| anthropoid | (adjective) resembling human beings | Synonyms: manlike |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoidal, apelike |
| (noun) any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids | - |
| (noun) person who resembles a nonhuman primate | Synonyms: ape |
| anthropoidal | (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, apelike |
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| appoint | (verb) furnish | - |
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| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: charge |
| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: constitute, name, nominate |
| appointed | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointive |
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| (adjective) selected for a job | - |
| (adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind) | - |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed |
| appointee | (noun) an official who is appointed | - |
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| (noun) a person who is appointed to a job or position | Synonyms: appointment |
| appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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| (adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
| appointment | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: assignment, designation, naming |
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| (noun) the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed | - |
| (noun) (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment | - |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) | Synonyms: fitting |
| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: date, engagement |
| (noun) a person who is appointed to a job or position | Synonyms: appointee |
| avoirdupois | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: blubber, fat, fatness |
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| (noun) a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) | Synonyms: avoirdupois weight |
| ballpoint | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpen, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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| bluepoint | (noun) small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island | Synonyms: blue point |
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| (noun) oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw | Synonyms: blue point |
| boskopoid | (adjective) belonging or relating to or resembling Boskop man | - |
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| checkpoint | (noun) a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance | - |
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| chokepoint | (noun) a point of congestion or blockage | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, constriction |
| counterpoint | (noun) a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies | - |
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| (verb) write in counterpoint | - |
| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: contrast |
| counterpoise | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
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| (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpose, counterweight |
| counterpoised | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterbalanced |
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| counterpoison | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: antidote |
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| despoil | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: plunder, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| despoilation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despoiled | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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| despoiler | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| despoilment | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| disappoint | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | Synonyms: let down |
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| disappointed | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
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| disappointedly | (adverb) in disappointment; in a disappointed manner | - |
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| disappointing | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: dissatisfactory, unsatisfying |
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| disappointingly | (adverb) in a disappointing manner | - |
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| disappointment | (noun) an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone | Synonyms: dashing hopes |
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| (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: letdown |
| embonpoint | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, plump |
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| (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: plumpness, roundness |
| endpoint | (noun) a place where something ends or is complete | Synonyms: end point, termination, terminus |
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| equipoise | (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium |
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| equipoised | (adjective) lacking lateral dominance; being neither right-handed nor left-handed | - |
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| erythropoiesis | (noun) the process of producing red blood cells by the stem cells in the bone marrow | - |
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| erythropoietic | (adjective) of or relating to the formation of red blood cells | - |
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| erythropoietin | (noun) a glycoprotein secreted by the kidneys that stimulates the production of red blood cells | - |
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| fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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| flashpoint | (noun) the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air | Synonyms: flash point |
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| (noun) a place of political unrest and potential violence | Synonyms: hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot |
| (noun) point at which something is ready to blow up | Synonyms: flash point |
| gunpoint | (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: point |
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| haematopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| haematopoietic | (adjective) pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells | Synonyms: haematogenic, haemopoietic, hematogenic, hematopoietic, hemopoietic |
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| haemopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| haemopoietic | (adjective) pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells | Synonyms: haematogenic, haematopoietic, hematogenic, hematopoietic, hemopoietic |
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| hematopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis, sanguification |
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| hematopoietic | (adjective) pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells | Synonyms: haematogenic, haematopoietic, haemopoietic, hematogenic, hemopoietic |
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| hemopoiesis | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, sanguification |
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| hemopoietic | (adjective) pertaining to the formation of blood or blood cells | Synonyms: haematogenic, haematopoietic, haemopoietic, hematogenic, hematopoietic |
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| hyperlipoidaemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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| hyperlipoidemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia, lipoidemia |
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| lipoid | (noun) an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates) | Synonyms: lipid, lipide |
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| lipoidaemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidemia |
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| lipoidemia | (noun) presence of excess lipids in the blood | Synonyms: hyperlipaemia, hyperlipemia, hyperlipidaemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperlipoidaemia, hyperlipoidemia, lipaemia, lipemia, lipidaemia, lipidemia, lipoidaemia |
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| lymphopoiesis | (noun) the formation of lymphocytes in the bone marrow and lymph nodes and thymus and spleen | - |
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| midpoint | (noun) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure | Synonyms: center, centre |
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| needlepoint | (noun) embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry | Synonyms: needlepoint embroidery |
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| (noun) lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern | Synonyms: point lace |
| nonappointive | (adjective) filled by popular election rather than by appointment | - |
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| nonpoisonous | (adjective) safe to eat | Synonyms: non-poisonous, nontoxic |
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| (adjective) not producing poison | Synonyms: non-poisonous |
| outpoint | (verb) score more points than one's opponents | Synonyms: outscore |
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| (verb) sail closer to the wind than | - |
| pinpoint | (noun) the sharp point of a pin | - |
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| (noun) a very small spot | Synonyms: speck |
| (noun) a very brief moment | - |
| (verb) locate exactly | Synonyms: nail |
| poi | (noun) Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment | - |
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| poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
