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anguish
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n 1: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment,
torture]
2: extreme distress of body or mind
v 1: suffer great pains or distress
2: cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to
see my children not being taught well in school" [syn:
pain, anguish, hurt]
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contradistinguish
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v 1: distinguish by contrasting qualities
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distinguish
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v 1: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
[syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern,
secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell
apart]
2: detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out
of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make
out the faces in this photograph" [syn: spot, recognize,
recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make
out, tell apart]
3: be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a
very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him from his
peers" [syn: distinguish, mark, differentiate]
4: make conspicuous or noteworthy [syn: signalize,
signalise, distinguish]
5: identify as in botany or biology, for example [syn:
identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish,
describe, name]
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extinguish
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v 1: put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of
many Jewish children" [syn: snuff out, extinguish]
2: put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be
extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be
contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
[syn: snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench] [ant:
ignite, light]
3: extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar" [syn: stub
out, crush out, extinguish, press out]
4: terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on
Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these
archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" [syn: extinguish,
eliminate, get rid of, do away with]
5: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire
population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish,
eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]
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languish
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v 1: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her
husband died, she just pined away" [syn: pine away,
waste, languish]
2: have a desire for something or someone who is not present;
"She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn:
ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish]
3: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in
the dungeon" [syn: languish, fade]
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relinquish
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v 1: part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my
bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to
the throne" [syn: release, relinquish, resign,
free, give up]
2: do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing
with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas" [syn: waive,
relinquish, forgo, forego, foreswear, dispense
with]
3: turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
[syn: foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish]
4: release, as from one's grip; "Let go of the door handle,
please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall"
[syn: let go of, let go, release, relinquish] [ant:
hold, take hold]
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vanquish
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v 1: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
"Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat
the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last
football game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell,
trounce, vanquish]
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english
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of England or its
culture or people; "English history"; "the English landed
aristocracy"; "English literature"
2: of or relating to the English language
n 1: an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic
branch; the official language of Britain and the United
States and most of the commonwealth countries [syn:
English, English language]
2: the people of England [syn: English, English people]
3: the discipline that studies the English language and
literature
4: (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side
or releasing it with a sharp twist [syn: English, side]