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abroad
(definition)
adv 1: to or in a foreign country; "they had never travelled
abroad"
2: far away from home or one's usual surroundings; "looking
afield for new lands to conquer"- R.A.Hall [syn: afield,
abroad]
3: in a place across an ocean [syn: overseas, abroad]
adj 1: in a foreign country; "markets abroad"; "overseas
markets" [syn: abroad, overseas]
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applaud
(definition)
v 1: clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate
approval [syn: applaud, clap, spat, acclaim] [ant:
boo, hiss]
2: express approval of; "I applaud your efforts"
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awed
(definition)
adj 1: inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence;
"awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed
heads" [syn: awed, awful]
2: having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect
and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence before the
shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder" [syn: awed,
awestruck, awestricken] [ant: unawed]
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baud
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second)
for modems [syn: baud, baud rate]
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bawd
(definition)
n 1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn:
prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart,
cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady,
lady of pleasure, woman of the street]
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broad
(name)
(definition)
adj 1: having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the
other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins";
"three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad
shoulders"; "a broad river" [syn: wide, broad] [ant:
narrow]
2: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases";
"an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against
human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad
applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"-
T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the-
board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive,
blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive,
panoptic, wide]
3: not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines
of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread" [syn: broad,
unspecific]
4: lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was
time to leave" [syn: broad, unsubtle]
5: being at a peak or culminating point; "broad daylight"; "full
summer" [syn: broad(a), full(a)]
6: very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide
plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: broad,
spacious, wide]
7: (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional; "a broad
southern accent"
8: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad
political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a
liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
[syn: broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant]
n 1: slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a
mean punch"
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clawed
(definition)
adj 1: having or resembling a claw or claws; often used as a
combining form; "sharp-clawed"
2: (of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons [syn:
clawed, taloned]
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cod
(name)
(definition)
adv 1: collecting the charges upon delivery; "mail a package
C.O.D." [syn: C.O.D., COD, cash on delivery]
adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call";
"the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn:
collect, cod]
n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the
seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase]
2: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish;
usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish]
3: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn:
cod, codfish]
v 1: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe,
slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put
one over, put one across]
2: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod,
tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally,
ride]
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defraud
(definition)
v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
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flawed
(definition)
adj 1: having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond"; "an
irregular pair of jeans" [syn: blemished, flawed]
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fraud
(definition)
n 1: intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter,
impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham,
shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player]
3: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended
to gain an advantage [syn: fraud, fraudulence, dupery,
hoax, humbug, put-on]
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gaud
(definition)
n 1: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle,
bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]
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jawed
(definition)
adj 1: of animals having jaws of a specified type [ant:
jawless]
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laud
(definition)
v 1: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's
children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud,
extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim]
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maraud
(definition)
n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: foray, raid, maraud]
v 1: raid and rove in search of booty; "marauding rebels overran
the countryside"
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mod
(definition)
adj 1: relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their
offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in
modernistic designs"; [syn: mod, modern,
modernistic]
n 1: a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for
their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
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squad
(definition)
n 1: a smallest army unit
2: a cooperative unit (especially in sports) [syn: team,
squad]
3: a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular
kind of crime [syn: police squad, squad]
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wad
(definition)
n 1: a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to
wipe the counter"
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money";
"he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the
winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost
plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint,
mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad]
3: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw,
cud, quid, plug, wad]
v 1: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack,
bundle, wad, compact]
2: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]
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todd
(name)
(definition)
n 1: Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure
of nucleic acids (born in 1907) [syn: Todd, Sir
Alexander Robertus Todd, Lord Todd]
2: fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who
murdered his customers [syn: Todd, Sweeney Todd]
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gnawed
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sawed
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seesawed
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aud
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brod
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claud
(name)
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claude
(name)
(place)
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glaude
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laude
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maud
(name)
(place)
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maude
(name)
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saud
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staude
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braud
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braude