Words that rhyme with awn

• scorn 4
  n 1: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary" [syn: contempt, disdain, scorn, despite] 2: open disrespect for a person or thing [syn: contempt, scorn] v 1: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" [syn: contemn, despise, scorn, disdain] 2: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn: reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down]
• baron 0
  n 1: a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank 2: a British peer of the lowest rank 3: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" [syn: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon]
• barong 0
  n 1: a knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines
• belong 0
  v 1: be owned by; be in the possession of; "This book belongs to me" 2: be suitable or acceptable; "This student somehow doesn't belong" 3: be in the right place or situation; "Where do these books belong?"; "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?" [syn: belong, go] 4: be rightly classified in a class or category; "The whales belong among the mammals" 5: be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place); "They belong to the same political party" 6: be a part or adjunct; "the uniform looks like it belonged to a museum collection"; "These pages don't belong" [syn: belong to, belong]
• binturong 0
  n 1: arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair [syn: binturong, bearcat, Arctictis bintourong]
• born 0
  adj 1: brought into existence; "he was a child born of adultery" [ant: unborn] 2: being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: natural, born(p), innate(p)] n 1: British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970) [syn: Born, Max Born]
• bourn 0
  n 1: an archaic term for a boundary [syn: bourn, bourne] 2: an archaic term for a goal or destination [syn: bourn, bourne]
• brawn 0
  n 1: possessing muscular strength [syn: brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness]
• bygone 0
  adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone] n 1: past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" [syn: bygone, water under the bridge]
• corn 0
  n 1: tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times [syn: corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays] 2: the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal 3: ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food [syn: corn, edible corn] 4: a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes [syn: corn, clavus] 5: (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) 6: whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn [syn: corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn] 7: something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn" v 1: feed (cattle) with corn 2: preserve with salt; "corned beef"
• coupon 0
  n 1: a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed [syn: coupon, voucher] 2: a test sample of some substance
• dawn 0
  n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset] 2: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" [syn: dawn, morning] 3: an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" v 1: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place] 2: appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned" 3: become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"
• daylong 0
  adv 1: during the entire day; "light pours daylong into the parlor" [syn: daylong, all day long] adj 1: lasting through an entire day
• decathlon 0
  n 1: an athletic contest consisting of ten different events
• diphthong 0
  n 1: a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another
• drawn 0
  adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] 2: having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"
• evensong 0
  n 1: the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays [syn: vespers, evensong] 2: (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer [syn: Evening Prayer, evensong]
• faun 0
  n 1: ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
• fawn 0
  n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn] 2: a young deer v 1: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel] 2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up] 3: have fawns; "deer fawn"
• foregone 0
  adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone]
• furlong 0
  n 1: a unit of length equal to 220 yards
• gone 0
  adj 1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: done for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)] 2: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, gone] 3: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone] 4: no longer retained; "gone with the wind"
• gong 0
  n 1: a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick [syn: gong, tam-tam] 2: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument [syn: chime, bell, gong] v 1: sound a gong
• guenon 0
  n 1: small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face [syn: guenon, guenon monkey]
• headlong 0
  adv 1: with the head foremost; "the runner slid headlong into third base" [syn: headlong, headfirst] 2: at breakneck speed; "burst headlong through the gate" [syn: headlong, precipitately] 3: in a hasty and foolhardy manner; "he fell headlong in love with his cousin" [syn: headlong, rashly] adj 1: excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell" [syn: hasty, headlong] 2: with the head foremost; "a headfirst plunge down the stairs"; "a headlong dive into the pool" [syn: headfirst, headlong]
• headstrong 0
  adj 1: habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful]
• home 0
