doxorubicin | (noun) an antibiotic used as an anticancer drug | - |
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drub | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, lick, thrash |
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drubbing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
dub | (noun) the new sounds added by dubbing | - |
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(verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: nickname |
(verb) provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language | - |
(verb) raise (someone) to knighthood | Synonyms: knight |
dubbin | (noun) tallow mixed with oil; used to make leather soft and waterproof | - |
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dubbing | (noun) a new soundtrack that is added to a film | - |
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dubiety | (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
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dubious | (adjective) open to doubt or suspicion | Synonyms: doubtful, dubitable, in question |
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(adjective) fraught with uncertainty or doubt | Synonyms: doubtful |
(adjective) not convinced | - |
dubiously | (adverb) in a doubtful manner | Synonyms: doubtfully |
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(adverb) in a questionable and dubious manner | Synonyms: questionably |
dubiousness | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, question |
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(noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, incertitude, uncertainty |
dubitable | (adjective) open to doubt or suspicion | Synonyms: doubtful, dubious, in question |
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dubnium | (noun) a transuranic element with atomic number 105 | Synonyms: atomic number 105, Db, element 105, hahnium |
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dubstep | (noun) A genre of electronic music descended from 2-step garage, characterised by its dark mood, sparse, half-step and two-step rhythms, an average bpm of 140 and an emphasis on sub-bass. | - |
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elucubration | (noun) a written work produced by elucubrating. | - |
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eubacteria | (noun) a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella | Synonyms: eubacterium, true bacteria |
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eubacterium | (noun) a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella | Synonyms: eubacteria, true bacteria |
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exuberance | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: ebullience, enthusiasm |
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(noun) joyful enthusiasm | - |
exuberant | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous |
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(adjective) joyously unrestrained | Synonyms: ebullient, high-spirited |
(adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, overweening |
exuberantly | (adverb) in an exuberant manner | Synonyms: riotously |
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(adverb) in an ebullient manner | Synonyms: ebulliently, expansively |
exuberate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exult, jubilate, rejoice, triumph |
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faubourg | (noun) a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city | - |
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flub | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
golfclub | (noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: club, golf-club, golf club |
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grub | (noun) a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects | - |
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(noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, chuck, eats |
(verb) search about busily | - |
(verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, mooch, sponge |
grubbily | (adverb) in a dingy manner | Synonyms: dingily, grungily |
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grubbiness | (noun) the state of being grimy | Synonyms: griminess |
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grubby | (adjective) infested with grubs | - |
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(adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy |
(noun) small sculpin of the coast of New England | Synonyms: Myxocephalus aenaeus |
grubstake | (noun) funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits | - |
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(verb) supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits | - |
gubbins | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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hardsub | (noun) (often plural) a subtitle whose text is irreversibly merged in original video frames. | Synonyms: hard subtitle |
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hauberk | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: byrnie |
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hub | (noun) the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes | - |
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(noun) a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve | - |
hubbub | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, katzenjammer, uproar |
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hubby | (noun) a married man; a woman's partner in marriage | Synonyms: husband, married man |
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hubcap | (noun) cap that fits over the hub of a wheel | - |
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hubris | (noun) overbearing pride or presumption | - |
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hyperbilirubinemia | (noun) abnormally high amounts of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood | - |
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imbauba | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, trumpetwood |
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incubate | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, hatch |
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(verb) grow under conditions that promote development | - |
incubation | (noun) maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development | - |
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(noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: brooding |
(noun) (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear | - |
incubator | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: brooder |
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incubus | (noun) a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women | - |
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(noun) someone who depresses or worries others | - |
(noun) a situation resembling a terrifying dream | Synonyms: nightmare |
indissoluble | (adjective) (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved | Synonyms: insoluble |
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(adjective) used of decisions and contracts | - |
indubitability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indisputability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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indubitable | (adjective) too obvious to be doubted | Synonyms: beyond doubt |
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indubitably | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted | Synonyms: beyond a doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt, beyond doubt |
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insalubrious | (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: unhealthful, unhealthy |
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insalubriousness | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubrity |
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insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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insolubility | (noun) the quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid | - |
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(noun) the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solve | Synonyms: unsolvability |
insoluble | (adjective) (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved | Synonyms: indissoluble |
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(adjective) admitting of no solution or explanation | - |
(adjective) without hope of solution | - |
insubordinate | (adjective) not submissive to authority | - |
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(adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: resistant, resistive |
insubordination | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: rebelliousness |
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(noun) defiance of authority | - |
insubstantial | (adjective) lacking material form or substance; unreal | Synonyms: unreal, unsubstantial |
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(adjective) lacking in nutritive value | - |
(adjective) lacking solidity or strength | Synonyms: flimsy |
insubstantiality | (noun) lacking substance or reality | - |
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(noun) lack of solid substance and strength | - |
insubstantially | (adverb) not substantially; lacking substantial expression or fullness | Synonyms: impalpably |
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intubate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, canulate |
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intubation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization |
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jubilance | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilancy, jubilation |
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jubilancy | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilation |
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jubilant | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
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(adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, gleeful, joyful |
jubilantly | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, happily, merrily, mirthfully |
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jubilate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph |
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(verb) celebrate a jubilee | - |
jubilation | (noun) the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | Synonyms: exultation, rejoicing |
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(noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: celebration |
(noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilancy |
jubilee | (noun) a special anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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jujube | (noun) chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat) | - |
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(noun) dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees | Synonyms: Chinese date, Chinese jujube |
(noun) spiny tree having dark red edible fruits | Synonyms: Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, jujube bush, Ziziphus jujuba |
krubi | (noun) malodorous tropical plant having a spathe that resembles the corolla of a morning glory and attains a diameter of several feet | Synonyms: Amorphophallus titanum, titan arum |
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landlubber | (noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landsman, lubber |
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(noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landman, landsman |
landlubberly | (adjective) inexperienced in seamanship | Synonyms: lubberly |
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lubber | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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(noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landlubber, landsman |
lubberly | (adjective) inexperienced in seamanship | Synonyms: landlubberly |
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(adjective) clumsy and unskilled | - |
lube | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lubricant, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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(verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lubricate |
lubricant | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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(verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
(verb) have lubricating properties | - |
lubricated | (adjective) smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction | Synonyms: greased |
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lubrication | (noun) an application of a lubricant to something | - |
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(noun) the condition of having been made smooth or slippery by the application of a lubricant | - |
lubricator | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricant, lubricating substance |
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lubricious | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lustful, prurient, salacious |
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(adjective) having a smooth or slippery quality | - |
lubricity | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, prurience, pruriency |
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lucubrate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
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lucubration | (noun) laborious cogitation | - |
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(noun) a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation | - |
lugubrious | (adjective) excessively mournful | - |
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lugubriously | (adverb) in a sorrowful lugubrious manner | - |
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lugubriousness | (noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | Synonyms: gloominess, sadness |
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manubrium | (noun) the upper part of the breastbone | - |
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microtubule | (noun) a microscopically small tubule | - |
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minisub | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisubmarine |
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minisubmarine | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisub |
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moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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nanotube | (noun) a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape | Synonyms: carbon nanotube |
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nightclub | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightspot |
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nonpublic | (adjective) not invested with or related to prominent position or status etc. | - |
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nonsubjective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: objective |
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nonsubmergible | (adjective) not submersible or submergible | Synonyms: nonsubmersible |
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nonsubmersible | (adjective) not submersible or submergible | Synonyms: nonsubmergible |
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nub | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, sum |
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(noun) a small piece | Synonyms: stub |
(noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nubble |
nubbin | (noun) a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn) | - |
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nubbiness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: coarseness, tweediness |
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nubble | (noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nub |
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