| scofflaw | (noun) one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses | - |
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| scow | (noun) a barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold | - |
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| (noun) any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends | - |
| screw | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screwing, shag, shtup |
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| (noun) a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head | - |
| (noun) a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air | Synonyms: screw propeller |
| (noun) a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole | - |
| (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailer, jailor, prison guard, turnkey |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, shaft |
| (verb) tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions | - |
| (verb) cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion | Synonyms: drive in |
| (verb) turn like a screw | - |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, sleep together, sleep with |
| scrimshaw | (noun) a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers | - |
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| seesaw | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, teeter-totter, teeter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board |
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| (verb) move up and down as if on a seesaw | - |
| (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: teeter-totter, teetertotter |
| (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: teeter, totter |
| serow | (noun) short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of southern and southeastern Asia | - |
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| setscrew | (noun) a screw (often without a head) that fits into the boss or hub of a wheel or cam etc. and prevents motion of the part relative to the shaft on which it is mounted | - |
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| (noun) a screw that is used to adjust the tension on a spring | - |
| sew | (verb) fasten by sewing; do needlework | Synonyms: run up, sew together, stitch |
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| (verb) create (clothes) with cloth | Synonyms: tailor-make, tailor |
| shadblow | (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, serviceberry, shadbush |
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| shadow | (noun) refuge from danger or observation | - |
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| (noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom |
| (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: tincture, trace, vestige |
| (noun) a premonition of something adverse | - |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, darkness |
| (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadower, tail |
| (noun) an inseparable companion | - |
| (noun) a dominating and pervasive presence | - |
| (noun) shade within clear boundaries | - |
| (verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge | - |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade, shade off |
| shallow | (adjective) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center | - |
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| (adjective) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply | - |
| (adjective) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious | - |
| (noun) a stretch of shallow water | Synonyms: shoal |
| (verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
| (verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
| shew | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, show |
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| shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
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| show | (noun) an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment | - |
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| (noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: appearance |
| (noun) something intended to communicate a particular impression | Synonyms: display |
| (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, shew |
| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, testify |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, point |
| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, express |
| (verb) give evidence of, as of records | - |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, register |
| (verb) finish third or better in a horse or dog race | - |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, render |
| (verb) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums | Synonyms: usher |
| (verb) make visible or noticeable | - |
| (verb) be or become visible or noticeable | Synonyms: show up |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, present |
| shrew | (noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles | Synonyms: shrewmouse |
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| (noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Synonyms: termagant |
| sideshow | (noun) a minor show that is part of a larger one (as at the circus) | - |
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| (noun) a subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event | - |
| sinew | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity |
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| (noun) a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment | Synonyms: tendon |
| skew | (adjective) having an oblique or slanting direction or position | Synonyms: skewed |
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| (verb) turn or place at an angle | - |
| slaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: coleslaw |
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| slew | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slide, slip, slue |
| slow | (adjective) not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time | - |
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| (adjective) at a slow tempo | - |
| (adjective) (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time | - |
| (adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: dull, sluggish |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse |
| (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
| (adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: easy, slowly, tardily |
| (adverb) showing a time that is earlier than the actual time | Synonyms: behind |
| (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, retard, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slack, slacken, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to proceed more slowly | Synonyms: slow down, slow up |
| smew | (noun) smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Mergus albellus |
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| snow | (noun) street names for cocaine | Synonyms: blow, C, coke, nose candy |
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| (noun) precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals | Synonyms: snowfall |
| (noun) a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground | - |
| (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes |
| (verb) fall as snow | - |
| snowplow | (noun) a vehicle used to push snow from roads | Synonyms: snowplough |
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| somehow | (adverb) in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means | Synonyms: someway, someways |
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| (adverb) for some unspecified reason | - |
| sorrow | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: grief |
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| (noun) an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement | - |
| (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: regret, rue, ruefulness |
| (noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sadness, sorrowfulness |
| (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: grieve |
| southpaw | (noun) a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right | Synonyms: left-hander, lefty |
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| (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, lefty |
| sow | (noun) an adult female hog | - |
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| (verb) introduce into an environment | - |
| (verb) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth | Synonyms: seed |
| (verb) place seeds in or on (the ground) | Synonyms: inseminate, sow in |
| sparrow | (noun) any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects | Synonyms: true sparrow |
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| (noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: dunnock, hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis |
| spew | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, ptyalize, spit, spue |
| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: eruct, spew out |
| splitsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: ripsaw |
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| squaw | (noun) derogatory terms for an American Indian woman | - |
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| stew | (noun) food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables | - |
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| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, lather, sweat, swither |
| (verb) cook slowly and for a long time in liquid | - |
| (verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: grudge |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, grizzle |
| stow | (verb) fill by packing tightly | - |
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| straightarrow | (adjective) conventionally moral and upright | - |
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| straw | (adjective) of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored | - |
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| (noun) a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth | Synonyms: drinking straw |
| (noun) a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white | Synonyms: pale yellow, wheat |
| (noun) plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder | - |
| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble |
| (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: strew |
| (verb) cover or provide with or as if with straw | - |
| strew | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: straw |
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| (verb) cover; be dispersed over | - |
| sundew | (noun) any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution | Synonyms: daily dew, sundew plant |
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| swallow | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, drink |
