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abed
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adv 1: in bed
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ahead
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adv 1: at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead";
"the road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we
couldn't see over the heads of the people in front";
"with the cross of Jesus marching on before" [syn:
ahead, in front, before]
2: toward the future; forward in time; "I like to look ahead in
imagination to what the future may bring"; "I look forward to
seeing you" [syn: ahead, forward] [ant: back,
backward]
3: in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead
slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the
forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud" [syn: ahead,
onward, onwards, forward, forwards, forrader]
4: ahead of time; in anticipation; "when you pay ahead (or in
advance) you receive a discount"; "We like to plan ahead";
"should have made reservations beforehand" [syn: ahead, in
advance, beforehand]
5: to a more advanced or advantageous position; "a young man
sure to get ahead"; "pushing talented students ahead"
6: to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced
either toward the present or toward the future); "moved the
appointment ahead from Tuesday to Monday"; "pushed the
deadline ahead from Tuesday to Wednesday"
7: leading or ahead in a competition; "the horse was three
lengths ahead going into the home stretch"; "ahead by two
pawns"; "our candidate is in the lead in the polls"; "way out
front in the race"; "the advertising campaign put them out
front in sales" [syn: ahead, out front, in the lead]
adj 1: having the leading position or higher score in a contest;
"he is ahead by a pawn"; "the leading team in the pennant
race" [syn: ahead(p), in the lead, leading]
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bed
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n 1: a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he
sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and
chair"
2: a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener
planted a bed of roses"
3: a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he
searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed,
bottom]
4: (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock);
"they found a bed of sandstone"
5: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with
profit; "he worked in the coal beds" [syn: seam, bed]
6: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
"slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn:
layer, bed]
7: the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form
is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or
magazine or book etc.
8: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad
track; "the track bed had washed away"
v 1: furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new
arrivals"
2: place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
3: put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
4: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the
hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get
laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck,
jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it,
bang, get it on, bonk]
5: prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes
to bed at the crack of dawn" [syn: go to bed, turn in,
bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack,
sack out, go to sleep, retire] [ant: arise, get up,
rise, turn out, uprise]
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behead
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v 1: cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the
Revolution" [syn: decapitate, behead, decollate]
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bread
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n 1: food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised
with yeast or baking powder and then baked [syn: bread,
breadstuff, staff of life]
2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce,
lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch,
shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
v 1: cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before
frying them"
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dead
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adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn:
abruptly, suddenly, short, dead]
2: completely and without qualification; used informally as
intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a
perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly
miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead
tired"; "dead right" [syn: absolutely, perfectly,
utterly, dead]
adj 1: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have
life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was
marked as a dead man by the assassin" [ant: alive(p),
live]
2: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity
to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or
heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals";
"the fire is dead" [ant: live]
3: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I
could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all
that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: all
in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)]
4: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
5: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead
volcano of the Cascade Range"
6: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)]
7: devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from
the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled
her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous
television coverage of atrocities" [syn: dead, deadened]
8: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of
some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording
studio"
9: not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn:
dead, idle]
10: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water";
"stagnant water" [syn: dead(a), stagnant]
11: not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
12: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
13: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a
dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
14: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
15: complete; "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness" [syn:
dead(a), utter]
16: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery";
"left the lights on and came back to find the battery
drained" [syn: dead, drained]
17: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever
happens here"
n 1: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
[ant: living]
2: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with
death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
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dread
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adj 1: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an
awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so
direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of
the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease
it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling";
"horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible
curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a),
dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome,
frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
n 1: fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked
around the examination room with apprehension" [syn:
apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread]
v 1: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the
winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
[syn: fear, dread]
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infrared
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adj 1: having or employing wavelengths longer than light but
shorter than radio waves; lying outside the visible
spectrum at its red end; "infrared radiation"; "infrared
photography"
n 1: the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum;
electromagnetic wave frequencies below the visible range;
"they could sense radiation in the infrared" [syn:
infrared, infrared frequency]
2: electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than
visible light but shorter than radio waves [syn: infrared,
infrared light, infrared radiation, infrared emission]
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misread
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v 1: read or interpret wrongly; "He misread the data"
2: interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!" [syn:
misread, misinterpret]
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purebred
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adj 1: bred for many generations from member of a recognized
breed or strain [ant: crossbred]
n 1: a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of
horses [syn: thoroughbred, purebred, pureblood]
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retread
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n 1: a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it
new treads [syn: retread, recap]
v 1: use again in altered form; "retread an old plot" [syn:
rework, make over, retread]
2: give new treads to (a tire) [syn: retread, remold,
remould]
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stead
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n 1: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or
served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his
place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place,
lieu]
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thoroughbred
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adj 1: having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred
animal [syn: pedigree(a), pedigreed, pureblood,
pureblooded, thoroughbred]
n 1: a well-bred person
2: a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross
between Arabian stallions and English mares
3: a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of
horses [syn: thoroughbred, purebred, pureblood]
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thread
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n 1: a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or
nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving [syn: thread,
yarn]
2: any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of
land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the
road was a grey thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward"
[syn: ribbon, thread]
3: the connections that link the various parts of an event or
argument together; "I couldn't follow his train of thought";
"he lost the thread of his argument" [syn: train of
thought, thread]
4: the raised helical rib going around a screw [syn: screw
thread, thread]
v 1: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular
course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path
meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout
wanders through the entire body" [syn: weave, wind,
thread, meander, wander]
2: pass a thread through; "thread a needle"
3: remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and
pulling at the string; "She had her eyebrows threaded"
4: pass through or into; "thread tape"; "thread film"
5: thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string";
"the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried
cranberries" [syn: string, thread, draw]
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tread
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n 1: a step in walking or running [syn: pace, stride,
tread]
2: the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire
3: the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the
ground
4: structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a
stair or step
v 1: put down or press the foot, place the foot; "For fools rush
in where angels fear to tread"; "step on the brake" [syn:
step, tread]
2: tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled
across the fields" [syn: tread, trample]
3: crush as if by treading on; "tread grapes to make wine"
4: brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the
center
5: apply (the tread) to a tire
6: mate with; "male birds tread the females"
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unread
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adj 1: not informed through reading; "he seems to have been
wholly unread in political theory"- V.L.Parrington
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unsaid
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adj 1: not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the
agreement"; "things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken
agreement"; "his action is clear but his reason remains
unstated" [syn: unexpressed, unsaid, unstated,
unuttered, unverbalized, unverbalised, unvoiced,
unspoken]
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unwed
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adj 1: of someone who has not been married; "unwed mother" [syn:
unwed, unwedded]
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wed
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adj 1: having been taken in marriage [syn: wed, wedded]
n 1: the fourth day of the week; the third working day [syn:
Wednesday, Midweek, Wed]
v 1: take in marriage [syn: marry, get married, wed,
conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse]
2: perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on
Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got
spliced on Hawaii" [syn: marry, wed, tie, splice]
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widespread
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adj 1: widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine";
"widespread fear of nuclear war"
2: distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading
operations"; "the West's far-flung mountain ranges";
"widespread nuclear fallout" [syn: far-flung, widespread]
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zed
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n 1: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z
zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee";
"he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: Z, z, zee,
zed, ezed, izzard]
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interbred
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adj 1: bred of closely related parents
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bled
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bred
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dred
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dredd
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fread
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fred
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freda
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jed
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biomed
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