| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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| besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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| (noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
| besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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| booboisie | (noun) class consisting of all those who are considered boobs | - |
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| bosie | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie ball, googly, wrong 'un |
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| bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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| brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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| brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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| brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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| cassie | (noun) tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery | Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, flame tree, huisache, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle |
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| crosier | (noun) a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office | Synonyms: crozier |
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| cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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| dachsie | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachshund |
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| dassie | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, das, hyrax |
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| dossier | (noun) a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) | - |
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| falsie | (noun) padding that is worn inside a brassiere | - |
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| (noun) artificial eyelashes | - |
| hosier | (noun) a tradesman who sells hosiery and (in England) knitwear | - |
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| hosiery | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hose |
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| jalousie | (noun) a shutter made of angled slats | - |
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| (noun) a window with glass louvers | Synonyms: louvered window |
| klebsiella | (noun) a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections | - |
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| lassie | (noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried | Synonyms: jeune fille, lass, young girl |
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| osier | (noun) any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture | - |
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| (noun) flexible twig of a willow tree | - |
| palsied | (adjective) affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor | - |
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| prophesier | (noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophet, seer, vaticinator |
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| siege | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, besieging, military blockade |
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| siemens | (noun) a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm | Synonyms: mho, reciprocal ohm, S |
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| sienna | (noun) an earth color containing ferric oxides; used as a pigment | - |
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| sierra | (noun) a Spanish mackerel of western North America | Synonyms: Scomberomorus sierra |
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| (noun) a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline) | - |
| siesta | (noun) a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries) | - |
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| sieve | (noun) a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles | Synonyms: screen |
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| (verb) distinguish and separate out | Synonyms: sift |
| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sift, strain |
| (verb) check and sort carefully | Synonyms: sift |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sort |
| sonsie | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| tarsier | (noun) nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates | - |
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| transience | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transiency, transitoriness |
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| (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, briefness |
| transiency | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transience, transitoriness |
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| transient | (adjective) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind | Synonyms: transeunt |
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| (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transitory |
| (noun) (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load | - |
| (noun) one who stays for only a short time | - |
| transiently | (adverb) for a very short time | - |
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