drowse | (noun) a light fitful sleep | Synonyms: doze |
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(verb) be on the verge of sleeping | - |
(verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: doze, snooze |
drowsily | (adverb) in a drowsy manner | Synonyms: somnolently |
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drowsiness | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: sleepiness, somnolence |
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drowsing | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: dozy, drowsy |
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drowsy | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: dozy, drowsing |
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(adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom | Synonyms: oscitant, yawning |
drub | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, lick, thrash |
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drubbing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
drudge | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: galley slave, navvy, peon |
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(noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: hack, hacker |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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drudging | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: laboring, labouring, toiling |
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drug | (noun) a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic | - |
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(verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: dose |
(verb) use recreational drugs | Synonyms: do drugs |
drugged | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, narcotised, narcotized |
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drugget | (noun) a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling | - |
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drugging | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: sedation |
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druggist | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, chemist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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drugless | (adjective) without the use of drugs | - |
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drugstore | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy |
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druidism | (noun) the system of religion and philosophy taught by the Druids and their rites and ceremonies | - |
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drum | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drumfish |
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(noun) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end | Synonyms: membranophone, tympan |
(noun) a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids | Synonyms: metal drum |
(noun) a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes | Synonyms: brake drum |
(noun) the sound of a drum | - |
(noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: barrel |
(verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
(verb) play a percussion instrument | - |
(verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: beat, thrum |
drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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(noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
(noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
drumbeater | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: partisan, zealot |
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drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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drumfish | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drum |
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drumhead | (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: summary |
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(noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: head |
drumlin | (noun) a mound of glacial drift | - |
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drummer | (noun) someone who plays a drum | - |
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drumming | (noun) the act of playing drums | - |
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drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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(noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
drunk | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: gone, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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(adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: intoxicated |
(noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
(noun) someone who is intoxicated | - |
drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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drunken | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, sottish |
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drunkenly | (adverb) showing effects of much strong drink | - |
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drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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(noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
(noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
drupaceous | (adjective) of or related to a drupe | - |
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drupe | (noun) fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube | Synonyms: stone fruit |
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drupelet | (noun) a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe | - |
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drusen | (noun) (plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina | - |
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druthers | (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: preference |
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dry | (adjective) free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet | - |
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(adjective) not producing milk | - |
(adjective) (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation | - |
(adjective) opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
(adjective) lacking moisture or volatile components | - |
(adjective) without a mucous or watery discharge | - |
(adjective) having a large proportion of strong liquor | - |
(adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: ironic, ironical, wry |
(adjective) practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages | Synonyms: teetotal |
(adjective) used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones | - |
(adjective) not shedding tears | - |
(adjective) lacking warmth or emotional involvement | - |
(adjective) unproductive especially of the expected results | - |
(adjective) lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless | Synonyms: juiceless |
(adjective) (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish | - |
(adjective) having no adornment or coloration | - |
(noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: prohibitionist |
(verb) become dry or drier | Synonyms: dry out |
(verb) remove the moisture from and make dry | Synonyms: dry out |
dryad | (noun) a deity or nymph of the woods | Synonyms: wood nymph |
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drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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(verb) maneuver (a ship) into a drydock | Synonyms: dry-dock |
dryer | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: drier |
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drygoods | (noun) textiles or clothing and related merchandise | Synonyms: soft goods |
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dryly | (adverb) in a dry laconic manner | Synonyms: drily, laconically |
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dryness | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassion, dispassionateness |
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(noun) moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | Synonyms: sobriety |
(noun) the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) | Synonyms: waterlessness, xerotes |
dryopithecine | (noun) considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans | - |
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drypis | (noun) spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers | - |
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drywall | (noun) a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses | Synonyms: dry wall, wallboard |
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