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  • adios (place) (definition)
    n 1: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn: adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]
  • appose (definition)
    v 1: place side by side or in close proximity
  • bedclothes (definition)
    n 1: coverings that are used on a bed [syn: bedclothes, bed clothing, bedding]
  • bellicose (definition)
    adj 1: having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature" [syn: battleful, bellicose, combative]
  • bluenose (definition)
    n 1: a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia [syn: Nova Scotian, bluenose]
  • bulldoze (definition)
    v 1: flatten with or as if with a bulldozer
  • cellulose (definition)
    n 1: a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers
  • clothes (definition)
    n 1: clothing in general; "she was refined in her choice of apparel"; "he always bought his clothes at the same store"; "fastidious about his dress" [syn: apparel, wearing apparel, dress, clothes]
  • comatose (definition)
    adj 1: relating to or associated with a coma; "comatose breathing"; "comatose state" 2: in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli; "a comatose patient"
  • compose (definition)
    v 1: form the substance of; "Greed and ambition composed his personality" 2: write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies" [syn: compose, write] 3: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" [syn: write, compose, pen, indite] 4: put together out of existing material; "compile a list" [syn: compose, compile] 5: calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet; "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult" 6: make up plans or basic details for; "frame a policy" [syn: frame, compose, draw up]
  • decompose (definition)
    v 1: separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts [syn: decompose, break up, break down] 2: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" [syn: disintegrate, decay, decompose] 3: break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat" [syn: decompose, rot, molder, moulder]
  • depose (definition)
    v 1: force to leave (an office) [syn: depose, force out] 2: make a deposition; declare under oath [syn: swear, depose, depone]
  • diagnose (definition)
    v 1: determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis [syn: diagnose, name] 2: subject to a medical analysis
  • disclose (definition)
    v 1: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out] 2: disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set" [syn: disclose, expose]
  • discompose (definition)
    v 1: cause to lose one's composure [syn: upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit]
  • dispose (definition)
    v 1: give, sell, or transfer to another; "She disposed of her parents' possessions" 2: throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away] 3: make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; "Their language inclines us to believe them" [syn: dispose, incline] [ant: disincline, indispose] 4: place or put in a particular order; "the dots are unevenly disposed" 5: make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job" [syn: qualify, dispose] [ant: disqualify, indispose, unfit]
  • dominoes (definition)
    n 1: any of several games played with small rectangular blocks [syn: dominoes, dominos]
  • dose (definition)
    n 1: a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time [syn: dose, dosage] 2: the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time [syn: dose, dosage] 3: a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact [syn: venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD] 4: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen] v 1: treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint" 2: administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" [syn: drug, dose]
  • doze (definition)
    n 1: a light fitful sleep [syn: doze, drowse] v 1: sleep lightly or for a short period of time [syn: snooze, drowse, doze]
  • enclose (definition)
    v 1: enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose] 2: close in; darkness enclosed him" [syn: enclose, hold in, confine] 3: surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence" [syn: enclose, close in, inclose, shut in] 4: introduce; "Insert your ticket here" [syn: insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce]
  • engross (definition)
    v 1: devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies" [syn: steep, immerse, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb, soak up] 2: consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" [syn: absorb, engross, engage, occupy]
  • expose (definition)
    n 1: the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government" [syn: expose, unmasking] v 1: expose or make accessible to some action or influence; "Expose your students to art"; "expose the blanket to sunshine" 2: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out] 3: to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship" [syn: expose, exhibit, display] 4: remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body; "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway" [syn: uncover, expose] [ant: cover] 5: disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set" [syn: disclose, expose] 6: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position [syn: queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril] 7: expose to light, of photographic film 8: expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims" [syn: debunk, expose] 9: abandon by leaving out in the open air; "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned"
