| contact | (noun) the act of touching physically | Synonyms: physical contact |
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| (noun) close interaction | - |
| (noun) (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact | Synonyms: tangency |
| (noun) a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication | Synonyms: contact lens |
| (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: inter-group communication, liaison, link |
| (noun) a communicative interaction | Synonyms: touch |
| (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: impinging, striking |
| (noun) a person who is in a position to give you special assistance | Synonyms: middleman |
| (noun) the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity | - |
| (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: get hold of, get through, reach |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, meet, touch |
| contadino | (noun) an Italian farmer | - |
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| contagion | (noun) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people | Synonyms: infection |
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| (noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: infection, transmission |
| (noun) any disease easily transmitted by contact | Synonyms: contagious disease |
| contagious | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| (adjective) easily diffused or spread as from one person to another | - |
| contagiously | (adverb) in a contagious manner | Synonyms: infectiously |
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| contagiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being contagious, easily transmitted to others. | - |
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| contain | (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, check, hold back, stop, turn back |
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| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: comprise, incorporate |
| (verb) be divisible by | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, carry, hold |
| (verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: hold, take |
| contained | (adjective) gotten under control | - |
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| container | (noun) any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | - |
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| containerful | (noun) the quantity that a container will hold | - |
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| containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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| containerize | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerise |
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| containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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| containment | (noun) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | - |
| (noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | - |
| contaminant | (noun) a substance that contaminates | Synonyms: contamination |
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| contaminate | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: foul, pollute |
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| (verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material | - |
| contaminated | (adjective) corrupted by contact or association | - |
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| (adjective) rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution | Synonyms: polluted |
| contaminating | (adjective) spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: dirty |
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| (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: corrupting |
| contamination | (noun) the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors | Synonyms: pollution |
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| (noun) the state of being contaminated | Synonyms: taint |
| (noun) a substance that contaminates | Synonyms: contaminant |
| contaminative | (adjective) making impure by contact or mixing | - |
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| contemn | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: despise, disdain, scorn |
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| contemplate | (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: meditate, study |
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| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| (verb) consider as a possibility | - |
| (verb) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought | - |
| contemplation | (noun) a long and thoughtful observation | - |
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| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
| contemplative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
| contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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| contemporaneity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneousness |
| contemporaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval |
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| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporary |
| contemporaneously | (adverb) during the same period of time | - |
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| contemporaneousness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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| (noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneity |
| contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
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| contemporariness | (noun) The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age. | - |
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| contemporary | (adjective) belonging to the present time | Synonyms: present-day |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the present | Synonyms: modern-day |
| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneous |
| (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: coeval |
| contemporise | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
| contemporize | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, synchronise, synchronize |
| contempt | (noun) a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body | - |
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| (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: disrespect |
| (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: scorn |
| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: despite, disdain, scorn |
| contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| contemptible | (adjective) deserving of contempt or scorn | - |
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| contemptibly | (adverb) in a manner deserving contempt | - |
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| contemptuous | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful |
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| contemptuously | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contumeliously, disdainfully, scornfully |
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| contemptuousness | (noun) the manifestation of scorn and contempt | - |
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| contend | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contest, repugn |
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| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, debate, fence |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: postulate |
| (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, vie |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: fight, struggle |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| contender | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, competitor, rival |
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| content | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: contented |
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| (noun) something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation | Synonyms: depicted object, subject |
| (noun) the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned | Synonyms: cognitive content, mental object |
| (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: message, subject matter, substance |
| (noun) (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | Synonyms: contents |
| (noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: capacity |
| (noun) the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc. | - |
| (noun) the state of being contented with your situation in life | Synonyms: contentedness |
| (verb) satisfy in a limited way | - |
| (verb) make content | - |
| contented | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: content |
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| contentedly | (adverb) with equanimity | - |
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| contentedness | (noun) the state of being contented with your situation in life | Synonyms: content |
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| contention | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: competition, rivalry |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
| (noun) a point asserted as part of an argument | - |
| contentious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
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| (adjective) involving or likely to cause controversy | - |
| contentiousness | (noun) an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious | Synonyms: quarrelsomeness |
