| affray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: disturbance, fray, ruffle |
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| (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: altercation, fracas |
| array | (noun) an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics | - |
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| (noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: raiment, regalia |
| (noun) an impressive display | - |
| (noun) an orderly arrangement | - |
| (verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: align |
| (verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: lay out, range, set out |
| arrayed | (adjective) in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia | Synonyms: panoplied |
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| ashtray | (noun) a receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes | - |
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| astray | (adverb) away from the right path or direction | - |
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| (adverb) far from the intended target | Synonyms: wide |
| betray | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: bewray |
| (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: deceive, lead astray |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: fail |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: sell |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| betrayal | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: perfidy, treachery, treason |
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| (noun) the quality of aiding an enemy | - |
| betrayer | (noun) a person who says one thing and does another | Synonyms: double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer |
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| (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: blabber, informer, rat, squealer |
| bewray | (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: betray |
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| bray | (noun) the cry of an ass | - |
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| (verb) laugh loudly and harshly | - |
| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash |
| (verb) braying characteristic of donkeys | Synonyms: hee-haw |
| chambray | (noun) a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp | - |
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| crayer | (noun) a two- or three-masted sailing vessel formerly used for transporting cargo in the Baltic Sea. | - |
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| crayfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse |
| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| crayon | (noun) writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing | Synonyms: wax crayon |
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| (verb) write, draw, or trace with a crayon | - |
| defray | (verb) bear the expenses of | - |
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| defrayal | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayment, payment |
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| defrayment | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayal, payment |
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| disarray | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disorderliness |
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| (noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, mental confusion, muddiness |
| (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disorder |
| disarrayed | (adjective) in disarray | - |
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| dray | (noun) a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage | Synonyms: camion |
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| drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
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| foray | (noun) a sudden short attack | Synonyms: maraud, raid |
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| (noun) an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) | - |
| (verb) briefly enter enemy territory | - |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| fray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, disturbance, ruffle |
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| (verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: frazzle |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fret, rub, scratch |
| frayed | (adjective) worn away or tattered along the edges | - |
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| gray | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: grayish, grey, greyish |
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| (adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: grey |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| (adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: grayness, grey, greyness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: grey |
| (noun) the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad | Synonyms: Gy |
| (verb) turn grey | Synonyms: grey |
| (verb) make grey | Synonyms: grey |
| grayback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: greyback, Limnodromus griseus |
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| (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, greyback, knot |
| graybeard | (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: greybeard, Methuselah, old man |
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| grayhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grey hen, greyhen, heath hen |
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| grayish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyish |
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| graylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag goose, greylag, greylag goose |
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| grayly | (adverb) having a grey appearance | Synonyms: greyly |
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| grayness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyness |
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| hooray | (noun) a victory cheer | Synonyms: hurrah |
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| icetray | (noun) a tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator | - |
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| moray | (noun) family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked | Synonyms: moray eel |
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| portray | (verb) portray in words | - |
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| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, limn |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: impersonate |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: present |
| portrayal | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, depiction |
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| (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, personation |
| (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrait |
| (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portraying |
| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portraiture |
| portrayed | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: depicted, pictured |
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| portrayer | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portraitist |
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| portraying | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portrayal |
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| pray | (verb) address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer | - |
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| (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, implore |
| praya | (noun) colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long | - |
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| prayer | (noun) the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) | Synonyms: supplication |
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| (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: appeal, entreaty |
| (noun) a fixed text used in praying | - |
| (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: orison, petition |
| (noun) someone who prays to God | Synonyms: supplicant |
| prayerbook | (noun) a book containing prayers | Synonyms: prayer book |
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| prayerful | (adjective) disposed to pray or appearing to pray | - |
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| ray | (noun) cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins | - |
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| (noun) any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish | - |
| (noun) the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: re |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
| (noun) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: beam, electron beam |
| (noun) a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point | - |
| (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: irradiate |
| (verb) extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center | Synonyms: radiate |
| (verb) emit as rays | - |
| rayless | (adjective) having no parts resembling rays; not having ray flowers | - |
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| rayon | (noun) a synthetic silklike fabric | - |
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| rayons | (noun) women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) | Synonyms: nylon stocking, nylons, rayon stocking, silk stocking |
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| spray | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, sprayer |
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| (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage | - |
| (noun) a jet of vapor | - |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spraying |
| (noun) water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall | - |
| (noun) a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying | - |
| (verb) scatter in a mass or jet of droplets | - |
| (verb) be discharged in sprays of liquid | - |
| (verb) cover by spraying with a liquid | - |
| sprayer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray |
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| (noun) a worker who applies spray to a surface | - |
| spraying | (noun) the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer | - |
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| (noun) the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) | Synonyms: crop-dusting |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spray |
| stingray | (noun) large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds | - |
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| stray | (adjective) (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home | - |
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| (adjective) not close together in time | Synonyms: isolated |
| (noun) an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal) | - |
| (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, err |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| strayer | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: straggler |
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| straying | (adjective) unable to find your way | - |
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| sunray | (noun) a ray of sunlight | Synonyms: sunbeam |
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| (noun) a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp | Synonyms: sun-ray |
| (noun) herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona | Synonyms: Enceliopsis nudicaulis |
| tray | (noun) an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food | - |
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| trayful | (noun) as much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray. | - |
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