abound | (verb) be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities | - |
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(verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: bristle, burst |
aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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abscond | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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addend | (noun) a number that is added to another number (the augend) | - |
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aground | (adjective) stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float | - |
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(adverb) with the bottom lodged on the ground | - |
almond | (noun) oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree | - |
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(noun) small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California | Synonyms: Amygdalus communis, Prunus amygdalus, Prunus dulcis, sweet almond |
amend | (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair |
(verb) make amendments to | - |
ampersand | (noun) a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) | - |
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analysand | (noun) a person undergoing psychoanalysis | - |
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append | (verb) state or say further | Synonyms: add, supply |
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(verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: hang on, tack, tack on, tag on |
(verb) add to the very end | Synonyms: add on, affix, supplement |
apprehend | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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(verb) take into custody | Synonyms: arrest, collar, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
(verb) anticipate with dread or anxiety | Synonyms: quail at |
arcsecond | (noun) a 60th part of a minute of arc | Synonyms: second |
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armband | (noun) a band worn around the upper arm | - |
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(noun) worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning | - |
around | (adverb) in circumference | - |
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(adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: about |
(adverb) from beginning to end; throughout | Synonyms: round |
(adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, approximately, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
(adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: about |
(adverb) by a circular or circuitous route | - |
(adverb) in a circle or circular motion | - |
(adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: about |
(adverb) to a particular destination either specified or understood | - |
(adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: about |
ascend | (verb) slope upwards | - |
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(verb) travel up | Synonyms: go up |
(verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: come up, rise, uprise |
(verb) go along towards (a river's) source | - |
(verb) move to a better position in life or to a better job | Synonyms: move up, rise |
(verb) appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils | Synonyms: climb up |
(verb) become king or queen | - |
(verb) go back in order of genealogical succession | - |
astound | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astonish |
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attend | (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: advert, give ear, hang, pay heed |
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(verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: assist, attend to, serve, wait on |
(verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: look, see, take care |
(verb) be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc. | Synonyms: go to |
(verb) to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result | - |
attosecond | (noun) one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond | - |
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augend | (noun) a number to which another number (the addend) is added | - |
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backband | (noun) a broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle | - |
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backbend | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor | - |
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background | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop |
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(noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: desktop, screen background |
(noun) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training | - |
(noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: ground |
(noun) information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem | Synonyms: background knowledge |
(noun) extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured | Synonyms: background signal |
(noun) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation | - |
(noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: scope, setting |
(verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
backhand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhanded |
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(adjective) (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward | Synonyms: left-slanting |
(noun) a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke | Synonyms: backhand shot, backhand stroke |
(verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
band | (noun) a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body) | - |
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(noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: banding, stripe |
(noun) a restraint put around something to hold it together | - |
(noun) jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger | Synonyms: ring |
(noun) a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) | Synonyms: ring |
(noun) a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration | - |
(noun) a driving belt in machinery | - |
(noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: banding, stria, striation |
(noun) a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure | Synonyms: isthmus |
(noun) a range of frequencies between two limits | - |
(noun) instrumentalists not including string players | - |
(noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: circle, lot, set |
(noun) a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing | Synonyms: dance band, dance orchestra |
(verb) bind or tie together, as with a band | - |
(verb) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify | Synonyms: ring |
bandstand | (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand |
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battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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bedground | (noun) an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night | Synonyms: bed-ground, bed ground |
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beforehand | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: advance |
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(adverb) ahead of time; in anticipation | Synonyms: ahead, in advance |
befriend | (verb) become friends with | - |
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behind | (adjective) having the lower score or lagging position in a contest | - |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(adverb) in or to or toward the rear | - |
(adverb) remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from | - |
(adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behindhand, in arrears |
(adverb) in or into an inferior position | - |
(adverb) showing a time that is earlier than the actual time | Synonyms: slow |
behindhand | (adjective) behind schedule | - |
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(adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behind, in arrears |
bellyband | (noun) a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon | - |
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(noun) a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) | - |
belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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(adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
bend | (noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) | Synonyms: curve |
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(noun) diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left | Synonyms: bend dexter |
(noun) movement that causes the formation of a curve | Synonyms: bending |
(noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
(noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: crook, turn, twist |
(verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: deform, flex, turn, twist |
(verb) bend a joint | Synonyms: flex |
(verb) form a curve | Synonyms: flex |
(verb) change direction | - |
(verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: deflect, turn away |
(verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bow, crouch, stoop |
beyond | (adverb) over and above | - |
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(adverb) farther along in space or time or degree | - |
(adverb) on the farther side from the observer | - |
bind | (noun) something that hinders as if with bonds | - |
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(verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: constipate |
(verb) form a chemical bond with | - |
(verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: hold, obligate, oblige |
(verb) make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope | - |
(verb) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord | Synonyms: tie |
(verb) provide with a binding | - |
(verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to |
(verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss |
(verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bandage |
(verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bond, tie |
bland | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: politic, smooth, suave |
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(adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
(adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | Synonyms: flat |
blend | (noun) the act of blending components together thoroughly | Synonyms: blending |
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(noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: portmanteau, portmanteau word |
(noun) an occurrence of thorough mixing | - |
(verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
(verb) combine into one | Synonyms: immingle, intermingle, intermix |
(verb) blend or harmonize | Synonyms: blend in, go |
blind | (adjective) unable to see | Synonyms: unsighted |
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(adjective) not based on reason or evidence | Synonyms: unreasoning |
(adjective) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand | - |
(noun) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight | Synonyms: screen |
(noun) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) | - |
(noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: subterfuge |
(noun) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group | - |
(verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: dim |
(verb) make blind by putting the eyes out | - |
(verb) render unable to see | - |
blond | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blonde, light-haired |
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(noun) a light grayish yellow to near white | Synonyms: blonde |
(noun) a male person with fair skin and hair | - |
bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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boarhound | (noun) large hound used in hunting wild boars | - |
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bond | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: hamper, shackle, trammel |
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(noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: attachment |
(noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness |
(noun) an electrical force linking atoms | Synonyms: chemical bond |
(noun) a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal | Synonyms: bond certificate |
(noun) (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial | Synonyms: bail, bail bond |
(noun) a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest | Synonyms: alliance |
(noun) a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents | Synonyms: bond paper |
(verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, hold fast, stick, stick to |
(verb) bring together in a common cause or emotion | Synonyms: draw together |
(verb) issue bonds on | - |
(verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bind, tie |
bookend | (noun) a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) | - |
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borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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bound | (adjective) confined by bonds | - |
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(adjective) secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form | - |
(adjective) held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union | - |
(adjective) confined in the bowels | - |
(adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: destined |
(adjective) bound by an oath | - |
(adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bandaged |
(adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: apprenticed, articled, indentured |
(adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: destined |
(noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
(noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: boundary, limit |
(noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: boundary, bounds |
(noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: boundary, edge |
(verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
(verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: jump, leap, spring |
(verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: border |
boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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brand | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, steel, sword |
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(noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: make |
(noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name |
(noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma |
(noun) identification mark on skin, made by burning | - |
(noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: firebrand |
(verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
(verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
(verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
(verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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(adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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(adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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coastland | (noun) land in a coastal area | - |
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command | (noun) the power or authority to command | - |
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(noun) availability for use | - |
(noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: control, mastery |
(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation |
(noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: instruction, program line, statement |
(noun) a military unit or region under the control of a single officer | - |
(noun) a position of highest authority | - |
(verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: require |
(verb) be in command of | - |
(verb) demand as one's due | - |
(verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: control |
(verb) look down on | Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop |
commend | (verb) express approbation of | - |
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(verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: remember |
(verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: recommend |
(verb) give to in charge | - |
(verb) present as worthy of regard, kindness, or confidence | - |
compound | (adjective) composed of more than one part | - |
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(adjective) consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts | - |
(adjective) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony | Synonyms: colonial |
(noun) an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) | - |
(noun) a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts | - |
(noun) a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes. | Synonyms: compound word |
(noun) (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight | Synonyms: chemical compound |
(verb) put or add together | Synonyms: combine |
(verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: deepen, heighten, intensify |
(verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: combine |
(verb) create by mixing or combining | - |
(verb) calculate principal and interest | - |
comprehend | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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(verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: perceive |
(verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: cover, embrace, encompass |
condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
(verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
(verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
confound | (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confuse |
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(verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
contend | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contest, repugn |
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(verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, debate, fence |
(verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: postulate |
(verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, vie |
(verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: fight, struggle |
(verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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(noun) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law | - |
coonhound | (noun) any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons | - |
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correspond | (verb) exchange messages | - |
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(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
(verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: represent, stand for |
(verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: equate |
countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
cowhand | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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dachshund | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachsie |
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deckhand | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: roustabout |
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decompound | (adjective) of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound | - |
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deerhound | (noun) very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland | Synonyms: Scottish deerhound |
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defend | (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: fend for, support |
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(verb) state or assert | Synonyms: maintain |
(verb) be on the defensive; act against an attack | - |
(verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: guard, hold |
(verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: champion |
(verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: fight, fight back, fight down, oppose |
(verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: represent |
demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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(noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
(noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
(noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
(noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
(verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
(verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
(verb) summon to court | - |
(verb) ask to be informed of | - |
(verb) lay legal claim to | - |
(verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
depend | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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(verb) be contingent upon (something that is elided) | - |
descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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(verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
(verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
deskbound | (adjective) restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity | Synonyms: desk-bound |
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despond | (verb) lose confidence or hope; become dejected | - |
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diamond | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, infield |
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(noun) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it | - |
(noun) the baseball playing field | Synonyms: ball field, baseball field |
(noun) a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram | Synonyms: rhomb, rhombus |
(noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: adamant |
disband | (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: dissolve |
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(verb) cause to break up or cease to function | - |
distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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(verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
(verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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(noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
(noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
dockhand | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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downbound | (adjective) heading in any direction that is conventionally down | - |
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downwind | (adjective) towards the side away from the wind | Synonyms: lee |
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(adverb) with the wind; in the direction the wind is blowing | - |
(adverb) toward the wind | Synonyms: windward |
dreamland | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamworld, never-never land |
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dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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earthbound | (adjective) confined to the earth | - |
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(adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: pedestrian, prosaic, prosy |
eastbound | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastward |
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eland | (noun) either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes | - |
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elkhound | (noun) breed of compact medium-sized dog with a heavy grey coat developed in Norway for hunting elk | Synonyms: Norwegian elkhound |
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ellwand | (noun) a rod an ell long, used for official measurement. | Synonyms: ell-wand |
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emend | (verb) make improvements or corrections to | - |
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end | (noun) the part you are expected to play | - |
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(noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line | - |
(noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: oddment, remainder, remnant |
(noun) a final part or section | - |
(noun) the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it | Synonyms: goal |
(noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, conclusion, ending |
(noun) the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence | Synonyms: last |
(noun) either extremity of something that has length | Synonyms: terminal |
(noun) a boundary marking the extremities of something | - |
(noun) the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object | - |
(noun) one of two places from which people are communicating to each other | - |
(noun) (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage | - |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, destruction |
(noun) the point in time at which something ends | Synonyms: ending |
(verb) bring to an end or halt | Synonyms: terminate |
(verb) put an end to | - |
(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, finish, stop, terminate |
(verb) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of | Synonyms: terminate |
endband | (noun) a part of a book, most often found with hardcover bindings, that consists of a small cord or strip of material affixed near the spine to provide structural reinforcement and sometimes decorative effect. | - |
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errand | (noun) a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission | - |
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expand | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, flourish, thrive |
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(verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: amplify, blow up, inflate |
(verb) become larger in size or volume or quantity | - |
(verb) expand the influence of | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity | - |
(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
(verb) extend in one or more directions | Synonyms: spread out |
expend | (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
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(verb) pay out | Synonyms: drop, spend |
expound | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate |
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(verb) state | Synonyms: exposit, set forth |