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chagrined
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adj 1: feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious;
"felt abashed at the extravagant praise"; "chagrined at
the poor sales of his book"; "was embarrassed by her
child's tantrums" [syn: abashed, chagrined,
embarrassed]
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crosswind
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n 1: wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft
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downwind
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adv 1: with the wind; in the direction the wind is blowing;
"they flew downwind" [ant: against the wind, into the
wind, upwind]
2: away from the wind; "they were sailing windward" [syn:
windward, downwind] [ant: leeward, upwind]
adj 1: towards the side away from the wind [syn: downwind,
lee(a)]
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rescind
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v 1: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift
an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke,
annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal,
overturn, rescind, vacate]
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skinned
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adj 1: having skin of a specified kind [ant: skinless]
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thinned
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adj 1: mixed with water; "sold cut whiskey"; "a cup of thinned
soup" [syn: cut, thinned, weakened]
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tinned
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adj 1: sealed in a can or jar [syn: canned, tinned]
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upwind
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adv 1: toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" [syn:
leeward, upwind] [ant: downwind, windward]
2: in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is
blowing; "they flew upwind" [syn: upwind, against the
wind, into the wind] [ant: downwind]
adj 1: towards the side exposed to wind [syn: upwind,
weather(a)]
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whirlwind
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n 1: a more or less vertical column of air whirling around
itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth
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wind
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n 1: air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area
of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent
under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the
radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current
and out into the atmosphere" [syn: wind, air current,
current of air]
2: a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of
change"
3: breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him"
4: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a
lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" [syn: wind,
malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness]
5: an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the
stock market"; "a good lead for a job" [syn: tip, lead,
steer, confidential information, wind, hint]
6: a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an
enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath [syn:
wind instrument, wind]
7: a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus [syn:
fart, farting, flatus, wind, breaking wind]
8: the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old
clock and gave it a good wind" [syn: wind, winding,
twist]
v 1: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular
course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path
meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout
wanders through the entire body" [syn: weave, wind,
thread, meander, wander]
2: extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake";
"the path twisted through the forest" [syn: wind, twist,
curve]
3: arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your
finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped
her arms around the child" [syn: wind, wrap, roll,
twine] [ant: unroll, unwind, wind off]
4: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the
drugs" [syn: scent, nose, wind]
5: coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a
stem; "wind your watch" [syn: wind, wind up]
6: form into a wreath [syn: wreathe, wind]
7: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist
the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: hoist, lift,
wind]
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woodwind
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n 1: any wind instrument other than the brass instruments [syn:
woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood]
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lind
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n 1: Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the
management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887) [syn: Lind, Jenny
Lind, Swedish Nightingale]
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sind
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n 1: a region of southeastern Pakistan
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twinned
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adj 1: being two identical [syn: duplicate, matching,
twin(a), twinned]
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amerind
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adj 1: of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or
languages; "Native American religions"; "Indian
arrowheads" [syn: Indian, Amerind, Amerindic,
Native American]
n 1: any of the languages spoken by Amerindians [syn: Amerind,
Amerindian language, American-Indian language,
American Indian, Indian]
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finned
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grinned
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pinned
0
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sinned
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wunderkind
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gschwind
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ginned
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grinde
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hinde
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hynd
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linde
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lindh
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lynd
0
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prescind
0
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poind
0