| drear | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| drearily | (adverb) in a cheerless manner | Synonyms: dismally |
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| dreariness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, insipidity, insipidness |
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| dreary | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| (adjective) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise | Synonyms: drab |
| dreck | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: schlock, shlock |
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| dredge | (noun) a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed | - |
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| (verb) remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | - |
| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: drag |
| (verb) cover before cooking | - |
| dredger | (noun) a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
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| dreg | (noun) a small amount of residue | - |
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| dregs | (noun) sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid | Synonyms: settlings |
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| drekkar | (noun) a Viking longship, described in historical sources as elegant and ornately decorated, and used by those who went raiding and plundering. | - |
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| drench | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: imbrue |
| (verb) force to drink | - |
| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: swamp |
| drenched | (adjective) abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination | Synonyms: drenched in |
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| drenching | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: soaking, souse, sousing |
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| dress | (adjective) (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes | Synonyms: full-dress |
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| (adjective) suitable for formal occasions | Synonyms: full-dress |
| (noun) a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice | Synonyms: frock |
| (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: attire, garb |
| (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: apparel, clothes, wearing apparel |
| (verb) put on clothes | Synonyms: get dressed |
| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| (verb) apply a bandage or medication to | - |
| (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, set |
| (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: plume, preen, primp |
| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: curry, groom |
| (verb) dress in a certain manner | Synonyms: dress up |
| (verb) kill and prepare for market or consumption | Synonyms: dress out |
| (verb) convert into leather | - |
| (verb) put a dressing on | - |
| (verb) put a finish on | - |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: decorate |
| (verb) cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width | - |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: garnish, trim |
| (verb) arrange in ranks | Synonyms: line up |
| dressage | (noun) maneuvers of a horse in response to body signals by the rider | - |
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| dressed | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| (adjective) (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth | Synonyms: polished |
| (adjective) treated with medications and protective covering | - |
| (adjective) dressed in fancy or formal clothing | Synonyms: dolled up, dressed-up, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, spiffed up, spruced up, togged up |
| dresser | (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: bureau, chest, chest of drawers |
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| (noun) a cabinet with shelves | - |
| (noun) low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup | Synonyms: dressing table, toilet table, vanity |
| (noun) a wardrobe assistant for an actor | Synonyms: actor's assistant |
| (noun) a person who dresses in a particular way | - |
| dressing | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: grooming |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, binding |
| (noun) processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering for a wound or sore | Synonyms: medical dressing |
| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
| (noun) savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type | Synonyms: salad dressing |
| (noun) a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables | Synonyms: stuffing |
| dressmaker | (noun) a person who makes garments | Synonyms: garment-worker, garment worker, garmentmaker |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| dressy | (adjective) in fancy clothing | - |
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| drey | (noun) the nest of a squirrel | - |
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| drib | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: driblet, drop |
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| dribble | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribbling |
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| (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slobber |
| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: drip, trickle |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| (verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
| dribbler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: driveller, drooler, slobberer |
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| (noun) a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it | - |
| dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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| driblet | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, drop |
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| dried | (adjective) not still wet | - |
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| (adjective) preserved by removing natural moisture | Synonyms: dehydrated, desiccated |
| drier | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: dryer |
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| (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drying agent, siccative |
| drift | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: gallery, heading |
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| (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: purport |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: movement, trend |
| (noun) a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents | - |
| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
| (noun) the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) | - |
| (noun) a process of linguistic change over a period of time | - |
| (verb) be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current | - |
| (verb) be subject to fluctuation | - |
| (verb) drive slowly and far afield for grazing | - |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: err, stray |
| (verb) move in an unhurried fashion | - |
| (verb) cause to be carried by a current | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: freewheel |
| (verb) vary or move from a fixed point or course | - |
| driftage | (noun) the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting | - |
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| drifter | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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| driftfish | (noun) small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide | - |
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| (noun) larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico | - |
| drifting | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
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| (noun) aimless wandering from place to place | - |
| driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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| drill | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practice session, recitation |
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| (noun) (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms | - |
| (noun) similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored | Synonyms: Mandrillus leucophaeus |
| (noun) a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) | - |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise |
| (verb) teach by repetition | - |
| (verb) train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons | - |
| (verb) undergo military training or do military exercises | - |
| (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: bore |
| drilled | (adjective) trained in a skill by repetitious practice | - |
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| drilling | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: boring, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: boring |
| drily | (adverb) in a dry laconic manner | Synonyms: dryly, laconically |
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| drink | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drinking, drunkenness |
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| (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, swallow |
| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drinkable, potable |
| (noun) a single serving of a beverage | - |
| (noun) any large deep body of water | - |
| (verb) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to | Synonyms: drink in |
| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: imbibe |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: tope |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail |
| drinkable | (adjective) suitable for drinking | Synonyms: potable |
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| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drink, potable |
| drinker | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: imbiber, juicer, toper |
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| (noun) a person who drinks liquids | - |
| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| drip | (noun) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) | Synonyms: drip mold, drip mould |
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| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: dripping |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drop |
| (verb) fall in drops | - |
| dripless | (adjective) designed to prevent dripping | - |
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| drippage | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: dripping |
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| drippily | (adverb) in a mawkish and emotional manner | Synonyms: mawkishly |
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| drippiness | (noun) the physical property of being soft and drippy | - |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| dripping | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: drippage |
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| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: drip |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: soaking, sopping |
| drippings | (noun) fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried | - |
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| drippy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) leaking in drops | - |
| (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drizzly |
| dripstone | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: hoodmold, hoodmould |
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| (noun) the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites | - |
| drive | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: ride |
