affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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(verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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(noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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airtight | (adjective) having no weak points | Synonyms: air-tight |
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(adjective) not allowing air or gas to pass in or out | Synonyms: air-tight, gas-tight |
alight | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, on fire |
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(verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
(verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
alright | (adjective) nonstandard usage | - |
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(adverb) an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence | Synonyms: all right, fine, OK, very well |
(adverb) without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion) | Synonyms: all right |
(adverb) in a satisfactory or adequate manner | Synonyms: all right, O.K., okay |
aright | (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: correctly, right |
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aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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(verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
(verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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(noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
(noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
(noun) a loop in a rope | - |
(verb) fasten with a bight | - |
birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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(noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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(noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
(verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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bright | (adjective) emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts | - |
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(adjective) not made dim or less bright | Synonyms: undimmed |
(adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: hopeful, promising |
(adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: brilliant, vivid |
(adjective) splendid | - |
(adjective) characterized by happiness or gladness | - |
(adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: smart |
(adjective) having lots of light either natural or artificial | - |
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny |
(adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: brilliant |
(adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: brightly, brilliantly |
bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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copyright | (noun) a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work | Synonyms: right of first publication |
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(verb) secure a copyright on a written work | - |
counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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(verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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(noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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(noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
(verb) take delight in | Synonyms: enjoy, revel |
(verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: please |
(verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
distraught | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: overwrought |
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dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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(noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
(noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
(noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
(verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
(verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
downright | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
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(adjective) characterized by plain blunt honesty | - |
(adverb) thoroughgoing | Synonyms: outright |
draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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(noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
(noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
(noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
(noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
(noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
(verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draft |
dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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(noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
eight | (adjective) being one more than seven | Synonyms: 8, viii |
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(noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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(noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
(noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
fight | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, engagement |
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(noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fighting, scrap |
(noun) a boxing or wrestling match | - |
(noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: competitiveness |
(noun) an intense verbal dispute | - |
(verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, struggle |
(verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight back, fight down, oppose |
(verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: struggle |
(verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, press, push |
firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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(verb) fight with the fists | - |
flashlight | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: torch |
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flight | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flying |
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(noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: escape |
(noun) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports | - |
(noun) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next | Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps |
(noun) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds | - |
(noun) an air force unit smaller than a squadron | - |
(noun) a formation of aircraft in flight | - |
(noun) a flock of flying birds | - |
(noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: trajectory |
(verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
(verb) fly in a flock | - |
(verb) shoot a bird in flight | - |
floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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(verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
flyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the lightest. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs no more than 115 pounds | - |
foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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(noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
forethought | (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, caution, precaution |
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(noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: premeditation |
forthright | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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(adverb) directly and without evasion; not roundabout | Synonyms: forthrightly, squarely |
fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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fraught | (adjective) filled with or attended with | Synonyms: pregnant |
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(adjective) marked by distress | - |
freight | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freightage |
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(noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
(noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight rate, freightage |
(verb) load with goods for transportation | - |
(verb) transport commercially as cargo | - |
fright | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fearfulness |
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(verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, frighten, scare |
gaslight | (noun) light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas | - |
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greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
(noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
(noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
height | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: tallness |
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(noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: stature |
(noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: altitude |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
highlight | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlighting |
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(noun) the most interesting or memorable part | Synonyms: high spot |
(verb) apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent | - |
(verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, play up, spotlight |
hindsight | (noun) understanding the nature of an event after it has happened | - |
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hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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(noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
(noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
insight | (noun) grasping the inner nature of things intuitively | Synonyms: sixth sense |
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(noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, brainwave |
(noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: penetration |
(noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: perceptiveness, perceptivity |
inwrought | (adjective) having a decorative pattern worked or woven in | - |
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jacklight | (noun) a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night | - |
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(verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jack |
knight | (noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: horse |
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(noun) originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit | - |
(verb) raise (someone) to knighthood | Synonyms: dub |
lamplight | (noun) light from a lamp | - |
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light | (adjective) of comparatively little physical weight or density | - |
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(adjective) psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles | - |
(adjective) not great in degree or quantity or number | - |
(adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment | - |
(adjective) (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent | Synonyms: light-colored |
(adjective) characterized by or emitting light | - |
(adjective) (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average | - |
(adjective) of little intensity or power or force | - |
(adjective) easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned | - |
(adjective) silly or trivial | Synonyms: idle |
(adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, lightheaded, swooning |
(adjective) having little importance | - |
(adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: scant, short |
(adjective) designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight | - |
(adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: lightsome, tripping |
(adjective) (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency | - |
(adjective) having relatively few calories | Synonyms: calorie-free, lite, low-cal |
(adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clean, clear, unclouded |
(adjective) (of sleep) easily disturbed | Synonyms: wakeful |
(adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: abstemious |
(adjective) very thin and insubstantial | - |
(adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
(adjective) demanding little effort; not burdensome | - |
(adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: unaccented, weak |
(adjective) intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound | - |
(noun) any device serving as a source of illumination | Synonyms: light source |
(noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, lighter |
(noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: lightness |
(noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
(noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: spark, sparkle, twinkle |
(noun) mental understanding as an enlightening experience | - |
(noun) a particular perspective or aspect of a situation | - |
(noun) public awareness | - |
(noun) a visual warning signal | - |
(noun) an illuminated area | - |
(noun) a person regarded very fondly | - |
(noun) (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation | Synonyms: visible light, visible radiation |
(noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: lighting |
(noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: illumination |
(adverb) with few burdens | Synonyms: lightly |
(verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, illumine, light up |
(verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, ignite |
(verb) begin to smoke | Synonyms: fire up, light up |
(verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, perch |
(verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, unhorse |
(verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: fall |
(verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: ignite |
lightweight | (adjective) weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use | - |
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(adjective) having no importance or influence | - |
(noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
(noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
limelight | (noun) a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting | Synonyms: calcium light |
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(noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, public eye, spotlight |
makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
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(noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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(noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
midnight | (noun) 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night | - |
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might | (noun) physical strength | Synonyms: mightiness, power |
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millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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(verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
mornight | (noun) both morning and night, used when greeting someone | - |
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naught | (noun) complete failure | - |
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(noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
night | (noun) darkness | - |
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(noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, nighttime |
(noun) a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom | - |
(noun) the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit | - |
(noun) the time between sunset and midnight | - |
(noun) the period spent sleeping | - |
(noun) a shortening of nightfall | - |
nought | (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, zero |
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onslaught | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onrush, onset |
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(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, outpouring |
(noun) a sudden and severe onset of trouble | - |
outfight | (verb) to fight better than; get the better of | - |
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outright | (adjective) without reservation or exception | Synonyms: straight-out, unlimited |
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(adverb) without reservation or concealment | - |
(adverb) without restrictions or stipulations or further payments | - |
(adverb) without any delay | Synonyms: in a flash, instantaneously, instantly |
(adverb) thoroughgoing | Synonyms: downright |
overflight | (noun) a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory) | - |
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overnight | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, nightlong |
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(adverb) during or for the length of one night | - |
(adverb) happening in a short time or with great speed | - |
oversight | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: lapse |
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(noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: superintendence, supervising, supervision |
(noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: inadvertence |
overweight | (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, heavy |
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(noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
overwrought | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: distraught |
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paperweight | (noun) a weight used to hold down a stack of papers | - |
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penlight | (noun) a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen | - |
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pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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playwright | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: dramatist |
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plight | (noun) a solemn pledge of fidelity | Synonyms: troth |
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(noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: predicament, quandary |
(verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: pledge |
(verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, engage |
ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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plowwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: ploughwright |
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prizefight | (noun) a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize | Synonyms: prize fight |
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(verb) box for a prize or money | - |
quarterlight | (noun) car window consisting of a small pivoted glass vent in the door of a car | - |
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