absorbing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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corbiestep | (noun) (architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall | Synonyms: corbel step, corbie-step, crow step |
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corbina | (noun) bluish-grey whiting of California coast | Synonyms: Menticirrhus undulatus |
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euphorbium | (noun) an acrid brown gum resin now used mainly in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: gum eurphorbium |
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exorbitance | (noun) excessive excess | Synonyms: outrageousness |
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exorbitant | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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exorbitantly | (adverb) to an exorbitant degree | Synonyms: extortionately, usuriously |
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forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
forbiddance | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: inhibition, prohibition |
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(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbidding |
forbidden | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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forbidding | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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(adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, grim |
(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance |
forbiddingly | (adverb) in an unpleasant or menacing manner | - |
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isosorbide | (noun) drug (trade name Isordil) used to treat angina pectoris and congestive heart failure | Synonyms: Isordil |
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moorbird | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorfowl, moorgame, red grouse |
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morbid | (adjective) suggesting the horror of death and decay | Synonyms: ghoulish |
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(adjective) caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology | Synonyms: diseased, pathologic, pathological |
(adjective) suggesting an unhealthy mental state | - |
morbidity | (noun) the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you | Synonyms: morbidness, unwholesomeness |
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(noun) an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind | Synonyms: morbidness |
(noun) the relative incidence of a particular disease | - |
morbidly | (adverb) in a morbid manner or to a morbid degree | - |
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morbidness | (noun) the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you | Synonyms: morbidity, unwholesomeness |
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(noun) an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind | Synonyms: morbidity |
morbific | (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: infective, pathogenic |
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morbilli | (noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children | Synonyms: measles, rubeola |
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morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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motorbike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: minibike |
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(verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorcycle |
orbicular | (adjective) circular or nearly circular | Synonyms: orbiculate |
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(adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, spheric, spherical |
orbiculate | (adjective) circular or nearly circular | Synonyms: orbicular |
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orbit | (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, range, reach, scope |
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(noun) the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball | Synonyms: cranial orbit, eye socket, orbital cavity |
(noun) the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another | Synonyms: celestial orbit |
(noun) the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom | Synonyms: electron orbit |
(noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, domain, field, sphere |
(verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, revolve |
orbital | (adjective) of or relating to an orbit | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the eye socket | - |
orbitale | (noun) the craniometric point at the lowest point on the lower edge of the orbit | Synonyms: orbital point |
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orbiter | (noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, satellite |
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orbitual | (adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: circular, rotary |
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razorbill | (noun) black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill | Synonyms: Alca torda, razor-billed auk |
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suborbital | (adjective) having or involving a trajectory of less than one orbit | - |
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(adjective) situated on or below the floor of the eye socket | Synonyms: subocular |
supraorbital | (adjective) located or occurring above the eye socket | Synonyms: supraocular |
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tailorbird | (noun) tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest | Synonyms: Orthotomus sutorius |
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