aardwolf | (noun) striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects | Synonyms: Proteles cristata |
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abalone | (noun) any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior | Synonyms: ear-shell |
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abandon | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: unconstraint, wantonness |
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(noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | Synonyms: wildness |
(verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake |
(verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims | Synonyms: give up |
(verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: empty, vacate |
(verb) forsake, leave behind | - |
(verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again | Synonyms: give up |
abandoned | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: derelict, deserted |
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(adjective) unrestrained and uninhibited | - |
abandonment | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: defection, desertion |
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(noun) the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away | - |
(noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: desertion, forsaking |
abarticulation | (noun) dislocation of a joint | - |
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abator | (noun) a person who abates a nuisance | - |
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abattoir | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse |
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abbot | (noun) the superior of an abbey of monks | Synonyms: archimandrite |
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abbreviation | (noun) shortening something by omitting parts of it | - |
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(noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase | - |
abbreviator | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abridger |
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abcoulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to 10 coulombs | - |
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abdication | (noun) a formal resignation and renunciation of powers | Synonyms: stepping down |
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(noun) the act of abdicating | Synonyms: stepping down |
abdicator | (noun) one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility | - |
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abdomen | (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: belly, stomach, venter |
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(noun) the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm | Synonyms: abdominal cavity |
abdominal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the abdomen | - |
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(noun) the muscles of the abdomen | Synonyms: ab, abdominal muscle |
abdominocentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: paracentesis |
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abdominoplasty | (noun) cosmetic surgery of the abdomen to remove wrinkles and tighten the skin over the stomach | Synonyms: tummy tuck |
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abdominous | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: paunchy, potbellied |
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abdominousness | (noun) the bodily property of a protruding belly | Synonyms: paunchiness |
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abdominovesical | (adjective) of or relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder | - |
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abduction | (noun) the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife | - |
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(noun) (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body | - |
abductor | (noun) a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line | Synonyms: abductor muscle |
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(noun) someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) | Synonyms: kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher |
abelmosk | (noun) bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus moschatus, Hibiscus moschatus, musk mallow |
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aberration | (noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: distortion, optical aberration |
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(noun) a disorder in one's mental state | - |
(noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, deviance |
abetalipoproteinemia | (noun) a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism; characterized by severe deficiency of beta-lipoproteins and abnormal red blood cells (acanthocytes) and abnormally low cholesterol levels | - |
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abettor | (noun) one who helps or encourages or incites another | Synonyms: abetter |
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abhor | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abominate, execrate, loathe |
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abhorrence | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
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abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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abhorrer | (noun) a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred | - |
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abiogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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abiogenetic | (adjective) originating by abiogenesis | - |
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abiogenist | (noun) a believer in abiogenesis | - |
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abiotrophy | (noun) a loss of vitality and a degeneration of cells and tissues not due to any apparent injury | - |
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abjection | (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abasement, degradation |
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abjuration | (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: recantation, retraction |
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ablactation | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: weaning |
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(noun) the cessation of lactation | - |
ablation | (noun) surgical removal of a body part or tissue | Synonyms: cutting out, excision, extirpation |
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(noun) the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers | - |
abloom | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: efflorescent |
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ablution | (noun) the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels | - |
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ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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abnegation | (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
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(noun) the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief | - |
abnegator | (noun) one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something | - |
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abnormal | (adjective) not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm | Synonyms: unnatural |
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(adjective) departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development | - |
(adjective) much greater than the normal | - |
abnormalcy | (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormality |
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abnormality | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: irregularity |
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(noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: freakishness |
(noun) retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence | Synonyms: mental defectiveness |
(noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormalcy |
abnormally | (adverb) in an abnormal manner | - |
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aboard | (adverb) on first or second or third base | - |
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(adverb) on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle | Synonyms: on board |
(adverb) part of a group | - |
(adverb) side by side | Synonyms: alongside |
abocclusion | (noun) the condition in which the upper teeth do not touch the lower teeth when biting | - |
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abode | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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(noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: residence |
abohm | (noun) a unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm | - |
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abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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abolishable | (adjective) capable of being abolished | - |
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abolishment | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolition |
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abolition | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolishment |
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abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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abomasal | (adjective) relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants) | - |
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abomasum | (noun) the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place | Synonyms: fourth stomach |
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abominable | (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
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(adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: detestable, execrable, odious |
abominably | (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abysmally, atrociously, awfully, rottenly, terribly |
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(adverb) in an offensive and hateful manner | Synonyms: detestably, odiously, repulsively |
abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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abomination | (noun) an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence | - |
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(noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
(noun) a person who is loathsome or disgusting | - |
abominator | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: loather |
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aborad | (adverb) away from the mouth or oral region | - |
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aboral | (adjective) opposite to or away from the mouth | - |
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aboriginal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: native |
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(adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial |
(noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native |
aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native |
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abort | (noun) the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed | - |
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(verb) terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion | - |
(verb) cease development, die, and be aborted | - |
(verb) terminate before completion | - |
aborticide | (noun) the act of destroying a fetus | Synonyms: feticide |
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(noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: abortifacient, abortion-inducing drug |
abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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(noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
abortion | (noun) termination of pregnancy | - |
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(noun) failure of a plan | Synonyms: miscarriage |
abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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abortively | (adverb) in an unfruitful manner | - |
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abortus | (noun) a human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body | - |
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aboulia | (noun) a loss of will power | Synonyms: abulia |
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aboulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: abulic |
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abound | (verb) be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities | - |
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(verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: bristle, burst |
abounding | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: galore |
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about | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: astir |
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(adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
(adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: around |
(adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: around |
(adverb) in rotation or succession | - |
(adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: around |
(adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: almost, most, near, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh |
(adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: around |
above | (adjective) appearing earlier in the same text | - |
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(noun) an earlier section of a written text | - |
(adverb) (in writing) at an earlier place | Synonyms: supra |
(adverb) in or to a place that is higher | Synonyms: higher up, in a higher place, to a higher place |
aboveboard | (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: straightforward |
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(adverb) in an honest manner | Synonyms: honestly |
aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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abranchious | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchiate, gill-less |
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abrasion | (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: attrition, detrition, grinding |
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(noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: attrition, corrasion, detrition |
(noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: excoriation, scrape, scratch |
abreaction | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: catharsis, katharsis |
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abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
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abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
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(adverb) to or in a foreign country | - |
(adverb) in a place across an ocean | Synonyms: overseas |
(adverb) far away from home or one's usual surroundings | Synonyms: afield |
abrocome | (noun) ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes | Synonyms: chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla |
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abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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abrogation | (noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: annulment, repeal |
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abrogator | (noun) an authority or official empowered to abolish or annul or repeal | - |
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abruption | (noun) an instance of sudden interruption | Synonyms: breaking off |
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abscission | (noun) the act of cutting something off | Synonyms: cutting off |
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(noun) shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant | - |
abscond | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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absconder | (noun) a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution | - |
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abscondment | (noun) the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest) | Synonyms: decampment |
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