| 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 | - |
| boreas | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: north wind, norther, northerly |
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| 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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| crease | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: creese, kris |
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| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: graze, rake |
| creaseless | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: uncreased |
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| creaseproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, wrinkleproof |
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| creashak | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| decrease | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down |
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| (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrement |
| (noun) a change downward | Synonyms: drop-off, lessening |
| (noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrement |
| (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
| decreased | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: reduced |
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| decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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| (adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| degrease | (verb) remove grease or oil from (a pan) | - |
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| degreaser | (noun) a chemical substance that dissolves water-insoluble substances, such as greases and oils. | - |
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| grease | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
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| (noun) a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) | Synonyms: lubricating oil |
| (verb) lubricate with grease | - |
| greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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| greased | (adjective) smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction | Synonyms: lubricated |
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| greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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| greaseproof | (adjective) resistant to penetration by grease or oil or wax | - |
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| greaser | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: taco, wetback |
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| greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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| greasily | (adverb) in a greasy manner | - |
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| greasiness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness |
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| greasy | (adjective) smeared or soiled with grease or oil | Synonyms: oily |
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| (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: oily, oleaginous, sebaceous |
| increase | (noun) the act of increasing something | Synonyms: step-up |
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| (noun) the amount by which something increases | Synonyms: increment |
| (noun) a change resulting in an increase | - |
| (noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: growth, increment |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: addition, gain |
| (verb) become bigger or greater in amount | - |
| (verb) make bigger or more | - |
| increased | (adjective) made greater in size or amount or degree | - |
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| increasing | (adjective) becoming greater or larger | - |
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| (adjective) (music) increasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| increasingly | (adverb) advancing in amount or intensity | Synonyms: more and more, progressively |
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| noreaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: northeaster |
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| pancreas | (noun) a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin | - |
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| preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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| reason | (noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | Synonyms: intellect, understanding |
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| (noun) a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion | - |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: cause, grounds |
| (noun) an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon | - |
| (noun) a rational motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: ground, occasion |
| (noun) the state of having good sense and sound judgment | Synonyms: rationality, reasonableness |
| (verb) think logically | - |
| (verb) decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion | Synonyms: conclude, reason out |
| (verb) present reasons and arguments | Synonyms: argue |
| reasonable | (adjective) showing reason or sound judgment | Synonyms: sensible |
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| (adjective) not excessive or extreme | Synonyms: fair, fairish |
| (adjective) marked by sound judgment; having good reason | Synonyms: sane |
| reasonableness | (noun) goodness of reason and judgment | - |
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| (noun) moderation in expectations | - |
| (noun) the property of being moderate in price or expenditures | Synonyms: moderateness, modestness |
| (noun) the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person | Synonyms: tenability, tenableness |
| (noun) the state of having good sense and sound judgment | Synonyms: rationality, reason |
| reasonably | (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, somewhat |
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| (adverb) with good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner | Synonyms: sanely, sensibly |
| reasoned | (adjective) logically valid | Synonyms: sound, well-grounded |
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| reasoner | (noun) someone who reasons logically | Synonyms: ratiocinator |
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| reasoning | (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: intelligent, thinking |
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| (noun) thinking that is coherent and logical | Synonyms: abstract thought, logical thinking |
| reasonless | (adjective) not endowed with the capacity to reason | - |
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| (adjective) having no justifying cause or reason | Synonyms: causeless |
| (adjective) not marked by the use of reason | Synonyms: mindless, senseless |
| reassail | (verb) assail again | - |
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| reassemble | (verb) assemble once again, after taking something apart | - |
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| reassembly | (noun) assembling again | Synonyms: refabrication |
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| reassert | (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: confirm |
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| reassertion | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reaffirmation |
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| reassess | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reevaluate |
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| reassessment | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, revaluation, review |
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| reassign | (verb) transfer somebody to a different position or location of work | Synonyms: transfer |
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| reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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| reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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| reassure | (verb) give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain | - |
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| reassured | (adjective) having confidence restored; freed from anxiety | - |
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| reassuring | (adjective) restoring confidence and relieving anxiety | - |
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| reassuringly | (adverb) in a reassuring manner | - |
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| redbreast | (noun) small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | Synonyms: Erithacus rubecola, Old World robin, robin, robin redbreast |
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| subtreasury | (noun) a subordinate treasury or place of deposit | - |
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| treason | (noun) a crime that undermines the offender's government | Synonyms: high treason, lese majesty |
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| (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treachery |
| (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: subversiveness, traitorousness |
| treasonable | (adjective) having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor | Synonyms: faithless, traitorous, treasonous, unfaithful |
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| treasonably | (adverb) in a disloyal and faithless manner | Synonyms: faithlessly, false, traitorously, treacherously |
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| treasonist | (noun) someone who betrays his country by committing treason | Synonyms: traitor |
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| treasonous | (adjective) having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor | Synonyms: faithless, traitorous, treasonable, unfaithful |
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| treasure | (noun) art highly prized for its beauty or perfection | Synonyms: gem |
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| (noun) a collection of precious things | - |
| (noun) accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc. | Synonyms: hoarded wealth |
| (noun) any possession that is highly valued by its owner | - |
| (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, cherish, hold dear |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, prize, value |
| treasured | (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: cherished, precious, wanted |
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| treasurer | (noun) an officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds | Synonyms: financial officer |
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| treasurership | (noun) the position of treasurer | - |
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| treasury | (noun) a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely | - |
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| (noun) the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues | - |
| (noun) the funds of a government or institution or individual | Synonyms: exchequer |
| uncreased | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: creaseless |
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| ungreased | (adjective) not lubricated | Synonyms: unlubricated |
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| unreason | (noun) the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding | Synonyms: irrationality |
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| unreasonable | (adjective) not reasonable; not showing good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: excessive, inordinate, undue |
| unreasonably | (adverb) to a degree that exceeds the bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: immoderately |
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| (adverb) not in a reasonable or intelligent manner | - |
| unreasoning | (adjective) not based on reason or evidence | Synonyms: blind |
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| unreasoningly | (adverb) in an unreasoning visceral manner | Synonyms: viscerally |
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| unreassuring | (adjective) not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety | Synonyms: worrisome |
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| urease | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into carbon dioxide and ammonia; is present in intestinal bacteria | - |
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