cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
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cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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covering | (noun) the act of protecting something by covering it | - |
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(noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: application, coating |
(noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, masking, screening |
(noun) an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) | - |
(noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: cover, natural covering |
culverin | (noun) a medieval musket | - |
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(noun) a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
feverish | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: febrile |
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(adjective) marked by intense agitation or emotion | Synonyms: hectic |
(adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverous |
feverishly | (adverb) in a feverish manner | - |
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feverishness | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, pyrexia |
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(noun) A state of wildly excited activity or emotion. | - |
impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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(verb) make poor | - |
impoverished | (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: broken, wiped out |
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(adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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(noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |
liveried | (adjective) wearing livery | - |
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liverish | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic |
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(adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, livery |
maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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(noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
overindulge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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overindulgent | (adjective) excessively indulgent | - |
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overinterpretation | (noun) Excessive interpretation. | - |
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papaverine | (noun) an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium; used to relax smooth muscles; it is nonaddictive | Synonyms: Kavrin |
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persevering | (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: diligent |
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perseveringly | (adverb) with perseverance | - |
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pulverisation | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverization |
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(noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverization |
(noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverization |
pulverise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverize |
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(verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverize |
(verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverize |
pulverised | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverized, small-grained |
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pulverization | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverisation |
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(noun) annihilation by pulverizing something | Synonyms: pulverisation |
(noun) a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized | Synonyms: powder, pulverisation |
pulverize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise |
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(verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise |
(verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverise |
pulverized | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, small-grained |
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quavering | (adjective) (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear | Synonyms: tremulous |
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quaveringly | (adverb) in an unsteady quavering manner | - |
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quivering | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quiver, vibration |
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(noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
recovering | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: convalescent |
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reverie | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: revery |
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(noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, revery |
severing | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severance |
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severity | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, stiffness |
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(noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | Synonyms: badness, severeness |
(noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness |
(noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: austereness, severeness |
shivering | (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shaky, trembling |
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(noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: chill |
silverish | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silver, silvery |
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uncovering | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: discovery, find |
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(noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, stripping |
unliveried | (adjective) not wearing livery | - |
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unverifiable | (adjective) (of e.g. evidence) not objective or easily verified | Synonyms: unobjective |
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unverified | (adjective) lacking proof or substantiation | - |
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unwavering | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable |
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(adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: level |
unwaveringly | (adverb) with resolute determination | Synonyms: firm, firmly, steadfastly |
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veridical | (adjective) coinciding with reality | Synonyms: real |
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verifiability | (noun) The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability. | - |
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verifiable | (adjective) capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation | Synonyms: confirmable, falsifiable |
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(adjective) capable of being verified | - |
verification | (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, substantiation |
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(noun) (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement | - |
verificatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verifying |
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verified | (adjective) proved to be true | - |
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verifier | (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: voucher |
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verify | (verb) confirm the truth of | - |
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(verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, swear |
(verb) attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition) | - |
(verb) check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard | Synonyms: control |
verifying | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory |
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verily | (adverb) in truth; certainly | - |
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verisimilar | (adjective) appearing to be true or real | - |
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verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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veritable | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable |
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(adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: regular |
verity | (noun) an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth | - |
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(noun) conformity to reality or actuality | Synonyms: the true, trueness, truth |
wavering | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillant, vacillating |
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(noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: fluctuation |
(noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: hesitation, vacillation |
wolverine | (noun) stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: carcajou, Gulo luscus, skunk bear |
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(noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: glutton, Gulo gulo |