| blind | (adjective) unable to see | Synonyms: unsighted |
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| (adjective) not based on reason or evidence | Synonyms: unreasoning |
| (adjective) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand | - |
| (noun) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight | Synonyms: screen |
| (noun) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) | - |
| (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: subterfuge |
| (noun) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group | - |
| (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: dim |
| (verb) make blind by putting the eyes out | - |
| (verb) render unable to see | - |
| blinded | (adjective) deprived of sight | - |
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| blinder | (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: blinker, winker |
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| blindfold | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfolded |
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| (noun) a cloth used to cover the eyes | - |
| (verb) cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing | - |
| blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| blindly | (adverb) without seeing or looking | - |
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| (adverb) without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis | - |
| blindness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: cecity, sightlessness |
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| blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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| (verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
| blindworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm |
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| (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: caecilian |
| blond | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blonde, light-haired |
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| (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blonde |
| (noun) a male person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blonde | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blond, light-haired |
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| (noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blond |
| (noun) a female person with fair skin and hair | - |
| blondness | (noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: fairness, paleness |
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| bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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| blunder | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
| blunderbuss | (noun) a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle | - |
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| blunderer | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| boarhound | (noun) large hound used in hunting wild boars | - |
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| bond | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: hamper, shackle, trammel |
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| (noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: attachment |
| (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness |
| (noun) an electrical force linking atoms | Synonyms: chemical bond |
| (noun) a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal | Synonyms: bond certificate |
| (noun) (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial | Synonyms: bail, bail bond |
| (noun) a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest | Synonyms: alliance |
| (noun) a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents | Synonyms: bond paper |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, hold fast, stick, stick to |
| (verb) bring together in a common cause or emotion | Synonyms: draw together |
| (verb) issue bonds on | - |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bind, tie |
| bondable | (adjective) capable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bindable |
| bondage | (noun) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power | - |
| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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| bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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| bonding | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: soldering |
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| (noun) (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel | - |
| (noun) a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child) | - |
| bondmaid | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
| bondman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondsman |
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| (noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondsman |
| bondsman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondman |
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| (noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondman |
| (noun) a male who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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| bondswoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
| (noun) a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| bonduc | (noun) tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries | Synonyms: bonduc tree, Caesalpinia bonduc, Caesalpinia bonducella |
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| (noun) handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicot, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree |
| bondwoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
| bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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| bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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| bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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| bookend | (noun) a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) | - |
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| boondocks | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, hinterland |
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| boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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| (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
| borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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| bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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| bound | (adjective) confined by bonds | - |
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| (adjective) secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form | - |
| (adjective) held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union | - |
| (adjective) confined in the bowels | - |
| (adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: destined |
| (adjective) bound by an oath | - |
| (adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bandaged |
| (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: apprenticed, articled, indentured |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: destined |
| (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
| (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: boundary, limit |
| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: boundary, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: boundary, edge |
| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: jump, leap, spring |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: border |
| boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
| bounded | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: delimited |
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| boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
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| bounden | (adjective) morally obligatory | - |
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| bounder | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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| (noun) someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) | Synonyms: leaper |
| bounderish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| boundless | (adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: limitless, unbounded |
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| boundlessly | (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: immeasurably, infinitely |
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| boundlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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| bounds | (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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| boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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| brand | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, steel, sword |
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| (noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: make |
| (noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma |
| (noun) identification mark on skin, made by burning | - |
| (noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: firebrand |
| (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
| branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
| branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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| brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| brandy | (noun) distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | - |
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| brandyball | (noun) a British candy flavored with brandy | - |
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| brandysnap | (noun) a gingersnap flavored with brandy | - |
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| brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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| (adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
| brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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| brigandine | (noun) a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth | - |
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| brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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| brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindled, tabby |
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| brindled | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, tabby |
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| broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
| bundle | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: sheaf |
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| (noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: package, packet, parcel |
| (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile |
| (verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed | Synonyms: practice bundling |
| (verb) make into a bundle | Synonyms: bundle up, roll up |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: compact, pack, wad |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
| bundling | (noun) the act of binding something into a bundle | - |
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| (noun) the act of shoving hastily | - |
| (noun) a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing | - |
| burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
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| burunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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| cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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| calamondin | (noun) a fruit of the calamondin tree. | - |
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| calando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and volume | - |
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| calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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| (noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
| (noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
| (verb) enter into a calendar | - |
| calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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| (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
| calendered | (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: glossy |
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| calendric | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendrical |
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| calendrical | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendric |
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| calendula | (noun) any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes | - |
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| calliandra | (noun) any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers | - |
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| campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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| candela | (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candle, cd, standard candle |
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| candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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| candelabrum | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabra |
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| candelilla | (noun) wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: Euphorbia antisyphilitica |
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| (noun) wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Synonyms: Pedilanthus bracteatus, Pedilanthus pavonis |
| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| candid | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness | Synonyms: heart-to-heart, open |
| (adjective) informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared | - |
| candida | (noun) any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida | - |
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| candidacy | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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| candidate | (noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) | Synonyms: prospect |
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| (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: campaigner, nominee |
| candidature | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, electioneering, political campaign |
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| candidiasis | (noun) an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans) | Synonyms: monilia disease, moniliasis |
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| candidly | (adverb) (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that | Synonyms: frankly, honestly |
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| candidness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candor, candour, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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| candied | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: crystalised, crystalized, glace |
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| (adjective) encrusted with sugar or syrup | Synonyms: sugar-coated |
| candle | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: taper, wax light |
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| (noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candela, cd, standard candle |
| (verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
| candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
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