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abroad
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adv 1: to or in a foreign country; "they had never travelled
abroad"
2: far away from home or one's usual surroundings; "looking
afield for new lands to conquer"- R.A.Hall [syn: afield,
abroad]
3: in a place across an ocean [syn: overseas, abroad]
adj 1: in a foreign country; "markets abroad"; "overseas
markets" [syn: abroad, overseas]
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aloud
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adv 1: using the voice; not silently; "please read the passage
aloud"; "he laughed out loud" [syn: aloud, out loud]
2: with relatively high volume; "the band played loudly"; "she
spoke loudly and angrily"; "he spoke loud enough for those at
the back of the room to hear him"; "cried aloud for help"
[syn: loudly, loud, aloud] [ant: quietly, softly]
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applaud
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v 1: clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate
approval [syn: applaud, clap, spat, acclaim] [ant:
boo, hiss]
2: express approval of; "I applaud your efforts"
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awed
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adj 1: inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence;
"awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed
heads" [syn: awed, awful]
2: having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect
and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence before the
shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder" [syn: awed,
awestruck, awestricken] [ant: unawed]
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baud
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n 1: (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second)
for modems [syn: baud, baud rate]
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bawd
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n 1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn:
prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart,
cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady,
lady of pleasure, woman of the street]
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becloud
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v 1: make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by
the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the
valley" [syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate,
haze over, fog, cloud, mist]
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broad
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adj 1: having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the
other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins";
"three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad
shoulders"; "a broad river" [syn: wide, broad] [ant:
narrow]
2: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases";
"an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against
human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad
applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"-
T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the-
board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive,
blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive,
panoptic, wide]
3: not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines
of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread" [syn: broad,
unspecific]
4: lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was
time to leave" [syn: broad, unsubtle]
5: being at a peak or culminating point; "broad daylight"; "full
summer" [syn: broad(a), full(a)]
6: very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide
plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: broad,
spacious, wide]
7: (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional; "a broad
southern accent"
8: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad
political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a
liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
[syn: broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant]
n 1: slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a
mean punch"
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clawed
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adj 1: having or resembling a claw or claws; often used as a
combining form; "sharp-clawed"
2: (of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons [syn:
clawed, taloned]
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cloud
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n 1: any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases
that is visible
2: a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a
considerable altitude
3: out of touch with reality; "his head was in the clouds"
4: a cause of worry or gloom or trouble; "the only cloud on the
horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French"
5: suspicion affecting your reputation; "after that mistake he
was under a cloud"
6: a group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm
of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it
discharged a cloud of spores" [syn: swarm, cloud]
v 1: make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our
beaches" [syn: overcast, cloud] [ant: brighten,
clear, clear up, light up]
2: make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the
clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"
[syn: obscure, befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze
over, fog, cloud, mist]
3: billow up in the form of a cloud; "The smoke clouded above
the houses"
4: make gloomy or depressed; "Their faces were clouded with
sadness"
5: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's
reputation" [syn: defile, sully, corrupt, taint,
cloud]
6: make less clear; "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"
7: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn:
mottle, dapple, cloud]
8: make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which
it was added"
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crowd
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n 1: a large number of things or people considered together; "a
crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
2: an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the
same crowd" [syn: crowd, crew, gang, bunch]
v 1: cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the
children into a spare classroom" [syn: herd, crowd]
2: fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students
crowded the auditorium"
3: to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters
and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" [syn: crowd,
crowd together]
4: approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty" [syn:
push, crowd]
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defraud
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v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
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enshroud
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v 1: cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this
civilization are shrouded in mystery" [syn: shroud,
enshroud, hide, cover]
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flawed
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adj 1: having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond"; "an
irregular pair of jeans" [syn: blemished, flawed]
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fraud
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n 1: intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter,
impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham,
shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player]
3: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended
to gain an advantage [syn: fraud, fraudulence, dupery,
hoax, humbug, put-on]
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jawed
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adj 1: of animals having jaws of a specified type [ant:
jawless]
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laud
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v 1: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's
children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud,
extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim]
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loud
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adv 1: with relatively high volume; "the band played loudly";
"she spoke loudly and angrily"; "he spoke loud enough for
those at the back of the room to hear him"; "cried aloud
for help" [syn: loudly, loud, aloud] [ant:
quietly, softly]
adj 1: characterized by or producing sound of great volume or
intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder";
"her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones" [ant: soft]
2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn:
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy,
gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty,
tawdry, trashy]
3: used chiefly as a direction or description in music; "the
forte passages in the composition" [syn: forte, loud]
[ant: piano, soft]
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maraud
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n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: foray, raid, maraud]
v 1: raid and rove in search of booty; "marauding rebels overran
the countryside"
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mod
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adj 1: relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their
offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in
modernistic designs"; [syn: mod, modern,
modernistic]
n 1: a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for
their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
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overcrowd
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v 1: cause to crowd together too much; "The students overcrowded
the cafeteria"
2: crowd together too much
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proud
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adj 1: feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which
you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride;
"proud parents"; "proud of his accomplishments"; "a proud
moment"; "proud to serve his country"; "a proud name";
"proud princes" [ant: humble]
2: having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant
pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine
peaks" [syn: gallant, lofty, majestic, proud]
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scrod
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n 1: flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also
young haddock and pollock; often broiled [syn: schrod,
scrod]
2: young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned
for cooking [syn: scrod, schrod]
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shod
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adj 1: wearing footgear [syn: shod, shodden, shoed] [ant:
unshod, unshoed]
2: used of certain religious orders who wear shoes [syn:
calced, shod] [ant: discalceate, discalced, unshod]
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shroud
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n 1: a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a
parachute
2: (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at
which a sail is set in relation to the wind [syn: sheet,
tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, shroud]
3: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall,
shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes]
v 1: cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this
civilization are shrouded in mystery" [syn: shroud,
enshroud, hide, cover]
2: form a cover like a shroud; "Mist shrouded the castle"
3: wrap in a shroud; "shroud the corpses"
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squad
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n 1: a smallest army unit
2: a cooperative unit (especially in sports) [syn: team,
squad]
3: a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular
kind of crime [syn: police squad, squad]
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thawed
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adj 1: no longer frozen solid; "the thawed ice was treacherous"
2: no longer frozen; "the thawed ground was muddy"
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thundercloud
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n 1: a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with
electricity; associated with thunderstorms [syn:
cumulonimbus, cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud]
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unbowed
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adj 1: erect in posture; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with
unbowed back" [syn: straight, unbent, unbowed]
2: not forced to bow down to a conqueror
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wad
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n 1: a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to
wipe the counter"
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money";
"he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the
winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost
plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint,
mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad]
3: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw,
cud, quid, plug, wad]
v 1: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack,
bundle, wad, compact]
2: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]
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todd
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n 1: Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure
of nucleic acids (born in 1907) [syn: Todd, Sir
Alexander Robertus Todd, Lord Todd]
2: fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who
murdered his customers [syn: Todd, Sweeney Todd]
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overcloud
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v 1: become covered with clouds; "The sky clouded over" [syn:
overcloud, cloud over, cloud up]
2: make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured" [syn:
obscure, bedim, overcloud]
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gnawed
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sawed
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aud
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claud
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claude
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glaude
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laude
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maud
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maude
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staude
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stroud
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mcleod
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braud
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braude
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reynaud
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bacolod
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