| copybook | (noun) a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship | - |
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| cork | (noun) the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle) | Synonyms: bottle cork |
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| (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobber, bobfloat |
| (noun) outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc. | - |
| (noun) (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells | Synonyms: phellem |
| (verb) stuff with cork | - |
| (verb) close a bottle with a cork | Synonyms: cork up |
| cornerback | (noun) a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers | - |
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| cornhusk | (noun) the husk of an ear of corn | - |
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| cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
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| cornstalk | (noun) the stalk of a corn plant | Synonyms: corn stalk |
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| cottonwick | (noun) of warm Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Haemulon malanurum |
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| counterattack | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: countermove |
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| (noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterplay |
| (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterstrike |
| countercheck | (noun) something that checks the correctness of a previous check | Synonyms: double check |
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| (noun) a check that restrains another check | - |
| (verb) check a second time | - |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
| countersink | (noun) a bit for enlarging the upper part of a hole | Synonyms: counterbore, countersink bit |
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| (noun) a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface | - |
| (verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: set |
| countryfolk | (noun) people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics | Synonyms: country people |
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| (noun) people living in the same country; compatriots | Synonyms: country people |
| coursework | (noun) work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's grade in the course | - |
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| cowlick | (noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat | - |
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| crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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| (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: cracking, fracture |
| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: fling, go, offer, pass, whirl |
| (noun) a narrow opening | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack cocaine, tornado |
| (noun) a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts | - |
| (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: quip, sally, wisecrack |
| (noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: cracking, snap |
| (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, cranny, crevice, fissure |
| (noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: shot |
| (verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
| (verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
| (verb) cause to become cracked | - |
| (verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
| (verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
| (verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
| (verb) tell spontaneously | - |
| (verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
| (verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
| crackerjack | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: jimdandy, jimhickey |
| crampbark | (noun) deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries | Synonyms: cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus |
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| crank | (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: cranky, tender, tippy |
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| (noun) a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle | Synonyms: starter |
| (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
| (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crosspatch, grouch, grump |
| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
| (verb) rotate with a crank | Synonyms: crank up |
| (verb) bend into the shape of a crank | - |
| (verb) fasten with a crank | - |
| (verb) start by cranking | Synonyms: crank up |
| (verb) travel along a zigzag path | Synonyms: zigzag |
| creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| creashak | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| creek | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: brook |
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| crewelwork | (noun) embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn | - |
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| crick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick |
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| (verb) twist (a body part) into a strained position | - |
| croak | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croaking |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: gnarl, grumble, murmur, mutter |
| (verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: cronk |
| crock | (noun) an earthen jar (made of baked clay) | Synonyms: earthenware jar |
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| (noun) nonsense; foolish talk | - |
| (noun) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | Synonyms: carbon black, lampblack, smut, soot |
| (verb) soil with or as with crock | - |
| (verb) release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric | - |
| cronk | (verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: croak |
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| (verb) cry like a goose | Synonyms: honk |
| crook | (noun) a long staff with one end being hook shaped | Synonyms: shepherd's crook |
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| (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, turn, twist |
| (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: curve |
| crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
| crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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| crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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| (noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
| crossjack | (noun) the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizzen course |
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| crosstalk | (noun) the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling | Synonyms: XT |
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| crosswalk | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crossover |
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| crownwork | (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crown, jacket, jacket crown |
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| (noun) a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress. | - |
| cufflink | (noun) jewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt | - |
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| cusk | (noun) large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | Synonyms: Brosme brosme, torsk |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
| (noun) the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters | - |
| cutback | (noun) a reduction in quantity or rate | - |
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| cutwork | (noun) embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away | - |
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| cyberpunk | (noun) a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies | - |
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| (noun) a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology | - |
| (noun) a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism | Synonyms: cyber-terrorist |
| czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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| dabchick | (noun) small European grebe | Synonyms: little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis |
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| dak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dhak, palas |
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| damask | (adjective) having a woven pattern | - |
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| (noun) a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it | - |
| (noun) a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern | - |
| dank | (adjective) of high quality especially of marijuana | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: clammy |
| dark | (adjective) devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black | - |
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| (adjective) (used of color) having a dark hue | - |
| (adjective) brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) | - |
| (adjective) secret | - |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, sinister |
| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
| (adjective) not giving performances; closed | - |
| (adjective) marked by difficulty of style or expression | Synonyms: obscure |
| (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: benighted |
| (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: darkness |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: darkness, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: darkness |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: darkness, wickedness |
| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: night, nighttime |
| datemark | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, dateline |
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| daybook | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: ledger |
