| ruminator | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, muser, ponderer |
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| rummage | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: ransacking |
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| (noun) a jumble of things to be given away | - |
| (verb) search haphazardly | - |
| rummer | (noun) a large drinking glass (ovoid bowl on a stem) for drinking toasts | - |
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| rummy | (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, singular |
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| (noun) a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards | Synonyms: rum |
| (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, sot, wino |
| rumor | (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: hearsay, rumour |
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| (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumour |
| rumormonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumourmonger |
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| rumour | (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: hearsay, rumor |
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| (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumor |
| rumourmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger |
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| rump | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, croupe, hindquarters |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round | - |
| rumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle, ruffle up |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, pucker |
| rumpled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, tousled |
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| rumpus | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, tumult |
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| (verb) cause a disturbance | - |
| rumrunner | (noun) someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border | - |
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| run | (noun) the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace | Synonyms: running |
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| (noun) a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely | Synonyms: tally |
| (noun) (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team | Synonyms: running, running game, running play |
| (noun) a regular trip | - |
| (noun) a short trip | - |
| (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: test, trial |
| (noun) an unbroken chronological sequence | - |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: discharge, outpouring |
| (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ladder, ravel |
| (noun) a race run on foot | Synonyms: foot race, footrace |
| (noun) a race between candidates for elective office | Synonyms: campaign, political campaign |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: streak |
| (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, runnel, streamlet |
| (noun) the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.) | - |
| (noun) unrestricted freedom to use | - |
| (noun) the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation | - |
| (verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt, melt down |
| (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: ladder |
| (verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) change from one state to another | - |
| (verb) become undone | Synonyms: unravel |
| (verb) cause to perform | - |
| (verb) compete in a race | Synonyms: race |
| (verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | Synonyms: hunt, hunt down, track down |
| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: campaign |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, operate, work |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, pass |
| (verb) be operating, running or functioning | - |
| (verb) conduct to completion | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: play |
| (verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time | - |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, flow |
| (verb) keep company | Synonyms: consort |
| (verb) sail before the wind | - |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) cover by running; run a certain distance | - |
| (verb) run with the ball; in such sports as football | - |
| (verb) be diffused | Synonyms: bleed |
| (verb) travel a route regularly | Synonyms: ply |
| (verb) cause an animal to move fast | - |
| (verb) move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way | - |
| (verb) travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means | - |
| (verb) deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor | Synonyms: black market |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: execute |
| (verb) make without a miss | - |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: operate |
| (verb) set animals loose to graze | - |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, pass |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, tend |
| (verb) be affected by; be subjected to | - |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, prevail |
| (verb) have a particular form | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) extend or continue for a certain period of time | Synonyms: run for |
| (verb) occur persistently | - |
| (verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: range |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: lead |
| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| runaway | (adjective) completely out of control | - |
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| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, shoo-in, walkaway |
| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, fugitive |
| runch | (noun) Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits | Synonyms: jointed charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, wild radish, wild rape |
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| runcinate | (adjective) having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves | - |
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| rundle | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rung, spoke |
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| rundown | (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: summation, summing up |
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| rune | (noun) any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: runic letter |
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| rung | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rundle, spoke |
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| (noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: round, stave |
| runic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of runes | - |
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| runnel | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, streamlet |
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| runner | (noun) fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil | Synonyms: blue runner, Caranx crysos |
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| (noun) device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along | - |
| (noun) a long narrow carpet | - |
| (noun) a trained athlete who competes in foot races | - |
| (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, smuggler |
| (noun) a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) | Synonyms: base runner |
| (noun) someone who travels on foot by running | - |
| (noun) a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents | - |
| (noun) (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play | Synonyms: ball carrier |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: offset, stolon |
| runniness | (noun) the property of flowing easily | Synonyms: fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, liquidness |
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| running | (adjective) of advancing the ball by running | - |
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| (adjective) executed or initiated by running | - |
| (adjective) (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream | - |
| (adjective) continually repeated over a period of time | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, operative, working |
| (adjective) measured lengthwise | Synonyms: linear |
| (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track | Synonyms: track |
| (noun) the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace | Synonyms: run |
| (noun) the act of administering or being in charge of something | - |
| (noun) (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team | Synonyms: run, running game, running play |
| (noun) the state of being in operation | - |
| runny | (adjective) characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape | Synonyms: fluid |
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| runoff | (noun) a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner | - |
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| (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, overspill |
| runproof | (adjective) (of hosiery) resistant to runs or (in Britain) ladders | Synonyms: ladder-proof, run-resistant |
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| runt | (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, shrimp |
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| runtiness | (noun) smallness of stature | Synonyms: puniness, stuntedness |
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| runty | (adjective) well below average height | Synonyms: pint-size, pint-sized, sawed-off, sawn-off |
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| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: puny, shrimpy |
| runup | (noun) a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time | Synonyms: run-up |
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| runway | (noun) a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land | - |
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| (noun) a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc. | - |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, track |
| (noun) a chute down which logs can slide | - |
