| forage
|
(noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle |
Synonyms:
pasture,
grass,
pasturage,
eatage |
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| (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions |
Synonyms:
foraging |
| (verb) collect or look around for (food) |
Synonyms:
scrounge |
| (verb) wander and feed |
- |
| forager
|
(noun) someone who hunts for food and provisions |
- |
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| foraging
|
(noun) the act of searching for food and provisions |
Synonyms:
forage |
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| foram
|
(noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude |
Synonyms:
foraminifer |
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| foramen
|
(noun) a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure |
Synonyms:
hiatus |
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| foraminifer
|
(noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude |
Synonyms:
foram |
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| foray
|
(noun) a sudden short attack |
Synonyms:
raid,
maraud |
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| (noun) an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) |
- |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils |
Synonyms:
ransack,
reave,
rifle,
despoil,
pillage,
plunder,
strip,
loot |
| (verb) briefly enter enemy territory |
- |
| forbear
|
(verb) refrain from doing |
Synonyms:
hold back |
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| (verb) resist doing something |
Synonyms:
refrain |
| (noun) a person from whom you are descended |
Synonyms:
forebear |
| forbearance
|
(noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence |
Synonyms:
patience,
longanimity |
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| (noun) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting |
- |
| forbearing
|
(adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment |
Synonyms:
longanimous |
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| forbid
|
(verb) command against |
Synonyms:
veto,
nix,
interdict,
disallow,
prohibit,
proscribe |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible |
Synonyms:
foreclose,
preclude,
prevent,
forestall |
| forbiddance
|
(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something |
Synonyms:
ban,
banning,
forbidding |
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| (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) |
Synonyms:
inhibition,
prohibition |
| forbidden
|
(adjective) excluded from use or mention |
Synonyms:
prohibited,
proscribed,
out,
verboten,
taboo,
tabu |
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| forbidding
|
(adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance |
Synonyms:
dour,
grim |
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| (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments |
Synonyms:
menacing,
minacious,
minatory,
ominous,
sinister,
baleful,
threatening |
| (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something |
Synonyms:
forbiddance,
ban,
banning |
| forbiddingly
|
(adverb) in an unpleasant or menacing manner |
- |
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| force
|
(noun) a powerful effect or influence |
- |
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| (noun) (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity |
- |
| (noun) physical energy or intensity |
Synonyms:
strength,
forcefulness |
| (noun) group of people willing to obey orders |
Synonyms:
personnel |
| (noun) a unit that is part of some military service |
Synonyms:
military force,
military group,
military unit |
| (noun) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) |
Synonyms:
violence |
| (noun) one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority |
Synonyms:
power |
| (noun) a group of people having the power of effective action |
- |
| (noun) (of a law) having legal validity |
Synonyms:
effect |
| (noun) a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base |
Synonyms:
force out,
force play,
force-out |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means |
Synonyms:
squeeze,
hale,
pressure,
coerce |
| (verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate |
Synonyms:
impel |
| (verb) move with force |
Synonyms:
push |
| (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably |
Synonyms:
thrust |
| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space |
Synonyms:
squeeze,
wedge |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically |
Synonyms:
drive,
ram |
| (verb) do forcibly; exert force |
- |
| (verb) take by force |
Synonyms:
storm |
| forced
|
(adjective) forced or compelled |
- |
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| (adjective) made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency |
- |
| (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural |
Synonyms:
strained,
constrained |
| (adjective) produced by or subjected to forcing |
- |
| forceful
|
(adjective) characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical) |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) forceful and definite in expression or action |
Synonyms:
emphatic |
| forcefully
|
(adverb) with full force |
- |
|---|
| forcefulness
|
(noun) physical energy or intensity |
Synonyms:
force,
strength |
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| forceless
|
(adjective) lacking force; feeble |
Synonyms:
unforceful |
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| forcemeat
|
(noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs |
Synonyms:
farce |
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| forceps
|
(noun) an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies) |
- |
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| forcible
|
(adjective) impelled by physical force especially against resistance |
Synonyms:
physical,
strong-arm |
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| forcibly
|
(adverb) in a forcible manner |
- |
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| forcipate
