| voodoo | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, hoodoo, juju |
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| (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, vodoun, voodooism |
| (noun) (Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities | - |
| (verb) bewitch by or as if by a voodoo | - |
| voodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, vodoun, voodoo |
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| voracious | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: rapacious, ravening |
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| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, wolfish |
| voraciously | (adverb) in an eagerly voracious manner | - |
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| voraciousness | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity |
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| (noun) an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts) | Synonyms: greediness, rapaciousness |
| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voracity |
| voracity | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness |
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| (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness |
| vortex | (noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | Synonyms: maelstrom, whirlpool |
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| (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: convolution, swirl, whirl |
| vorticella | (noun) any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk | - |
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| votary | (noun) one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service | - |
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| (noun) a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult | - |
| (noun) a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity | - |
| vote | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, balloting, voting |
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| (noun) the opinion of a group as determined by voting | - |
| (noun) a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment | Synonyms: right to vote, suffrage |
| (noun) the total number of voters who participated | Synonyms: voter turnout |
| (noun) a body of voters who have the same interests | - |
| (verb) be guided by in voting | - |
| (verb) express one's choice or preference by vote | - |
| (verb) express a choice or opinion | - |
| (verb) bring into existence or make available by vote | - |
| (verb) express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote | - |
| voteless | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disenfranchised, disfranchised, voiceless |
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| voter | (noun) a citizen who has a legal right to vote | Synonyms: elector |
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| voting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, balloting, vote |
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| votive | (adjective) dedicated in fulfillment of a vow | - |
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| vouch | (verb) give supporting evidence | - |
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| (verb) summon (a vouchee) into court to warrant or defend a title | - |
| (verb) give personal assurance; guarantee | - |
| (verb) give surety or assume responsibility | Synonyms: guarantee |
| vouchee | (noun) (law) a person called into court to defend a title | - |
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| voucher | (noun) a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed | Synonyms: coupon |
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| (noun) a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure | - |
| (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: verifier |
| vouchsafe | (verb) grant in a condescending manner | - |
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| vouge | (noun) a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century | - |
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| voussoir | (noun) wedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing an arch or vault | - |
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| vow | (noun) a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner | - |
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| (verb) make a vow; promise | - |
| (verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: consecrate |
| vowel | (noun) a speech sound made with the vocal tract open | Synonyms: vowel sound |
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| (noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel | - |
| vowelise | (verb) pronounce as a vowel | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, vowelize |
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| vowelize | (verb) pronounce as a vowel | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, vowelise |
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| vowellike | (adjective) having characteristics of a vowel sound | - |
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| vower | (noun) someone who makes a solemn promise to do something or behave in a certain way | - |
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| vox | (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, voice |
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| voyage | (noun) a journey to some distant place | - |
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| (noun) an act of traveling by water | Synonyms: ocean trip |
| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: navigate, sail |
| voyager | (noun) a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea) | - |
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| voyeur | (noun) a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | Synonyms: peeper, Peeping Tom |
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| voyeurism | (noun) a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior | - |
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| voyeuristic | (adjective) of or relating to voyeurs or voyeurism | Synonyms: voyeuristical |
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| voyeuristical | (adjective) of or relating to voyeurs or voyeurism | Synonyms: voyeuristic |
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| voyeuristically | (adverb) like a voyeur | - |
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| voyeuse | (noun) a chair of the 18th century used at game tables, having a padded top rail on which spectators could lean. | - |
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| vroom | (noun) the roaring sound made by a motor that is running at high speed | - |
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| (verb) make a loud, roaring sound, as of a car engine, while moving | - |
| vulcanisation | (noun) process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them | Synonyms: vulcanization |
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| vulcanise | (verb) undergo vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanize |
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| (verb) subject to vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanize |
| vulcanised | (adjective) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) | Synonyms: cured, vulcanized |
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| vulcaniser | (noun) a device used for the vulcanization of rubber. | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
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| (noun) someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency | Synonyms: vulcanizer |
| vulcanite | (noun) a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber | Synonyms: ebonite, hard rubber |
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| vulcanization | (noun) process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them | Synonyms: vulcanisation |
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| vulcanize | (verb) undergo vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanise |
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| (verb) subject to vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanise |
| vulcanized | (adjective) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) | Synonyms: cured, vulcanised |
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| vulcanizer | (noun) a device used for the vulcanization of rubber. | Synonyms: vulcaniser |
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| (noun) someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency | Synonyms: vulcaniser |
| vulcanology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies volcanoes | Synonyms: volcanology |
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| vulgar | (adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: crude, earthy, gross |
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| (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, plebeian, unwashed |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth |
| (adjective) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | Synonyms: common, vernacular |
| vulgarian | (noun) a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth) | - |
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| vulgarisation | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, popularization, vulgarization |
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| (noun) the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined | Synonyms: vulgarization |
| vulgarise | (verb) act in a vulgar manner | Synonyms: vulgarize |
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| (verb) debase and make vulgar | Synonyms: vulgarize |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarize |
| vulgariser | (noun) someone who makes something vulgar | Synonyms: vulgarizer |
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| (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, popularizer, vulgarizer |
| vulgarism | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarity |
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| (noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, smut |
| vulgarity | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism |
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| vulgarization | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, popularization, vulgarisation |
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| (noun) the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined | Synonyms: vulgarisation |
| vulgarize | (verb) act in a vulgar manner | Synonyms: vulgarise |
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| (verb) debase and make vulgar | Synonyms: vulgarise |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise |
| vulgarizer | (noun) someone who makes something vulgar | Synonyms: vulgariser |
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| (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, popularizer, vulgariser |
| vulgarly | (adverb) in a smutty manner | Synonyms: smuttily |
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| vulnerability | (noun) susceptibility to injury or attack | - |
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| (noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed | Synonyms: exposure |
| vulnerable | (adjective) susceptible to attack | - |
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| (adjective) susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation | - |
| (adjective) capable of being wounded or hurt | - |
| vulnerably | (adverb) in a vulnerable manner | - |
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| vulpecular | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a fox | Synonyms: vulpine |
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| vulpine | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a fox | Synonyms: vulpecular |
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| vulture | (noun) any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion | - |
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| (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: marauder, piranha, predator |
| vulturine | (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous |
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| vulturous | (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine |
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| vulva | (noun) external parts of the female genitalia | - |
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| vulval | (adjective) of or relating to the vulva | Synonyms: vulvar |
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| vulvar | (adjective) of or relating to the vulva | Synonyms: vulval |
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| vulvectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the vulva | - |
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| vulvitis | (noun) inflammation of the vulva | - |
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| vulvovaginitis | (noun) inflammation of the vulva and the vagina | - |
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