| cub | (noun) the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion | Synonyms: young carnivore |
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| (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy |
| (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: greenhorn, rookie |
| (verb) give birth to cubs | - |
| cubby | (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubbyhole, snug, snuggery |
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| cubbyhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: pigeonhole |
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| (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubby, snug, snuggery |
| cube | (noun) a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube | Synonyms: square block |
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| (noun) any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone | - |
| (noun) the product of three equal terms | Synonyms: third power |
| (noun) a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces | Synonyms: regular hexahedron |
| (noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) raise to the third power | - |
| (verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: dice |
| cubeb | (noun) a cigarette containing cubeb | Synonyms: cubeb cigarette |
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| (noun) tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits | Synonyms: cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba |
| (noun) spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes | - |
| cubelike | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cubic | (adjective) having the shape of a cube; having three dimensions | Synonyms: three-dimensional |
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| (adjective) involving the cube and no higher power of a quantity or variable | - |
| cubical | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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| cubicle | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, kiosk, stall |
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| (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, stall |
| (noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cell |
| cubiform | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cuboid, cuboidal |
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| cubism | (noun) an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes | - |
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| cubist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubistic |
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| (noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
| cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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| cubit | (noun) an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm | - |
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| cubital | (adjective) of or relating to the elbow | - |
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| cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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| cubitus | (noun) hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | Synonyms: articulatio cubiti, cubital joint, elbow, elbow joint, human elbow |
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| (noun) the arm from the elbow to the fingertips | - |
| cuboid | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboidal |
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| (noun) a rectangular parallelepiped | - |
| cuboidal | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboid |
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| cuckold | (noun) a man whose wife committed adultery | - |
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| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander |
| cuckolding | (noun) A sexual act where a married person has sex with another person while their spouse watches | - |
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| cuckoldom | (noun) the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery | - |
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| cuckoldry | (noun) the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women | - |
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| cuckoo | (noun) any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail | - |
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| (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
| (verb) repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call | - |
| cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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| cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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| cucumber | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cuke |
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| (noun) a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit | Synonyms: cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus |
| cucurbit | (noun) any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| cucurbitaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| cud | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, chew, plug, quid, wad |
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| (noun) food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again | Synonyms: rechewed food |
| cudbear | (noun) a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | Synonyms: archil, orchil |
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| cuddle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: nestle, snuggle |
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| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
| (verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
| cuddlesome | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddly |
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| cuddling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| cuddly | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddlesome |
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| cuddy | (noun) the galley or pantry of a small ship | - |
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| cudgel | (noun) a club that is used as a weapon | - |
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| (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: fustigate |
| cudweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | - |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, filago |
| (noun) perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States | Synonyms: Artemisia gnaphalodes, Artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage |
| cue | (noun) sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards | Synonyms: cue stick, pool cue, pool stick |
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| (noun) a stimulus that provides information about what to do | Synonyms: discriminative stimulus |
| (noun) an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech | - |
| (noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clew, clue |
| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: prompt, remind |
| cuff | (noun) the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg | Synonyms: turnup |
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| (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: handcuff, handlock, manacle |
| (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: whomp |
| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: handcuff, manacle |
| (verb) to get involved in a relationship with another person | - |
| cufflink | (noun) jewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt | - |
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| cuirass | (noun) medieval body armor that covers the chest and back | - |
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| cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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| cuisine | (noun) the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared | Synonyms: culinary art |
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| cuisse | (noun) armor plate that protects the thigh | - |
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| cuke | (noun) cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | Synonyms: cucumber |
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| cul | (noun) a passage with access only at one end | Synonyms: cul de sac, dead end |
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| culdoscope | (noun) a specialized endoscope for visually examining a woman's pelvic organs | - |
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| culdoscopy | (noun) endoscopic examination of a woman's pelvic organs by the insertion of a culdoscope through the vagina | - |
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| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| cull | (noun) the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality | Synonyms: reject |
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| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
| (verb) remove something that has been rejected | - |
| cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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| cullis | (noun) a gutter in a roof | - |
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| culm | (noun) stem of plants of the Gramineae | - |
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| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| culmination | (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, completion, mop up, windup |
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| (noun) the decisive moment in a novel or play | Synonyms: climax |
| (noun) (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon | - |
| (noun) a final climactic stage | Synonyms: apogee |
| culotte | (noun) a divided skirt | - |
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| culpability | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpableness |
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| culpable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable |
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| culpableness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: blameworthiness, culpability |
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| culpably | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree deserving blame or censure | Synonyms: reprehensibly |
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| culprit | (noun) someone who perpetrates wrongdoing | Synonyms: perpetrator |
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| cult | (noun) a system of religious beliefs and rituals | Synonyms: cultus, religious cult |
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| (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, fad, furor, furore, rage |
| (noun) a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false | - |
| (noun) followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices | - |
| (noun) followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader | - |
| culteranismo | (noun) an esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order. | Synonyms: Gongorismo |
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| cultism | (noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: devotion, veneration |
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| (noun) devotion to the doctrine or a cult or to the practices of a cult | - |
| cultist | (noun) a member of a religious cult | - |
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| (noun) a member of an unorthodox cult who generally lives outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader | - |
| cultivable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivatable, tillable |
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| cultivar | (noun) a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation | - |
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| cultivatable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivable, tillable |
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| cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
| cultivated | (adjective) (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultured, genteel, polite |
| (adjective) no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use | - |
| cultivation | (noun) (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) | - |
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| (noun) socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners | - |
| (noun) the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale) | - |
| (noun) the process of fostering the growth of something | - |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: culture, finish, polish, refinement |
| cultivator | (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: tiller |
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| (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, grower, raiser |
| cultural | (adjective) of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors | - |
| (adjective) relating to the raising of plants or animals | - |
| (adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: ethnic, ethnical |
| culturally | (adverb) with regard to a culture | - |
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| culturati | (noun) people interested in culture and cultural activities | - |
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| culture | (noun) the raising of plants or animals | - |
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| (noun) (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar) | - |
| (noun) the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group | - |
| (noun) all the knowledge and values shared by a society | Synonyms: acculturation |
| (noun) the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization | - |
| (noun) a particular society at a particular time and place | Synonyms: civilisation, civilization |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, finish, polish, refinement |
| (verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
| cultured | (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, genteel, polite |
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| cultus | (noun) a system of religious beliefs and rituals | Synonyms: cult, religious cult |
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| culverin | (noun) a medieval musket | - |
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| (noun) a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
| culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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| cum | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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| cumarone | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: benzofuran, coumarone |
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| cumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: encumber, restrain |
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| cumbersome | (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
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| (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbrous |
| cumbersomeness | (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: awkwardness, unwieldiness |
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| cumbrous | (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbersome |
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| cumfrey | (noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: comfrey |
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| cumin | (noun) aromatic seeds of the cumin herb of the carrot family | Synonyms: cumin seed |
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| (noun) dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds | Synonyms: Cuminum cyminum |
| cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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| cummings | (noun) United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962) | Synonyms: e. e. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings |
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| cumquat | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp | Synonyms: kumquat, kumquat tree |
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| cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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| cumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, gather, pile up |
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| cumulation | (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulus, heap, mound, pile |
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| cumulative | (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: accumulative |
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| cumulatively | (adverb) in a cumulative manner | - |
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| cumuliform | (adjective) shaped like a cumulus cloud | - |
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| cumulonimbus | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud |
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