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damage
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(n) the act of damaging something or someone

(n) a legal injury is any damage resulting from a violation of a legal right

(n) loss of military equipment

(n) the occurrence of a change for the worse

(n) the amount of money needed to purchase something; "the price of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms"; "how much is the damage?"

(v) inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"

differ
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(v) be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions"

(v) be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect"

divorce
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(n) the legal dissolution of a marriage

(v) part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"

(v) get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months"

doubt
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(n) uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something; "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise"

(n) the state of being unsure of something

(v) consider unlikely or have doubts about; "I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage"

(v) lack confidence in or have doubts about; "I doubt these reports"; "I suspect her true motives"; "she distrusts her stepmother"

dining
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(n) the act of eating dinner

distribute
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(v) cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"

(v) distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country"

(v) to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"

(v) cause to be distributed; "This letter is circulating among the faculty"

(v) give out; "The teacher handed out the exams"

(v) administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"

(v) make available; "The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia"

(v) be mathematically distributive

(v) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses; "Values distribute"

(v) spread throughout a given area; "the function distributes the values evenly"

distinction
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(n) a distinguishing difference; "he learned the distinction between gold and lead"

(n) a distinguishing quality; "it has the distinction of being the cheapest restaurant in town"

(n) a discrimination between things as different and distinct; "it is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation"

(n) high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence"

deer
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(n) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers

defensive
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(n) an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive')

(a) intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack; "defensive weapons"; "a defensive stance"

(s) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

(s) serving as or appropriate for defending or protecting; "defensive fortifications"; "defensive dikes to protect against floods"

dirty
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(v) make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"

(s) unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing"

(a) soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dir

(a) (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"

(a) spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"

(s) unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"

(s) violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"

(s) expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks"

(s) obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"

(s) (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"

(s) vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"

(s) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"

(s) contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen

double
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(n) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield"

(n) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff"

(n) a quantity that is twice as great as another; "36 is the double of 18"

(n) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"

(n) a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable"

(v) increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years"

(v) hit a two-base hit

(v) do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions; "She doubles as his wife and secretary"

(v) make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"

(v) bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain; "He doubled and vomited violently"

(v) bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit)

(s) having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue"

(s) large enough for two; "a double bed"; "a double room"

(a) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis

(s) twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is doubled"; "a twofold increase"

(s) consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a me

(s) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederic

(a) used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements; "double chrysanthemums have many rows of petals and are usually spherical or hemispherical"

(r) to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright"

(r) two together; "some people sleep better double"

(r) downward and forward; "he was bent double with pain"

diverse
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(s) distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "diverse parts of the country"; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth"

(s) many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents"

delivery
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(n) the act of delivering a child

(n) recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"

(n) (baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

(n) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news"

(n) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another

(n) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

(n) the event of giving birth; "she had a difficult delivery"

dismiss
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(v) declare void; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections"

(v) bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"

(v) cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration; "This case is dismissed!"

(v) end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave; "I was dismissed after I gave my report"

(v) terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

(v) stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"

dialogue
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(n) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people; "he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek"

(n) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction

(n) a conversation between two persons

(n) a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and Palestinians"

deck
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(n) any of various floor-like platforms built into a vessel

(n) street name for a packet of illegal drugs

(n) a porch that resembles the deck on a ship

(n) a pack of 52 playing cards

(v) knock down with force; "He decked his opponent"

(v) decorate; "deck the halls with holly"

(v) be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"

detect
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(v) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"

decline
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(n) a downward slope or bend

(n) a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

(n) change toward something smaller or lower

(n) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state

(v) grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

(v) grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"

(v) show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike"

(v) inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"

(v) go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"

(v) go down; "The roof declines here"

(v) refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality"

dirt
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(n) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people

(n) the state of being covered with unclean things

(n) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

(n) obscene terms for feces

(s) (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel

dispute
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(n) coming into conflict with

(n) a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"

(v) have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something"

(v) take exception to; "She challenged his claims"

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