| hardening | (noun) the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact) | - |
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| (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, set, solidification, solidifying |
| (noun) abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue | - |
| hardfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, tightfisted |
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| hardheaded | (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic |
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| (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: mulish |
| hardheadedness | (noun) The characteristic of being stubborn or wilful. | - |
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| hardheads | (noun) a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized | Synonyms: black knapweed, Centaurea nigra, lesser knapweed |
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| hardhearted | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: heartless |
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| (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: stonyhearted, unfeeling |
| hardheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: coldheartedness, heartlessness |
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| hardihood | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardiness |
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| hardiness | (noun) the property of being strong and healthy in constitution | Synonyms: lustiness, robustness |
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| (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, daring, hardihood |
| hardinggrass | (noun) perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | Synonyms: Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, Phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass |
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| hardline | (adjective) firm and uncompromising | Synonyms: hard-line |
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| hardliner | (noun) a conservative who is uncompromising | - |
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| hardly | (adverb) only a very short time before | Synonyms: barely, just, scarce, scarcely |
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| (adverb) slowly and with difficulty | Synonyms: hard |
| (adverb) almost not | Synonyms: barely, scarce, scarcely |
| hardness | (noun) a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering | - |
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| (noun) the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale | - |
| (noun) the quality of being difficult to do | Synonyms: ruggedness |
| (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| hardpan | (noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: caliche |
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| hardscrabble | (adjective) barely satisfying a lower standard | - |
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| hardship | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) something that causes or entails suffering | - |
| (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: adversity, hard knocks |
| hardsub | (noun) (often plural) a subtitle whose text is irreversibly merged in original video frames. | Synonyms: hard subtitle |
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| hardtack | (noun) very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple | Synonyms: pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit |
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| (noun) a mountain mahogany | - |
| hardtop | (noun) a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top | - |
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| hardware | (noun) (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system | Synonyms: computer hardware |
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| (noun) major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile) | - |
| (noun) instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal | Synonyms: ironware |
| hardwareman | (noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: ironmonger |
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| hardwood | (noun) the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers) | - |
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| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| hardy | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing |
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| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: stalwart, stout, sturdy |
| (adjective) able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions | - |
| hare | (noun) swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes | - |
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| (noun) flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food | Synonyms: rabbit |
| (verb) run quickly, like a hare | - |
| harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| harebrained | (adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: insane, mad |
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| hareem | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: harem, seraglio, serail |
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| harelip | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cheiloschisis, cleft lip |
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| harem | (noun) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | Synonyms: hareem, seraglio, serail |
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| haricot | (noun) a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried | Synonyms: flageolet |
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| (noun) a French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans | - |
| harikari | (noun) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | Synonyms: hara-kiri, harakiri, seppuku |
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| hark | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: harken, hearken |
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| harken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, hearken |
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| harlequin | (noun) a clown or buffoon (after the Harlequin character in the commedia dell'arte) | - |
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| (verb) variegate with spots or marks | - |
| harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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| harlot | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| harlotry | (noun) offering sexual intercourse for pay | Synonyms: prostitution, whoredom |
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| harm | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, hurt, scathe |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, impairment |
| (noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: hurt, injury, trauma |
| (verb) cause or do harm to | - |
| harmattan | (noun) a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter | - |
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| harmful | (adjective) causing or capable of causing harm | - |
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| harmfully | (adverb) in a detrimental manner | Synonyms: detrimentally, noxiously |
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| harmfulness | (noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury | Synonyms: injuriousness |
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| (noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: noisomeness, noxiousness |
| harmless | (adjective) not causing or capable of causing harm | - |
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| harmlessly | (adverb) in a harmless manner | - |
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| harmonic | (adjective) of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to harmonics | - |
| (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
| (adjective) relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body | Synonyms: sympathetic |
| (noun) any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental | - |
| (noun) a tone that is a component of a complex sound | - |
| harmonica | (noun) a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole | Synonyms: harp, mouth harp, mouth organ |
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| harmonical | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonised, harmonized |
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| harmonically | (adverb) with respect to harmony | - |
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| harmonics | (noun) the study of musical sound | - |
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| harmonious | (adjective) musically pleasing | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: proportionate, symmetrical |
| (adjective) existing together in harmony | - |
| (adjective) suitable and fitting | - |
| harmoniously | (adverb) in a harmonious manner | - |
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| harmoniousness | (noun) compatibility in opinion and action | Synonyms: harmony |
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| (noun) the property of sounding harmonious | Synonyms: consonance |
| harmonisation | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonization |
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| (noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonization |
| harmonise | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonize |
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| (verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonize, reconcile |
| (verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonize |
| (verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonize |
| (verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonize |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonize |
| harmonised | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonized |
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| harmoniser | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmonizer |
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| (noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmonizer |
| harmonium | (noun) a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows | Synonyms: organ, reed organ |
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| harmonizable | (adjective) capable of being made harmonious or consistent | - |
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| harmonization | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonisation |
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| (noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonisation |
| harmonize | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonise |
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| (verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, reconcile |
| (verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonise |
| (verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonise |
| (verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonise |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise |
| harmonized | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonised |
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| harmonizer | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmoniser |
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| (noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmoniser |
| harmony | (noun) an agreeable sound property | - |
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| (noun) compatibility in opinion and action | Synonyms: harmoniousness |
| (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, concordance |
| (noun) the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords | Synonyms: musical harmony |
| (noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, concordance |
| harness | (noun) stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart | - |
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| (noun) a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute) | - |
| (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: rein, rule |
| (verb) exploit the power of | - |
| (verb) put a harness | Synonyms: tackle |
| (verb) control and direct with or as if by reins | Synonyms: draw rein, rein, rein in |
| harnessed | (adjective) brought under control and put to use | - |
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| harp | (noun) a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade | - |
| (noun) a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole | Synonyms: harmonica, mouth harp, mouth organ |
| (verb) come back to | Synonyms: dwell |
| (verb) play the harp | - |
| harper | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harpist |
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| harpist | (noun) someone who plays the harp | Synonyms: harper |
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| harpoon | (noun) a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it | - |
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| (verb) spear with a harpoon | - |
| harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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| harpooner | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooneer |
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| harpsichord | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: cembalo |
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| harpsichordist | (noun) someone who plays the harpsichord | - |
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| harpulla | (noun) fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building | Synonyms: Harpullia cupanioides |
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| harpullia | (noun) any of various tree of the genus Harpullia | - |
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| harpy | (noun) large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America | Synonyms: Harpia harpyja, harpy eagle |
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| (noun) any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes | Synonyms: harpy bat, tube-nosed bat, tube-nosed fruit bat |
| (noun) a malicious woman with a fierce temper | Synonyms: hellcat, vixen |
| harquebus | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hackbut, hagbut |
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| harridan | (noun) a scolding (even vicious) old woman | - |
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| harried | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, pestered, vexed |
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| harrier | (noun) hawks that hunt over meadows and marshes and prey on small terrestrial animals | - |
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| (noun) a hound that resembles a foxhound but is smaller; used to hunt rabbits | - |
| (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harasser |
| harrow | (noun) a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil | - |
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| (verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: disk |
| harrowing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| harry | (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | Synonyms: ravage |
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| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| harsh | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarse |
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| (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: abrasive |
| (adjective) severe | - |
| (adjective) unkind or cruel or uncivil | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) unpleasantly stern | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses | - |
| harshen | (verb) make harsh or harsher | - |
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| harshly | (adverb) in a harsh and grating manner | Synonyms: gratingly, raspingly |
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| (adverb) in a harsh or unkind manner | - |
| harshness | (noun) the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses | Synonyms: roughness |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: abrasiveness, scratchiness |
| (noun) the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | Synonyms: cruelness, cruelty |
| hart | (noun) a male deer, especially an adult male red deer | Synonyms: stag |
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| hartebeest | (noun) a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward | - |
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| hartley | (noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, dit, Hart |
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| harvest | (noun) the season for gathering crops | Synonyms: harvest time |
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| (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest home, harvesting |
| (noun) the consequence of an effort or activity | - |
| (noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: crop |
| (verb) remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation | - |
| (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: glean, reap |
| harvester | (noun) farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields | Synonyms: reaper |
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| (noun) someone who helps to gather the harvest | Synonyms: reaper |
| harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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| harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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| harvestman | (noun) spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs | Synonyms: daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio |
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| haschisch | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: hash, hasheesh, hashish |
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| hash | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hasheesh, hashish |
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| (noun) chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned | - |
| (verb) chop up | - |
| hasheesh | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hashish |
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