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Humpbacked

Having a humped back.

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Unfit 84% connected

To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; a…

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Unfit 84% connected

To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; a…

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Crookback 92% connected

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

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Gibbous 92% connected

Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Humped 92% connected

Having a hump, as the back.

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Hunchbacked 92% connected

Having a humped back.

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Addorsed adjective · 78% connection

Set or turned back to back.

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Africander noun · 78% connection

tall large-horned humped cattle of South Africa; used for meat or draft

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Back noun · 78% connection

The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back…

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Backed adjective · 78% connection

Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.

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Backplate noun · 78% connection

A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

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Backsliding adjective · 78% connection

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.

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Backwards adverb · 78% connection

On the back, or with the back downward.

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Behind adjective · 78% connection

On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a…

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Bison noun · 78% connection

any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns

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Blench verb · 78% connection

To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

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Brahma noun · 78% connection

any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf S…

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Brahman noun · 78% connection

any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf S…

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Brahmin noun · 78% connection

any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf S…

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Central vowel noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) any vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.; "In practice, unround…

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Chasuble noun · 78% connection

The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…

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Correct verb · 78% connection

To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; t…

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Disadvance v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To draw back, or cause to draw back.

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Docket verb · 78% connection

To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; t…

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