  adv 1: at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home" 2: on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home" 3: to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" adj 1: used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away] 2: relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town" 3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national] n 1: where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" [syn: home, place] 2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house] 3: the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey" 4: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn: home plate, home base, home, plate] 5: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: base, home] 6: place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball" 7: an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home" 8: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage] 9: an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" [syn: home, nursing home, rest home] v 1: provide with, or send to, a home 2: return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"
• horn 0
  n 1: a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it 2: one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates 3: a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning; 4: a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) [syn: horn, saddle horn] 5: a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump] 6: any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn 7: the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails 8: a device having the shape of a horn; "horns at the ends of a new moon"; "the hornof an anvil"; "the cleat had two horns" 9: an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound 10: a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves [syn: French horn, horn] 11: a device on an automobile for making a warning noise [syn: automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn, hooter] v 1: stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer" [syn: horn, tusk]
• indrawn 0
  adj 1: tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man" [syn: indrawn, withdrawn]
• kampong 0
  n 1: a native village in Malaysia [syn: kampong, campong]
• lawn 0
  n 1: a field of cultivated and mowed grass
• leprechaun 0
  n 1: a mischievous elf in Irish folklore
• liaison 0
  n 1: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour] 2: a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: liaison, link, contact, inter-group communication]
• lifelong 0
  adj 1: continuing through life; "a lifelong friend"; "from lifelong habit"; "his lifelong study of Greek art" [syn: lifelong, womb-to-tomb]
• lion 0
  n 1: large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male [syn: lion, king of beasts, Panthera leo] 2: a celebrity who is lionized (much sought after) [syn: lion, social lion] 3: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Leo [syn: Leo, Lion] 4: the fifth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about July 23 to August 22 [syn: Leo, Leo the Lion, Lion]
• livelong 0
  adj 1: (of time) constituting the full extent or duration; "all the livelong day" n 1: perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers [syn: orpine, orpin, livelong, live-forever, Sedum telephium]
• long 0
  adv 1: for an extended time or at a distant time; "a promotion long overdue"; "something long hoped for"; "his name has long been forgotten"; "talked all night long"; "how long will you be gone?"; "arrived long before he was expected"; "it is long after your bedtime" 2: for an extended distance adj 1: primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long" [ant: short] 2: primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long" [ant: short] 3: of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows" 4: good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory" [syn: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious] [ant: forgetful, short, unretentive] 5: holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" [ant: short] 6: (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration; "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long" [ant: short] 7: involving substantial risk; "long odds" 8: planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" [syn: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted] 9: having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply" v 1: desire strongly or persistently [syn: hanker, long, yearn]
• mastodon 0
  n 1: extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth [syn: mastodon, mastodont]
• morn 0
  n 1: the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands" [syn: morning, morn, morning time, forenoon]
• mourn 0
  v 1: feel sadness; "She is mourning her dead child" 2: observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one
• nightlong 0
  adj 1: lasting, open, or operating through the whole night; "a nightlong vigil"; "an all-night drugstore"; "an overnight trip" [syn: nightlong, all-night, overnight]
• oblong 0
  adj 1: (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides 2: deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction n 1: a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation
• on 0
  adv 1: with a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along"; "march on" [syn: along, on] 2: indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?" 3: in a state required for something to function or be effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on" adj 1: in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the switch is in the on position" [ant: off] 2: (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night" [ant: cancelled, off]
• pantheon 0
  n 1: all the gods of a religion 2: a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes 3: (antiquity) a temple to all the gods
• pawn 0
  n 1: an article deposited as security 2: a person used by another to gain an end [syn: instrument, pawn, cat's-paw] 3: (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank 4: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan v 1: leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" [syn: pawn, soak, hock]
