| corselet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corslet |
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| corset | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: girdle, stays |
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| (verb) dress with a corset | - |
| corslet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corselet |
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| corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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| corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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| coruscant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| cosecant | (noun) ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cosec |
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| cosmetologist | (noun) an expert in the use of cosmetics | - |
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| cosmographist | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographer |
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| cosmologist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe | - |
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| cosmonaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, spaceman |
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| cosset | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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| cost | (noun) the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold) | Synonyms: monetary value, price |
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| (noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something | Synonyms: price, toll |
| (noun) the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor | - |
| (verb) be priced at | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice | - |
| costusroot | (noun) annual herb of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs | Synonyms: Saussurea costus, Saussurea lappa |
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| cot | (noun) a small bed that folds up for storage or transport | Synonyms: camp bed |
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| (noun) baby bed with high sides made of slats | Synonyms: crib |
| (noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger | Synonyms: fingerstall |
| cotangent | (noun) ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cotan |
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| cotenant | (noun) one of two or more tenants holding title to the same property | - |
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| couchant | (adjective) lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward | - |
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| count | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: counting, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl | - |
| (noun) the total number counted | - |
| (verb) include as if by counting | - |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) take account of | Synonyms: reckon |
| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: enumerate, number, numerate |
| (verb) name or recite the numbers in ascending order | - |
| (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: consider, weigh |
| (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: matter, weigh |
| (verb) put into a group | Synonyms: number |
| (verb) have a certain value or carry a certain weight | - |
| counteract | (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, antagonize |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: countercheck |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counterbalance, countervail, neutralize |
| counterargument | (noun) an argument offered in opposition to another argument | - |
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| counterblast | (noun) a vigorous and unrestrained response | - |
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| counterbombardment | (noun) bombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons | - |
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| countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| counterfeit | (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: imitative |
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| (noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: forgery |
| (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: fake, forge |
| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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| counterpart | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: similitude, twin |
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| (noun) a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another | Synonyms: opposite number, vis-a-vis |
| counterplot | (noun) a plot intended to subvert another plot | Synonyms: counterplan |
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| (verb) make a plot in response to another plot | - |
| counterpoint | (noun) a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies | - |
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| (verb) write in counterpoint | - |
| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: contrast |
| counterproject | (noun) a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty. | - |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| countershot | (noun) a return shot; a retaliatory shot | - |
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| countersuit | (noun) a suit brought against someone who has sued you | - |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
| counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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| (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
| countryseat | (noun) an estate in the country | - |
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| couplet | (noun) a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed | - |
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| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| court | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: homage |
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| (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: courtyard |
| (noun) a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played | - |
| (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: courtroom |
| (noun) a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area | Synonyms: motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court |
| (noun) the residence of a sovereign or nobleman | - |
| (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: judicature, tribunal |
| (noun) the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state | Synonyms: royal court |
| (noun) the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince | Synonyms: royal court |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: romance, solicit, woo |
| (verb) seek someone's favor | Synonyms: woo |
| (verb) engage in social activities leading to marriage | - |
| covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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| covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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| covenant | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, concordat |
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| (noun) (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return | - |
| (verb) enter into a covenant or formal agreement | - |
| (verb) enter into a covenant | - |
| coverlet | (noun) a decorative bedspread (usually quilted) | - |
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| covert | (adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband | - |
| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, screen |
| (noun) a flock of coots | - |
| covet | (verb) wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person) | - |
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| crabmeat | (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crab |
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| crackpot | (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
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| craft | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: trade |
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| (noun) a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space | - |
| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship |
| (noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: trade |
| (verb) make by hand and with much skill | - |
| cragfast | (adjective) stranded on or as if on a crag | - |
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| craniologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: phrenologist |
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| crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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| crapshoot | (noun) playing craps | Synonyms: crap game, crap shooting |
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| (noun) a risky and uncertain venture | - |
| crapulent | (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulous |
