Words that rhyme with decompressed

n 1: a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat [syn: vest, waistcoat] 2: a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body [syn: singlet, vest, undershirt] v 1: provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights" [syn: invest, vest, enthrone] [ant: disinvest, divest] 2: place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons; "She vested her vast fortune in her two sons" 3: become legally vested; "The property vests in the trustees" 4: clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments 5: clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes [syn: vest, robe]

adj 1: highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income" [syn: blessed, blest] [ant: cursed, curst] 2: worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity" 3: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal] 4: Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration [syn: beatified, blessed] 5: enjoying the bliss of heaven 6: characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time"

adj 1: pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed" [syn: compressed, tight] 2: reduced in volume by pressure; "compressed air" 3: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed, flat]

adj 1: lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down" [syn: depressed, down(p)] 2: flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces 3: filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited]

adj 1: deeply or markedly affected or influenced

v 1: invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen" [syn: infest, overrun] 2: occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North" [syn: invade, overrun, infest] 3: live on or in a host, as of parasites

v 1: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn: consume, ingest, take in, take, have] [ant: abstain, desist, refrain] 2: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe" [syn: absorb, assimilate, ingest, take in]

v 1: make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: invest, put, commit, place] [ant: disinvest, divest] 2: give qualities or abilities to [syn: endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue] 3: furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors [syn: invest, clothe, adorn] 4: provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights" [syn: invest, vest, enthrone] [ant: disinvest, divest] 5: place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy" [syn: induct, invest, seat]

n 1: a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" [syn: joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape] 2: activity characterized by good humor [syn: jest, joke, jocularity] v 1: tell a joke; speak humorously; "He often jokes even when he appears serious" [syn: joke, jest] 2: act in a funny or teasing way [syn: joke, jest]

v 1: harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to 2: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]

n 1: a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young 2: a kind of gun emplacement; "a machine-gun nest"; "a nest of snipers" 3: a cosy or secluded retreat 4: a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality; "a nest of thieves" 5: furniture pieces made to fit close together v 1: inhabit a nest, usually after building; "birds are nesting outside my window every Spring" 2: fit together or fit inside; "nested bowls" 3: move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags" [syn: cuddle, snuggle, nestle, nest, nuzzle, draw close] 4: gather nests

adv 1: to, toward, or in the northwest [syn: northwest, north-west, nor'-west] adj 1: situated in or oriented toward the northwest [syn: northwestern, northwesterly, northwest] 2: coming from the northwest; "northwesterly winds" [syn: northwesterly, northwest] n 1: the northwestern region of the United States [syn: Northwest, northwestern United States] 2: the direction corresponding to the northwestward compass point 3: the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees [syn: northwest, nor'-west, northwestward, NW] 4: a location in the northwestern part of a country, region, or city

adj 1: having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman" [syn: haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)] 2: influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion; "by love possessed" [syn: obsessed, possessed(p)]

adj 1: burdened psychologically or mentally; "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure" [syn: laden, oppressed]

n 1: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal [syn: plague, pestilence, pest, pestis] 2: any epidemic disease with a high death rate [syn: plague, pestilence, pest] 3: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly] 4: any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"

adj 1: influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion; "by love possessed" [syn: obsessed, possessed(p)] 2: frenzied as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows" [syn: amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed(p)]

adj 1: compacted by ironing

adj 1: professing to be qualified; "a professed philosopher" 2: claimed with intent to deceive; "his professed intentions" 3: openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist" [syn: avowed(a), professed(a)]

adj 1: characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions; "her severe upbringing had left her inhibited"; "a very inhibited young man, anxious and ill at ease"; "their reactions were partly the product of pent-up emotions"; "repressed rage turned his face scarlet" [syn: pent-up, repressed]

adj 1: suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing" [syn: stressed, distressed] 2: bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'" [syn: stressed, accented] [ant: unstressed]

v 1: make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax" [syn: propose, suggest, advise] 2: drop a hint; intimate by a hint [syn: hint, suggest] 3: imply as a possibility; "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification" [syn: suggest, intimate] 4: suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine; "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases" [syn: indicate, suggest] [ant: contraindicate] 5: call to mind; "this remark evoked sadness" [syn: suggest, evoke, paint a picture]

adj 1: kept from public knowledge by various means; [ant: publicised, publicized] 2: manifesting or subjected to suppression; "a suppressed press" 3: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter" [syn: smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed]

n 1: trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain" [syn: trial, trial run, test, tryout] 2: any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc; "the test was standardized on a large sample of students" [syn: test, mental test, mental testing, psychometric test] 3: a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions" [syn: examination, exam, test] 4: the act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill" [syn: test, trial] 5: the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial" [syn: test, trial, run] 6: a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins v 1: put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe" [syn: test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay] 2: test or examine for the presence of disease or infection; "screen the blood for the HIV virus" [syn: screen, test] 3: examine someone's knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs" [syn: quiz, test] 4: show a certain characteristic when tested; "He tested positive for HIV" 5: achieve a certain score or rating on a test; "She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools" 6: determine the presence or properties of (a substance) 7: undergo a test; "She doesn't test well"

adj 1: of lumber or stone or hides; not finished or dressed; "undressed granite"; "undressed hides" 2: having removed clothing [syn: unappareled, unattired, unclad, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented]

n 1: a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced new leadership"; "social unrest" [syn: agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest] 2: a feeling of restless agitation

adv 1: to, toward, or in the west; "we moved west to Arizona"; "situated west of Boston" adj 1: situated in or facing or moving toward the west [ant: east] n 1: the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America [syn: West, Occident] 2: the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees [syn: west, due west, westward, W] 3: the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River [syn: West, western United States] 4: the direction corresponding to the westward cardinal compass point 5: British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983) [syn: West, Rebecca West, Dame Rebecca West, Cicily Isabel Fairfield] 6: United States film actress (1892-1980) [syn: West, Mae West] 7: English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820) [syn: West, Benjamin West] 8: a location in the western part of a country, region, or city

v 1: obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government"

n 1: vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment [syn: gusto, relish, zest, zestfulness] 2: a tart spicy quality [syn: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest] v 1: add herbs or spices to [syn: zest, spice, spice up]

n 1: the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America) [syn: Midwest, middle west, midwestern United States]