| 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 |
| accouter | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accoutre |
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| accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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| accouterment | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accoutrement |
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| accoutre | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accouter |
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| accoutred | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutered |
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| accoutrement | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accouterment |
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| agouti | (noun) agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food | Synonyms: Dasyprocta aguti |
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| allmouth | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| badmouth | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: drag through the mud, malign, traduce |
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| barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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| bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
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| blabbermouth | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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| blabbermouthed | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: leaky, talebearing, tattling |
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| (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabby, talkative |
| blackout | (noun) a momentary loss of consciousness | - |
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| (noun) partial or total loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesia, memory loss |
| (noun) the failure of electric power for a general region | - |
| (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: brownout, dimout |
| (noun) a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting | - |
| blowout | (noun) a gay festivity | Synonyms: gala, gala affair, jamboree |
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| (noun) a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus | - |
| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
| bout | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bust, tear |
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| (noun) a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers) | - |
| (noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: round, turn |
| (noun) a period of illness | - |
| boutique | (noun) a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry | Synonyms: dress shop |
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| boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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| breakout | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| breechclout | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, loincloth |
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| brownout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, dimout |
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| buyout | (noun) acquisition of a company by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock | - |
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| caoutchouc | (noun) an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products | Synonyms: gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber, rubber |
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| checkout | (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, check |
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| (noun) a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases | Synonyms: checkout counter |
| (noun) the latest time for vacating a hotel room | Synonyms: checkout time |
| closemouthed | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, secretive, tightlipped |
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| closeout | (noun) a sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock | - |
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| clout | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, lick, poke, punch, slug |
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| (noun) a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood | Synonyms: clout nail |
| (noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: pull |
| (noun) a target used in archery | - |
| (verb) strike hard, especially with the fist | - |
| cookout | (noun) an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors | - |
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| copout | (noun) a failure to face some difficulty squarely | - |
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| cottonmouth | (noun) venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin |
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| couth | (adjective) (used facetiously) refined and well-mannered | - |
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| (noun) (used facetiously) refinement | - |
| couthie | (adjective) (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial | Synonyms: couthy |
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| couthy | (adjective) (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial | Synonyms: couthie |
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| couture | (noun) high fashion designing and dressmaking | - |
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| couturier | (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, designer, fashion designer |
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| crouton | (noun) a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads | - |
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| cutout | (noun) a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out | - |
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| (noun) a photograph from which the background has been cut away | - |
| (noun) a switch that interrupts an electric circuit in the event of an overload | - |
| devout | (adjective) deeply religious | Synonyms: god-fearing |
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| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, earnest, heartfelt |
| devoutly | (adverb) in a devout and pious manner | Synonyms: piously |
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| devoutness | (noun) piety by virtue of being devout | Synonyms: religiousness |
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| dimout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, brownout |
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| dropout | (noun) someone who quits school before graduation | - |
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| (noun) someone who withdraws from a social group or environment | - |
| drouth | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drought |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drought |
| dugout | (noun) a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground | Synonyms: bunker |
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| (noun) either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game | - |
| (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout canoe, pirogue |
| (noun) a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside. | Synonyms: dug-out, pit-house, pithouse |
| eelpout | (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: pout |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, ling, Lota lota |
| fadeout | (noun) a slow or gradual disappearance | Synonyms: receding |
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| (noun) a gradual temporary loss of a transmitted signal due to electrical disturbances | - |
| fallout | (noun) any adverse and unwanted secondary effect | Synonyms: side effect |
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| (noun) the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion | Synonyms: radioactive dust |
| flout | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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| (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: scoff |
| flouter | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: jeerer, mocker, scoffer |
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| foldout | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: gatefold |
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| frogmouth | (noun) insectivorous bird of Australia and southeastern Asia having a wide frog-like mouth | - |
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| gadabout | (noun) a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship | - |
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| goalmouth | (noun) (sports) the area immediately in front of the goal | - |
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| gout | (noun) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints | Synonyms: gouty arthritis, urarthritis |
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| gouty | (adjective) suffering from gout | - |
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| grout | (noun) a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork | - |
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| (verb) bind with grout | - |
| handout | (noun) giving money or food or clothing to a needy person | - |
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| (noun) an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation | Synonyms: press release, release |
| hangout | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: haunt, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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| hereabout | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabouts |
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| hereabouts | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabout |
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| hideout | (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: den, hideaway |
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| holdout | (noun) the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later | - |
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| (noun) a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal | - |
| (noun) a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms | - |
| hornpout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, pout |
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| knockabout | (adjective) suitable for rough use | - |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: boisterous |
| (noun) a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | - |
| knockout | (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: hard, severe |
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| (noun) a blow that renders the opponent unconscious | Synonyms: kayo, KO |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| knout | (noun) a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners | - |
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| largemouth | (noun) a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye | Synonyms: largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides |
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| layabout | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer |
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| layout | (noun) the act of laying out (as by making plans for something) | - |
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| (noun) a plan or design of something that is laid out | - |
| lockout | (noun) a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms | - |
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| lookout | (noun) the act of looking out | Synonyms: outlook |
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| (noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout station, observation tower, observatory |
| (noun) an elevated post affording a wide view | Synonyms: observation post |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| loudmouth | (noun) a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly | Synonyms: blusterer |
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| lout | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| loutish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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| loutishness | (noun) The state or quality of behaving like a troublemaker, often violent; like a rude violent person; like a yob. | - |
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| mahout | (noun) the driver and keeper of an elephant | - |
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| marabout | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou, marabou stork |
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| mealymouthed | (adjective) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy | Synonyms: mealy-mouthed |
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| motormouth | (noun) someone who talks incessantly | - |
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| mouth | (noun) the opening of a jar or bottle | - |
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| (noun) the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening | - |
| (noun) the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge | Synonyms: oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris |
| (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, sass, sassing |
| (noun) the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water | - |
| (noun) an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge) | - |
| (noun) a person conceived as a consumer of food | - |
| (noun) a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
| (verb) articulate silently; form words with the lips only | - |
| (verb) touch with the mouth | - |
| mouthbreeder | (noun) any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths | - |
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| mouthful | (noun) a small amount eaten or drunk | Synonyms: taste |
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| (noun) the quantity that can be held in the mouth | - |
| mouthless | (adjective) having no mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: astomatous |
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| mouthlike | (adjective) of an opening that resembles a mouth | - |
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| mouthpart | (noun) any part of the mouth of an insect or other arthropod especially one adapted to a specific way of feeding | - |
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| mouthpiece | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: embouchure |
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| (noun) the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth | - |
| (noun) an acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks | - |
| (noun) (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth | Synonyms: gumshield |
| (noun) a part that goes over or into the mouth of a person | - |
| (noun) a spokesperson (as a lawyer) | Synonyms: mouth |
| mouthwash | (noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: gargle |
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| mouton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mutton |
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| openmouthed | (adjective) with eyes or mouth open in surprise | Synonyms: goggle-eyed, popeyed |
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| out | (adjective) not allowed to continue to bat or run | - |
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| (adjective) being out or having grown cold | Synonyms: extinct |
| (adjective) outside or external | - |
| (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
| (adjective) not worth considering as a possibility | - |
| (adjective) outer or outlying | - |
| (adjective) directed outward or serving to direct something outward | - |
| (adjective) knocked unconscious by a heavy blow | Synonyms: kayoed, knocked out, KO'd, stunned |
| (adjective) no longer fashionable | - |
| (adjective) out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election | - |
| (noun) (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball | - |
| (adverb) away from home | - |
| (adverb) from one's possession | Synonyms: away |
| (adverb) moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden | - |
| (verb) be made known; be disclosed or revealed | Synonyms: come out |
| (verb) reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle | - |
| (verb) to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality | Synonyms: come out, come out of the closet |
| outage | (noun) a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers) | - |
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| (noun) the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation | - |
| outback | (adjective) inaccessible and sparsely populated | Synonyms: remote |
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| (noun) the bush country of the interior of Australia | - |
| outbalance | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outweigh, overbalance, preponderate |
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| outbid | (verb) bid higher than others | - |
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| (verb) bid over an opponent's bid when one's partner has not bid or doubled | - |
| outboard | (adjective) located away from the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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| (noun) internal-combustion engine that mounts at stern of small boat | Synonyms: outboard motor |
| (noun) a motorboat with an outboard motor | Synonyms: outboard motorboat |
| outbound | (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outward-bound, outward |
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| outbrave | (verb) be braver than | - |
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| (verb) resist bravely | - |
| outbreak | (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, irruption |
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| outbred | (adjective) bred of parents not closely related; having parents of different classes or tribes | - |
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