| totara | (noun) valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves | Synonyms: Podocarpus totara |
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| tote | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: carryall, holdall, tote bag |
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| (verb) carry with difficulty | Synonyms: lug, tug |
| totem | (noun) emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians) | - |
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| (noun) a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object | - |
| totemic | (adjective) relating to totemism | - |
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| totemism | (noun) belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem | - |
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| totemist | (noun) a person who belongs to a clan or tribe having a totem | - |
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| toter | (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: bearer, carrier |
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| totipotence | (noun) the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part | Synonyms: totipotency |
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| totipotency | (noun) the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part | Synonyms: totipotence |
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| totipotent | (adjective) having the ability to give rise to unlike cells | - |
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| totter | (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, waddle |
| (verb) move without being stable, as if threatening to fall | - |
| totterer | (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: reeler, staggerer |
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| tottering | (adjective) (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse | - |
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| (adjective) unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age | Synonyms: tottery |
| tottery | (adjective) unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age | Synonyms: tottering |
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| toucan | (noun) brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak | - |
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| toucanet | (noun) small toucan | - |
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| touch | (noun) the act of putting two things together with no space between them | Synonyms: touching |
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| (noun) the feel of mechanical action | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: signature |
| (noun) the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) | Synonyms: cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality |
| (noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | Synonyms: feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch sensation |
| (noun) deftness in handling matters | - |
| (noun) the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan) | - |
| (noun) a suggestion of some quality | Synonyms: ghost, trace |
| (noun) a communicative interaction | Synonyms: contact |
| (noun) the event of something coming in contact with the body | Synonyms: touching |
| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge |
| (noun) a slight attack of illness | Synonyms: spot |
| (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on |
| (verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinct, tinge, tint |
| (verb) comprehend | - |
| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, allude |
| (verb) consume | Synonyms: partake |
| (verb) make physical contact with, come in contact with | - |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, meet |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) cause to be in brief contact with | - |
| (verb) affect emotionally | Synonyms: stir |
| (verb) perceive via the tactile sense | - |
| (verb) deal with; usually used with a form of negation | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, reach |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, rival |
| touchable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch | Synonyms: tangible |
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| touchback | (noun) (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone | - |
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| touchdown | (noun) a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line | - |
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| (noun) a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes | - |
| touched | (adjective) having come into contact | - |
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| (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: affected, moved, stirred |
| (adjective) slightly insane | Synonyms: fey |
| toucher | (noun) a person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something | - |
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| touchily | (adverb) in a touchy manner | - |
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| touchiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: testiness, tetchiness |
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| touching | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, poignant |
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| (noun) the act of putting two things together with no space between them | Synonyms: touch |
| (noun) the event of something coming in contact with the body | Synonyms: touch |
| touchingly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: affectingly, poignantly |
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| touchline | (noun) either of the sidelines in soccer or rugby | - |
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| touchscreen | (noun) a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen | Synonyms: touch screen |
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| touchstone | (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, measure, standard |
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| touchwood | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, tinder |
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| touchy | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, ticklish |
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| (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: feisty, huffy, thin-skinned |
| tough | (adjective) resistant to cutting or chewing | - |
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| (adjective) physically toughened | Synonyms: toughened |
| (adjective) not given to gentleness or sentimentality | - |
| (adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) substantially made or constructed | Synonyms: sturdy |
| (adjective) feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') | Synonyms: bad |
| (adjective) violent and lawless | Synonyms: ruffianly |
| (adjective) very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution | Synonyms: rugged |
| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical |
| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie |
| (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo |
| (noun) someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing | Synonyms: street fighter |
| toughen | (verb) make tough or tougher | - |
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| toughened | (adjective) physically toughened | Synonyms: tough |
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| (adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: hardened, tempered, treated |
| toughie | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, stumper |
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| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough |
| toughly | (adverb) in a ruggedly tough manner | - |
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| toughness | (noun) the property of being big and strong | Synonyms: huskiness, ruggedness |
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| (noun) enduring strength and energy | Synonyms: stamina, staying power |
| (noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: formidability |
| (noun) the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking | Synonyms: temper |
| toupe | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupee |
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| toupee | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupe |
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| toupeed | (adjective) wearing a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | - |
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| tour | (noun) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area | Synonyms: circuit |
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| (noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, spell, turn |
| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty |
| (verb) make a tour of a certain place | - |
| touraco | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: turaco, turacou, turakoo |
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| tourer | (noun) large open car seating four with folding top | Synonyms: phaeton, touring car |
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| (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: holidaymaker, tourist |
| tourism | (noun) the business of providing services to tourists | Synonyms: touristry |
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| tourist | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: holidaymaker, tourer |
