cloaca | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: sewer, sewerage |
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(noun) (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not other mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open | - |
cloak | (noun) a loose outer garment | - |
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(noun) anything that covers or conceals | - |
(verb) cover with or as if with a cloak | - |
(verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: clothe, drape, robe |
(verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: dissemble, mask |
cloaked | (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped |
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(adjective) having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading | Synonyms: disguised, masked |
cloakmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: furrier |
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cloakroom | (noun) a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily | Synonyms: coatroom |
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(noun) a private lounge off of a legislative chamber | - |
clobber | (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: stuff |
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(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
(verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, batter |
clochard | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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cloche | (noun) a woman's close-fitting hat that resembles a helmet | - |
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(noun) a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold | - |
clock | (noun) a timepiece that shows the time of day | - |
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(verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time | Synonyms: time |
clocking | (noun) the time taken to traverse a measured course | - |
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clockmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clocksmith |
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clocks | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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clocksmith | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clockmaker |
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clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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(adverb) in the direction that the hands of a clock move | - |
clockwork | (noun) any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock | - |
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clod | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clump, glob, lump |
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(noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
cloddish | (adjective) heavy and dull and stupid | Synonyms: doltish |
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clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
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clofibrate | (noun) a drug (trade name Atromid-S) that reduces lipids in the blood serum; used to treat some cardiovascular diseases | Synonyms: Atromid-S |
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clog | (noun) a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps | Synonyms: clog dance, clog dancing |
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(noun) any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction | - |
(noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: geta, patten, sabot |
(verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog | Synonyms: constipate |
(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired | Synonyms: overload |
(verb) coalesce or unite in a mass | Synonyms: clot |
(verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
(verb) impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden | - |
(verb) dance a clog dance | - |
clogged | (adjective) loaded with something that hinders motion | - |
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(adjective) stopped up; clogged up | Synonyms: choked |
(adjective) thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots) | Synonyms: clotted |
clogging | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: hindering, impeding, obstructive |
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cloggy | (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, heavy |
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cloisonne | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: champleve |
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(noun) enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips | - |
cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
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(noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
(verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
(verb) surround with a cloister | - |
(verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
cloistered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered |
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(adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical |
cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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clomiphene | (noun) a fertility drug (trade name Clomid) that is used to stimulate ovulation and that has been associated with multiple births | Synonyms: Clomid, clomiphene citrate |
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clomipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug | - |
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clomp | (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clump |
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clon | (noun) a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction | Synonyms: clone |
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clonal | (adjective) of or relating to a clone | - |
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clone | (noun) an unauthorized copy or imitation | Synonyms: knockoff |
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(noun) a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction | Synonyms: clon |
(noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: dead ringer, ringer |
(verb) make multiple identical copies of | - |
clonic | (adjective) of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation | - |
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clonidine | (noun) an antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches | Synonyms: Catapres |
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cloning | (noun) a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell) | - |
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clonus | (noun) convulsion characterized by alternating contractions and relaxations | - |
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clop | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clopping, clumping, clunking |
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(verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clump, clunk, plunk |
clopping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clumping, clunking |
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close | (adjective) at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other | - |
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(adjective) close in relevance or relationship | - |
(adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: near, nigh |
(adjective) marked by fidelity to an original | Synonyms: faithful |
(adjective) rigorously attentive; strict and thorough | - |
(adjective) crowded | Synonyms: confining |
(adjective) (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched | Synonyms: tight |
(adjective) of textiles | Synonyms: tight |
(adjective) confined to specific persons | - |
(adjective) strictly confined or guarded | - |
(adjective) used of hair or haircuts | - |
(adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
(adjective) fitting closely but comfortably | Synonyms: close-fitting, snug |
(adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
(adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: airless, stuffy, unaired |
(noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: closing curtain, finale, finis |
(noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: closing, conclusion, end, ending |
(noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: conclusion, finale, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
(adverb) near in time or place or relationship | Synonyms: near, nigh |
(adverb) in an attentive manner | Synonyms: closely, tight |
(verb) finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead | - |
(verb) complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement | - |
(verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: shut |
(verb) become closed | Synonyms: shut |
(verb) bar access to | - |
(verb) fill or stop up | Synonyms: fill up |
(verb) bring together all the elements or parts of | - |
(verb) unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of | Synonyms: close up |
(verb) change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact | - |
(verb) come together, as if in an embrace | Synonyms: come together |
(verb) draw near | - |
(verb) cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop | - |
(verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close down, close up, fold, shut down |
(verb) finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.) | - |
(verb) engage at close quarters | - |
(verb) come to a close | Synonyms: conclude |
(verb) be priced or listed when trading stops | - |
closed | (adjective) not open or affording passage or access | - |
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(adjective) (set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints | - |
(adjective) used especially of mouth or eyes | Synonyms: shut |
(adjective) not open | Synonyms: shut, unopen |
(adjective) blocked against entry | Synonyms: closed in |
(adjective) not open to the general public | - |
(adjective) with shutters closed | - |
(adjective) requiring union membership | - |
(adjective) not having an open mind | Synonyms: unsympathetic |
closedown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closing, closure, shutdown |
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closefisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: hardfisted, tightfisted |
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closelipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
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closely | (adverb) in a close relation or position in time or space | - |
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(adverb) in a close manner | Synonyms: intimately, nearly |
(adverb) in an attentive manner | Synonyms: close, tight |
closemouthed | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, secretive, tightlipped |
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closeness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: nearness |
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(noun) characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) | Synonyms: secretiveness |