| rupee | (noun) the basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise | Synonyms: Indian rupee |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Pakistan; equal to 100 paisa | Synonyms: Pakistani rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Mauritius; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Mauritian rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Nepal; equal to 100 paisa | Synonyms: Nepalese rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Seychelles rupee |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Sri Lanka; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Sri Lanka rupee |
| rupestral | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupicolous |
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| rupiah | (noun) the basic unit of money in Indonesia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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| rupicolous | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupestral |
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| rupture | (noun) the act of making a sudden noisy break | - |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, severance |
| (noun) state of being torn or burst open | - |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, snap, tear |
| rupturewort | (noun) common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures | Synonyms: Hernaria glabra |
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| rural | (adjective) of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city; living in or characteristic of farming or country life; living in or characteristic of farming or country life | - |
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| ruralism | (noun) a rural characteristic or trait | Synonyms: rurality |
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| (noun) a rural idiom or expression | Synonyms: rusticism |
| (noun) Advocacy of rural life instead of urbanism or city living. | - |
| ruralist | (noun) an advocate of rural living | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: countryman |
| rurality | (noun) a rural characteristic or trait | Synonyms: ruralism |
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| rurally | (adverb) in a rural manner | - |
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| ruse | (noun) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) | Synonyms: artifice |
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| rush | (adjective) done under pressure | Synonyms: rushed |
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| (adjective) not accepting reservations | Synonyms: first-come-first-serve |
| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rushing |
| (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rushing |
| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: spate, surge, upsurge |
| (noun) a sudden burst of activity | - |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, thrill |
| (noun) grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems | - |
| (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hasten, hurry, look sharp |
| (verb) urge to an unnatural speed | Synonyms: hurry |
| (verb) attack suddenly | - |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) run with the ball, in football | - |
| (verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race | Synonyms: race |
| rushed | (adjective) done under pressure | Synonyms: rush |
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| rusher | (noun) a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously | - |
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| (noun) someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory | - |
| (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball | - |
| rushing | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rush |
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| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rush |
| rushlight | (noun) a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick | Synonyms: rush candle |
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| rushlike | (adjective) resembling rush or sedge | Synonyms: sedgelike |
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| rushy | (adjective) abounding in rushes | - |
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| rusk | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread, zwieback |
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| russet | (adjective) of brown with a reddish tinge | - |
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| (noun) a reddish brown homespun fabric | - |
| rust | (adjective) of the brown color of rust | Synonyms: rust-brown, rusty |
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| (noun) A strong reddish brown color. | - |
| (noun) any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants | Synonyms: rust fungus |
| (noun) the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water | Synonyms: rusting |
| (noun) a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi | - |
| (noun) a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture | - |
| (verb) become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid | Synonyms: corrode |
| (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, eat |
| (verb) become coated with oxide | - |
| rusted | (adjective) having accumulated rust | - |
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| rustic | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the fields or country | Synonyms: agrestic |
| (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, countryfied |
| (noun) an unsophisticated country person | - |
| rusticate | (verb) lend a rustic character to | - |
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| (verb) give (stone) a rustic look | - |
| (verb) send to the country | - |
| (verb) suspend temporarily from college or university, in England | Synonyms: send down |
| (verb) live in the country and lead a rustic life | - |
| rustication | (noun) the action of retiring to and living in the country | - |
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| (noun) banishment into the country | - |
| (noun) the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner | - |
| (noun) temporary dismissal of a student from a university | - |
| (noun) the condition naturally attaching to life in the country | - |
| rusticism | (noun) a rural idiom or expression | Synonyms: ruralism |
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| rusticity | (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: gaucherie |
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| rustiness | (noun) ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being coated or clogged with rust | - |
| rusting | (noun) the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water | Synonyms: rust |
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| rustle | (noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustling, whisper, whispering |
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| (verb) make a dry crackling sound | - |
| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: lift |
| (verb) forage food | - |
| rustler | (noun) someone who steals livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle thief |
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| rustless | (adjective) without rust | - |
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| rustling | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, soughing, susurrous |
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| (noun) the stealing of cattle | - |
| (noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustle, whisper, whispering |
| rustproof | (adjective) treated against rusting | Synonyms: rustproofed |
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| rustproofed | (adjective) treated against rusting | Synonyms: rustproof |
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| rusty | (adjective) of the brown color of rust | Synonyms: rust-brown, rust |
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| (adjective) ancient | Synonyms: hoary |
| (adjective) covered with or consisting of rust | - |
| (adjective) impaired in skill by neglect | Synonyms: out of practice |
| rut | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: groove |
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| (noun) a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels) | - |
| (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, heat, oestrus |
| (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, groove |
| (verb) be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals | - |
| rutabaga | (noun) the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food | Synonyms: swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip |
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| (noun) a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root | Synonyms: Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga plant, swede, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage |
| ruth | (noun) a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others | Synonyms: commiseration, pathos, pity |
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| ruthenium | (noun) a rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum | Synonyms: atomic number 44, Ru |
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| rutherford | (noun) a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second | - |
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| rutherfordium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized | Synonyms: atomic number 104, element 104, Rf, unnilquadium, Unq |
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| ruthful | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: contrite, remorseful, rueful |
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| ruthfulness | (noun) a state of gloomy sorrow | Synonyms: mournfulness, sorrowfulness |
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| ruthless | (adjective) without mercy or pity | Synonyms: pitiless, remorseless, unpitying |
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| ruthlessly | (adverb) in a ruthless manner | - |
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| ruthlessness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity | Synonyms: pitilessness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, mercilessness, pitilessness |
| rutile | (noun) a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium | - |
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| rutted | (adjective) full of ruts | Synonyms: rutty |
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| ruttish | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, randy, steamy, turned on |
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| rutty | (adjective) full of ruts | Synonyms: rutted |
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