| diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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| diving | (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: dive |
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| (noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water | Synonyms: diving event |
| dkg | (noun) 10 grams | Synonyms: dag, decagram, dekagram |
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| docking | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, moorage, tying up |
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| doddering | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddery, gaga, senile |
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| dodging | (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: escape, evasion |
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| (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: avoidance, shunning, turning away |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, scheme |
| dog | (noun) a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds | Synonyms: Canis familiaris, domestic dog |
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| (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, pawl |
| (noun) metal supports for logs in a fireplace | Synonyms: andiron, dog-iron, firedog |
| (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: frank, frankfurter, hot dog, hotdog, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst |
| (noun) informal term for a man | - |
| (noun) a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman | Synonyms: frump |
| (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, cad, heel, hound |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
| dogging | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: persisting |
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| dogleg | (noun) a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway | - |
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| (noun) angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog | - |
| dominating | (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
| (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, overlooking |
| domineering | (adjective) tending to domineer | - |
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| dong | (noun) the basic unit of money in Vietnam | - |
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| (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: ding, dingdong |
| doodlebug | (noun) the larva of any of several insects | Synonyms: ant lion, antlion |
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| (noun) a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb | Synonyms: buzz bomb, flying bomb, robot bomb, V-1 |
| (noun) a small motor vehicle | - |
| doting | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: adoring, fond |
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| doubling | (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: double |
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| (noun) increase by a factor of two | - |
| doubting | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: questioning, sceptical, skeptical |
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| dousing | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: ducking, immersion, submersion |
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| doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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| downsizing | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, retrenchment |
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| downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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| (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
| dowsing | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, rhabdomancy |
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| doxing | (noun) Releasing someone's personal information on the Web with the intention of causing harassment | - |
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| drafting | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: draftsmanship, drawing |
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| (noun) writing a first version to be filled out and polished later | - |
| (noun) the craft of drawing blueprints | Synonyms: mechanical drawing |
| drag | (noun) the act of dragging (pulling with force) | - |
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| (noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: puff, pull |
| (noun) clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man) | - |
| (noun) something tedious and boring | - |
| (noun) something that slows or delays progress | - |
| (noun) the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid | Synonyms: retarding force |
| (verb) proceed for an extended period of time | Synonyms: drag on, drag out |
| (verb) persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting | - |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: draw, puff |
| (verb) pull, as against a resistance | - |
| (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, hale, haul |
| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: dredge |
| (verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back, trail |
| (verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: scuff |
| (verb) move slowly and as if with great effort | - |
| (verb) use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it | - |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
| dragging | (adjective) marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner | - |
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| draining | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: exhausting |
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| drainplug | (noun) a removable plug for holding water in a tub or basin | - |
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| drawing | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, draftsmanship |
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| (noun) act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source | Synonyms: drawing off |
| (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: lottery |
| (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, draught |
| (noun) a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines | - |
| (noun) an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper | - |
| drawstring | (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, string |
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| dreaming | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dream |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dream |
| dreg | (noun) a small amount of residue | - |
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| drenching | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: soaking, souse, sousing |
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| dressing | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: grooming |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, binding |
| (noun) processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering for a wound or sore | Synonyms: medical dressing |
| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
| (noun) savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type | Synonyms: salad dressing |
| (noun) a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables | Synonyms: stuffing |
| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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| drifting | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
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| (noun) aimless wandering from place to place | - |
| drilling | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: boring, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: boring |
| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| dripping | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: drippage |
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| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: drip |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: soaking, sopping |
| driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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| (adjective) acting with vigor | - |
| (noun) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal | - |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: drive |
| drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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| droning | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, monotone |
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| drooping | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: droopy, sagging |
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| (adjective) weak from exhaustion | Synonyms: flagging |
| (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
| dropping | (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: falling |
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| drowsing | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: dozy, drowsy |
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| drubbing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| drudging | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: laboring, labouring, toiling |
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| drug | (noun) a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic | - |
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| (verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: dose |
| (verb) use recreational drugs | Synonyms: do drugs |
| drugging | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: sedation |
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| drumming | (noun) the act of playing drums | - |
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| dubbing | (noun) a new soundtrack that is added to a film | - |
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| ducking | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, immersion, submersion |
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| (noun) hunting ducks | Synonyms: duck hunting |
| duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
| dug | (noun) an udder or breast or teat | - |
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| dugong | (noun) sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate | Synonyms: Dugong dugon |
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| dumbfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumfounding |
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| dumfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumbfounding |
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| dumping | (noun) selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market | - |
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| dumpling | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumplings |
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| (noun) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry | - |
| dung | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, muck |
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| (verb) defecate; used of animals | - |
| (verb) fertilize or dress with dung | - |
| dustrag | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: dustcloth, duster |
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| dwelling | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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| (noun) a becoming gradually less | Synonyms: dwindling away |
| dyeing | (noun) the use of dye to change the color of something permanently | - |
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| dying | (adjective) in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be | - |
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| (adjective) eagerly desirous | Synonyms: anxious |
| (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: death, demise |
| earplug | (noun) a plug of cotton, wax, or rubber that is fitted into the ear canal for protection against the entry of water or loud noise | - |
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| (noun) an earphone that is inserted into the ear canal | - |
| earring | (noun) jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe | - |
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| earsplitting | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, thunderous, thundery |
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| earthing | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: grounding |
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| earthling | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthman, tellurian, worldling |
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| earthshaking | (adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth | - |
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| (adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | Synonyms: world-shaking, world-shattering |
| earwig | (noun) any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen | - |
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| easing | (noun) the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Synonyms: alleviation, easement, relief |
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| (noun) a change for the better | Synonyms: moderation, relief |
| easygoing | (adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: cushy, soft |
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| (adjective) relaxed and informal in attitude or standards | - |
| (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easy, leisurely |
| eating | (noun) the act of consuming food | Synonyms: feeding |
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| ebbing | (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebb, wane |
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| echoing | (adjective) (of sounds) repeating by reflection | Synonyms: reechoing |
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| edging | (noun) border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug) | - |
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| edifying | (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: enlightening |
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| editing | (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: redaction |
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| effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| egg | (noun) animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds | - |
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| (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
| (noun) oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food | Synonyms: eggs |
| (verb) coat with beaten egg | - |
| (verb) throw eggs at | - |
| eggnog | (noun) a punch made of sweetened milk or cream mixed with eggs and usually alcoholic liquor | - |
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| elating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
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| elbowing | (noun) jostling with the elbows | - |
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| electioneering | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, political campaign |
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| (noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, canvassing |
| electrifying | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: thrilling |
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| eluding | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: elusion, slip |
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| embarrassing | (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, sticky, unenviable |
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| (adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: mortifying |
| embracing | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracement |
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| emerging | (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: rising |
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| (adjective) coming into existence | Synonyms: emergent |
| emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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| emptying | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: evacuation, voidance |
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| enabling | (adjective) providing legal power or sanction | - |
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| enchanting | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| encircling | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: skirting |
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| enclosing | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosure, envelopment, inclosure |
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| encoding | (noun) the activity of converting data or information into code | Synonyms: encryption |
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| encompassing | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: circumferent, surrounding |
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| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, extensive, panoptic, wide |
| encouraging | (adjective) giving courage or confidence or hope | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: supporting |