| groveller | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, truckler |
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| grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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| handover | (noun) act of relinquishing property or authority etc | - |
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| handwoven | (adjective) made on a handloom | Synonyms: hand-loomed |
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| hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
| hardcover | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardbound |
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| (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
| holdover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: hangover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: hangover |
| hooved | (adjective) having or resembling hoofs | Synonyms: hoofed, ungulate, ungulated |
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| hoover | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: vacuum-clean, vacuum |
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| hovea | (noun) any of several attractive evergreen shrubs of Australia grown for their glossy deep green foliage and flowers in rich blues and intense violets | Synonyms: purple pea |
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| hovel | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hut, hutch, shack, shanty |
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| hover | (verb) hang in the air; fly or be suspended above | - |
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| (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: levitate |
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, vibrate |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: linger |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, loom |
| hoverboard | (noun) A device resembling a skateboard without wheels that can hover above the ground | - |
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| hovercraft | (noun) a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines | Synonyms: ground-effect machine |
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| hungover | (adjective) Suffering the aftereffects of the consumption of alcohol | - |
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| immoveable | (adjective) not able or intended to be moved | Synonyms: immovable, stabile, unmovable |
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| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| impoverished | (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: broken, wiped out |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |
| improve | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, meliorate |
| improved | (adjective) made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing | - |
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| (adjective) become or made better in quality | - |
| (adjective) (of land) made ready for development or agriculture by clearing of trees and brush | - |
| improvement | (noun) the act of improving something | - |
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| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, betterment |
| (noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: melioration |
| improver | (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, addition |
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| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, humanitarian |
| incontrovertibility | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibleness, positiveness, positivity |
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| incontrovertible | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: demonstrable |
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| (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: irrefutable, positive |
| incontrovertibleness | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, positiveness, positivity |
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| incontrovertibly | (adverb) in an obvious and provable manner | Synonyms: demonstrably, provably |
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| interwoven | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interlocking |
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| introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
| introversive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introvertive |
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| introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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| (verb) turn inside | - |
| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| introverted | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introspective, self-examining |
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| introvertish | (adjective) somewhat introverted | Synonyms: shut-in |
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| introvertive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introversive |
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| irrecoverable | (adjective) incapable of being recovered or regained | Synonyms: unrecoverable |
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| ladylove | (noun) a woman who is a man's sweetheart | Synonyms: dulcinea |
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| landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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| layover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: stop, stopover |
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| leftover | (adjective) not used up | Synonyms: left, left over, odd, remaining, unexpended |
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| (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: remnant |
| leftovers | (noun) food remaining from a previous meal | - |
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| love | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love |
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| (noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: passion |
| (noun) a strong positive emotion of regard and affection | - |
| (noun) a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction | Synonyms: erotic love, sexual love |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, sweetheart, sweetie |
| (noun) a score of zero in tennis or squash | - |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| (verb) have a great affection or liking for | - |
| (verb) be enamored or in love with | - |
| (verb) get pleasure from | Synonyms: enjoy |
| loveable | (adjective) having characteristics that attract love or affection | Synonyms: lovable |
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| lovebird | (noun) small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates | - |
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| (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
| loved | (adjective) held dear | - |
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| loveless | (adjective) receiving no love | - |
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| (adjective) without love | - |
| loveliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, fairness |
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| lovelorn | (adjective) unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love | Synonyms: bereft, unbeloved |
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| lovely | (adjective) appealing to the emotions as well as the eye | - |
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| (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, endearing |
| (noun) a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model | Synonyms: cover girl, pin-up |
| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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| lover | (noun) a person who loves someone or is loved by someone | - |
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| (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, fan |
| (noun) a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage | - |
| loverlike | (adjective) like or in the manner of a lover | Synonyms: loverly |
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| loverly | (adjective) like or in the manner of a lover | Synonyms: loverlike |
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| loveseat | (noun) small sofa that seats two people | Synonyms: love seat, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis |
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| lovesick | (adjective) languishing because of love | - |
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| lovesickness | (noun) a pining for a loved one | - |
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| lovesome | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, tender |
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| makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