(noun) the quality of being close and poorly ventilated | Synonyms: stuffiness |
(noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: familiarity, intimacy |
(noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
(noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together | Synonyms: intimacy |
closeout | (noun) a sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock | - |
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closer | (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: finisher |
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(noun) a person who closes something | - |
(adverb) (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance | Synonyms: nearer, nigher |
closest | (adverb) (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance | Synonyms: nearest, nighest |
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closet | (noun) a small private room for study or prayer | - |
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(noun) a toilet in Britain | Synonyms: loo, W.C., water closet |
(noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: press, wardrobe |
(noun) a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space | Synonyms: cupboard |
(verb) confine to a small space, as for intensive work | - |
closeup | (noun) a photograph taken at close range | - |
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closing | (adjective) final or ending | - |
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(noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closure, shutdown |
(noun) the act of closing something | Synonyms: shutting |
(noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: completion, culmination, mop up, windup |
(noun) approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap | Synonyms: closure |
(noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, conclusion, end, ending |
clostridia | (noun) spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore | Synonyms: clostridium |
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clostridium | (noun) spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore | Synonyms: clostridia |
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closure | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closing, shutdown |
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(noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: blockage, occlusion |
(noun) approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap | Synonyms: closing |
(noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
(noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric | Synonyms: law of closure |
(noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: resolution, settlement |
(noun) a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body | Synonyms: cloture, gag law, gag rule |
(verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: cloture |
clot | (noun) a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid | Synonyms: coagulum |
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(verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, curdle |
(verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: coagulate |
(verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: coagulate |
(verb) coalesce or unite in a mass | Synonyms: clog |
clotbur | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: burdock |
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cloth | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: fabric, material, textile |
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clothe | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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(verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, drape, robe |
(verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: adorn, invest |
clothed | (adjective) wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: clad |
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(adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped |
clothes | (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: apparel, dress, wearing apparel |
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clothesbrush | (noun) a brush used for cleaning clothing | - |
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clotheshorse | (noun) a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) | - |
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(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
clothesless | (adjective) possessing no clothing | Synonyms: garmentless, raimentless |
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clothesline | (noun) a cord on which clothes are hung to dry | - |
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clothespin | (noun) wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline | Synonyms: clothes peg, clothes pin |
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clothespress | (noun) a closet where clothes are stored | Synonyms: clothes closet |
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clothier | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: haberdasher |
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clothing | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable |
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clotted | (adjective) thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots) | Synonyms: clogged |
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clotting | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: coagulation, curdling |
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cloture | (noun) a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body | Synonyms: closure, gag law, gag rule |
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(verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: closure |
cloud | (noun) a group of many things in the air or on the ground | Synonyms: swarm |
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(noun) a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude | - |
(noun) any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible | - |
(noun) suspicion affecting your reputation | - |
(noun) out of touch with reality | - |
(noun) a cause of worry or gloom or trouble | - |
(verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: dapple, mottle |
(verb) make milky or dull | - |
(verb) make less clear | - |
(verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: corrupt, defile, sully, taint |
(verb) make gloomy or depressed | - |
(verb) billow up in the form of a cloud | - |
(verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
(verb) make overcast or cloudy | Synonyms: overcast |
cloudberry | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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cloudburst | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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clouded | (adjective) filled or abounding with clouds | Synonyms: cloud-covered, overcast, sunless |
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(adjective) mentally disordered | - |
(adjective) made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance | - |
(adjective) unclear in form or expression | Synonyms: blurred |
cloudiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: muddiness, murkiness |
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(noun) the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds | Synonyms: cloud cover, overcast |
(noun) gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover | Synonyms: overcast |
clouding | (noun) the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky | Synonyms: clouding up |
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cloudless | (adjective) free from clouds | Synonyms: unclouded |
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cloudlessness | (noun) the lightness of a sunny day when there are no clouds in the sky | - |
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cloudlike | (adjective) resembling a cloud | Synonyms: nebular |
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cloudy | (adjective) full of or covered with clouds | - |
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(adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: nebulose, nebulous |
(adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: mirky, muddy, murky, turbid |
clout | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, lick, poke, punch, slug |
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(noun) a short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood | Synonyms: clout nail |
(noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: pull |
(noun) a target used in archery | - |
(verb) strike hard, especially with the fist | - |
clove | (noun) spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground | - |
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(noun) one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb | Synonyms: garlic clove |
(noun) moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves | Synonyms: clove tree, Eugenia aromaticum, Eugenia caryophyllatum, Syzygium aromaticum |
(noun) aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice | - |
cloven | (adjective) (used of hooves) split, divided | Synonyms: bisulcate |
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clover | (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: trefoil |
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cloverleaf | (noun) an interchange that does not require left-hand turns | - |
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cloveroot | (noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: clover-root, Geum urbanum, herb bennet, wood avens |
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clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
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clown | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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(noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: buffoon |
(verb) act as or like a clown | Synonyms: antic, clown around |
clowning | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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(noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness |
clownish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownlike, zany |
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clownlike | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownish, zany |
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cloy | (verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: pall |
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(verb) supply or feed to surfeit | Synonyms: surfeit |
cloying | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: saccharine, syrupy, treacly |
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cloyingly | (adverb) in an overly sweet manner | - |
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clozapine | (noun) an antipsychotic drug (trade name Clozaril) used as a sedative and for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; known to have few side effects | Synonyms: Clozaril |
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cloze | (adjective) based on or being a test of reading skill using the cloze procedure | - |
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