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cummerbund
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n 1: a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo
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fecund
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adj 1: capable of producing offspring or vegetation
2: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund
imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific]
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fund
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n 1: a reserve of money set aside for some purpose [syn: fund,
monetary fund]
2: a supply of something available for future use; "he brought
back a large store of Cuban cigars" [syn: store, stock,
fund]
3: a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and
invests in securities issued by other companies [syn:
investment company, investment trust, investment firm,
fund]
v 1: convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that
bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds
2: place or store up in a fund for accumulation
3: provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of
interest
4: invest money in government securities
5: accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability;
"fund a medical care plan"
6: furnish money for; "The government funds basic research in
many areas"
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gerund
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n 1: a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an
English verb when used as a noun)
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jocund
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adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts
were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in
such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at
the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old
gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry
laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund,
jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful]
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moribund
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adj 1: not growing or changing; without force or vitality [syn:
stagnant, moribund]
2: being on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund
patient"
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obtund
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v 1: reduce the edge or violence of; "obtunded reflexes"
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orotund
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adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
2: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and
reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund,
rotund, round, pear-shaped]
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refund
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n 1: money returned to a payer
2: the act of returning money received previously [syn:
refund, repayment]
v 1: pay back; "Please refund me my money" [syn: refund,
return, repay, give back]
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rotund
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adj 1: spherical in shape
2: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and
reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund,
rotund, round, pear-shaped]
3: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese,
weighty, rotund]
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rubicund
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adj 1: inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with
outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund
cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" [syn:
rubicund, ruddy, florid, sanguine]
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stunned
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adj 1: filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise
or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a
standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the
vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded
viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City
bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists
found not one but at least three viruses" [syn: amazed,
astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned]
2: knocked unconscious by a heavy blow [syn: knocked out(p),
kayoed, KO'd, out(p), stunned]
3: in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from
shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay
semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was
stupid from fatigue" [syn: dazed, stunned, stupefied,
stupid(p)]
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lund
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n 1: a city in southern Sweden
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superfund
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n 1: the federal government's program to locate and investigate
and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic
waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental
Protection Agency; "some have intimated that the
Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush
fund" [syn: Superfund program, Superfund]
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and
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bund
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gunned
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shunned
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dunned
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bunde
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grund
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hund
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kunde
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mund
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pfund
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defund
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secund
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und
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rosamund
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