em | (noun) a quad with a square body | Synonyms: em quad, mutton quad |
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(noun) a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing | Synonyms: pica, pica em |
emaciate | (verb) grow weak and thin or waste away physically | - |
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(verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: macerate, waste |
emaciated | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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emaciation | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, gauntness, maceration |
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email | (noun) (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in | Synonyms: e-mail, electronic mail |
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(verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, netmail |
emanate | (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: exhale, give forth |
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(verb) proceed or issue forth, as from a source | - |
emanation | (noun) the act of emitting; causing to flow forth | Synonyms: emission |
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(noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: procession, rise |
(noun) something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.) | - |
emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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(verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
emancipated | (adjective) free from traditional social restraints | Synonyms: liberated |
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emancipation | (noun) freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child | - |
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emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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emancipator | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: manumitter |
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emarginate | (adjective) having a notched tip | - |
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emasculate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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(verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize |
(verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: castrate |
emasculated | (adjective) (of a male animal) having the testicles removed | Synonyms: cut, gelded |
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emasculation | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: castration |
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(noun) loss of power and masculinity | - |
embalm | (verb) preserve a dead body | - |
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embalmer | (noun) a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives | - |
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embalmment | (noun) preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals | - |
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embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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embankment | (noun) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | - |
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embargo | (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier | Synonyms: trade embargo, trade stoppage |
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(verb) prevent commerce | - |
(verb) ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons | - |
embark | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: enter |
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(verb) go on board | Synonyms: ship |
(verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: venture |
embarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkment |
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embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
embarrassed | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: humiliated, mortified |
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(adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, chagrined |
embarrassing | (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, sticky, unenviable |
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(adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: mortifying |
embarrassingly | (adverb) causing embarrassment | - |
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embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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(noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
(noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
(noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
embassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: ambassador |
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embassy | (noun) a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work | - |
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(noun) an ambassador and his entourage collectively | - |
embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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(verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
embattled | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, crenelated |
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(adjective) prepared for battle | - |
(adjective) (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict | - |
embayment | (noun) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf | Synonyms: bay |
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embed | (verb) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war | - |
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(verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: engraft, imbed, implant, plant |
embedded | (adjective) inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole | - |
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(adjective) enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass | - |
embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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(verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
(verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
(verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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(noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
(noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
ember | (noun) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering | Synonyms: coal |
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embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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embezzled | (adjective) taken for your own use in violation of a trust | Synonyms: misappropriated |
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embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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embezzler | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, peculator |
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embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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emblazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: blazon |
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(verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, colour |
emblem | (noun) special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc. | - |
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(noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: allegory |
emblematic | (adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematical, symbolic, symbolical |
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(adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: exemplary, typic |
emblematical | (adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, symbolic, symbolical |
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embodied | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, incarnate |
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embodiment | (noun) giving concrete form to an abstract concept | - |
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(noun) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept | Synonyms: shape |
(noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, incarnation |
embody | (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, personify |
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(verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, incarnate, substantiate |
(verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form | - |
embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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emboldened | (adjective) made bold or courageous | - |
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embolectomy | (noun) surgical removal of an embolus (usually from an artery) | - |
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embolic | (adjective) of or relating to an embolism or embolus | - |
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embolism | (noun) occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle) | - |
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(noun) an insertion into a calendar | Synonyms: intercalation |
embolus | (noun) an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood | - |
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embonpoint | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, plump |
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(noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: plumpness, roundness |
emboss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: boss, stamp |
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embossed | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: brocaded, raised |
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embossment | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: relief, relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief |
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(noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing | Synonyms: imprint |
embouchure | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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embrace | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embracement, embracing |
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(noun) a close affectionate and protective acceptance | Synonyms: bosom |
(noun) the state of taking in or encircling | - |
(verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, espouse, sweep up |
(verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, hug, squeeze |
(verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, encompass |
embracement | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracing |
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embracing | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracement |
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embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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embrasure | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: port, porthole |
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embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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embrocate | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, inunct, oil |
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embrocation | (noun) a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain | Synonyms: liniment |
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embroider | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, lard, pad |
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(verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: broider |
embroiderer | (noun) someone who ornaments with needlework | - |
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embroideress | (noun) a woman embroiderer | - |
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embroidery | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: fancywork |
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(noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embellishment |
embroil | (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
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embroiled | (adjective) deeply involved especially in something complicated | Synonyms: entangled |
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embroilment | (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: imbroglio |
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embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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(verb) cause to darken | - |
embryo | (noun) an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | Synonyms: conceptus, fertilized egg |
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(noun) (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium | - |
embryologic | (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryonal, embryonic |
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embryologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in embryology | - |
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embryology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms | - |
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embryonal | (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryologic, embryonic |
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embryonic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryotic |
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(adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryologic, embryonal |
embryotic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryonic |
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emcee | (noun) a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) | Synonyms: host, master of ceremonies |
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(verb) act as a master of ceremonies | Synonyms: compere |
emeer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: ameer, amir, emir |
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emend | (verb) make improvements or corrections to | - |
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emendation | (noun) a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing | - |
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emended | (adjective) improved or corrected by critical editing | Synonyms: edited |
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emerald | (noun) the green color of an emerald | - |
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(noun) a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone | - |
emerge | (verb) come out into view, as from concealment | - |
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(verb) become known or apparent | - |
(verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, egress, go forth, issue |
(verb) come up to the surface of or rise | - |
(verb) happen or occur as a result of something | Synonyms: come forth |
emergence | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, egression |
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(noun) the act of emerging | Synonyms: emersion |
(noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: egress, issue |
(noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: growth, outgrowth |
emergency | (noun) a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage | Synonyms: emergency brake, hand brake, parking brake |
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(noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: exigency, pinch |
(noun) a state in which martial law applies | - |
emergent | (adjective) coming into existence | Synonyms: emerging |
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(adjective) occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action | - |
emerging | (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: rising |
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(adjective) coming into existence | Synonyms: emergent |