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Depression

The act of depressing.

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Basin 76% connected

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

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Bed 76% connected

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction fro…

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Bottom 76% connected

The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

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Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Chap 76% connected

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

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Click 76% connected

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

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Crack 76% connected

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Cranny 76% connected

A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.

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Crater 76% connected

The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica i…

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Crease 76% connected

See Creese.

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Crevice 76% connected

A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

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Crinkle 76% connected

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

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Deep 76% connected

Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured…

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Dejection 76% connected

A casting down; depression.

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Demoralization 76% connected

The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being co…

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Dent 76% connected

A stroke; a blow.

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Despondence 76% connected

Despondency.

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Despondency 76% connected

The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.

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Dimple 76% connected

A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.

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Dip 76% connected

To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

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Droop 76% connected

To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.

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Dysphoria 76% connected

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

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Fissure 76% connected

A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.

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Funk 76% connected

An offensive smell; a stench.

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Furrow 76% connected

A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

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Groove 76% connected

A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a dep…

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Hole 76% connected

Whole.

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Hollow 76% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Incision 76% connected

The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Lowland 76% connected

Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; -- opposed to highland.

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Melancholia 76% connected

A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject…

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Melancholy 76% connected

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

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Oppression 76% connected

The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.

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Prick 76% connected

That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

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Sag 76% connected

To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, th…

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Scratch 76% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Seam 76% connected

Grease; tallow; lard.

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Sink 76% connected

To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and…

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Slit 76% connected

3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.

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Trench 76% connected

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

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Trough 76% connected

A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray…

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Vale 76% connected

A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.

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Valley 76% connected

The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually…

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Wrinkle 76% connected

A winkle.

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Concavity 76% connected

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

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Crisis 76% connected

The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the t…

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Formation 76% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Incurvation 76% connected

The act of bending, or curving.

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Push 76% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

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Pushing 76% connected

of Push

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Sadness 76% connected

Heaviness; firmness.

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Cyclone 70% connected

A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward…

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Impression 92% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Imprint 92% connected

To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

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Low 92% connected

strong imp. of Laugh.

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Slump 92% connected

The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

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Elation 94% connected

A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

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Elation 94% connected

A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

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Elevation 94% connected

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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Elevation 94% connected

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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