| expressiveness | (noun) the quality of being expressive | - |
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| expressly | (adverb) with specific intentions; for the express purpose | - |
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| expressway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| fornicatress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| fortress | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fort |
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| foundress | (noun) a woman founder | - |
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| fress | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: gluttonise, gluttonize |
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| hairdresser | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairstylist, styler, stylist |
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| hairdressing | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, haircare |
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| (noun) a toiletry for the hair | Synonyms: hair grease, hair oil, hair tonic |
| headdress | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headgear |
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| headmistress | (noun) a woman headmaster | - |
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| headmistressship | (noun) the position of headmistress | - |
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| heiress | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: inheritress, inheritrix |
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| huntress | (noun) a woman hunter | - |
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| idolatress | (noun) a woman idolater | - |
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| immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| immunosuppressed | (adjective) of persons whose immune response is inadequate | - |
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| immunosuppression | (noun) lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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| immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
| immunosuppressor | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug |
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| impress | (noun) the act of coercing someone into government service | Synonyms: impressment |
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| (verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun | Synonyms: yarn-dye |
| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: ingrain, instill |
| (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: shanghai |
| (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: print |
| (verb) impress positively | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, move, strike |
| impressed | (adjective) deeply or markedly affected or influenced | - |
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| impressible | (adjective) easily impressed or influenced | Synonyms: impressionable, waxy |
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| impression | (noun) an impressionistic portrayal of a person | - |
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| (noun) the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another | - |
| (noun) (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster | - |
| (noun) an outward appearance | Synonyms: effect |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, feeling, notion, opinion |
| (noun) a clear and telling mental image | Synonyms: mental picture, picture |
| (noun) a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving | Synonyms: stamp |
| (noun) all the copies of a work printed at one time | Synonyms: printing |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | Synonyms: depression, imprint |
| impressionable | (adjective) easily impressed or influenced | Synonyms: impressible, waxy |
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| impressionist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who follows the theories of Impressionism | - |
| impressionistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning | - |
| impressive | (adjective) making a strong or vivid impression | - |
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| (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: telling |
| impressively | (adverb) in an impressive manner | Synonyms: imposingly |
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| impressiveness | (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, magnificence, richness |
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| (noun) the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind | - |
| impressment | (noun) the act of coercing someone into government service | Synonyms: impress |
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| incompressibility | (noun) the property of being incompressible | - |
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| incompressible | (adjective) incapable of being compressed; resisting compression | - |
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| inexpressible | (adjective) defying expression | Synonyms: unexpressible |
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| inexpressibly | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: indescribably, ineffably, unspeakably, unutterably |
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| inexpressive | (adjective) not expressive | - |
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| inexpressively | (adverb) without expression; in an inexpressive manner | - |
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| ingress | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entrance, entry, incoming |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse | Synonyms: immersion |
| ingressive | (noun) a speech sound by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose. | - |
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| inheritress | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritrix |
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| instructress | (noun) a woman instructor | - |
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| irrepressibility | (noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: buoyancy |
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| irrepressible | (adjective) impossible to repress or control | Synonyms: uncontrollable |
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| laundress | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundrywoman, washerwoman, washwoman |
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| letterpress | (noun) printing from a plate with raised characters | Synonyms: relief printing |
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| lypressin | (noun) an antidiuretic and vasoconstrictor used to treat diabetes insipidus | - |
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| manageress | (noun) a woman manager | - |
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| mattress | (noun) a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed | - |
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| mayoress | (noun) a woman mayor | - |
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| (noun) the wife of a mayor | - |
| millionairess | (noun) a woman millionaire | - |
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| misaddress | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misdirect |
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| mistress | (noun) a woman master who directs the work of others | - |
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| (noun) an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man | Synonyms: fancy woman, kept woman |
| (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: schoolma'am, schoolmarm, schoolmistress |
| murderess | (noun) a woman murderer | - |
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| negotiatress | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatrix |
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| neoexpressionism | (noun) an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings | - |
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| nightdress | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightgown, nightie |
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| nonaggression | (noun) a policy of not initiating hostilities | - |
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| nonaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: unaggressive |
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| nonprogressive | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, standpat, unprogressive |
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| ogress | (noun) (folklore) a female ogre | - |
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| oppress | (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, suppress |
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| (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: persecute |
| oppressed | (adjective) burdened psychologically or mentally | Synonyms: laden |
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| oppression | (noun) the act of subjugating by cruelty | Synonyms: subjugation |
