| 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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| aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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| aground | (adjective) stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float | - |
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| (adverb) with the bottom lodged on the ground | - |
| around | (adverb) in circumference | - |
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| (adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) from beginning to end; throughout | Synonyms: round |
| (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, approximately, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
| (adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) by a circular or circuitous route | - |
| (adverb) in a circle or circular motion | - |
| (adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) to a particular destination either specified or understood | - |
| (adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: about |
| astound | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astonish |
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| astounded | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, stunned |
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| astounding | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: dumbfounding, dumfounding |
| background | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop |
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| (noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: desktop, screen background |
| (noun) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training | - |
| (noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: ground |
| (noun) information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem | Synonyms: background knowledge |
| (noun) extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured | Synonyms: background signal |
| (noun) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation | - |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: scope, setting |
| (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
| backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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| backgrounding | (noun) the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system | Synonyms: background processing |
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| battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| bedground | (noun) an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night | Synonyms: bed-ground, bed ground |
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| belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
| 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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| boarhound | (noun) large hound used in hunting wild boars | - |
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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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| brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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| (adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
| 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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| cofounder | (noun) one of a group of founders | - |
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| compound | (adjective) composed of more than one part | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts | - |
| (adjective) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony | Synonyms: colonial |
| (noun) an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) | - |
| (noun) a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts | - |
| (noun) a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes. | Synonyms: compound word |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight | Synonyms: chemical compound |
| (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: deepen, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) create by mixing or combining | - |
| (verb) calculate principal and interest | - |
| compounded | (adjective) combined into or constituting a chemical compound | - |
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| compounding | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, combining |
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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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| coonhound | (noun) any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons | - |
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| decompound | (adjective) of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound | - |
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| 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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| deskbound | (adjective) restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity | Synonyms: desk-bound |
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| downbound | (adjective) heading in any direction that is conventionally down | - |
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| dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| dumbfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dumbfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumfounding |
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| dumfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dumfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumbfounding |
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| earthbound | (adjective) confined to the earth | - |
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| (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: pedestrian, prosaic, prosy |
| eastbound | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastward |
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| elkhound | (noun) breed of compact medium-sized dog with a heavy grey coat developed in Norway for hunting elk | Synonyms: Norwegian elkhound |
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| expound | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate |
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| (verb) state | Synonyms: exposit, set forth |
| expounder | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expositor |
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| expounding | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: exposition |
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| fairground | (noun) an open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses | - |
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| flounder | (noun) any of various European and non-European marine flatfish | - |
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| (noun) flesh of any of various American and European flatfish | - |
| (verb) walk with great difficulty | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) behave awkwardly; have difficulties | - |
| fogbound | (adjective) enveloped in fog | - |
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| foreground | (noun) (computer science) a window for an active application | - |
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| (noun) the part of a scene that is near the viewer | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
| foregrounding | (noun) the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system | Synonyms: foreground processing |
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| found | (adjective) come upon unexpectedly or after searching | - |
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| (noun) food and lodging provided in addition to money | - |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, ground |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, institute, plant |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, launch, set up |
| foundation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body | Synonyms: foundation garment |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork |
| (noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: grounding |
| (noun) an institution supported by an endowment | - |
| (noun) the basis on which something is grounded | - |
| founder | (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, father, founding father |
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| (noun) a worker who makes metal castings | - |
| (noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: laminitis |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way |
| (verb) sink below the surface | - |
| (verb) stumble and nearly fall | - |
| (verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, flop |
| foundering | (noun) (of a ship) sinking | Synonyms: going under |
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| founding | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| foundling | (noun) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown | Synonyms: abandoned infant |
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| foundress | (noun) a woman founder | - |
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| foundry | (noun) factory where metal castings are produced | Synonyms: metalworks |
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| foxhound | (noun) medium-sized glossy-coated hounds developed for hunting foxes | - |
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| greyhound | (noun) a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog | - |
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| ground | (noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat, undercoat |
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| (noun) (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting | - |
| (noun) a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) | Synonyms: earth |
| (noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: background |
| (noun) a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused | - |
| (noun) a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle) | - |
| (noun) a rational motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: occasion, reason |
| (noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, earth, land, solid ground, terra firma |
| (noun) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | Synonyms: land, soil |
| (noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: basis, footing |
| (noun) the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface | Synonyms: earth |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, found |
| (verb) instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject | - |
| (verb) place or put on the ground | - |
| (verb) confine or restrict to the ground | - |
| (verb) connect to a ground | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: prime, undercoat |
| (verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: anchor |
| (verb) (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field. | - |
| (verb) throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage | - |
| (verb) hit or reach the ground | Synonyms: run aground |
| (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: run aground, strand |
| groundball | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, grounder, hopper |
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| groundberry | (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia | Synonyms: Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum |
| groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
| groundcover | (noun) small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor | Synonyms: ground cover |
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| (noun) low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow | Synonyms: ground cover |
| grounder | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, hopper |
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| groundfish | (noun) fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) | Synonyms: bottom fish |
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| groundhog | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: Marmota monax, woodchuck |
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| grounding | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: earthing |
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| (noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: foundation |
| groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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| groundless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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| groundlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking substance or value | Synonyms: idleness |
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| groundling | (noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section | - |
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| groundmass | (noun) (geology) the matrix of fine-grained crystalline material in which larger crystals are embedded | - |
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| groundnut | (noun) nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans | Synonyms: potato bean, wild bean |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans | Synonyms: Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean |
| grounds | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: curtilage, yard |
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| (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: evidence |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: cause, reason |
| (noun) a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) | - |
| (noun) dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue | - |
| groundsel | (noun) Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Senecio vulgaris |
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| groundsheet | (noun) a waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture | Synonyms: ground cloth |
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| groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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| groundsman | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundskeeper |
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| groundspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the ground | - |
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| groundwork | (noun) preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation | - |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament |
| hardbound | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardcover |
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| hellhound | (noun) a very evil man | - |
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| (noun) (Greek mythology) the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades; son of Typhon | Synonyms: Cerberus |
| hidebound | (adjective) stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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| homebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: housebound, shut-in |
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| (noun) people who are confined to their homes | - |
| horehound | (noun) a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant | - |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium | - |
| hound | (noun) any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears | Synonyms: hound dog |
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| (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, cad, dog, heel |
| (verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hunt, trace |
| housebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: homebound, shut-in |
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| icebound | (adjective) locked in by ice | - |
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| impound | (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: pound |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester |