| angostura | (noun) the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters | Synonyms: angostura bark |
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| astute | (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: sharp, shrewd |
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| astutely | (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: acutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly |
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| astuteness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: deepness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
| bestubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: stubbled, stubbly |
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| blastula | (noun) early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs | Synonyms: blastosphere |
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| blastular | (adjective) of or relating to a blastula | Synonyms: blastospheric |
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| breadstuff | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: bread, staff of life |
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| (noun) flour or meal or grain used in baking bread | - |
| canafistula | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistola, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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| costume | (noun) the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball | - |
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| (noun) the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class | - |
| (noun) unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place | - |
| (noun) the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments) | - |
| (verb) dress in a costume | Synonyms: dress up |
| (verb) furnish with costumes; as for a film or play | - |
| costumed | (adjective) dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class | - |
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| costumer | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumier |
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| costumier | (noun) someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade) | Synonyms: costume designer, costumer |
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| costusroot | (noun) annual herb of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs | Synonyms: Saussurea costus, Saussurea lappa |
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| disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
| disturbance | (noun) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | - |
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| (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: perturbation |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, noise |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: perturbation, upset |
| disturbed | (adjective) having the place or position changed | - |
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| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships | Synonyms: maladjusted |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried |
| disturber | (noun) a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion | - |
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| disturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| disturbingly | (adverb) in a disturbing manner | - |
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| dustup | (noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: quarrel, row, run-in, words, wrangle |
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| dyestuff | (noun) a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair | Synonyms: dye |
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| estuarial | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarine |
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| estuarine | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarial |
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| estuary | (noun) the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix | - |
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| expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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| expostulation | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration |
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| (noun) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | - |
| fistula | (noun) an abnormal passage leading from a suppurating cavity to the body surface | Synonyms: sinus |
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| (noun) a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse | Synonyms: fistulous withers |
| fistular | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistulate, fistulous |
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| fistulate | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulous |
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| fistulous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula | - |
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| (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulate |
| foodstuff | (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: grocery |
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| (noun) a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | Synonyms: food product |
| frustum | (noun) a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed | - |
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| gestural | (adjective) being other than verbal communication | Synonyms: nonverbal |
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| (adjective) used of the language of the deaf | Synonyms: sign-language, sign, signed |
| gesture | (noun) motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling | - |
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| (noun) something done as an indication of intention | - |
| (noun) the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals | Synonyms: motion |
| (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesticulate, motion |
| imposture | (noun) pretending to be another person | Synonyms: impersonation |
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| incestuous | (adjective) relating to or involving incest | - |
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| (adjective) resembling incest as by excessive intimacy | - |
| incestuously | (adverb) by incest | - |
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| masturbate | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank |
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| (verb) stimulate sexually | - |
| masturbation | (noun) manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure | Synonyms: onanism |
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| masturbator | (noun) a person who practices masturbation | Synonyms: onanist |
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| moisture | (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: wet |
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| moisturise | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturize |
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| moisturize | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturise |
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| nasturtium | (noun) flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings | - |
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| (noun) any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers | - |
| overstuff | (verb) stuff too much | - |
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| overstuffed | (adjective) upholstered thickly and deeply | - |
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| pasturage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasture |
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| (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: herbage |
| pasture | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasturage |
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| (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture land, pastureland |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, range |
| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, graze |
| pastureland | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pasture land |
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| postulant | (noun) one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order | - |
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| postulate | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: posit |
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| (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: posit |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: contend |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, require, take |
| postulation | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: predication |
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| (noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, request |
| postulational | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, axiomatical |
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| postulator | (noun) someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization | - |
| postural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving posture | - |
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| posture | (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, position |
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| (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: bearing, carriage |
| (noun) capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war | Synonyms: military capability, military posture, military strength, strength |
| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: position, stance |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, sit |
| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: pose |
| posturer | (noun) someone who behaves in a manner calculated to impress or mislead others | - |
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| posturing | (noun) adopting a vain conceited posture | - |
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| pustulate | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pimply |
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| pustule | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus | - |
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| stub | (noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: butt |
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| (noun) a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt | Synonyms: ticket stub |
| (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, counterfoil |
| (noun) a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost | - |
| (noun) a small piece | Synonyms: nub |
| (verb) strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object | - |
| (verb) clear of weeds by uprooting them | - |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, extinguish, press out, stub out |
| (verb) pull up (weeds) by their roots | - |
| stubbiness | (noun) the property of being short and broad | Synonyms: squatness |
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| stubble | (noun) short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw |
| stubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbly |
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| stubbly | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbled |
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| stubborn | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) not responding to treatment | Synonyms: refractory |
| stubbornly | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obdurately, obstinately, pig-headedly |
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| stubbornness | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will |
| stubby | (adjective) short and blunt | - |
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| stucco | (noun) a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces | - |
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| (verb) coat with stucco | - |
| (verb) decorate with stucco work | - |
| stuck | (adjective) caught or fixed | - |
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| (adjective) baffled | - |
| stud | (noun) poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt | Synonyms: stud poker |
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| (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: studhorse |
| (noun) an upright in house framing | Synonyms: scantling |
| (noun) ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) | Synonyms: rivet |
| (noun) a man who is virile and sexually active | Synonyms: he-man, macho-man |
| (verb) provide with or construct with studs | - |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: constellate, dot |
| studbook | (noun) official record of the pedigree of purebred animals especially horses | - |
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| studded | (adjective) dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination | - |
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| student | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: educatee, pupil |
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| (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, learner, scholar |
| studentship | (noun) the position of student | - |
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| studhorse | (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: stud |
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| studied | (adjective) produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation | - |
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| studio | (noun) workplace for the teaching or practice of an art | - |
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| (noun) an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen | Synonyms: studio apartment |
| (noun) workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded | - |
| studious | (adjective) marked by care and effort | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: bookish |
| studiously | (adverb) in a studious manner | - |
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| studiousness | (noun) diligent study | - |
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| study | (noun) a detailed critical inspection | Synonyms: survey |
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| (noun) a room used for reading and writing and studying | - |
| (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | Synonyms: sketch |
| (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: cogitation |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, subject, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading) | Synonyms: work |
| (noun) a state of deep mental absorption | - |
| (noun) a written document describing the findings of some individual or group | Synonyms: report, written report |
| (noun) a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique | - |
| (noun) someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play) | - |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, read, take |
| (verb) learn by reading books | Synonyms: hit the books |
| (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, examine |
| (verb) be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning | - |
| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, meditate |
| (verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: consider |
| studying | (noun) reading carefully with intent to remember | Synonyms: perusal, perusing, poring over |
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| stuff | (noun) miscellaneous unspecified objects | - |
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| (noun) unspecified qualities required to do or be something | - |
| (noun) a critically important or characteristic component | - |
| (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense |
| (noun) information in some unspecified form | - |
| (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: clobber |
| (noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: material |
| (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: farce |
| (verb) fill tightly with a material | - |
| (verb) treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting | - |
| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out |
| (verb) cram into a cavity | - |
| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: block, choke up, lug |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, thrust |
| stuffed | (adjective) filled with something | - |
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| (adjective) crammed with food | - |
| stuffer | (noun) an advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail | - |
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| (noun) a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display | Synonyms: animal stuffer, taxidermist |
| stuffily | (adverb) in a stuffy manner | Synonyms: stodgily |
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| stuffiness | (noun) dull and pompous gravity | Synonyms: stodginess |
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| (noun) the quality of being close and poorly ventilated | Synonyms: closeness |
| (noun) state of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat | - |
| stuffing | (noun) padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture | - |
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| (noun) a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables | Synonyms: dressing |
| stuffy | (adjective) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | Synonyms: stodgy |
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| (adjective) affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction | - |
| (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: airless, close, unaired |
| stultification | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, impairment |
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| (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: befooling |
| stultify | (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: cripple |
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| (verb) cause to appear foolish | - |
| (verb) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence | - |
| stumble | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: lurch, stagger |
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| (noun) an unintentional but embarrassing blunder | Synonyms: misstep, trip-up, trip |
| (verb) make an error | Synonyms: slip up, trip up |
| (verb) miss a step and fall or nearly fall | Synonyms: trip |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, falter |
| (verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: hit |
| stumblebum | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf |
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| (noun) a second-rate prize fighter | Synonyms: palooka |
| stumbler | (noun) a walker or runner who trips and almost falls | Synonyms: tripper |
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| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack |
| stump | (noun) (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket | - |
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| (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox |
| (noun) the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed | - |
| (noun) the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled | Synonyms: tree stump |
| (verb) remove tree stumps from | - |
| (verb) cause to be perplexed or confounded | Synonyms: mix up |
| (verb) travel through a district and make political speeches | - |
| (verb) walk heavily | Synonyms: stamp, stomp |
| stumper | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, toughie |
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| stumping | (noun) campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches) | - |
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