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| poignancy | (noun) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | Synonyms: pathos |
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| (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignance |
| poignant | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, touching |
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| (adjective) keenly distressing to the mind or feelings | - |
| poignantly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: affectingly, touchingly |
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| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| poikilothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermous |
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| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| poilu | (noun) thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S. | Synonyms: chicken purloo, purloo |
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| (noun) a French soldier (especially in World War I) | - |
| poinciana | (noun) a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: bird of paradise, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii |
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| poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
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| point | (noun) sharp end | - |
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| (noun) a wall socket | Synonyms: power point |
| (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: gunpoint |
| (noun) a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs | Synonyms: breaker point, distributor point |
| (noun) the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip | Synonyms: pointedness |
| (noun) an outstanding characteristic | Synonyms: spot |
| (noun) a distinguishing or individuating characteristic | - |
| (noun) a geometric element that has position but no extension | - |
| (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, item |
| (noun) the object of an activity | - |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, stop |
| (noun) a brief version of the essential meaning of something | - |
| (noun) a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer | Synonyms: head |
| (noun) a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list | Synonyms: item |
| (noun) the dot at the left of a decimal fraction | Synonyms: decimal point, percentage point |
| (noun) the precise location of something; a spatially limited location | - |
| (noun) a promontory extending out into a large body of water | - |
| (noun) one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan | - |
| (noun) a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch | - |
| (noun) the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest | - |
| (noun) any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass | Synonyms: compass point |
| (noun) a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect | - |
| (noun) a V shape | Synonyms: peak, tip |
| (noun) a very small circular shape | Synonyms: dot |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, stage |
| (noun) an instant of time | Synonyms: point in time |
| (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: sharpen, taper |
| (verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: repoint |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, show |
| (verb) indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle | - |
| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, level |
| (verb) be positionable in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, target |
| (verb) mark with diacritics | - |
| (verb) mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes | - |
| (verb) mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics | - |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, steer |
| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: luff |
| (verb) be oriented | Synonyms: orient |
| pointed | (adjective) having a point | - |
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| (adjective) direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant | - |
| pointedly | (adverb) in such a manner as to make something clearly evident | - |
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| pointedness | (noun) the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip | Synonyms: point |
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| (noun) the quality of being obviously directed at a particular person or thing | - |
| pointel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointrel |
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| pointer | (noun) a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game | Synonyms: Spanish pointer |
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| (noun) an indicator as on a dial | - |
| (noun) (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | Synonyms: cursor |
| (noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: arrow |
| pointfulness | (noun) The state or condition of having meaning, relevance or force. | - |
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| pointillism | (noun) a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France | - |
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| (noun) a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France | - |
| pointillist | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillistic |
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| (noun) a painter who uses the technique of pointillism | - |
| pointillistic | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillist |
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| pointless | (adjective) not having a point especially a sharp point | Synonyms: unpointed |
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| (adjective) having no points scores | Synonyms: goalless, hitless, scoreless |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| pointlessly | (adverb) in a pointless manner | - |
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| pointlessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
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| pointrel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointel |
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| pointsman | (noun) a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic | - |
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| poise | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, cool, sang-froid |
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| (noun) a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second | - |
| (noun) a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium | - |
| (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: balance |
| (verb) cause to be balanced or suspended | - |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: brace |
| (verb) be motionless, in suspension | - |
| poised | (adjective) marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action | - |
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| (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: collected, equanimous, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
| poison | (noun) anything that harms or destroys | - |
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| (noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poisonous substance, toxicant |
| (verb) administer poison to | - |
| (verb) add poison to | Synonyms: envenom |
| (verb) kill with poison | - |
| (verb) kill by its poison | - |
| (verb) spoil as if by poison | - |
| poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
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| poisoner | (noun) someone who kills with poison | - |
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| poisoning | (noun) the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill | - |
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| (noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: intoxication, toxic condition |
| poisonous | (adjective) not safe to eat | - |
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| (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: venomous, vicious |
| (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: toxicant |
| poisonously | (adverb) in a very malevolent manner | Synonyms: venomously |
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| porpoise | (noun) any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth | - |
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| repoint | (verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: point |
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| silverpoint | (noun) a drawing made on specially prepared paper with an instrument having a silver tip (15th and 16th centuries) | - |
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| spearpoint | (noun) the head and sharpened point of a spear | Synonyms: spear-point, spearhead |
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| spoil | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoilation, spoliation |
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| (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoilage, spoiling |
| (noun) (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war) | - |
| (verb) become unfit for consumption or use | Synonyms: go bad |
| (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate |
| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate |
| (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: itch |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up |
| spoilable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, putrescible |
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| (noun) food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated | Synonyms: perishable |
| spoilage | (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoil, spoiling |
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| (noun) the process of becoming spoiled | Synonyms: spoiling |
| (noun) the amount that has spoiled | - |
| spoilation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoliation |
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