| developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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| (noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
| developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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| (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
| development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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| (noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
| (noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
| (noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
| (noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
| (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
| (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
| (noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
| (noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
| developmental | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting development | - |
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| developmentally | (adverb) with respect to development | - |
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| devolve | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, drop |
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| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: fall, pass, return |
| (verb) pass on or delegate to another | - |
| devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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| diffusive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, dispersive, disseminative |
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| digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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| (noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |
| digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
| digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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| diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
| diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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| (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
| directiveness | (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directivity |
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| disapprove | (verb) consider bad or wrong | - |
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| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: reject |
| disbelieve | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: discredit |
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| discover | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) see for the first time; make a discovery | - |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, find, notice, observe |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
| discoverable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: ascertainable |
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| discovered | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: ascertained, observed |
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| discoverer | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: finder, spotter |
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| (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, inventor |
| discovery | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: find, uncovering |
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| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: breakthrough, find |
| (noun) something that is discovered | - |
| (noun) (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case | - |
| discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
| discursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: dianoetic |
| discursively | (adverb) in a rambling manner | Synonyms: ramblingly |
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| discursiveness | (noun) the quality of being discursive | - |
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| dishevel | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: tangle, tousle |
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| disheveled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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| dishevelled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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| disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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| disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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| disinvest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: divest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: divest |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: divest |
| disinvestment | (noun) the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation | - |
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| disinvolve | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disentangle |
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| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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| dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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| (adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
| dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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| disprove | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: confute |
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| disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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| disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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| disruptive | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
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| disruptively | (adverb) in a disruptive manner | - |
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| disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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| dissimulative | (adjective) concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive | - |
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| dissociative | (adjective) tending to produce dissociation | - |
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| dissolve | (noun) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out | - |
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| (verb) pass into a solution | - |
| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, resolve |
| (verb) come to an end | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) grow less and less substantial until it disappears | Synonyms: fade away, fade out |
| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
| (verb) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dismiss |
| (verb) cause to fade away | - |
| (verb) lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) cause to lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: disband |
| dissolved | (adjective) (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form | - |
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| dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissuasive | (adjective) deterring from action | - |
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| distinctive | (adjective) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing | Synonyms: typical |
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| (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: classifiable |
| distinctively | (adverb) in an identifiably distinctive manner | - |
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| distinctiveness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: disparateness |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: peculiarity, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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| distributively | (adverb) in a distributive manner | - |
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| (adverb) as individuals or as separate units (not collectively) | - |
| dive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: nose dive, nosedive |
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| (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: diving |
| (noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: honkytonk |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: plunge, plunk |
| (verb) swim under water | - |
| (verb) plunge into water | - |
| diver | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: loon |
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| (noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: plunger |
| (noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: frogman, underwater diver |
| diverge | (verb) move or draw apart | - |
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| (verb) extend in a different direction | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, vary |
| (verb) have no limits as a mathematical series | - |
| divergence | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergency |
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| (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, variance |
| (noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergency |
| (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference |
| divergency | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergence |
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| (noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergence |
| divergent | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: diverging |
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| (adjective) diverging from another or from a standard | - |
| diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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| divers | (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: diverse |
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| diverse | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: various |
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| (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: divers |
| diversely | (adverb) in diverse ways | Synonyms: multifariously, variously |
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| diverseness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diversity, multifariousness, variety |
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| diversification | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: variegation |
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| (noun) the condition of being varied | - |
| diversified | (adjective) having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety | - |
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| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| diversion | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: recreation |
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| (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation |
| (noun) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack | Synonyms: diversionary attack |
| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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| diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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| diversity | (noun) the condition or result of being changeable | - |
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| (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, multifariousness, variety |
| divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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| (verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
| (verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
| diverted | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, entertained |
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| diverticulitis | (noun) inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation | - |
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| diverticulosis | (noun) presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon | - |
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| diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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| divertimento | (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: serenade |
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| diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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| divertingly | (adverb) in an entertaining and amusing manner | Synonyms: amusingly |
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| divest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: disinvest |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, strip |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: disinvest |
| divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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| (noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
| divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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| dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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| dorsoventrally | (adverb) in a dorsoventral direction | - |
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| dove | (noun) any of numerous small pigeons | - |
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| (noun) an emblem of peace | - |
| (noun) flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled | Synonyms: squab |
| (noun) someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations | Synonyms: peacenik |
| dovecote | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, columbary |
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| dovekie | (noun) small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions | Synonyms: little auk, Plautus alle |
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| dovetail | (noun) a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises | Synonyms: dovetail joint |
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| (verb) fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail | - |
| downriver | (adverb) away from the source or with the current | Synonyms: downstream |
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| drawshave | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawknife |
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| drive | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: ride |
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| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: driving |
| (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: driving force, thrust |
| (noun) (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | - |
| (noun) the act of driving a herd of animals overland | - |
| (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: parkway |
| (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: driveway, private road |
| (noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium | - |
| (noun) the trait of being highly motivated | - |
| (noun) a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, get |
| (verb) (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground | - |
| (verb) (hunting) search for game | - |
| (verb) cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling | - |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: force, ram |
| (verb) cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force | - |
| (verb) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally | - |
| (verb) strike with a driver, as in teeing off | - |
| (verb) excavate horizontally | - |
| (verb) push, propel, or press with force | - |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse |
| (verb) compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment | - |
| (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: motor |
| (verb) operate or control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) cause someone or something to move by driving | - |
| (verb) move by being propelled by a force | - |
| (verb) urge forward | - |
| (verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug |
| (verb) to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly | - |
| (verb) work as a driver | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: ride |
| drivel | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: garbage |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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| (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
| driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
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| (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
| (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |
| driver | (noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | Synonyms: number one wood |
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| (noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device | Synonyms: device driver |
| (noun) the operator of a motor vehicle | - |
| (noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver | - |
| (noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle | - |
| driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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| driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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