| probing | (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: inquisitory, searching |
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| probiotic | (noun) a beneficial bacterium found in the intestinal tract of healthy mammals; often considered to be a plant | Synonyms: probiotic bacterium, probiotic flora, probiotic microflora |
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| (noun) A dietary supplement containing live bacteria, usually taken after a course of antibiotics to replenish the damaged gastrointestinal flora. | - |
| probity | (noun) complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles | - |
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| problem | (noun) a source of difficulty | Synonyms: trouble |
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| (noun) a question raised for consideration or solution | - |
| (noun) a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved | Synonyms: job |
| problematic | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematical, tough |
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| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: debatable, problematical |
| problematical | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, tough |
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| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: debatable, problematic |
| problematically | (adverb) in such a way as to pose a problem | - |
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| problematics | (noun) the uncertainties or difficulties inherent in a situation or plan. | - |
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| proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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| proboscidian | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidean |
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| proboscis | (noun) a long flexible snout as of an elephant | Synonyms: trunk |
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| (noun) the human nose (especially when it is large) | - |
| procaine | (noun) a white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine | Synonyms: Ethocaine |
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| procarbazine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug used to treat Hodgkin's disease | - |
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| procaryote | (noun) a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma | Synonyms: prokaryote |
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| procaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: prokaryotic |
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| procedural | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: adjective |
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| (adjective) of or relating to procedure | - |
| procedure | (noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings | - |
| (noun) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | Synonyms: operation |
| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
| proceed | (verb) follow a certain course | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, continue, go on |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: continue, go forward, move ahead |
| (verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, keep |
| proceeding | (noun) (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Synonyms: legal proceeding, proceedings |
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| proceedings | (noun) (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Synonyms: legal proceeding, proceeding |
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| (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: minutes, transactions |
| proceeds | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, return, take, takings, yield |
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| process | (noun) a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states | Synonyms: physical process |
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| (noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: procedure |
| (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: appendage, outgrowth |
| (noun) (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents | Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, operation |
| (noun) a mental process that you are not directly aware of | Synonyms: unconscious process |
| (noun) a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant | Synonyms: summons |
| (verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: treat |
| (verb) perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information | - |
| (verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: serve, swear out |
| (verb) shape, form, or improve a material | Synonyms: work, work on |
| (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, litigate, sue |
| (verb) deal with in a routine way | - |
| (verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: march |
| processed | (adjective) prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process | - |
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| (adjective) freed from impurities by processing | Synonyms: refined |
| (adjective) subjected to a special process or treatment | - |
| processing | (noun) preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure | - |
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| procession | (noun) the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation | - |
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| (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, progress, progression |
| (noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: emanation, rise |
| processional | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a procession | - |
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| (adjective) intended for use in a procession | - |
| (noun) religious music used in a procession | Synonyms: prosodion |
| processor | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, mainframe |
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| (noun) a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market | - |
| (noun) someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.) | - |
| prochlorperazine | (noun) antipsychotic and antiemetic drug used to treat schizophrenia and to combat nausea and vomiting | - |
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| proclaim | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, promulgate |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, laud |
| (verb) declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: predicate |
| proclaimed | (adjective) declared publicly; made widely known | Synonyms: announced |
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| proclamation | (noun) the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice | Synonyms: promulgation |
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| (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, declaration |
| proclitic | (noun) a clitic that is associated with a following word. | - |
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| proclivity | (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: leaning, propensity |
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| proconsul | (noun) an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul | - |
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| (noun) a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire | - |
| (noun) an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power | - |
| proconsular | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a proconsul | - |
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| proconsulate | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulship |
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| proconsulship | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulate |
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| proconvertin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: cothromboplastin, factor VII, stable factor |
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| procrastinate | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, stall |
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| (verb) postpone or delay needlessly | - |
| procrastination | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, shillyshally |
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| (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it | Synonyms: dilatoriness |
| procrastinator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: cunctator, postponer |
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| procreate | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, reproduce |
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| procreation | (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: breeding, facts of life, reproduction |
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| procreative | (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: generative, reproductive |
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| proctalgia | (noun) pain in the rectum | - |
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| proctitis | (noun) inflammation of the rectum; marked by bloody stools and a frequent urge to defecate; frequently associated with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis | - |
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| proctocele | (noun) protrusion or herniation of the rectum into the vagina; can occur if pelvic muscles are weakened by childbirth | Synonyms: rectocele |
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| proctologist | (noun) a doctor specializing in diseases of the rectum and anus | - |
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| proctology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the colon or rectum or anus | - |
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| proctoplasty | (noun) reconstructive surgery of the anus or rectum | Synonyms: rectoplasty |
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| proctor | (noun) someone who supervises (an examination) | Synonyms: monitor |
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| (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: invigilate |
| proctorship | (noun) the position of proctor | - |
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| proctoscope | (noun) an endoscope for examining the rectum | - |