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| (noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
| mangrove | (noun) a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building | Synonyms: Rhizophora mangle |
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| misgovern | (verb) govern badly | - |
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| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| moreover | (adverb) denoting additional information | Synonyms: furthermore, in addition, what is more |
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| move | (noun) the act of deciding to do something | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing your residence or place of business | Synonyms: relocation |
| (noun) (game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game | - |
| (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, movement |
| (noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, movement |
| (verb) be in a state of action | Synonyms: be active |
| (verb) go or proceed from one point to another | - |
| (verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: go, run |
| (verb) propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting | Synonyms: make a motion |
| (verb) have a turn; make one's move in a game | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, prompt, propel |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, impress, strike |
| (verb) arouse sympathy or compassion in | - |
| (verb) move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion | - |
| (verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: displace |
| (verb) change residence, affiliation, or place of employment | - |
| (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, locomote, travel |
| (verb) dispose of by selling | - |
| (verb) perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) | Synonyms: act |
| (verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: go, proceed |
| (verb) live one's life in a specified environment | - |
| moveable | (adjective) capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another | Synonyms: movable, transferable, transferrable, transportable |
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| moved | (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: affected, stirred, touched |
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| movement | (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, move |
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| (noun) the act of changing the location of something | - |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort |
| (noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, move |
| (noun) the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) | - |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, trend |
| (noun) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata | - |
| (noun) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something | Synonyms: motion |
| (noun) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | Synonyms: front, social movement |
| (noun) an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object | Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, motion |
| (noun) a euphemism for defecation | Synonyms: bm, bowel movement |
| mover | (noun) a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another | Synonyms: moving company, public mover, removal company, removal firm |
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| (noun) someone who moves | - |
| (noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: proposer |
| (noun) workman employed by a moving company | - |
| noncontroversial | (adjective) not likely to arouse controversy | Synonyms: uncontroversial |
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| nonsovereign | (adjective) (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: nonautonomous |
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| novel | (adjective) pleasantly new or different | Synonyms: refreshing |
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| (adjective) original and of a kind not seen before | Synonyms: fresh, new |
| (noun) a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction | - |
| (noun) an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story | - |
| novelette | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novella |
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| novelisation | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelization |
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| novelise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelize |
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| novelist | (noun) one who writes novels | - |
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| novelization | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelisation |
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| novelize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelise |
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| novella | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novelette |
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| novelty | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, trinket |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: knickknack |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel | Synonyms: freshness |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being new and surprising | Synonyms: freshness |
| novena | (noun) a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days | - |
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| oilstove | (noun) heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking | Synonyms: kerosene heater, kerosine heater, oil heater |
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| oven | (noun) kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting | - |
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| ovenbake | (verb) bake in an oven | - |
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| ovenbird | (noun) American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground | Synonyms: Seiurus aurocapillus |
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| (noun) small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests | - |
| ovenware | (noun) heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served | - |
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| over | (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, ended, terminated |
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| (noun) (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch | - |
| (adverb) throughout a period of time | Synonyms: o'er |
| (adverb) at or to a point across intervening space etc. | - |
| (adverb) throughout an area | - |
| (adverb) beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position | - |
| (adverb) over the entire area | Synonyms: all over |
| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| overabundant | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: plethoric, rife |
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| overachieve | (verb) perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected | - |
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| overachievement | (noun) better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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| overachiever | (noun) a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated | - |
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| overact | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overplay |
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| overacting | (noun) poor acting by a ham actor | Synonyms: hamming |
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| overactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: hyperactive |
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| overactivity | (noun) excessive activity | - |
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| overage | (adjective) too old to be useful | Synonyms: over-the-hill, overaged, superannuated |
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| (noun) a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations | - |
| overaged | (adjective) too old to be useful | Synonyms: over-the-hill, overage, superannuated |
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| overall | (adjective) involving only main features | - |
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| (adjective) including everything | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps) | - |
| (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, boilersuit |
| overambitious | (adjective) excessively ambitious | - |
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| overanxiety | (noun) excessive anxiety | - |
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| overanxious | (adjective) anxious or nervous to an excessive degree | - |
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| overappraisal | (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation |
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