| y | (noun) the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: wye, Y |
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| yacca | (noun) West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves | Synonyms: Podocarpus coriaceus, yacca podocarp |
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| yacht | (noun) an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing | Synonyms: racing yacht |
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| (verb) travel in a yacht | - |
| yachting | (noun) water travel for pleasure | Synonyms: boating |
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| yachtsman | (noun) a male person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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| yachtsperson | (noun) a person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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| yachtswoman | (noun) a female person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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| yack | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yak, yakety-yak |
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| (verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely | Synonyms: jaw, rattle on, yack away, yap away |
| yagi | (noun) a sharply directional antenna | Synonyms: Yagi aerial |
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| yahoo | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yokel |
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| yak | (noun) large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated | Synonyms: Bos grunniens |
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| (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yack, yakety-yak |
| (verb) talk profusely | Synonyms: gab |
| yakuza | (noun) organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese gangster | - |
| yam | (noun) sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked | - |
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| (noun) edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food | - |
| (noun) any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots | Synonyms: yam plant |
| (noun) edible tuber of any of several yams | - |
| yammer | (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: grizzle, whine, yawp |
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| (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, wrawl, yowl |
| yang | (noun) the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology | - |
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| yank | (verb) pull, or move with a sudden movement | Synonyms: jerk |
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| yanker | (noun) someone who gives a strong sudden pull | Synonyms: jerker |
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| yanquapin | (noun) water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds | Synonyms: American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, water chinquapin |
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| yap | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, maw, trap |
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| (verb) bark in a high-pitched tone | Synonyms: yelp, yip |
| yard | (noun) an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) | - |
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| (noun) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen | - |
| (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: curtilage, grounds |
| (noun) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines | Synonyms: railway yard, railyard |
| (noun) a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings) | - |
| (noun) a tract of land where logs are accumulated | - |
| (noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride | Synonyms: pace |
| (noun) a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) | Synonyms: cubic yard |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand |
| yardage | (noun) distance measured in the aggregate number of yards | - |
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| yardarm | (noun) either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship | - |
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| yardbird | (noun) a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks | Synonyms: yard bird |
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| (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, convict, inmate, yard bird |
| yarder | (noun) a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road | Synonyms: yard donkey |
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| (noun) (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in yards | - |
| yardgrass | (noun) coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere | Synonyms: Eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass |
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| yardie | (noun) member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence | - |
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| yardman | (noun) a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns) | - |
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| (noun) worker in a railway yard | - |
| yardmaster | (noun) a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard | Synonyms: train dispatcher, trainmaster |
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| yardstick | (noun) a ruler or tape that is three feet long | Synonyms: yard measure |
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| (noun) a measure or standard used for comparison | - |
| yarmelke | (noun) a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer) | Synonyms: yarmulka, yarmulke |
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| yarmulka | (noun) a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer) | Synonyms: yarmelke, yarmulke |
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| yarmulke | (noun) a skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer) | Synonyms: yarmelke, yarmulka |
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| yarn | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: thread |
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| (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: narration, recital |
| (verb) tell or spin a yarn | - |
| yarrow | (noun) ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: Achillea millefolium, milfoil |
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| yashmac | (noun) the face veil worn by Muslim women | Synonyms: yashmak |
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| yashmak | (noun) the face veil worn by Muslim women | Synonyms: yashmac |
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| yataghan | (noun) a long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge | - |
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| yatobyo | (noun) a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals | Synonyms: deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularaemia, tularemia |
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| yaup | (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, wail, yawl |
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| yautia | (noun) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes | Synonyms: malanga, spoonflower, tannia, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium |
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| yaw | (noun) an erratic deflection from an intended course | Synonyms: swerve |
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| (verb) deviate erratically from a set course | - |
| (verb) swerve off course momentarily | - |
| (verb) be wide open | Synonyms: gape, yawn |
| yawl | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: dandy |
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| (noun) a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars) | - |
| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, wail, yaup |
| yawn | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawning |
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| (verb) utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired | - |
| (verb) be wide open | Synonyms: gape, yaw |
| yawner | (noun) a person who yawns | - |
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| yawning | (adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom | Synonyms: drowsy, oscitant |
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| (adjective) gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something | - |
| (adjective) with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness | - |
| (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawn |
| yawp | (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: grizzle, whine, yammer |
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| (verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: bawl |
| yaws | (noun) an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions | Synonyms: frambesia, framboesia |
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| yea | (noun) yes | - |
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| (adverb) not only so, but | Synonyms: yeah |
| yeah | (adverb) not only so, but | Synonyms: yea |
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| year | (noun) a body of students who graduate together | Synonyms: class |
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| (noun) the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun | - |
| (noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | Synonyms: twelvemonth, yr |
| (noun) a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity | - |
| yearbook | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: annual, yearly |
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| (noun) a book published annually by the graduating class of a high school or college usually containing photographs of faculty and graduating students | - |
| yearling | (noun) an animal in its second year | - |
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| (noun) a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth | - |
| (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: bambino, toddler, tot |
| yearlong | (adjective) lasting through a year | - |
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| yearly | (adjective) occurring or payable every year | Synonyms: annual |
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| (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: annual, yearbook |
| (adverb) without missing a year | Synonyms: annually, each year, every year |
| yearn | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, long |
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| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yen |
| (verb) have affection for; feel tenderness for | - |
| yearner | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: longer, thirster |
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| yearning | (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: hungriness, longing |
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| yearningly | (adverb) in a yearning manner | Synonyms: longingly |
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| years | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, geezerhood, old age |
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| (noun) a prolonged period of time | Synonyms: age, long time |
| (noun) the time during which someone's life continues | Synonyms: days |
| yeast | (noun) any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division | - |
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| (noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | Synonyms: barm |
| yeastlike | (adjective) of or resembling or containing yeast | Synonyms: yeasty |
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| yeasty | (adjective) of or resembling or containing yeast | Synonyms: yeastlike |
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| (adjective) exuberantly creative | - |
| (adjective) marked by spirited enjoyment | Synonyms: barmy, zestful, zesty |
| yell | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, shout, vociferation |
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| (noun) a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate) | Synonyms: cry |
| (verb) utter or declare in a very loud voice | Synonyms: scream |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall |
| yelled | (adjective) in a vehement outcry | Synonyms: shouted |
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| yeller | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter |
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| yelling | (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: shouting |
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| yellow | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellowish |
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| (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied |
| (adjective) cowardly or treacherous | - |
| (adjective) changed to a yellowish color by age | Synonyms: yellowed |
| (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic |
| (adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: icteric, jaundiced |
| (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellowness |
| (verb) turn yellow | - |
| yellowbird | (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: goldfinch, New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis |
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| (noun) yellow-throated American wood warbler | Synonyms: Dendroica petechia, golden warbler, yellow warbler |
| yellowcake | (noun) an impure mixture of uranium oxides obtained during the processing of uranium ore | Synonyms: U308 |
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| yellowed | (adjective) changed to a yellowish color by age | Synonyms: yellow |
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| yellowfin | (noun) may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics | Synonyms: Thunnus albacares, yellowfin tuna |
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| yellowhammer | (noun) European bunting the male being bright yellow | Synonyms: Emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting |
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| (noun) large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail | Synonyms: Colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker |
| yellowish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellow |
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| yellowlegs | (noun) either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs | - |
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| yellowness | (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellow |
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| yellowtail | (noun) superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail | Synonyms: Ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail snapper |
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| (noun) game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin | Synonyms: Seriola dorsalis |
| yellowthroat | (noun) small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat | - |
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| yellowwood | (noun) any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract | Synonyms: yellowwood tree |
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| (noun) the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees | - |
| yelp | (noun) a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) | Synonyms: yelping, yip |
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| (verb) bark in a high-pitched tone | Synonyms: yap, yip |
| yelping | (noun) a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) | Synonyms: yelp, yip |
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| yen | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: hankering |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen | - |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yearn |
| yenta | (noun) (Yiddish) a woman who talks too much; a gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal | - |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant | - |
| yeoman | (noun) in former times was free and cultivated his own land | - |
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| (noun) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch | Synonyms: beefeater, yeoman of the guard |
| yeomanry | (noun) class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land | - |
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| (noun) a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army | - |
| yer | (noun) Either of two letters in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages. | - |
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| yes | (noun) an affirmative | - |
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| yeshiva | (noun) an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud) | Synonyms: yeshivah |
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| yeshivah | (noun) an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud) | Synonyms: yeshiva |
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| yesterday | (noun) the recent past | - |
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| (noun) the day immediately before today | - |
| (adverb) on the day preceding today | - |
| (adverb) in the recent past; only a short time ago | - |
| yesteryear | (noun) the time that has elapsed | Synonyms: past, past times |
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| yet | (adverb) within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time | Synonyms: in time |
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| (adverb) up to the present time | - |
| (adverb) to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons | Synonyms: even, still |
| (adverb) used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | Synonyms: as yet, heretofore, hitherto, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now |
| (adverb) used after a superlative | Synonyms: so far |
| (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, withal |
| yeti | (noun) a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas | Synonyms: abominable snowman |
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| yew | (noun) any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves | - |
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| (noun) wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows | - |
| yid | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew | Synonyms: hymie, kike, sheeny |
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| yield | (noun) production of a certain amount | Synonyms: output |
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| (noun) an amount of a product | Synonyms: fruit |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings |
| (noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: output, production |
| (verb) end resistance, as under pressure or force | Synonyms: give way |
| (verb) consent reluctantly | Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, succumb |
| (verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: concede, grant |
| (verb) cease opposition; stop fighting | - |
| (verb) be flexible under stress of physical force | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, render, return |
| (verb) cause to happen or be responsible for | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) move in order to make room for someone for something | Synonyms: ease up, give, give way, move over |
| (verb) bring in | Synonyms: bear, pay |
| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, concede, grant |
| (verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: afford, give |
| (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: relent, soften |
| (verb) be fatally overwhelmed | Synonyms: succumb |
| yielder | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: surrenderer |
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| yielding | (adjective) tending to give in or surrender or agree | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to yield to argument or influence or control | - |
| (adjective) lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure | - |
| (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, concession |
| (noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, surrender |
| yieldingly | (adverb) in an obedient manner | Synonyms: obediently |
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| yin | (noun) the dark negative feminine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology | - |
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| yip | (noun) a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) | Synonyms: yelp, yelping |
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| (verb) bark in a high-pitched tone | Synonyms: yap, yelp |