| evacuation | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: emptying, voidance |
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| (noun) the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection | - |
| (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, excreting, excretion, voiding |
| evacuee | (noun) a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place | - |
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| evade | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid | - |
| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, elude |
| (verb) practice evasion | - |
| evaluate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, measure, valuate, value |
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| (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: judge, pass judgment |
| evaluation | (noun) act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of | Synonyms: rating |
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| (noun) an appraisal of the value of something | Synonyms: rating, valuation |
| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evaluator | (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: judge |
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| evanesce | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, fade, fleet, pass, pass off |
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| evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| evangel | (noun) the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings | Synonyms: Gospel, Gospels |
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| evangelical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels | - |
| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelistic |
| evangelicalism | (noun) stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation | - |
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| evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
| evangelism | (noun) zealous preaching and advocacy of the gospel | - |
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| evangelist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: gospeler, gospeller, revivalist |
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| evangelistic | (adjective) relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel | - |
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| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelical |
| evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |
| evaporable | (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporizable, vapourific, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
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| evaporate | (verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | Synonyms: vaporise, vaporize |
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| (verb) change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) cause to change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, melt |
| evaporated | (adjective) drawn off in the form of vapor | - |
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| evaporation | (noun) the process of becoming a vapor | Synonyms: vapor, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour |
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| (noun) the process of extracting moisture | Synonyms: dehydration, desiccation, drying up |
| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| evaporite | (noun) the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater | - |
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| evaporometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: atmometer |
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| evasion | (noun) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver | - |
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| (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: dodging, escape |
| (noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: nonpayment |
| (noun) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth | Synonyms: equivocation |
| evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
| evasively | (adverb) with evasion; in an evasive manner | - |
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| evasiveness | (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, prevarication |
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| excavate | (verb) find by digging in the ground | Synonyms: dig up, turn up |
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| (verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, hollow |
| (verb) form by hollowing | - |
| (verb) recover through digging | Synonyms: unearth |
| excavation | (noun) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | Synonyms: mining |
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| (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: dig, digging |
| (noun) a hole in the ground made by excavating | - |
| (noun) the site of an archeological exploration | Synonyms: archeological site, dig |
| excavator | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, power shovel, shovel |
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| (noun) a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying | - |
| extravagance | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy |
| (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagancy |
| extravagancy | (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagance |
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| extravagant | (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, exuberant, overweening |
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| (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate, spendthrift |
| extravagantly | (adverb) in a wasteful manner | Synonyms: lavishly |
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| (adverb) in a rich and lavish manner | Synonyms: lavishly, richly |
| (adverb) in an abundant manner | Synonyms: abundantly, copiously, profusely |
| extravaganza | (noun) any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment | - |
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| extravasate | (verb) cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth | - |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, erupt |
| (verb) force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel | - |
| extravasation | (noun) the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine | - |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eructation, eruption |
| (noun) an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation | - |
| festival | (noun) an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place) | Synonyms: fete |
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| (noun) a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration | - |
| fluvastatin | (noun) least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol); usually taken orally at bedtime | Synonyms: Lescol |
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| forgivable | (adjective) easily excused or forgiven | Synonyms: excusable, venial |
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| forgivably | (adverb) in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree | Synonyms: excusably, pardonably |
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| gallivant | (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gad, jazz around |
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| galvanic | (adjective) pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action | Synonyms: voltaic |
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| (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanising, galvanizing |
| galvanisation | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanization |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanization |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanization |
| galvanise | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanize |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanize |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanize, startle |
| galvaniser | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvanizer, inspirer |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvanizer |
| galvanising | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanizing |
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| galvanism | (noun) the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) | Synonyms: electric healing, electrical healing, electrotherapy |
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| (noun) electricity produced by chemical action | - |
| galvanization | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanisation |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanisation |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanisation |
| galvanize | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanise |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanise |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, startle |
| galvanizer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, inspirer |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvaniser |
| galvanizing | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanising |
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| galvanometer | (noun) meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents | - |
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| gastrogavage | (noun) feeding a nutrient solution into the stomach through a tube through a surgically created opening | - |
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| gavage | (noun) feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat | Synonyms: forced feeding |
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| geneva | (noun) gin made in the Netherlands | Synonyms: Holland gin, Hollands |
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| gingiva | (noun) the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth | Synonyms: gum |
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| gingival | (adjective) of or relating to the gums | - |
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| grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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| (noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
| (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
| guava | (noun) tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies | - |
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| (noun) small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit | Synonyms: guava bush, Psidium guajava, true guava |
| (noun) small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit | Synonyms: Psidium littorale, strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava |
| immovability | (noun) not capable of being moved or rearranged | Synonyms: immovableness |
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| immovable | (adjective) not able or intended to be moved | Synonyms: immoveable, stabile, unmovable |
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| (noun) property consisting of houses and land | Synonyms: real estate, real property, realty |
| immovableness | (noun) not capable of being moved or rearranged | Synonyms: immovability |
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| immovably | (adverb) so as to be incapable of moving | - |
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| improvable | (adjective) susceptible of improvement | - |
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| inactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: deactivate |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
| inactivation | (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: deactivation |
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| (noun) the process of rendering inactive | - |
| inconceivability | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivableness |
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| inconceivable | (adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: impossible, out of the question, unimaginable |
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| inconceivableness | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivability |
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| inconceivably | (adverb) to an inconceivable degree | - |
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| incurvate | (adjective) bent into or having an inward curve | Synonyms: incurved |
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| (verb) cause to curve inward | - |
| (verb) bend inwards | - |
| incurvation | (noun) the action of creating a curved shape | - |
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| (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, concavity, incurvature |
| incurvature | (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, concavity, incurvation |
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| infinitival | (adjective) relating to or formed with the infinitive | - |
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| innervate | (verb) stimulate to action | - |
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| (verb) supply nerves to (some organ or body part) | - |
| innervation | (noun) the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region | - |
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| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, irritation |
| innovate | (verb) bring something new to an environment | Synonyms: introduce |
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| innovation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation | Synonyms: invention |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, excogitation, invention |
| innovational | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: groundbreaking, innovative |
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| innovative | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: groundbreaking, innovational |
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| (adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, modern |
| innovativeness | (noun) originality by virtue of introducing new ideas | - |
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| innovator | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| insolvable | (adjective) not easily solved | Synonyms: unresolvable, unsoluble, unsolvable |
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| interval | (noun) the distance between things | Synonyms: separation |
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| (noun) a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints | - |
| (noun) the difference in pitch between two notes | Synonyms: musical interval |
| (noun) a definite length of time marked off by two instants | Synonyms: time interval |
| intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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| introuvable | (adjective) impossible to find | - |
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| invade | (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: occupy |
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| (verb) penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way | - |
| (verb) to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate | Synonyms: encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, overrun |
| invader | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: encroacher |
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| invading | (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: incursive, invasive |
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| invaginate | (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: introvert |
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| (verb) sheathe | - |
| invagination | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, intussusception |
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| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: introversion |
| invalid | (adjective) having no cogency or legal force | - |
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| (adjective) no longer valid | - |
| (noun) someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury | Synonyms: shut-in |
| (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, incapacitate |
| (verb) force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen | - |
| invalidate | (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: vitiate, void |
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| (verb) show to be invalid | Synonyms: nullify |
| (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: cancel |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, nullify, quash, void |
| invalidated | (adjective) deprived of legal force | Synonyms: nullified |
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| invalidating | (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: disconfirming |
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| invalidation | (noun) (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) | Synonyms: annulment |
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| (noun) when a person's thoughts and feelings are rejected, ignored, or judged. | - |
| invalidator | (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: nullifier, voider |
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