| endue | (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, gift, indue, invest |
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| endurable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: bearable, sufferable, supportable |
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| endurance | (noun) the power to withstand hardship or stress | - |
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| (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: survival |
| endure | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive |
| (verb) last and be usable | Synonyms: hold out, wear |
| (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, weather |
| (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: last |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, persist, prevail, run |
| enduring | (adjective) patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble | Synonyms: long-suffering |
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| (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: abiding, imperishable |
| enduringly | (adverb) in an enduring manner | - |
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| enduringness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, lastingness, strength |
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| endways | (adverb) with the end forward or toward the observer | Synonyms: end on, endwise |
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| (adverb) in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise | Synonyms: endwise |
| (adverb) on end or upright | Synonyms: endwise |
| endwise | (adverb) with the end forward or toward the observer | Synonyms: end on, endways |
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| (adverb) in or toward the direction of the ends; lengthwise | Synonyms: endways |
| (adverb) on end or upright | Synonyms: endways |
| enema | (noun) an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: clyster |
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| enemy | (noun) an opposing military force | - |
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| (noun) any hostile group of people | - |
| (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: foe, foeman, opposition |
| (noun) a personal enemy | Synonyms: foe |
| energetic | (adjective) possessing or exerting or displaying energy | - |
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| (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: gumptious, industrious, up-and-coming |
| energetically | (adverb) in an energetic manner | - |
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| energetism | (noun) the philosophical theory that energy is the substrate of all phenomena and that all observable changes can be interpreted as transformations of one kind of energy into another. | Synonyms: energetic monism |
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| energid | (noun) a biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts | Synonyms: protoplast |
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| energise | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energize, excite |
| energiser | (noun) a device that supplies electrical energy | Synonyms: energizer |
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| (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energizer, vitaliser, vitalizer |
| energising | (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energizing, kinetic |
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| energize | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, excite |
| energizer | (noun) a device that supplies electrical energy | Synonyms: energiser |
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| (noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: animator, energiser, vitaliser, vitalizer |
| energizing | (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energising, kinetic |
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| (noun) the activity of causing to have energy and be active | Synonyms: activating, activation |
| energy | (noun) forceful exertion | Synonyms: vigor, vigour, zip |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) enterprising or ambitious drive | Synonyms: get-up-and-go, push |
| (noun) (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs | Synonyms: free energy |
| (noun) any source of usable power | - |
| (noun) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity | Synonyms: vim, vitality |
| enervate | (verb) weaken mentally or morally | - |
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| (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: faze, unnerve, unsettle |
| enervated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, debilitated |
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| enervating | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enfeebling, weakening |
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| enervation | (noun) surgical removal of a nerve | - |
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| (noun) lack of vitality | - |
| (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
| enfeeble | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, drain |
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| enfeeblement | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, exhaustion |
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| enfeebling | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, weakening |
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| enfeoff | (verb) put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of service, in feudal society | - |
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| enfeoffment | (noun) under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service | - |
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| enfilade | (noun) gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation | Synonyms: enfilade fire |
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| (verb) rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction | - |
| enflurane | (noun) a nonflammable liquid (trade name Ethrane) used as an inhalation general anesthetic | Synonyms: Ethrane |
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| enfold | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
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| enfolding | (noun) the action of enfolding something | Synonyms: involution |
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| enforce | (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, implement |
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| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, impose |
| enforceable | (adjective) capable of being enforced | - |
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| enforced | (adjective) forced or compelled or put in force | Synonyms: implemented |
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| enforcement | (noun) the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to | - |
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| enforcer | (noun) one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior | Synonyms: hatchet man |
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| enfranchise | (verb) grant voting rights | - |
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| (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: affranchise |
| enfranchised | (adjective) endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | - |
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| enfranchisement | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) | Synonyms: franchise |
| (noun) freedom from political subjugation or servitude | - |
| engage | (verb) get caught | - |
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| (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engross, occupy |
| (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, plight |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: lock, mesh, operate |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, hire, lease, rent, take |
| (verb) hire for work or assistance | Synonyms: enlist |
| (verb) ask to represent; of legal counsel | - |
| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: employ, hire |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: prosecute, pursue |
| (verb) carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Synonyms: wage |
| engaged | (adjective) built against or attached to a wall | - |
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| (adjective) having services contracted for | - |
| (adjective) (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting | Synonyms: intermeshed, meshed |
| (adjective) involved in military hostilities | - |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: busy, in use |
| (adjective) reserved in advance | Synonyms: booked, set-aside |
| (adjective) having ones attention or mind or energy engaged | Synonyms: occupied |
| (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: bespoken, betrothed |
| engagement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: involution, involvement, participation |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, fight |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: employment |
| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: booking |
| (noun) a mutual promise to marry | Synonyms: betrothal, troth |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, date |
| engaging | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: piquant |
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| engagingly | (adverb) in an engaging manner | Synonyms: winsomely |
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| engelmannia | (noun) common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having flowers that resemble sunflowers | - |
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| engender | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, spawn |
| engild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, gild |
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| engine | (noun) motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work | - |
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| (noun) a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks | Synonyms: locomotive, locomotive engine, railway locomotive |
| (noun) an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc. | - |
| (noun) something used to achieve a purpose | - |
| engineer | (noun) a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | Synonyms: applied scientist, technologist |
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| (noun) the operator of a railway locomotive | Synonyms: engine driver, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| (verb) design as an engineer | - |
| engineering | (noun) the practical application of technical and scientific knowledge to commerce or industry | - |
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| (noun) a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located | Synonyms: engine room |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering science, technology |
| enginery | (noun) machinery consisting of engines collectively | - |
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| englut | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| engobe | (noun) a clay slip which is colored with metal oxides or stains, used for coating the surface of a pot either before or after bisque firing. | - |
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| engorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| engorged | (adjective) overfull as with blood | Synonyms: congested |
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| engorgement | (noun) eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation | - |
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| (noun) congestion with blood | - |
| engraft | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, imbed, implant, plant |
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| (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: graft, ingraft |
| engram | (noun) a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory | Synonyms: memory trace |
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| engrave | (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch |
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| (verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: etch |
| (verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: etch |
| (verb) impress or affect deeply | - |
| engraved | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: etched, graven, incised, inscribed |
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| engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
| engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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| (noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
| (noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
| engross | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, occupy |
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| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
| engrossed | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other legal document | - |
| engrossing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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| engrossment | (noun) the quality of being intent and concentrated | Synonyms: intentness |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, immersion |
| engulf | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) flow over or cover completely | - |
| enhance | (verb) increase the level of | Synonyms: heighten, raise |
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| (verb) make better or more attractive | - |
| enhanced | (adjective) increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality | - |
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| enhancement | (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: sweetening |
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| enhancer | (noun) anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities | Synonyms: foil |
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| enhancive | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: cosmetic |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: augmentative |
| enigma | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, mystery, secret |
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| (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, riddle |
| enigmatic | (adjective) resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought | Synonyms: oracular |
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| (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatical, puzzling |
| enigmatical | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, puzzling |
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| enigmatically | (adverb) in a cryptic manner | Synonyms: cryptically, mysteriously |
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| enigmaticness | (noun) Mysteriousness, complexity; the property of being puzzling or inexplicable. | - |
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| (noun) The quality of a person of puzzling, secretive or contradictory character. | - |
| enjambement | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambment |
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| enjambment | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambement |
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| enjoin | (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: order, say, tell |
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| (verb) issue an injunction | - |
| enjoining | (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoinment, injunction |
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| enjoinment | (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, injunction |
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| enjoy | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: delight, revel |
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| (verb) have benefit from | - |
| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, relish, savor, savour |
| (verb) get pleasure from | Synonyms: love |
| (verb) have for one's benefit | - |
| enjoyable | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: gratifying, pleasurable |
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| enjoyableness | (noun) pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed | - |
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| enjoyably | (adverb) in an enjoyable manner | Synonyms: agreeably, pleasantly |
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| enjoyer | (noun) a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something | - |
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| enjoyment | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: delectation |
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| (noun) (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property | Synonyms: use |
| (noun) the pleasure felt when having a good time | - |
| enkephalin | (noun) an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere | - |
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| enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
| enkindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: ignited, kindled |
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| enlace | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| enlarge | (verb) become larger or bigger | - |
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| (verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, magnify |
| (verb) make larger | - |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| enlarged | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells | Synonyms: hypertrophied |
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| (adjective) as of a photograph; made larger | Synonyms: blown-up |
| (adjective) larger than normal | - |
| (adjective) enlarged to an abnormal degree | Synonyms: exaggerated, magnified |
| enlargement | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: expansion |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, magnification |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, expansion |
| (noun) the state of being enlarged | - |
| enlarger | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph | - |
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