Words that rhyme with breeden

n 1: the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon" [syn: abandon, wantonness, unconstraint] 2: a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger" [syn: wildness, abandon] v 1: forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot" 2: give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex- husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead" [syn: abandon, give up] 3: leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight" [syn: vacate, empty, abandon] 4: stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations" [syn: abandon, give up] 5: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" [syn: abandon, forsake, desolate, desert]

n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]

adj 1: confined to bed (by illness) [syn: bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed]

adj 1: under a moral obligation to someone

v 1: make broader; "broaden the road" 2: extend in scope or range or area; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard" [syn: widen, broaden, extend] 3: vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" [syn: diversify, branch out, broaden] [ant: narrow, narrow down, specialise, specialize] 4: become broader; "The road broadened"

n 1: an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus] 2: weight to be borne or conveyed [syn: load, loading, burden] 3: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist] 4: the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse v 1: weight down with a load [syn: burden, burthen, weight, weight down] [ant: disburden, unburden] 2: impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend" [syn: charge, saddle, burden]

n 1: an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters

n 1: a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing 2: cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank 3: adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord

v 1: make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message" [syn: dampen, deaden, damp] 2: cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant" [syn: girdle, deaden] 3: make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine" 4: lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway" 5: become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor 6: make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound" [syn: deaden, blunt] [ant: animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up] 7: convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil

v 1: take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey" [syn: unburden, disburden] [ant: burden, burthen, weight, weight down]

adj 1: abused or oppressed by people in power

n 1: any place of complete bliss and delight and peace [syn: Eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la] 2: a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man) [syn: Eden, Garden of Eden]

n 1: a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula [syn: Sweden, Kingdom of Sweden, Sverige]

n 1: a city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620 [syn: Leiden, Leyden]

n 1: (New Testament) the scene of the final battle between the kings of the Earth at the end of the world 2: any catastrophically destructive battle; "they called the first World War an Armageddon"

n 1: United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921) [syn: Friedan, Betty Friedan, Betty Naomi Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan]

n 1: a native or resident of Colorado

adj 1: loaded past capacity [syn: overladen, overloaded]