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| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: journal |
| daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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| debark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: disembark, set down |
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| debunk | (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: expose |
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| deck | (noun) any of various platforms built into a vessel | - |
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| (noun) street name for a packet of illegal drugs | - |
| (noun) a porch that resembles the deck on a ship | - |
| (noun) a pack of 52 playing cards | Synonyms: deck of cards, pack of cards |
| (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, dump, floor, knock down |
| (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, bedight |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
| defrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: unfrock |
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| derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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| (noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
| desk | (noun) a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments | - |
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| detick | (verb) free (a pet) of ticks | - |
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| detusk | (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: tusk |
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| dhak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dak, palas |
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| diamondback | (noun) large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings | Synonyms: Crotalus adamanteus, diamondback rattlesnake |
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| dibbuk | (noun) (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior | Synonyms: dybbuk |
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| dick | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, pecker, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
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| (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: gumshoe, hawkshaw |
| dieback | (noun) a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches | - |
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| diestock | (noun) a device that holds the dies that cut external threads on metal cylinders | - |
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| dink | (noun) a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net | Synonyms: drop shot |
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| dipstick | (noun) a graduated rod dipped into a container to indicate the fluid level | - |
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| dirk | (noun) a relatively long dagger with a straight blade | - |
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| disembark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: debark, set down |
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| disk | (noun) a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record |
| (noun) (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored | Synonyms: disc, magnetic disc, magnetic disk |
| (noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc, saucer |
| (verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: harrow |
| dock | (noun) the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair | - |
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| (noun) a short or shortened tail of certain animals | Synonyms: bob, bobtail |
| (noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dockage, docking facility |
| (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: pier, wharf, wharfage |
| (noun) an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial | - |
| (noun) a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded | Synonyms: loading dock |
| (noun) any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine | Synonyms: sorrel, sour grass |
| (verb) maneuver into a dock | - |
| (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, tail |
| (verb) come into dock | - |
| (verb) deduct from someone's wages | - |
| (verb) deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty | - |
| doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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| donkeywork | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: drudgery, grind, plodding |
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| doorlock | (noun) a lock on an exterior door | - |
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| dork | (noun) a dull stupid fatuous person | Synonyms: jerk |
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| doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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| doublethink | (noun) believing two contradictory ideas at the same time | - |
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| downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| drawback | (noun) the quality of being a hindrance | - |
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| drawnwork | (noun) ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns | - |
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| dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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| dreck | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: schlock, shlock |
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| drink | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drinking, drunkenness |
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| (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, swallow |
| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drinkable, potable |
| (noun) a single serving of a beverage | - |
| (noun) any large deep body of water | - |
| (verb) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to | Synonyms: drink in |
| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: imbibe |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: tope |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail |
| dropkick | (noun) (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground | - |
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| (verb) make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| (verb) drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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| (noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
| drunk | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: gone, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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| (adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: intoxicated |
| (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
| (noun) someone who is intoxicated | - |
| drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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| (verb) maneuver (a ship) into a drydock | Synonyms: dry-dock |
| duck | (noun) small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs | - |
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| (noun) a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents | - |
| (noun) flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) | - |
| (noun) (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman | Synonyms: duck's egg |
| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
| (verb) to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away | - |
| (verb) submerge or plunge suddenly | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: dip, douse |
| dumbstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| dunk | (noun) a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket | Synonyms: dunk shot, stuff shot |
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| (verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dip |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, plunge, souse |
| (verb) make a dunk shot, in basketball | - |
| dunnock | (noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow |
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| dusk | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| (verb) become dusk | - |
| dwojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using equal amounts of water and honey. | - |
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| dybbuk | (noun) (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior | Synonyms: dibbuk |
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| earmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: hallmark, stylemark, trademark |
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| (noun) identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal | - |
| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, reserve, set aside |
| earthwork | (noun) an earthen rampart | - |
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| eggwhisk | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggbeater |
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| electroshock | (noun) the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma | Synonyms: ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, electroshock therapy |
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| elk | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, moose |
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| (noun) common deer of temperate Europe and Asia | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus, red deer, wapiti |
| (noun) large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, wapiti |
| embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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| embark | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: enter |
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| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: ship |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: venture |
| fallback | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, pullout |
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| fancywork | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: embroidery |
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