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• tampon 1
  n 1: plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood) v 1: plug with a tampon
• aspen 0
  n 1: any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind
• capon 0
  n 1: flesh of a castrated male chicken 2: castrated male chicken
• cheapen 0
  v 1: lower the grade of something; reduce its worth [syn: degrade, cheapen]
• crampon 0
  n 1: a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects [syn: crampon, crampoon] 2: an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing [syn: crampon, crampoon, climbing iron, climber]
• dampen 0
  v 1: smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity" [syn: stifle, dampen] [ant: excite, stimulate] 2: make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" [syn: moisten, wash, dampen] 3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down] 4: reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) 5: make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message" [syn: dampen, deaden, damp] 6: check; keep in check (a fire) 7: lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall" [syn: dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break]
• deepen 0
  v 1: make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" [syn: intensify, compound, heighten, deepen] 2: become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" [syn: intensify, deepen] 3: make deeper; "They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it" 4: become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password" [syn: deepen, change]
• happen 0
  v 1: come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" [syn: happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place] 2: happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana) [syn: happen, befall, bechance] 3: chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!" 4: come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized" [syn: happen, materialize, materialise] [ant: dematerialise, dematerialize] 5: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" [syn: find, happen, chance, bump, encounter]
• hempen 0
  adj 1: having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute [syn: hempen, fibrous]
• reopen 0
  v 1: open again or anew; "They reopened the theater"
• ripen 0
  v 1: cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine" [syn: ripen, mature] 2: grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"
• sharpen 0
  v 1: make sharp or sharper; "sharpen the knives" [ant: blunt, dull] 2: make crisp or more crisp and precise; "We had to sharpen our arguments" 3: become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened" 4: put (an image) into focus; "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie" [syn: focus, focalize, focalise, sharpen] [ant: blear, blur] 5: make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper [ant: soften] 6: raise the pitch of (musical notes) [ant: drop, flatten] 7: give a point to; "The candles are tapered" [syn: sharpen, taper, point] 8: make (one's senses) more acute; "This drug will sharpen your vision" [syn: sharpen, heighten]
• tarpon 0
  n 1: large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida [syn: tarpon, Tarpon atlanticus]
• weapon 0
  n 1: any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon" [syn: weapon, arm, weapon system] 2: a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons" [syn: weapon, artillery]
• steepen 0
  v 1: become steeper; "The mountain side has steepened" 2: make steeper; "The landslides have steepened the mountain sides"
• lumpen 0
  adj 1: mentally sluggish [syn: lumpish, lumpen, unthinking]
• tympan 0
  n 1: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end [syn: drum, membranophone, tympan]
• moments 0
• crippen 0
• ripon 0
• rippon 0
• copen 0
• parpen 0

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