| arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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| barunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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| (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
| brunet | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunette |
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| (noun) a person with dark (brown) hair | Synonyms: brunette |
| brunette | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunet |
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| (noun) a person with dark (brown) hair | Synonyms: brunet |
| brunt | (noun) main force of a blow etc | - |
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| burunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| carborundum | (noun) an abrasive composed of silicon carbide crystals | - |
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| caruncle | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncula |
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| caruncula | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncle |
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| caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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| carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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| carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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| carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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| corundom | (noun) very hard mineral used as an abrasive | Synonyms: corundum |
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| corundum | (noun) very hard mineral used as an abrasive | Synonyms: corundom |
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| crunch | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crush |
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| (noun) the sound of something crunching | - |
| (noun) a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources) | - |
| (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
| disgruntle | (verb) put into a bad mood or into bad humour | - |
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| disgruntled | (adjective) in a state of sulky dissatisfaction | Synonyms: dissatisfied |
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| disgruntlement | (noun) a feeling of sulky discontent | - |
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| drunk | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: gone, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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| (adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: intoxicated |
| (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
| (noun) someone who is intoxicated | - |
| drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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| drunken | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, sottish |
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| drunkenly | (adverb) showing effects of much strong drink | - |
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| drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
| forerunner | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: harbinger, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| (noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another | Synonyms: precursor |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: antecedent |
| funrun | (noun) a footrace run for fun (often including runners who are sponsored for a charity) | Synonyms: fun run |
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| furuncle | (noun) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus | Synonyms: boil |
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| furunculosis | (noun) acute skin disease characterized by the presence of many furuncles | - |
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| gerund | (noun) a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun) | - |
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| gerundial | (adjective) relating to or like a gerund | - |
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| grunge | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, soil, stain |
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| grungily | (adverb) in a dingy manner | Synonyms: dingily, grubbily |
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| grungy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, raunchy |
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| grunt | (noun) medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught | - |
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| (noun) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs | Synonyms: oink |
| (noun) an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker | - |
| (verb) issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise | - |
| grunter | (noun) domestic swine | Synonyms: hog, pig, squealer, Sus scrofa |
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| (noun) a person who grunts | - |
| gruntle | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
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| gunrunner | (noun) a smuggler of guns | Synonyms: arms-runner |
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| gunrunning | (noun) the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally | - |
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| jaguarundi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi cat |
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| koruna | (noun) the basic unit of money in Czech Republic | - |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Slovakia | - |
| millrun | (noun) a channel for the water current that turns a millwheel | Synonyms: millrace |
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| outrun | (verb) run faster than | - |
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| overrun | (noun) too much production or more than expected | Synonyms: overproduction |
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| (verb) run beyond or past | - |
| (verb) seize the position of and defeat | - |
| (verb) flow or run over (a limit or brim) | Synonyms: brim over, overflow, run over, well over |
| (verb) invade in great numbers | Synonyms: infest |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, invade |
| overstrung | (adjective) too tightly strung | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, restive, uptight |
| prune | (noun) dried plum | - |
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| (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim |
| pruner | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: lopper, pruning hook |
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| (noun) a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs | Synonyms: trimmer |
| pruning | (noun) the act of trimming a plant | - |
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| (noun) something that has been pruned off of a plant | - |
| pruno | (noun) a liquor concocted from a mixture of ingredients (such as prunes and raisins and milk and sugar) that can be fermented to produce alcohol; made by prison inmates | - |
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| racerunner | (noun) very swift lizard of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, race runner, six-lined racerunner |
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| rerun | (noun) a program that is broadcast again | - |
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| (verb) cause to perform again | - |
| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rebroadcast |
| (verb) run again for office | - |
| (verb) rerun a performance of a play, for example | - |
| roadrunner | (noun) speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas | Synonyms: chaparral cock, Geococcyx californianus |
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| rumrunner | (noun) someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border | - |
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| run | (noun) the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace | Synonyms: running |
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| (noun) a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely | Synonyms: tally |
| (noun) (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team | Synonyms: running, running game, running play |
| (noun) a regular trip | - |
| (noun) a short trip | - |
| (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: test, trial |
| (noun) an unbroken chronological sequence | - |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: discharge, outpouring |
| (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ladder, ravel |
| (noun) a race run on foot | Synonyms: foot race, footrace |
| (noun) a race between candidates for elective office | Synonyms: campaign, political campaign |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: streak |
| (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, runnel, streamlet |
| (noun) the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.) | - |
| (noun) unrestricted freedom to use | - |
| (noun) the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation | - |
| (verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt, melt down |
| (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: ladder |
| (verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) change from one state to another | - |
| (verb) become undone | Synonyms: unravel |
