sild | (noun) any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway | - |
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sixfold | (adjective) having six units or components | Synonyms: sextuple, six-fold |
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(adverb) by a factor of six | Synonyms: six times |
snowfield | (noun) a permanent wide expanse of snow | - |
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sold | (adjective) disposed of to a purchaser | - |
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spotweld | (verb) make circular welds | Synonyms: spot-weld |
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stepchild | (noun) a child of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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stokehold | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: fireroom, stokehole |
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stranglehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe | - |
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(noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold |
stronghold | (noun) a strongly fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fastness |
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tenfold | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: denary, ten-fold |
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(adverb) by ten times as much | - |
threefold | (adjective) three times as great or many | Synonyms: three-fold, treble, triple |
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(adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
(adverb) by a factor of three | Synonyms: three times |
threshold | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorsill, doorstep |
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(noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, doorway, room access |
(noun) the smallest detectable sensation | Synonyms: limen |
(noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, verge |
(noun) the starting point for a new state or experience | - |
throttlehold | (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, stranglehold |
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toehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the toe is held and the leg is twisted against the joints | - |
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(noun) a small foothold used in climbing | - |
(noun) a relatively insignificant position from which future progress might be made | - |
twofold | (adjective) twice as great or many | Synonyms: double, doubled, two-fold |
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(adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, dual, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold |
(adverb) by a factor of two | Synonyms: two times |
underworld | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead | Synonyms: Hades, Hell, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol |
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(noun) the criminal class | - |
unfold | (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | Synonyms: blossom, blossom forth, blossom out |
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(verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread, spread out |
(verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: extend, stretch, stretch out |
(verb) open to the view | - |
unsold | (adjective) not disposed of by purchase | - |
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untold | (adjective) too much to be measured | Synonyms: incalculable |
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upfield | (adjective) away from the defending teams' end of the playing field | - |
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uphold | (verb) stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals | - |
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(verb) support against an opponent | Synonyms: maintain |
(verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve |
veld | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veldt |
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weald | (noun) an area of open or forested country | - |
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weld | (noun) a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together | - |
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(noun) European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America | Synonyms: dyer's mignonette, dyer's rocket, Reseda luteola |
(verb) unite closely or intimately | - |
(verb) join together by heating | - |
wheatfield | (noun) a field planted with wheat | Synonyms: wheat field |
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wield | (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: handle, manage |
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(verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: exert, maintain |
wild | (adjective) in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated | Synonyms: untamed |
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(adjective) marked by extreme lack of restraint or control | - |
(adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: hazardous, risky |
(adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: crazy, dotty, gaga |
(adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: godforsaken, waste |
(adjective) talking or behaving irrationally | Synonyms: raving, raving mad |
(adjective) (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud | Synonyms: violent |
(adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized |
(adjective) in a state of extreme emotion | - |
(adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous |
(adjective) fanciful and unrealistic; foolish | Synonyms: fantastic |
(adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted |
(adjective) deviating widely from an intended course | - |
(noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wilderness |
(noun) a wild primitive state untouched by civilization | Synonyms: natural state, state of nature |
(adverb) in a wild or undomesticated manner | - |
(adverb) in an uncontrolled and rampant manner | Synonyms: rampantly |
windshield | (noun) transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle | Synonyms: windscreen |
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withhold | (verb) hold back; refuse to hand over or share | Synonyms: keep back |
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(verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: deduct, recoup |
wold | (noun) a tract of open rolling country (especially upland) | - |
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world | (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, planetary, world-wide, worldwide |
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(noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind |
(noun) all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you | Synonyms: reality |
(noun) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife | Synonyms: earth, earthly concern, worldly concern |
(noun) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest | Synonyms: domain |
(noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: populace, public |
(noun) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | Synonyms: Earth, earth, globe |
(noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe |
(noun) a part of the earth that can be considered separately | - |
yield | (noun) production of a certain amount | Synonyms: output |
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(noun) an amount of a product | Synonyms: fruit |
(noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings |
(noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: output, production |
(verb) end resistance, as under pressure or force | Synonyms: give way |
(verb) consent reluctantly | Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, succumb |
(verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: concede, grant |
(verb) cease opposition; stop fighting | - |
(verb) be flexible under stress of physical force | Synonyms: give |
(verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, render, return |
(verb) cause to happen or be responsible for | Synonyms: give |
(verb) move in order to make room for someone for something | Synonyms: ease up, give, give way, move over |
(verb) bring in | Synonyms: bear, pay |
(verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, concede, grant |
(verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: afford, give |
(verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: relent, soften |
(verb) be fatally overwhelmed | Synonyms: succumb |