dread | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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(noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness |
(verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: fear |
dreaded | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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dreadful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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(adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
(adjective) extremely disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
dreadfully | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, horribly |
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(adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dismally |
dreadfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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dream | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dreaming |
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(noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dreaming |
(noun) a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) | Synonyms: pipe dream |
(noun) a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality | - |
(noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: ambition, aspiration |
(noun) someone or something wonderful | - |
(verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather |
(verb) experience while sleeping | - |
dreamed | (adjective) conceived of or imagined or hoped for | - |
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dreamer | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: escapist, wishful thinker |
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(noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: idealist |
(noun) someone who is dreaming | - |
dreamfully | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamily, moonily |
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dreamily | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamfully, moonily |
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dreaminess | (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: languor |
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dreaming | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dream |
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(noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dream |
dreamland | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamworld, never-never land |
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dreamless | (adjective) untroubled by dreams | - |
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dreamlike | (adjective) resembling a dream | Synonyms: surreal |
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dreamworld | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamland, never-never land |
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dreamy | (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: moony, woolgathering |
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(adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: lackadaisical, languid, languorous |
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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