| decantation | (noun) the act of gently pouring off a clear liquor (as from its original bottle) without disturbing the lees | - |
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| decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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| decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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| decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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| (noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
| decrementation | (noun) the operation of subtracting one from the operand. | - |
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| decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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| (verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
| decrepitation | (noun) the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated | - |
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| deforestation | (noun) the removal of trees | Synonyms: disforestation |
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| (noun) the state of being clear of trees | - |
| degustation | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting |
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| delectation | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: enjoyment |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delight |
| delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
| delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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| denotation | (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: extension, reference |
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| (noun) the act of indicating or pointing out by name | Synonyms: indication |
| denotative | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotive |
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| (adjective) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term | Synonyms: explicit |
| denotatum | (noun) an actual object referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| dentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections in the margin | - |
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| depigmentation | (noun) absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair | - |
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| deportation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation |
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| (noun) the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien | - |
| deputation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, relegating, relegation |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, delegation, mission |
| detestation | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, execration, loathing, odium |
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| devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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| (verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
| devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
| (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |
| devastation | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: destruction |
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| (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: ravaging |
| (noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: desolation |
| (noun) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed | - |
| (noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: desolation |
| dextrorotation | (noun) rotation to the right | Synonyms: clockwise rotation |
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| dextrorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed |
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| dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative rule | - |
| (verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording | - |
| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: order, prescribe |
| (verb) rule as a dictator | - |
| dictated | (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: determined, set |
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| dictation | (noun) speech intended for reproduction in writing | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, command |
| (noun) matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage | - |
| dictator | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: potentate |
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| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: authoritarian |
| (noun) a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine | - |
| dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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| (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| dictatorially | (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, magisterially |
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| dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| digitate | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: fingerlike |
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| digitately | (adverb) in a digitate manner | - |
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| dilatation | (noun) the act of expanding an aperture | Synonyms: dilation |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: distension, distention |
| disceptation | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disputation, tilt |
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| disforestation | (noun) the removal of trees | Synonyms: deforestation |
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| disinfestation | (noun) the activity of getting rid of vermin | - |
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| disorientate | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorient |
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| disorientation | (noun) a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug) | Synonyms: freak out |
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| (noun) confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction | - |
| disputation | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: debate, public debate |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, tilt |
| disputatious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputative, litigious |
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| disputatiously | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: argumentatively |
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| disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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| dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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| dissertation | (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: thesis |
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| documentation | (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: support |
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| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, corroboration |
| (noun) program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs | Synonyms: software documentation |
| ecstatic | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: enraptured, rapt, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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| ecstatically | (adverb) in an ecstatic manner | Synonyms: rapturously, rhapsodically |
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| edentate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentulate |
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| (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | - |
| electrostatic | (adjective) concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity | Synonyms: static |
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| electrostatically | (adverb) in an electrostatic manner | - |
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| electrostatics | (noun) the branch of physics that deals with static electricity | - |
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| elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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| encrustation | (noun) a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay | Synonyms: incrustation |
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| (noun) a hard outer layer that covers something | Synonyms: crust, incrustation |
| (noun) the formation of a crust | Synonyms: incrustation |
| eptatretus | (noun) a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus | - |
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| equitation | (noun) the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements | Synonyms: horseback riding, riding |
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| eructation | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, belching, burp, burping |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eruption, extravasation |
| estate | (noun) a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights | Synonyms: estate of the realm, the three estates |
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| (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, demesne, land, landed estate |
| (noun) everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities | - |
| exaltation | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: apotheosis, deification |
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| (noun) a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead) | - |
| (noun) the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence | - |
| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, rapture, raptus, transport |
| excitation | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitement |
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| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: innervation, irritation |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitement, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| excitative | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitatory |
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| excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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| excogitate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, forge, formulate, invent |
| excogitation | (noun) thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it | - |
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| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, innovation, invention |
| excogitative | (adjective) concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation | - |
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| excogitator | (noun) a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly | - |
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| exhortation | (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: incitement |
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| (noun) a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action | - |
| exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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| exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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| expectation | (noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: outlook, prospect |
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| (noun) the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values | Synonyms: arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment |
| (noun) the feeling that something is about to happen | - |
| (noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: anticipation |
| experimentation | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experiment |
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| (noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experiment |
| exploitation | (noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: development |
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| (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: using, victimisation, victimization |
| exploitative | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitatory, exploitive |
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| exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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| exportation | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exporting |
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| (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: export |
| exultation | (noun) the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | Synonyms: jubilation, rejoicing |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: jubilance, jubilancy, jubilation |
| facilitate | (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, ease |
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| (verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) | - |
| (verb) be of use | Synonyms: help |
| facilitation | (noun) act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something | - |
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| (noun) (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential | - |
| (noun) the condition of being made easy (or easier) | - |
| facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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| facilitator | (noun) someone who makes progress easier | - |
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| facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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| facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
| (adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
| felicitate | (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: congratulate |
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| felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |
| fermentation | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, tempestuousness, unrest |
| flirtation | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirt, flirting, toying |
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| flirtatious | (adjective) like a coquette | Synonyms: coquettish |
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| flirtatiously | (adverb) in a flirtatious manner | Synonyms: coquettishly |
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| floatation | (noun) financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares | Synonyms: flotation |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) | Synonyms: flotation |
| flotation | (noun) financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares | Synonyms: floatation |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) | Synonyms: floatation |
| fluvastatin | (noun) least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol); usually taken orally at bedtime | Synonyms: Lescol |
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| fomentation | (noun) deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) | Synonyms: instigation |
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| (noun) application of warm wet coverings to a part of the body to relieve pain and inflammation | - |
| (noun) a substance used as a warm moist medicinal compress or poultice | - |
| fragmentation | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomisation, atomization |
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| (noun) the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk | - |
| (noun) the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships | - |
| frequentative | (noun) a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action | - |
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| frittata | (noun) Italian omelet with diced vegetables and meats; cooked until bottom is set then inverted into another pan to cook the top | - |
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| geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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| gestate | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, expect, have a bun in the oven |
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| (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize |
| gestation | (noun) the conception and development of an idea or plan | - |
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| (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: maternity, pregnancy |
| (noun) the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans) | Synonyms: gestation period |
| gestational | (adjective) of or relating to gestation | - |
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