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| contentment | (noun) happiness with one's situation in life | - |
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| contents | (noun) a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start | Synonyms: table of contents |
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| (noun) (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | Synonyms: content |
| conterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, coterminous |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| contest | (noun) a struggle between rivals | - |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: competition |
| (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contend, repugn |
| contestable | (adjective) capable of being contested | - |
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| contestant | (noun) a person who participates in competitions | - |
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| (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: dissenter, dissident, objector, protester |
| contestation | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| contested | (adjective) disputed or made the object of contention or competition | - |
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| contestee | (noun) a winner (of a race or an election etc.) whose victory is contested | - |
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| contester | (noun) someone who contests an outcome (of a race or an election etc.) | - |
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| context | (noun) discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation | Synonyms: context of use, linguistic context |
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| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: circumstance, setting |
| contextual | (adjective) relating to or determined by or in context | - |
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| contextualism | (noun) any doctrine emphasizing the importance of the context in solving problems or establishing the meaning of terms | - |
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| contextually | (adverb) in a manner dependent on context | - |
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| contiguity | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: adjacency, contiguousness |
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| contiguous | (adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: immediate |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: conterminous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| contiguousness | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: adjacency, contiguity |
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| continence | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continency |
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| (noun) voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge | - |
| continency | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continence |
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| continent | (adjective) having control over urination and defecation | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: celibate |
| (noun) one of the large landmasses of the earth | - |
| continental | (adjective) being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a continent | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War | - |
| contingence | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingency, eventuality |
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| contingency | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, eventuality |
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| (noun) the state of being contingent on something | - |
| contingent | (adjective) being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow | Synonyms: contingent on, contingent upon, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on |
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| (adjective) possible but not certain to occur | - |
| (adjective) uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances | - |
| (noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: detail |
| (noun) a gathering of persons representative of some larger group | - |
| continual | (adjective) recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series | - |
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| (adjective) having no interruptions | - |
| continually | (adverb) seemingly without interruption | - |
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| continuance | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuation |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: duration |
| continuant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: fricative, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract | Synonyms: continuant consonant |
| continuation | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuance |
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| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation, protraction |
| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction | Synonyms: good continuation, law of continuation |
| (noun) a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it | Synonyms: sequel |
| continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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| continue | (verb) exist over a prolonged period of time | - |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, go on, proceed |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: go forward, move ahead, proceed |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: keep, keep on, retain |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, preserve, uphold |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: go along, go on, keep, proceed |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: cover, extend |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay on |
| (verb) continue after an interruption | - |
| (verb) do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop | Synonyms: persist in |
| continued | (adjective) without stop or interruption | - |
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| continuing | (adjective) remaining in force or being carried on without letup | - |
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| (adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: chronic |
| continuity | (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: persistence |
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| (noun) a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot | - |
| (noun) uninterrupted connection or union | - |
| continuo | (noun) a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played | Synonyms: basso continuo, figured bass, thorough bass |
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| continuous | (adjective) continuing in time or space without interruption | Synonyms: uninterrupted |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity | - |
| continuously | (adverb) at every point | - |
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| (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, endlessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly |
| continuousness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, incessancy, incessantness |
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| continuum | (noun) a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts | - |
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| conto | (noun) 1 conto equals 1,000 escudos in Portugal | - |
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| contort | (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: deform, distort, wring |
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| contorted | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: writhed, writhen |
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| contortion | (noun) the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) | Synonyms: deformation |
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| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: crookedness, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
| contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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| contour | (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, form, shape |
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| (noun) a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure | - |
| (noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height | Synonyms: contour line |
| (verb) form the contours of | - |
| contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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| (noun) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law | - |
| contrabandist | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler |
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| contrabass | (adjective) pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range | Synonyms: double-bass |
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| (noun) largest and lowest member of the violin family | Synonyms: bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, double bass, string bass |
| contrabassoon | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrafagotto, double bassoon |
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| contraception | (noun) birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery | Synonyms: contraceptive method |
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