| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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| bespoken | (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: betrothed, engaged |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoke, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
| betoken | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, indicate, point, signal |
| birken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birchen |
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| blacken | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, melanise, melanize |
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| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: char, scorch, sear |
| bracken | (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: brake, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
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| (noun) fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions | Synonyms: Pteridium esculentum |
| brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
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| broken | (adjective) physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split | - |
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| (adjective) not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly | - |
| (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded | Synonyms: unkept |
| (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: busted |
| (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: impoverished, wiped out |
| (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: confused, disordered, upset |
| (adjective) discontinuous | - |
| (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: crushed, humbled, humiliated, low |
| (adjective) weakened and infirm | - |
| (adjective) imperfectly spoken or written | - |
| (adjective) lacking a part or parts | - |
| (adjective) topographically very uneven | Synonyms: rugged |
| (adjective) tamed or trained to obey | Synonyms: broken in |
| chicken | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| (noun) a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: Gallus gallus |
| (noun) a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops | - |
| (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: poulet, volaille |
| (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: crybaby, wimp |
| darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
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| (verb) make dark or darker | - |
| (verb) tarnish or stain | - |
| drunken | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, sottish |
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| dumbstricken | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| foretoken | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, preindication, sign |
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| godforsaken | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: waste, wild |
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| harken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, hearken |
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| hearken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, harken |
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| heartbroken | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartsick |
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| housebroken | (adjective) (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place | Synonyms: house-trained |
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| ken | (noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: cognizance |
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| (noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: sight |
| liken | (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: compare, equate |
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| mistaken | (adjective) arising from error | Synonyms: false |
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| (adjective) wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment | Synonyms: misguided |
| oaken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree | - |
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| outspoken | (adjective) given to expressing yourself freely or insistently | Synonyms: vocal |
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| (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
| plainspoken | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) using simple and direct language | - |
| quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) show signs of life | - |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
| reawaken | (verb) awaken once again | - |
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| schnecken | (noun) rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom | Synonyms: caramel bun, honey bun, sticky bun |
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| shaken | (adjective) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock | Synonyms: jolted |
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| shrunken | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled |
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| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, withered, wizen, wizened |
| sicken | (verb) get sick | Synonyms: come down |
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| (verb) make sick or ill | - |
| (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, revolt |
| (verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: nauseate, turn one's stomach |
| silken | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silklike, silky, sleek, slick |
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| slacken | (verb) become looser or slack | - |
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| (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: remit |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slack, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack, slack up |
| spoken | (adjective) uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| stricken | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, struck |
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| (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: afflicted |
| (adjective) put out of action (by illness) | Synonyms: laid low |
| sunken | (adjective) having a sunken area | Synonyms: deep-set, recessed |
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| taken | (adjective) be affected with an indisposition | - |
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| (adjective) understood in a certain way; made sense of | Synonyms: interpreted |
| thicken | (verb) become thick or thicker | Synonyms: inspissate |
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| (verb) make thick or thicker | Synonyms: inspissate |
| (verb) make viscous or dense | Synonyms: inspissate |
| token | (adjective) insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal) | Synonyms: nominal, tokenish |
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| (noun) a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines | - |
| (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: keepsake, relic, souvenir |
| (noun) an individual instance of a type of symbol | Synonyms: item |
| (noun) something serving as a sign of something else | - |
| unbroken | (adjective) not broken; whole and intact; in one piece | - |
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| (adjective) marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence | - |
| (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded | Synonyms: kept |
| (adjective) (of farmland) not plowed | Synonyms: unploughed, unplowed |
| (adjective) not subdued or trained for service or use | - |
| unshaken | (adjective) unshaken in purpose | Synonyms: undaunted, undismayed |
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| unspoken | (adjective) not made explicit | Synonyms: unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalised, unverbalized, unvoiced |
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| (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: mute, silent, tongueless, wordless |
| waken | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up |
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| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up |
| weaken | (verb) become weaker | - |
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| (verb) lessen the strength of | - |
| (verb) reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of | Synonyms: de-escalate, step down |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, soften |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine |