| weigela | (noun) deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers | Synonyms: Weigela florida |
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| weigh | (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: consider, count |
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| (verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: librate |
| (verb) have a certain weight | - |
| (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: count, matter |
| (verb) to be oppressive or burdensome | Synonyms: press |
| weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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| weigher | (noun) an official who weighs and records the weight | - |
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| weighing | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, deliberation |
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| weight | (noun) an artifact that is heavy | - |
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| (noun) sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms | Synonyms: exercising weight, free weight |
| (noun) the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity | - |
| (noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weightiness |
| (noun) an oppressive feeling of heavy force | - |
| (noun) a unit used to measure weight | Synonyms: weight unit |
| (noun) a system of units used to express the weight of something | Synonyms: system of weights |
| (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weighting |
| (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, slant |
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down |
| weighted | (adjective) adjusted to reflect value or proportion | - |
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| (adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: leaden |
| weightily | (adverb) as something very heavy | - |
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| (adverb) in a solemn manner | - |
| weightiness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: heaviness |
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| (noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weight |
| weighting | (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weight |
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| weightless | (adjective) having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light | - |
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| weightlessness | (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: lightness |
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| weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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| (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: press, weight-lift |
| weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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| weightlifting | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlift |
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| weighty | (adjective) having relatively great weight; heavy | - |
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| (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: corpulent, obese, rotund |
| (adjective) weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry | - |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, heavy |
| (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, telling |
| weir | (noun) a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow | - |
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| (noun) a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish | - |
| weird | (adjective) strikingly odd or unusual | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: eldritch, uncanny, unearthly |
| weirdie | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdo, weirdy |
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| weirdly | (adverb) in a weird manner | - |
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| weirdness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: bizarreness, outlandishness |
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| weirdo | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdie, weirdy |
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| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, loony, nutcase |
| weirdy | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdie, weirdo |
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| weisenheimer | (noun) an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments | Synonyms: smart aleck, wise guy, wiseacre, wisenheimer |
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| weka | (noun) flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting | Synonyms: maori hen, wood hen |
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| welch | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welsh |
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| welcher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welsher |
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| welcome | (adjective) giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted | - |
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| (noun) a greeting or reception | - |
| (noun) the state of being welcome | - |
| (verb) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival | Synonyms: receive |
| (verb) receive someone, as into one's house | - |
| (verb) accept gladly | - |
| welcomer | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: greeter, saluter |
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| welcoming | (adjective) very cordial | - |
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| weld | (noun) a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together | - |
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| (noun) European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America | Synonyms: dyer's mignonette, dyer's rocket, Reseda luteola |
| (verb) unite closely or intimately | - |
| (verb) join together by heating | - |
| welder | (noun) joins pieces of metal by welding them together | - |
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| welding | (noun) fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure | - |
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| weldment | (noun) an assembly of parts welded together | - |
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| welfare | (noun) governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need | Synonyms: public assistance, social welfare |
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| (noun) something that aids or promotes well-being | Synonyms: benefit |
| (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, well-being, wellbeing |
| welfarist | (adjective) of or relating to a welfare state | Synonyms: welfare-statist |
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| welkin | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven |
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| well | (adjective) in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury | - |
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| (adjective) wise or advantageous and hence advisable | - |
| (adjective) resulting favorably | Synonyms: good |
| (noun) a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine | - |
| (noun) an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps | - |
| (noun) an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway) | - |
| (noun) a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid | - |
| (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, wellspring |
| (adverb) (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well') | Synonyms: good |
| (adverb) without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor | - |
| (adverb) indicating high probability; in all likelihood | Synonyms: easily |
| (adverb) thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form | - |
| (adverb) favorably; with approval | - |
| (adverb) to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree | - |
| (adverb) in financial comfort | Synonyms: comfortably |
| (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: advantageously |
| (adverb) to a great extent or degree | Synonyms: considerably, substantially |
| (adverb) with skill or in a pleasing manner | - |
| (adverb) with prudence or propriety | - |
| (adverb) with great or especially intimate knowledge | Synonyms: intimately |
| (adverb) (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: swell |
| wellbeing | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being |
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| wellborn | (adjective) of good or upper-class lineage | - |
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| wellerism | (noun) a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel | - |
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| wellhead | (noun) a structure built over a well | - |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellspring |
| wellness | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: health |
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| wellpoint | (noun) a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area | Synonyms: well point |
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| wellspring | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: fountainhead, well |
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| (noun) the source of water for a well | Synonyms: wellhead |
| welsh | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welch |
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| welsher | (noun) someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager | Synonyms: welcher |
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| welt | (noun) a raised or strengthened seam | - |
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| (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, weal, wheal |
| (verb) put a welt on | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip |
| welter | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother |
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| (verb) be immersed in | - |
| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way | - |
| welterweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the lightweight division and lighter than those in the middleweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds | - |
| (noun) a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase) | - |
| welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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| wen | (noun) a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked | Synonyms: pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, steatocystoma |
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| wench | (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, skirt |
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| (verb) frequent prostitutes | - |
| wencher | (noun) someone who patronizes prostitutes | - |
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| wend | (verb) direct one's course or way | - |
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| werewolf | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, wolfman |
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| west | (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward the west | - |
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| (noun) a location in the western part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, westward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the westward cardinal compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the west | - |
| westbound | (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westerly, westward |
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| wester | (noun) wind that blows from west to east | Synonyms: west wind |
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| westerly | (adjective) of wind; from the west | Synonyms: western |
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| (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westward |
| (noun) the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth | Synonyms: prevailing westerly |
| (adverb) in a westward direction | - |
| (adverb) from the west | - |
| western | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts | - |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River | - |
| (adjective) lying toward or situated in the west | - |
| (adjective) of wind; from the west | Synonyms: westerly |
| (noun) a sandwich made from a western omelet | Synonyms: western sandwich |
| westerner | (noun) an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| westernise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernize |
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| westernize | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise |
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| westernmost | (adjective) farthest to the west | Synonyms: westmost |
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| westmost | (adjective) farthest to the west | Synonyms: westernmost |
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| westside | (adjective) of the western part of a city | - |
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| westward | (adjective) moving toward the west | Synonyms: westbound, westerly |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, west |
| (adverb) toward the west | Synonyms: westwards |
| westwards | (adverb) toward the west | Synonyms: westward |
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| wet | (adjective) covered or soaked with a liquid such as water | - |
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| (adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: lactating |
| (adjective) supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
| (adjective) containing moisture or volatile components | - |
| (adjective) consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor | - |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight |
| (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: moisture |
| (verb) make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating | - |
| (verb) cause to become wet | - |
| wetback | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: greaser, taco |
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| wether | (noun) male sheep especially a castrated one | - |
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| wetland | (noun) a low area where the land is saturated with water | - |
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| wetness | (noun) the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) | - |
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| wetnurse | (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: amah, wet-nurse, wet nurse |
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| wetter | (noun) a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process | - |
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| (noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, bedwetter |
| (noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, surfactant, wetting agent |
| wetting | (noun) the act of making something wet | - |
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| (noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: leak, making water, passing water |