| reborn | (adjective) spiritually reborn or converted | Synonyms: born-again |
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| (adjective) restored to new life and vigor | Synonyms: revitalised, revitalized |
| relearn | (verb) learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it | - |
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| return | (noun) the act of going back to a prior location | - |
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| (noun) a coming to or returning home | Synonyms: homecoming |
| (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restitution, restoration |
| (noun) a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player | - |
| (noun) (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble | - |
| (noun) a reciprocal group action | Synonyms: getting even, paying back |
| (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: reappearance |
| (noun) the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed | Synonyms: return key |
| (noun) document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability | Synonyms: income tax return, tax return |
| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, riposte |
| (noun) happening again (especially at regular intervals) | Synonyms: recurrence |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction | Synonyms: coming back |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, take, takings, yield |
| (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, revert, turn back |
| (verb) be restored | Synonyms: come back |
| (verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, recall |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, riposte |
| (verb) submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority | - |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, render |
| (verb) make a return | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, render, yield |
| (verb) go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before | - |
| (verb) return to a previous position; in mathematics | - |
| (verb) bring back to the point of departure | Synonyms: bring back, take back |
| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, repay |
| (verb) return in kind | - |
| (verb) give back | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, pass |
| (verb) elect again | Synonyms: reelect |
| saxhorn | (noun) any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves | - |
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| scorn | (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, disdain |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, disdain |
| secern | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| shoehorn | (noun) a device used for easing the foot into a shoe | - |
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| (verb) fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited | - |
| shopworn | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopsoiled |
| shorn | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: sheared |
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| shorthorn | (noun) English breed of short-horned cattle | Synonyms: Durham |
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| sideburn | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers |
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| silvern | (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silver, silvery |
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| (adjective) resembling or reminiscent of silver | Synonyms: silvery |
| slattern | (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slovenly woman, slut, trollop |
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| (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, street girl, streetwalker |
| sojourn | (noun) a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) | Synonyms: visit |
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| (verb) spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily | - |
| southeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeasterly |
| southern | (adjective) situated in or coming from regions of the south | - |
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| (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
| (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southerly |
| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southerly |
| southwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Nevada, Utah, Colorado | - |
| spurn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, turn down |
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| stern | (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, strict |
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| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | Synonyms: austere |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stark |
| (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, tail |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| stillborn | (adjective) (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn | - |
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| (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: abortive, unsuccessful |
| stinkhorn | (noun) any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales | Synonyms: carrion fungus |
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| stockhorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, pibgorn |
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| stubborn | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) not responding to treatment | Synonyms: refractory |
| subaltern | (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary |
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| (noun) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain | - |
| suborn | (verb) induce to commit perjury or give false testimony | - |
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| (verb) procure (false testimony or perjury) | - |
| (verb) incite to commit a crime or an evil deed | - |
| sunburn | (noun) redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun | Synonyms: erythema solare |
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| (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: burn |
| sworn | (adjective) bound by or stated on oath | - |
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| (adjective) bound by or as if by an oath | Synonyms: pledged |
| taciturn | (adjective) habitually reserved and uncommunicative | - |
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| tarn | (noun) a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers) | - |
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| tavern | (noun) a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: tap house |
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| tern | (noun) small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail | - |
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| thorn | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: irritant |
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| (noun) a Germanic character of runic origin | - |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker |
| timeworn | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| torn | (adjective) disrupted by the pull of contrary forces | - |
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| (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerate, lacerated, mangled |
| tricorn | (noun) cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points | Synonyms: tricorne |
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| turn | (noun) the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course | Synonyms: turning |
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| (noun) the act of turning away or in the opposite direction | - |
| (noun) taking a short walk out and back | - |
| (noun) a favor for someone | Synonyms: good turn |
| (noun) (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession | Synonyms: play |
| (noun) turning or twisting around (in place) | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, number, routine |
| (noun) a movement in a new direction | Synonyms: turning |
| (noun) an unforeseen development | Synonyms: turn of events, twist |
| (noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, crook, twist |
| (noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: bout, round |
| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, spell, tour |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, twist, wrench, wrick |
| (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, reverse |
| (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, sour, work |
| (verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) undergo a transformation or a change of position or action | Synonyms: change state |
| (verb) change color | - |
| (verb) become officially one year older | - |
| (verb) have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to | Synonyms: call on |
| (verb) direct at someone | - |
| (verb) shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel | - |
| (verb) let (something) fall or spill from a container | Synonyms: release |
| (verb) alter the functioning or setting of | - |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, twist |
| (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plough, plow |
| (verb) to change orientation or direction | - |
| (verb) cause to move around a center so as to show another side of | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) cause to move around or rotate | - |
| (verb) pass to the other side of | Synonyms: move around |
| (verb) move around an axis or a center | - |
| (verb) to send or let go | - |
| (verb) cause to move along an axis or into a new direction | - |
| (verb) channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something | - |
| (verb) get by buying and selling | - |
| (verb) accomplish by rotating | - |
| (verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: become |
| (verb) cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics | - |
| ultramodern | (adjective) extremely modern | - |
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| unborn | (adjective) not yet brought into existence | - |
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| unconcern | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, nonchalance |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of concern | - |
| unicorn | (noun) an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead | - |
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| unlearn | (verb) discard something previously learnt, like an old habit | - |
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| (verb) try to forget; put out of one's memory or knowledge | - |
| unshorn | (adjective) not sheared | Synonyms: unsheared |
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| unsworn | (adjective) not bound by or stated on oath | - |
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| upturn | (noun) an upward movement or trend as in business activity | - |
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| urn | (noun) a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet | - |
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| (noun) a large pot for making coffee or tea | - |
| warn | (verb) notify of danger, potential harm, or risk | - |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, monish |
| (verb) notify, usually in advance | - |
| (verb) ask to go away | - |
| waterworn | (adjective) (of rocks especially) worn smooth by the action of water | - |
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| weatherworn | (adjective) worn by exposure to the weather | Synonyms: weather-beaten, weathered |
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| wellborn | (adjective) of good or upper-class lineage | - |
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| western | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts | - |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River | - |
| (adjective) lying toward or situated in the west | - |
| (adjective) of wind; from the west | Synonyms: westerly |
| (noun) a sandwich made from a western omelet | Synonyms: western sandwich |
| whitethorn | (noun) thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America | Synonyms: Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, English hawthorn, may |
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| windburn | (noun) redness and irritation of the skin caused by exposure to high-velocity wind | - |
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| wivern | (noun) a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs | Synonyms: wyvern |
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| woodfern | (noun) any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris | Synonyms: wood-fern, wood fern |
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| worn | (adjective) affected by wear; damaged by long use | - |
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| (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled |
| wyvern | (noun) a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs | Synonyms: wivern |
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| yarn | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: thread |
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| (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: narration, recital |
| (verb) tell or spin a yarn | - |
| yearn | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, long |
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| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yen |
| (verb) have affection for; feel tenderness for | - |
| zithern | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: cither, zither |
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