| buna | (noun) made by polymerizing butadiene | Synonyms: buna rubber |
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| bunce | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| bunch | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: clump, cluster, clustering |
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| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: crew, crowd, gang |
| (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: caboodle, lot |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
| (verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
| bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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| bunchy | (adjective) occurring close together in bunches or clusters | - |
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| bunco | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| buncombe | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot |
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| bundle | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: sheaf |
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| (noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: package, packet, parcel |
| (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile |
| (verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed | Synonyms: practice bundling |
| (verb) make into a bundle | Synonyms: bundle up, roll up |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: compact, pack, wad |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
| bundling | (noun) the act of binding something into a bundle | - |
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| (noun) the act of shoving hastily | - |
| (noun) a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing | - |
| bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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| bung | (noun) a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask | Synonyms: spile |
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| (verb) close with a cork or stopper | - |
| (verb) give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on | Synonyms: fee, tip |
| bungaloid | (adjective) characterized by bungalows | - |
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| bungalow | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: cottage |
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| bungee | (noun) an elasticized rope | Synonyms: bungee cord |
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| bunghole | (noun) a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it | - |
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| (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, arsehole, asshole |
| bungle | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| (verb) spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly | - |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| bungled | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: botched |
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| bungler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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| bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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| bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
| bunion | (noun) a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe | - |
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| bunk | (noun) a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers | Synonyms: berth, built in bed |
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| (noun) a rough bed (as at a campsite) | - |
| (noun) beds built one above the other | Synonyms: bunk bed |
| (noun) a long trough for feeding cattle | Synonyms: feed bunk |
| (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot |
| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) provide with a bunk | - |
| (verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: beat |
| bunker | (noun) a hazard on a golf course | Synonyms: sand trap, trap |
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| (noun) a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground | Synonyms: dugout |
| (noun) a large container for storing fuel | - |
| (verb) hit a golf ball into a bunker | - |
| (verb) transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse | - |
| (verb) fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil | - |
| bunkmate | (noun) someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself | - |
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| bunko | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting |
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| bunkum | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, guff, hogwash, rot |
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| bunny | (noun) (usually informal) especially a young rabbit | Synonyms: bunny rabbit |
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| (noun) a young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit | Synonyms: bunny girl |
| buns | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| bunsen | (noun) a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air | Synonyms: bunsen burner, etna |
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| bunt | (noun) (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball or softball lightly by holding the bat in a stationary position rather than swinging it | - |
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| (noun) fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores | Synonyms: Tilletia caries |
| (noun) similar to Tilletia caries | Synonyms: stinking smut, Tilletia foetida |
| (noun) disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores | Synonyms: stinking smut |
| (verb) to strike, thrust or shove against | Synonyms: butt |
| (verb) hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance | Synonyms: drag a bunt |
| buntal | (noun) fine white Philippine fiber from stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms; used in making hats | - |
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| bunter | (noun) a batter who bunts | - |
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| bunting | (noun) any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America | - |
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| (noun) a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. | - |
| bunyavirus | (noun) an animal virus belonging to the family Bunyaviridae; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| burgundy | (noun) a dark purplish-red to blackish-red color | - |
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| burunduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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| carborundum | (noun) an abrasive composed of silicon carbide crystals | - |
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| carbuncle | (noun) an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus | - |
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| (noun) deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets | - |
| carbuncled | (adjective) set with carbuncles | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncular |
| carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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| caruncle | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncula |
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| caruncula | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncle |
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| caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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| carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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| carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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| carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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| catamount | (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma |
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| (noun) short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur | Synonyms: lynx |
| catamountain | (noun) bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat | Synonyms: European wildcat, Felis silvestris |
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| chemoimmunology | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: immunochemistry |
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| chipmunk | (noun) a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body | - |
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| chunga | (noun) Argentinian Cariama | Synonyms: Chunga burmeisteri, seriema |
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| chunk | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, clod, clump, glob, lump |
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| (noun) a substantial amount | - |
| (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: collocate, lump |
| (verb) put together indiscriminately | Synonyms: lump |
| chunking | (noun) (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units | Synonyms: unitisation, unitization |
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| chunky | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy |
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| (adjective) like or containing small sticky lumps | Synonyms: lumpy |
| chunnel | (noun) the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel | Synonyms: Channel Tunnel |
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| cislunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
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| clunch | (noun) stiff clay | - |
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| clunk | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clump, thud, thump, thumping |
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| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, plunk |
| clunking | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clumping |
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| clunky | (adjective) making a clunking sound | - |
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| (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy |
| cofounder | (noun) one of a group of founders | - |
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| cohune | (noun) tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | Synonyms: cohune palm, Orbignya cohune |
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| communal | (adjective) relating to a small administrative district or community | - |
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| (adjective) for or by a group rather than individuals | - |
| communalise | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalize |
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| communalism | (noun) the practice of communal living and common ownership | - |
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| (noun) loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole | - |
| communalize | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalise |
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| communally | (adverb) by a group of people rather than an individual | - |
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| commune | (noun) a body of people or families living together and sharing everything | - |
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| (noun) the smallest administrative district of several European countries | - |
| (verb) receive Communion, in the Catholic church | Synonyms: communicate |
| (verb) communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity | - |
| communicable | (adjective) readily communicated | - |
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| (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
| communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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| communicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: intercommunicate |
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| (verb) transmit information | Synonyms: pass, pass along, pass on, put across |
| (verb) be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas | - |
| (verb) receive Communion, in the Catholic church | Synonyms: commune |
| (verb) administer Communion; in church | - |
| (verb) join or connect | - |
| (verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: convey, transmit |
| communicating | (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communication |
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| communication | (noun) something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups | - |
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| (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communicating |
| (noun) a connection allowing access between persons or places | - |
| communicational | (adjective) used in communication | - |
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| communications | (noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.) | Synonyms: communication theory |
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| communicative | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to communication | - |
| communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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| communicator | (noun) a person who communicates with others | - |
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| communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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| communion | (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: sharing |
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| (noun) (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites | - |
| communique | (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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| communisation | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communization |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communization |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communization, nationalisation, nationalization |
| communise | (verb) make into property owned by the state | Synonyms: communize |
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| (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, bolshevize, communize |
| communism | (noun) a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society | - |
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| (noun) a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | - |
| communist | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communistic |
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| (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
| communistic | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communist |
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| community | (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area | - |
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| (noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | Synonyms: biotic community |
| (noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | - |
| (noun) a group of nations having common interests | - |
| (noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | Synonyms: residential area, residential district |
| (noun) common ownership | - |
| (noun) agreement as to goals | Synonyms: community of interests |
| communization | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communisation |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communisation |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, nationalisation, nationalization |
| communize | (verb) make into property owned by the state | Synonyms: communise |
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| (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, bolshevize, communise |
| compound | (adjective) composed of more than one part | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts | - |
| (adjective) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony | Synonyms: colonial |
| (noun) an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) | - |
| (noun) a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts | - |
| (noun) a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes. | Synonyms: compound word |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight | Synonyms: chemical compound |
| (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: deepen, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) create by mixing or combining | - |
| (verb) calculate principal and interest | - |
| compounded | (adjective) combined into or constituting a chemical compound | - |
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| compounding | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, combining |
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| compunction | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: remorse, self-reproach |
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| confound | (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confuse |
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| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| confounded | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| confoundedly | (adverb) in a perplexed manner | Synonyms: perplexedly |
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| confounding | (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: contradictory |
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