| acneiform | (adjective) resembling acne | - |
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| aeriform | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: airlike |
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| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aery, airy, ethereal |
| aliform | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, alary, wing-shaped |
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| amygdaliform | (adjective) shaped like an almond | Synonyms: almond-shaped, amygdaloid, amygdaloidal |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arciform | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arcuate, bowed |
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| armyworm | (noun) moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes | Synonyms: Pseudaletia unipuncta |
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| (noun) noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain | Synonyms: army worm, Pseudaletia unipuncta |
| (noun) larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted | - |
| arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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| auriform | (adjective) having a shape resembling an ear | Synonyms: ear-like, ear-shaped |
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| bacilliform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, baculiform, rod-shaped |
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| baculiform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, rod-shaped |
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| barnstorm | (verb) tour the country making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting plays | - |
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| (verb) appear at county fairs and carnivals as a stunt flier and parachute jumper | - |
| biform | (adjective) having or combining two forms | - |
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| blindworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm |
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| (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: caecilian |
| bloodworm | (noun) a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait | - |
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| bollworm | (noun) any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls | - |
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| bookworm | (noun) someone who spends a great deal of time reading | - |
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| (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: pedant, scholastic |
| botuliform | (adjective) long with rounded ends | - |
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| brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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| (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
| bromoform | (noun) colorless liquid haloform CHBr3 | Synonyms: tribromomethane |
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| bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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| cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
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| caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| cairngorm | (noun) a smoky yellow or brown quartz | Synonyms: smoky quartz |
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| calceiform | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceolate |
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| cankerworm | (noun) green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees | - |
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| caseworm | (noun) insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body | - |
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| chloroform | (noun) a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: trichloromethane |
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| (verb) anesthetize with chloroform | - |
| columniform | (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columnar, columnlike |
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| conform | (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adapt, adjust |
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| (verb) be similar, be in line with | - |
| cordiform | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordate, heart-shaped |
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| corm | (noun) solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure | - |
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| cruciform | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciate |
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| cubiform | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cumuliform | (adjective) shaped like a cumulus cloud | - |
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| cuneiform | (adjective) of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones) | - |
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| (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneal, wedge-shaped |
| (noun) an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | - |
| cutworm | (noun) North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground | - |
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| deform | (verb) become misshapen | - |
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| (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: distort, strain |
| (verb) assume a different shape or form | Synonyms: change form, change shape |
| (verb) make formless | - |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, flex, turn, twist |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, distort, wring |
| dendriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| disciform | (adjective) having a round or oval shape like a disc | - |
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| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| dorm | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dormitory, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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| earthworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| eelworm | (noun) any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms | - |
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| ensiform | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| falciform | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falcate, sickle-shaped |
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| filiform | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, threadlike, thready |
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| firestorm | (noun) an outburst of controversy | - |
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| (noun) a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area | - |
| fishworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| flatworm | (noun) parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | Synonyms: platyhelminth |
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| fluoroform | (noun) colorless gas haloform CHF3 (similar to chloroform) | Synonyms: trifluoromethane |
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| form | (noun) the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance | Synonyms: shape |
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| (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (noun) a mold for setting concrete | - |
| (noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: cast, shape |
| (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, contour, shape |
| (noun) an ability to perform well | - |
| (noun) a particular mode in which something is manifested | - |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: pattern, shape |
| (noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: kind, sort, variety |
| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, signifier, word form |
| (noun) a printed document with spaces in which to write | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse | - |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, grade |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: strain, var., variant |
| (noun) (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary | Synonyms: phase |
| (verb) give shape or form to | Synonyms: shape |
| (verb) assume a form or shape | - |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, mold, mould, shape, work |
| (verb) create (as an entity) | Synonyms: organise, organize |
| (verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, make |
| (verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: spring, take form, take shape |
| fusiform | (adjective) tapering at each end | Synonyms: cigar-shaped, spindle-shaped |
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| glowworm | (noun) the luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly | - |
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| hailstorm | (noun) a storm during which hail falls | - |
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| haloform | (noun) compounds with the formula CHX3, where X is a halogen atom | - |
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| hookworm | (noun) parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts | - |
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| (noun) infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin | Synonyms: hookworm disease |
| inchworm | (noun) small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae | Synonyms: looper, measuring worm |
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| inform | (verb) give character or essence to | - |
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| (verb) impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to | - |
| (verb) act as an informer | - |
| iodoform | (noun) a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing | Synonyms: triiodomethane |
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| (noun) sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3 | Synonyms: tri-iodomethane |
| jointworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| lentiform | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular |
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| lobworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lug, lugworm |
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| lugworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lobworm, lug |
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| mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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| multiform | (adjective) occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances | - |
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| nitrochloroform | (noun) a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas | Synonyms: chloropicrin |
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| nonuniform | (adjective) not homogeneous | Synonyms: inhomogeneous |
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| norm | (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: average |
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| (noun) a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical | - |
| outperform | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| oviform | (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, ovoid, prolate |
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| panduriform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, pandurate |
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| papilliform | (adjective) shaped like a papilla | - |
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| patelliform | (adjective) shaped like a dish or pan | Synonyms: dish-shaped, dished |
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| perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, execute |
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| (verb) give a performance (of something) | - |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) perform a function | - |
| phylliform | (adjective) having the shape of a leaf | - |
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| pinworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, threadworm |
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| pisiform | (noun) a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral | Synonyms: os pisiforme, pisiform bone |
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| platform | (noun) a raised horizontal surface | - |
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| (noun) any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons | Synonyms: weapons platform |
| (noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: chopine |
| (noun) the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system | - |
| (noun) a long, flat raised structure of a railway station, where people get on and off of trains | - |
| (noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party | Synonyms: political platform, political program, program |
| preform | (verb) form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | - |
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| (verb) form into a shape resembling the final, desired one | - |
| rainstorm | (noun) a storm with rain | - |
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| reform | (noun) a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses | - |
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| (noun) a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices | - |
| (noun) self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice | - |
| (verb) make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices | - |
| (verb) break up the molecules of | - |
| (verb) produce by cracking | - |
| (verb) change for the better | Synonyms: see the light, straighten out |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, regenerate |
| (verb) improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition | - |
| reniform | (adjective) (of a leaf or bean shape) resembling the shape of kidney | Synonyms: kidney-shaped |
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| ringworm | (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: roundworm, tinea |
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| roundworm | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode, nematode worm |
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| (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: ringworm, tinea |
| sagittiform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes | Synonyms: arrow-shaped, sagittate |
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| salamandriform | (adjective) shaped like a salamander | - |
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| salverform | (adjective) of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip | - |
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| sandstorm | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sirocco |
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| shipworm | (noun) wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells | Synonyms: teredinid |
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| shitstorm | (noun) A considerable backlash or controversy | - |
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| silkworm | (noun) the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk | - |
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| (noun) larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon | Synonyms: giant silkworm, wild wilkworm |
| slowworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, blindworm |
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| snowstorm | (noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: blizzard |
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| splitworm | (noun) greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm | Synonyms: Phthorimaea operculella, potato moth, potato tuber moth |
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| storm | (noun) a direct and violent assault on a stronghold | - |
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| (noun) a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning | Synonyms: violent storm |
| (noun) a violent commotion or disturbance | Synonyms: tempest |
| (verb) attack by storm; attack suddenly | Synonyms: surprise |
| (verb) take by force | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: rage, ramp |
| (verb) blow hard | - |
| (verb) rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning | - |