awn | (noun) slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses | - |
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brawn | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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dawn | (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: morning |
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(noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
(noun) an opening time period | - |
(verb) become light | - |
(verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
(verb) appear or develop | - |
drawn | (adjective) having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut | - |
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(adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, haggard, raddled, worn |
fawn | (noun) a young deer | - |
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(noun) a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color | Synonyms: dun, grayish brown, greyish brown |
(verb) have fawns | - |
(verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
(verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, grovel |
indrawn | (adjective) tending to reserve or introspection | Synonyms: withdrawn |
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lawn | (noun) a field of cultivated and mowed grass | - |
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pawn | (noun) borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan | - |
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(noun) (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank | - |
(noun) a person used by another to gain an end | Synonyms: cat's-paw, instrument |
(noun) an article deposited as security | - |
(verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: hock, soak |
prawn | (noun) shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible | - |
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(noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: shrimp |
(verb) fish for prawns | - |
spawn | (noun) the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs | - |
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(verb) lay spawn | - |
(verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, engender |
undrawn | (adjective) not represented in a drawing | - |
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withdrawn | (adjective) tending to reserve or introspection | Synonyms: indrawn |
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(adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | Synonyms: recluse, reclusive |
yawn | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawning |
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(verb) utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired | - |
(verb) be wide open | Synonyms: gape, yaw |