• plainsong 0
  n 1: a liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: plainsong, plainchant, Gregorian chant]
• porn 0
  n 1: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut]
• prawn 0
  n 1: any of various edible decapod crustaceans [syn: prawn, shrimp] 2: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible v 1: fish for prawns
• prolong 0
  v 1: lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight" [syn: prolong, protract, extend, draw out] 2: lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work" [syn: prolong, sustain, keep up]
• prong 0
  n 1: a pointed projection
• sarong 0
  n 1: a loose skirt consisting of brightly colored fabric wrapped around the body; worn by both women and men in the South Pacific
• scuppernong 0
  n 1: amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States
• shorn 0
  adj 1: having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep" [syn: sheared, shorn] [ant: unsheared, unshorn]
• sidelong 0
  adv 1: on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground" 2: with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne 3: to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" [syn: sidelong, sideways, obliquely] adj 1: (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances" [syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong] 2: situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson [syn: lateral, sidelong] 3: inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
• song 0
  n 1: a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs" [syn: song, vocal] 2: a distinctive or characteristic sound; "the song of bullets was in the air"; "the song of the wind"; "the wheels sang their song as the train rocketed ahead" 3: the act of singing; "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates" [syn: song, strain] 4: the characteristic sound produced by a bird; "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age" [syn: birdcall, call, birdsong, song] 5: a very small sum; "he bought it for a song" 6: the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy [syn: Sung, Sung dynasty, Song, Song dynasty]
• spawn 0
  n 1: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn] 2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
• strong 0
  adj 1: having strength or power greater than average or expected; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" [ant: weak] 2: not faint or feeble; "a strong odor of burning rubber" 3: having or wielding force or authority; "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons" [syn: potent, strong] 4: having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink" [syn: potent, strong, stiff] [ant: impotent] 5: immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with; "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable"; "a secure telephone connection" [syn: impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong, unassailable, unattackable] 6: of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings" [syn: solid, strong, substantial] 7: of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection; "`sing' is a strong verb" 8: being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor" [syn: hard, strong] 9: freshly made or left; "a warm trail"; "the scent is warm" [syn: strong, warm] 10: strong and sure; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope" [syn: firm, strong]
• swan 0
  n 1: stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear] 2: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond] 3: sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains"
• sworn 0
  adj 1: bound by or as if by an oath; "according to an early tradition became his sworn brother"; "sworn enemies" [syn: pledged, sworn] 2: bound by or stated on oath; "now my sworn friend and then mine enemy"- Shakespeare [ant: unsworn]
• thorn 0
  n 1: something that causes irritation and annoyance; "he's a thorn in my flesh" [syn: irritant, thorn] 2: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet] 3: a Germanic character of runic origin
• throng 0
  n 1: a large gathering of people [syn: multitude, throng, concourse] v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam]
• torn 0
  adj 1: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: lacerate, lacerated, mangled, torn] 2: disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"
• warn 0
  v 1: notify of danger, potential harm, or risk; "The director warned him that he might be fired"; "The doctor warned me about the dangers of smoking" 2: admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet" [syn: warn, discourage, admonish, monish] 3: ask to go away; "The old man warned the children off his property" 4: notify, usually in advance; "I warned you that I would ask some difficult questions"
• withdrawn 0
  adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive, withdrawn] 2: tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man" [syn: indrawn, withdrawn]
• woebegone 0
  adj 1: worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack" [syn: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone] 2: affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier [syn: woebegone, woeful]
• worn 0
  adj 1: affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket" [ant: new] 2: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn]
• wrong 0
