| destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| detente | (noun) the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations) | - |
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| deteriorate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, devolve, drop |
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| (verb) become worse or disintegrate | - |
| determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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| (adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
| (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
| detonate | (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, explode, set off |
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| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, explode |
| detoxicate | (verb) remove poison from | Synonyms: detoxify |
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| devaluate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devalue |
| devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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| (verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
| deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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| (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
| (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
| (verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
| devote | (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: give, pay |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, give |
| (verb) set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use | - |
| diamante | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: sequin, spangle |
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| (noun) fabric covered with glittering ornaments such as sequins or rhinestones | - |
| diatomite | (noun) a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material | Synonyms: diatomaceous earth, kieselguhr |
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| dibranchiate | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranch, dibranchiate mollusk |
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| dichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: bichromate |
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| dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative rule | - |
| (verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording | - |
| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: order, prescribe |
| (verb) rule as a dictator | - |
| differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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| (verb) become different during development | - |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |
| digitate | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: fingerlike |
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| dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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| (verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
| dilate | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: distend |
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| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| dilettante | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic |
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| (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, sciolist |
| dilute | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: diluted |
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| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, reduce, thin, thin out |
| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, load, stretch |
| dimenhydrinate | (noun) antihistamine and antiemetic (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Dramamine |
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| dinette | (noun) a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining | - |
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| dinocerate | (noun) an extinct ungulate | - |
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| dinoflagellate | (noun) chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton | - |
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| diorite | (noun) a granular crystalline intrusive rock | - |
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| diplomate | (noun) medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a diploma granted by an appropriate professional group | - |
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| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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| directorate | (noun) a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution | Synonyms: board of directors |
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| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| disarticulate | (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disjoint |
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| disassociate | (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
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| discalceate | (adjective) (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals | Synonyms: discalced, unshod |
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| discombobulate | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, throw |
| discomycete | (noun) any fungus that is a member of the subclass Discomycetes | Synonyms: cup fungus |
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| disconsolate | (adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled | Synonyms: inconsolable, unconsolable |
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| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| discorporate | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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| discrete | (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: distinct |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
| (verb) distinguish | - |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| disintegrate | (verb) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity | - |
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| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, decompose |
| (verb) cause to undergo fission or lose particles | - |
| diskette | (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: floppy, floppy disk |
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| dislocate | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: luxate, slip, splay |
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| (verb) put out of its usual place, position, or relationship | - |
| disorientate | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorient |
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| disparate | (adjective) fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind | - |
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| (adjective) including markedly dissimilar elements | - |
| dispassionate | (adjective) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | Synonyms: cold-eyed |
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| disproportionate | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportional |
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| (adjective) not proportionate | - |
| dispute | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: contravention |
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| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: conflict, difference, difference of opinion |
| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, gainsay |
| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, quarrel, scrap |
| disrepute | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: discredit |
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| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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| dissimilate | (verb) become dissimilar or less similar | - |
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| (verb) make dissimilar; cause to become less similar | - |
| (verb) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities | - |
| dissimulate | (verb) hide (feelings) from other people | - |
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| dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter |
| (verb) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | - |
| dissociate | (verb) to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms | - |
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| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: decouple |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce |
| dissolute | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| dissonate | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: disharmonize |
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| (verb) be dissonant or harsh | - |
| distaste | (noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, aversion |
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| distillate | (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillation |
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| distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
| (verb) release | - |
| (verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
| (verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
| (verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
| disunite | (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: divide, part, separate |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce |
| divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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| divaricate | (verb) spread apart | - |
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| (verb) branch off | - |
| doctorate | (noun) one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university | Synonyms: doctor's degree |
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| dolabrate | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabriform |
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| dolomite | (noun) a kind of sedimentary rock resembling marble or limestone but rich in magnesium carbonate | - |
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| (noun) a light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium; used as a ceramic and as fertilizer | Synonyms: bitter spar |
| domesticate | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
| (verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: tame |
| domiciliate | (verb) provide someone with accomodation | Synonyms: house, put up |
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| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, reside, shack |
| dominate | (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: master |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: predominate, prevail, reign, rule |
| (verb) be in control | - |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, overlook, overtop |
| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow |
| donate | (verb) give to a charity or good cause | - |
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| doorplate | (noun) a nameplate fastened to a door; indicates the person who works or lives there | - |
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| dote | (verb) shower with love; show excessive affection for | - |
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| (verb) be foolish or senile due to old age | - |
| dovecote | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, columbary |
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| duette | (noun) a musical composition for two performers | Synonyms: duet, duo |
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| (noun) two performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: duet, duo |
| dulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| dumpsite | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard, wasteyard |
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| duplicate | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: matching, twin, twinned |
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| (adjective) identically copied from an original | - |
| (noun) a copy that corresponds to an original exactly | Synonyms: duplication |
| (noun) something additional of the same kind | Synonyms: extra |
| (verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: double |
| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
| (verb) make a duplicate or duplicates of | - |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: parallel, twin |
| dynamite | (noun) an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp | - |
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| (verb) blow up with dynamite | - |
| ebonite | (noun) a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber | Synonyms: hard rubber, vulcanite |
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| ebracteate | (adjective) without bracts | - |
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| ecarte | (noun) a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high | - |
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| ectoparasite | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon |
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| edentate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentulate |
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| (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | - |
| edentulate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentate |
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| educate | (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, prepare, train |
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| (verb) give an education to | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train |
| edulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, sweeten |
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| effectuate | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effect, set up |
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| effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| effete | (adjective) deprived of vigor and the ability to be effective | - |
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| (adjective) affected, overrefined, and effeminate | - |
| egalite | (noun) social and political equality | Synonyms: egality |
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| ejaculate | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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| (verb) eject semen | - |
| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out |
| elaborate | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: detailed, elaborated |
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| (adjective) marked by complexity and richness of detail | Synonyms: luxuriant |
| (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine |
| (verb) work out in detail | Synonyms: work out |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product | - |
| elate | (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
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| electorate | (noun) the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote | - |
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| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electrolyte | (noun) a solution that conducts electricity | - |
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| electroplate | (noun) any artifact that has been plated with a thin coat of metal by electrolysis | - |
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| (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
| elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| (noun) a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status | Synonyms: elite group |