (adjective) (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply | Synonyms: cut |
| (adjective) patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes | - |
| slasher | (noun) a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing | - |
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| (noun) someone who slashes another person | - |
| slashing | (adjective) as if striking with slashing blows | - |
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| splash | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splashing |
| (noun) a patch of bright color | - |
| (noun) the sound like water splashing | Synonyms: plash |
| (noun) a small quantity of something moist or liquid | Synonyms: dab, splatter |
| (noun) a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event | Synonyms: stir |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splatter, splosh, swash |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splosh, sprinkle |
| (verb) strike and dash about in a liquid | - |
| (verb) soil or stain with a splashed liquid | - |
| (verb) mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splosh |
| splashboard | (noun) protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side | Synonyms: washboard |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | Synonyms: dashboard, splasher |
| splashdown | (noun) a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight | - |
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| splashed | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, spattered, splattered |
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| (adjective) (of a fluid) having been propelled about in flying drops or masses | - |
| splasher | (noun) a protective covering over or beside a wheel to protect the upper part of a vehicle from splashes of mud | - |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | Synonyms: dashboard, splashboard |
| splashiness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness |
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| splashing | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splattering |
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| (noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splash |
| splashy | (adjective) characterized by water flying about haphazardly | - |
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| (adjective) covered with patches of bright color | - |
| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: flamboyant, showy |
| superslasher | (noun) large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright slashing claw 15 inches long on each hind foot; early Cretaceous | Synonyms: utahraptor |
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| synchroflash | (noun) a device used in photography to synchronize the peak of a flash with the opening of the camera shutter | - |
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| unlash | (verb) untie the lashing of | - |
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| whiplash | (noun) a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object | Synonyms: lash, whip |
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| (noun) an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident) | Synonyms: whiplash injury |
| whitelash | (noun) backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances | Synonyms: white backlash |
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