| bunsen | (noun) a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air | Synonyms: bunsen burner, etna |
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| chosen | (noun) an exclusive group of people | Synonyms: elect |
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| (noun) one who is the object of choice; who is given preference | - |
| coarsen | (verb) make less subtle or refined | - |
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| (verb) make or become coarse or coarser | - |
| delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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| (noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
| drusen | (noun) (plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina | - |
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| greisen | (noun) a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica | - |
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| hausen | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, beluga, white sturgeon |
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| hexenbesen | (noun) an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance | Synonyms: staghead, witch broom, witches' broom |
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| lederhosen | (noun) leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria | - |
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| lessen | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, fall |
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| (verb) wear off or die down | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, minify |
| loosen | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, relax |
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| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loose |
| (verb) make less dense | - |
| (verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: tease, tease apart |
| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: undo, untie |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| risen | (adjective) (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon | - |
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| samisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: shamisen |
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| sen | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel | - |
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| shamisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: samisen |
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| spiegeleisen | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel, spiegel iron |
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| unloosen | (verb) loosen the ties of | Synonyms: unloose |
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| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, release, unloose |
| worsen | (verb) grow worse | Synonyms: decline |
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| (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate |