purau | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua |
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purblind | (adjective) having greatly reduced vision | Synonyms: dim-sighted, near-blind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impaired |
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(adjective) lacking in insight or discernment | Synonyms: obtuse |
purchasable | (adjective) available for purchase | Synonyms: for sale |
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(adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, dishonest, venal |
purchase | (noun) the acquisition of something for payment | - |
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(noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: leverage |
(noun) a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage | - |
(noun) something acquired by purchase | - |
(verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: buy |
purchaser | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, vendee |
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purchasing | (noun) the act of buying | Synonyms: buying |
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purdah | (noun) a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers | - |
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(noun) the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded | Synonyms: sex segregation |
(noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: solitude |
pure | (adjective) (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless | - |
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(adjective) free of extraneous elements of any kind | - |
(adjective) (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black | Synonyms: saturated |
(adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous |
(adjective) free from discordant qualities | - |
(adjective) concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied | - |
(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
pureblood | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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(noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: purebred, thoroughbred |
pureblooded | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, thoroughbred |
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purebred | (adjective) bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain | - |
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(noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, thoroughbred |
puree | (noun) food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender | - |
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(verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: strain |
purely | (adverb) restricted to something | Synonyms: strictly |
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pureness | (noun) a woman's virtue or chastity | Synonyms: honor, honour, purity |
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(noun) being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material | Synonyms: purity |
(noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: innocence, purity, sinlessness, whiteness |
purgation | (noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: catharsis, katharsis |
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(noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purge, purging |
(noun) a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites | Synonyms: purification |
purgative | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, evacuant |
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(noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, cathartic, physic |
purgatorial | (adjective) of or resembling purgatory | - |
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(adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purging, purifying |
purgatory | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins | - |
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(noun) a temporary condition of torment or suffering | - |
purge | (noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purging |
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(noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purging |
(noun) an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place | - |
(verb) excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) | - |
(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
(verb) rid of impurities | - |
(verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, scour |
(verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purify, sanctify |
(verb) clear of a charge | - |
(verb) oust politically | - |
purging | (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purifying |
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(noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purge |
(noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purge |
purification | (noun) the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities | - |
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(noun) the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing | - |
(noun) a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites | Synonyms: purgation |
(noun) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | Synonyms: refinement, refining |
purificator | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificatorium |
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purificatorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificator |
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purifier | (noun) an apparatus for removing impurities | - |
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purify | (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, sublimate |
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(verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, sanctify |
(verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin | - |
purifying | (adjective) freeing from noxious matter | - |
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(adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purging |
(adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: cleansing |
purine | (noun) a colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances | - |
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(noun) any of several bases that are derivatives of purine | - |
purism | (noun) scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language) | - |
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purist | (noun) someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words) | - |
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puritan | (noun) someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures | - |
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(noun) a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum | Synonyms: prude |
puritanic | (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanical |
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puritanical | (adjective) of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism | - |
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(adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanic |
(adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
puritanically | (adverb) in a prudish manner | Synonyms: prudishly |
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purity | (noun) a woman's virtue or chastity | Synonyms: honor, honour, pureness |
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(noun) being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material | Synonyms: pureness |
(noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: innocence, pureness, sinlessness, whiteness |
purl | (noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side | Synonyms: purl stitch |
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(noun) gold or silver wire thread | - |
(verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: sough |
(verb) embroider with gold or silver thread | - |
(verb) edge or border with gold or silver embroidery | - |
(verb) knit with a purl stitch | - |
(verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
purlieu | (noun) an outer adjacent area of any place | Synonyms: environs |
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purloin | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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purloo | (noun) thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S. | Synonyms: chicken purloo, poilu |
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purple | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purplish, violet |
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(adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, majestic, regal, royal |
(adjective) excessively elaborate or showily expressed | Synonyms: empurpled, over-embellished |
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes | Synonyms: the purple |
(noun) a color between red and blue | Synonyms: purpleness |
(noun) (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status | Synonyms: the purple |
(verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purpurate |
(verb) become purple | - |
purpleness | (noun) a color between red and blue | Synonyms: purple |
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purplish | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, violet |
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purport | (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: drift |
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(noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: intent, spirit |
(verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purpose |
(verb) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming | - |
purportedly | (adverb) believed or reputed to be the case | Synonyms: supposedly |
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purpose | (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: function, role, use |
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(noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: determination |
(noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intent, intention |
(verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: resolve |
(verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purport |
purposeful | (adjective) serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal | - |
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(adjective) having meaning through having an aim | - |
purposefully | (adverb) in a purposeful manner | - |
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purposefulness | (noun) the quality of having a definite purpose | Synonyms: sense of purpose |
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purposeless | (adjective) not evidencing any purpose or goal | - |
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(adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
purposelessly | (adverb) without a clear purpose | - |
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purposelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking any definite purpose | Synonyms: aimlessness |
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purposely | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose |
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purposive | (adjective) having or showing or acting with a purpose or design | - |
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(adjective) having a purpose | Synonyms: goal-directed |
purpura | (noun) any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding | Synonyms: peliosis |
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purpurate | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purple |
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purr | (noun) a low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat | - |
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(verb) indicate pleasure by purring; characteristic of cats | Synonyms: make vibrant sounds |
(verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz |
purse | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, handbag, pocketbook |
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(noun) a small bag for carrying money | - |
(noun) a sum of money offered as a prize | - |
(noun) a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse | - |
(verb) contract one's lips into a rounded shape | - |
(verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: wrinkle |
purser | (noun) an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare | - |
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purslane | (noun) a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas | - |
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pursual | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, following, pursuit |
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pursuance | (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: prosecution |
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(noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuit, quest |
pursuant | (adjective) (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with | - |
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pursue | (verb) go in search of or hunt for | Synonyms: go after, quest after, quest for |
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(verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: follow |
(verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, prosecute |
(verb) carry further or advance | Synonyms: act on, follow up on |
pursued | (adjective) followed with enmity as if to harm | - |
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(noun) a person who is being chased | Synonyms: chased |
pursuer | (noun) a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chaser |
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(noun) a person who pursues some plan or goal | - |
pursuing | (adjective) following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit | - |
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pursuit | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, following, pursual |
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(noun) a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly) | Synonyms: interest, pastime |
(noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: avocation, by-line, hobby, sideline, spare-time activity |
(noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuance, quest |
pursy | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: blown, short-winded, winded |
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purulence | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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(noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulency |
purulency | (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulence |
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purulent | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: pussy |
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purvey | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: provision |
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purveyance | (noun) the act of supplying something | - |
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purveyor | (noun) someone who supplies provisions (especially food) | - |
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purview | (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: horizon, view |
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