| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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| acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) generally accepted | - |
| acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
| acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
| awl | (noun) a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes | - |
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| awless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: aweless |
| awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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| batfowl | (verb) catch birds by temporarily blinding them | - |
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| bawl | (verb) cry loudly | - |
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| (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bellow |
| (verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: yawp |
| bawler | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| (noun) a loud weeper | - |
| bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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| blowlamp | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowtorch, torch |
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| bowl | (noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: roll |
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| (noun) a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods | - |
| (noun) a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids | - |
| (noun) a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco | Synonyms: pipe bowl |
| (noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: arena, sports stadium, stadium |
| (noun) a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling | - |
| (noun) a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling | Synonyms: bowling ball |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowlful |
| (noun) a concave shape with an open top | Synonyms: trough |
| (verb) engage in the sport of bowling | - |
| (verb) hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end | - |
| (verb) roll (a ball) | - |
| bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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| bowleg | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowlegged |
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| (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
| bowlegged | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowleg |
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| bowler | (noun) a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | Synonyms: bowler hat, derby, derby hat, plug hat |
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| (noun) a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins | - |
| (noun) a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket | - |
| bowlful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowl |
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| bowline | (noun) a loop knot that neither slips nor jams | Synonyms: bowline knot |
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| bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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| (noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
| (noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
| bowls | (noun) a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack | Synonyms: lawn bowling |
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| bradawl | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: pricker |
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| brawl | (noun) a noisy fight in a crowd | Synonyms: free-for-all |
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| (noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, do |
| (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: wrangle |
| brawler | (noun) a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) | - |
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| clawlike | (adjective) resembling a claw | - |
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| cowl | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowling, hood |
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| (noun) a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk) | - |
| (verb) cover with or as with a cowl | - |
| cowled | (adjective) having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood | - |
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| cowlick | (noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat | - |
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| cowling | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, hood |
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| crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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| (noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
| (noun) a very slow movement | - |
| (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
| (verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| (verb) be full of | - |
| (verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
| crawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
| crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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| crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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| dewlap | (noun) a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck | - |
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| drawl | (noun) a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels | - |
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| (verb) lengthen and slow down or draw out | - |
| drawler | (noun) someone who speaks with a drawl | - |
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| fishbowl | (noun) a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
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| (noun) a state of affairs in which you have no privacy | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
| flawless | (adjective) without a flaw | Synonyms: unflawed |
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| flawlessly | (adverb) smoothly and without difficulty; precisely and deftly | Synonyms: cleanly |
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| flawlessness | (noun) the state of being without a flaw or defect | Synonyms: ne plus ultra, perfection |
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| foreknowledge | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: precognition |
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| fowl | (noun) a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: domestic fowl, poultry |
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| (noun) the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food | Synonyms: bird |
| (verb) hunt fowl in the forest | - |
| (verb) hunt fowl | - |
| fowler | (noun) someone who hunts wild birds for food | - |
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| growl | (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growling |
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| (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: grumble, rumble |
| growler | (noun) a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping | - |
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| (noun) a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl | - |
| growling | (noun) a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal) | - |
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| (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growl |
| heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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| hollowly | (adverb) in a hollow manner | - |
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| howl | (noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howling, ululation |
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| (noun) a loud sustained noise resembling the cry of a hound | - |
| (noun) the long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf | - |
| (verb) laugh unrestrainedly and heartily | Synonyms: roar |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles | Synonyms: roar |
| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: roar, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl |
| (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: wrawl, yammer, yowl |
| howler | (noun) a glaring blunder | - |
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| (noun) monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry | Synonyms: howler monkey |
| (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow |
| howling | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howl, ululation |
| jawless | (adjective) of animals having no jaw | - |
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| jowl | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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| (noun) a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging) | - |
| jowly | (adjective) having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw | Synonyms: double-chinned, loose-jowled |
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| knowledge | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: cognition, noesis |
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| knowledgeability | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeableness |
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| knowledgeable | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowing, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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| (adjective) thoroughly acquainted through study or experience | Synonyms: intimate, versed |
| (adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowing |
| knowledgeableness | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeability |
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| lawless | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchic, anarchical |
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| (adjective) disobedient to or defiant of law | Synonyms: outlaw |
| (adjective) lax in enforcing laws | Synonyms: wide-open |
| lawlessly | (adverb) in an illegal manner | Synonyms: illegally, illicitly |
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| lawlessness | (noun) illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law | Synonyms: outlawry |
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| (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: anarchy |
| lowland | (adjective) of relatively low or level country | - |
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| (noun) low level country | - |
| lowlife | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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| lowliness | (noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowness |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, obscureness, unimportance |
| lowly | (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, low, modest, small |
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| (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, petty, secondary, subaltern |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, baseborn, humble |
| (adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | Synonyms: humble, menial |
| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| mellowly | (adverb) in a mellow manner | Synonyms: mellow |
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| metaknowledge | (noun) knowledge about knowledge | - |
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| mewl | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: pule, wail, whimper |
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| moorfowl | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse |
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| narrowly | (adverb) in a narrow manner; not allowing for exceptions | - |
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| newly | (adverb) very recently | Synonyms: fresh, freshly, new |
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| newlywed | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: honeymooner |
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| nightcrawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| owl | (noun) nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes | Synonyms: bird of Minerva, bird of night, hooter |
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| owlclaws | (noun) stout perennial herb of western United States having flower heads with drooping orange-yellow rays; causes spewing sickness in sheep | Synonyms: Helenium hoopesii, orange sneezeweed |
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| owlet | (noun) young owl | - |
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| owlish | (adjective) resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance | - |
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| owlishly | (adverb) in an owlish manner | - |
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| pawl | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, detent, dog |
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| peafowl | (noun) very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird | Synonyms: bird of Juno |
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| plowland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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| prowl | (noun) the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner) | - |
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| (verb) move about in or as if in a predatory manner | - |
| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: lurch |
| prowler | (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: sneak, stalker |
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| rowlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, thole, tholepin |
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| scowl | (noun) a facial expression of dislike or displeasure | Synonyms: frown |
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| (verb) frown with displeasure | - |
| scowling | (adjective) sullen or unfriendly in appearance | Synonyms: beetle-browed |
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| scrawl | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scribble |
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| (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
| scrawler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scribbler |
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| seafowl | (noun) a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls, pelicans, gannets, cormorants, albatrosses, petrels, etc. | Synonyms: sea bird, seabird |
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| shallowly | (adverb) in a shallow manner | - |
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| shawl | (noun) cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders | - |
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| slowly | (adverb) in music | Synonyms: lento |
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| (adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: easy, slow, tardily |
| spawl | (noun) a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge | Synonyms: spall |
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| sprawl | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawling |
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| (noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: conurbation, urban sprawl |
| (verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
| sprawler | (noun) a person who sprawls | - |
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| sprawling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, straggling, straggly |
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| (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawl |
| sprawly | (adjective) extended out irregularly | - |
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| towline | (noun) (nautical) a rope used in towing | Synonyms: towing line, towing rope, towrope |
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