| customise | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customize |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customize, tailor-make |
| customshouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customhouse |
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| cutpurse | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: dip, pickpocket |
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| cyclooxygenase | (noun) either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin | Synonyms: Cox |
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| cymose | (adjective) having a usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the main and branch stems each end in a flower that opens before those below it or to its side | - |
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| danseuse | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: ballerina |
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| database | (noun) an organized body of related information | - |
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| debase | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: alloy |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarboxylase | (noun) any of the enzymes that hydrolize the carboxyl group | - |
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| decarburise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburize, decoke |
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| decease | (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: death, expiry |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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| decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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| (verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
| decolonise | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonize |
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| decolorise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decompose | (verb) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | Synonyms: break down, break up |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: molder, moulder, rot |
| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, disintegrate |
| decrease | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down |
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| (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrement |
| (noun) a change downward | Synonyms: drop-off, lessening |
| (noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrement |
| (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| defeminise | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminize |
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| defense | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defence, defensive measure |
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| (noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defence |
| (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, demurrer, denial |
| (noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defence |
| (noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defence, defensive structure |
| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, vindication |
| (noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defence, refutation |
| (noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defence, defense lawyers, defense team |
| (noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defence, defending team |
| (noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence, defence force, defense force |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
| defuse | (verb) remove the triggering device from | - |
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| deglycerolise | (verb) remove from glycerol | Synonyms: deglycerolize |
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| degrease | (verb) remove grease or oil from (a pan) | - |
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| dehumanise | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanize |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanize |
| delouse | (verb) free of lice | - |
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| demagnetise | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetize |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetize |
| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| dematerialise | (verb) become immaterial; disappear | Synonyms: dematerialize |
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| demilitarise | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarize |
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| (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarize, disarm |
| demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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| demise | (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: death, dying |
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| (verb) transfer by a lease or by a will | - |
| demitasse | (noun) small coffee cup; for serving black coffee | - |
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| (noun) small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream | Synonyms: cafe noir |
| demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
| democratise | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
| demonetise | (verb) deprive of value for payment | Synonyms: demonetize |
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| demonise | (verb) make into a demon | Synonyms: demonize |
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| demoralise | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| demythologise | (verb) remove the mythical element from (writings) | Synonyms: demythologize |
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| denationalise | (verb) put under private control or ownership | Synonyms: denationalize |
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| denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
| dense | (adjective) having high relative density or specific gravity | - |
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| (adjective) hard to pass through because of dense growth | Synonyms: thick |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: heavy, impenetrable |
| (adjective) having component parts closely crowded together | Synonyms: thick |
| deodorise | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorize, deodourise |
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| deodourise | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorise, deodorize |
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| deoxidise | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidize, reduce |
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| deoxyribose | (noun) a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids | - |
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| depersonalise | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalize, objectify |
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| depolarise | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarize |
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| depose | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, swear |
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| (verb) force to leave (an office) | Synonyms: force out |
| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| deputise | (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: depute, deputize |
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| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputize, step in, substitute |
| derecognise | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognize |
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| desalinise | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinize, desalt |
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| desensitise | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
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| (verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
| desexualise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) direct one's libidinous urges into another direction | Synonyms: desexualize |
| despise | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, disdain, scorn |
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| destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
| destalinise | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinize |
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| desynchronise | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronize |
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| detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| detribalise | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalize |
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| devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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| devise | (noun) (law) a gift of real property by will | - |
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| (noun) a will disposing of real property | - |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
| (verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
| devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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| dextroglucose | (noun) an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits | Synonyms: dextrose, grape sugar |
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| dextrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from left to right | Synonyms: dextrorsal |
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| dextrose | (noun) an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits | Synonyms: dextroglucose, grape sugar |
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| diabolise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolize |
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| diagnose | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) subject to a medical analysis | - |
| diagonalise | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalize |
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| dialyse | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyze |
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| dichotomise | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomize |
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| diffuse | (adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffused, soft |
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| (adjective) spread out; not concentrated in one place | - |
| (adjective) lacking conciseness | - |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: fan out, spread, spread out |
| digitalise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalize, digitise, digitize |
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| digitise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitize |
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| diocese | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: bishopric, episcopate |
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| diphthongise | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongize |
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| disabuse | (verb) free somebody (from an erroneous belief) | - |
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| disaccharidase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides | - |
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| disburse | (verb) expend, as from a fund | Synonyms: pay out |
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| discase | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| disclose | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: expose, uncover |
| discolorise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorize, discolourise |
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| discolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize |
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| discompose | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, disconcert, untune, upset |
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| discourse | (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discussion, treatment |
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| (noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing | - |
| (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: preaching, sermon |
| (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: dissertate, hold forth |
| (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: converse |
| (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discuss, talk about |
| disease | (noun) an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning | - |
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| disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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| disfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disenfranchise |
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| disguise | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: camouflage |
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| (noun) any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity | - |
| (noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: camouflage |
| (verb) make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mask |
| disorganise | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganize |
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| dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
| disperse | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, scatter |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) separate (light) into spectral rays | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: dissipate, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter |
| displease | (verb) give displeasure to | - |
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| dispose | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: qualify |
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| (verb) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief | Synonyms: incline |
| (verb) place or put in a particular order | - |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
| (verb) give, sell, or transfer to another | - |
| dispraise | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: disparagement |
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| disuse | (noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: neglect |
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| diverse | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: various |
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| (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: divers |
| doghouse | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, kennel |
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| (noun) an idiomatic term for being in disfavor | - |