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| cravat | (noun) neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front | - |
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| credit | (noun) recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours | Synonyms: course credit |
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| (noun) used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise | - |
| (noun) an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments | Synonyms: credit rating |
| (noun) approval | Synonyms: recognition |
| (noun) an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work | - |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services | Synonyms: deferred payment |
| (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items | Synonyms: credit entry |
| (noun) money available for a client to borrow | - |
| (verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
| (verb) give someone credit for something | - |
| (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
| (verb) enter as credit | - |
| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| (noun) any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters | - |
| crest | (noun) a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal | - |
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| (noun) (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet | - |
| (noun) the center of a cambered road | Synonyms: crown |
| (noun) the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave | - |
| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crown, peak, summit, tip, top |
| (verb) reach a high point | - |
| (verb) lie at the top of | Synonyms: cap |
| crewet | (noun) bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table | Synonyms: cruet |
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| cricket | (noun) a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs | - |
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| (noun) leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together | - |
| (verb) play cricket | - |
| criminologist | (noun) a specialist in criminology | - |
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| crinkleroot | (noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots | Synonyms: Cardamine diphylla, crinkle-root, crinkle root, Dentaria diphylla, pepper root, toothwort |
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| crit | (noun) a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles) | Synonyms: criterium |
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| crochet | (noun) needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crocheting |
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| (verb) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle | Synonyms: hook |
| (verb) create by looping or crocheting | - |
| crocket | (noun) an architectural ornament of curved foliage used at the edge of a spire or gable | - |
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| croft | (noun) a small farm worked by a crofter | - |
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| croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
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| cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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| croquet | (noun) a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg | - |
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| (verb) play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops | - |
| (verb) drive away by hitting with one's ball | - |
| crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| crosscut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: cutoff, shortcut |
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| (noun) a diagonal path | - |
| (verb) cut using a diagonal line | Synonyms: cut across |
| crotchet | (noun) a small tool or hooklike implement | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness |
| (noun) a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note | Synonyms: quarter note |
| (noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: hook |
| crowbait | (noun) an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows | Synonyms: crow-bait |
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| crowfoot | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, goldcup, kingcup |
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| cruet | (noun) bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table | Synonyms: crewet |
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| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| crumpet | (noun) a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle | - |
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| crust | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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| (noun) the outer layer of the Earth | Synonyms: Earth's crust |
| (noun) a hard outer layer that covers something | Synonyms: encrustation, incrustation |
| (verb) form a crust or form into a crust | - |
| cryostat | (noun) a thermostat that operates at very low temperatures | - |
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| crypt | (noun) a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) | - |
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| cryptanalyst | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptographer, cryptologist |
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| cryptologist | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalyst, cryptographer |
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| cubist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubistic |
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| (noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
| cubit | (noun) an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm | - |
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| cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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| cucurbit | (noun) any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| culprit | (noun) someone who perpetrates wrongdoing | Synonyms: perpetrator |
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| cult | (noun) a system of religious beliefs and rituals | Synonyms: cultus, religious cult |
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| (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, fad, furor, furore, rage |
| (noun) a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false | - |
| (noun) followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices | - |
| (noun) followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader | - |
| cultist | (noun) a member of a religious cult | - |
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| (noun) a member of an unorthodox cult who generally lives outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader | - |
| culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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| cumquat | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp | Synonyms: kumquat, kumquat tree |
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| cunt | (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat |
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| (noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: bitch |
| curet | (noun) a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity | Synonyms: curette |
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| curettement | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettage |
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| currant | (noun) any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams | - |
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| (noun) small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking | - |
| (noun) any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants | Synonyms: currant bush |
| current | (adjective) occurring in or belonging to the present time | - |
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| (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: stream |
| (noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: flow, stream |
| (noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor | Synonyms: electric current |
| curst | (adjective) deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | Synonyms: cursed |
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| curt | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, laconic, terse |
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| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, short |
| curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
| (noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
| curvet | (noun) a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down | Synonyms: vaulting |
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| (verb) perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse | - |
| cushat | (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, ringdove, wood pigeon |
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