largeness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: bigness |
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(noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: extensiveness |
(noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: pretension, pretentiousness |
(noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness |
larger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: bigger |
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largess | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largesse, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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(noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largesse |
largesse | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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(noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largess |
marge | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, oleo, oleomargarine |
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merge | (verb) become one | Synonyms: unify, unite |
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(verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, mix |
(verb) join or combine | Synonyms: unify, unite |
merged | (adjective) formed or united into a whole | Synonyms: incorporate, incorporated, integrated, unified |
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merger | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: amalgamation, uniting |
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(noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, unification |
microsurgery | (noun) surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures | - |
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morgen | (noun) a South African unit of measure equal to about 2 acres | - |
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neurosurgeon | (noun) someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain) | Synonyms: brain surgeon |
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neurosurgery | (noun) any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves) | - |
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nonconvergent | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonintersecting |
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norgestrel | (noun) synthetic progestin used in oral contraceptives | - |
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overcharge | (noun) a price that is too high | - |
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(verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overload, surcharge |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
overgeneralise | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralize |
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overgeneralize | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralise |
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overgenerous | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, munificent, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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overgorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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overlarge | (adjective) excessively large | Synonyms: too large |
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parget | (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetting |
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(verb) apply ornamental plaster to | - |
pargeting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargetting |
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(noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargetry, pargetting |
(noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargetting |
pargetry | (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetting |
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pargetting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargeting |
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(noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetry |
(noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargeting |
poltergeist | (noun) a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder | - |
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psychosurgery | (noun) brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems | - |
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purge | (noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purging |
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(noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purging |
(noun) an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place | - |
(verb) excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) | - |
(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
(verb) rid of impurities | - |
(verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, scour |
(verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purify, sanctify |
(verb) clear of a charge | - |
(verb) oust politically | - |
recharge | (verb) charge anew | - |
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(verb) load anew | Synonyms: reload |
rechargeable | (adjective) capable of being recharged | - |
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reforge | (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: recast, remodel |
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regorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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resurge | (verb) rise again | - |
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resurgence | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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resurgent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: renascent |
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scourge | (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: flagellum |
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(noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: terror, threat |
(noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, nemesis |
(verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
(verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
(verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
scourger | (noun) a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) | Synonyms: flogger |
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serge | (noun) a twilled woolen fabric | - |
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sergeant | (noun) a lawman with the rank of sergeant | Synonyms: police sergeant |
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(noun) any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal | - |
(noun) an English barrister of the highest rank | Synonyms: sergeant-at-law, serjeant-at-law, serjeant |
serger | (noun) a sewing machine that overcasts the raw edges of a fabric with a V-shaped stitch | - |
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sparge | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
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(verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sprinkle |
(verb) agitate by introducing air or compressed gas | - |
splurge | (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: binge, orgy |
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(noun) an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.) | - |
(verb) be showy or ostentatious | - |
(verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: fling |
spurge | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | - |
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sturgeon | (noun) large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone | - |
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submerge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, inundate |
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(verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, overwhelm |
(verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerse |
(verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerse |
submerged | (adjective) beneath the surface of the water | Synonyms: submersed, underwater |
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(adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submersed, underwater |
submergence | (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submerging, submersion |
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supercharge | (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, pressurize |
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(verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: advance, boost |
supercharged | (adjective) fraught with great emotion | Synonyms: charged |
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(adjective) (of e.g. an engine) having the power increased by fitting with a supercharger | - |
supercharger | (noun) compressor that forces increased oxygen into the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine | - |
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surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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(verb) show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given | - |
(verb) fill to an excessive degree | - |
(verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, overload |
(verb) print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote | - |
(verb) fill to capacity with people | - |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak |
(verb) charge an extra fee, as for a special service | - |
surge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: upsurge |
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(noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, upsurge |
(noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: billow |
(verb) see one's performance improve | - |
(verb) rise rapidly | Synonyms: soar, soar up, soar upwards, zoom |
(verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, heave |
(verb) rise or move forward | Synonyms: tide |
(verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: scend |
surgeon | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, sawbones |
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surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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surgery | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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(noun) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations | Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR |
(noun) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted | - |
(noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | - |
synergetic | (adjective) working together; used especially of groups, as subsidiaries of a corporation, cooperating for an enhanced effect | Synonyms: synergistic |
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target | (noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: butt |
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(noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, objective |
(noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: mark |
(noun) the location of the target that is to be hit | Synonyms: target area |
(noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, prey, quarry |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, point |
thaumaturge | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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tunaburger | (noun) a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef | - |
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uncharged | (adjective) of a particle or body or system; having no charge | - |
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undercharge | (noun) an insufficient charge | - |
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(noun) a price that is too low | - |
(verb) charge (someone) too little money | - |
undischarged | (adjective) still capable of exploding or being fired | Synonyms: unexploded |
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(adjective) owed as a debt | Synonyms: outstanding, owing |
unenergetic | (adjective) deficient in alertness or activity | Synonyms: lethargic |
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(adjective) not inclined to be enterprising | Synonyms: slowgoing |
unenergetically | (adverb) without energy; in a lethargic manner | Synonyms: lethargically |
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unforgettable | (adjective) impossible to forget | - |
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unforgettably | (adverb) in a memorable manner | Synonyms: memorably |
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upsurge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: surge |
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(noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, surge |
urge | (noun) a strong restless desire | Synonyms: itch |
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(noun) an instinctive motive | Synonyms: impulse |
(verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: exhort, press, urge on |
(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge on |
(verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, recommend |
urgency | (noun) pressing importance requiring speedy action | - |
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(noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: importunity, urging |
(noun) the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity | - |
(noun) an urgent situation calling for prompt action | - |
urgent | (adjective) compelling immediate action | Synonyms: pressing |
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urgently | (adverb) with great urgency | Synonyms: desperately |
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verge | (noun) a grass border along a road | - |
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(noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: brink |
(noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, wand |
(noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, threshold |
(verb) border on; come close to | - |
verger | (noun) a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies | - |
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