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| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: driving |
| (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: driving force, thrust |
| (noun) (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | - |
| (noun) the act of driving a herd of animals overland | - |
| (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: parkway |
| (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: driveway, private road |
| (noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium | - |
| (noun) the trait of being highly motivated | - |
| (noun) a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, get |
| (verb) (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground | - |
| (verb) (hunting) search for game | - |
| (verb) cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling | - |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: force, ram |
| (verb) cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force | - |
| (verb) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally | - |
| (verb) strike with a driver, as in teeing off | - |
| (verb) excavate horizontally | - |
| (verb) push, propel, or press with force | - |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse |
| (verb) compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment | - |
| (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: motor |
| (verb) operate or control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) cause someone or something to move by driving | - |
| (verb) move by being propelled by a force | - |
| (verb) urge forward | - |
| (verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug |
| (verb) to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly | - |
| (verb) work as a driver | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: ride |
| drivel | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: garbage |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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| (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
| driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
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| (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
| (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |
| driver | (noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | Synonyms: number one wood |
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| (noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device | Synonyms: device driver |
| (noun) the operator of a motor vehicle | - |
| (noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver | - |
| (noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle | - |
| driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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| driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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| driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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| (adjective) acting with vigor | - |
| (noun) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal | - |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: drive |
| drizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: mizzle |
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| (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: moisten |
| (verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: mizzle |
| drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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| drizzly | (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drippy |
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| drogue | (noun) a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly | Synonyms: drogue chute, drogue parachute |
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| (noun) restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind | Synonyms: sea anchor |
| (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
| (noun) a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane | - |
| droll | (adjective) comical in an odd or whimsical manner | - |
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| drollery | (noun) a quaint and amusing jest | Synonyms: waggery |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, comedy, funniness |
| dromaeosaur | (noun) a kind of maniraptor | - |
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| drome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, airport |
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| dromedary | (noun) one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia | Synonyms: Arabian camel, Camelus dromedarius |
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| dronabinol | (noun) psychoactive substance present in marijuana; used therapeutically to control nausea associated with cancer therapy | - |
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| drone | (noun) stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen | - |
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| (noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: bourdon, drone pipe |
| (noun) an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control | Synonyms: pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft |
| (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: droning, monotone |
| (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
| (verb) talk in a monotonous voice | Synonyms: drone on |
| (verb) make a monotonous low dull sound | - |
| droning | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, monotone |
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| drool | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slobber |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| (verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something | Synonyms: salivate |
| drooler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, slobberer |
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| droop | (noun) a shape that sags | Synonyms: sag |
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| (verb) become limp | Synonyms: wilt |
| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: flag, sag, swag |
| (verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: loll |
| drooping | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: droopy, sagging |
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| (adjective) weak from exhaustion | Synonyms: flagging |
| (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
| droopingly | (adverb) in a drooping manner | - |
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| droopy | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: drooping, sagging |
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| drop | (noun) the act of dropping something | - |
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| (noun) a central depository where things can be left or picked up | - |
| (noun) a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery | Synonyms: drop cloth, drop curtain |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, fall, free fall |
| (noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: fall |
| (noun) a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) | - |
| (noun) a steep high face of rock | Synonyms: cliff, drop-off |
| (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, driblet |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, pearl |
| (verb) give birth; used for animals | - |
| (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve |
| (verb) go down in value | - |
| (verb) stop pursuing or acting | Synonyms: knock off |
| (verb) change from one level to another | - |
| (verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: flatten |
| (verb) fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death | - |
| (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
| (verb) omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing | - |
| (verb) utter with seeming casualness | - |
| (verb) lose (a game) | - |
| (verb) take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, fell, strike down |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
| (verb) to fall vertically | - |
| (verb) let fall to the ground | - |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop down, sink |
| (verb) pay out | Synonyms: expend, spend |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: dismiss, send away, send packing |
| (verb) terminate an association with | - |
| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, swing |
| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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| dropkick | (noun) (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground | - |
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| (verb) make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| (verb) drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| dropkicker | (noun) a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground | - |
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| droplet | (noun) a tiny drop | - |
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| dropline | (noun) a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right | Synonyms: drop line, stagger head, staggered head, stephead, stepped line |
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| dropout | (noun) someone who quits school before graduation | - |
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| (noun) someone who withdraws from a social group or environment | - |
| dropper | (noun) pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time | Synonyms: eye dropper |
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| dropping | (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: falling |
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| droppings | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: dung, muck |
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| dropseed | (noun) a grass of the genus Sporobolus | Synonyms: drop-seed |
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| dropsical | (adjective) swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid | Synonyms: edematous |
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| dropsy | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: edema, hydrops, oedema |
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| droshky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: drosky |
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| drosky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: droshky |
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| drosophila | (noun) small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance | Synonyms: Drosophila melanogaster |
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| dross | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: scoria, slag |
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| (noun) worthless or dangerous material that should be removed | Synonyms: impurity |
| drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
| drouth | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drought |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drought |
| drove | (noun) a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone | Synonyms: drove chisel |
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| (noun) a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together | - |
| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: horde, swarm |
| drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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| drown | (verb) die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating | - |
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| (verb) kill by submerging in water | - |
| (verb) get rid of as if by submerging | - |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: overwhelm, submerge |
| (verb) be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: swim |