bowdlerisation | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
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(noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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bowdlerization | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
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(noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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bowdlerizer | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, expurgator |
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chowder | (noun) a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes | - |
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clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
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crowd | (noun) a large number of things or people considered together | - |
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(noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crew, gang |
(verb) to gather together in large numbers | Synonyms: crowd together |
(verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: herd |
(verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: push |
(verb) fill or occupy to the point of overflowing | - |
crowded | (adjective) overfilled or compacted or concentrated | - |
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crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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crowding | (noun) a situation in which people or things are crowded together | - |
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crowdsourcing | (noun) Work done by a large group of anonymous users | - |
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dowdily | (adverb) in a dowdy unfashionable manner | Synonyms: frumpily, frumpishly |
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dowdiness | (noun) having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | Synonyms: drabness, homeliness |
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dowdy | (adjective) lacking in smartness or taste | - |
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(adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: frumpish, frumpy |
(noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: pandowdy |
gunpowder | (noun) a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks | Synonyms: powder |
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howdah | (noun) a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant | Synonyms: houdah |
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howdy | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hello, hi, how-do-you-do, hullo |
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overcrowd | (verb) crowd together too much | - |
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(verb) cause to crowd together too much | - |
pandowdy | (noun) deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust | Synonyms: dowdy |
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powder | (noun) any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a pulverized powder | - |
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(noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: pulverisation, pulverization |
(noun) a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks | Synonyms: gunpowder |
(verb) apply powder to | - |
(verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
powdered | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdery, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained |
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powderer | (noun) someone who applies or scatters powder | - |
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powderiness | (noun) having a very fine texture | Synonyms: fineness |
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powderise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
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(verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
powderize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, pulverise, pulverize |
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(verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, pulverise, pulverize |
powderpuff | (noun) a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin | Synonyms: puff |
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powdery | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained |
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(adjective) as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder | - |
rowdily | (adverb) in a rowdy manner | Synonyms: raucously |
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rowdiness | (noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: disorderliness, roughness, rowdyism |
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rowdy | (adjective) disturbing the public peace; loud and rough | Synonyms: raucous |
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(noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
rowdyism | (noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: disorderliness, roughness, rowdiness |
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showdown | (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off |
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slowdown | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, retardation |
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snowdrift | (noun) a mass of snow heaped up by the wind | - |
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snowdrop | (noun) common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers | Synonyms: Anemone quinquefolia, wood anemone |
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toothpowder | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a powder | Synonyms: tooth powder |
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uncrowded | (adjective) having or allowing sufficient room | - |
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