Words that rhyme with reperfusion

n 1: passing reference or indirect mention

n 1: secret agreement 2: agreement on a secret plot [syn: connivance, collusion]

n 1: a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration; "a decision unfavorable to the opposition"; "his conclusion took the evidence into account"; "satisfied with the panel's determination" [syn: decision, determination, conclusion] 2: an intuitive assumption; "jump to a conclusion" 3: the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season" [syn: stopping point, finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion, close] 4: event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show" [syn: ending, conclusion, finish] [ant: beginning] 5: the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism) [syn: conclusion, ratiocination] 6: the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement" [syn: termination, ending, conclusion] 7: a final settlement; "the conclusion of a business deal"; "the conclusion of the peace treaty" 8: the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..." [syn: conclusion, end, close, closing, ending] 9: the act of making up your mind about something; "the burden of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly" [syn: decision, determination, conclusion]

n 1: disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably; "the army retreated in confusion" 2: a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior; "a confusion of impressions" [syn: confusion, mental confusion, confusedness, muddiness, disarray] 3: a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused [syn: confusion, discombobulation] 4: an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended; "the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel" 5: a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw" [syn: confusion, mix-up]

n 1: an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration [syn: bruise, contusion] 2: the action of bruising; "the bruise resulted from a contusion"

n 1: (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary [syn: delusion, psychotic belief] 2: a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination" [syn: delusion, hallucination] 3: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas [syn: delusion, illusion, head game]

n 1: (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration 2: the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another 3: the property of being diffused or dispersed [syn: dissemination, diffusion] 4: the act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge" [syn: dispersion, dispersal, dissemination, diffusion]

n 1: freeing from false belief or illusions [syn: disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment] v 1: free from enchantment [syn: disenchant, disillusion] [ant: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport]

n 1: the state of being excluded [ant: inclusion] 2: the state of being excommunicated [syn: excommunication, exclusion, censure] 3: a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news" [syn: exception, exclusion, elision] 4: the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" [syn: ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance]

n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence] 2: squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of pus from the pimple" [syn: extrusion, expulsion]

n 1: an occurrence that involves the production of a union [syn: fusion, merger, unification] 2: the state of being combined into one body [syn: coalition, fusion] 3: the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words 4: a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy [syn: fusion, nuclear fusion, nuclear fusion reaction] 5: the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept [syn: fusion, optical fusion] 6: correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization [syn: fusion, spinal fusion] 7: the act of fusing (or melting) together

n 1: an erroneous mental representation [syn: illusion, semblance] 2: something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancy] 3: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas [syn: delusion, illusion, head game] 4: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers [syn: magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, thaumaturgy, illusion, deception]

n 1: the state of being included [ant: exclusion] 2: the relation of comprising something; "he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work" [syn: inclusion, comprehension] 3: any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases); "an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell" [syn: inclusion body, cellular inclusion, inclusion] 4: the act of including

n 1: a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) [syn: infusion, extract] 2: the process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water) 3: (medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force) 4: the act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality; "the team's continued success is attributable to a steady infusion of new talent"

n 1: any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts" [syn: invasion, encroachment, intrusion] 2: entrance by force or without permission or welcome 3: the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation 4: rock produced by an intrusive process 5: entry to another's property without right or permission [syn: trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation]

n 1: closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel) 2: (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft [syn: occluded front, occlusion] 3: (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed 4: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage] 5: the act of blocking [syn: blockage, closure, occlusion]

n 1: the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively [syn: obviation, forestalling, preclusion]

n 1: the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English" [syn: profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia]

n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence] 2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]

n 1: a stipulated condition; "he accepted subject to one provision" [syn: provision, proviso] 2: the activity of supplying or providing something [syn: provision, supply, supplying] 3: the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening; "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties" [syn: planning, preparation, provision] 4: a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) v 1: supply with provisions [syn: provision, purvey]

n 1: the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion" [syn: revision, alteration] 2: the act of rewriting something [syn: revision, revisal, revise, rescript] 3: something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better" [syn: rewrite, revision, rescript]

n 1: the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others [syn: privacy, privateness, seclusion] 2: the act of secluding yourself from others

n 1: management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group [syn: supervision, supervising, superintendence, oversight]

n 1: broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects; "she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie Kovacs [syn: television, telecasting, TV, video] 2: a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points [syn: television, television system] 3: an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen; "the British call a tv set a telly" [syn: television receiver, television, television set, tv, tv set, idiot box, boob tube, telly, goggle box]

n 1: the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery [syn: transfusion, blood transfusion] 2: the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another

n 1: a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death" 2: the ability to see; the visual faculty [syn: sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality] 3: the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" [syn: vision, visual sensation] 4: the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" [syn: imagination, imaginativeness, vision] 5: a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; "Asian countries" [syn: Asian, Asiatic] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Asia [syn: Asian, Asiatic]

n 1: a system for distributing radio or tv programs

n 1: the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head