| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| awing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
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| backflowing | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflow |
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| batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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| (noun) one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon) | - |
| bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| bitewing | (noun) a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography | - |
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| blowing | (noun) processing that involves blowing a gas | - |
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| bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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| borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| (noun) managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument | - |
| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, obeisance |
| breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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| brewing | (noun) the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast | - |
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| cheewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chewing | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, manduction, mastication |
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| chewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: cheewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| crowing | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| dewiness | (noun) The state or property of being covered by dew, or bearing droplets of water. | - |
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| downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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| (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
| downwind | (adjective) towards the side away from the wind | Synonyms: lee |
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| (adverb) with the wind; in the direction the wind is blowing | - |
| (adverb) toward the wind | Synonyms: windward |
| drawing | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, draftsmanship |
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| (noun) act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source | Synonyms: drawing off |
| (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: lottery |
| (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, draught |
| (noun) a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines | - |
| (noun) an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper | - |
| dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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| (noun) a becoming gradually less | Synonyms: dwindling away |
| elbowing | (noun) jostling with the elbows | - |
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| entwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| (verb) tie or link together | Synonyms: knit |
| erwinia | (noun) rod-shaped motile bacteria that attack plants | - |
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| farrowing | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrow |
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| flowing | (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, sleek, streamlined |
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| (noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) | Synonyms: flow |
| following | (adjective) going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction | - |
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| (adjective) in the desired direction | - |
| (adjective) about to be mentioned or specified | Synonyms: undermentioned |
| (adjective) immediately following in time or order | Synonyms: next |
| (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, pursual, pursuit |
| (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: followers |
| foreshadowing | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, prefigurative |
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| (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, prefiguration |
| forewing | (noun) either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings | Synonyms: fore-wing, fore wing |
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| gaywings | (noun) common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals | Synonyms: bird-on-the-wing, flowering wintergreen, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia |
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| glowing | (adjective) highly enthusiastic | - |
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| (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, radiance |
| glowingly | (adverb) in an enthusiastically glowing manner | - |
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| greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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| growing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for growth | - |
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| (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: development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
| (noun) (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | - |
| harrowing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| headwind | (noun) wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| hoodwink | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, juggle |
| inflowing | (adjective) flowing inward | Synonyms: influent |
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| ingrowing | (adjective) growing abnormally into the flesh | Synonyms: ingrown |
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| intertwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, lace, twine |
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| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: loop |
| (verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: tat |
| knowing | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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| (adjective) evidencing the possession of inside information | Synonyms: wise, wise to |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: deliberate, intentional |
| (adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowledgeable |
| (noun) a clear and certain mental apprehension | - |
| knowingly | (adverb) with full knowledge and deliberation | Synonyms: wittingly |
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| knowingness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, consciousness |
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| (noun) shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge | - |
| lacewing | (noun) any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids | Synonyms: lacewing fly |
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| lapwing | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, peewit, pewit |
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| mellowing | (noun) the process of becoming mellow | - |
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| mellowingly | (adverb) so as to mellow | - |
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| midwinter | (noun) the middle of winter | - |
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| narrowing | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, constrictive |
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| (adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: tapered, tapering |
| (noun) the act of making something narrower | - |
| (noun) an instance of becoming narrow | - |
| (noun) a decrease in width | - |
| outflowing | (adjective) that is flowing outward | Synonyms: effluent |
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| overflowing | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, flooded, inundated |
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| overwinter | (verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: winter |
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| owing | (adjective) owed as a debt | Synonyms: outstanding, undischarged |
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| periwinkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: winkle |
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| (noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: winkle |
| (noun) chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers | - |
| (noun) commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers | Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea |
| plowing | (noun) tilling the land with a plow | Synonyms: ploughing |
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| prizewinning | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: champion |
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| redwing | (noun) small European thrush having reddish flanks | Synonyms: Turdus iliacus |
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| (noun) North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings | Synonyms: Agelaius phoeniceus, red-winged blackbird |
| renewing | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: restorative, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving |
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| rewind | (verb) wind (up) again | - |
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| rowing | (noun) the act of rowing as a sport | Synonyms: row |
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| screwing | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, shag, shtup |
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| sewing | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: stitching |
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| (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: stitchery |
| shadowiness | (noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shade, shadiness |
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| shadowing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: tailing |
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| shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
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| showiness | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridity, floridness |
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| showing | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
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| (noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, viewing |
| sidewinder | (noun) small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve | Synonyms: Crotalus cerastes, horned rattlesnake |
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| (noun) air-to-air missile with infrared homing device | - |
| slowing | (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: deceleration, retardation |
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| snowiness | (noun) The property or condition of being marked by or covered with snow. | - |
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| sorrowing | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning |
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| stewing | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: boiling, simmering |
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| (noun) an extreme state of worry and agitation | - |
| stowing | (noun) the act of packing or storing away | Synonyms: stowage |
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| strewing | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, scattering |
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| sweptwing | (adjective) (of an aircraft) having sweptback wings | - |
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| swindle | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, fraud, rig |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize |
| swindler | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer |
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| swine | (noun) stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals | - |
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| swineherd | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: pigman |
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| swing | (noun) changing location by moving back and forth | Synonyms: swinging, vacillation |
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| (noun) in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball | Synonyms: baseball swing, cut |
| (noun) the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it | Synonyms: golf shot, golf stroke |
| (noun) a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them | - |
| (noun) a sweeping blow or stroke | - |
| (noun) mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth | - |
| (noun) a jaunty rhythm in music | Synonyms: lilt |
| (noun) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz | Synonyms: jive, swing music |
| (noun) a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity | - |
| (verb) alternate dramatically between high and low values | - |
| (verb) hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement | - |
| (verb) make a big sweeping gesture or movement | Synonyms: sweep, swing out |
| (verb) engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends | - |
| (verb) play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm | - |
| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: sway |
| (verb) move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting | - |
| (verb) change direction with a swinging motion; turn | - |
| (verb) be a social swinger; socialize a lot | Synonyms: get around |
| (verb) influence decisively | Synonyms: swing over |
| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, drop |
| (verb) live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style | - |
| (verb) have a certain musical rhythm | - |
| swinge | (verb) burn superficially or lightly | Synonyms: singe |
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| swingeing | (adjective) severe; punishingly bad | - |
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| swinger | (noun) a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex | Synonyms: tramp |
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| (noun) someone who swings sports implements | - |
| swinging | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swingy, tripping |
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| (noun) changing location by moving back and forth | Synonyms: swing, vacillation |
| swingletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: whiffletree, whippletree |
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| swingy | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swinging, tripping |
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| swinish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine |
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| (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish |
| swinishness | (noun) The quality of resembling a swine; being gluttonous, coarse, debased. | - |
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| tailwind | (noun) wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| thawing | (noun) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt | Synonyms: thaw, warming |
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| (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melt, melting, thaw |
| tiddlywinks | (noun) a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk | - |
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| twin | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, matching, twinned |
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| (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: counterpart, similitude |
| (noun) either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy | - |
| (verb) give birth to twins | - |
| (verb) grow as twins | - |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, mate, pair |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: duplicate, parallel |
| twinberry | (noun) shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America | Synonyms: Lonicera involucrata |
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| (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, partridgeberry |
| twine | (noun) a lightweight cord | Synonyms: string |
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| (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace |
| (verb) make by twisting together or intertwining | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: roll, wind, wrap |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twist |
| twiner | (noun) someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing | - |
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| twinflower | (noun) creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs | Synonyms: Linnaea borealis |
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| twinge | (noun) a sharp stab of pain | - |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: pang, stab |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twitch |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: prick, sting |
| (verb) feel a sudden sharp, local pain | - |