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| touristed | (adjective) visited by throngs of tourists | Synonyms: touristy |
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| touristry | (noun) the business of providing services to tourists | Synonyms: tourism |
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| touristy | (adjective) visited by throngs of tourists | Synonyms: touristed |
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| tourmaline | (noun) a mineral that is a complex borosilicate and hydroxide of aluminum containing iron and magnesium and calcium and lithium and sodium; it is usually black but occurs in transparent colored forms that are used as gemstones | - |
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| tournament | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tourney |
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| (noun) a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize | - |
| tournedos | (noun) thick steak cut from the beef tenderloin | - |
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| tourney | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tournament |
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| (verb) engage in a tourney | - |
| tourniquet | (noun) bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure | Synonyms: compression bandage |
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| tourtiere | (noun) a meat pie that is usually eaten at Christmas in Quebec | - |
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| tousle | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tangle |
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| tousled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled |
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| tout | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: touter |
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| (noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tipster |
| (noun) someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit | Synonyms: ticket tout |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, vaunt |
| (verb) advertize in strongly positive terms | - |
| touter | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: tout |
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| tovarich | (noun) a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | Synonyms: tovarisch |
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| tovarisch | (noun) a comrade (especially in Russian communism) | Synonyms: tovarich |
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| tow | (noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope | Synonyms: towage |
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| (verb) drag behind | - |
| towage | (noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope | Synonyms: tow |
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| towboat | (noun) a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships | Synonyms: tower, tug, tugboat |
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| towel | (noun) a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping | - |
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| (verb) wipe with a towel | - |
| toweling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: towelling |
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| towelling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: toweling |
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| tower | (noun) a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building | - |
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| (noun) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower | Synonyms: column, pillar |
| (noun) a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships | Synonyms: towboat, tug, tugboat |
| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, predominate |
| towering | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: eminent, lofty, soaring |
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| towhead | (noun) a person with light blond hair | - |
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| towheaded | (adjective) of hair color; whitish | Synonyms: ash-blonde, platinum-blonde |
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| towhee | (noun) any of numerous long-tailed American finches | - |
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| towline | (noun) (nautical) a rope used in towing | Synonyms: towing line, towing rope, towrope |
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| town | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: townsfolk, townspeople |
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| (noun) an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city | - |
| (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: township |
| townee | (noun) townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller | - |
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| towner | (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: townsman |
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| townie | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: towny |
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| townsfolk | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townspeople |
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| township | (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: town |
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| townsman | (noun) a person from the same town as yourself | - |
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| (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: towner |
| townspeople | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townsfolk |
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| towny | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: townie |
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| towpath | (noun) a path along a canal or river used by animals towing boats | Synonyms: towing path |
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| towrope | (noun) (nautical) a rope used in towing | Synonyms: towing line, towing rope, towline |
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| toxaemia | (noun) blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood | Synonyms: toxemia |
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| (noun) an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine | Synonyms: toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy |
| toxemia | (noun) blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood | Synonyms: toxaemia |
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| (noun) an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine | Synonyms: toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia of pregnancy |
| toxic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison | - |
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| toxicant | (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: poisonous |
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| (noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poison, poisonous substance |
| toxicity | (noun) grave harmfulness or deadliness | Synonyms: perniciousness |
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| (noun) the degree to which something is poisonous | - |
| toxicognath | (noun) either of a pair of poison fangs in the modified front pair of legs of the centipede | - |
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| toxicologic | (adjective) of or relating to toxicology | Synonyms: toxicological |
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| toxicological | (adjective) of or relating to toxicology | Synonyms: toxicologic |
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| toxicologist | (noun) one who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment | - |
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| toxicology | (noun) the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons | - |
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| toxin | (noun) a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species | - |
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| toxoid | (noun) a bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin | Synonyms: anatoxin |
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| toxoplasmosis | (noun) infection caused by parasites transmitted to humans from infected cats; if contracted by a pregnant woman it can result in serious damage to the fetus | - |
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| toy | (noun) any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets | Synonyms: toy dog |
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| (noun) an artifact designed to be played with | Synonyms: plaything |
| (noun) a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size | Synonyms: miniature |
| (noun) a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier) | - |
| (noun) a device regarded as providing amusement | - |
| (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: play |
| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, play |
| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, play |
| toying | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirt, flirtation, flirting |
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| toyon | (noun) ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia | Synonyms: Christmas berry, Christmasberry, Heteromeles arbutifolia, Photinia arbutifolia, tollon |
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| toyshop | (noun) shop where toys are sold | - |
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