| chivalrously | (adverb) in a gallant manner | Synonyms: gallantly |
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| chivalry | (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: gallantry, politesse |
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| (noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: knightliness |
| chivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, shivaree |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| cleavable | (adjective) capable of being cleaved | - |
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| cleavage | (noun) the act of cleaving or splitting | - |
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| (noun) the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts) | - |
| (noun) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | Synonyms: segmentation |
| (noun) the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules | - |
| (noun) the state of being split or cleft | - |
| coeval | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, contemporaneous |
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| (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: contemporary |
| coevals | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: contemporaries, generation |
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| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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| conceivable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: imaginable |
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| conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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| conceivably | (adverb) within the realm of possibility | - |
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| conferva | (noun) any of various algae of the genus Tribonema; algae with branching filaments that form scum in still or stagnant fresh water | - |
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| conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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| conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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| connivance | (noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: collusion |
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| (noun) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing | Synonyms: secret approval, tacit consent |
| conservancy | (noun) the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. | - |
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| (noun) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river | - |
| conservation | (noun) the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources | - |
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| (noun) (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations | - |
| (noun) an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change | Synonyms: preservation |
| conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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| conservatism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservativism |
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| conservative | (adjective) resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginatively conventional | Synonyms: button-down, buttoned-down |
| (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic |
| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: cautious |
| (adjective) having social or political views favoring conservatism | - |
| (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
| conservatively | (adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: cautiously, guardedly |
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| conservativism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservatism |
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| conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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| conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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| conservator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: curator |
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| (noun) someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person | - |
| conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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| (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
| (noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |
| contravallation | (noun) a fortification build around a sieged target by the besiegers to prevent attacks by the defenders. | - |
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| contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| (noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
| (noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
| (noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
| convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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| convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| (noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
| cordovan | (noun) a fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain | - |
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| countervail | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize |
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| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: offset |
| couvade | (noun) a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child | - |
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| covalence | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalency |
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| covalency | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalence |
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| covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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| covariance | (noun) (statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means | - |
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| covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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| covariation | (noun) (statistics) correlated variation | - |
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| cravat | (noun) neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front | - |
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| crevasse | (noun) a deep fissure | - |
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| cultivable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivatable, tillable |
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| cultivar | (noun) a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation | - |
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| cultivatable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivable, tillable |
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| cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
| cultivated | (adjective) (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultured, genteel, polite |
| (adjective) no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use | - |
| cultivation | (noun) (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) | - |
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| (noun) socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners | - |
| (noun) the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale) | - |
| (noun) the process of fostering the growth of something | - |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: culture, finish, polish, refinement |
| cultivator | (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: tiller |
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| (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, grower, raiser |
| curvaceous | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| curvaceously | (adverb) in a curvaceous way | Synonyms: buxomly |
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| curvaceousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: shapeliness, voluptuousness |
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| curvature | (noun) the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curve |
| (noun) (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal | - |
| davallia | (noun) any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes | - |
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| deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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| (verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
| deactivation | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: defusing |
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| (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: inactivation |
| depravation | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravity, putrefaction |
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| deprivation | (noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights | Synonyms: privation |
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| (noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something | Synonyms: loss |
| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: neediness, privation, want |
| derivable | (adjective) capable of being derived | - |
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| derivation | (noun) the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin | - |
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| (noun) drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation | - |
| (noun) drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body | - |
| (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, filiation, lineage |
| (noun) a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions | - |
| (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: deriving, etymologizing |
| (noun) the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues) | - |
| (noun) (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation | - |
| derivational | (adjective) characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base | - |
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| derivative | (adjective) resulting from or employing derivation | - |
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| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
| (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
| (noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
| devaluate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devalue |
| devaluation | (noun) the reduction of something's value or worth | - |
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| (noun) an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries | - |
| devalue | (verb) lower the value or quality of | - |
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| (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, undervalue |
| (verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devaluate |
| devalued | (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, degraded |
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| devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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| (verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
| devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
| (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |
| devastation | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: destruction |
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| (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: ravaging |
| (noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: desolation |
| (noun) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed | - |
| (noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: desolation |
| dhava | (noun) an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum | Synonyms: dhawa |
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| disadvantage | (noun) the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position | - |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour |
| disadvantaged | (adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | Synonyms: deprived |
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| disadvantageous | (adjective) involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness | Synonyms: unfavorable, unfavourable |
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| disadvantageously | (adverb) in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage | Synonyms: badly |
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| disapproval | (noun) the act of disapproving or condemning | - |
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| (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour, dislike |
| (noun) the expression of disapproval | - |
| (noun) a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing | - |
| dissolvable | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissoluble |
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| diva | (noun) a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star | Synonyms: prima donna |
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| divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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| divagation | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis |
| divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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| divan | (noun) a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall) | - |
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| (noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: diwan |
| divaricate | (verb) spread apart | - |
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| (verb) branch off | - |
| divarication | (noun) branching at a wide angle | - |
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| eigenvalue | (noun) (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant | Synonyms: characteristic root of a square matrix, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix |
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| elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| elevated | (adjective) increased in amount or degree | Synonyms: raised |
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| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| (adjective) raised above the ground | - |
| (noun) a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level | Synonyms: el, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway |
| elevation | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, aggrandizement |
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| (noun) drawing of an exterior of a structure | - |
| (noun) distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level) | - |
| (noun) (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump | - |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: lift, raising |
| (noun) a raised or elevated geological formation | Synonyms: natural elevation |
| (noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, altitude, EL |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| elevator | (noun) lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building | Synonyms: lift |
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| (noun) the airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend | - |
| enervate | (verb) weaken mentally or morally | - |
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| (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: faze, unnerve, unsettle |
| enervated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, debilitated |
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| enervating | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enfeebling, weakening |
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| enervation | (noun) surgical removal of a nerve | - |
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| (noun) lack of vitality | - |
| (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
| equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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| (noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
| (noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
| equivalent | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: tantamount |
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| (noun) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen | Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight |
| (noun) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc | - |
| estival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: aestival |
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| estivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: aestivate |
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| estivation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens | Synonyms: aestivation |
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| (noun) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period | Synonyms: aestivation |
| evacuant | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, purgative |
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| evacuate | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, void |
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| (verb) remove content from | - |
| (verb) create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel) | - |
| (verb) move people from their homes or country | - |
| (verb) move out of an unsafe location into safety | - |