| actress | (noun) a female actor | - |
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| acupressure | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: G-Jo, shiatsu |
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| address | (noun) the ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion | Synonyms: savoir-faire |
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| (noun) the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball | - |
| (noun) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience | Synonyms: speech |
| (noun) a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described | - |
| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: destination, name and address |
| (noun) the manner of speaking to another individual | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored | Synonyms: computer address, reference |
| (noun) the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with | - |
| (verb) adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting | - |
| (verb) speak to | Synonyms: turn to |
| (verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: accost, come up to |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: direct |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: cover, deal, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) direct a question at someone | - |
| (verb) address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question | - |
| (verb) access or locate by address | - |
| (verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | Synonyms: call |
| addressable | (adjective) capable of being addressed | - |
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| addressed | (adjective) (of mail) marked with a destination | - |
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| addressee | (noun) one to whom something is addressed | - |
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| adpressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: appressed |
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| adulteress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| adventuress | (noun) a woman adventurer | - |
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| aggress | (verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: attack |
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| aggression | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: hostility |
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| (noun) deliberately unfriendly behavior | - |
| (noun) the act of initiating hostilities | - |
| (noun) a disposition to behave aggressively | - |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggressiveness |
| aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
| (adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
| aggressively | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: sharply |
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| aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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| (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
| aggressor | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: assailant, assaulter, attacker |
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| (noun) a confident assertive person who acts as instigator | - |
| ambassadress | (noun) a woman ambassador | - |
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| ancestress | (noun) a woman ancestor | - |
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| antidepressant | (noun) any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects | Synonyms: antidepressant drug |
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| appressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: adpressed |
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| authoress | (noun) a woman author | - |
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| aviatress | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: airwoman, aviatrix |
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| balldress | (noun) a suit or dress for formal occasions | - |
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| benefactress | (noun) a woman benefactor | - |
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| bittercress | (noun) any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic | Synonyms: bitter cress |
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| buttress | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttressing |
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| (verb) make stronger or defensible | - |
| (verb) reinforce with a buttress | - |
| buttressed | (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: braced |
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| buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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| caress | (noun) a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it) | - |
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| (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: fondle |
| caressing | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| ciderpress | (noun) a press that is used to extract the juice from apples | - |
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| clothespress | (noun) a closet where clothes are stored | Synonyms: clothes closet |
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| coatdress | (noun) a dress that is tailored like a coat and buttons up the front | - |
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| compress | (noun) a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever) | - |
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| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compact, pack together |
| compressed | (adjective) pressed tightly together | Synonyms: tight |
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| (adjective) reduced in volume by pressure | - |
| (adjective) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) | Synonyms: flat |
| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| compressible | (adjective) capable of being compressed or made more compact | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being easily compressed | Synonyms: squeezable |
| compressing | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compression |
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| compression | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compressing |
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| (noun) encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required | - |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: condensation, contraction |
| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, concretion, densification |
| compressor | (noun) a mechanical device that compresses gasses | - |
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| (noun) an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal. | - |
| conductress | (noun) a woman conductor | - |
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| congress | (noun) the social act of assembling for some common purpose | Synonyms: coming together, meeting |
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| (noun) a meeting of elected or appointed representatives | - |
| (noun) a national legislative assembly | - |
| congressional | (adjective) of or relating to congress | - |
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| congressman | (noun) a male member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| cress | (noun) pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste | Synonyms: cress plant |
| cresson | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, watercress |
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| cypress | (noun) any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones | Synonyms: cypress tree |
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| (noun) wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus | - |
| decompress | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: depressurise, depressurize |
| (verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: uncompress |
| decompressing | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompression |
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| decompression | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompressing |
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| (noun) restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display | - |
| degressive | (adjective) going down by steps | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount | - |
| depress | (verb) lessen the activity or force of | - |
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| (verb) press down | Synonyms: press down |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: lower |
| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, dispirit, get down |
| (verb) lower (prices or markets) | - |
| depressant | (adjective) capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: downer, sedative, sedative drug |
| depressed | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) lower than previously | Synonyms: down |
| (adjective) flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces | - |
| depressing | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful |
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| depressingly | (adverb) in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree | - |
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| depression | (noun) pushing down | - |
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| (noun) sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | - |
| (noun) a sunken or depressed geological formation | Synonyms: natural depression |
| (noun) angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | - |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | Synonyms: impression, imprint |
