| abreact | (verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization | - |
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| abreaction | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: catharsis, katharsis |
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| abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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| (adverb) alongside each other, facing in the same direction | - |
| acorea | (noun) absence of the pupil in an eye | - |
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| acreage | (noun) an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) | Synonyms: land area |
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| airstream | (noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | - |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: backwash, race, slipstream, wash |
| already | (adverb) prior to a specified or implied time | - |
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| aperea | (noun) South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig | Synonyms: Cavia porcellus, wild cavy |
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| arboreal | (adjective) inhabiting or frequenting trees | Synonyms: arboreous, tree-living |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arborical, arborous |
| (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
| area | (noun) a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function | - |
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| (noun) the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary | Synonyms: expanse, surface area |
| (noun) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve | Synonyms: region |
| (noun) a subject of study | - |
| (noun) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | Synonyms: country |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere |
| areal | (adjective) of or relating to or involving an area | - |
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| areaway | (noun) a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement | - |
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| arrears | (noun) an unpaid overdue debt | - |
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| (noun) the state of being behind in payments | - |
| aureate | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: gilded, gilt, gold, golden |
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| (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: flamboyant, florid |
| aurorean | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: auroral |
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| baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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| (noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
| backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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| beebread | (noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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| bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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| bereaved | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing |
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| (noun) a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved | Synonyms: bereaved person |
| bereavement | (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: mourning |
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| bloodstream | (noun) the blood flowing through the circulatory system | Synonyms: blood stream |
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| boreal | (adjective) toward or located in the north | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind | - |
| (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: circumboreal |
| boreas | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: north wind, norther, northerly |
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| breach | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | - |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
| (noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | - |
| (verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: gap |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| bread | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| (verb) cover with bread crumbs | - |
| breadbasket | (noun) a basket for serving bread | - |
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| (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy |
| (noun) a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain | - |
| breadboard | (noun) a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced | Synonyms: bread board |
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| breadbox | (noun) a container used to keep bread or cake in | Synonyms: bread-bin |
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| breadcrumb | (noun) crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening | - |
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| breadfruit | (noun) a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts | - |
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| (noun) native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread | Synonyms: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree |
| breadline | (noun) a queue of people waiting for free food | Synonyms: bread line |
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| breadroot | (noun) densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots | Synonyms: Indian breadroot, pomme blanche, pomme de prairie, Psoralea esculenta |
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| breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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| breadstuff | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: bread, staff of life |
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| (noun) flour or meal or grain used in baking bread | - |
| breadth | (noun) the extent of something from side to side | Synonyms: width |
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| (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: comprehensiveness, largeness |
| breadthways | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthwise, broadwise |
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| breadthwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, broadwise |
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| breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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| break | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: breakage, breaking |
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| (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: disruption, gap, interruption |
| (noun) a sudden dash | - |
| (noun) the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool | - |
| (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
| (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: recess, respite, time out |
| (noun) any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare | Synonyms: open frame |
| (noun) (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving | Synonyms: break of serve |
| (noun) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity | Synonyms: interruption |
| (noun) an unexpected piece of good luck | Synonyms: good luck, happy chance |
| (noun) the occurrence of breaking | - |
| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
| (noun) an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion) | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: fracture |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: intermission, interruption, pause, suspension |
| (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: fracture |
| (verb) weaken or destroy in spirit or body | - |
| (verb) diminish or discontinue abruptly | - |
| (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments | Synonyms: come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: develop, recrudesce |
| (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break off, discontinue, stop |
| (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: interrupt |
| (verb) come into being | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) render inoperable or ineffective | - |
| (verb) crack; of the male voice in puberty | - |
| (verb) fall sharply | - |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: damp, dampen, soften, weaken |
| (verb) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments | - |
| (verb) make submissive, obedient, or useful | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) be broken in | - |
| (verb) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another | - |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: check, crack |
| (verb) find the solution or key to | - |
| (verb) find a flaw in | - |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: intermit, pause |
| (verb) be released or become known; of news | Synonyms: get around, get out |
| (verb) undergo breaking | - |
| (verb) interrupt the flow of current in | - |
| (verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: better |
| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: bust, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| (verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) separate from a clinch, in boxing | - |
| (verb) break a piece from a whole | Synonyms: break off, snap off |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate | - |
| (verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) exchange for smaller units of money | - |
| (verb) become punctured or penetrated | - |
| (verb) make the opening shot that scatters the balls | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: burst, erupt |
| (verb) do a break dance | Synonyms: break-dance, break dance |
| (verb) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves | - |
| (verb) move away or escape suddenly | Synonyms: break away, break out |
| (verb) scatter or part | - |
| (verb) emerge from the surface of a body of water | - |
| (verb) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing | - |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way |
| (verb) change directions suddenly | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, ruin, smash |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| (verb) interrupt a continued activity | Synonyms: break away |
| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
| (verb) cause the failure or ruin of | - |
| (verb) invalidate by judicial action | - |
| (verb) enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break up, part, separate, split, split up |
| (verb) happen or take place | - |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: go against, violate |