|
(adjective) shaped like a forceps; deeply forked |
- |
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| ford
|
(verb) cross a river where it's shallow |
- |
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| (noun) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded |
Synonyms:
crossing |
| (noun) the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse |
Synonyms:
fording |
| fordable
|
(adjective) shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle |
- |
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| fording
|
(noun) the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse |
Synonyms:
ford |
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| fore
|
(adverb) near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane |
Synonyms:
forward |
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| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft |
Synonyms:
stem,
prow,
bow |
| (adjective) situated at or toward the bow of a vessel |
- |
| forearm
|
(verb) arm in advance of a confrontation |
- |
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| (noun) the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist |
- |
| forebear
|
(noun) a person from whom you are descended |
Synonyms:
forbear |
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| forebode
|
(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance |
Synonyms:
call,
anticipate,
promise,
predict,
prognosticate,
foretell |
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| foreboding
|
(adjective) ominously prophetic |
Synonyms:
portentous,
fateful |
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| (noun) a feeling of evil to come |
Synonyms:
premonition,
presentiment,
boding |
| (noun) an unfavorable omen |
- |
| forebrain
|
(noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube |
Synonyms:
prosencephalon |
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| forecarriage
|
(noun) a small wheeled carriage attached under the front end of a plow beam. |
Synonyms:
wheeled forecarriage,
fore carriage |
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| forecast
|
(verb) predict in advance |
Synonyms:
calculate |
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| (verb) judge to be probable |
Synonyms:
reckon,
estimate,
calculate,
count on,
figure |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen |
Synonyms:
auspicate,
portend,
predict,
prefigure,
presage,
prognosticate,
omen,
augur,
betoken,
bode,
foreshadow,
foretell |
| (noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop |
Synonyms:
prognosis |
| forecaster
|
(noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) |
Synonyms:
predictor,
prognosticator,
soothsayer |
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| forecasting
|
(noun) a statement made about the future |
Synonyms:
prediction,
prognostication,
foretelling |
|---|
| forecastle
|
(noun) living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed |
Synonyms:
fo'c'sle |
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| foreclose
|
(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible |
Synonyms:
preclude,
prevent,
forbid,
forestall |
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| (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage |
- |
| foreclosure
|
(noun) the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default |
- |
|---|
| forecourt
|
(noun) the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings |
- |
|---|
| foredate
|
(verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else |
Synonyms:
predate,
antedate |
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| foredeck
|
(noun) the deck between the bridge and the forecastle |
- |
|---|
| foredge
|
(noun) the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine |
Synonyms:
fore edge |
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| foredoom
|
(verb) doom beforehand |
- |
|---|
| forefather
|
(noun) the founder of a family |
Synonyms:
sire,
father |
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| (noun) person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group |
- |
| forefend
|
(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off |
Synonyms:
deflect,
avert,
ward off,
head off,
debar,
obviate,
stave off,
avoid,
fend off,
forfend |
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| forefinger
|
(noun) the finger next to the thumb |
Synonyms:
index,
index finger |
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| forefoot
|
(noun) a front foot of a quadruped |
- |
|---|
| forefront
|
(noun) the part in the front or nearest the viewer |
Synonyms:
head |
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| (noun) the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field |
Synonyms:
vanguard,
cutting edge |
| foregather
|
(verb) collect in one place |
Synonyms:
meet,
gather,
assemble,
forgather |
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| forego
|
(verb) be earlier in time; go back further |
Synonyms:
precede,
forgo,
predate,
antedate,
antecede |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to |
Synonyms:
relinquish,
dispense with,
waive,
foreswear,
forgo |
| (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime |
Synonyms:
give up,
waive,
forfeit,
forgo,
throw overboard |
| foregoing
|
(adjective) especially of writing or speech; going before |
- |
|---|
| foregone
|
(adjective) well in the past; former |
Synonyms:
departed,
gone,
bygone,
bypast |
|---|
| foreground
|
(noun) the part of a scene that is near the viewer |
- |
|---|
| (noun) (computer science) a window for an active application |
- |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent |
Synonyms:
highlight,
play up,
spotlight |
| foregrounding
|
(noun) the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system |
Synonyms:
foreground processing |
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| forehand
|
(noun) (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) |
Synonyms:
forehand shot,
forehand stroke |
