| daub | (noun) an unskillful painting | - |
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| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
| (noun) material used to daub walls | - |
| (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: smear |
| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: plaster |
| (verb) apply to a surface | - |
| dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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| daubing | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: plastering |
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| daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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| daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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| daunt | (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
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| daunted | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: bothered, fazed |
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| daunting | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: intimidating |
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| dauntingly | (adverb) to a degree or in a manner that daunts | - |
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| dauntless | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
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| dauntlessly | (adverb) without fear | Synonyms: fearlessly, intrepidly |
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| dauntlessness | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: intrepidity |
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| dauphin | (noun) formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne | - |
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| davallia | (noun) any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes | - |
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| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| davit | (noun) a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat) | - |
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| daw | (noun) common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery | Synonyms: Corvus monedula, jackdaw |
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| dawah | (noun) missionary work for Islam | Synonyms: da'wah |
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| dawdle | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: linger |
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| (verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: fall back, fall behind, lag |
| (verb) waste time | Synonyms: dally |
| dawdler | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
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| dawdling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, trifling |
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| dawn | (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: morning |
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| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
| (noun) an opening time period | - |
| (verb) become light | - |
| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
| (verb) appear or develop | - |
| dawning | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| day | (noun) a period of opportunity | - |
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| (noun) time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis | Synonyms: 24-hour interval, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours |
| (noun) a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance | - |
| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: daylight, daytime |
| (noun) a point or period in time | - |
| (noun) the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working) | - |
| (noun) an era of existence or influence | - |
| (noun) the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day | Synonyms: sidereal day |
| (noun) the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis | - |
| daybed | (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise, chaise longue |
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| (noun) an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night | Synonyms: divan bed |
| daybook | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: ledger |
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| (noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: journal |
| dayboy | (noun) a day boarder who is a boy | - |
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| daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| daycare | (noun) childcare during the day while parents work | Synonyms: day care |
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| daydream | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgather |
| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: moon |
| daydreamer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: woolgatherer |
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| daydreaming | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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| dayflower | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: spiderwort |
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| dayfly | (noun) slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days | Synonyms: mayfly, shadfly |
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| daygirl | (noun) a day boarder who is a girl | - |
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| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| daylily | (noun) any of numerous perennials having tuberous roots and long narrow bladelike leaves and usually yellow lily-like flowers that bloom for only a day | Synonyms: day lily |
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| daylong | (adjective) lasting through an entire day | - |
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| (adverb) during the entire day | Synonyms: all day long |
| days | (noun) the time during which someone's life continues | Synonyms: years |
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| dayspring | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| daystar | (noun) a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky | Synonyms: Lucifer, morning star, Phosphorus |
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| daytime | (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daylight |
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| daze | (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity | Synonyms: fog, haze |
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| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: shock, stupor |
| (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: bedaze, stun |
| (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, dazzle |
| dazed | (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: stunned, stupefied, stupid |
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| (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous |
| dazedly | (adverb) in a daze; in a dazed manner | Synonyms: torpidly |
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| dazzle | (noun) brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily | - |
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| (verb) amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill | - |
| (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, daze |
| dazzled | (adjective) having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light | - |
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| (adjective) stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering | - |
| dazzling | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous |
| dazzlingly | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder | - |
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| deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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| deacon | (noun) a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders | - |
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| (noun) a Protestant layman who assists the minister | Synonyms: Protestant deacon |
| deaconess | (noun) a woman deacon | - |
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| deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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| (verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
| deactivation | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: defusing |
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| (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: inactivation |
| dead | (adjective) no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life | - |
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| (adjective) not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat | - |
| (adjective) the complete stoppage of an action | - |
| (adjective) not surviving in active use | - |
| (adjective) physically inactive | - |
| (adjective) devoid of activity | - |
| (adjective) lacking resilience or bounce | - |
| (adjective) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown | - |
| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: deadened |
| (adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | Synonyms: numb |
| (adjective) no longer having force or relevance | - |
| (adjective) unerringly accurate | - |
| (adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: stagnant |
| (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, bushed |
| (adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged | Synonyms: drained |
| (adjective) not yielding a return | Synonyms: idle |
| (adjective) lacking acoustic resonance | - |
| (noun) people who are no longer living | - |
| (noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | - |
| (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly |
| (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly |
| deadbeat | (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: defaulter |
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| deadbolt | (noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: bolt |
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| deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
| (verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
| (verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
| deadened | (adjective) made or become less intense | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: dead |
| deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
| deadeye | (noun) (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud | - |
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| (noun) a dead shot | - |
| deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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| (noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
| deadlift | (noun) a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground | - |
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| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| deadline | (noun) the point in time at which something must be completed | - |
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| deadliness | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: lethality |
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| deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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| deadlocked | (adjective) at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions | Synonyms: stalemated |
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| deadly | (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, pernicious, pestilent |
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| (adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: venomous, virulent |
| (adjective) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death | Synonyms: mortal |
| (adjective) (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect | - |
| (adjective) causing or capable of causing death | Synonyms: deathly, mortal |
| (adjective) of an instrument of certain death | Synonyms: lethal |
| (adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deucedly, devilishly, insanely, madly |
| (adverb) as if dead | Synonyms: lifelessly |
| deadness | (noun) the inanimate property of something that has died | - |
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| (noun) the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity | - |
| (noun) the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events | Synonyms: unresponsiveness |
| deadpan | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| (adverb) without betraying any feeling | - |
| deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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| (noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
| deaerate | (verb) remove air or gas from | Synonyms: de-aerate |
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| deaf | (adjective) lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed | Synonyms: indifferent |
| (noun) people who have severe hearing impairments | - |
| (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deafen |
| deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
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| (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
| (verb) be unbearably loud | - |
| deafened | (adjective) caused to hear poorly or not at all | - |
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| deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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| deafness | (noun) partial or complete loss of hearing | Synonyms: hearing loss |
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| deal | (noun) the act of distributing playing cards | - |
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| (noun) the act of apportioning or distributing something | - |
| (noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, trade |
| (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: bargain |
| (noun) the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement) | - |
| (noun) the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time | Synonyms: hand |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a plank of softwood (fir or pine board) | - |
| (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: softwood |
| (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: consider, look at, take |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: sell, trade |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) distribute cards to the players in a game | - |
| (verb) give (a specific card) to a player | - |
| (verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, divvy up, portion out, share |
| (verb) sell (especially of illegal material) | - |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| (verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, conduct |
| (verb) behave in a certain way towards others | - |
| (verb) take action with respect to (someone or something) | - |
| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, handle, manage |
| dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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| (noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
| (noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
| (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
| dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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| dealfish | (noun) deep-sea ribbonfish | Synonyms: Trachipterus arcticus |
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| dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
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| dealing | (noun) method or manner of conduct in relation to others | - |
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| (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealings, transaction |
| dealings | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, transaction |
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| (noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: traffic |
| (noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: relations |
| deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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| deamination | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deaminization |
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| deaminization | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deamination |
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| deaminize | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminate |
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| dean | (noun) an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | - |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals | - |
| (noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: doyen |
| deanery | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanship |
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| (noun) the official residence of a dean | - |
| deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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| dear | (adjective) with or in a close or intimate relationship | Synonyms: good, near |
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| (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, high-priced, pricey, pricy |
| (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, darling |
| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: devout, earnest, heartfelt |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| (noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: lamb |
| (adverb) at a great cost | Synonyms: dearly |
| (adverb) with affection | Synonyms: affectionately, dearly |
| dearest | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| dearie | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| dearly | (adverb) at a great cost | Synonyms: dear |
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| (adverb) with affection | Synonyms: affectionately, dear |
| (adverb) in a sincere and heartfelt manner | Synonyms: in a heartfelt way |
| dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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| dearth | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number | Synonyms: paucity |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: famine, shortage |
| deary | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| death | (noun) the act of killing | - |
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| (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: decease, expiry |
| (noun) the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | - |
| (noun) the absence of life or state of being dead | - |
| (noun) a final state | Synonyms: destruction, end |
| (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: demise, dying |
| (noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: last |