dispraise | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: disparagement |
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sprachgefuhl | (noun) an intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language | - |
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sprag | (noun) a chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline | - |
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(noun) a wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine | Synonyms: pitprop |
sprain | (noun) a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments | - |
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(verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
sprat | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: brisling, Clupea sprattus |
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(noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: brisling |
sprawl | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawling |
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(noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: conurbation, urban sprawl |
(verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
(verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
sprawler | (noun) a person who sprawls | - |
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sprawling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, straggling, straggly |
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(noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawl |
sprawly | (adjective) extended out irregularly | - |
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spray | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, sprayer |
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(noun) flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage | - |
(noun) a jet of vapor | - |
(noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spraying |
(noun) water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall | - |
(noun) a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying | - |
(verb) scatter in a mass or jet of droplets | - |
(verb) be discharged in sprays of liquid | - |
(verb) cover by spraying with a liquid | - |
sprayer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray |
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(noun) a worker who applies spray to a surface | - |
spraying | (noun) the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer | - |
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(noun) the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) | Synonyms: crop-dusting |
(noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spray |