| conducting | (noun) the way of administering a business | - |
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| (noun) the direction of an orchestra or choir | - |
| conduction | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conductivity |
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| conductive | (adjective) having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity | - |
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| conductivity | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conduction |
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| conductor | (noun) a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: director, music director |
| (noun) the person who collects fares on a public conveyance | - |
| (noun) a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | - |
| conductress | (noun) a woman conductor | - |
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| conduit | (noun) a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass | - |
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| condylar | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a condyle | - |
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| condyle | (noun) a round bump on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone | - |
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| condylion | (noun) the craniometric point at the tip of the mandibular condyle | - |
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| confound | (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confuse |
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| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| confounded | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| confoundedly | (adverb) in a perplexed manner | Synonyms: perplexedly |
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| confounding | (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: contradictory |
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| contend | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contest, repugn |
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| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, debate, fence |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: postulate |
| (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, vie |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: fight, struggle |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| contender | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, rival |
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| contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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| (noun) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law | - |
| contrabandist | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contraindication | (noun) (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment | - |
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| conundrum | (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, enigma, riddle |
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| coondog | (noun) any dog trained to hunt raccoons | - |
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| coonhound | (noun) any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons | - |
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| corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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| coriander | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro |
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| (noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground | Synonyms: coriander seed |
| (noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
| correspond | (verb) exchange messages | - |
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| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: represent, stand for |
| (verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: equate |
| correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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| (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
| (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
| correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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| (noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
| (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
| corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
| (adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
| correspondingly | (adverb) in a corresponding manner | - |
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| corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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| corrigendum | (noun) a printer's error; to be corrected | - |
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| corundom | (noun) very hard mineral used as an abrasive | Synonyms: corundum |
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| corundum | (noun) very hard mineral used as an abrasive | Synonyms: corundom |
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| costochondritis | (noun) inflammation at the junction of a rib and its cartilage | - |
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| countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| cowhand | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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| credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness | - |
| (verb) grow louder | - |
| crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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| cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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| cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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| curandera | (noun) a Mexican woman who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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| curandero | (noun) a Mexican man who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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| cylinder | (noun) a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air | - |
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| (noun) a chamber within which piston moves | Synonyms: piston chamber |
| (noun) a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line | - |
| (noun) a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) | - |
| cylindric | (adjective) having the form of a cylinder | Synonyms: cylindrical |
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| cylindrical | (adjective) having the form of a cylinder | Synonyms: cylindric |
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| cylindricality | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | Synonyms: cylindricalness |
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| cylindricalness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | Synonyms: cylindricality |
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| dachshund | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachsie |
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| dandelion | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: blowball |
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| dander | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: hackles |
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| (noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people | - |
| dandified | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandyish, foppish |
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| dandify | (verb) dress like a dandy | - |
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| dandily | (adverb) in a dandy manner | - |
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| dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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| (verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
| dandruff | (noun) loose scales shed from the scalp | - |
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| (noun) a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp | - |
| dandy | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: yawl |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
| dandyish | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandified, foppish |
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| dandyism | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: foppishness |
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| deckhand | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: roustabout |
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| decompound | (adjective) of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound | - |
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| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
| (verb) grow quieter | - |
| deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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| defend | (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: fend for, support |
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| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) be on the defensive; act against an attack | - |
| (verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: guard, hold |
| (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: champion |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: fight, fight back, fight down, oppose |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: represent |
| defendable | (adjective) capable of being defended | Synonyms: defensible |
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| defendant | (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: suspect |
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| defender | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: guardian, protector, shielder |
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| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: withstander |
| defending | (adjective) attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring | - |
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| demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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| (noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
| (noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
| (noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
| (noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
| (verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
| (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
| (verb) summon to court | - |
| (verb) ask to be informed of | - |
| (verb) lay legal claim to | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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| demanding | (adjective) requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill | - |
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| demandingly | (adverb) in a demanding manner | - |
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| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| demimonde | (noun) a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior | - |
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| dendriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| dendrite | (noun) short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the neuron | - |
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| dendritic | (adjective) (neuroscience) of or relating to or resembling a dendrite | - |
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| dendrobium | (noun) a plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers | - |
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| dendroid | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| dendroidal | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| dendrology | (noun) the study of wooden plants | - |
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| depend | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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| (verb) be contingent upon (something that is elided) | - |
| dependability | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness |
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| dependable | (adjective) worthy of reliance or trust | Synonyms: reliable |
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| (adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: good, safe, secure |
| (adjective) consistent in performance or behavior | Synonyms: rock-steady, steady-going |
| (adjective) worthy of being depended on | Synonyms: honest, reliable, true |
| dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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| dependably | (adverb) in a faithful manner | Synonyms: faithfully, reliably |
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| dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
| (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
| dependence | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependency, habituation |
| dependency | (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: colony |
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| (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependence |
| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, habituation |
| dependent | (adjective) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: subordinate |
| (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, qualified |
| (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: subject |
| (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
| (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependant |
| descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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| (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who descends | - |
| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| deskbound | (adjective) restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity | Synonyms: desk-bound |
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