| compartmentalization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalisation |
| compartmentalize | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalise, cut up |
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| compartmentalized | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalised |
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| compartmented | (adjective) divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units | - |
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| comport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: behave |
| comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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| concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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| (verb) settle by agreement | - |
| (verb) contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement | - |
| concerted | (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
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| concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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| (noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
| (verb) collapse like a concertina | - |
| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| concertise | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertize |
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| concertize | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertise |
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| concerto | (noun) a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
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| consort | (noun) a family of similar musical instrument playing together | Synonyms: choir |
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| (noun) the husband or wife of a reigning monarch | - |
| (verb) keep company | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, assort |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| consortium | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: pool, syndicate |
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| contort | (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: deform, distort, wring |
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| contorted | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: writhed, writhen |
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| contortion | (noun) the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) | Synonyms: deformation |
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| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: crookedness, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
| contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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| controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
| convert | (noun) a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief | - |
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| (verb) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy | Synonyms: change over |
| (verb) change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, exchange |
| (verb) change the nature, purpose, or function of something | - |
| (verb) change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change | - |
| (verb) cause to adopt a new or different faith | - |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, exchange |
| (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convince, win over |
| (verb) score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone | - |
| convertase | (noun) any of several enzymes that convert a compound into smaller, biologically-active compounds. | - |
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| converter | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: convertor |
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| convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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| convertible | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value | Synonyms: exchangeable |
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| (adjective) designed to be changed from one use or form to another | - |
| (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: transformable, translatable, transmutable |
| (noun) a car that has top that can be folded or removed | - |
| (noun) a sofa that can be converted into a bed | Synonyms: sofa bed |
| (noun) a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) | Synonyms: convertible security |
| convertor | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: converter |
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| coolwart | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: false miterwort, false mitrewort, foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia |
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| copartner | (noun) a joint partner (as in a business enterprise) | - |
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| copartnership | (noun) a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages | - |
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| coralwort | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, Dentaria bulbifera |
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| cortege | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: entourage, retinue, suite |
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| (noun) a funeral procession | - |
| cortex | (noun) the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal | - |
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| (noun) the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, pallium |
| (noun) the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus | Synonyms: lens cortex |
| cortical | (adjective) of or relating to a cortex | - |
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| cortically | (adverb) with respect to the cortex | - |
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| corticifugal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoefferent, corticofugal |
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| corticipetal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoafferent |
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| corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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| corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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| corticofugal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticoefferent |
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| corticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response | Synonyms: adrenal cortical steroid, corticosteroid |
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| corticosteroid | (noun) a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response | Synonyms: adrenal cortical steroid, corticoid |
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| corticosterone | (noun) secreted by the adrenal cortex; involved in regulating water and electrolyte balance in the body | - |
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| corticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin |
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| corticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin |
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| cortina | (noun) a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils | - |
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| cortisol | (noun) an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism | Synonyms: Cortef, hydrocortisone, Hydrocortone |
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| cortisone | (noun) a corticosteroid hormone (trade name Cortone Acetate) normally produced by the adrenal cortex; is converted to hydrocortisone | Synonyms: Cortone Acetate |
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| counterpart | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: similitude, twin |
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| (noun) a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another | Synonyms: opposite number, vis-a-vis |
| countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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| (noun) the highest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
| (noun) a male singer with a voice above that of a tenor | - |
| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| counterterrorism | (noun) a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism | - |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
| countertop | (noun) the top side of a counter | - |
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| countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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| court | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: homage |
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| (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: courtyard |
| (noun) a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played | - |
| (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: courtroom |
| (noun) a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area | Synonyms: motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court |
| (noun) the residence of a sovereign or nobleman | - |
| (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: judicature, tribunal |
| (noun) the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state | Synonyms: royal court |
| (noun) the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince | Synonyms: royal court |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: romance, solicit, woo |
| (verb) seek someone's favor | Synonyms: woo |
| (verb) engage in social activities leading to marriage | - |
| courteous | (adjective) characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: gracious, nice |
| courteously | (adverb) in a polite manner | Synonyms: politely |
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| courtesan | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, doxy, paramour |
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| courtesy | (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate act | - |
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| (noun) a courteous manner | Synonyms: good manners |
| (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark | - |
| courthouse | (noun) a building that houses judicial courts | - |
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| (noun) a government building that houses the offices of a county government | - |
| courtier | (noun) an attendant at the court of a sovereign | - |
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| courting | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courtship, suit, wooing |
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| courtliness | (noun) elegance suggestive of a royal court | - |
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| courtly | (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: formal, stately |
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| courtroom | (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: court |
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| courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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| courtyard | (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: court |
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| couverture | (noun) chocolate that contains at least 32 percent cocoa butter | - |
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| covert | (adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband | - |
| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, screen |
| (noun) a flock of coots | - |
| covertly | (adverb) in a covert manner | - |
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| covertness | (noun) the state of being covert and hidden | Synonyms: hiddenness |
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| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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| culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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| curt | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, laconic, terse |
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| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, short |
| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
| (noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
| curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
| (verb) provide with drapery | - |
| curtained | (adjective) furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies | - |
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| curtainless | (adjective) not provided with curtains | Synonyms: uncurtained |
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| curtal | (adjective) (archaic) docked | - |
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| curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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| curtly | (adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: short, shortly |
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| curtness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, gruffness, shortness |
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| curtsey | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsy |
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| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsy |
| curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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| (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: bob |
| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsey |
| cyberart | (noun) art that is produced with the help of computer hardware and software | - |
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| danewort | (noun) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor | Synonyms: dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus |
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| dart | (noun) a sudden quick movement | Synonyms: flit |
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| (noun) a tapered tuck made in dressmaking | - |
| (noun) a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: fleet, flit, flutter |
| (verb) move with sudden speed | - |
| dartboard | (noun) a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts | Synonyms: dart board |
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| darter | (noun) a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly | - |
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| (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, snakebird |
| darts | (noun) a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard | - |
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| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| dearth | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number | Synonyms: paucity |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: famine, shortage |
| decertify | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: derecognise, derecognize |
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| decorticate | (verb) remove the cortex of (an organ) | - |
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| (verb) remove the outer layer of | - |
| decortication | (noun) removal of the outer covering of an organ or part | - |
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| depart | (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: quit, take leave |
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| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: part, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off |
| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: digress, sidetrack, straggle |
| (verb) move away from a place into another direction | Synonyms: go, go away |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: leave, pull up stakes |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: deviate, diverge, vary |
| departed | (adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, gone |
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| (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, foregone, gone |
| (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent |
| departer | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: goer, leaver |
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