| (verb) cause to perform | - |
| (verb) compete in a race | Synonyms: race |
| (verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | Synonyms: hunt, hunt down, track down |
| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: campaign |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, operate, work |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, pass |
| (verb) be operating, running or functioning | - |
| (verb) conduct to completion | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: play |
| (verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time | - |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, flow |
| (verb) keep company | Synonyms: consort |
| (verb) sail before the wind | - |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) cover by running; run a certain distance | - |
| (verb) run with the ball; in such sports as football | - |
| (verb) be diffused | Synonyms: bleed |
| (verb) travel a route regularly | Synonyms: ply |
| (verb) cause an animal to move fast | - |
| (verb) move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way | - |
| (verb) travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means | - |
| (verb) deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor | Synonyms: black market |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: execute |
| (verb) make without a miss | - |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: operate |
| (verb) set animals loose to graze | - |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, pass |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, tend |
| (verb) be affected by; be subjected to | - |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, prevail |
| (verb) have a particular form | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) extend or continue for a certain period of time | Synonyms: run for |
| (verb) occur persistently | - |
| (verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: range |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: lead |
| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| runaway | (adjective) completely out of control | - |
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| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, shoo-in, walkaway |
| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, fugitive |
| runch | (noun) Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits | Synonyms: jointed charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, wild radish, wild rape |
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| runcinate | (adjective) having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves | - |
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| rundle | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rung, spoke |
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| rundown | (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: summation, summing up |
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| rune | (noun) any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: runic letter |
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| rung | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rundle, spoke |
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| (noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: round, stave |
| runic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of runes | - |
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| runnel | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, streamlet |
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| runner | (noun) fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil | Synonyms: blue runner, Caranx crysos |
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| (noun) device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along | - |
| (noun) a long narrow carpet | - |
| (noun) a trained athlete who competes in foot races | - |
| (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, smuggler |
| (noun) a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) | Synonyms: base runner |
| (noun) someone who travels on foot by running | - |
| (noun) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents | - |
| (noun) (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play | Synonyms: ball carrier |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: offset, stolon |
| runniness | (noun) the property of flowing easily | Synonyms: fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, liquidness |
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| running | (adjective) of advancing the ball by running | - |
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| (adjective) executed or initiated by running | - |
| (adjective) (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream | - |
| (adjective) continually repeated over a period of time | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, operative, working |
| (adjective) measured lengthwise | Synonyms: linear |
| (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track | Synonyms: track |
| (noun) the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace | Synonyms: run |
| (noun) the act of administering or being in charge of something | - |
| (noun) (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team | Synonyms: run, running game, running play |
| (noun) the state of being in operation | - |
| runny | (adjective) characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape | Synonyms: fluid |
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| runoff | (noun) a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner | - |
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| (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, overspill |
| runproof | (adjective) (of hosiery) resistant to runs or (in Britain) ladders | Synonyms: ladder-proof, run-resistant |
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| runt | (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, shrimp |
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| runtiness | (noun) smallness of stature | Synonyms: puniness, stuntedness |
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| runty | (adjective) well below average height | Synonyms: pint-size, pint-sized, sawed-off, sawn-off |
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| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: puny, shrimpy |
| runup | (noun) a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time | Synonyms: run-up |
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| runway | (noun) a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land | - |
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| (noun) a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc. | - |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, track |
| (noun) a chute down which logs can slide | - |
| scrunch | (noun) a crunching noise | - |
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| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
| sheeprun | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheepwalk |
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| shrunken | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled |
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| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, withered, wizen, wizened |
| strung | (adjective) that is on a string | - |
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| truncate | (adjective) terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off | Synonyms: truncated |
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| (verb) make shorter as if by cutting off | Synonyms: cut short |
| (verb) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one | - |
| (verb) replace a corner by a plane | - |
| truncated | (adjective) terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off | Synonyms: truncate |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, shortened |
| truncation | (noun) the act of cutting short | - |
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| (noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces) | - |
| (noun) the property of being truncated or short | Synonyms: shortness |
| truncheon | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick |
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| trundle | (noun) small wheel or roller | - |
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| (noun) a low bed to be slid under a higher bed | Synonyms: truckle, truckle bed, trundle bed |
| (verb) move heavily | - |
| trunk | (noun) a long flexible snout as of an elephant | Synonyms: proboscis |
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| (noun) luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage | - |
| (noun) compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools | Synonyms: automobile trunk, boot, luggage compartment |
| (noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: body, torso |
| (noun) the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber | Synonyms: bole, tree trunk |
| trunkfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: boxfish |
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| trunks | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee | Synonyms: short pants, shorts |
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| trunnel | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: treenail, trenail |
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| underrun | (verb) haul onto a boat | - |
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| (verb) run or pass below | - |
| unstrung | (adjective) emotionally upset | - |
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