| (verb) give up | - |
| (verb) cause to give up a habit | - |
| (verb) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity | - |
| (verb) come forth or begin from a state of latency | - |
| (verb) come to an end | - |
| breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| breakable | (adjective) capable of being broken or damaged | - |
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| (noun) an article that is fragile and easily broken | - |
| breakableness | (noun) the consistency of something that breaks under pressure | - |
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| breakage | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breaking |
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| (noun) reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use | - |
| (noun) the quantity broken | - |
| breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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| (noun) the act of breaking away or withdrawing from | Synonyms: breaking away |
| breakax | (noun) West Indian timber tree having very hard wood | Synonyms: break-axe, breakaxe, Sloanea jamaicensis |
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| breakaxe | (noun) West Indian timber tree having very hard wood | Synonyms: break-axe, breakax, Sloanea jamaicensis |
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| breakdown | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: dislocation |
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| (noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: partitioning |
| (noun) a cessation of normal operation | Synonyms: equipment failure |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: decomposition, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
| (noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) a mental or physical breakdown | Synonyms: crack-up |
| breaker | (noun) a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded | Synonyms: circuit breaker |
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| (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breakers, surf |
| (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: ledgeman |
| breakers | (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breaker, surf |
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| breakfast | (noun) the first meal of the day (usually in the morning) | - |
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| (verb) eat an early morning meal | - |
| (verb) provide breakfast for | - |
| breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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| breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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| breakout | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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| breakstone | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: rockfoil, saxifrage |
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| breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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| (noun) making an important discovery | - |
| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
| breakup | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| (noun) coming apart | Synonyms: detachment, separation |
| breakwater | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: bulwark, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| bream | (noun) any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis | Synonyms: freshwater bream |
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| (noun) any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae | Synonyms: sea bream |
| (noun) flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae | Synonyms: sea bream |
| (noun) flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe | Synonyms: freshwater bream |
| (verb) clean (a ship's bottom) with heat | - |
| breast | (noun) the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest | - |
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| (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, bosom, knocker, tit, titty |
| (noun) the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen | Synonyms: chest |
| (noun) meat carved from the breast of a fowl | Synonyms: white meat |
| (verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: front |
| (verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: summit |
| (verb) meet at breast level | - |
| breastbone | (noun) the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs | Synonyms: sternum |
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| breasted | (adjective) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds | - |
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| breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| breastless | (adjective) without a breast | - |
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| breastpin | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: broach, brooch |
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| breastplate | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, egis |
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| breaststroke | (noun) a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick | - |
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| (verb) swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg | - |
| breaststroker | (noun) someone who swims the breaststroke | - |
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| breastwork | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: parapet |
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| breath | (noun) the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing | - |
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| (noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: hint, intimation |
| (noun) a slight movement of the air | - |
| (noun) the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration | - |
| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| breathalyse | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyze |
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| breathalyser | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyzer |
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| breathalyze | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyse |
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| breathalyzer | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyser |
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| breathe | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: emit, pass off |
| (verb) reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked | - |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather |
| (verb) utter or tell | - |
| (verb) manifest or evince | - |
| (verb) impart as if by breathing | - |
| (verb) be alive | - |
| (verb) allow the passage of air through | - |
| breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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| (noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
| breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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| (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
| breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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| (adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
| (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
| breathlessly | (adverb) in a breathless manner | - |
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| breathlessness | (noun) a dyspneic condition | Synonyms: shortness of breath, SOB |
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| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| bureau | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: chest, chest of drawers, dresser |
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| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, federal agency, government agency, office |
| bureaucracy | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucratism |
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| (noun) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials | - |
| (noun) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape | - |
| bureaucrat | (noun) an official of a bureaucracy | Synonyms: administrative official |
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| bureaucratic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy | - |
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| bureaucratically | (adverb) with respect to bureaucracy | - |
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| (adverb) in a bureaucratic manner | - |
| bureaucratism | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucracy |
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| caesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarian, cesarean, cesarian |
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| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
| cereal | (adjective) made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it | - |
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| (noun) a breakfast food prepared from grain | - |
| (noun) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses | Synonyms: food grain, grain |
| (noun) grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet | Synonyms: cereal grass |
| cesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarian |
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| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
| chorea | (noun) any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs | - |
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| (noun) chorea in dogs | Synonyms: canine chorea |
| circumboreal | (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: boreal |
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| coldcream | (noun) a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin | Synonyms: cold cream, face cream, vanishing cream |
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| copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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| copyreader | (noun) an editor who prepares text for publication | Synonyms: copy editor, text editor |
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| cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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| corporeal | (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: material |
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| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporal, somatic |
| corporeality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, materiality, physicalness |
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