| revery | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: reverie |
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| (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie |
| revet | (verb) face with a layer of stone or concrete or other supporting material so as to retain | - |
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| (verb) construct a revetment | - |
| revetement | (noun) a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment | Synonyms: revetment, stone facing |
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| revetment | (noun) a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment | Synonyms: revetement, stone facing |
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| (noun) a barrier against explosives | - |
| review | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, followup, reexamination |
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| (noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: brushup |
| (noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: inspection |
| (noun) (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court) | - |
| (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, reassessment, revaluation |
| (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, recapitulation |
| (noun) an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) | Synonyms: critical review, critique, review article |
| (noun) a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians | Synonyms: revue |
| (noun) a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art | - |
| (noun) (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data | Synonyms: limited review |
| (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: reexamine |
| (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, retrospect |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, survey |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, refresh |
| (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: critique |
| reviewer | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: commentator |
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| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: reader, referee |
| revile | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, vilify, vituperate |
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| revilement | (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, vilification |
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| revisal | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revise, revision |
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| revise | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revision |
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| (verb) make revisions in | - |
| (verb) revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving | Synonyms: retool |
| revised | (adjective) improved or brought up to date | - |
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| (adjective) altered or revised by rephrasing or by adding or deleting material | - |
| reviser | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, rewrite man, rewriter |
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| revising | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: rewriting |
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| revision | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: alteration |
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| (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, rewrite |
| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revise |
| revisionism | (noun) a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism | - |
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| (noun) any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx | - |
| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| revisit | (verb) visit again | - |
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| revitalisation | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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| revitalise | (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalize |
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| revitalised | (adjective) restored to new life and vigor | Synonyms: reborn, revitalized |
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| revitalising | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalizing, reviving |
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| revitalization | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revival, revivification |
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| revitalize | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: regenerate |
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| (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalise |
| revitalized | (adjective) restored to new life and vigor | Synonyms: reborn, revitalised |
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| revitalizing | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalising, reviving |
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| revival | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revivification |
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| (noun) an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion | Synonyms: revival meeting |
| revivalism | (noun) an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith | - |
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| revivalist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, gospeller |
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| revivalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterizing revivalism | - |
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| revive | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: resuscitate |
| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, resuscitate |
| (verb) be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength | - |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: resurrect |
| revived | (adjective) restored to consciousness or life or vigor | - |
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| (adjective) given fresh life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: reanimated |
| revivification | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival |
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| revivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, vivify |
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| reviving | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalising, revitalizing |
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| revocable | (adjective) capable of being revoked or annulled | Synonyms: revokable |
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| revocation | (noun) the act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done | - |
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| (noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: annulment |
| revokable | (adjective) capable of being revoked or annulled | Synonyms: revocable |
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| revoke | (noun) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so | Synonyms: renege |
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| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, vacate |
| (verb) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so | - |
| revolt | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, rising, uprising |
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| (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, sicken |
| (verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: disgust, gross out, repel |
| (verb) make revolution | - |
| revolting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| revoltingly | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: disgustingly, distastefully, sickeningly |
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| revolution | (noun) the overthrow of a government by those who are governed | - |
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| (noun) a single complete turn (axial or orbital) | Synonyms: gyration, rotation |
| (noun) a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving | - |
| revolutionariness | (noun) The state or quality of being revolutionary. | - |
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| revolutionary | (adjective) advocating or engaged in revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a revolution | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: rotatory |
| (adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: radical |
| (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionist, subversive, subverter |
| revolutionise | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionize |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionize |
| revolutionism | (noun) a belief in the spread of revolutionary principles | - |
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| revolutionist | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, subversive, subverter |
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| revolutionize | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionise |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionise |
| (verb) overthrow by a revolution, of governments | - |
| revolve | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, rotate |
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| (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, orbit |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: roll |
| revolved | (adjective) turned in a circle around an axis | Synonyms: rotated |
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| revolver | (noun) a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) | Synonyms: six-gun, six-shooter |
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| (noun) a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings | Synonyms: revolving door |
| revue | (noun) a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians | Synonyms: review |
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| revulsion | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repugnance, repulsion |
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| semibreve | (noun) a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time) | Synonyms: whole note |
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| underevaluation | (noun) an appraisal that underestimates the value of something | - |
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| unpreventable | (adjective) not preventable | - |
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| unrevealed | (adjective) not made known | Synonyms: undisclosed |
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| unreverberant | (adjective) not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate | Synonyms: nonresonant |
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| unrevised | (adjective) not improved or brought up to date | - |
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| unrevived | (adjective) not revived | Synonyms: unrenewed |
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| wherever | (adverb) where in the world; location, singular, elective existential pronoun | Synonyms: wheresoever |
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