| rightish | (adjective) tending toward the political right | - |
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| rightism | (noun) the ideology of the political right; belief in or support of the tenets of the political right | - |
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| rightist | (adjective) believing in or supporting tenets of the political right | Synonyms: right-wing |
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| (noun) a member of a right wing political party | Synonyms: right-winger |
| rightly | (adverb) with honesty | Synonyms: justifiedly, justly |
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| rightmost | (adjective) farthest to the right | - |
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| rightness | (noun) according with conscience or morality | - |
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| (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: correctness |
| (noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: appropriateness |
| (noun) conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | Synonyms: justness, nicety |
| rigid | (adjective) designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure | - |
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| (adjective) incapable of or resistant to bending | Synonyms: stiff |
| (adjective) incapable of compromise or flexibility | Synonyms: strict |
| (adjective) fixed and unmoving | Synonyms: fixed, set |
| (adjective) incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances | Synonyms: inflexible, unbending |
| rigidification | (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidifying, stiffening |
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| rigidify | (verb) become rigid | - |
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| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, petrify |
| rigidifying | (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidification, stiffening |
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| rigidity | (noun) the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending | Synonyms: rigidness |
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| (noun) the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe | Synonyms: inflexibility, rigidness |
| rigidly | (adverb) in a rigid manner | Synonyms: bolt, stiffly |
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| rigidness | (noun) the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending | Synonyms: rigidity |
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| (noun) the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe | Synonyms: inflexibility, rigidity |
| rigmarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigamarole |
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| (noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigamarole |
| rigor | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: cogency, rigour, validity |
| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigorous | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: stringent, tight |
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| (adjective) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | Synonyms: strict |
| rigorously | (adverb) in a rigorous manner | Synonyms: strictly |
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| rigorousness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigour | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: cogency, rigor, validity |
| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigourousness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| rigout | (noun) a person's costume (especially if bizarre) | - |
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| rijstafel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstaffel, rijsttaffel |
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| rijstaffel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstafel, rijsttaffel |
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| rijsttaffel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstafel, rijstaffel |
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| rile | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: roil |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, vex |
| riled | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| rilievo | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: embossment, relief, relievo, sculptural relief |
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| rill | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rivulet, run, runnel, streamlet |
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| (noun) a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion) | - |
| rim | (noun) the top edge of a vessel or other container | Synonyms: brim, lip |
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| (noun) a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object | Synonyms: flange |
| (noun) the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached | - |
| (noun) (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended | - |
| (noun) the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object | - |
| (verb) roll around the rim of | - |
| (verb) furnish with a rim | - |
| (verb) run around the rim of | - |
| rima | (noun) a narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts | - |
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| rime | (noun) correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) | Synonyms: rhyme |
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| (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoar, hoarfrost |
| (verb) compose rhymes | Synonyms: rhyme |
| (verb) be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | Synonyms: rhyme |
| rimed | (adjective) covered with frost | Synonyms: frosty, rimy |
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| rimeless | (adjective) not having rhyme | Synonyms: rhymeless, unrhymed, unrimed |
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| riming | (adjective) having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds | Synonyms: rhymed, rhyming |
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| rimless | (adjective) lacking a rim or frame | - |
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| rimmed | (adjective) having a rim or a rim of a specified kind | - |
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| rimose | (adjective) having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices | - |
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| rimu | (noun) tall New Zealand timber tree | Synonyms: Dacrydium cupressinum, imou pine, red pine |
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| rimy | (adjective) covered with frost | Synonyms: frosty, rimed |
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| rind | (noun) the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating) | - |
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| rinderpest | (noun) an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | Synonyms: cattle plague |
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| ring | (noun) jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger | Synonyms: band |
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| (noun) a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) | Synonyms: band |
| (noun) a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling | Synonyms: hoop |
| (noun) a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle | - |
| (noun) a characteristic sound | - |
| (noun) the sound of a bell ringing | Synonyms: ringing, tintinnabulation |
| (noun) an association of criminals | Synonyms: gang, mob, pack |
| (noun) (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop | Synonyms: closed chain |
| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, doughnut, halo |
| (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, phone, telephone |
| (verb) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify | Synonyms: band |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, skirt, surround |
| (verb) sound loudly and sonorously | Synonyms: peal |
| (verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification | Synonyms: knell |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, resound, reverberate |
| ringdove | (noun) greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged | Synonyms: Streptopelia risoria |
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| (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, cushat, wood pigeon |
| ringed | (adjective) wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married | - |
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| (adjective) having colored rings around the body | - |
| (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped |
| ringer | (noun) (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg | - |
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| (noun) a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses | - |
| (noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: clone, dead ringer |
| (noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | Synonyms: bell ringer, toller |
| ringgit | (noun) the basic unit of money in Malaysia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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| ringhals | (noun) highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet | Synonyms: Hemachatus haemachatus, rinkhals, spitting snake |
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| ringing | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| (noun) the giving of a ring as a token of engagement | - |
| (noun) the sound of a bell ringing | Synonyms: ring, tintinnabulation |
| ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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| ringlet | (noun) any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae | Synonyms: ringlet butterfly |
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| (noun) a little ring | - |
| (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, whorl |
| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, whorl |
| ringleted | (adjective) (of hair) shaped into ringlets | - |
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| ringlike | (adjective) having the shape of a ring | - |
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| ringmaster | (noun) the person in charge of performances in a circus ring | - |
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| rings | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes; used for gymnastic exercises | - |
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| ringside | (noun) first row of seating; has an unobstructed view of a boxing or wrestling ring | Synonyms: ringside seat |
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| ringtail | (noun) an immature golden eagle | - |
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| (noun) North American raccoon | Synonyms: common raccoon, common racoon, coon, Procyon lotor |
