| backdown | (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: climb-down, withdrawal |
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| beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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| blown | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: pursy, short-winded, winded |
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| (adjective) being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor | - |
| breakdown | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: dislocation |
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| (noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: partitioning |
| (noun) a cessation of normal operation | Synonyms: equipment failure |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: decomposition, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
| (noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) a mental or physical breakdown | Synonyms: crack-up |
| brown | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: browned |
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| (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
| (noun) an orange of low brightness and saturation | Synonyms: brownness |
| (verb) fry in a pan until it changes color | - |
| (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: embrown |
| clampdown | (noun) sudden restriction on an activity | - |
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| closedown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closing, closure, shutdown |
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| clown | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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| (noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: buffoon |
| (verb) act as or like a clown | Synonyms: antic, clown around |
| comedown | (noun) decline to a lower status or level | - |
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| countdown | (noun) counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle) | - |
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| cowtown | (noun) a small town in a cattle-raising area of western North America | Synonyms: cow town |
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| crackdown | (noun) severely repressive actions | - |
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| crosstown | (adjective) going or extending across a town or city | Synonyms: cross-town |
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| (adverb) across a town or city | - |
| crown | (noun) the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty | Synonyms: diadem |
| (noun) a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory | - |
| (noun) the center of a cambered road | Synonyms: crest |
| (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown |
| (noun) the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel | - |
| (noun) the top of the head | Synonyms: pate, poll |
| (noun) the award given to the champion | Synonyms: pennant |
| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, peak, summit, tip, top |
| (noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant | Synonyms: treetop |
| (noun) an English coin worth 5 shillings | - |
| (verb) be the culminating event | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) put an enamel cover on | - |
| (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: coronate |
| (verb) form the topmost part of | - |
| disown | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: renounce, repudiate |
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| (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disinherit |
| down | (adjective) being or moving lower in position or less in some value | - |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: downward |
| (adjective) becoming progressively lower | - |
| (adjective) not functioning (temporarily or permanently) | - |
| (adjective) lower than previously | Synonyms: depressed |
| (adjective) shut | - |
| (adjective) being put out in a game of baseball | - |
| (adjective) understood perfectly | Synonyms: down pat, mastered |
| (noun) (American football) a complete play to advance the football | - |
| (noun) soft fine feathers | Synonyms: down feather |
| (noun) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | Synonyms: pile |
| (noun) (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil | - |
| (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | Synonyms: downward, downwardly, downwards |
| (adverb) away from a more central or a more northerly place | - |
| (adverb) paid in cash at time of purchase | - |
| (adverb) in an inactive or inoperative state | - |
| (adverb) to a lower intensity | - |
| (adverb) from an earlier time | - |
| (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: fine-tune, polish, refine |
| (verb) bring down or defeat (an opponent) | - |
| (verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, devour, go through |
| (verb) cause to come or go down | Synonyms: cut down, knock down, pull down, push down |
| (verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: land, shoot down |
| downtown | (adjective) of or located in the lower part of a town, or in the business center | - |
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| (noun) the central area or commercial center of a town or city | Synonyms: business district |
| (adverb) toward or in the lower or central part of town | - |
| drown | (verb) die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating | - |
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| (verb) kill by submerging in water | - |
| (verb) get rid of as if by submerging | - |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: overwhelm, submerge |
| (verb) be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: swim |
| eiderdown | (noun) down of the eider duck | - |
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| (noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, duvet |
| embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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| (verb) cause to darken | - |
| flyblown | (adjective) blemished, especially of reputation | - |
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| (adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive | Synonyms: sordid, squalid |
| (adjective) spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies | Synonyms: maggoty |
| frown | (noun) a facial expression of dislike or displeasure | Synonyms: scowl |
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| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: glower, lour, lower |
| godown | (noun) (in India and Malaysia) a warehouse | - |
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| gown | (noun) a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions | - |
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| (noun) outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: robe |
| (noun) protective garment worn by surgeons during operations | Synonyms: scrubs, surgical gown |
| (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: night-robe, nightdress, nightgown, nightie |
| (noun) the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located | - |
| (verb) dress in a gown | - |
| grown | (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grownup |
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| homegrown | (adjective) grown or originating in a particular place | - |
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| hometown | (noun) the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence | - |
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| ingrown | (adjective) growing abnormally into the flesh | Synonyms: ingrowing |
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| knockdown | (adjective) (furniture) easily assembled and dismantled | - |
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| (noun) a blow that knocks the opponent off his feet | - |
| known | (adjective) apprehended with certainty | - |
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| letdown | (noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: disappointment |
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| lockdown | (noun) the act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot) | - |
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| lookdown | (noun) similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead | Synonyms: lookdown fish, Selene vomer |
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| meltdown | (noun) a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown | - |
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| (noun) severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping | Synonyms: nuclear meltdown |
| mown | (adjective) (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine | Synonyms: cut |
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| nightgown | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightie |
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| nutbrown | (adjective) of the color of nuts | - |
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| overblown | (adjective) past the stage of full bloom | - |
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| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous |
| overgrown | (adjective) covered with growing plants | - |
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| (adjective) abounding in usually unwanted vegetation | - |
| own | (adjective) belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive | Synonyms: ain |
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| (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: have, possess |
| renown | (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: celebrity, fame |
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| rubdown | (noun) the act of rubbing down, usually for relaxation or medicinal purposes | - |
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| rundown | (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: summation, summing up |
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| shakedown | (adjective) intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system | - |
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| (noun) extortion of money (as by blackmail) | - |
| (noun) a very thorough search of a person or a place | - |
| (noun) initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state | - |
| shantytown | (noun) a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties | - |
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| showdown | (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off |
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| shutdown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closing, closure |
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| slowdown | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, retardation |
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| sown | (adjective) sprinkled with seed | Synonyms: seeded |
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| spelldown | (noun) a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | Synonyms: spelling bee, spelling contest |
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| splashdown | (noun) a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight | - |
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| standdown | (noun) (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action | Synonyms: stand-down |
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| (noun) a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness | Synonyms: stand-down |
| sundown | (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sunset |
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| takedown | (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, squelcher |
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| (noun) (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position | - |
| thistledown | (noun) pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle | - |
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| thrown | (adjective) caused to fall to the ground | - |
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| (adjective) twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread | Synonyms: thrown and twisted |
| touchdown | (noun) a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line | - |
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| (noun) a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes | - |
| town | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: townsfolk, townspeople |
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| (noun) an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city | - |
| (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: township |
| turndown | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: nonacceptance |
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| unbeknown | (adjective) (usually used with `to') occurring or existing without the knowledge of | Synonyms: unbeknownst |
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| (adverb) without someone's knowledge | Synonyms: unbeknownst |
| unknown | (adjective) not known | - |
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| (adjective) being or having an unknown or unnamed source | Synonyms: nameless, unidentified, unnamed |
| (adjective) not famous or acclaimed | Synonyms: obscure, unsung |
| (adjective) not known before | Synonyms: strange |
| (adjective) not known to exist | - |
| (noun) a variable whose values are solutions of an equation | Synonyms: unknown quantity |
| (noun) an unknown and unexplored region | Synonyms: terra incognita, unknown region |
| (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: alien, stranger |
| unmown | (adjective) (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine | Synonyms: uncut |
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| unsown | (adjective) (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it | Synonyms: unseeded |
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| uptown | (adjective) of or located in the upper part of a town | - |
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| (noun) a residential part of town away from the central commercial district | - |
| (adverb) toward or in the upper part of town | - |
| windblown | (adjective) used especially of trees; growing in a shape determined by the prevailing winds | - |
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