| shophar | (noun) an ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions | Synonyms: shofar |
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| shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
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| shoplift | (verb) steal in a store | - |
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| shoplifter | (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: booster, lifter |
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| shoplifting | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shrinkage |
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| shopper | (noun) someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy | - |
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| (noun) a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her | - |
| shopping | (noun) searching for or buying goods or services | - |
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| (noun) the commodities purchased from stores | - |
| shopsoiled | (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopworn |
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| shopwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: floorwalker |
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| shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
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| shopworn | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopsoiled |
| shore | (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shoring |
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| (noun) the land along the edge of a body of water | - |
| (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop, prop up, shore up |
| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: land, set ashore |
| (verb) serve as a shore to | - |
| shorebird | (noun) any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | Synonyms: limicoline bird, shore bird |
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| shoreline | (noun) a boundary line between land and water | - |
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| shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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| shoring | (noun) the act of propping up with shores | Synonyms: propping up, shoring up |
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| (noun) a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support | Synonyms: shore |
| shorn | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: sheared |
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| short | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive |
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| (adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length | - |
| (adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | - |
| (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: little |
| (adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | - |
| (adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices | - |
| (adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening | - |
| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, poor |
| (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, scant |
| (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: shortstop |
| (noun) the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed | - |
| (noun) accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference | Synonyms: short circuit |
| (adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: curtly, shortly |
| (adverb) at a disadvantage | Synonyms: unawares |
| (adverb) so as to interrupt | - |
| (adverb) at some point or distance before a goal is reached | - |
| (adverb) clean across | - |
| (adverb) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold | - |
| (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, dead, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, suddenly |
| (verb) create a short circuit in | Synonyms: short-circuit |
| (verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money | Synonyms: short-change |
| shortage | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortfall |
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| (noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, famine |
| shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
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| shortcake | (noun) very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream | - |
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| shortcoming | (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: defect |
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| shortcut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, cutoff |
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| shorten | (verb) become short or shorter | - |
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| (verb) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate |
| (verb) make short or shorter | - |
| shortened | (adjective) with parts removed | Synonyms: cut |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, truncated |
| (adjective) shortened | Synonyms: sawed-off, sawn-off |
| (adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: telescoped |
| shortener | (noun) any agent that shortens | - |
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| shortening | (noun) act of decreasing in length | - |
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| (noun) fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods | - |
| shortfall | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortage |
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| shortgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: short-grass |
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| shorthand | (adjective) written in abbreviated or symbolic form | - |
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| (noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: stenography, tachygraphy |
| shorthorn | (noun) English breed of short-horned cattle | Synonyms: Durham |
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| shortia | (noun) any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers | - |
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| shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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| shortlist | (noun) a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen | Synonyms: short list |
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| (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
| shortly | (adverb) in the near future | Synonyms: before long, presently, soon |
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| (adverb) for a short time | - |
| (adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: curtly, short |
| (adverb) at a short distance | - |
| (adverb) in a concise manner; in a few words | Synonyms: briefly, concisely, in brief, in short |
| shortness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness |
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| (noun) the property of being shorter than average stature | - |
| (noun) the property of being of short temporal extent | - |
| (noun) the property of being of short spatial extent | - |
| (noun) the property of being truncated or short | Synonyms: truncation |
| (noun) the condition of being short of something | - |
| shorts | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee | Synonyms: short pants, trunks |
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| (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, underdrawers |
| shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
| shortstop | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: short |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position | - |
| shot | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent |
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| (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shooting |
| (noun) the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe | Synonyms: injection |
| (noun) informal words for any attempt or effort | Synonyms: stab |
| (noun) (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand | Synonyms: stroke |
| (noun) the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination | Synonyms: blastoff |
| (noun) an attempt to score in a game | - |
| (noun) a blow hard enough to cause injury | - |
| (noun) throwing the basketball toward the hoop | Synonyms: basketball shot |
| (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: pellet |
| (noun) an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera | Synonyms: snap, snapshot |
| (noun) an explosive charge used in blasting | - |
| (noun) sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put | - |
| (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, guesswork |
| (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, slam |
| (noun) a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) | Synonyms: shooter |
| (noun) a small drink of liquor | Synonyms: nip |
| (noun) a chance to do something | Synonyms: crack |
| shote | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, piglet, shoat |
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| shotgun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: scattergun |
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| shoulder | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: berm |
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| (noun) the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder | - |
| (noun) the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm | - |
| (noun) a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula | Synonyms: articulatio humeri, shoulder joint |
| (noun) a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg | - |
| (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
| (verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
| (verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
| shouldered | (adjective) having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form | - |
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| shout | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, vociferation, yell |
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| (verb) utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) | - |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw |
| shouted | (adjective) in a vehement outcry | Synonyms: yelled |
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| shouter | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, yeller |
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| shouting | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: cheering |
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| (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: yelling |
| shove | (noun) the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something) | - |
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| (verb) push roughly | - |
| (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: jostle |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: squeeze, stuff, thrust |
| shovel | (noun) a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle | - |
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| (noun) a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace | - |
| (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: digger, excavator, power shovel |
| (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovelful, spadeful |
| (verb) dig with or as if with a shovel | - |
| shovelboard | (noun) a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface | Synonyms: shuffleboard |
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| shoveler | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveller |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveller |
| shovelful | (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovel, spadeful |
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| shovelhead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, bonnethead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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| shoveller | (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, broadbill, shoveler |
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| (noun) a worker who shovels | Synonyms: shoveler |
| shover | (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: pusher |
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| show | (noun) an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment | - |
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| (noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: appearance |
| (noun) something intended to communicate a particular impression | Synonyms: display |
| (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, shew |
| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, testify |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, point |
| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, express |
| (verb) give evidence of, as of records | - |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, register |
| (verb) finish third or better in a horse or dog race | - |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, render |
| (verb) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums | Synonyms: usher |
| (verb) make visible or noticeable | - |
| (verb) be or become visible or noticeable | Synonyms: show up |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, present |
| showboat | (noun) a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River) | - |
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| showboy | (noun) a man who dances in a chorus line | - |
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| showcase | (noun) a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home | Synonyms: case, display case, vitrine |
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| (noun) a setting in which something can be displayed to best effect | Synonyms: show window |
| showdown | (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off |
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| shower | (noun) washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle | Synonyms: shower bath |
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| (noun) a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you | - |
| (noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: cascade |
| (noun) a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person | - |
| (noun) a brief period of precipitation | Synonyms: rain shower |
| (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, exhibitor |
| (verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
| (verb) provide abundantly with | - |
| (verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
| (verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
| showerhead | (noun) a perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather | - |
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| showery | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: rainy |
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| showgirl | (noun) a woman who dances in a chorus line | Synonyms: chorine, chorus girl |
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| showily | (adverb) with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner | Synonyms: ostentatiously |
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| (adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flamboyantly, flashily |
| showiness | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridity, floridness |
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| showing | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
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| (noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, viewing |
| showjumping | (noun) riding horses in competitions over set courses to demonstrate skill in jumping over obstacles | Synonyms: stadium jumping |
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| showman | (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: impresario, promoter |
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| (noun) a person skilled at making effective presentations | - |
| showmanship | (noun) the ability to present something (especially theatrical shows) in an attractive manner | - |
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| showpiece | (noun) the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection | Synonyms: collector's item, piece de resistance |
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| showplace | (noun) a place that is frequently exhibited and visited for its historical interest or natural beauty | - |
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| showroom | (noun) an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed | Synonyms: saleroom, salesroom |
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| showstopper | (noun) something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal | Synonyms: show-stopper |
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| (noun) an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down | Synonyms: show-stopper, stopper |
| showtime | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, start, starting time |
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| showy | (adjective) superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense | Synonyms: glossy |
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| (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, sporty |
| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: flamboyant, splashy |
| (adjective) displaying brilliance and virtuosity | - |
| shrapnel | (noun) shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight | - |
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| shred | (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: rag, tag, tag end, tatter |
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| (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
| (verb) tear into shreds | Synonyms: rip up, tear up |
| shredded | (adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: chopped, sliced |
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| shredder | (noun) a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them) | - |
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| shrew | (noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles | Synonyms: shrewmouse |
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| (noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Synonyms: termagant |
| shrewd | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming |
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| (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: astute, sharp |
| shrewdly | (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: acutely, astutely, sagaciously, sapiently |
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| shrewdness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicaciousness, perspicacity |
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| shrewish | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: nagging |
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| shrewishly | (adverb) in a shrewish manner | - |
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| shrewishness | (noun) a nature given to nagging or scolding | - |
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| shrewmouse | (noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles | Synonyms: shrew |
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| shriek | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
| (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shrill |
| shrieked | (adjective) uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror | - |
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| shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
| shrift | (noun) the act of being shriven | - |
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| shrike | (noun) any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals | - |
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| shrill | (adjective) of colors that are bright and gaudy | - |
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| (adjective) having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones | Synonyms: sharp |
| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: strident |
| (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shriek |
| shrilling | (noun) a continuing shrill noise | - |
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| shrillness | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: stridence, stridency |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharp or harsh to the senses | - |
| shrilly | (adverb) in a shrill voice | Synonyms: piercingly |
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| shrimp | (noun) small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible | - |
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| (noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: prawn |
| (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, runt |
| (verb) fish for shrimp | - |