| (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat |
| (noun) monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl | Synonyms: capuchin, Cebus capucinus |
| ringway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, bypass, ring road |
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| ringworm | (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: roundworm, tinea |
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| rink | (noun) building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating | Synonyms: skating rink |
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| rinkhals | (noun) highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet | Synonyms: Hemachatus haemachatus, ringhals, spitting snake |
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| rinse | (noun) washing lightly without soap | - |
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| (noun) the act of giving a light tint to the hair | - |
| (noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinsing |
| (noun) a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint | - |
| (verb) rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash | Synonyms: gargle |
| (verb) wash off soap or remaining dirt | Synonyms: rinse off |
| (verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: wash |
| rinsing | (noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinse |
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| riot | (noun) a public act of violence by an unruly mob | Synonyms: public violence |
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| (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, saturnalia |
| (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow |
| (noun) a state of disorder involving group violence | Synonyms: rioting |
| (verb) take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot | - |
| (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, roister |
| rioter | (noun) troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority | - |
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| rioting | (noun) a state of disorder involving group violence | Synonyms: riot |
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| riotous | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate |
| (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
| riotously | (adverb) in an exuberant manner | Synonyms: exuberantly |
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| (adverb) in a tumultuous and riotous manner | Synonyms: tumultuously |
| rip | (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rent, split |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, riptide, tide rip |
| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, snag, split, tear |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, profligate, rake, rakehell, roue |
| (verb) criticize or abuse strongly and violently | - |
| (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rend, rive |
| (verb) cut (wood) along the grain | - |
| (verb) move precipitously or violently | - |
| (verb) take without the owner's consent | Synonyms: rip off, steal |
| riparian | (adjective) of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream | - |
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| ripcord | (noun) a cord that is pulled to open a parachute from its pack during a descent | - |
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| (noun) a cord that is pulled to open the gasbag of a balloon wide enough to release gas and so causes the balloon to descend | - |
| ripe | (adjective) fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used | Synonyms: mature |
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| (adjective) far along in time | Synonyms: advanced |
| (adjective) at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge | - |
| (adjective) most suitable or right for a particular purpose | Synonyms: good, right |
| (adjective) fully prepared or eager | - |
| ripely | (adverb) with mature or developed appearance | - |
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| ripen | (verb) grow ripe | - |
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| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: mature |
| ripened | (adjective) of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable) | Synonyms: aged |
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| ripeness | (noun) the state of being ripe | - |
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| ripening | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, maturement |
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| (noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
| riposte | (noun) (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return |
| (verb) make a return thrust | - |
| ripped | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, inebriated, intoxicated |
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| ripper | (noun) a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife | - |
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| ripping | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, splitting |
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| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, mean, splendid |
| ripple | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, rippling, wavelet |
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| (noun) (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value | - |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ruffle, undulate |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle |
| rippled | (adjective) shaken into waves or undulations as by wind | Synonyms: ruffled |
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| (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, crinkly, wavelike, wavy |
| rippling | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, wavelet |
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| ripsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: splitsaw |
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| riptide | (noun) a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore | Synonyms: rip current |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, rip, tide rip |
| rise | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascension, ascent |
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| (noun) increase in price or value | Synonyms: advance |
| (noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises | Synonyms: rising slope, upgrade |
| (noun) the amount a salary is increased | Synonyms: hike, raise, salary increase, wage hike, wage increase |
| (noun) an increase in cost | Synonyms: boost, cost increase, hike |
| (noun) a growth in strength or number or importance | - |
| (noun) a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground | Synonyms: lift |
| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rising |
| (noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: emanation, procession |
| (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, upgrade |
| (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: resurrect, uprise |
| (verb) get up and out of bed | Synonyms: arise, get up, turn out, uprise |
| (verb) increase in value or to a higher point | Synonyms: climb, go up |
| (verb) become more extreme | Synonyms: heighten |
| (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: climb, mount, wax |
| (verb) rise in rank or status | Synonyms: climb up, jump |
| (verb) exert oneself to meet a challenge | - |
| (verb) become heartened or elated | - |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, uprise |
| (verb) increase in volume | Synonyms: prove |
| (verb) come to the surface | Synonyms: come up, rise up, surface |
| (verb) rise to one's feet | Synonyms: arise, get up, stand up, uprise |
| (verb) move to a better position in life or to a better job | Synonyms: ascend, move up |
| (verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: ascend, come up, uprise |
| (verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: arise, rebel, rise up |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: lift, rear |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, spring up, uprise |
| risen | (adjective) (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon | - |
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| riser | (noun) structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step | - |
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| (noun) a vertical pipe in a building | Synonyms: riser main, riser pipe, riser pipeline |
| (noun) a person who rises (especially from bed) | - |
| risibility | (noun) a disposition to laugh | - |
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| risible | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful |
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| rising | (adjective) advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status | - |
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| (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, uphill |
| (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: emerging |
| (adjective) newly come into prominence | - |
| (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising |
| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| risk | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: danger, peril |
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| (noun) the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent | Synonyms: risk of exposure |
| (noun) the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred | Synonyms: risk of infection |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, peril |
| (verb) expose to a chance of loss or damage | Synonyms: lay on the line, put on the line |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, hazard, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| riskily | (adverb) in a dangerously risky manner | - |
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| riskiness | (noun) a state of danger involving risk | Synonyms: peril |
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| riskless | (adjective) thought to be devoid of risk | Synonyms: risk-free, unhazardous |
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| risklessness | (noun) safety as a consequence of entailing no risk | - |
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| risky | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: hazardous, wild |
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| (adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: bad, high-risk, speculative |
| risotto | (noun) rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese | Synonyms: Italian rice |
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| risque | (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, spicy |
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| rissole | (noun) minced cooked meat or fish coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried in deep fat | - |
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