avower | (noun) someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly | - |
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(noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, declarer |
bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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bellower | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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blower | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: cetacean, cetacean mammal |
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(noun) a device that produces a current of air | - |
(noun) a fan run by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric fan |
borrower | (noun) someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent | - |
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bower | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, arbour, pergola |
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(verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
bowerbird | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: catbird |
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bowery | (adjective) like a bower; leafy and shady | - |
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brainpower | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
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butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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candlepower | (noun) luminous intensity measured in candelas | Synonyms: light intensity |
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cauliflower | (noun) compact head of white undeveloped flowers | - |
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(noun) a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea botrytis |
cheeseflower | (noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheese, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
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chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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coneflower | (noun) any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center | - |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones | - |
(noun) a wildflower of the genus Ratibida | - |
cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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(noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
cower | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
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(verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: huddle |
cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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cupflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Nierembergia having upturned bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: nierembergia |
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(noun) Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat | Synonyms: chalice vine, Solandra guttata, trumpet flower |
dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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deflower | (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: impair, mar, spoil, vitiate |
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(verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: ruin |
dower | (noun) a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband | - |
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(noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dowery, dowry, portion |
(verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: endow |
dowered | (adjective) supplied with a dower or dowry | - |
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dowerless | (adjective) lacking a dowry | - |
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dowery | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowry, portion |
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embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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(verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
empowered | (adjective) invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter | Synonyms: sceptered, sceptred |
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empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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fingerflower | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerroot |
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firepower | (noun) (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target | - |
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flameflower | (noun) plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, Talinum aurantiacum |
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(noun) a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, kniphofia, tritoma |
flamethrower | (noun) a weapon that squirts ignited fuel for several yards | - |
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flower | (noun) a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms | - |
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(noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
(verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
flowerbed | (noun) a bed in which flowers are growing | Synonyms: bed of flowers, flower bed |
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flowered | (adjective) resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers | Synonyms: floral |
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floweret | (noun) a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) | Synonyms: floret |
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flowering | (adjective) when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms | - |
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(noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence |
(noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: unfolding |
flowerless | (adjective) without flower or bloom and not producing seeds | Synonyms: nonflowering |
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flowerpot | (noun) a container in which plants are cultivated | Synonyms: pot |
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flowery | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of flowers | - |
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(adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: ornate |
foamflower | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: coolwart, false miterwort, false mitrewort, Tiarella cordifolia |
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follower | (noun) a person who accepts the leadership of another | - |
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(noun) someone who travels behind or pursues another | - |
followers | (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: following |
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gillyflower | (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: carnation, clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus |
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(noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: stock |
glassblower | (noun) someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass | - |
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globeflower | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers | Synonyms: globe flower |
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glower | (noun) an angry stare | Synonyms: glare |
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(verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, lour, lower |
(verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glare |
glowering | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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gloweringly | (adverb) in a glowering manner | - |
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grower | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, raiser |
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helmetflower | (noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: skullcap |
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(noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, monkshood |
(noun) any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
honeyflower | (noun) Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously | Synonyms: honey-flower, Protea mellifera |
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(noun) erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar | Synonyms: honey-flower, Lambertia formosa, mountain devil |
horsepower | (noun) a unit of power equal to 746 watts | Synonyms: H.P., HP |
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knower | (noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: apprehender |
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lower | (adjective) the bottom one of two | - |
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(noun) the lower of two berths | Synonyms: lower berth |
(verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lour, turn down |
(verb) set lower | Synonyms: lour |
(verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: depress |
(verb) move something or somebody to a lower position | Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down |
(verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lour |
lowercase | (adjective) relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case | - |
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(noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter |
lowerclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: underclassman |
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lowered | (adjective) below the surround or below the normal position | - |
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lowering | (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, sullen, threatening |
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(noun) the act of causing to become less | - |
(noun) the act of causing something to move to a lower level | Synonyms: letting down |
loweringly | (adverb) in a menacing or scowling way | - |
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lowermost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: bottommost, nethermost |
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lyreflower | (noun) garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers | Synonyms: bleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis, lyre-flower |
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manpower | (noun) the force of workers available | Synonyms: hands, men, work force, workforce |
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mayflower | (noun) low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers | Synonyms: Epigaea repens, trailing arbutus |
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mistflower | (noun) rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum, mist-flower |
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moonflower | (noun) pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers | Synonyms: belle de nuit, Ipomoea alba |
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mower | (noun) garden tool for mowing grass on lawns | Synonyms: lawn mower |
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nonflowering | (adjective) without flower or bloom and not producing seeds | Synonyms: flowerless |
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overpower | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overwhelm |
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(verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
overpowering | (adjective) so strong as to be irresistible | Synonyms: overwhelming |
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overpoweringly | (adverb) incapable of being resisted | Synonyms: irresistibly, overwhelmingly |
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pasqueflower | (noun) any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone | Synonyms: pasque flower |
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passionflower | (noun) any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit | Synonyms: passionflower vine |
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plower | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: ploughman, plowman |
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power | (noun) possession of controlling influence | Synonyms: powerfulness |
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(noun) physical strength | Synonyms: might, mightiness |
(noun) possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done | Synonyms: ability |
(noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: exponent, index |
(noun) a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world | Synonyms: great power, major power, superpower, world power |
(noun) one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority | Synonyms: force |
(noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, top executive, tycoon |
(noun) (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second) | - |
(noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, electricity |
(noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: office |
(verb) supply the force or power for the functioning of | - |
powerboat | (noun) a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: motorboat |
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powerbroker | (noun) a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control | Synonyms: power broker |
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powered | (adjective) (often used in combination) having or using or propelled by means of power or power of a specified kind | - |
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powerful | (adjective) having great power or force or potency or effect | - |
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(adjective) having great influence | Synonyms: potent |
(adjective) displaying superhuman strength or power | Synonyms: herculean |
(adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, muscular, sinewy |
(adjective) strong enough to knock down or overwhelm | Synonyms: knock-down |
(adverb) (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree | Synonyms: mightily, mighty, right |
powerfully | (adverb) in a manner having a powerful influence | Synonyms: potently |
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(adverb) in a powerful manner | Synonyms: strongly |
powerfulness | (noun) possession of controlling influence | Synonyms: power |
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powerhouse | (noun) an electrical generating station | Synonyms: power plant, power station |
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(noun) a team considered to be the best of its class | - |
(noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, fireball, human dynamo |
powerless | (adjective) lacking power | - |
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powerlessly | (adverb) in a powerless manner | - |
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powerlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotence, impotency |
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powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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rower | (noun) someone who rows a boat | - |
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safflower | (noun) thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil | Synonyms: Carthamus tinctorius, false saffron |
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shadflower | (noun) annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules | Synonyms: Draba verna, shad-flower, whitlow grass |
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shadower | (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadow, tail |
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shellflower | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead |
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(noun) cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes | Synonyms: Alpinia speciosa, Alpinia Zerumbet, Languas speciosa, shall-flower, shell ginger |
shower | (noun) washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle | Synonyms: shower bath |
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(noun) a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you | - |
(noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: cascade |
(noun) a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person | - |
(noun) a brief period of precipitation | Synonyms: rain shower |
(noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, exhibitor |
(verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
(verb) provide abundantly with | - |
(verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
(verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
(verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
showerhead | (noun) a perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather | - |
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showery | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: rainy |
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slower | (adverb) more slowly | - |
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snailflower | (noun) perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | Synonyms: corkscrew flower, Phaseolus caracalla, snail-flower, snail bean, snail flower, Vigna caracalla |
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sorrower | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, mourner |
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sower | (noun) someone who sows | - |
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