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| proctoscopy | (noun) visual examination of the rectum and the end of the colon by means of a proctoscope | - |
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| procumbent | (adjective) having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots | - |
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| procurable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: getable, gettable, obtainable |
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| procural | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procurance, procurement |
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| procurance | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurement |
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| procurator | (noun) (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: placeholder, proxy |
| procure | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, pimp |
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| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: secure |
| procurement | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurance |
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| procurer | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce |
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| (noun) someone who obtains or acquires | Synonyms: securer |
| procuress | (noun) a woman pimp | - |
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| procyclidine | (noun) drug (trade name Kemadrin) used to reduce tremors in Parkinsonism | Synonyms: Kemadrin |
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| procyonid | (noun) plantigrade carnivorous mammals | - |
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| prod | (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion | Synonyms: goad |
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| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
| (verb) urge on; cause to act | Synonyms: egg on, incite |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, poke, stab |
| (verb) to push against gently | Synonyms: nudge, poke at |
| prodding | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, spur, spurring, urging |
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| prodigal | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, profligate, spendthrift |
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| (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: profligate, squanderer |
| prodigality | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, lavishness |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: extravagance, profligacy |
| prodigally | (adverb) to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree | Synonyms: wastefully |
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| prodigious | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, surpassing |
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| (adjective) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe | Synonyms: colossal, stupendous |
| (adjective) of momentous or ominous significance | Synonyms: portentous |
| prodigiously | (adverb) to a prodigious degree | - |
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| prodigy | (noun) an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality | - |
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| (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication |
| (noun) an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration | - |
| prodroma | (noun) an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur | Synonyms: prodrome |
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| prodromal | (adjective) symptomatic of the onset of an attack or a disease | Synonyms: prodromic |
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| prodrome | (noun) an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur | Synonyms: prodroma |
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| prodromic | (adjective) symptomatic of the onset of an attack or a disease | Synonyms: prodromal |
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| produce | (noun) fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market | Synonyms: garden truck, green goods, green groceries |
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| (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, grow |
| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: create, make |
| (verb) bring forth or yield | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) cause to happen, occur or exist | Synonyms: bring about, give rise |
| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, grow, raise |
| (verb) bring onto the market or release | Synonyms: bring on, bring out |
| (verb) bring out for display | Synonyms: bring forth |
| producer | (noun) something that produces | - |
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| (noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: manufacturer |
| (noun) someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work) | - |
| product | (noun) an artifact that has been created by someone or some process | Synonyms: production |
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| (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: merchandise, ware |
| (noun) a quantity obtained by multiplication | Synonyms: mathematical product |
| (noun) the set of elements common to two or more sets | Synonyms: Cartesian product, intersection |
| (noun) a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances | - |
| (noun) a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction | - |
| production | (noun) the act or process of producing something | - |
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| (noun) (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law | - |
| (noun) (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale | - |
| (noun) the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services | - |
| (noun) an artifact that has been created by someone or some process | Synonyms: product |
| (noun) a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television | - |
| (noun) a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated | - |
| (noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: output, yield |
| productive | (adjective) producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) | - |
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| (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: generative |
| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, fertile, rich |
| (adjective) yielding positive results | - |
| productively | (adverb) in a productive way | Synonyms: fruitfully, profitably |
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| productiveness | (noun) the quality of being productive or having the power to produce | Synonyms: productivity |
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| productivity | (noun) the quality of being productive or having the power to produce | Synonyms: productiveness |
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| (noun) (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time | - |
| proenzyme | (noun) any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active | Synonyms: zymogen |
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| prof | (noun) someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university | Synonyms: professor |
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| profanation | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege |
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| (noun) degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening | - |
| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| profane | (adjective) not concerned with or devoted to religion | Synonyms: secular |
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| (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blasphemous, blue |
| (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, sacrilegious |
| (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: unconsecrated, unsanctified |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, violate |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, subvert, vitiate |
| profaned | (adjective) treated irreverently or sacrilegiously | Synonyms: violated |
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| profanely | (adverb) in an irreverent or profane manner | - |
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| (adverb) with curses | - |
| profaneness | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: unsanctification |
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| (noun) an attitude of irreverence or contempt for a divinity | - |
| profanity | (noun) vulgar or irreverent speech or action | - |
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| profess | (verb) practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about | - |
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| (verb) take vows, as in religious order | - |
| (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: concede, confess |
| (verb) confess one's faith in, or allegiance to | - |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: pretend |
| (verb) receive into a religious order or congregation | - |
| (verb) state freely | - |
| professed | (adjective) openly declared as such | Synonyms: avowed |
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| (adjective) professing to be qualified | - |
| (adjective) claimed with intent to deceive | - |
| professedly | (adverb) with pretense or intention to deceive | - |
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| (adverb) by open declaration | Synonyms: avowedly |
| professing | (noun) an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | Synonyms: profession |
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| profession | (noun) an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) | - |
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| (noun) an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | Synonyms: professing |
| (noun) affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith | - |
| (noun) the body of people in a learned occupation | - |
| professional | (adjective) engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a profession | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or suitable as a profession | - |
| (adjective) engaged in by members of a profession | - |
| (noun) a person engaged in one of the learned professions | Synonyms: professional person |
| (noun) an authority qualified to teach apprentices | Synonyms: master |
| (noun) an athlete who plays for pay | Synonyms: pro |