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| (noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations | - |
| (noun) a small amount of liquid food | Synonyms: sup |
| (verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge | - |
| (verb) keep from expressing | - |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: accept, live with |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
| (verb) utter unclearly | - |
| (verb) engulf and destroy | - |
| (verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking | Synonyms: get down |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up |
| tallow | (noun) obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants | - |
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| taw | (noun) a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles | Synonyms: shooter |
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| (noun) the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| thaw | (noun) a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile | - |
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| (noun) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt | Synonyms: thawing, warming |
| (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melt, melting, thawing |
| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, melt, unfreeze, unthaw |
| throw | (noun) the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist) | - |
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| (noun) casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly | - |
| (noun) bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something | - |
| (noun) the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam | Synonyms: cam stroke, stroke |
| (noun) a single chance or instance | - |
| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle |
| (verb) convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) utter with force; utter vehemently | Synonyms: hurl |
| (verb) propel through the air | - |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, switch |
| (verb) place or put with great energy | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cause to fall off | - |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) throw (a die) out onto a flat surface | - |
| (verb) make on a potter's wheel | - |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, project |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, hold, make |
| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, discombobulate |
| (verb) move violently, energetically, or carelessly | - |
| (verb) to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly | - |
| thumbscrew | (noun) screw designed to be turned with the thumb and fingers | - |
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| (noun) instrument of torture that crushes the thumb | - |
| tomorrow | (noun) the near future | - |
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| (noun) the day after today | - |
| (adverb) the next day, the day after, following the present day | - |
| topminnow | (noun) small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control | Synonyms: live-bearer, poeciliid, poeciliid fish |
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| (noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: helleri, swordtail, Xyphophorus helleri |
| tow | (noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope | Synonyms: towage |
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| (verb) drag behind | - |
| undergrow | (verb) grow below something | - |
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| undertow | (noun) the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore | Synonyms: sea-poose, sea-purse, sea-puss, sea purse, sea puss |
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| (noun) an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling | - |
| unfollow | (verb) to stop following a user on social media | - |
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| unhallow | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, desecrate |
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| unscrew | (verb) loosen something by unscrewing it | - |
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| (verb) loosen by turning | - |
| unthaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze |
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| upthrow | (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, uplift, upthrust |
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| view | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, survey |
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| (noun) graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: horizon, purview |
| (noun) outward appearance | - |
| (noun) purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of' | - |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, vista |
| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, position |
| (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought |
| (noun) a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof | Synonyms: opinion |
| (noun) the range of the eye | Synonyms: eyeshot |
| (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, regard, see |
| (verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: consider, look at |
| (verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, see, take in, watch |
| vow | (noun) a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner | - |
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| (verb) make a vow; promise | - |
| (verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: consecrate |
| w | (noun) the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: double-u, W |
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| wallow | (noun) an indolent or clumsy rolling about | - |
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| (noun) a puddle where animals go to wallow | - |
| (verb) delight greatly in | - |
| (verb) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure | - |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, triumph |
| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: welter |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: billow |
| waw | (noun) the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| waxmallow | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers | Synonyms: sleeping hibiscus, wax mallow |
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| wheelbarrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: barrow, garden cart, lawn cart |
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| (verb) transport in a wheelbarrow | - |
| whipsaw | (noun) a saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people | Synonyms: lumberman's saw, two-handed saw, two-man saw |
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| (verb) saw with a whipsaw | - |
| (verb) victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations | - |
| whitlow | (noun) a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail | Synonyms: felon |
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| widow | (noun) a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widow woman |
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| (verb) cause to be without a spouse | - |
| willow | (noun) a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix | Synonyms: willow tree |
| window | (noun) a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air | - |
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| (noun) a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened | - |
| (noun) a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen | - |
| (noun) a pane of glass in a window | Synonyms: windowpane |
| (noun) an opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served | - |
| (noun) an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function | - |
| (noun) the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something | - |
| winnow | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: sifting, winnowing |
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| (verb) blow away or off with a current of air | Synonyms: fan |
| (verb) select desirable parts from a group or list | Synonyms: cull out |
| (verb) separate the chaff from grain by using air currents | - |
| (verb) blow on | - |
| withdraw | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, sequestrate |
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| (verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract | Synonyms: remove, take, take away |
| (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: swallow, take back, unsay |
| (verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: disengage |
| (verb) lose interest | Synonyms: retire |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat |
| (verb) remove (a commodity) from (a supply source) | Synonyms: draw, draw off, take out |
| (verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, recall |
| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: adjourn, retire |
| (verb) withdraw from active participation | Synonyms: retire |
| (verb) retire gracefully | Synonyms: bow out |
| woodscrew | (noun) a metal screw that tapers to a point so that it can be driven into wood with a screwdriver | - |
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| workfellow | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, colleague, fellow worker |
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| workflow | (noun) progress (or rate of progress) in work being done | Synonyms: work flow |
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| wow | (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper |
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| (verb) impress greatly | - |
| yarrow | (noun) ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: Achillea millefolium, milfoil |
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| yaw | (noun) an erratic deflection from an intended course | Synonyms: swerve |
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| (verb) deviate erratically from a set course | - |
| (verb) swerve off course momentarily | - |
| (verb) be wide open | Synonyms: gape, yawn |
| yellow | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellowish |
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| (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied |
| (adjective) cowardly or treacherous | - |
| (adjective) changed to a yellowish color by age | Synonyms: yellowed |
| (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic |
| (adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: icteric, jaundiced |
| (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellowness |
| (verb) turn yellow | - |
| yew | (noun) any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves | - |
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| (noun) wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows | - |