| angle | (noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something | Synonyms: slant |
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| (noun) the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians | - |
| (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: slant, weight |
| (verb) fish with a hook | - |
| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: fish |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip |
| (verb) move or proceed at an angle | - |
| angled | (adjective) forming or set at an angle | - |
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| angledozer | (noun) a bulldozer with an angled moldboard to push earth to one side | - |
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| angler | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| (noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: troller |
| (noun) a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage | - |
| anglerfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| bangle | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bracelet |
| bespangle | (verb) dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects | - |
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| (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: spangle |
| bingle | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: single |
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| bungle | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (verb) spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly | - |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| bungled | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: botched |
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| bungler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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| commingle | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) mix or blend | - |
| cringle | (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: eyelet, grommet, grummet, loop |
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| dangle | (verb) cause to dangle or hang freely | - |
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| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: drop, swing |
| dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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| dingle | (noun) a small wooded hollow | Synonyms: dell |
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| disentangle | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb, comb out |
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| (verb) extricate from entanglement | Synonyms: straighten out, unsnarl |
| (verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: unwind |
| (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, extricate, untangle |
| (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disinvolve |
| disentangled | (adjective) straightened out | Synonyms: loosened, unsnarled |
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| disentanglement | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: extrication, unsnarling, untangling |
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| disentangler | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: unraveler, unraveller |
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| dongle | (noun) (computer science) an electronic device that must be attached to a computer in order for it to use protected software | - |
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| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| entangle | (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: mat, snarl, tangle |
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| (verb) entrap | Synonyms: mire |
| entangled | (adjective) deeply involved especially in something complicated | Synonyms: embroiled |
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| (adjective) involved in difficulties | - |
| (adjective) twisted together in a tangled mass | - |
| entanglement | (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: web |
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| immingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, intermingle, intermix |
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| inglenook | (noun) a corner by a fireplace | Synonyms: chimney corner |
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| intermingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermix |
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| jangle | (noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jingle |
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| (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jingle-jangle, jingle |
| jingle | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel, doggerel verse |
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| (noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jangle |
| (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jangle, jingle-jangle |
| jongleur | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour |
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| jungle | (noun) a place where hoboes camp | Synonyms: hobo camp |
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| (noun) an impenetrable equatorial forest | - |
| (noun) a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival | - |
| kinglet | (noun) small birds resembling warblers but having some of the habits of titmice | - |
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| langley | (noun) unit of solar radiation | - |
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| longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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| mangle | (noun) clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers | - |
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| (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mutilate |
| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: murder, mutilate |
| (verb) press with a mangle | - |
| (verb) injure badly by beating | Synonyms: maul |
| mangled | (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerate, lacerated, torn |
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| mangler | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: maimer, mutilator |
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| meaningless | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: nonmeaningful |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing |
| meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
| mingle | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mix, unify |
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| (verb) get involved or mixed-up with | - |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: jumble |
| newfangled | (adjective) (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new | Synonyms: new-fangled |
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| pentangle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentacle, pentagram |
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| quadrangle | (noun) a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings | Synonyms: quad |
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| (noun) a four-sided polygon | Synonyms: quadrilateral, tetragon |
| rectangle | (noun) a parallelogram with four right angles | - |
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| ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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| ringlet | (noun) any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae | Synonyms: ringlet butterfly |
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| (noun) a little ring | - |
| (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, whorl |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, whorl |
| ringleted | (adjective) (of hair) shaped into ringlets | - |
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| shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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| (noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
| (noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |
| (verb) cover with shingles | - |
| shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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| shingles | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster |
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| single | (adjective) being or characteristic of a single thing or person | Synonyms: individual |
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| (adjective) not married or related to the unmarried state | Synonyms: unmarried |
| (adjective) used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals | - |
| (adjective) existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual | - |
| (adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: exclusive, undivided |
| (adjective) having uniform application | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing | Synonyms: individual |
| (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: bingle |
| (noun) the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 1, ace, I, one, unity |
| (verb) hit a single | - |
| singleness | (noun) the quality of concentrating on one central objective | - |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
| singles | (noun) tennis played with one person on each side | - |
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| (noun) badminton played with one person on each side | - |
| singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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| singlet | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: undershirt, vest |
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| singleton | (noun) the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt | - |
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| (noun) a set containing a single member | - |
| (noun) a single object (as distinguished from a pair) | - |
| spangle | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: diamante, sequin |
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| (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: bespangle |
| (verb) glitter as if covered with spangles | - |
| spangled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangly |
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| springless | (adjective) lacking in elasticity or vitality | - |
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| stingless | (adjective) without a sting | - |
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| strangle | (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: choke |
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| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, suffocate |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, hamper |
| (verb) die from strangulation | - |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangulate, throttle |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, stifle |
| strangled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, stifled, suppressed |
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| stranglehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe | - |
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| (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold |
| strangler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler |
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| (noun) an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree | Synonyms: strangler tree |
| strangles | (noun) an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes | Synonyms: equine distemper |
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| swingletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: whiffletree, whippletree |
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| tangle | (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: maze, snarl |
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| (noun) a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven | - |
| (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl |
| (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tousle |
| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, ravel |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up |
| tanglebush | (noun) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana |
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| tangled | (adjective) in a confused mass | - |
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| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tortuous |
| tingle | (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: prickling, tingling |
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| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill |
| (verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: prickle |
| triangle | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | - |
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| (noun) any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles | - |
| (noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: trigon, trilateral |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a triangle | - |
| unmingled | (adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements | Synonyms: plain, sheer, unmixed |
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| untangle | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble |
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| (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, disentangle, extricate |
| untangled | (adjective) not tangled | - |
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| wangle | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangling |
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| (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, manage |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent |
| wangler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: finagler |
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| wingless | (adjective) lacking wings | - |
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| wrangle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangling |
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| (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words |
| (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: brawl |
| (verb) herd and care for | - |
| wrangler | (noun) a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses | Synonyms: horse wrangler |
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| (noun) someone who argues noisily or angrily | - |