| wampum | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: peag, wampumpeag |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar |
| wampumpeag | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: peag, wampum |
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| wan | (adjective) abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress | Synonyms: pale, pallid |
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| (adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, pallid, sick |
| (adjective) lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness | - |
| (verb) become pale and sickly | - |
| wand | (noun) a rod used by a magician or water diviner | - |
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| (noun) a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir | Synonyms: baton |
| (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, verge |
| (noun) a thin supple twig or rod | - |
| wander | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, stray |
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| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, weave, wind |
| (verb) go via an indirect route or at no set pace | - |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold |
| wanderer | (noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: spider |
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| (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, rover |
| wandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, rambling, winding |
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| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, planetary |
| (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving |
| (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: roving, vagabondage |
| wanderlust | (noun) very strong or irresistible impulse to travel | Synonyms: itchy feet |
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| wandflower | (noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall | Synonyms: beetleweed, coltsfoot, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy |
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| (noun) a showy often-cultivated plant with tawny yellow often purple-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Sparaxis tricolor |
| wane | (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebb, ebbing |
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| (verb) become smaller | - |
| (verb) decrease in phase | - |
| (verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: decline, go down |
| wangle | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangling |
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| (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, manage |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent |
| wangler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: finagler |
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| wangling | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangle |
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| waning | (adjective) (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases | - |
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| (noun) a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent | - |
| wank | (noun) slang for masturbation | Synonyms: hand job, jacking off, jerking off |
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| (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, masturbate, she-bop |
| wanker | (noun) terms of abuse for a masturbator | Synonyms: jerk-off, tosser |
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| wanly | (adverb) in a weak or pale or languid manner | - |
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| wannabe | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabee |
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| wannabee | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe |
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| wanness | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor |
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| want | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: wish, wishing |
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| (noun) anything that is necessary but lacking | Synonyms: need |
| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, privation |
| (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: deficiency, lack |
| (verb) wish or demand the presence of | - |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, require |
| (verb) hunt or look for; want for a particular reason | - |
| (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: desire |
| (verb) be without, lack; be deficient in | - |
| wanted | (adjective) desired or wished for or sought | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: cherished, precious, treasured |
| wanter | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: needer |
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| wanting | (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: deficient, lacking |
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| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, lacking, missing |
| wanton | (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish |
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| (adjective) occurring without motivation or provocation | Synonyms: motiveless, unprovoked |
| (noun) lewd or lascivious woman | - |
| (verb) behave extremely cruelly and brutally | - |
| (verb) engage in amorous play | - |
| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) spend wastefully | Synonyms: trifle away, wanton away |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton away |
| (verb) indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life | - |
| wantonly | (adverb) in a licentious and promiscuous manner | Synonyms: licentiously, promiscuously |
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| (adverb) in a wanton manner | - |
| wantonness | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: abandon, unconstraint |
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| (noun) the quality of being lewd and lascivious | Synonyms: licentiousness |
| wapiti | (noun) large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis, elk |
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| (noun) common deer of temperate Europe and Asia | Synonyms: American elk, Cervus elaphus, elk, red deer |
| war | (noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | Synonyms: warfare |
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| (noun) a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious | - |
| (noun) an active struggle between competing entities | Synonyms: warfare |
| (noun) a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply | Synonyms: state of war |
| (verb) make or wage war | - |
| waratah | (noun) tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes | Synonyms: Telopea Oreades |
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| (noun) straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes | Synonyms: Telopea speciosissima |
| warble | (noun) a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly | - |
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| (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, trill |
| (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: descant, yodel |
| warbler | (noun) a small active songbird | - |
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| (noun) a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song | - |
| ward | (noun) block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care | Synonyms: hospital ward |
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| (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: cellblock |
| (noun) a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections | - |
| (noun) a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another | - |
| (verb) watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect | Synonyms: guard |
| warden | (noun) the chief official in charge of a prison | - |
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| wardenship | (noun) the position of warden | - |
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| warder | (noun) a person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners | - |
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| wardership | (noun) the position of warder | - |
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| wardress | (noun) a woman warder | - |
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| wardrobe | (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: closet, press |
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| (noun) collection of clothing belonging to one person | - |
| (noun) collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company | - |
| wardroom | (noun) military quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain) | - |
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| ware | (noun) articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: `silverware', `software' | - |
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| (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: merchandise, product |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, waste |
| warehouse | (noun) a storehouse for goods and merchandise | Synonyms: storage warehouse |
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| (verb) store in a warehouse | - |
| warehouseman | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouser |
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| warehouser | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouseman |
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| warehousing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, reposition, storage |
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| warfare | (noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | Synonyms: war |
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| (noun) an active struggle between competing entities | Synonyms: war |
| warfarin | (noun) an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus | Synonyms: Coumadin |
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| warhead | (noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: load, payload |
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| warhorse | (noun) horse used in war | - |
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| (noun) a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition | - |
| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran |
| warily | (adverb) in a wary manner | - |
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| wariness | (noun) the trait of being cautious and watchful | Synonyms: chariness |
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| warlike | (adjective) suggesting war or military life | Synonyms: martial |
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| (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: hawkish, militant |