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| (adjective) (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke |
Synonyms:
forehanded |
| forehanded
|
(adjective) (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke |
Synonyms:
forehand |
|---|
| (adjective) having provided for the future |
- |
| forehead
|
(noun) the part of the face above the eyes |
Synonyms:
brow |
|---|
| (noun) the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits |
Synonyms:
os frontale,
frontal bone |
| foreign
|
(adjective) of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world |
Synonyms:
strange |
| (adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something |
Synonyms:
alien |
| (adjective) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source |
Synonyms:
extraneous |
| foreigner
|
(noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country |
Synonyms:
noncitizen,
outlander,
alien |
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| (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group |
Synonyms:
outsider |
| foreignness
|
(noun) the quality of being alien or not native |
Synonyms:
strangeness,
curiousness |
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| foreknow
|
(verb) realize beforehand |
Synonyms:
previse,
anticipate,
foresee |
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| foreknowledge
|
(noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs |
Synonyms:
precognition |
|---|
| forelady
|
(noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury |
Synonyms:
forewoman |
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| foreland
|
(noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) |
Synonyms:
head,
headland,
promontory |
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| (noun) land forming the forward margin of something |
- |
| foreleg
|
(noun) the forelimb of a quadruped |
- |
|---|
| forelimb
|
(noun) the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing) |
- |
|---|
| forelock
|
(noun) a lock of hair growing (or falling) over the forehead |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears |
Synonyms:
foretop |
| foreman
|
(noun) a person who exercises control over workers |
Synonyms:
boss,
honcho,
gaffer,
chief |
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| (noun) a man who is foreperson of a jury |
- |
| foremanship
|
(noun) the position of foreman |
- |
|---|
| foremast
|
(noun) the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts |
- |
|---|
| foremilk
|
(noun) milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition |
Synonyms:
colostrum |
|---|
| foremost
|
(adverb) prominently forward |
Synonyms:
first |
|---|
| (adverb) before anything else |
Synonyms:
first,
first of all,
first off,
firstly |
| (adjective) ranking above all others |
Synonyms:
world-class,
first |
| (adjective) preceding all others in spatial position |
Synonyms:
frontmost |
| (adjective) situated closest to the bow |
- |
| foremother
|
(noun) a female ancestor |
- |
|---|
| forename
|
(noun) the name that precedes the surname |
Synonyms:
given name,
first name |
|---|
| forenoon
|
(noun) the time period between dawn and noon |
Synonyms:
morn,
morning,
morning time |
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| forensic
|
(adjective) of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law |
- |
| forensics
|
(noun) scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes |
- |
|---|
| foreordain
|
(verb) foreordain by divine will or decree |
Synonyms:
predestinate,
predestine |
|---|
| (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand |
Synonyms:
predestine,
preordain |
| foreordained
|
(adjective) established or prearranged unalterably |
Synonyms:
predestinate,
predestined |
|---|
| foreordination
|
(noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) |
Synonyms:
predetermination,
predestination,
preordination |
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| forepart
|
(noun) the side that is forward or prominent |
Synonyms:
front,
front end |
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| forepaw
|
(noun) front paw; analogous to the human hand |
- |
|---|
| foreperson
|
(noun) the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf |
- |
|---|
| foreplay
|
(noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse |
Synonyms:
stimulation,
arousal |
|---|
| forequarter
|
(noun) the front half of a side of meat |
- |
|---|
| forerunner
|
(noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another |
Synonyms:
precursor |
|---|
| (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone |
Synonyms:
precursor,
herald,
predecessor,
harbinger |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time |
Synonyms:
antecedent |
| foresail
|
(noun) the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel |
- |
|---|
| foresee
|
(verb) realize beforehand |
Synonyms:
previse,
anticipate,
foreknow |
|---|
| (verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible |
Synonyms:
envision |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time |
Synonyms:
anticipate,
counter,
forestall |
| foreseeable
|
(adjective) capable of being anticipated |
- |
|---|
| foreshadow
|
(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen |
Synonyms:
forecast,
auspicate,
portend,
predict,
prefigure,
presage,
prognosticate,
omen,
augur,
betoken,
bode,
foretell |
|---|
| foreshadowing
|
(noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand |
Synonyms:
prefiguration,
adumbration |
|---|
| (adjective) indistinctly prophetic |
Synonyms:
prefigurative,
adumbrative |
| foreshank
|
(noun) a cut of meat from the upper part of a front leg |
- |
|---|
| foreshock
|
(noun) a tremor preceding an earthquake |
- |
|---|
| foreshore
|
(noun) the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark |
- |
|---|
| foreshorten
|
(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements |
Synonyms:
cut,
reduce,
contract,
shorten,
abbreviate,
abridge |
|---|
| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth |
- |
| foreshow
|
(verb) foretell by divine inspiration |
- |
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