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aback
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adv 1: having the wind against the forward side of the sails;
"the ship came up into the wind with all yards aback"
2: by surprise; "taken aback by the caustic remarks"
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attack
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n 1: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons);
"the attack began at dawn" [syn: attack, onslaught,
onset, onrush]
2: an offensive move in a sport or game; "they won the game with
a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"
3: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the
Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack";
"don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak,
flack, blast]
4: ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or
situation; "his approach to every problem is to draw up a
list of pros and cons"; "an attack on inflation"; "his plan
of attack was misguided" [syn: approach, attack, plan of
attack]
5: the act of attacking; "attacks on women increased last year";
"they made an attempt on his life" [syn: attack, attempt]
6: a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase [syn:
attack, tone-beginning]
7: a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition; "an
attack of diarrhea"
8: the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a
chemical agent); "the film was sensitive to attack by acids";
"open to attack by the elements"
9: strong criticism; "he published an unexpected attack on my
work"
v 1: launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start
warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939
and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian
towns all week" [syn: attack, assail] [ant: defend]
2: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning
paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack,
round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]
3: take the initiative and go on the offensive; "The Serbs
attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to
attack" [syn: attack, aggress]
4: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger
assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
[syn: assail, assault, set on, attack]
5: set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task;
"I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed"
6: begin to injure; "The cancer cells are attacking his liver";
"Rust is attacking the metal"
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back
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adv 1: in or to or toward a former location; "she went back to
her parents' house"
2: at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back";
"tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out
the window of the car" [syn: back, backward, backwards,
rearward, rearwards] [ant: forrad, forrard,
forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards]
3: in or to or toward an original condition; "he went back to
sleep"
4: in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an
hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly
backward" [syn: back, backward] [ant: ahead, forward]
5: in reply; "he wrote back three days later"
6: in repayment or retaliation; "we paid back everything we had
borrowed"; "he hit me and I hit him back"; "I was kept in
after school for talking back to the teacher"
adj 1: related to or located at the back; "the back yard"; "the
back entrance" [ant: front(a)]
2: located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind)
legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass" [syn: back(a),
hind(a), hinder(a)]
3: of an earlier date; "back issues of the magazine"
n 1: the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the
neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned"
[syn: back, dorsum]
2: the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote
the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back]
[ant: front]
3: the part of something that is furthest from the normal
viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden
in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant:
front]
4: (football) a person who plays in the backfield
5: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and
protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn:
spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone,
back, rachis]
6: the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a
book; "the book had a leather binding" [syn: binding, book
binding, cover, back]
7: the part of a garment that covers the back of your body;
"they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back"
8: a support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back
of the dental chair was adjustable" [syn: back, backrest]
9: (American football) the position of a player on a football
team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
v 1: be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I
backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, indorse,
plump for, plunk for, support]
2: travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up
and hit the tree"
3: give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion";
"I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn:
second, back, endorse, indorse]
4: cause to travel backward; "back the car into the parking
spot" [ant: advance, bring forward]
5: support financial backing for; "back this enterprise"
6: be in back of; "My garage backs their yard" [ant: face,
front, look]
7: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting
on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake,
game, punt]
8: shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed"
[ant: veer]
9: establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?"
[syn: back, back up]
10: strengthen by providing with a back or backing
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backpack
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n 1: a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder [syn:
backpack, back pack, knapsack, packsack,
rucksack, haversack]
v 1: hike with a backpack; "Every summer they are backpacking in
the Rockies" [syn: backpack, pack]
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black
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adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having
little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all
incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as
coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: white]
2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially
of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black
people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of
civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: white]
3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks";
"black words"
4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black";
"prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always
been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of
things" [syn: black, bleak, dim]
5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or
dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart
has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the
dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic
hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on
punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark,
sinister]
6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if
true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles
Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win
it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black,
calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood;
"a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened]
8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-
black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn:
black, pitch-black, pitch-dark]
9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
"grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to
savage mordant wit" [syn: black, grim, mordant]
10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black
propaganda"
11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no
taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market,
contraband, smuggled]
12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest
records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel
Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an
opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of
cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious,
inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]
13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing
outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn:
black, smutty]
n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least
lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn:
black, blackness, inkiness] [ant: white,
whiteness]
2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total
darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness,
lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black]
3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who
formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat
(1728-1799) [syn: Black, Joseph Black]
4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn:
Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple]
5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose
ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person,
blackamoor, Negro, Negroid]
6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: white]
7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore
black"
v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling";
"The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize,
melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten]
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clack
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n 1: a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be
repeated [syn: clack, clap]
2: a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow
in only one direction [syn: clack valve, clack, clapper
