any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
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Heavy metal
loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery
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rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combin…
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Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.(used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.(used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
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Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Pollution.loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery
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An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.Harsh-sounding.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or inv…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.visual imagery
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.Soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific; as, a gentle touch; a gentle gallop .
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.Relating to hymns, or sacred lyrics.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.The hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.Conception of the ideal; imagery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: loud, harsh, sounding, rock, music.Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
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