biodefense | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefence, biological defence, biological defense |
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cense | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: incense, thurify |
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commonsense | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsensible, commonsensical |
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condense | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, digest |
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(verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: distil, distill |
(verb) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid | - |
(verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, contract |
(verb) remove water from | - |
(verb) become more compact or concentrated | - |
(verb) develop due to condensation | - |
defense | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defence, defensive measure |
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(noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defence |
(noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, demurrer, denial |
(noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defence |
(noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defence, defensive structure |
(noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, vindication |
(noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defence, refutation |
(noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defence, defense lawyers, defense team |
(noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defence, defending team |
(noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence, defence force, defense force |
(noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
dense | (adjective) having high relative density or specific gravity | - |
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(adjective) hard to pass through because of dense growth | Synonyms: thick |
(adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow |
(adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: heavy, impenetrable |
(adjective) having component parts closely crowded together | Synonyms: thick |
dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
expense | (noun) a detriment or sacrifice | - |
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(noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement |
(noun) money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer | - |
(verb) reduce the estimated value of something | Synonyms: write down, write off |
flense | (verb) strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal) | - |
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frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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immense | (adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope | Synonyms: Brobdingnagian, huge, vast |
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incense | (noun) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned | - |
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(noun) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned | - |
(verb) make furious | Synonyms: exasperate, infuriate |
(verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: cense, thurify |
innocense | (noun) white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California | Synonyms: Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, purple chinese houses |
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intense | (adjective) possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree | - |
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(adjective) (of color) having the highest saturation | Synonyms: vivid |
(adjective) extremely sharp or severe | Synonyms: acute |
lense | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens, lens system |
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license | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: permission, permit |
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(noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, permit |
(noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: licence |
(noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: licence |
(verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, licence |
nonsense | (adjective) having no intelligible meaning | Synonyms: nonsensical |
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(noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, trumpery |
(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsensicality |
offense | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offensive |
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(noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offence |
(noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offence, offensive activity |
(noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, umbrage |
(noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offence |
pretense | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
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(noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretension |
(noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext |
(noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretence |
(noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence |
recompense | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: compensation |
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(noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered) | - |
(verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, remunerate |
(verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, repair |
sense | (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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(noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit |
(noun) a general conscious awareness | - |
(noun) a natural appreciation or ability | - |
(noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: signified |
(verb) discern | - |
(verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: smell, smell out |
(verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: feel |
(verb) detect some circumstance or entity automatically | - |
somatosense | (noun) any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain | - |
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suspense | (noun) an uncertain cognitive state | - |
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(noun) excited anticipation of an approaching climax | - |
(noun) apprehension about what is going to happen | - |
tense | (adjective) taut or rigid; stretched tight | - |
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(adjective) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') | - |
(adjective) in or of a state of physical or nervous tension | - |
(noun) a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | - |
(verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: strain, tense up |
(verb) become tense, nervous, or uneasy | Synonyms: tense up |
(verb) increase the tension on | - |
(verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: strain |