| crippling | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: disabling, incapacitating |
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| croaking | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croak |
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| crocheting | (noun) creating a garment of needlework | - |
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| (noun) needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crochet |
| crooning | (noun) the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner | - |
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| (noun) singing in a soft low tone | - |
| crossbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: interbreeding, miscegenation |
| crossheading | (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crosshead |
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| crossing | (noun) a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) | - |
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| (noun) traveling across | - |
| (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
| (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossover, crosswalk |
| (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection |
| (noun) a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect | - |
| (noun) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded | Synonyms: ford |
| crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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| crowding | (noun) a situation in which people or things are crowded together | - |
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| crowdsourcing | (noun) Work done by a large group of anonymous users | - |
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| crowing | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| crowning | (adjective) forming or providing a crown or summit | - |
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| (adjective) representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment | - |
| crushing | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: devastating |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
| crying | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, exigent, insistent, instant |
| (noun) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds) | Synonyms: tears, weeping |
| crystallizing | (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallization |
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| cuckolding | (noun) A sexual act where a married person has sex with another person while their spouse watches | - |
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| cuddling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| cunning | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: clever, ingenious |
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| (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cute |
| (noun) crafty artfulness (especially in deception) | - |
| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| cupping | (noun) a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface | - |
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| curbing | (noun) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | Synonyms: curb, kerb |
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| curdling | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, coagulation |
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| curing | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: hardening, set, solidification, solidifying |
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| curling | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curled |
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| (noun) a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target | - |
| currajong | (noun) widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle | Synonyms: Brachychiton populneus, kurrajong |
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| currawong | (noun) bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call | Synonyms: bell magpie |
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| curving | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curved |
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| cushioning | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: padding |
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| cutting | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: bleak, raw |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
| (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: edged, stinging |
| (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cut, cutting off |
| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film | Synonyms: film editing |
| (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: thinning |
| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: carving |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| (noun) a piece cut off from the main part of something | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: slip |
| cycling | (noun) the sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle | - |
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| cymling | (noun) squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white | Synonyms: pattypan squash |
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| dabbing | (noun) pressing a marijuana concentrate to a hot surface in order to vaporize it and inhale the concentrate | - |
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| (noun) a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing | Synonyms: dab |
| dairying | (noun) the business of a dairy | Synonyms: dairy farming |
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| damaging | (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious |
| damning | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damnatory |
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| dampening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: moistening |
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| dancing | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, saltation, terpsichore |
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| dangling | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: hanging, suspension |
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| daring | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: audacious, venturesome, venturous |
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| (adjective) radically new or original | Synonyms: avant-garde |
| (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, hardihood, hardiness |
| (noun) a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy | Synonyms: dare |
| darkening | (adjective) becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over | - |
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| (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
| darkling | (adjective) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night | - |
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| (adjective) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure | - |
| darling | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, dear |
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| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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| dashing | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) lively and spirited | Synonyms: gallant |
| dating | (noun) use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens | Synonyms: geological dating |
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| daubing | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: plastering |
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| daunting | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: intimidating |
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| dawdling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, trifling |
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| dawning | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| daydreaming | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| daylong | (adjective) lasting through an entire day | - |
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| (adverb) during the entire day | Synonyms: all day long |
| dayspring | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| dazzling | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous |
| deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
| deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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| dealing | (noun) method or manner of conduct in relation to others | - |
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| (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealings, transaction |
| debasing | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: degrading |
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| debilitating | (adjective) impairing the strength and vitality | - |
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| debriefing | (noun) report of a mission or task | - |
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| debunking | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: repudiation |
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| decentering | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentration |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| deciding | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: determinant, determinative, determining |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision | Synonyms: decision making |
| decoding | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decipherment, decryption |
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| decompressing | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompression |
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| decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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| (adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
| deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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| defang | (verb) remove the fangs from | - |
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| defending | (adjective) attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring | - |
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| defining | (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: shaping |
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| defusing | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: deactivation |
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| degaussing | (noun) the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field | - |
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| degrading | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: debasing |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: corrupting |
| delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| demanding | (adjective) requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill | - |
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| demeaning | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: humbling, humiliating, mortifying |
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| demolishing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: leveling, razing, tearing down |
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| demoralising | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralizing, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| demoralizing | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| denigrating | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| departing | (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: outbound, outward-bound, outward |
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| depicting | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal, portraying |
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| deprecating | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| depreciating | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory |
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| depressing | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful |
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| deregulating | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulation |
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| deriving | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, etymologizing |
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| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| desensitising | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitizing |
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| desensitizing | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitising |
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| deserving | (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: worth |
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| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: design |
| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| despising | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despisal |
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| desynchronizing | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization |
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| detailing | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: particularisation, particularization |
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| detecting | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detection, detective work, sleuthing |
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| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
| (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |