| anteater | (noun) any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites | Synonyms: New World anteater |
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| (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | Synonyms: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus afer |
| (noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
| (noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
| (noun) toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites | Synonyms: pangolin, scaly anteater |
| (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus, numbat |
| bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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| beefsteak | (noun) a beef steak usually cooked by broiling | - |
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| bracteal | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract | - |
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| bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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| chateau | (noun) an impressive country house (or castle) in France | - |
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| chopsteak | (noun) a patty of ground cooked beef | Synonyms: beef patty, chop steak, chopped steak, hamburger steak |
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| dateable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: datable |
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| ebracteate | (adjective) without bracts | - |
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| farmstead | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmplace |
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| (noun) the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm | - |
| gateau | (noun) any of various rich and elaborate cakes | - |
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| gluteal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the gluteus muscles | - |
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| homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
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| (noun) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family | - |
| (noun) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law | - |
| (verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
| homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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| instead | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: alternatively, or else |
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| (adverb) on the contrary | Synonyms: rather |
| kahikatea | (noun) New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood | Synonyms: Dacrycarpus dacrydioides, New Zealand Dacryberry, New Zealand white pine, Podocarpus dacrydioides |
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| lacteal | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk | - |
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| (noun) any of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic duct | - |
| luteal | (adjective) of or relating to the corpus luteum | - |
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| nemertean | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertine, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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| osteal | (adjective) composed of or containing bone | Synonyms: bony, osseous |
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| (adjective) relating to bone or to the skeleton | - |
| pahautea | (noun) evergreen tree of New Zealand resembling the kawaka | Synonyms: Libocedrus bidwillii, mountain pine |
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| plateau | (noun) a relatively flat highland | Synonyms: tableland |
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| popliteal | (adjective) of or relating to the area behind the knee joint | - |
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| portmanteau | (noun) a large travelling bag made of stiff leather | Synonyms: Gladstone, Gladstone bag |
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| (noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: blend, portmanteau word |
| prickteaser | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, tease, vamp, vamper |
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| protea | (noun) any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones | - |
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| protean | (adjective) taking on different forms | - |
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| protease | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis | Synonyms: peptidase, proteinase, proteolytic enzyme |
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| rateability | (noun) the state of being liable to assessment or taxation | Synonyms: ratability |
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| rateable | (adjective) liable to payment of locally assessed property taxes | Synonyms: ratable |
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| rateables | (noun) property that provides tax income for local governments | Synonyms: ratables |
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| roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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| schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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| stead | (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, position |
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| steadfast | (adjective) firm and dependable especially in loyalty | Synonyms: staunch, unswerving |
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| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| steadfastly | (adverb) with resolute determination | Synonyms: firm, firmly, unwaveringly |
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| steadfastness | (noun) loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty | Synonyms: staunchness |
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| (noun) steadfast resolution | - |
| steadied | (adjective) made steady or constant | - |
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| steadily | (adverb) in a steady manner | Synonyms: steady |
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| (adverb) at a steady rate or pace | - |
| steadiness | (noun) the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place | Synonyms: firmness |
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| (noun) the quality of being steady--regular and unvarying | - |
| (noun) freedom from wavering or indecision; constancy of resolve or conduct | - |
| steady | (adjective) not subject to change or variation especially in behavior | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a person who does something regularly | Synonyms: regular |
| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| (adjective) securely in position; not shaky | - |
| (adjective) not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall | Synonyms: firm, unfluctuating |
| (adjective) not easily excited or upset | - |
| (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: sweetheart, sweetie, truelove |
| (adverb) in a steady manner | Synonyms: steadily |
| (verb) make steady | Synonyms: becalm, calm |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, stabilize |
| steadying | (adjective) causing to become steady | - |
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| steak | (noun) a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish | - |
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| steakhouse | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in steaks | Synonyms: chophouse |
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| steal | (noun) a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch) | - |
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| (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: bargain, buy |
| (verb) steal a base | - |
| (verb) move stealthily | Synonyms: slip |
| (verb) take without the owner's consent | Synonyms: rip, rip off |
| stealer | (noun) a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it | Synonyms: thief |
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| stealing | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving |
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| (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealth |
| stealth | (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealing |
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| stealthily | (adverb) in a stealthy manner | - |
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| stealthiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, sneakiness |
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| stealthy | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneak, sneaky, surreptitious |
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| steam | (noun) water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere | - |
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| (verb) cook something by letting steam pass over it | - |
| (verb) clean by means of steaming | Synonyms: steam clean |
| (verb) get very agitated or angry | - |
| (verb) rise as vapor | - |
| (verb) travel by means of steam power | Synonyms: steamer |
| (verb) emit steam | - |
| steamboat | (noun) a boat propelled by a steam engine | - |
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| steamed | (adjective) cooked in steam | - |
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| (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, stung |
| steamer | (noun) an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe | Synonyms: long-neck clam, Mya arenaria, soft-shell clam, steamer clam |
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| (noun) a ship powered by one or more steam engines | Synonyms: steamship |
| (noun) a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it | - |
| (noun) a clam that is usually steamed in the shell | Synonyms: long-neck clam, soft-shell clam, steamer clam |
| (verb) travel by means of steam power | Synonyms: steam |
| steamfitter | (noun) a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating | - |
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| steaminess | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: haziness, mistiness, vaporousness, vapourousness |
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| steaming | (adjective) filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist | Synonyms: steamy |
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| (adverb) (used of heat) extremely | Synonyms: piping |
| steampunk | (noun) A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society. | - |
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| steamroll | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroller |
| steamroller | (noun) vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements | Synonyms: road roller |
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| (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: juggernaut |
| (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) crush with a steamroller as if to level | - |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroll |
| steamship | (noun) a ship powered by one or more steam engines | Synonyms: steamer |
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| steamtightness | (noun) The property of being being sealed in such a way that steam cannot leak out. | - |
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| steamy | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, randy, ruttish, turned on |
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| (adjective) hot or warm and humid | Synonyms: muggy, sticky |
| (adjective) filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist | Synonyms: steaming |
| stearate | (noun) an ester of stearic acid. | - |
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| (noun) a salt of stearic acid. | - |
| stearic | (adjective) of or relating to or composed of fat | - |
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| stearin | (noun) an ester of glycerol and stearic acid | - |
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| steatite | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, soapstone |
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| steatocystoma | (noun) a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked | Synonyms: pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, wen |
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| steatopygia | (noun) an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks | - |
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| steatorrhea | (noun) the presence of greater than normal amounts of fat in the feces which are frothy and foul smelling and floating; a symptom of disorders of fat metabolism and malabsorption syndrome | - |
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| striptease | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip, strip show |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| stripteaser | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist |
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| tea | (noun) a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water | - |
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| (noun) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes | Synonyms: afternoon tea, teatime |
| (noun) dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea | Synonyms: tea leaf |
| (noun) a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves | Synonyms: Camellia sinensis |
| teaberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, wintergreen |
| teacake | (noun) any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea | - |
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| (noun) flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea | Synonyms: tea biscuit |
| teacart | (noun) serving cart for serving tea or light refreshments | Synonyms: tea cart, tea trolley, tea wagon |
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| teach | (verb) accustom gradually to some action or attitude | - |
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| (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: instruct, learn |
| teachable | (adjective) ready and willing to be taught | Synonyms: docile |
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| teacher | (noun) a personified abstraction that teaches | - |
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| (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: instructor |
| teachership | (noun) the position of teacher | - |
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| teaching | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, pedagogy |
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| (noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy |
| (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: commandment, precept |
| teacup | (noun) a cup from which tea is drunk | - |
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| (noun) as much as a teacup will hold | Synonyms: teacupful |
| teacupful | (noun) as much as a teacup will hold | Synonyms: teacup |
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| teahouse | (noun) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | Synonyms: tea parlor, tea parlour, tearoom, teashop |
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| teak | (noun) tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Tectona grandis |
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| (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teakwood |
| teakettle | (noun) kettle for boiling water to make tea | - |
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| teakwood | (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teak |
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| teal | (adjective) of a bluish shade of green | Synonyms: blue-green, bluish green |
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| (noun) any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America | - |
| (noun) a blue-green color or pigment | Synonyms: blue green, bluish green |
| team | (noun) a cooperative unit (especially in sports) | Synonyms: squad |
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| (noun) two or more draft animals that work together to pull something | - |
| (verb) form a team | Synonyms: team up |
| teammate | (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: mate |
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| teamster | (noun) someone who drives a truck as an occupation | Synonyms: truck driver, trucker |
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| (noun) the driver of a team of horses doing hauling | - |
| teamwork | (noun) cooperative work done by a team (especially when it is effective) | - |
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| teapot | (noun) pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle | - |
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| tear | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: teardrop |
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| (noun) the act of tearing | - |
| (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, bust |
| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, split |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, rupture, snap |
| (verb) to separate or be separated by force | - |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot, shoot down |
| (verb) fill with tears or shed tears | - |
| tearaway | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap |
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| (noun) a reckless and impetuous person | - |
| teardrop | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: tear |
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| (noun) anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring) | - |
| tearful | (adjective) filled with or marked by tears | - |
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| (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, weeping |
| tearfully | (adverb) with tears; in a tearful manner | - |
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| tearfulness | (noun) sadness expressed by weeping | Synonyms: weepiness |
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