deplumate | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplume, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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deplume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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(verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: displume |
displume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, pluck, pull, tear |
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(verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: deplume |
peplum | (noun) a flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse | - |
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(noun) a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist | Synonyms: peplos, peplus |
plum | (noun) a highly desirable position or assignment | - |
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(noun) any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit | - |
(noun) any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone | Synonyms: plum tree |
(adverb) exactly | Synonyms: plumb |
(adverb) completely; used as intensifiers | Synonyms: clean, plumb |
plumage | (noun) the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds | Synonyms: plume |
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plumaged | (adjective) having or covered in plumage; often used as a combining form | - |
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plumate | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumed, plumose |
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plumb | (adjective) exactly vertical | - |
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(noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb bob, plummet |
(adverb) conforming to the direction of a plumb line | - |
(adverb) exactly | Synonyms: plum |
(adverb) completely; used as intensifiers | Synonyms: clean, plum |
(verb) adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical | - |
(verb) measure the depth of something | - |
(verb) examine thoroughly and in great depth | - |
(verb) weight with lead | - |
plumbable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: fathomable, soundable |
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plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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plumbago | (noun) any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago | - |
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(noun) used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | Synonyms: black lead, graphite |
plumber | (noun) a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances | Synonyms: pipe fitter |
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plumbery | (noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbing |
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plumbic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of lead | Synonyms: plumbous |
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plumbing | (noun) measuring the depths of the oceans | Synonyms: bathymetry |
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(noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbery |
(noun) utility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage | Synonyms: plumbing system |
plumbism | (noun) toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system | Synonyms: lead poisoning, saturnism |
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plumbous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of lead | Synonyms: plumbic |
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plumcot | (noun) hybrid between plum and apricot | - |
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(noun) hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca | Synonyms: plumcot tree |
plume | (noun) the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds | Synonyms: plumage |
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(noun) a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament | - |
(noun) anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness | - |
(verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, preen, primp |
(verb) form a plume | - |
(verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: preen |
(verb) deck with a plume | - |
(verb) be proud of | Synonyms: congratulate, pride |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, rob, soak, surcharge |
plumed | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: crested |
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(adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumate, plumose |
(adjective) having or covered with or abounding in plumes | Synonyms: plumy |
plumelike | (adjective) resembling a plume | Synonyms: plumy |
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plumlike | (adjective) resembling a plum fruit | - |
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plummet | (noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb, plumb bob |
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(verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plump |
plummy | (adjective) (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich | - |
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(adjective) very desirable | - |
plumose | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumate, plumed |
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plump | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, embonpoint |
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(noun) the sound of a sudden heavy fall | - |
(adverb) straight down especially heavily or abruptly | - |
(verb) give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number | Synonyms: go |
(verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump out |
(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
(verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plummet |
plumping | (adjective) very large; of exceptional size for its kind | - |
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plumpness | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: embonpoint, roundness |
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plumule | (noun) down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds | - |
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plumy | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, feathery |
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(adjective) having or covered with or abounding in plumes | Synonyms: plumed |
(adjective) resembling a plume | Synonyms: plumelike |
sugarplum | (noun) any of various small sugary candies | - |
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unplumbed | (adjective) situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed | Synonyms: profound, unfathomed, unsounded |
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