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alum
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n 1: a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the
ammonium double sulfate of aluminum [syn: alum, ammonia
alum, ammonium alum]
2: a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium
double sulfate of aluminum [syn: alum, potassium alum,
potash alum]
3: a person who has received a degree from a school (high school
or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, alum,
graduate, grad]
4: a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as
an astringent (among other things)
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become
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v 1: enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became
annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting
more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went
into ecstasy"; "Get going!" [syn: become, go, get]
2: undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice";
"Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned
traitor" [syn: become, turn]
3: come into existence; "What becomes has duration"
4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This
behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become, suit]
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bum
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adj 1: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap,
cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]
n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the
bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
2: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help
the really down-and-out bums" [syn: tramp, hobo, bum]
3: person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: idler,
loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum]
4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
v 1: ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: mooch, bum,
cadge, grub, sponge]
2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
[syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse
about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's
time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge
about]
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chum
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n 1: a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their
activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony,
pal, sidekick]
2: bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped
overboard to attract fish
3: a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an
important food fish [syn: chum salmon, chum,
Oncorhynchus keta]
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come
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n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is
ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed,
seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come]
v 1: move toward, travel toward something or somebody or
approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the
road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!";
"come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" [syn:
come, come up] [ant: depart, go, go away]
2: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She
arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until
after midnight" [syn: arrive, get, come] [ant: go
away, go forth, leave]
3: come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success
came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes
early in June"
4: reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or
position; "The water came to a boil"; "We came to understand
the true meaning of life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I
came to realize the true meaning of life"; "The shoes came
untied"; "come into contact with a terrorist group"; "his
face went red"; "your wish will come true"
5: to be the product or result; "Melons come from a vine";
"Understanding comes from experience" [syn: come, follow]
6: be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The
furniture comes unassembled"
7: come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His
breath came hard" [syn: issue forth, come]
8: be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo" [syn: hail,
come]
9: extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The
sleeves come to your knuckles"
10: exist or occur in a certain point in a series; "Next came
the student from France"
11: cover a certain distance; "She came a long way"
12: come under, be classified or included; "fall into a
category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: fall,
come]
13: happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of this"
14: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to
$2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: total, number,
add up, come, amount]
15: develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything";
"nothing came of his grandiose plans" [syn: come, add
up, amount]
16: be received; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda" [syn:
come, come in]
17: come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that
we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came
to her" [syn: occur, come]
18: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for
example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble
family"; "he comes from humble origins" [syn: derive,
come, descend]
19: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?";
"How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a
long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get
along]
20: experience orgasm; "she could not come because she was too
upset"
21: have a certain priority; "My family comes first"
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crumb
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n 1: a very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb
of information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of
comfort in the report"
2: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum
out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
3: small piece of e.g. bread or cake
v 1: coat with bread crumbs; "crumb a cutlet"
2: break into crumbs
3: remove crumbs from; "crumb the table"
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cum
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n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is
ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed,
seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come]
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drum
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n 1: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a
hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
[syn: drum, membranophone, tympan]
2: the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard
the fifes"
3: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn:
barrel, drum]
4: a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of
liquids [syn: drum, metal drum]
5: a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms
part of the brakes [syn: brake drum, drum]
6: small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of
shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
[syn: drum, drumfish]
v 1: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the
windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum,
beat, thrum]
2: play a percussion instrument
3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my
Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind
away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot
up, bone]
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dumb
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adj 1: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
"so dense he never understands anything I say to him";
"never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at
classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly
quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb
decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being
deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
[syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow]
2: temporarily incapable of speaking; "struck dumb"; "speechless
with shock" [syn: speechless, dumb]
3: lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"
4: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb,
mute, silent]
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glum
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adj 1: moody and melancholic
2: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable
manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"-
Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark,
dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine,
sour, sullen]
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plum
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adv 1: exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn:
plumb, plum]
2: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the
appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn:
clean, plumb, plum]
n 1: any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a
smooth skin and a single hard stone [syn: plum, plum
tree]
2: any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or
oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
3: a highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum"
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plumb
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adv 1: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the
appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn:
clean, plumb, plum]
2: conforming to the direction of a plumb line
3: exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn:
plumb, plum]
adj 1: exactly vertical; "the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb"
n 1: the metal bob of a plumb line [syn: plumb bob, plumb,
plummet]
v 1: measure the depth of something
2: weight with lead
3: examine thoroughly and in great depth
4: adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
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rhumb
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n 1: a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same
angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a
constant compass direction [syn: rhumb line, rhumb,
loxodrome]
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scrum
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n 1: (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards
of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play
starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two
sides compete for possession [syn: scrum, scrummage]
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scum
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n 1: worthless people [syn: trash, scum]
2: a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the
surface of a liquid
v 1: remove the scum from
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slum
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n 1: a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living
conditions [syn: slum, slum area]
v 1: spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own,
motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage
considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a
motion picture show by the upper class was considered
sluming in the early 20th century"
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strum
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n 1: sound of strumming; "the strum of a guitar"
v 1: sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a
guitar" [syn: strum, thrum]
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succumb
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v 1: consent reluctantly [syn: yield, give in, succumb,
knuckle under, buckle under]
2: be fatally overwhelmed [syn: succumb, yield] [ant: come
through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive]
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thrum
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n 1: a thrumming sound; "he could hear the thrum of a banjo"
v 1: sound with a monotonous hum [syn: hum, thrum]
2: sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a guitar"
[syn: strum, thrum]
3: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield";
"The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, beat, thrum]
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from
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swum
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bluhm
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brum
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brumm
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clum
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crum
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crumm
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grum
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klumb
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krum
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krumme
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kumm
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lum
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lumb
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lumm
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schum
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shrum
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stum
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umm
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ancrum
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baucum
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boyum
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mccrumb
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narum
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sharum
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