| nuptial | (adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: bridal, spousal |
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| nuptials | (noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | Synonyms: hymeneals, wedding, wedding ceremony |
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| occupancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: tenancy |
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| (noun) the act of occupying or taking possession of a building | Synonyms: moving in, occupation |
| occupant | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupier, resident |
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| occupation | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: business, job, line, line of work |
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| (noun) the act of occupying or taking possession of a building | Synonyms: moving in, occupancy |
| (noun) the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power | Synonyms: military control |
| (noun) any activity that occupies a person's attention | - |
| (noun) the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied | - |
| occupational | (adjective) of or relating to the activity or business for which you are trained | - |
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| occupied | (adjective) held or filled or in use | - |
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| (adjective) seized and controlled as by military invasion | - |
| (adjective) having ones attention or mind or energy engaged | Synonyms: engaged |
| (adjective) resided in; having tenants | Synonyms: tenanted |
| occupier | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, resident |
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| (noun) a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country | - |
| occupy | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, engross |
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| (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: invade |
| (verb) require (time or space) | Synonyms: take, use up |
| (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: busy |
| (verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: fill, take |
| (verb) live (in a certain place) | Synonyms: lodge in, reside |
| (verb) occupy the whole of | Synonyms: fill |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, interest, worry |
| octuple | (adjective) having eight units or components | Synonyms: eight-fold, eightfold |
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| oversupply | (noun) the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall | Synonyms: glut, surfeit |
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| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, glut |
| pauper | (noun) a person who is very poor | - |
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| pauperisation | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: impoverishment, pauperization |
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| pauperise | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: beggar, pauperize |
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| pauperism | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperization, penury |
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| pauperization | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: impoverishment, pauperisation |
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| (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, penury |
| pauperize | (verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: beggar, pauperise |
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| pickup | (noun) the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places | - |
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| (noun) the act of taking aboard passengers or freight | - |
| (noun) a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard | Synonyms: pickup truck |
| (noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: cartridge |
| (noun) mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge | Synonyms: pickup arm, tone arm |
| (noun) anything with restorative powers | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
| (noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: getaway |
| (noun) a warrant to take someone into custody | - |
| (noun) a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships | - |
| pileup | (noun) multiple collisions of vehicles | - |
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| pluperfect | (adjective) more than perfect | - |
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| (noun) a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense |
| porcupine | (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: hedgehog |
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| porcupinefish | (noun) spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
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| porcupines | (noun) meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce | Synonyms: porcupine ball |
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| postnuptial | (adjective) relating to events after a marriage | - |
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| prenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, premarital |
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| preoccupancy | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupation |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupation |
| preoccupation | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupancy |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupancy |
| (noun) an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention | - |
| preoccupied | (adjective) having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something | Synonyms: haunted, obsessed, taken up |
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| (adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: bemused, lost |
| preoccupy | (verb) engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively | - |
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| (verb) occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance | - |
| prepupal | (adjective) of an inactive stage in the development of some insects, between the larval and the pupal stages | - |
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| presuppose | (verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition | Synonyms: suppose |
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| (verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand | Synonyms: suppose |
| presupposition | (noun) the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) | - |
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| pup | (noun) young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf | Synonyms: whelp |
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| (noun) an inexperienced young person | Synonyms: puppy |
| (verb) give birth to (a puppy) | Synonyms: whelp |
| pupa | (noun) an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult | - |
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| pupal | (adjective) of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage | - |
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| pupate | (verb) develop into a pupa | - |
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| pupil | (noun) the contractile aperture in the center of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot | - |
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| (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: educatee, student |
| (noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) | Synonyms: school-age child, schoolchild |
| pupillary | (adjective) of or relating to the pupil of the eye | - |
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| puppet | (noun) a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer | Synonyms: marionette |
| (noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: creature, tool |
| puppeteer | (noun) one who operates puppets or marionettes | - |
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| puppetry | (noun) a stilted dramatic performance (as if by puppets) | - |
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| (noun) the art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows | - |
| puppy | (noun) a young dog | - |
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| (noun) an inexperienced young person | Synonyms: pup |
| puppyish | (adjective) characteristic of a puppy | Synonyms: puppylike |
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| puppylike | (adjective) characteristic of a puppy | Synonyms: puppyish |
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| pushup | (noun) an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms | Synonyms: press-up |
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| quadruped | (adjective) having four feet | Synonyms: four-footed, quadrupedal |
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| (noun) an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking | - |
| quadrupedal | (adjective) having four feet | Synonyms: four-footed, quadruped |
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| quadruple | (adjective) four times as great or many | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold |
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| (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruplex, quadruplicate |
| (noun) a quantity that is four times as great as another | - |
| (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruplet, quartet, quartette |
| (verb) increase fourfold | - |
| quadruplet | (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quartet, quartette |
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| (noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quad |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quadruplex | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplicate |
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| quadruplicate | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplex |
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| (noun) any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
| (verb) reproduce fourfold | - |
| quadrupling | (noun) increase by a factor of four | - |
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| quintuple | (adjective) having five units or components | Synonyms: five-fold, fivefold |
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| (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuplet |
| (verb) increase fivefold | - |
| quintuplet | (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuple |
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| (noun) one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quin, quint |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, V |
| quintupling | (noun) increasing by a factor of five | - |
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| recoup | (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: deduct, withhold |
| (verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: reimburse |
| recuperate | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recover |
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| (verb) restore to good health or strength | - |
| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recover |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recover |
| recuperation | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: convalescence, recovery |
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| recuperative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: restorative |
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| reduplicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, repeat, replicate |
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| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: geminate |
| reduplication | (noun) the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: reiteration |
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| (noun) a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) | - |
| (noun) the syllable added in a reduplicated word form | - |
| (noun) repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | Synonyms: anadiplosis |
| regroup | (verb) reorganize into new groups | - |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: reorganise, reorganize |
| resupine | (adjective) lying face upward | Synonyms: supine |
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| reuptake | (noun) a process of using up or consuming again | Synonyms: re-uptake |
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| roundup | (noun) the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police | - |
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| (noun) the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold | - |
| (noun) a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup" | - |
| runup | (noun) a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time | Synonyms: run-up |
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| rupee | (noun) the basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise | Synonyms: Indian rupee |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Pakistan; equal to 100 paisa | Synonyms: Pakistani rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Mauritius; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Mauritian rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Nepal; equal to 100 paisa | Synonyms: Nepalese rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Seychelles rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Sri Lanka; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Sri Lanka rupee |
| rupestral | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupicolous |
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| rupiah | (noun) the basic unit of money in Indonesia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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| rupicolous | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupestral |
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| rupture | (noun) the act of making a sudden noisy break | - |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, severance |
| (noun) state of being torn or burst open | - |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, snap, tear |
| rupturewort | (noun) common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures | Synonyms: Hernaria glabra |
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| sannup | (noun) a married male American Indian | - |
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| scaup | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, broadbill, scaup duck |
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| scauper | (noun) a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal | Synonyms: scorper |
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| screwup | (noun) the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation | - |
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| scruple | (noun) an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action | - |
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| (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: misgiving, qualm |
| (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains | - |
| (verb) have doubts about | - |
| (verb) raise scruples | - |
| (verb) hesitate on moral grounds | - |
| scruples | (noun) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | Synonyms: conscience, moral sense, sense of right and wrong |
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| scrupulous | (adjective) having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, painstaking |
| scrupulously | (adverb) with extreme conscientiousness | Synonyms: conscientiously, religiously |
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| scrupulousness | (noun) conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence | - |
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| (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulosity, meticulousness, punctiliousness |
| scup | (noun) porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America | Synonyms: southern porgy, southern scup, Stenotomus aculeatus |
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| (noun) found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish | Synonyms: northern porgy, northern scup, Stenotomus chrysops |
| (noun) lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: porgy |
| (noun) flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| scupper | (noun) drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard | - |
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| (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, queer |
| (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, waylay |
| scuppernong | (noun) amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States | - |
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| sendup | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| septuple | (adjective) having seven units or components | Synonyms: seven-fold, sevenfold |
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| setup | (noun) an act that incriminates someone on a false charge | Synonyms: frame-up |
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| (noun) equipment designed to serve a specific function | Synonyms: apparatus |
| (noun) the way something is organized or arranged | - |
| sextuple | (adjective) having six units or components | Synonyms: six-fold, sixfold |
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| sextuplet | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
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| shakeup | (noun) the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes) | Synonyms: reorganisation, reorganization, shake-up |
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| shtup | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag |
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| sirup | (noun) a thick sweet sticky liquid | Synonyms: syrup |
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| soup | (noun) liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food | - |
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| (noun) an unfortunate situation | - |
| (noun) any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup | - |
| (verb) dope (a racehorse) | - |
| soupcon | (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, speck, tinge, touch |
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| soupfin | (noun) Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) | Synonyms: Galeorhinus zyopterus, soup-fin, soupfin shark |
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| soupiness | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: creaminess |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness |
| soupspoon | (noun) a spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup | Synonyms: soup spoon |
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| soupy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy |
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| (adjective) having the consistency and appearance of soup | - |
| speedup | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, quickening |
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| startup | (noun) the act of starting a new operation or practice | Synonyms: inauguration |
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| (noun) the act of setting in operation | - |