abdominovesical | (adjective) of or relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder | - |
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archives | (noun) collection of records especially about an institution | - |
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chives | (noun) cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning | - |
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(noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, cive, schnittlaugh |
conserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, preserve, preserves |
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defervesce | (verb) experience an abatement of a fever | - |
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defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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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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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 | - |
driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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eaves | (noun) the overhang at the lower edge of a roof | - |
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eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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eavesdropper | (noun) a secret listener to private conversations | - |
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effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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(noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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(adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
(adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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elves | (noun) an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere | - |
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fives | (noun) a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls | - |
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fivesome | (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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greaves | (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: crackling |
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harvest | (noun) the season for gathering crops | Synonyms: harvest time |
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(noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest home, harvesting |
(noun) the consequence of an effort or activity | - |
(noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: crop |
(verb) remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation | - |
(verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: glean, reap |
harvester | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: reaper |
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(noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: reaper |
harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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harvestman | (noun) spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs | Synonyms: daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio |
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heaves | (noun) a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks | Synonyms: broken wind |
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hives | (noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: nettle rash, urticaria, urtication |
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invest | (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, place, put |
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(verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: enthrone, vest |
(verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: induct, seat |
(verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: adorn, clothe |
(verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, gift, indue |
investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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(verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
investigating | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigation |
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investigation | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigating |
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(noun) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities | Synonyms: probe |
investigative | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigatory |
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investigator | (noun) someone who investigates | - |
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(noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: research worker, researcher |
(noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: detective, police detective, tec |
investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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investing | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment |
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investiture | (noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investment |
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(noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization |
investment | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investing |
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(noun) the act of putting on robes or vestments | - |
(noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investiture |
(noun) outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism | - |
(noun) the commitment of something other than money (time, energy, or effort) to a project with the expectation of some worthwhile result | - |
(noun) money that is invested with an expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment funds |
investor | (noun) someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns | - |
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livestock | (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, stock |
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loveseat | (noun) small sofa that seats two people | Synonyms: love seat, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis |
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lovesick | (adjective) languishing because of love | - |
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lovesickness | (noun) a pining for a loved one | - |
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lovesome | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, tender |
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nerves | (noun) control of your emotions | - |
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(noun) an uneasy psychological state | Synonyms: nervousness |
noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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(adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
papulovesicle | (noun) a papule that changes into a blister | Synonyms: vesicopapule |
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preserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserve |
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reinvestment | (noun) a second or subsequent investment in the same thing. | - |
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reserves | (noun) civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army | Synonyms: militia |
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shirtsleeves | (noun) not wearing a jacket | - |
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transvestic | (adjective) receiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex | Synonyms: transvestite |
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transvestism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestitism |
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transvestite | (adjective) receiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex | Synonyms: transvestic |
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(noun) someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross-dresser |
transvestitism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestism |
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travesty | (noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | Synonyms: farce, farce comedy |
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(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, sendup, spoof, takeoff |
(verb) make a travesty of | - |
vasovesiculitis | (noun) inflammation of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles; usually occurring with prostatitis | - |
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vesica | (noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: bladder |
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vesical | (adjective) of or relating to a bladder (especially the urinary bladder) | - |
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vesicant | (adjective) causing blisters | Synonyms: vesicatory |
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(noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicatory |
vesicate | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: blister |
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vesication | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: blistering, vesiculation |
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vesicatory | (adjective) causing blisters | Synonyms: vesicant |
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(noun) a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) | Synonyms: vesicant |
vesicle | (noun) a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) | Synonyms: cyst |
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vesicopapule | (noun) a papule that changes into a blister | Synonyms: papulovesicle |
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vesicular | (adjective) of or relating to or involving vesicles | - |
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vesiculate | (verb) cause to become vesicular or full of air cells | - |
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(verb) become vesicular or full of air cells | - |
vesiculation | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: blistering, vesication |
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vesiculitis | (noun) inflammation of a seminal vesicle (usually in conjunction with prostatitis) | - |
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vesiculovirus | (noun) an animal virus that causes vesicular stomatitis | - |
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vesper | (noun) a late afternoon or evening worship service | - |
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vespers | (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: evensong |
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vespertilionid | (noun) a variety of carnivorous bat | Synonyms: vespertilian bat |
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vespid | (noun) mostly social nest-building wasps | Synonyms: vespid wasp |
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vessel | (noun) a craft designed for water transportation | Synonyms: watercraft |
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(noun) an object used as a container (especially for liquids) | - |
(noun) a tube in which a body fluid circulates | Synonyms: vas |
vest | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: singlet, undershirt |
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(noun) a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat | Synonyms: waistcoat |
(verb) clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes | Synonyms: robe |
(verb) clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments | - |
(verb) place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons | - |
(verb) become legally vested | - |
(verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: enthrone, invest |
vestal | (adjective) of or relating to Vesta | - |
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(adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, virgin, virginal, virtuous |
(noun) a chaste woman | - |
vested | (adjective) fixed and absolute and without contingency | - |
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vestiary | (adjective) relating to clothing (especially vestments) | - |
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vestibular | (adjective) relating to the sense of equilibrium | - |
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vestibule | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby |
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(noun) any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina) | - |
vestige | (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: shadow, tincture, trace |
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vestigial | (adjective) not fully developed in mature animals | Synonyms: rudimentary |
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vestiture | (noun) an archaic term for clothing | - |
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vestment | (noun) gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy | - |
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vestmental | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a vestment | - |
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vestmented | (adjective) dressed in ceremonial garments especially clerical vestment | - |
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vestry | (noun) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held | Synonyms: sacristy |
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(noun) in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church | - |
vestryman | (noun) a man who is a member of a church vestry | - |
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vestrywoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a church vestry | - |
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vesture | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wear, wearable |
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(noun) something that covers or cloaks like a garment | - |
(verb) provide or cover with a cloak | - |
vesuvian | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: idocrase, vesuvianite |
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vesuvianite | (noun) a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone | Synonyms: idocrase, vesuvian |
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