| spend | (verb) pay out | Synonyms: drop, expend |
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| (verb) spend completely | - |
| (verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: pass |
| stagehand | (noun) an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production | Synonyms: stage technician |
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| staghound | (noun) a large heavy hound formerly used in hunting stags and other large game; similar to but larger than a foxhound | - |
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| stand | (noun) a defensive effort | - |
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| (noun) a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance | - |
| (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: base, pedestal |
| (noun) tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade) | - |
| (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: bandstand, outdoor stage |
| (noun) a support for displaying ot holding various articles | Synonyms: rack |
| (noun) a small table for holding articles of various kinds | - |
| (noun) a booth where articles are displayed for sale | Synonyms: sales booth, stall |
| (noun) a mental position from which things are viewed | Synonyms: point of view, standpoint, viewpoint |
| (noun) an interruption of normal activity | Synonyms: standstill, tie-up |
| (noun) a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area | - |
| (noun) the position where a thing or person stands | - |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) have or maintain a position or stand on an issue | - |
| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, resist |
| (verb) be standing; be upright | Synonyms: stand up |
| (verb) put into an upright position | Synonyms: place upright, stand up |
| (verb) be available for stud services | - |
| (verb) hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright | Synonyms: remain firm |
| (verb) be tall; have a height of; copula | - |
| (verb) be in effect; be or remain in force | - |
| (verb) occupy a place or location, also metaphorically | - |
| (verb) be in some specified state or condition | - |
| (verb) remain inactive or immobile | - |
| stipend | (noun) a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose | - |
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| stormbound | (adjective) delayed or confined or cut off by a storm | - |
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| strand | (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: chain, string |
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| (noun) line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable | - |
| (noun) a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole | - |
| (noun) a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) | - |
| (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: fibril, filament |
| (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: ground, run aground |
| (verb) drive (a vessel) ashore | - |
| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: maroon |
| strikebound | (adjective) closed or immobilized by a strike | - |
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| subtend | (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: delimit |
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| subtrahend | (noun) the number to be subtracted from the minuend | - |
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| sunblind | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: awning, sunshade |
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| superintend | (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: manage, oversee, supervise |
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| surround | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surroundings |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent, hem in |
| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, wall |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, skirt |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: smother |
| suspend | (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: freeze |
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| (verb) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid | - |
| (verb) make inoperative or stop | Synonyms: set aside |
| (verb) hang freely | - |
| (verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: debar |
| (verb) render temporarily ineffective | - |
| swampland | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swamp |
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| sweatband | (noun) a band of fabric or leather sewn inside the crown of a hat | - |
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| (noun) a band of material tied around the forehead or wrist to absorb sweat | - |
| tableland | (noun) a relatively flat highland | Synonyms: plateau |
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| tailband | (noun) an endband along the bottom edge of the book (as a book is standing upright). | - |
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| tailwind | (noun) wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| tamarind | (noun) large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys | Synonyms: tamarindo |
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| (noun) long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp | Synonyms: tamarind tree, tamarindo, Tamarindus indica |
| taxistand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: cabstand, taxi rank |
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| tend | (verb) have care of or look after | - |
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| (verb) manage or run | - |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, run |
| thirdhand | (adjective) derived from what is primary or original by two intermediate steps | - |
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| (adverb) by doubly indirect means | - |
| thousand | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units | Synonyms: 1000, k, m, one thousand |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, yard |
| tideland | (noun) land near the sea that is overflowed by the tide | - |
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| timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
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| trainband | (noun) a company of militia in England or America from the 16th century to the 18th century | - |
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| transcend | (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, surpass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, pass, top |
| trend | (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, movement |
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| (noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, vogue |
| (noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: course |
| (noun) a general direction in which something tends to move | Synonyms: tendency |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, veer |
| (verb) to be temporarily popular | - |
| turnaround | (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, reversion, turnabout |
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| (noun) act or process of unloading and loading and servicing a vessel or aircraft for a return trip | Synonyms: turnround |
| (noun) an area sufficiently large for a vehicle to turn around | - |
| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnabout |
| (noun) time need to prepare a vessel or ship for a return trip | Synonyms: turnaround time |
| turnround | (noun) act or process of unloading and loading and servicing a vessel or aircraft for a return trip | Synonyms: turnaround |
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| ultrasound | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: echography, sonography, ultrasonography |
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| (noun) very high frequency sound; used in ultrasonography | - |
| unbend | (verb) release from mental strain, tension, or formality | - |
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| (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unwind |
| (verb) make less taut | Synonyms: relax |
| (verb) free from flexure | - |
| (verb) unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay | - |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: straighten |
| unbind | (verb) untie or unfasten | - |
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| unbound | (adjective) not restrained or tied down by bonds | - |
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| (adjective) not secured within a cover | - |
| (adjective) not held in chemical or physical combination | - |
| underground | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: belowground |
| (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway, subway system, tube |
