| coffeeberry | (noun) evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits | Synonyms: California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus |
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| coffeecake | (noun) a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee | Synonyms: coffee cake |
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| coffeehouse | (noun) a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold | Synonyms: cafe, coffee bar, coffee shop |
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| coffeepot | (noun) tall pot in which coffee is brewed | - |
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| coffer | (noun) a chest especially for storing valuables | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: caisson, lacunar |
| cofferdam | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: caisson, pneumatic caisson |
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| coffin | (noun) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated | Synonyms: casket |
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| (verb) place into a coffin | - |
| cofounder | (noun) one of a group of founders | - |
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| cog | (noun) tooth on the rim of gear wheel | Synonyms: sprocket |
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| (noun) a subordinate who performs an important but routine function | - |
| (verb) join pieces of wood with cogs | - |
| (verb) roll steel ingots | - |
| cogency | (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: rigor, rigour, validity |
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| (noun) persuasive relevance | - |
| cogent | (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: telling, weighty |
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| cogged | (adjective) having cogs | - |
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| coggle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: dodder, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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| (verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: wobble |
| cogitable | (adjective) capable of being thought about | Synonyms: ponderable |
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| cogitate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, think |
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| (verb) consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind | - |
| cogitation | (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: study |
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| (noun) a carefully considered thought about something | - |
| cogitative | (adjective) of or relating to having capacities for cogitation | - |
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| (adjective) given to cogitation | - |
| cognate | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| (adjective) having the same ancestral language | - |
| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: connate |
| (noun) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language | Synonyms: cognate word |
| (noun) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another | Synonyms: blood relation, blood relative, sib |
| cognation | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, consanguinity |
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| (noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: enation, matrilineage |
| cognisable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognizable, cognoscible, knowable |
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| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| cognise | (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognize, know |
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| cognition | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: knowledge, noesis |
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| cognitive | (adjective) of or being or relating to or involving cognition | - |
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| cognitively | (adverb) with regard to cognition | - |
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| cognizable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognoscible, knowable |
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| cognizance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) range of what one can know or understand | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) range or scope of what is perceived | - |
| cognizant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognisant |
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| cognize | (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognise, know |
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| cognomen | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: family name, last name, surname |
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| (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
| cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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| cognoscible | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, knowable |
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| cogwheel | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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| cohabit | (verb) share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple | Synonyms: live together, shack up |
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| (verb) exist together | Synonyms: coexist |
| cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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| cohere | (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, stick |
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| (verb) have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results | - |
| (verb) cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole | - |
| coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
| coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
| coherently | (adverb) in a coherent manner | - |
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| cohesion | (noun) (physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid | - |
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| (noun) (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals) | - |
| (noun) (linguistics) the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. | - |
| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesiveness |
| cohesive | (adjective) causing cohesion | - |
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| (adjective) cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated | - |
| cohesiveness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesion |
| coho | (noun) small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes | Synonyms: blue jack, coho salmon, cohoe, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon |
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| (noun) fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes | Synonyms: coho salmon, cohoe, silver salmon |
| cohoe | (noun) small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes | Synonyms: blue jack, coho, coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, silver salmon |
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| (noun) fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes | Synonyms: coho, coho salmon, silver salmon |
| cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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| (noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
| (noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |
| cohosh | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: baneberry, herb Christopher |
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| cohune | (noun) tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | Synonyms: cohune palm, Orbignya cohune |
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| coif | (noun) a skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law | - |
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| (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle |
| (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set |
| (verb) cover with a coif | - |
| coiffe | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffure, do, dress, set |
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| coiffeur | (noun) a man hairdresser | - |
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| coiffeuse | (noun) a woman hairdresser | - |
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| coiffure | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle |
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| (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, do, dress, set |
| coign | (noun) the keystone of an arch | Synonyms: coigne, quoin |
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| (noun) expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase | Synonyms: coigne, quoin |
| coigne | (noun) the keystone of an arch | Synonyms: coign, quoin |
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| (noun) expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase | Synonyms: coign, quoin |
| coil | (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: helix, spiral, volute, whorl |
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| (noun) reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit | - |
| (noun) tubing that is wound in a spiral | - |
| (noun) a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb | - |
| (noun) a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine | - |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
| (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: curl, loop |
| (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: hand-build, handbuild |
| (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: gyrate, spiral |
| coiled | (adjective) curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) | - |
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| coiling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| coin | (noun) a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money | - |
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| (verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing | Synonyms: mint, strike |
| (verb) make up | - |
| coinage | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
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| (noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
| (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: metal money, mintage, specie |
| coincide | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: concur |
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| (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, cooccur |
| (verb) be the same | - |
| coincidence | (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction |
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| (noun) the quality of occupying the same position or area in space | - |
| (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: happenstance |
| coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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| (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
| coincidental | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| coincidentally | (adverb) happening at the same time | Synonyms: coincidently |
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| coincidently | (adverb) happening at the same time | Synonyms: coincidentally |
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| coinciding | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| coiner | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: minter, moneyer |
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| (noun) someone who is a source of new words or new expressions | - |
| (noun) a maker of counterfeit coins | - |
| coinsurance | (noun) insurance issued jointly by two or more underwriters | - |
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| coinsure | (verb) take out coinsurance | - |
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| coir | (noun) stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut | - |
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| coital | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: copulatory |
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| coition | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coitus, copulation, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| coitus | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, copulation, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| coke | (noun) street names for cocaine | Synonyms: blow, C, nose candy, snow |
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| (noun) carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal | - |
| (verb) become coke | - |
| col | (noun) a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks | Synonyms: gap |
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| cola | (noun) carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts | Synonyms: dope |
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| colander | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: cullender |
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| colchicine | (noun) an analgesic drug derived from the saffron plant and used to treat gout | - |
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| cold | (adjective) having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration | - |
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| (adjective) extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion | - |
| (adjective) (color) giving no sensation of warmth | - |
| (adjective) lacking the warmth of life | - |
| (adjective) of a seeker; far from the object sought | - |
| (adjective) without compunction or human feeling | Synonyms: cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate |
| (adjective) so intense as to be almost uncontrollable | - |
| (adjective) marked by errorless familiarity | - |
| (adjective) having lost freshness through passage of time | - |
| (adjective) unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication | - |
| (adjective) feeling or showing no enthusiasm | - |
| (adjective) sexually unresponsive | Synonyms: frigid |
| (adjective) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new | Synonyms: dusty, moth-eaten, stale |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature |
| (noun) the sensation produced by low temperatures | Synonyms: coldness |
| (noun) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs) | Synonyms: common cold |
| coldcock | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: deck, dump, floor, knock down |
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| coldcream | (noun) a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin | Synonyms: cold cream, face cream, vanishing cream |
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| coldhearted | (adjective) lacking in sympathy or feeling | - |
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| coldheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: hardheartedness, heartlessness |
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| coldly | (adverb) lacking warmth of feeling; in a cold, unemotional manner | - |
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| coldness | (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature |
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| (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
| (noun) the sensation produced by low temperatures | Synonyms: cold |
| coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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| cole | (noun) coarse curly-leafed cabbage | Synonyms: kail, kale |
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| (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, colewort, kail, kale |
| coleslaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: slaw |
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| coleus | (noun) any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers | Synonyms: flame nettle |
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| colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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| colic | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: gripes, griping, intestinal colic |
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| colicky | (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulent, gassy |
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| colicroot | (noun) any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic | Synonyms: colic root, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root |
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| coliphage | (noun) a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli | - |
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| coliseum | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, amphitheatre |
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| colitis | (noun) inflammation of the colon | Synonyms: inflammatory bowel disease |
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| collaborate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: cooperate, join forces |
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| (verb) cooperate as a traitor | - |
| collaboration | (noun) act of working jointly | Synonyms: coaction |
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| (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaborationism, quislingism |