| ngultrum | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bhutan | - |
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| nonstructural | (adjective) not structural | - |
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| nostrum | (noun) patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable | - |
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| (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: catholicon, cure-all, panacea |
| obstruct | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, stymie, stymy |
| obstructed | (adjective) shut off to passage or view or hindered from action | - |
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| obstructer | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstruction, obstructor |
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| (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructionist, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
| obstruction | (noun) getting in someone's way | - |
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| (noun) the act of obstructing | - |
| (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstructor |
| (noun) something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted | Synonyms: obstacle |
| (noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: blockage |
| obstructionism | (noun) deliberate interference | - |
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| obstructionist | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
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| obstructive | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, impeding |
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| obstructively | (adverb) in an obstructive manner | Synonyms: hinderingly |
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| obstructor | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction |
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| (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, resister, thwarter |
| obstruent | (noun) a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth | - |
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| obtrude | (verb) thrust oneself in as if by force | Synonyms: intrude |
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| (verb) push to thrust outward | Synonyms: push out, thrust out |
| obtrusive | (adjective) undesirably noticeable | - |
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| (adjective) sticking out; protruding | - |
| obtrusively | (adverb) in an obtrusive manner | - |
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| obtrusiveness | (noun) an unwelcome conspicuousness | - |
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| oestrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, heat, rut |
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| outrun | (verb) run faster than | - |
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| overstrung | (adjective) too tightly strung | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, restive, uptight |
| overtrump | (verb) play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick | - |
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| plectrum | (noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument | Synonyms: pick, plectron |
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| premenstrual | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring during the time just before menstruation | - |
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| protrude | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, pouch |
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| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, start |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, project, stick out |
| protruding | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| protrusible | (adjective) capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue | Synonyms: protrusile |
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| protrusile | (adjective) capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue | Synonyms: protrusible |
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| protrusion | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, jutting, projection |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protuberance, swelling |
| protrusive | (adjective) thrusting outward | - |
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| reconstruct | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: redo, remodel |
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| (verb) cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically | - |
| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, retrace |
| (verb) build again | Synonyms: rebuild |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: restore |
| reconstructed | (adjective) adapted to social or economic change | - |
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| reconstruction | (noun) the activity of constructing something again | - |
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| (noun) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall | Synonyms: reconstructive memory |
| (noun) an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence | - |
| reconstructive | (adjective) helping to restore to good condition | Synonyms: rehabilitative |
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| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| rostrum | (noun) beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | Synonyms: snout |
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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, soapbox, stump |
| spectrum | (noun) a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities | - |
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| (noun) an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave | - |
| struck | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, stricken |
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| structural | (adjective) relating to or having or characterized by structure | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study | - |
| (adjective) affecting or involved in structure or construction | - |
| structuralism | (noun) linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse | Synonyms: structural linguistics |
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| (noun) an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena | Synonyms: structural anthropology |
| (noun) a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals | Synonyms: structural sociology |
| structurally | (adverb) with respect to structure | - |
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| structure | (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: construction |
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| (noun) the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts | - |
| (noun) a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement | Synonyms: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part |
| (noun) the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations | - |
| (noun) the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships | Synonyms: social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system |
| (verb) give a structure to | - |
| structured | (adjective) having definite and highly organized structure | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a living organism in organization or development | Synonyms: integrated |
| strudel | (noun) thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked | - |
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| struggle | (noun) strenuous effort | - |
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| (noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: battle |
| (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, conflict |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, fight |
| (verb) to exert strenuous effort against opposition | - |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: fight |
| struggler | (noun) a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort | - |
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| struggling | (adjective) engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity | - |
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| strum | (noun) sound of strumming | - |
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| (verb) sound the strings of (a stringed instrument) | Synonyms: thrum |
| struma | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goiter, goitre, thyromegaly |
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| (noun) a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands | Synonyms: king's evil, scrofula |
| strumpet | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, trollop |
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| strung | (adjective) that is on a string | - |
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| strut | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: prance, swagger |
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| (noun) brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression | - |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, swagger, tittup |
| struthiomimus | (noun) small light-boned toothless dinosaur resembling an ostrich in size and proportions | - |
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| substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| sunstruck | (adjective) lighted by sunlight | Synonyms: sunlit |
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| superstructure | (noun) structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck | - |
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| tantrum | (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: conniption, fit, scene |
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| thunderstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied |
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| truancy | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: hooky |
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| truant | (adjective) absent without permission | Synonyms: awol |
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| (noun) one who is absent from school without permission | Synonyms: hooky player |
| (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, nonattender |
| truce | (noun) a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | Synonyms: armistice, cease-fire |
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| truck | (noun) an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling | Synonyms: motortruck |
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| (noun) a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects | Synonyms: hand truck |
| (verb) convey (goods etc.) by truck | - |
| truckage | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: hauling, trucking |
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| (noun) a fee charged for transporting goods by truckage | - |
| trucker | (noun) someone who drives a truck as an occupation | Synonyms: teamster, truck driver |
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| trucking | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: hauling, truckage |
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| truckle | (noun) a low bed to be slid under a higher bed | Synonyms: truckle bed, trundle, trundle bed |
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| (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady |
| (verb) yield to out of weakness | - |
| truckler | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, groveller |
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| truckling | (noun) the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons) | - |
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| truculence | (noun) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness | Synonyms: truculency |
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| truculency | (noun) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness | Synonyms: truculence |
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| truculent | (adjective) defiantly aggressive | - |
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| truculently | (adverb) in a defiantly truculent manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an aggressively truculent manner | - |
| trudge | (noun) a long difficult walk | - |
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| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp |
| trudger | (noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: plodder, slogger |
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| true | (adjective) consistent with fact or reality; not false | - |
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| (adjective) expressing or given to expressing the truth | Synonyms: truthful |
| (adjective) accurately placed or thrown | Synonyms: dead on target |
| (adjective) accurately fitted; level | Synonyms: straight |
| (adjective) determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles | - |
| (adjective) in tune; accurate in pitch | Synonyms: on-key |
| (adjective) having a legally established claim | Synonyms: lawful, rightful |
| (adjective) rightly so called | - |
| (adjective) not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed | Synonyms: genuine, unfeigned |
| (adjective) worthy of being depended on | Synonyms: dependable, honest, reliable |
| (adjective) conforming to definitive criteria | - |
| (adjective) devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth | - |
| (noun) proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment | - |
| (adverb) as acknowledged | Synonyms: admittedly, avowedly, confessedly |
| (verb) make level, square, balanced, or concentric | Synonyms: true up |
| truehearted | (adjective) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause | Synonyms: fast, firm, loyal |
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| truelove | (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: steady, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| trueness | (noun) exactness of adjustment | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being loyal | Synonyms: loyalty |
| (noun) conformity to reality or actuality | Synonyms: the true, truth, verity |
| truffle | (noun) edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber | Synonyms: earthnut |
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| (noun) creamy chocolate candy | Synonyms: chocolate truffle |
| (noun) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | Synonyms: earth-ball, earthnut |
| truism | (noun) an obvious truth | - |
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| truly | (adverb) in accordance with truth or fact or reality | Synonyms: genuinely, really |
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| (adverb) by right | Synonyms: rightfully |
| (adverb) with sincerity; without pretense | Synonyms: sincerely, unfeignedly |
| (adverb) in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) | Synonyms: in truth, really |
| trump | (noun) a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps | Synonyms: trump card |
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| (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, horn, trumpet |
| (noun) (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand | - |
| (verb) proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare | Synonyms: trump out |
| (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outdo, outflank, scoop |
| (verb) play a trump | Synonyms: ruff |
| (verb) produce a sound as if from a trumpet | - |
| trumpery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense |
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| (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, wish-wash |
| trumpet | (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, horn, trump |
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| (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet | - |
| (verb) utter in trumpet-like sounds | - |
| (verb) play or blow on the trumpet | - |
| trumpeter | (noun) large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated | - |
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| (noun) large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry | Synonyms: Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter swan |
| (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: cornetist |
| (noun) (formal) a person who announces important news | Synonyms: herald |
| trumpetfish | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down | Synonyms: Aulostomus maculatus |
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| trumpets | (noun) pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids | Synonyms: huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns, Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant, yellow trumpet |
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| trumpetwood | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, imbauba, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree |
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| trumping | (noun) (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit | Synonyms: ruff |
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| truncate | (adjective) terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off | Synonyms: truncated |
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| (verb) make shorter as if by cutting off | Synonyms: cut short |
| (verb) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one | - |
| (verb) replace a corner by a plane | - |
| truncated | (adjective) terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off | Synonyms: truncate |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, shortened |
| truncation | (noun) the act of cutting short | - |
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| (noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces) | - |
| (noun) the property of being truncated or short | Synonyms: shortness |
| truncheon | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, nightstick |
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| trundle | (noun) small wheel or roller | - |
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| (noun) a low bed to be slid under a higher bed | Synonyms: truckle, truckle bed, trundle bed |
| (verb) move heavily | - |
| trunk | (noun) a long flexible snout as of an elephant | Synonyms: proboscis |
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| (noun) luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage | - |
| (noun) compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools | Synonyms: automobile trunk, boot, luggage compartment |
| (noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: body, torso |
| (noun) the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber | Synonyms: bole, tree trunk |
| trunkfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: boxfish |
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| trunks | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee | Synonyms: short pants, shorts |
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| trunnel | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: treenail, trenail |
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| truss | (noun) a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure | - |
| (noun) (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) | Synonyms: corbel |
| (verb) support structurally | - |
| (verb) tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it | - |
| (verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: bind, tie down, tie up |
| trussed | (adjective) bound or secured closely | Synonyms: tied |
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| trust | (noun) the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others | Synonyms: trustfulness, trustingness |
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| (noun) certainty based on past experience | Synonyms: reliance |
| (noun) complete confidence in a person or plan etc | Synonyms: faith |
| (noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: cartel, combine, corporate trust |
| (noun) something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary) | - |
| (noun) a trustful relationship | Synonyms: confidence |
| (verb) have confidence or faith in | - |
| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: believe |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: desire, hope |
| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, intrust |
| (verb) (chiefly archaic) extend credit to | - |
| (verb) allow without fear | - |