  adv 1: in an inaccurate manner; "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong" [syn: incorrectly, wrongly, wrong] [ant: aright, correctly, right] adj 1: not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions" [syn: incorrect, wrong] [ant: correct, right] 2: contrary to conscience or morality or law; "it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is wrong"; "it is wrong to lie" [ant: right] 3: not appropriate for a purpose or occasion; "said all the wrong things" [syn: improper, wrong] 4: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" [syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)] 5: based on or acting or judging in error; "it is wrong to think that way" [ant: correct, right] 6: not in accord with established usage or procedure; "the wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"; "it is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts" [syn: wrong, incorrect] 7: used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward; "socks worn wrong side out" 8: badly timed; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke" [syn: ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely, wrong] 9: characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules; "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road" [syn: faulty, incorrect, wrong] n 1: that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law; "he feels that you are in the wrong" [syn: wrong, wrongfulness] [ant: right, rightfulness] 2: any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right [syn: wrong, legal injury, damage] v 1: treat unjustly; do wrong to [ant: compensate, correct, redress, right]
• yawn 0
  n 1: an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy" [syn: yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy] v 1: utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired; "The child yawned during the long performance" 2: be wide open; "the deep gaping canyon" [syn: gape, yawn, yaw]
• yearlong 0
  adj 1: lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses"
• breton 0
  n 1: a native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language) 2: a Celtic language of Brittany
• nippon 0
  n 1: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building [syn: Japan, Nippon, Nihon]
• dijon 0
  n 1: an industrial city in eastern France to the north of Lyons
• concepcion 0
  n 1: an industrial city in Chile to the south of Santiago
• braun 0
  n 1: the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945) [syn: Braun, Eva Braun] 2: United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977) [syn: Braun, von Braun, Wernher von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun]
• shawn 0
  n 1: United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ruth Saint Denis (1891-1972) [syn: Shawn, Ted Shawn]
• vaughan 0
  n 1: United States jazz singer noted for her complex bebop phrasing and scat singing (1924-1990) [syn: Vaughan, Sarah Vaughan]
• amon 0
  n 1: a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: Amen, Amon, Amun]
• exon 0
  n 1: sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures; "exons are interspersed with introns" [syn: exon, coding DNA] [ant: intron, noncoding DNA]
• gabon 0
  n 1: a republic on the west coast of Africa [syn: Gabon, Gabonese Republic, Gabun]
• peron 0
  n 1: Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974) [syn: Peron, Juan Domingo Peron]
• hogan 0
  n 1: United States golfer who won many major golf tournaments (1912-1997) [syn: Hogan, Ben Hogan, William Benjamin Hogan] 2: a Navajo lodge covered with earth; traditionally built with the entrance facing east
• rubicon 0
  n 1: the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul; Caesar's crossing it with his army in 49 BC was an act of war 2: a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment [syn: Rubicon, point of no return]
• saskatchewan 0
  n 1: one of the three prairie provinces in west central Canada; "vast fields of wheat grow on Saskatchewan's prairies"
• armstrong 0
  n 1: United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-) [syn: Armstrong, Neil Armstrong] 2: United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971) [syn: Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, Satchmo]
• agelong 0
  adj 1: lasting through all time; "agelong struggle for freedom"
• cradlesong 0
  n 1: a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep [syn: lullaby, cradlesong, berceuse] 2: the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep [syn: lullaby, cradlesong]
• goujon 0
  n 1: large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw [syn: flathead catfish, mudcat, goujon, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, Pylodictus olivaris]
• leon 0
  n 1: a historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain 2: a city in northwestern Spain at the foot of the Cantabrian Mountains 3: a city in central Mexico
• maintenon 0
  n 1: French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719) [syn: Maintenon, Marquise de Maintenon, Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon]
• ninon 0
  n 1: a fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon
• soissons 0
  n 1: a battle in World War I (May 1918); the Germans tried to attack before the American numbers were too great to defeat; the tactical success of the Germans proved to be a strategic failure [syn: Soissons, battle of Soissons- Reims, battle of the Chemin-des-Dames, battle of the Aisne]
• toulon 0
  n 1: a port city and naval base in southeastern France on the Mediterranean coast
• villon 0
  n 1: French poet (flourished around 1460) [syn: Villon, Francois Villon]
• balaton 0
  n 1: a large shallow lake in western Hungary [syn: Balaton, Lake Balaton, Plattensee]
• champollion 0
  n 1: Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832) [syn: Champollion, Jean Francois Champollion]
• proudhon 0
  n 1: French socialist who argued that property is theft (1809-1865) [syn: Proudhon, Pierre Joseph Proudhon]
• sabayon 0
  n 1: light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled [syn: zabaglione, sabayon]
• malathion 0
  n 1: a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites
• campong 0
  n 1: a native village in Malaysia [syn: kampong, campong]
• styron 0
  n 1: United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925) [syn: Styron, William Styron]

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