tush | (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, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie |
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underbrush | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: undergrowth, underwood |
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undernourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: malnourish |
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unlash | (verb) untie the lashing of | - |
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unleash | (verb) release or vent | - |
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(verb) release from a leash | - |
(verb) turn loose or free from restraint | Synonyms: let loose, loose |
unselfish | (adjective) disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others | - |
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(adjective) not greedy | - |
unstylish | (adjective) lacking in style or elegance | Synonyms: styleless |
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(adjective) not in accord with or not following current fashion | Synonyms: unfashionable |
uppish | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches |
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vanish | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
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(verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: fly, vaporize |
(verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: disappear |
(verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fell, fly |
(verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
vanquish | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce |
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vaporish | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporous, vapourific, vapourish, vapourous |
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vapourish | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourific, vapourous |
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varnish | (noun) a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface | - |
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(verb) cover with varnish | Synonyms: seal |
vigorish | (noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | Synonyms: usury |
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(noun) a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster | Synonyms: rake-off |
vinegarish | (adjective) having a sour disposition; ill-tempered | Synonyms: vinegary |
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(adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, acetous, vinegary |
vixenish | (adjective) shrewish and malicious | - |
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voguish | (adjective) in accord with the latest fad | Synonyms: trendy |
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(adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: chic, smart |
waggish | (adjective) witty or joking | - |
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wash | (noun) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out | - |
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(noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: lavation, washing |
(noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, washables, washing |
(noun) a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other | Synonyms: wash drawing |
(noun) a thin coat of water-base paint | - |
(noun) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) | Synonyms: dry wash |
(noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, slipstream |
(noun) the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) | Synonyms: washout |
(verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: lave |
(verb) to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking | - |
(verb) remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent | Synonyms: wash away, wash off, wash out |
(verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, moisten |
(verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, lave |
(verb) form by erosion | - |
(verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: hush |
(verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: launder |
(verb) separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) | - |
(verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: rinse |
(verb) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to | - |
(verb) move by or as if by water | - |
(verb) be capable of being washed | - |
(verb) admit to testing or proof | - |
waspish | (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, prickly, splenetic |
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weakfish | (noun) food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out | Synonyms: Cynoscion regalis |
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(noun) lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
welsh | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welch |
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whiplash | (noun) a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object | Synonyms: lash, whip |
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(noun) an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident) | Synonyms: whiplash injury |
whish | (verb) move with a whishing sound | - |
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(verb) make a sibilant sound | - |
whitefish | (noun) silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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(noun) flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
(noun) any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring | - |
whitelash | (noun) backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances | Synonyms: white backlash |
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whitewash | (noun) a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects | - |
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(noun) wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces | - |
(noun) a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score | - |
(verb) exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data | - |
(verb) cover with whitewash | - |
(verb) cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error | Synonyms: gloss over, hush up, sleek over |
whitish | (adjective) of something having a color tending toward white | Synonyms: off-white |
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(adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milklike, milky |
whoosh | (noun) the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid) | Synonyms: swoosh |
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(verb) gush or squirt out | - |
(verb) move with a whooshing sound | Synonyms: hiss |
(verb) move with a sibilant sound | Synonyms: woosh |
wimpish | (adjective) weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: wimpy |
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wish | (noun) the particular preference that you have | - |
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(noun) an expression of some desire or inclination | Synonyms: indirect request |
(noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: compliments, regard |
(noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wishing |
(verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: bid |
(verb) order politely; express a wish for | - |
(verb) make or express a wish | - |
(verb) feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of | Synonyms: wish well |
(verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: care, like |
wolffish | (noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: catfish, wolf fish |
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(noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, lancetfish |
wolfish | (adjective) resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf | Synonyms: wolflike |
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(adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious |
womanish | (adjective) having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men | - |
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woosh | (verb) move with a sibilant sound | Synonyms: whoosh |
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wreckfish | (noun) brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks | Synonyms: Polyprion americanus, stone bass |
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yellowish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellow |
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yokelish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: bounderish, ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred |
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youngish | (adjective) somewhat young | - |
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