| (noun) a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity | - |
| (noun) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation | Synonyms: low |
| (noun) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment | Synonyms: economic crisis, slump |
| (noun) a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention | Synonyms: clinical depression, depressive disorder |
| depressive | (noun) someone suffering psychological depression | - |
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| depressor | (noun) a device used by physician to press a part down or aside | - |
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| (noun) any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down | Synonyms: depressor muscle |
| (noun) any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves | Synonyms: depressor nerve |
| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| depressurize | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurise |
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| destress | (verb) reduce the emphasis | Synonyms: de-emphasise, de-emphasize |
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| digress | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: divagate, stray, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, sidetrack, straggle |
| digression | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, divagation, diversion |
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| (noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: excursion |
| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, divagation, excursus, parenthesis |
| digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
| digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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| distress | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distraint |
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| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: hurt, suffering |
| (noun) extreme physical pain | - |
| (noun) a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) | - |
| (verb) cause mental pain to | - |
| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: straiten |
| distressed | (adjective) generalized feeling of distress | Synonyms: dysphoric, unhappy |
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| (adjective) facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty | Synonyms: hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, disturbed, upset, worried |
| (adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: stressed |
| distressful | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| distressfully | (adverb) with distress | - |
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| distressfulness | (noun) the quality of arousing fear or distress | Synonyms: seriousness |
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| distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
| distressingly | (adverb) unpleasantly | Synonyms: painfully |
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| distressingness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: painfulness |
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| dress | (adjective) (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes | Synonyms: full-dress |
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| (adjective) suitable for formal occasions | Synonyms: full-dress |
| (noun) a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice | Synonyms: frock |
| (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: attire, garb |
| (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: apparel, clothes, wearing apparel |
| (verb) put on clothes | Synonyms: get dressed |
| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| (verb) apply a bandage or medication to | - |
| (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, set |
| (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: plume, preen, primp |
| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: curry, groom |
| (verb) dress in a certain manner | Synonyms: dress up |
| (verb) kill and prepare for market or consumption | Synonyms: dress out |
| (verb) convert into leather | - |
| (verb) put a dressing on | - |
| (verb) put a finish on | - |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: decorate |
| (verb) cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width | - |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: garnish, trim |
| (verb) arrange in ranks | Synonyms: line up |
| dressage | (noun) maneuvers of a horse in response to body signals by the rider | - |
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| dressed | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| (adjective) (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth | Synonyms: polished |
| (adjective) treated with medications and protective covering | - |
| (adjective) dressed in fancy or formal clothing | Synonyms: dolled up, dressed-up, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, spiffed up, spruced up, togged up |
| dresser | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: bureau, chest, chest of drawers |
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| (noun) a cabinet with shelves | - |
| (noun) low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup | Synonyms: dressing table, toilet table, vanity |
| (noun) a wardrobe assistant for an actor | Synonyms: actor's assistant |
| (noun) a person who dresses in a particular way | - |
| dressing | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: grooming |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, binding |
| (noun) processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering for a wound or sore | Synonyms: medical dressing |
| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
| (noun) savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type | Synonyms: salad dressing |
| (noun) a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables | Synonyms: stuffing |
| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| dressy | (adjective) in fancy clothing | - |
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| duress | (noun) compulsory force or threat | - |
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| egress | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egression, emergence |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse | Synonyms: emersion |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: emergence, issue |
| (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, emerge, go forth, issue |
| egression | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, emergence |
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| embroideress | (noun) a woman embroiderer | - |
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| empress | (noun) a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor | - |
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| enchantress | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: witch |
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| (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, femme fatale, siren, temptress |
| espresso | (noun) strong black coffee brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans | - |
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| express | (adjective) not tacit or implied | - |
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| (adjective) without unnecessary stops | - |
| (noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: expressage |
| (noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: limited |
| (noun) mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system | Synonyms: express mail |
| (adverb) by express | - |
| (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, show |
| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, convey |
| (verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: state |
| (verb) send by rapid transport or special messenger service | - |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: extract, press out |
| (verb) manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait) | - |
| expressage | (noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: express |
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| expressed | (adjective) precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication | Synonyms: explicit |
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| (adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: uttered, verbalised, verbalized, voiced |
| expressible | (adjective) capable of being expressed | - |
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| expression | (noun) the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing | - |
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| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, face, facial expression, look |
| (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: locution, saying |
| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: formulation |
| (noun) expression without words | Synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: formula |
| (noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: verbal expression, verbalism |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: construction, grammatical construction |
| (noun) (genetics) the process of expressing a gene | - |
| expressionism | (noun) an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality | - |
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| expressionist | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |
| expressionistic | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionist |
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| expressionless | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by expression | - |
| expressively | (adverb) with expression; in an expressive manner | - |
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