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Reflex

Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

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Involuntary 84% connected

Not having will or the power of choice.

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Involuntary 84% connected

Not having will or the power of choice.

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Belch 76% connected

To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.

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Belching 76% connected

of Belch

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Blink 76% connected

To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.

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Blinking 76% connected

of Blink

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Blush 76% connected

To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.

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Disgorgement 76% connected

The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged.

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Emesis 76% connected

A vomiting.

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Eructation 76% connected

The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.

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fart 76% connected

A noisy release of gas from the digestive system

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Flatus 76% connected

of Flatus

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Flush 76% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Gulp 76% connected

To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.

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Gulping 76% connected

of Gulp

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Hiccough 76% connected

A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glotti…

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Horripilation 76% connected

A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.

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Jump 76% connected

A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Mydriasis 76% connected

A long-continued or excessive dilatation of the pupil of the eye.

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Myosis 76% connected

Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.

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Nictation 76% connected

the act of winking; nictitation.

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Nictitation 76% connected

The act of winking.

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Oscitancy 76% connected

The act of gaping or yawning.

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Puking 76% connected

of Puke

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Regurgitation 76% connected

The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance

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Shake 76% connected

obs. p. p. of Shake.

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Shiver 76% connected

One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.

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Shock 76% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Singultus 76% connected

Hiccough.

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Sneeze 76% connected

To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membra…

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Sneezing 76% connected

of Sneeze

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Startle 76% connected

To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.

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Sternutation 76% connected

The act of sneezing.

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Tremble 76% connected

To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal.

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Vomit 76% connected

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

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Vomiting 76% connected

of Vomit

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Wind 76% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Wink 76% connected

To nod; to sleep; to nap.

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Winking 76% connected

of Wink

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Yawn 76% connected

To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.

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Yawning 76% connected

of Yawn

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Reaction 76% connected

Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

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Response 76% connected

The act of responding.

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Automatic 92% connected

Alt. of Automatical

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Reflexive 92% connected

Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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