  • foreclose (definition)
    v 1: keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" [syn: prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid] 2: subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
  • fructose (definition)
    n 1: a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits [syn: fructose, fruit sugar, levulose, laevulose]
  • grandiose (definition)
    adj 1: impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval 2: affectedly genteel [syn: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da]
  • gross (name) (definition)
    adj 1: before any deductions; "gross income" [ant: net, nett] 2: lacking fine distinctions or detail; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable" 3: repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn: gross, porcine] 4: visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) [syn: megascopic, gross] 5: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated] 6: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar] 7: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] n 1: twelve dozen [syn: gross, 144] 2: the entire amount of income before any deductions are made [syn: gross, revenue, receipts] v 1: earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
  • hose (definition)
    n 1: socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) [syn: hosiery, hose] 2: man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet 3: a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas [syn: hose, hosepipe] v 1: water with a hose; "hose the lawn" [syn: hose, hose down]
  • impose (definition)
    v 1: compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy" [syn: enforce, impose] 2: impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students" [syn: inflict, bring down, visit, impose] 3: impose and collect; "levy a fine" [syn: levy, impose]
  • interpose (definition)
    v 1: be or come between; "An interposing thicket blocked their way" 2: introduce; "God interposed death" 3: to insert between other elements; "She interjected clever remarks" [syn: interject, come in, interpose, put in, throw in, inject] 4: get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?" [syn: intervene, step in, interfere, interpose]
  • juxtapose (definition)
    v 1: place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors"
  • morose (definition)
    adj 1: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]
  • most (place) (definition)
    adv 1: used to form the superlative; "the king cobra is the most dangerous snake" [syn: most, to the highest degree] [ant: least, to the lowest degree] 2: very; "a most welcome relief" 3: (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees" [syn: about, almost, most, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh] adj 1: (superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number; "who has the most apples?"; "most people like eggs"; "most fishes have fins" [ant: fewest(a)] 2: the superlative of `much' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning the greatest in amount or extent or degree; "made the most money he could"; "what attracts the most attention?"; "made the most of a bad deal" [ant: least(a)]
  • nose (definition)
    n 1: the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; "he has a cold in the nose" [syn: nose, olfactory organ] 2: a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry" 3: the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; "he ducked under the nose of the gun" 4: a small distance; "my horse lost the race by a nose" 5: a symbol of inquisitiveness; "keep your nose out of it" 6: the sense of smell (especially in animals); "the hound has a good nose" 7: a natural skill; "he has a nose for good deals" 8: a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged [syn: nozzle, nose] v 1: search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office" [syn: intrude, horn in, pry, nose, poke] 2: advance the forward part of with caution; "She nosed the car into the left lane" 3: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs" [syn: scent, nose, wind] 4: push or move with the nose 5: rub noses [syn: nuzzle, nose] 6: defeat by a narrow margin
  • oppose (definition)
    v 1: be against; express opposition to; "We oppose the ban on abortion" 2: fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!" [syn: fight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defend] 3: contrast with equal weight or force [syn: oppose, counterbalance] 4: set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other" [syn: pit, oppose, match, play off] 5: act against or in opposition to; "She reacts negatively to everything I say" [syn: react, oppose] 6: be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion" [syn: oppose, controvert, contradict]
  • otiose (definition)
    adj 1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted] 2: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing] 3: disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy" [syn: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy]
  • overdose (definition)
    v 1: dose too heavily; "The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room" [syn: overdose, o.d.]
