| ragweed | (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: ambrosia, bitterweed |
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| (noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity | Synonyms: benweed, ragwort, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort |
| renewed | (adjective) restored to a new condition | - |
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| reviewer | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: commentator |
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| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: reader, referee |
| richweed | (noun) a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves | Synonyms: clearweed, dead nettle, Pilea pumilla |
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| (noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, horseweed, stone-root, stone root, stoneroot |
| rockweed | (noun) coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide | - |
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| rosinweed | (noun) North American perennial having a resinous odor and yellow flowers | Synonyms: Silphium laciniatum |
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| (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, gumweed, tarweed |
| rowel | (noun) a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur | - |
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| rower | (noun) someone who rows a boat | - |
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| safflower | (noun) thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil | Synonyms: Carthamus tinctorius, false saffron |
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| scorpionweed | (noun) any plant of the genus Phacelia | Synonyms: phacelia, scorpion weed |
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| seaweed | (noun) plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae | - |
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| semisweet | (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: bittersweet |
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| semivowel | (noun) a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | Synonyms: glide |
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| semiweekly | (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| (noun) a periodical that is published twice each week (or 104 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) twice a week | Synonyms: biweekly |
| sewed | (adjective) fastened with stitches | Synonyms: sewn, stitched |
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| sewellel | (noun) bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent | Synonyms: Aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver |
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| sewer | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: cloaca, sewerage |
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| (noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: gutter, toilet |
| (noun) someone who sews | - |
| sewerage | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: cloaca, sewer |
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| (noun) waste matter carried away in sewers or drains | Synonyms: sewage |
| shadflower | (noun) annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules | Synonyms: Draba verna, shad-flower, whitlow grass |
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| shadowed | (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowy, shady, umbrageous |
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| shadower | (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadow, tail |
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| shellflower | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead |
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| (noun) cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes | Synonyms: Alpinia speciosa, Alpinia Zerumbet, Languas speciosa, shall-flower, shell ginger |
| shower | (noun) washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle | Synonyms: shower bath |
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| (noun) a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you | - |
| (noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: cascade |
| (noun) a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person | - |
| (noun) a brief period of precipitation | Synonyms: rain shower |
| (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, exhibitor |
| (verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
| (verb) provide abundantly with | - |
| (verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
| (verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
| showerhead | (noun) a perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather | - |
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| showery | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: rainy |
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| silkweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts | Synonyms: milkweed |
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| silverweed | (noun) any of various twining shrubs of the genus Argyreia having silvery leaves and showy purple flowers | - |
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| (noun) low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States, Europe, Asia | Synonyms: goose-tansy, goose grass, Potentilla anserina |
| skewed | (adjective) having an oblique or slanting direction or position | Synonyms: skew |
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| skewer | (noun) a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted | - |
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| (verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: spit |
| skunkweed | (noun) tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell | Synonyms: Polemonium viscosum, skunk-weed |
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| sleepwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, nightwear |
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| slower | (adverb) more slowly | - |
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| slowest | (adverb) most slowly | - |
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| snailflower | (noun) perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | Synonyms: corkscrew flower, Phaseolus caracalla, snail-flower, snail bean, snail flower, Vigna caracalla |
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| snakeweed | (noun) low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads | Synonyms: broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, rabbitweed, turpentine weed |
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| sneezeweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helenium characteristically causing sneezing | - |
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| soapweed | (noun) tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States | Synonyms: soap-weed, soap tree, Yucca elata |
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| sorrower | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, mourner |
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| southwest | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly |
| (noun) a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwestward, SW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the southwest | Synonyms: sou'west, south-west |
| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| southwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Nevada, Utah, Colorado | - |
| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
| (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestwardly |
| southwestwardly | (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestward |
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| sower | (noun) someone who sows | - |
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| speedwell | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: veronica |
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| spewer | (noun) a person who vomits | Synonyms: vomiter |
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| spiderflower | (noun) any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cleome |
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| spoonflower | (noun) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes | Synonyms: malanga, tannia, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, yautia |
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| sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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| spotweld | (verb) make circular welds | Synonyms: spot-weld |
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| stairwell | (noun) a vertical well around which there is a stairway | - |
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| starflower | (noun) common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States | Synonyms: Ornithogalum umbellatum, sleepy dick, summer snowflake |
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| stewed | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: boiled, poached |
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| stickweed | (noun) any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing | - |
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| stinkweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: fanweed, field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, Thlaspi arvense |
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| strawflower | (noun) Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers | Synonyms: golden everlasting, Helichrysum bracteatum, yellow paper daisy |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helipterum | - |
| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: cornflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| subtweeting | (noun) the act of tweeting without tagging a user so that they will not see the post | - |
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| sunflower | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays | Synonyms: helianthus |
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| superpower | (noun) a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world | Synonyms: great power, major power, power, world power |