| warlock | (noun) a male witch or demon | - |
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| warlord | (noun) supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak | - |
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| warm | (adjective) having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat | - |
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| (adjective) psychologically warm; friendly and responsive | - |
| (adjective) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color | - |
| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: ardent |
| (adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: quick |
| (adjective) freshly made or left | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement | - |
| (adjective) of a seeker; near to the object sought | - |
| (adjective) uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble | - |
| (adverb) in a warm manner | Synonyms: warmly |
| (verb) get warm or warmer | Synonyms: warm up |
| (verb) make warm or warmer | - |
| warmed | (adjective) having been warmed up | - |
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| warmer | (noun) device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room | Synonyms: heater |
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| warmhearted | (adjective) marked by warmth of feeling like kindness and sympathy and generosity | - |
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| warmheartedness | (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmness |
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| (noun) a warmhearted feeling | Synonyms: warmth |
| warming | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: calefacient |
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| (adjective) imparting heat | - |
| (noun) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt | Synonyms: thaw, thawing |
| (noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: heating |
| warmly | (adverb) in a hearty manner | Synonyms: cordially, heartily |
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| (adverb) in a warm manner | Synonyms: warm |
| warmness | (noun) the quality of having a moderate degree of heat | Synonyms: warmth |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness |
| warmonger | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: militarist |
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| warmongering | (noun) a policy of advocating war | Synonyms: war advocacy |
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| warmth | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, lovingness |
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| (noun) the quality of having a moderate degree of heat | Synonyms: warmness |
| (noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: heat, passion |
| (noun) the sensation caused by heat energy | Synonyms: heat |
| (noun) a warmhearted feeling | Synonyms: warmheartedness |
| warn | (verb) notify of danger, potential harm, or risk | - |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, monish |
| (verb) notify, usually in advance | - |
| (verb) ask to go away | - |
| warner | (noun) someone who gives a warning to others | - |
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| warning | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory |
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| (noun) a message informing of danger | - |
| (noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: admonition, monition, word of advice |
| (noun) notification of something, usually in advance | - |
| warp | (noun) yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof | - |
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| (noun) a moral or mental distortion | Synonyms: warping |
| (noun) a shape distorted by twisting or folding | Synonyms: buckle |
| (noun) a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting | Synonyms: deflection |
| (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, heave |
| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, garble |
| warpath | (noun) a course leading to warfare or battle | - |
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| (noun) hostile or belligerent mood | - |
| warped | (adjective) used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture | - |
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| warper | (noun) a textile machine used for warping any natural or manmade yarns. | Synonyms: warping machine |
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| warping | (noun) a moral or mental distortion | Synonyms: warp |
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| warplane | (noun) an aircraft designed and used for combat | Synonyms: military plane |
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| warragal | (noun) wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia | Synonyms: Canis dingo, dingo, warrigal |
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| (noun) Australian wild horse | Synonyms: warrigal |
| warrant | (noun) a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts | - |
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| (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrantee, warranty |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction |
| (noun) a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price | Synonyms: stock-purchase warrant, stock warrant |
| (verb) provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action) | - |
| (verb) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of | Synonyms: guarantee |
| warrantee | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrant, warranty |
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| (noun) a customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given | - |
| (noun) a recipient of a warrant issued by a court in the United States | - |
| warranter | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, surety, warrantor |
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| warrantor | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, surety, warranter |
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| warranty | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrant, warrantee |
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| warren | (noun) a colony of rabbits | - |
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| (noun) an overcrowded residential area | Synonyms: rabbit warren |
| (noun) a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits | Synonyms: rabbit warren |
| warrener | (noun) maintains a rabbit warren | - |
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| warrigal | (noun) wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia | Synonyms: Canis dingo, dingo, warragal |
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| (noun) Australian wild horse | Synonyms: warragal |
| warring | (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: belligerent, militant, war-ridden |
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| warrior | (noun) someone engaged in or experienced in warfare | - |
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| warriorlike | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, soldierly |
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| warship | (noun) a government ship that is available for waging war | Synonyms: combat ship, war vessel |
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| wart | (noun) (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus | Synonyms: verruca |
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| (noun) any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) | - |
| (noun) an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness) | - |
| warthog | (noun) African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks | - |
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| wartime | (noun) a period of time during which there is armed conflict | - |
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| wartlike | (adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | Synonyms: verrucose, warty |
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| wartweed | (noun) not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | Synonyms: devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartwort |
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| wartwort | (noun) not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | Synonyms: devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed |
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| warty | (adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | Synonyms: verrucose, wartlike |
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| wary | (adjective) marked by keen caution and watchful prudence | - |
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| (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting |
| wasabi | (noun) the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish; in powder or paste form it is often eaten with raw fish | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese plant of the family Cruciferae with a thick green root | - |
| wash | (noun) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out | - |
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| (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: lavation, washing |
| (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, washables, washing |
| (noun) a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other | Synonyms: wash drawing |
| (noun) a thin coat of water-base paint | - |
| (noun) the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) | Synonyms: dry wash |
| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, slipstream |
| (noun) the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway) | Synonyms: washout |
| (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: lave |
| (verb) to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking | - |
| (verb) remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent | Synonyms: wash away, wash off, wash out |
| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, moisten |
| (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, lave |
| (verb) form by erosion | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: hush |
| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: launder |
| (verb) separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) | - |
| (verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: rinse |
| (verb) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to | - |
| (verb) move by or as if by water | - |
| (verb) be capable of being washed | - |
| (verb) admit to testing or proof | - |
| washable | (adjective) capable of being washed without injury | - |
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| washables | (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, wash, washing |
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| washbasin | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbowl |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, lavatory, washbowl, washstand |