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| (noun) a feeling of being oppressed | Synonyms: oppressiveness |
| (noun) the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: | - |
| oppressive | (adjective) marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior | Synonyms: tyrannical, tyrannous |
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| (adjective) weighing heavily on the senses or spirit | - |
| oppressively | (adverb) in a heavy and oppressive way | - |
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| oppressiveness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness |
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| (noun) a feeling of being oppressed | Synonyms: oppression |
| oppressor | (noun) a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures | - |
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| overdress | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| (verb) dress too warmly | Synonyms: overclothe |
| overdressed | (adjective) dressed too elaborately | - |
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| overpressure | (noun) a transient air pressure greater than the surrounding atmospheric pressure | - |
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| overstress | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overemphasize |
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| peeress | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, noblewoman |
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| pennycress | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi | - |
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| postmistress | (noun) a woman postmaster | - |
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| press | (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: pressing, pressure |
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| (noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead | Synonyms: military press |
| (noun) any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids | Synonyms: mechanical press |
| (noun) a machine used for printing | Synonyms: printing press |
| (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: closet, wardrobe |
| (noun) clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use | - |
| (noun) the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines | Synonyms: public press |
| (noun) a dense crowd of people | Synonyms: crush, jam |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, pressure |
| (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: exhort, urge, urge on |
| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, entreat |
| (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: weight-lift, weightlift |
| (verb) exert pressure or force to or upon | - |
| (verb) place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, contract, squeeze |
| (verb) press and smooth with a heated iron | Synonyms: iron, iron out |
| (verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: push |
| (verb) press from a plastic | Synonyms: press out |
| (verb) create by pressing | - |
| (verb) crowd closely | - |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, push |
| (verb) be urgent | - |
| (verb) to be oppressive or burdensome | Synonyms: weigh |
| pressed | (adjective) compacted by ironing | - |
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| pressing | (adjective) compelling immediate action | Synonyms: urgent |
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| (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: press, pressure |
| (noun) a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press | - |
| pressingly | (adverb) in a pressing manner | - |
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| pressman | (noun) someone whose occupation is printing | Synonyms: printer |
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| (noun) a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newspaperman |
| pressmark | (noun) a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location | Synonyms: call mark, call number |
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| pressor | (adjective) increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure | - |
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| (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor |
| pressure | (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: press, pressing |
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| (noun) a force that compels | - |
| (noun) the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin | Synonyms: pressure sensation |
| (noun) the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit) | Synonyms: force per unit area, pressure level |
| (noun) the pressure exerted by the atmosphere | Synonyms: air pressure, atmospheric pressure |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press |
| (noun) an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress | - |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, squeeze |
| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, blackmail |
| pressurise | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurize |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurize |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurize, supercharge |
| pressurize | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurise |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurise |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, supercharge |
| prioress | (noun) the superior of a group of nuns | Synonyms: abbess, mother superior |
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| procuress | (noun) a woman pimp | - |
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| progress | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progression |
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| (noun) gradual improvement or growth or development | Synonyms: advancement |
| (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: advance, progression |
| (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, shape up |
| (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build, build up, work up |
| (verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on |
| progression | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress |
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| (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: advance, progress |
| (noun) a series with a definite pattern of advance | Synonyms: patterned advance |
| progressive | (adjective) favoring or promoting progress | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases | - |
| (adjective) advancing in severity | - |
| (adjective) gradually advancing in extent | - |
| (adjective) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist |
| (adjective) (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position | - |
| (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, liberalist |
| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense |
| progressively | (adverb) advancing in amount or intensity | Synonyms: increasingly, more and more |
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| progressiveness | (noun) advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods | Synonyms: progressivity |
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| progressivism | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society | - |
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| progressivity | (noun) advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods | Synonyms: progressiveness |
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| proprietress | (noun) a woman proprietor | - |
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| redress | (noun) act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil | Synonyms: remediation, remedy |
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| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, restitution |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, right |
| regress | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence | Synonyms: reasoning backward |
| (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress |
| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress |
| (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back |
| (verb) go back to a statistical means | - |
| regression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) | Synonyms: regression toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state | - |
| (noun) an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely | Synonyms: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation |
| regressive | (adjective) opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases | - |
| repress | (verb) block the action of | - |
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| (verb) put out of one's consciousness | Synonyms: suppress |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, smother, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, subdue, subjugate |
| (verb) impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of | - |
| repressed | (adjective) characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions | Synonyms: pent-up |
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