| bewitch | (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
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| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| bewitched | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: ensorcelled |
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| bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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| bewitching | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| bewitchingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: captivatingly, enchantingly, enthrallingly |
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| bewitchment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: enchantment |
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| blewits | (noun) edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap | Synonyms: Clitocybe nuda |
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| dimwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: doofus, half-wit, nitwit |
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| dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| eyewitness | (noun) a spectator who can describe what happened | - |
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| (verb) be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes | - |
| forthwith | (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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| godwit | (noun) large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill | - |
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| herewith | (adverb) (formal) by means of this | Synonyms: hereby |
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| howitzer | (noun) a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range | Synonyms: mortar, trench mortar |
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| nitwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: dimwit, doofus, half-wit |
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| nitwitted | (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: senseless, soft-witted, witless |
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| notwithstanding | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, still, withal, yet |
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| outwit | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, overreach |
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| peewit | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, pewit |
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| (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, pewee, pewit, wood pewee |
| pewit | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, peewit |
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| (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, wood pewee |
| (noun) small black-headed European gull | Synonyms: blackcap, Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, pewit gull |
| switch | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: shift, switching |
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| (noun) a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other | - |
| (noun) a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment | - |
| (noun) control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit | Synonyms: electric switch, electrical switch |
| (noun) railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock | - |
| (noun) hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure | - |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, transposition |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, tack |
| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, shift |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, shift |
| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: exchange, switch over |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, throw |
| (verb) flog with or as if with a flexible rod | - |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
| switchblade | (noun) a pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button | Synonyms: flick-knife, flick knife, switchblade knife |
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| switchboard | (noun) telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords | Synonyms: patchboard, plugboard |
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| switcher | (noun) a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip | Synonyms: whipper |
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| switcheroo | (noun) a sudden unexpected switch | - |
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| switching | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
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| switchman | (noun) a man who operates railroad switches | - |
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| swither | (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, lather, stew, sweat |
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| therewith | (adverb) with that or this or it | - |
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| therewithal | (adverb) together with all that; besides | - |
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| twit | (noun) aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing | Synonyms: taunt, taunting |
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| (noun) someone who is regarded as contemptible | Synonyms: twerp, twirp |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease |
| twitch | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitching, vellication |
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| (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: jerk |
| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge |
| (verb) move or pull with a sudden motion | - |
| (verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: jerk |
| twitching | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, vellication |
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| twitter | (noun) a series of chirps | Synonyms: chirrup |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: chitter |
| twitterer | (noun) a bird that twitters | - |
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| twitterverse | (noun) the social sphere of the Twitter service | - |
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| unwitting | (adjective) not aware or knowing | - |
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| (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: ignorant, unknowing, unknowledgeable |
| (adjective) not done with purpose or intent | Synonyms: unintentional, unplanned |
| unwittingly | (adverb) without knowledge or intention | Synonyms: inadvertently, unknowingly |
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| welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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| wherewithal | (noun) the necessary means (especially financial means) | - |
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| wit | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality |
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| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, witticism, wittiness |
| (noun) a witty amusing person who makes jokes | Synonyms: card, wag |
| witbier | (noun) a top-fermented barley/wheat beer brewed mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands. | - |
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| witch | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: enchantress |
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| (noun) a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil | - |
| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, hag |
| (noun) a believer in Wicca | Synonyms: Wiccan |
| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, jinx |
| witchcraft | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchery |
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| witchery | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchcraft |
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| witchgrass | (noun) North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land | Synonyms: old witch grass, old witchgrass, Panicum capillare, tumble grass, witch grass |
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| (noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass |
| witching | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, wizard, wizardly |
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| (noun) the use or practice of witchcraft | - |
| witchlike | (adjective) being or having the character of witchcraft | - |
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| withal | (adverb) together with this | - |
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| (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, yet |
| withdraw | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, sequestrate |
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| (verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract | Synonyms: remove, take, take away |
| (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: swallow, take back, unsay |
| (verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: disengage |
| (verb) lose interest | Synonyms: retire |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat |
| (verb) remove (a commodity) from (a supply source) | Synonyms: draw, draw off, take out |
| (verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, recall |
| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: adjourn, retire |
| (verb) withdraw from active participation | Synonyms: retire |
| (verb) retire gracefully | Synonyms: bow out |
| withdrawal | (noun) the act of withdrawing | - |
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| (noun) formal separation from an alliance or federation | Synonyms: secession |
| (noun) the termination of drug taking | Synonyms: drug withdrawal |
| (noun) the act of taking out money or other capital | - |
| (noun) a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation | Synonyms: coitus interruptus, onanism, pulling out, withdrawal method |
| (noun) the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc. | - |
| (noun) the act of ceasing to participate in an activity | - |
| (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: backdown, climb-down |
| (noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: detachment |
| withdrawer | (noun) a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited | - |
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| (noun) a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled | - |
| (noun) a contestant who withdraws from competition | - |
| (noun) a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics | - |
| (noun) an individualist who withdraws from social interaction | - |
| (noun) an authority who withdraws permission | - |
| withdrawn | (adjective) tending to reserve or introspection | Synonyms: indrawn |
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| (adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | Synonyms: recluse, reclusive |
| withdrawnness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness |
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| withe | (noun) band or rope made of twisted twigs or stems | - |
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| (noun) strong flexible twig | Synonyms: withy |
| wither | (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrink, shrivel, shrivel up |
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| (verb) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality | Synonyms: fade |
| withered | (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled |
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| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, wizen, wizened |
| withering | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, devastating |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating |
| (noun) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) | Synonyms: atrophy |
| witheringly | (adverb) in a withering manner | - |
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| withers | (noun) the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals | - |
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| withhold | (verb) hold back; refuse to hand over or share | Synonyms: keep back |
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| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: deduct, recoup |
| withholder | (noun) a person who restrains or checks or holds back | - |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from granting | - |
| withholding | (noun) the act of deducting from an employee's salary | - |
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| (noun) the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control | - |
| (noun) income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer | Synonyms: withholding tax |
| within | (adverb) on the inside | Synonyms: inside |
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| withstand | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, resist, stand firm |
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| (verb) resist or confront with resistance | Synonyms: defy, hold, hold up |
| withstander | (noun) an opponent who resists with force or resolution | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: defender |
| withy | (noun) strong flexible twig | Synonyms: withe |
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| witless | (adjective) (used as complement) to the utmost degree | Synonyms: shitless |
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| (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted |
| witloof | (noun) young broad-leaved endive plant deprived of light to form a narrow whitish head | Synonyms: Belgian endive, French endive |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, endive |
| witness | (noun) testimony by word or deed to your religious faith | - |
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| (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witnesser |
| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, watcher |
| (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestator, attestor |
| (noun) (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law | - |
| (verb) be a witness to | - |
| (verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with | Synonyms: find, see |
| witnesser | (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witness |
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| wits | (noun) the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception | Synonyms: marbles |
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| witticism | (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, wittiness |
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| wittily | (adverb) in a witty manner | - |
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| wittiness | (noun) The quality of being clever, amusingly ingenious. | - |
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| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, witticism |
| witting | (adjective) aware or knowing | - |
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| (adjective) intentionally conceived | Synonyms: conscious |
| wittingly | (adverb) with full knowledge and deliberation | Synonyms: knowingly |
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| wittol | (noun) an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it | - |
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| witty | (adjective) combining clever conception and facetious expression | - |
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