| (noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: resistance |
| (adverb) beneath the surface of the earth | - |
| (adverb) in or into hiding or secret operation | - |
| underhand | (adjective) with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level | Synonyms: underarm, underhanded |
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| (adjective) marked by deception | Synonyms: sneaky, underhanded |
| (adverb) with the hand swung below shoulder level | Synonyms: underarm |
| (adverb) slyly and secretly | Synonyms: underhandedly |
| underspend | (verb) spend at less than the normal rate | - |
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| (verb) spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example) | - |
| understand | (verb) know and comprehend the nature or meaning of | - |
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| (verb) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally | Synonyms: realise, realize, see |
| (verb) believe to be the case | Synonyms: infer |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, read, translate |
| (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize |
| unfriend | (verb) To remove someone from your list of friends on a social network | - |
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| unhand | (verb) remove the hand from | - |
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| unkind | (adjective) lacking kindness | - |
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| (adjective) deficient in humane and kindly feelings | Synonyms: pitiless |
| unsound | (adjective) not sound financially | - |
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| (adjective) not in good condition; damaged or decayed | - |
| (adjective) suffering from severe mental illness | Synonyms: mentally ill, unstable |
| (adjective) containing or based on a fallacy | Synonyms: fallacious |
| (adjective) physically unsound or diseased | Synonyms: bad, unfit |
| (adjective) of e.g. advice | - |
| unwind | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend |
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| (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unstrain |
| (verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: disentangle |
| (verb) reverse the winding or twisting of | Synonyms: unroll, wind off |
| upbound | (adjective) heading in any direction that is conventionally up | - |
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| upend | (verb) set, turn, or stand on end | - |
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| (verb) become turned or set on end | - |
| upland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: highland |
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| (noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: highland |
| upwind | (adjective) towards the side exposed to wind | Synonyms: weather |
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| (adverb) in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing | Synonyms: against the wind, into the wind |
| (adverb) away from the wind | Synonyms: leeward |
| vagabond | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, drifting, floating, vagrant |
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| (adjective) wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community | Synonyms: rootless |
| (noun) anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place | - |
| (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, floater, vagrant |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, wander |
| vend | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, pitch |
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| viand | (noun) a choice or delicious dish | - |
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| vilipend | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, depreciate |
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| waistband | (noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, girdle, sash, waistcloth |
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| wand | (noun) a rod used by a magician or water diviner | - |
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| (noun) a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir | Synonyms: baton |
| (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, verge |
| (noun) a thin supple twig or rod | - |
| washstand | (noun) furniture consisting of a table or stand to hold a basin and pitcher of water for washing: `wash-hand stand' is a British term | Synonyms: wash-hand stand |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, lavatory, washbasin, washbowl |
| wasteland | (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: barren, waste |
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| watchband | (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: bracelet, watch bracelet, watchstrap, wristband |
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| waveband | (noun) a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals) | Synonyms: frequency band |
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| weekend | (noun) a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday | - |
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| (verb) spend the weekend | - |
| wend | (verb) direct one's course or way | - |
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| westbound | (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westerly, westward |
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| wetland | (noun) a low area where the land is saturated with water | - |
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| whirlwind | (noun) a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth | - |
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| wideband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: broadband |
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| wind | (noun) breath | - |
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| (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, farting, flatus |
| (noun) a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath | Synonyms: wind instrument |
| (noun) an indication of potential opportunity | Synonyms: confidential information, hint, lead, steer, tip |
| (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, malarky, nothingness |
| (noun) air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure | Synonyms: air current, current of air |
| (noun) a tendency or force that influences events | - |
| (noun) the act of winding or twisting | Synonyms: twist, winding |
| (verb) coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem | Synonyms: wind up |
| (verb) form into a wreath | Synonyms: wreathe |
| (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: hoist, lift |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: roll, twine, wrap |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, weave |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: curve, twist |
| (verb) catch the scent of; get wind of | Synonyms: nose, scent |
| withstand | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, resist, stand firm |
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| (verb) resist or confront with resistance | Synonyms: defy, hold, hold up |
| wolfhound | (noun) the largest breed of dogs; formerly used to hunt wolves | - |
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| womankind | (noun) women as distinguished from men | - |
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| wonderland | (noun) an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders | - |
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| (noun) a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder | - |
| woodland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, timberland |
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| woodwind | (noun) any wind instrument other than the brass instruments | Synonyms: wood, woodwind instrument |
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| wound | (adjective) put in a coil | - |
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| (noun) the act of inflicting a wound | Synonyms: wounding |
| (noun) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat | Synonyms: combat injury, injury |
| (noun) a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride) | - |
| (noun) an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) | Synonyms: lesion |
| (verb) cause injuries or bodily harm to | Synonyms: injure |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite |
| wraparound | (noun) a garment (as a dress or coat) with a full length opening; adjusts to the body by wrapping around | - |
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| wristband | (noun) band consisting of a part of a sleeve that covers the wrist | - |
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| (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: bracelet, watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap |