| handling | (noun) manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something | - |
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| (noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: manipulation |
| (noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: treatment |
| handlock | (noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff, manacle |
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| handloom | (noun) a loom powered by hand | - |
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| handmade | (adjective) made by hand or a hand process | Synonyms: hand-crafted |
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| handmaid | (noun) a personal maid or female attendant | Synonyms: handmaiden |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaiden, servant |
| handmaiden | (noun) a personal maid or female attendant | Synonyms: handmaid |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaid, servant |
| handoff | (noun) (American football) a play in which one player hands the ball to a teammate | - |
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| handout | (noun) giving money or food or clothing to a needy person | - |
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| (noun) an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation | Synonyms: press release, release |
| handover | (noun) act of relinquishing property or authority etc | - |
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| handrail | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, bannister |
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| handrest | (noun) a support for the hand | - |
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| hands | (noun) (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child | Synonyms: custody |
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| (noun) the force of workers available | Synonyms: manpower, men, work force, workforce |
| handsaw | (noun) a saw used with one hand for cutting wood | Synonyms: carpenter's saw, hand saw |
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| handsbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handbreadth |
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| handset | (noun) telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle | Synonyms: French telephone |
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| handsewn | (adjective) sewn by hand rather than machine | Synonyms: handstitched |
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| handshake | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshaking, shake |
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| handshaking | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, shake |
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| handsome | (adjective) pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion | Synonyms: better-looking, fine-looking, good-looking, on fleek, well-favored, well-favoured |
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| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, liberal, openhanded |
| handsomely | (adverb) in a generously handsome manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an attractively handsome manner | - |
| handsomeness | (noun) the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man) | Synonyms: good looks |
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| handspike | (noun) a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever | - |
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| handspring | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again | - |
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| handstamp | (noun) a stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand | Synonyms: rubber stamp |
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| (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: rubberstamp |
| handstand | (noun) the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position | - |
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| handstitched | (adjective) sewn by hand rather than machine | Synonyms: handsewn |
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| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| handwear | (noun) clothing for the hands | Synonyms: hand wear |
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| handwheel | (noun) control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated | - |
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| (noun) a wheel worked by hand | - |
| handwork | (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handcraft, handicraft, handiwork |
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| handwoven | (adjective) made on a handloom | Synonyms: hand-loomed |
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| handwrite | (verb) write by hand | - |
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| handwriting | (noun) the activity of writing by hand | - |
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| (noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, script |
| handwritten | (adjective) written by hand | - |
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| handy | (adjective) easy to reach | Synonyms: ready to hand |
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| (adjective) skillful with the hands | - |
| (adjective) useful and convenient | - |
| handyman | (noun) a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks | Synonyms: jack of all trades, odd-job man |
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| hang | (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms | - |
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| (noun) the way a garment hangs | - |
| (noun) a special way of doing something | Synonyms: bent, knack |
| (verb) suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste | - |
| (verb) cause to be hanging or suspended | Synonyms: hang up |
| (verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: fall, flow |
| (verb) be suspended or hanging | - |
| (verb) place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction | - |
| (verb) be placed in position as by a hinge | - |
| (verb) be suspended or poised | - |
| (verb) hold on tightly or tenaciously | Synonyms: cling |
| (verb) decorate or furnish with something suspended | - |
| (verb) let drop or droop | - |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: advert, attend, give ear, pay heed |
| (verb) kill by hanging | Synonyms: string up |
| (verb) prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury | - |
| (verb) be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive | - |
| (verb) be exhibited | - |
| hangar | (noun) a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained | Synonyms: airdock, repair shed |
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| hangbird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, firebird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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| hangdog | (adjective) frightened into submission or compliance | - |
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| (adjective) showing a sense of guilt | Synonyms: guilty, shamed, shamefaced |
| hanger | (noun) anything from which something can be hung | - |
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| (noun) a worker who hangs something | - |
| hanging | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, suspension |
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| (noun) a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead | - |
| (noun) decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window | Synonyms: wall hanging |
| hangman | (noun) an executioner who hangs the condemned person | - |
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| hangnail | (noun) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected | Synonyms: agnail |
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| hangout | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: haunt, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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| hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
| hank | (noun) a coil of rope or wool or yarn | - |
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| hanker | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: long, yearn |
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| hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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| hankey | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankie, hanky |
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| hankie | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankey, hanky |
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| hanky | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankey, hankie |
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| hansom | (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers | Synonyms: hansom cab |
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| hanuman | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: entellus, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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| hao | (noun) 10 hao equal 1 dong in Vietnam | - |
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| haoma | (noun) leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink | Synonyms: Sarcostemma acidum, soma |
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| hap | (noun) an accidental happening | - |
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| (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
| haphazard | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy |
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| (adjective) dependent upon or characterized by chance | Synonyms: hit-or-miss |
| (adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazardly |
| haphazardly | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| (adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazard |
| haphazardness | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: noise, randomness, stochasticity |
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| hapless | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| haploid | (adjective) of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes | Synonyms: haploidic, monoploid |
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| (noun) (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes | - |
| haploidic | (adjective) of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes | Synonyms: haploid, monoploid |
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| haploidy | (noun) the condition of being haploid | - |
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| haplosporidian | (noun) parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance | - |
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| haplotype | (noun) (genetics) a combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be inherited together | - |
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| haply | (adverb) by accident | Synonyms: by chance, by luck |
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| happen | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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| (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: materialise, materialize |
| (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find |
| (verb) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation | - |
| happening | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: natural event, occurrence, occurrent |
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| happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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| happily | (adverb) in an unexpectedly lucky way | - |
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| (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, jubilantly, merrily, mirthfully |
| happiness | (noun) emotions experienced when in a state of well-being | - |
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| (noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: felicity |
| happy | (adjective) enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure | - |
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| (adjective) well expressed and to the point | Synonyms: well-chosen |
| (adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: felicitous |
| (adjective) eagerly disposed to act or to be of service | Synonyms: glad |
| haptic | (adjective) of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch | Synonyms: tactile, tactual |
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| haptically | (adverb) by touch | Synonyms: tactually |
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| haptoglobin | (noun) a protein in plasma that binds free hemoglobin and removes it (as from wounds) | - |
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| harakiri | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harikari, seppuku |
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| harangue | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: rant, ranting |
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| (verb) deliver a harangue to; address forcefully | - |
| haranguer | (noun) a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech | - |
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| harass | (verb) exhaust by attacking repeatedly | - |
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| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| harassed | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harried, pestered, vexed |
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| harasser | (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harrier |
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| (noun) a persistent tormentor | - |
| harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
| harbinger | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
| harbor | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbour |
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| (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbour, haven, seaport |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbour, hold, nurse |
| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbour, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbour |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbour |
| harborage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harbourage |
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| harbour | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbor |
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| (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, haven, seaport |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, hold, nurse |
| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbor |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbor |
| harbourage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harborage |
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| hard | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: surd, unvoiced, voiceless |
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| (adjective) resisting weight or pressure | - |
| (adjective) dispassionate | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum | - |
| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: difficult |
| (adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: tough |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: heavy, intemperate |
| (adjective) dried out | - |
| (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: knockout, severe |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adverb) with effort or force or vigor | - |
| (adverb) to the full extent possible; all the way | - |
| (adverb) slowly and with difficulty | Synonyms: hardly |
| (adverb) causing great damage or hardship | Synonyms: severely |
| (adverb) with firmness | Synonyms: firmly |
| (adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: heavily, intemperately |
| (adverb) earnestly or intently | - |
| (adverb) with pain or distress or bitterness | - |
| (adverb) very near or close in space or time | - |
| (adverb) into a solid condition | - |
| hardback | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardbacked, hardbound, hardcover |
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| (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardcover |
| hardbacked | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbound, hardcover |
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| hardbake | (noun) a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds | - |
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| hardball | (noun) baseball as distinguished from softball | - |
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| (noun) a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics | - |
| hardboard | (noun) a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin | Synonyms: chipboard |
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| hardbound | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardcover |
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| hardcore | (adjective) extremely explicit | Synonyms: hard-core |
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| (adjective) intensely loyal | Synonyms: hard-core |
| hardcover | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardbound |
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| (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
| harden | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
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| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
| (verb) make healthy | Synonyms: season |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: indurate, inure |
| (verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: temper |
| hardened | (adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempered, toughened, treated |
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| (adjective) protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | - |
| (adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: enured, inured |
| (adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete) | Synonyms: set |
| (adjective) used of persons; emotionally hardened | Synonyms: case-hardened, hard-boiled |
| hardener | (noun) one that hardens, especially a substance added to varnish or paint to give it a harder surface or finish. | - |
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