heartrending | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartbreaking |
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horrendous | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrific, terrible |
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referendum | (noun) a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate | - |
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rend | (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rip, rive |
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render | (noun) a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls | - |
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(verb) cause to become | - |
(verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: try |
(verb) bestow | Synonyms: give |
(verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, return |
(verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, translate |
(verb) coat with plastic or cement | - |
(verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, return, yield |
(verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: interpret |
(verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, show |
(verb) give back | Synonyms: return |
(verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: submit |
(verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, provide, supply |
(verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: deliver, fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, turn in |
rendering | (noun) giving in acknowledgment of obligation | - |
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(noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: interpretation, rendition |
(noun) perspective drawing of an architect's design | - |
(noun) a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall | - |
(noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendition |
(noun) a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc. | Synonyms: rendition |
(noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, translation, version |
rendezvous | (noun) a meeting planned at a certain time and place | - |
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(noun) a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex | Synonyms: tryst |
(noun) a place where people meet | - |
(verb) meet at a rendezvous | - |
rending | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: ripping, splitting |
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rendition | (noun) handing over prisoners to the country in which a crime was committed | - |
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(noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: interpretation, rendering |
(noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendering |
(noun) a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc. | Synonyms: rendering |
reverend | (adjective) worthy of adoration or reverence | Synonyms: sublime |
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(noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | Synonyms: clergyman, man of the cloth |
serendipitous | (adjective) lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries | - |
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serendipity | (noun) good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries | - |
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surrender | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, fall |
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(noun) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody | - |
(noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, yielding |
(noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: resignation |
(verb) give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another | Synonyms: give up |
(verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, deliver, give up |
surrenderer | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: yielder |
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trend | (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, movement |
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(noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, vogue |
(noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: course |
(noun) a general direction in which something tends to move | Synonyms: tendency |
(verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, veer |
(verb) to be temporarily popular | - |
trendsetting | (adjective) initiating or popularizing a trend | Synonyms: trend-setting |
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trendy | (adjective) in accord with the latest fad | Synonyms: voguish |
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