squab | (adjective) short and fat | Synonyms: squabby |
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(noun) an unfledged pigeon | - |
(noun) a soft padded sofa | - |
(noun) flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled | Synonyms: dove |
squabble | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, tiff |
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(verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble |
squabbler | (noun) someone who quarrels about a small matter | - |
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squabby | (adjective) short and fat | Synonyms: squab |
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squad | (noun) a cooperative unit (especially in sports) | Synonyms: team |
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(noun) a smallest army unit | - |
(noun) a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime | Synonyms: police squad |
squadron | (noun) an air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group | - |
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(noun) a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms | - |
(noun) a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task | - |
squalid | (adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive | Synonyms: flyblown, sordid |
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(adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid |
squalidly | (adverb) in a sordid or squalid way | Synonyms: sordidly |
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squalidness | (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: sordidness, squalor |
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squall | (noun) sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation | - |
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(verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, yell |
(verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: waul, wawl |
(verb) blow in a squall | - |
squalling | (adjective) characterized by short periods of noisy commotion | Synonyms: squally |
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squally | (adjective) characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain | - |
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(adjective) characterized by short periods of noisy commotion | Synonyms: squalling |
squalor | (noun) sordid dirtiness | Synonyms: sordidness, squalidness |
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squama | (noun) a protective structure resembling a scale | - |
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squamule | (noun) a minute scale | - |
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squamulose | (adjective) covered with tiny scales | - |
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squander | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, ware, waste |
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(verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, waste |
squandered | (adjective) not used to good advantage | Synonyms: wasted |
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squanderer | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate |
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squandering | (noun) spending resources lavishly and wastefully | - |
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squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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square | (adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle | - |
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(adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness | Synonyms: straight |
(adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned | Synonyms: straight |
(adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: straight, straightforward |
(adjective) leaving no balance | - |
(adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, substantial |
(noun) a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles | - |
(noun) any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles | - |
(noun) an open area at the meeting of two or more streets | Synonyms: public square |
(noun) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views | Synonyms: square toes |
(noun) someone who doesn't understand what is going on | Synonyms: lame |
(noun) the product of two equal terms | Synonyms: second power |
(noun) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon | Synonyms: foursquare |
(noun) something approximating the shape of a square | - |
(adverb) in a straight direct way | Synonyms: squarely |
(adverb) firmly and solidly | Synonyms: squarely |
(adverb) in a square shape | Synonyms: squarely |
(verb) make square | Synonyms: square up |
(verb) raise to the second power | - |
(verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: feather |
(verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: feather |
(verb) position so as to be square | - |
(verb) pay someone and settle a debt | - |
(verb) be compatible with | - |
(verb) cause to match, as of ideas or acts | - |
squared | (adjective) having been made square | - |
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squarely | (adverb) with firmness and conviction; without compromise | Synonyms: foursquare, straightforwardly |
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(adverb) firmly and solidly | Synonyms: square |
(adverb) in a square shape | Synonyms: square |
(adverb) directly and without evasion; not roundabout | Synonyms: forthright, forthrightly |
(adverb) in a straight direct way | Synonyms: square |
squareness | (noun) the property of being shaped like a square | - |
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squaretail | (noun) sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters | - |
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squarish | (adjective) somewhat square in appearance or form | - |
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squark | (noun) a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1 | Synonyms: strange quark |
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squash | (noun) a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets | Synonyms: squash rackets, squash racquets |
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(noun) edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable | - |
(noun) any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits | Synonyms: squash vine |
(verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squeeze, squelch |
squashed | (adjective) that has been violently compressed | - |
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squashy | (adjective) like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness | Synonyms: pulpy |
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(adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, spongy, squishy |
(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged |
squat | (adjective) having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground | Synonyms: underslung |
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(adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy |
(noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels | Synonyms: squatting |
(noun) exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles | Synonyms: knee bend, squatting |
(noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit |
(verb) to perform the squat weightlifting exercise | - |
(verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up |
(verb) occupy (a dwelling) illegally | - |
(verb) be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide | - |
squatness | (noun) the property of being short and broad | Synonyms: stubbiness |
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squatter | (noun) someone who settles on land without right or title | - |
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(noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, nester |
squattiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: dumpiness |
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squatting | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels | Synonyms: squat |
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(noun) exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles | Synonyms: knee bend, squat |
squatty | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, stumpy |
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squaw | (noun) derogatory terms for an American Indian woman | - |
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squawbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, skunkbush, squaw-bush |
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squawk | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, kick |
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(noun) the noise of squawking | - |
(verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler |
(verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, skreigh |
squawker | (noun) the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system | Synonyms: intercom speaker, squawk box |
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(noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, whiner |
squawky | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: cackly |
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squawroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root |
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