valve]
v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter,
clack, brattle]
2: make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck,
click, clack]
3: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-
tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab,
gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
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crack
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adj 1: of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack
shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played
top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she
is absolutely tops" [syn: ace, A-one, crack,
first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch,
tops(p)]
n 1: a long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice,
fissure, scissure]
2: a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" [syn: gap,
crack]
3: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice,
cranny, crack, fissure, chap]
4: a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the
cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig" [syn:
crack, cracking, snap]
5: a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion"
[syn: shot, crack]
6: witty remark [syn: wisecrack, crack, sally, quip]
7: a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation
of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror"
8: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather
than snorted; highly addictive [syn: crack, crack
cocaine, tornado]
9: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it
a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl,
offer]
10: the act of cracking something [syn: fracture, crack,
cracking]
v 1: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The
glass cracked when it was heated" [syn: crack, check,
break]
2: make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"
3: make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped" [syn: snap,
crack]
4: hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise;
"The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
5: pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the
30,000 mark in the county" [syn: break through, crack]
6: break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"
7: break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe
snapped" [syn: snap, crack]
8: gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions;
"she cracked my password"; "crack a safe"
9: suffer a nervous breakdown [syn: crack up, crack, crock
up, break up, collapse]
10: tell spontaneously; "crack a joke"
11: cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of
the leather chair"
12: reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
13: break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The
petroleum cracked"
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jack
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n 1: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn:
jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat,
diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat,
shit]
2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman,
tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob,
sea dog]
3: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual
labor [syn: laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack]
4: immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains
an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
[syn: jackfruit, jak, jack]
5: a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
6: an electrical device consisting of a connector socket
designed for the insertion of a plug
7: game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed
metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the
game of jacks [syn: jack, jackstones]
8: small flag indicating a ship's nationality
9: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young
prince [syn: jack, knave]
10: tool for exerting pressure or lifting
11: any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical
to warm temperate seas
12: male donkey [syn: jack, jackass]
v 1: lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can
change the tire" [syn: jack, jack up]
2: hunt with a jacklight [syn: jacklight, jack]
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lack
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n 1: the state of needing something that is absent or
unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the
problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert
regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn:
lack, deficiency, want]
v 1: be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something
missing in my jewelry box!" [syn: miss, lack] [ant:
feature, have]
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pack
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n 1: a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a
multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions" [syn:
battalion, large number, multitude, plurality,
pack]
2: a complete collection of similar things
3: a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
4: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the
gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring,
mob]
5: an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose [syn:
clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack,
camp]
6: a group of hunting animals
7: a cream that cleanses and tones the skin [syn: pack, face
pack]
8: a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the
body for its therapeutic effect
9: a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
v 1: arrange in a container; "pack the books into the boxes"
[ant: take out, unpack]
2: fill to capacity; "This singer always packs the concert
halls"; "The murder trial packed the court house"
3: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack,
bundle, wad, compact]
4: carry, as on one's back; "Pack your tents to the top of the
mountain"
5: set up a committee or legislative body with one's own
supporters so as to influence the outcome; "pack a jury"
6: have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an
umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she
goes into the mountains" [syn: carry, pack, take]
7: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam]
8: hike with a backpack; "Every summer they are backpacking in
the Rockies" [syn: backpack, pack]
9: press down tightly; "tamp the coffee grinds in the container
to make espresso" [syn: tamp down, tamp, pack]
10: seal with packing; "pack the faucet"
11: have the property of being packable or of compacting easily;
"This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not
pack well" [syn: compact, pack]
12: load with a pack [syn: pack, load down]
13: treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with
blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or
stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to
absorb blood; "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You
had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"
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sack
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n 1: a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's
purchases [syn: sack, poke, paper bag, carrier bag]
2: an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
[syn: pouch, sac, sack, pocket]
3: the quantity contained in a sack [syn: sack, sackful]
4: any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and
Canary Islands (including sherry)
5: a woman's full loose hiplength jacket [syn: sack, sacque]
6: a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended
between two trees); swings easily [syn: hammock, sack]
7: a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders
without a waist [syn: chemise, sack, shift]
8: the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves
destruction and slaughter; "the sack of Rome"
9: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to
depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge,
firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]
v 1: plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked
Rome" [syn: sack, plunder]
2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or
position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company
terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire,
give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away,
sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant:
employ, engage, hire]
3: make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million" [syn:
net, sack, sack up, clear]
4: put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions"
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unpack
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v 1: remove from its packing; "unpack the presents" [syn:
unpack, take out] [ant: pack]
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braque
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n 1: French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963)
[syn: Braque, Georges Braque]
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repack
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woolpack
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cac
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akc
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brac
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brack
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brakke
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caq
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dac
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dack
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beaulac
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chirac
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backe
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bak
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bakke
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adak
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compaq
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prepack
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