support | (noun) aiding the cause or policy or interests of | - |
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(noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: supporting |
(noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: documentation |
(noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, reinforcement |
(noun) the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities | - |
(noun) any device that bears the weight of another thing | - |
(noun) supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation | - |
(noun) something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest | - |
(noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: accompaniment, backup, musical accompaniment |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance |
(noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, funding |
(verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, sustain |
(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, tolerate |
(verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: subscribe |
(verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: defend, fend for |
(verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, patronize |
(verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold, hold up, sustain |
(verb) play a subordinate role to (another performer) | - |
(verb) support materially or financially | - |
(verb) give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to | Synonyms: back up |
(verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for |
(verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, corroborate, underpin |
swallowwort | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: celandine, Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort |
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(noun) tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: Asclepias curassavica, blood flower |
swart | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy |
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sweatshirt | (noun) cotton knit pullover with long sleeves worn during athletic activity | - |
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sweetheart | (adjective) privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically) | - |
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(noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: steady, sweetie, truelove |
(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner |
(noun) any well-liked individual | - |
(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetie |
tailwort | (noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: borage, Borago officinalis |
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tart | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tangy |
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(adjective) harsh | Synonyms: sharp-worded, sharp |
(noun) a small open pie with a fruit filling | - |
(noun) a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust | - |
(noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
teacart | (noun) serving cart for serving tea or light refreshments | Synonyms: tea cart, tea trolley, tea wagon |
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teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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tetterwort | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis |
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thoroughwort | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum |
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throatwort | (noun) European bellflower with blue-purple to lilac flowers formerly used to treat sore throat | Synonyms: Campanula trachelium, nettle-leaved bellflower |
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thwart | (noun) a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat | Synonyms: cross thwart |
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(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil |
toothwort | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, crinkleroot, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root |
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tort | (noun) (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought | Synonyms: civil wrong |
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transport | (noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials | Synonyms: shipping, transportation |
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(noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transportation |
(noun) something that serves as a means of transportation | Synonyms: conveyance |
(noun) a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder | Synonyms: tape drive, tape transport |
(noun) an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes | - |
(noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, raptus |
(verb) move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body | Synonyms: carry |
(verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit |
(verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish |
(verb) move something or somebody around; usually over long distances | - |
(verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: send, ship |
umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
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unalert | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unvigilant, unwatchful |
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underpart | (noun) a part lying on the lower side or underneath an animal's body | - |
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undershirt | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: singlet, vest |
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underskirt | (noun) undergarment worn under a skirt | Synonyms: half-slip, petticoat |
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unhurt | (adjective) free from danger or injury | Synonyms: safe and sound |
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(adjective) not injured or harmed | Synonyms: unharmed, unscathed, whole |
upstart | (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue |
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(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright | Synonyms: kip |
(noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: arriviste, nouveau-riche, parvenu |
(noun) an arrogant or presumptuous person | - |
wart | (noun) (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus | Synonyms: verruca |
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(noun) any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) | - |
(noun) an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness) | - |
wartwort | (noun) not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | Synonyms: devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed |
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whitlowwort | (noun) any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail) | - |
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whorlywort | (noun) a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America | Synonyms: Culver's physic, Culver's root, Culvers physic, Culvers root, Veronicastrum virginicum |
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worrywart | (noun) thinks about unfortunate things that might happen | Synonyms: fuss-budget, fusspot, worrier |
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wort | (noun) unfermented or fermenting malt | - |
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(noun) usually used in combination: `liverwort', `milkwort', `whorlywort' | - |
yoghourt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghurt, yogurt |
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yoghurt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghourt, yogurt |
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yogurt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghourt, yoghurt |
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yurt | (noun) a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing | - |
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