depravity | (noun) a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice | Synonyms: turpitude |
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(noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, putrefaction |
deriving | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, etymologizing |
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dervish | (noun) an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements | - |
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descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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(noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
deserving | (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: worth |
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deservingness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: merit, meritoriousness |
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detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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(noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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(noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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(noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
(verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
(verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
(verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
deviation | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviance |
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(noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, digression, divagation, diversion |
(noun) the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances | - |
(noun) the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function | - |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, difference, divergence |
deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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device | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: gimmick, twist |
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(noun) an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | - |
(noun) an emblematic design (especially in heraldry) | - |
(noun) any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) | - |
(noun) something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | - |
devices | (noun) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' | - |
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devil | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, dickens |
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(noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, demon, fiend |
(noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, fiend, monster, ogre |
(noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: heller, hellion |
(verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste | - |
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
devilfish | (noun) extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned | Synonyms: manta, manta ray |
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(noun) bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | Synonyms: octopus |
(noun) medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific | Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale |
devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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devilish | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
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(adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: rascally, roguish |
(adverb) in a playfully devilish manner | Synonyms: devilishly |
devilishly | (adverb) in a playfully devilish manner | Synonyms: devilish |
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(adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deadly, deucedly, insanely, madly |
(adverb) as a devil; in an evil manner | Synonyms: diabolically, fiendishly |
devilishness | (noun) The property of resembling or being characteristic of a devil. | - |
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devilize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, diabolise, diabolize |
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devilment | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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devilry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: deviltry |
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(noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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(noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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(adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
(adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
deviously | (adverb) in a devious manner | - |
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deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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(noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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devise | (noun) (law) a gift of real property by will | - |
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(noun) a will disposing of real property | - |
(verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
(verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
(verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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devisor | (noun) someone who devises real property in a will | - |
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devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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devitalize | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalise |
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devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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(verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
diluvial | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvian |
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diluvian | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvial |
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directivity | (noun) the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another | Synonyms: directionality |
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(noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directiveness |
disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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disapprovingly | (adverb) showing disapproval | - |
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disbelieving | (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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disbelievingly | (adverb) in an incredulous manner | Synonyms: incredulously, unbelievingly |
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disservice | (noun) an act intended to help that turns out badly | Synonyms: ill service, ill turn |
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dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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dividable | (adjective) can be divided usually without leaving a remainder | - |
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divide | (noun) a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems | Synonyms: water parting, watershed |
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(noun) a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility) | - |
(verb) perform a division | Synonyms: fraction |
(verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
(verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, part, separate |
(verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: separate |
(verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up |
(verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: separate |
divided | (adjective) separated into parts or pieces | - |
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(adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided up, shared, shared out |
(adjective) having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions | Synonyms: dual-lane |
dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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(noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
(noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
divider | (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: partition |
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(noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements | - |
(noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups | - |
(noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: splitter |
divination | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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(noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophecy |
(noun) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck | - |
divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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(adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
divine | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: elysian, inspired |
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(adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: godly |
(adjective) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity | - |
(adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: providential |
(noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic |
(verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
(verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
divinely | (adverb) by divine means | - |
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diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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diving | (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: dive |
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(noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water | Synonyms: diving event |
divinity | (noun) the quality of being divine | - |
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(noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: theology |
(noun) white creamy fudge made with egg whites | Synonyms: divinity fudge |
(noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, god, immortal |
divisibility | (noun) the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
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divisible | (adjective) capable of being or liable to be divided or separated | - |
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division | (noun) the act or process of dividing | - |
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(noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed | - |
(noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
(noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole | Synonyms: part, section |
(noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: variance |
(noun) an army unit large enough to sustain combat | - |
(noun) a group of ships of similar type | Synonyms: naval division |
(noun) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings | Synonyms: air division |
(noun) an administrative unit in government or business | - |
(noun) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum | - |
(noun) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category | - |
(noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: class |
divisional | (adjective) of or relating to a military division | - |
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(adjective) serving to divide or marking a division | - |
(adjective) constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional |
divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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divisor | (noun) the number by which a dividend is divided | - |
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(noun) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer | Synonyms: factor |
dovish | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: pacifist, pacifistic |
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dovishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict | - |
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driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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(adjective) acting with vigor | - |
(noun) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal | - |
(noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: drive |
echovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants | - |
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ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
effectivity | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectuality, effectualness |
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effluvium | (noun) a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) | - |
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electronegativity | (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: negativity |
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elvish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elfish |
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endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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(noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
(noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
enterovirus | (noun) any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system) | - |
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enviable | (adjective) causing envy | - |
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enviably | (adverb) in an enviable manner | - |
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envious | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, jealous |
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enviously | (adverb) with jealousy; in an envious manner | Synonyms: covetously, jealously |
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enviousness | (noun) a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another | Synonyms: envy |
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environ | (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, ring, skirt, surround |
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environment | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environs, surround, surroundings |
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(noun) the totality of surrounding conditions | - |
environmental | (adjective) concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings | - |
environmentalism | (noun) the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction | - |
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(noun) the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth | - |
environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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environmentally | (adverb) for the environment | - |
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environs | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, surround, surroundings |
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(noun) an outer adjacent area of any place | Synonyms: purlieu |
envisage | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, ideate, imagine |
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envision | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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(verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: foresee |
envisioned | (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: pictured, visualised, visualized |
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envisioning | (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: picturing |
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ergonovine | (noun) an alkaloid derived from ergot (trade name Ergotrate Maleate) that is less toxic than ergot; induces muscular contraction of the uterus and is administered after childbirth or abortion | Synonyms: Ergotrate Maleate |
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evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
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(verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
eviction | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster |
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(noun) action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved | Synonyms: constructive eviction |
evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
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(noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
(noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
(verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, manifest |
(verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, prove, show, testify |
(verb) give evidence | Synonyms: tell |