  • overexpose (definition)
    v 1: expose to too much light; "the photographic film was overexposed and there is no image" [ant: underexpose] 2: expose excessively; "As a child, I was overexposed to French movies" [ant: underexpose]
  • pose (definition)
    n 1: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me" [syn: airs, pose] 2: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes 3: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn: affectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness] v 1: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn: present, pose] 2: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: model, pose, sit, posture] 3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: pose, impersonate, personate] 4: behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself" [syn: pose, posture] 5: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay] 6: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
  • predispose (definition)
    v 1: make susceptible; "This illness predisposes you to gain weight"
  • presuppose (definition)
    v 1: take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work" [syn: presuppose, suppose] 2: require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This step presupposes two prior ones" [syn: presuppose, suppose]
  • primrose (name) (definition)
    n 1: any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads [syn: primrose, primula]
  • propose (definition)
    v 1: make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax" [syn: propose, suggest, advise] 2: present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.; "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity" [syn: project, propose] 3: propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon" [syn: aim, purpose, purport, propose] 4: put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission" [syn: nominate, propose] 5: ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman" [syn: propose, declare oneself, offer, pop the question]
  • prose (name) (definition)
    n 1: ordinary writing as distinguished from verse 2: matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
  • repose (definition)
    n 1: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool" [syn: rest, ease, repose, relaxation] 2: the absence of mental stress or anxiety [syn: peace, peacefulness, peace of mind, repose, serenity, heartsease, ataraxis] 3: a disposition free from stress or emotion [syn: repose, quiet, placidity, serenity, tranquillity, tranquility] v 1: put or confide something in a person or thing; "These philosophers reposed the law in the people" 2: be inherent or innate in; [syn: rest, reside, repose] 3: lie when dead; "Mao reposes in his mausoleum" 4: lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch" [syn: recumb, repose, recline] 5: put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed" [syn: lay, put down, repose] 6: to put something (eg trust) in something; "The nation reposed its confidence in the King"
  • rose (name) (place) (definition)
    adj 1: of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose, roseate, rosaceous] n 1: any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses [syn: rose, rosebush] 2: pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began [syn: blush wine, pink wine, rose, rose wine] 3: a dusty pink color [syn: rose, rosiness]
  • superimpose (definition)
    v 1: place on top of; "can you superimpose the two images?" [syn: superimpose, superpose, lay over]
  • suppose (definition)
    v 1: express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?" [syn: suppose, say] 2: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess] 3: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" [syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose] 4: take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work" [syn: presuppose, suppose] 5: require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This step presupposes two prior ones" [syn: presuppose, suppose]
  • throes (definition)
    n 1: violent pangs of suffering; "death throes"
  • transpose (definition)
    n 1: a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix v 1: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute, transpose] 2: transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn: transfer, transpose, transplant] 3: cause to change places; "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size" [syn: counterchange, transpose, interchange] 4: transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality 5: put (a piece of music) into another key 6: exchange positions without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other" [syn: commute, transpose] 7: change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?"
  • underclothes (definition)
    n 1: undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments [syn: underwear, underclothes, underclothing]
  • dos (definition)
    n 1: the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789" [syn: Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS] 2: an operating system that is on a disk [syn: DOS, disk operating system]
  • bowse (definition)
    v 1: haul with a tackle [syn: bowse, bouse]
  • grosz (definition)
    n 1: 100 groszy equal 1 zloty in Poland
  • reimpose (definition)
    v 1: impose anew; "The fine was reimposed"
  • bose (definition)
    n 1: Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons [syn: Bose, Satyendra N. Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose]
  • bullnose (definition)
    n 1: a small carpenter's plane with the cutting edge near the front [syn: bullnose, bullnosed plane]
  • inclose (definition)
    v 1: surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence" [syn: enclose, close in, inclose, shut in] 2: introduce; "Insert your ticket here" [syn: insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce]
  • dominos (definition)
    n 1: any of several games played with small rectangular blocks [syn: dominoes, dominos]
  • overclothes (definition)
    n 1: clothing for use outdoors [syn: outerwear, overclothes]
  • altos (place)
  • arose
  • beaus
  • beaux
  • blows
  • boasts
  • boroughs
  • bows (name)
  • brose (name)
  • bungalows
  • cameos
  • cargoes
  • cargos
  • chateaus
  • chausses
  • chose
  • coasts
  • commandos
  • crows
  • demos
  • elbows
  • flows
  • foes
  • forgoes
  • froze
  • ghosts
  • glows
  • goes (place)
  • grows
  • gyros
  • hoes
  • hosts
  • inflows
  • jumbos
  • kilos
  • knows
  • lows
  • meadows (name) (place)
  • o's
  • outflows
  • owes
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