| catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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| (noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
| (verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| cedarn | (adjective) consisting of or made of cedar | - |
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| cernuous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
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| charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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| (noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited | Synonyms: charnel house |
| churn | (noun) a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk | Synonyms: butter churn |
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| (verb) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter | - |
| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, moil, roil |
| churning | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent |
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| (adjective) moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation | Synonyms: churned-up |
| cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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| (noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
| (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
| cisterna | (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cistern |
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| cithern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, citole, cittern, gittern |
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| cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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| clearness | (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
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| (noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clarity, uncloudedness |
| cleverness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: brightness, smartness |
| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
| concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
| (noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
| (noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: interest, occupy, worry |
| concerned | (adjective) feeling or showing worry or solicitude | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: interested |
| (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: implicated |
| concernedly | (adverb) in a manner showing concern | - |
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| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| consternation | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, dismay |
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| corn | (noun) something sentimental or trite | - |
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| (noun) ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food | Synonyms: edible corn |
| (noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn | Synonyms: corn whiskey, corn whisky |
| (noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: Indian corn, maize, Zea mays |
| (noun) (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) | - |
| (noun) the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal | - |
| (noun) a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes | Synonyms: clavus |
| (verb) preserve with large-grained rock salt | - |
| (verb) feed (cattle) with corn | - |
| cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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| corncob | (noun) the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn | Synonyms: corn cob |
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| corncrake | (noun) common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields | Synonyms: Crex crex, land rail |
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| corncrib | (noun) a crib for storing and drying ears of corn | - |
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| cornea | (noun) the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera | - |
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| corneal | (adjective) of or related to the cornea | - |
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| corned | (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: cured |
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| cornel | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: dogwood, dogwood tree |
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| cornelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: carnelian |
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| corneous | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: hornlike, horny |
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| corner | (noun) the intersection of two streets | Synonyms: street corner, turning point |
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| (noun) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone | Synonyms: quoin |
| (noun) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | Synonyms: nook |
| (noun) the point where two lines meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect | - |
| (noun) a place off to the side of an area | - |
| (noun) a remote area | - |
| (noun) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet | - |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: niche, recess, recession |
| (noun) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade | - |
| (noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: box |
| (verb) turn a corner | - |
| (verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: tree |
| (verb) gain control over | - |
| cornerback | (noun) a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers | - |
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| cornered | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed |
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| cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
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| (noun) a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies | - |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
| cornet | (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: horn, trump, trumpet |
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| cornetfish | (noun) slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales | - |
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| cornetist | (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: trumpeter |
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| corneum | (noun) the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off | Synonyms: horny layer, stratum corneum |
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| cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
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| cornflour | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornstarch |
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| cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| cornhusk | (noun) the husk of an ear of corn | - |
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| cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
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| cornhusking | (noun) the act of removing the husks from ears of corn | - |
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| (noun) a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn | Synonyms: husking bee |
| cornice | (noun) the topmost projecting part of an entablature | - |
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| (noun) a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall | - |
| (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: pelmet, valance, valance board |
| (verb) furnish with a cornice | - |
| cornmeal | (noun) coarsely ground corn | Synonyms: Indian meal |
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| cornpone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: pone |
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| cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
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| cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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| cornstalk | (noun) the stalk of a corn plant | Synonyms: corn stalk |
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| cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
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| cornu | (noun) (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape | - |
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| cornucopia | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: profuseness, profusion, richness |
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| (noun) a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity | Synonyms: horn of plenty |
| corny | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous |
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| cowbarn | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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| cromorne | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: crumhorn, krummhorn |
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| crumhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, krummhorn |
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| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| cybernation | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: computerization |
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| cybernaut | (noun) a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
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| cybernetic | (adjective) of or relating the principles of cybernetics | - |
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| cybernetics | (noun) (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems) | - |
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| czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| darn | (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: mend, patch |
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| (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
| (verb) repair by sewing | - |
| darned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| darnel | (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum, tare |
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| darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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| darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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| dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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| dehorn | (verb) take the horns off (an animal) | - |
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| (verb) prevent the growth of horns of certain animals | - |
| dirndl | (noun) a dress with a tight bodice and full skirt | - |
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| (noun) a full skirt with a gathered waistband | - |
| discern | (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
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| discernability | (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: legibility |
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| discernable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernible |
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| discernible | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernable |
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| (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: evident, observable |
| (adjective) capable of being perceived clearly | - |
| discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
| discernment | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discretion |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: perceptiveness |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste |
| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| diurnal | (adjective) of or belonging to or active during the day | - |
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| (adjective) having a daily cycle or occurring every day | - |
| doornail | (noun) a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
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| downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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| eagerness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: forwardness, readiness, zeal |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, keenness |
| earn | (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
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| (verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: garner, win |
| earned | (adjective) gained or acquired; especially through merit or as a result of effort or action | - |
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| earner | (noun) someone who earn wages in return for their labor | Synonyms: wage earner |
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| earnest | (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: businesslike |
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| (adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: sincere, solemn |
| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, devout, heartfelt |
| (noun) something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract | - |
| earnestly | (adverb) in a serious manner | Synonyms: in earnest, seriously |
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| earnestness | (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity |
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| (noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: seriousness, sincerity |
| earnings | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: pay, remuneration, salary, wage |
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| (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
| earthborn | (adjective) connected with earthly life; of earthly origin | - |
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| (adjective) springing from or born on the earth | - |
| (adjective) of earthly origin (as mortals are) | - |
| eastern | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world | - |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States | - |
| (adjective) lying toward or situated in the east | - |
| (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: easterly |
| (adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: easterly |
| easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| easternmost | (adjective) farthest to the east | Synonyms: eastmost |
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| eburnation | (noun) a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory | - |
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| ern | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: erne, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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| erne | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: ern, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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| eternal | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, interminable |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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