gazump | (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
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(verb) raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price | - |
geezer | (noun) a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric | - |
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geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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gelatinize | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
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(verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
(verb) coat with gelatin | - |
gemfibrozil | (noun) medication (trade name Lopid) used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood | Synonyms: Lopid |
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generalization | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generality |
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(noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning |
(noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalisation, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
(noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalisation |
generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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(verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
(verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
generalized | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalised |
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ghettoize | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoise |
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gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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ginzo | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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gizmo | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, widget |
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(noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
gizzard | (noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food | Synonyms: gastric mill, ventriculus |
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glamorization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamourisation, glamourization |
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glamorize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamourise, glamourize |
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(verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamourise, romanticise, romanticize |
glamourization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourisation |
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glamourize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourise |
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glaze | (noun) a coating for ceramics, metal, etc. | - |
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(noun) a glossy finish on a fabric | - |
(noun) any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods | - |
(verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass, glass over, glaze over |
(verb) coat with a glaze | - |
(verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: candy, sugarcoat |
(verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glass |
glazed | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: shiny |
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(adjective) fitted or covered with glass | Synonyms: glassed |
(adjective) (of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture | - |
(adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness | Synonyms: glassy |
glazer | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazier |
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glazier | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazer |
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glipizide | (noun) an oral antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucotrol) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas | Synonyms: Glucotrol |
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glitz | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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globalization | (noun) growth to a global or worldwide scale | Synonyms: globalisation |
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globalize | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalise |
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gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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glycerolize | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolise |
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gonzo | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
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gorgonzola | (noun) Italian blue cheese | - |
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gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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graze | (noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: grazing |
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(noun) a superficial abrasion | - |
(verb) eat lightly, try different dishes | Synonyms: browse |
(verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: crease, rake |
(verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, pasture, range |
(verb) break the skin (of a body part) by scraping | - |
(verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, pasture |
grazed | (adjective) scraped or touched lightly in passing | - |
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grazier | (noun) a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market | - |
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grazing | (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: shaving, skimming |
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(noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: graze |
grizzle | (noun) a grey wig | - |
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(verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: whine, yammer, yawp |
(verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, stew |
grizzled | (adjective) having dark hairs mixed with grey or white | - |
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grizzly | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
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(noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
grosz | (noun) 100 groszy equal 1 zloty in Poland | - |
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guanabenz | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Wytensin) that reduces blood pressure by its effect on the central nervous system | Synonyms: Wytensin |
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guereza | (noun) a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body | Synonyms: Colobus guereza |
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guzzle | (verb) drink greedily or as if with great thirst | - |
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guzzler | (noun) someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages) | - |
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(noun) a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily | Synonyms: gulper |
guzzling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, swilling |
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gyrostabilizer | (noun) a stabilizer consisting of a heavy gyroscope that spins on a vertical axis; reduces side-to-side rolling of a ship or plane | Synonyms: gyrostabiliser |
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haematochezia | (noun) passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer) | Synonyms: hematochezia |
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haphazard | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy |
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(adjective) dependent upon or characterized by chance | Synonyms: hit-or-miss |
(adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazardly |
haphazardly | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly |
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(adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazard |
haphazardness | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: noise, randomness, stochasticity |
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harmonizable | (adjective) capable of being made harmonious or consistent | - |
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harmonization | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonisation |
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(noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonisation |
harmonize | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonise |
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(verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, reconcile |
(verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise |
harmonized | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonised |
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harmonizer | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmoniser |
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(noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmoniser |
hazan | (noun) the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos | Synonyms: cantor |
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hazard | (noun) an obstacle on a golf course | - |
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(noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, luck |
(noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk |
(verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, pretend, venture |
(verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
(verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, jeopardize, stake, venture |
hazardous | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: risky, wild |
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hazardously | (adverb) in a dangerous manner | Synonyms: dangerously, perilously |
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hazardousness | (noun) the state of being dangerous | Synonyms: perilousness |
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haze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: daze, fog |
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(noun) atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility | - |
(verb) harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions | - |
(verb) become hazy, dull, or cloudy | - |
hazel | (adjective) of a light brown or yellowish brown color | - |
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(noun) a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes | - |
(noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazelnut, hazelnut tree |
(noun) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts | Synonyms: hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala |
(noun) the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) | - |
hazelnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, filbert |
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(noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazel, hazelnut tree |
hazelwood | (noun) reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture | Synonyms: red gum, satin walnut, sweet gum |
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hazily | (adverb) in an indistinct way | - |
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(adverb) through a haze | - |
haziness | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness |
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(noun) vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined | - |
hazy | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: brumous, foggy, misty |
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(adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, muzzy |
heliozoan | (noun) protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods | - |
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hematochezia | (noun) passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer) | Synonyms: haematochezia |
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hemodialyzer | (noun) a machine that uses dialysis to remove impurities and waste products from the bloodstream before returning the blood to the patient's body | Synonyms: artificial kidney |
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heroization | (noun) the act, or the result, of making someone into a hero. | - |
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hertz | (noun) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz) | Synonyms: cps, cycle, cycle per second, cycles/second, Hz |
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heterozygosity | (noun) the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene | - |
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heterozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring | - |
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heterozygous | (adjective) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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hierarchization | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchisation |
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hoactzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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hoatzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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holozoic | (adjective) obtaining nourishment as animals do by ingesting complex organic matter | - |
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homogenization | (noun) the act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition | Synonyms: homogenisation |
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homogenize | (verb) become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
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(verb) cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
(verb) break up the fat globules of | Synonyms: homogenise |
homogenized | (adjective) formed by blending unlike elements especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance | Synonyms: homogenised |
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(adjective) made homogeneous | Synonyms: homogenised |
homologize | (verb) make homologous | Synonyms: homologise |
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(verb) be homologous | - |
homozygosity | (noun) the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene | - |
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homozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic | - |
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homozygous | (adjective) having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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horizon | (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: purview, view |
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(noun) the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet | Synonyms: apparent horizon, sensible horizon, skyline, visible horizon |
(noun) a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land | - |
(noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth | Synonyms: celestial horizon |
horizontal | (adjective) parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line | - |
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(noun) something that is oriented horizontally | - |
horizontality | (noun) the quality of being parallel to the horizon | - |
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horizontally | (adverb) in a horizontal direction | - |
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hospitalization | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalisation |
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(noun) insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense | Synonyms: hospitalization insurance |
(noun) the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital | - |
(noun) a period of time when you are confined to a hospital | - |
hospitalize | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalise |
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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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humanization | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanisation |
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humanize | (verb) make more humane | Synonyms: humanise |
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hutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, chutzpah |
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hyalinization | (noun) the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline | Synonyms: hyalinisation |
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hybridization | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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hybridize | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed |
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hybridizing | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, interbreeding |
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