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| swanflower | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanneck |
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| swear | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, rely |
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| (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, depose |
| (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, imprecate |
| (verb) promise solemnly; take an oath | - |
| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, verify |
| swearer | (noun) someone who takes a solemn oath | - |
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| (noun) someone who uses profanity | - |
| swearing | (noun) a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury | Synonyms: oath |
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| (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearword |
| swearword | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing |
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| sweat | (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail |
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| (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: perspiration, sudor |
| (noun) condensation of moisture on a cold surface | - |
| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, lather, stew, swither |
| (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: perspire, sudate |
| sweatband | (noun) a band of fabric or leather sewn inside the crown of a hat | - |
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| (noun) a band of material tied around the forehead or wrist to absorb sweat | - |
| sweatbox | (noun) a device that causes tobacco leaves or fruit or hides to sweat | - |
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| (noun) small or narrow cell | - |
| sweater | (noun) a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body | Synonyms: jumper |
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| (noun) a person who perspires | Synonyms: perspirer |
| sweating | (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, perspiration, sudation |
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| sweatpants | (noun) loose-fitting trousers with elastic cuffs; worn by athletes | Synonyms: sweat pants |
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| sweats | (noun) garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt | Synonyms: sweat suit, sweatsuit, workout suit |
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| sweatshirt | (noun) cotton knit pullover with long sleeves worn during athletic activity | - |
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| sweatshop | (noun) factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry | - |
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| sweatsuit | (noun) garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt | Synonyms: sweat suit, sweats, workout suit |
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| swede | (noun) the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food | Synonyms: rutabaga, swedish turnip, yellow turnip |
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| (noun) a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root | Synonyms: Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga, rutabaga plant, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage |
| sweep | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line | Synonyms: end run |
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| (noun) a movement in an arc | - |
| (noun) a long oar used in an open boat | Synonyms: sweep oar |
| (noun) a wide scope | Synonyms: expanse |
| (noun) winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge | Synonyms: slam |
| (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, chimneysweeper |
| (verb) win an overwhelming victory in or on | - |
| (verb) sweep with a broom or as if with a broom | Synonyms: broom |
| (verb) clean by sweeping | - |
| (verb) make a big sweeping gesture or movement | Synonyms: swing, swing out |
| (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sail |
| (verb) sweep across or over | Synonyms: brush |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep up, tangle |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, traverse |
| (verb) cover the entire range of | - |
| sweeper | (noun) little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body | - |
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| (noun) a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet | Synonyms: carpet sweeper |
| (noun) an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.) | - |
| sweeping | (adjective) ignoring distinctions | Synonyms: wholesale |
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| (adjective) taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination | - |
| (noun) the act of cleaning with a broom | - |
| sweepingly | (adverb) in a sweeping manner | - |
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| sweepstakes | (noun) a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants | - |
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| sweet | (adjective) not containing or composed of salt water | Synonyms: fresh |
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| (adjective) (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content | - |
| (adjective) having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar | - |
| (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling |
| (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic |
| (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant |
| (adjective) with sweetening added | Synonyms: sugared, sweet-flavored, sweetened |
| (adjective) not soured or preserved | Synonyms: fresh, unfermented |
| (adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: gratifying |
| (adjective) pleasing to the senses | - |
| (noun) the property of tasting as if it contains sugar | Synonyms: sweetness |
| (noun) the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth | Synonyms: sugariness, sweetness |
| (noun) a food rich in sugar | Synonyms: confection |
| (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, dessert |
| (adverb) in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly') | Synonyms: sweetly |
| sweetbread | (noun) edible glands of an animal | Synonyms: sweetbreads |
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| sweetbreads | (noun) edible glands of an animal | Synonyms: sweetbread |
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| sweetbriar | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbrier |
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| sweetbrier | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar |
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| sweeten | (verb) make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable | - |
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| (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate |
| sweetened | (adjective) with sweetening added | Synonyms: sugared, sweet-flavored, sweet |
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| sweetener | (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, hook, lure |
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| (noun) something added to foods to make them taste sweeter | Synonyms: sweetening |
| sweetening | (noun) the act of adding a sweetener to food | - |
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| (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: enhancement |
| (noun) something added to foods to make them taste sweeter | Synonyms: sweetener |
| sweetheart | (adjective) privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically) | - |
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| (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: steady, sweetie, truelove |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner |
| (noun) any well-liked individual | - |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetie |
| sweetie | (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: steady, sweetheart, truelove |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart |
| sweetish | (adjective) somewhat sweet | - |
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| sweetleaf | (noun) small yellowwood tree of southern United States having small fragrant white flowers; leaves and bark yield a yellow dye | Synonyms: Symplocus tinctoria |
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| sweetly | (adverb) in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly') | Synonyms: sweet |
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| sweetmeat | (noun) a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry) | - |
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| sweetness | (noun) the property of tasting as if it contains sugar | Synonyms: sweet |
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| (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, redolence |
| (noun) the quality of giving pleasure | Synonyms: pleasantness |
| (noun) the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth | Synonyms: sugariness, sweet |
| sweetpea | (noun) climbing garden plant having fragrant pastel-colored flowers | Synonyms: Lathyrus odoratus, sweet pea |
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| sweetsop | (noun) sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: annon, sugar apple |
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| (noun) tropical American tree bearing sweet pulpy fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: Annona squamosa, sweetsop tree |
| swell | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing |
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| (noun) a crescendo followed by a decrescendo | - |
| (noun) the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea | Synonyms: crestless wave |
| (noun) a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) | - |
| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik |
| (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
| (verb) cause to become swollen | - |
| (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
| (verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |