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heartstrings
your deepest feelings of love and compassion; "many adoption cases tug at the heartstrings"
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
cockles of the heart
collapse
related words >
being
,
bones
,
bosom
,
breast
,
center of life
,
esoteric reality
,
esprit
,
guts
,
heart
,
heart of hearts
,
heartstrings
,
inmost heart
,
inmost soul
,
inner man
,
inner nature
,
innermost being
,
inside
,
nerve center
,
quick
,
secret heart
,
secret places
,
soul
,
spirit
,
true being
,
true inwardness
,
viscera
,
vital principle
,
vitals
feign
collapse
make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
affect
,
assume
,
bluff
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
do a bit
,
dramatize
,
fake
,
four-flush
,
gammon
,
histrionize
,
let on
,
let on like
,
make a pretense
,
make as if
,
make believe
,
make like
,
make out like
,
overact
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play possum
,
playact
,
pretend
,
profess
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
sham
,
simulate
,
tug the heartstrings
,
wear
viscera
collapse
internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity); "`viscera' is the plural form of `viscus'"
related words >
abdomen
,
anus
,
appendix
,
being
,
blind gut
,
bones
,
bosom
,
bowels
,
brain
,
breast
,
cecum
,
colon
,
duodenum
,
endocardium
,
entrails
,
esprit
,
foregut
,
giblets
,
gizzard
,
guts
,
heart
,
heart of hearts
,
heartstrings
,
hindgut
,
inmost heart
,
inmost soul
,
innards
,
inner mechanism
,
innermost being
,
insides
,
internals
,
intestine
,
inwards
,
jejunum
,
kidney
,
kishkes
,
large intestine
,
liver
,
liver and lights
,
lung
,
midgut
,
perineum
,
pump
,
pylorus
,
rectum
,
secret places
,
small intestine
,
soul
,
spirit
,
spleen
,
stomach
,
stuffing
,
ticker
,
tripes
,
vermiform appendix
,
vitals
,
works
overact
collapse
exaggerate one's acting
related words >
act a part
,
affect
,
assume
,
carry too far
,
counterfeit
,
declaim
,
do a bit
,
dramatize
,
exaggerate
,
exhaust
,
fake
,
feign
,
go overboard
,
go to extremes
,
go too far
,
grimace
,
ham
,
ham it up
,
histrionize
,
know no bounds
,
make out like
,
mug
,
out-herod Herod
,
overcarry
,
overdevelop
,
overdo
,
overdramatize
,
overdrive
,
overelaborate
,
overemphasize
,
overexercise
,
overexert
,
overexpend
,
overindulge
,
overlabor
,
overplay
,
overreact
,
overspend
,
overstrain
,
overstress
,
overstudy
,
overtask
,
overtax
,
overtrain
,
overuse
,
overwork
,
pass all bounds
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
playact
,
pretend
,
protest too much
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
rant
,
roar
,
sham
,
simulate
,
spout
,
throw away
,
tug the heartstrings
,
underact
,
wear
pretend
collapse
put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
adopt
,
affect
,
aim to
,
allege
,
appropriate
,
arrogate
,
assume
,
attempt
,
attempt to
,
avow
,
bluff
,
challenge
,
claim
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
dare
,
dare to
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
do a bit
,
dramatize
,
encroach
,
endeavor
,
fake
,
feign
,
four-flush
,
gammon
,
hazard
,
histrionize
,
infringe
,
invade
,
lay claim to
,
let on
,
let on like
,
make a pretense
,
make as if
,
make believe
,
make bold
,
make free
,
make like
,
make out
,
make out like
,
overact
,
play
,
play God
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play possum
,
playact
,
presume
,
pretend to
,
pretext
,
profess
,
protest too much
,
purport
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
represent
,
seek to
,
seize
,
sham
,
simulate
,
strive to
,
study to
,
take over
,
take the liberty
,
trespass
,
try
,
try and
,
try to
,
tug the heartstrings
,
undertake
,
usurp
,
venture
,
venture to
,
wear
simulate
collapse
make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act like
,
adopt
,
affect
,
ape
,
appear like
,
approach
,
appropriate
,
approximate
,
assume
,
be like
,
be redolent of
,
bear resemblance
,
bluff
,
borrow
,
bring to mind
,
call to mind
,
call up
,
chorus
,
come close
,
come near
,
compare with
,
copy
,
correspond
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
crib
,
derive from
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
ditto
,
do
,
do a bit
,
do like
,
dramatize
,
echo
,
evoke
,
fake
,
favor
,
feature
,
feign
,
follow
,
forge
,
four-flush
,
gammon
,
go like
,
histrionize
,
hoke
,
hoke up
,
imitate
,
infringe
,
let on
,
let on like
,
look like
,
make a pretense
,
make like
,
make out like
,
make use of
,
match
,
mimic
,
mirror
,
mock
,
near
,
nearly reproduce
,
not tell apart
,
overact
,
parallel
,
partake of
,
pirate
,
plagiarize
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play possum
,
playact
,
pose
,
pretend
,
profess
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
reecho
,
reflect
,
remind one of
,
repeat
,
resemble
,
savor of
,
seem like
,
sham
,
smack of
,
sound like
,
stack up with
,
steal
,
suggest
,
take
,
take after
,
take on
,
take over
,
tug the heartstrings
,
wear
secret place
collapse
related words >
adytum
,
ashram
,
asylum
,
being
,
bolt-hole
,
bones
,
bosom
,
breast
,
cache
,
cell
,
center
,
cloister
,
concealment
,
core
,
corner
,
cover
,
covert
,
coverture
,
cranny
,
cubby
,
cubbyhole
,
dark corner
,
deepest recesses
,
den
,
dugout
,
esprit
,
foxhole
,
funk hole
,
guts
,
heart
,
heart of hearts
,
heartstrings
,
hermitage
,
hideaway
,
hideout
,
hidey hole
,
hiding
,
hiding place
,
hole
,
holy of holies
,
inmost heart
,
inmost soul
,
inner
,
inner landscape
,
inner life
,
inner man
,
inner nature
,
inner recess
,
inner self
,
innermost being
,
inside
,
interior
,
interior man
,
intern
,
internal
,
intrados
,
inward
,
ivory tower
,
lair
,
mew
,
niche
,
nook
,
penetralia
,
privacy
,
recess
,
recesses
,
refuge
,
retreat
,
sanctuary
,
sanctum
,
sanctum sanctorum
,
secret places
,
soul
,
spirit
,
stash
,
undercovert
,
viscera
,
vital center
,
vitals
make a show of
collapse
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
affect
,
assume
,
betoken
,
bluff
,
brandish
,
breathe
,
bring forth
,
bring forward
,
bring into view
,
bring out
,
bring to notice
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
cut a dash
,
cut a figure
,
cut a swath
,
dangle
,
dazzle
,
demonstrate
,
develop
,
disclose
,
display
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
divulge
,
do a bit
,
dramatize
,
embody
,
enact
,
evidence
,
evince
,
exhibit
,
expose to view
,
express
,
fake
,
feign
,
flaunt
,
flourish
,
four-flush
,
gammon
,
give sign
,
give token
,
glare
,
glitter
,
highlight
,
histrionize
,
illuminate
,
incarnate
,
indicate
,
let on
,
let on like
,
make a figure
,
make a pretense
,
make a show
,
make a splash
,
make as if
,
make believe
,
make clear
,
make like
,
make out like
,
make plain
,
manifest
,
materialize
,
mean
,
overact
,
parade
,
perform
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play possum
,
playact
,
present
,
pretend
,
produce
,
profess
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
represent
,
reveal
,
roll out
,
set forth
,
sham
,
shine
,
show
,
show forth
,
simulate
,
splash
,
splurge
,
spotlight
,
token
,
trot out
,
tug the heartstrings
,
unfold
,
wave
,
wear
dramatize
collapse
represent something in a dramatic manner; "These events dramatize the lack of social responsibility among today's youth"
put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"
related words >
act a part
,
affect
,
assume
,
be a gas
,
be a hit
,
betoken
,
bill
,
bomb
,
brandish
,
breathe
,
bring forth
,
bring forward
,
bring into view
,
bring out
,
bring to notice
,
counterfeit
,
dangle
,
demonstrate
,
develop
,
disclose
,
display
,
divulge
,
do a bit
,
embody
,
enact
,
evidence
,
evince
,
exaggerate
,
exhibit
,
expose to view
,
express
,
fail
,
fake
,
feature
,
feign
,
flaunt
,
flop
,
flourish
,
give sign
,
give token
,
headline
,
highlight
,
histrionize
,
illuminate
,
incarnate
,
indicate
,
make a hit
,
make clear
,
make out like
,
make plain
,
manifest
,
materialize
,
mean
,
melodramatize
,
mount
,
open
,
open a show
,
overact
,
overdo
,
overplay
,
overstate
,
parade
,
perform
,
pile it on
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play up
,
playact
,
premiere
,
present
,
pretend
,
preview
,
produce
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
represent
,
reveal
,
roll out
,
scenarize
,
set forth
,
set the stage
,
sham
,
show
,
show forth
,
simulate
,
splash
,
spotlight
,
stage
,
star
,
succeed
,
theatricalize
,
token
,
trot out
,
try out
,
tug the heartstrings
,
unfold
,
wave
,
wear
lay it on thick
collapse
related words >
Barnumize
,
act a part
,
affect
,
aggrandize
,
amplify
,
assume
,
ballyhoo
,
bedaub
,
besmear
,
blarney
,
blow
,
blow off
,
blowhard
,
bombast
,
build up
,
burlesque
,
butter
,
butter up
,
caricature
,
carry too far
,
coat
,
counterfeit
,
dab
,
daub
,
do a bit
,
dramatize
,
draw the longbow
,
enamel
,
exaggerate
,
fake
,
feign
,
get around
,
gild
,
gloss
,
go to extremes
,
histrionize
,
honey
,
hyperbolize
,
inflate
,
jolly
,
kid along
,
lacquer
,
lay it on
,
lay on
,
magnify
,
make much of
,
make out like
,
oil
,
overact
,
overcharge
,
overdo
,
overdo it
,
overdraw
,
overestimate
,
overpraise
,
overreach
,
overreact
,
oversell
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstress
,
pile it on
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play up to
,
playact
,
pontificate
,
pretend
,
prime
,
puff
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
sham
,
shoot the shit
,
simulate
,
slap on
,
slather
,
smear
,
smear on
,
soap
,
soft-soap
,
soften up
,
spread on
,
spread with
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
string along
,
stroke
,
talk big
,
talk highfalutin
,
talk in superlatives
,
tar
,
tout
,
travesty
,
tug the heartstrings
,
undercoat
,
vapor
,
wear
being
collapse
the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries"
related words >
Adamite
,
actual
,
actuality
,
aerobic organism
,
an existence
,
anaerobic organism
,
as
,
as is
,
as long as
,
autotrophic organism
,
body
,
bones
,
bosom
,
breast
,
cat
,
cause
,
chap
,
character
,
considering
,
contemporaneous
,
contemporary
,
creature
,
critter
,
current
,
customer
,
duck
,
earthling
,
ens
,
entelechy
,
entity
,
esprit
,
esse
,
essence
,
essentiality
,
existence
,
existent
,
existing
,
extant
,
fellow
,
for
,
fresh
,
genetic individual
,
groundling
,
guts
,
guy
,
hand
,
head
,
heart
,
heart of hearts
,
heartstrings
,
heterotrophic organism
,
homo
,
human
,
human being
,
immanent
,
immediate
,
in being
,
in effect
,
in existence
,
in force
,
inasmuch as
,
individual
,
individuality
,
inmost heart
,
inmost soul
,
innermost being
,
instant
,
joker
,
latest
,
life
,
living
,
living being
,
living soul
,
living thing
,
man
,
material
,
materiality
,
matter
,
microbe
,
microorganism
,
modern
,
monad
,
morphological individual
,
mortal
,
nature
,
new
,
nose
,
object
,
occurrence
,
on foot
,
one
,
ont
,
organic being
,
organism
,
organization
,
party
,
person
,
persona
,
personage
,
personality
,
physiological individual
,
presence
,
present
,
present-age
,
present-day
,
present-time
,
prevalent
,
running
,
secret places
,
seeing
,
since
,
single
,
somebody
,
someone
,
something
,
soul
,
spirit
,
stuff
,
subsistence
,
subsistent
,
subsisting
,
substance
,
substantiality
,
tellurian
,
terran
,
texture
,
that be
,
that is
,
thing
,
topical
,
under the sun
,
unit
,
up-to-date
,
up-to-the-minute
,
virus
,
viscera
,
whereas
,
worldling
,
zooid
,
zoon
bosom
collapse
cloth that covers the chest or breasts
a person's breast or chest
the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept; "his bosom was bursting with the secret"
hide in one's bosom; "She bosomed his letters"
related words >
bag
,
bear
,
being
,
beloved
,
blood
,
bones
,
boobs
,
boon
,
bottle up
,
bowels
,
breast
,
breasts
,
brisket
,
bury
,
bust
,
cache
,
center
,
center of life
,
cherish
,
cherished
,
chest
,
clasp
,
classify
,
cling to
,
clip
,
close
,
conceal
,
confidential
,
core
,
crop
,
dear
,
deepest recesses
,
deposit
,
dug
,
embosom
,
embrace
,
enfold
,
entertain
,
esoteric reality
,
esprit
,
file and forget
,
fold
,
fondle
,
foster
,
gut
,
guts
,
harbor
,
have
,
have and hold
,
heart
,
heart of hearts
,
heartstrings
,
hide away
,
hold
,
hold on to
,
hold out on
,
hug
,
in petto
,
inmost heart
,
inmost soul
,
inner
,
inner landscape
,
inner life
,
inner man
,
inner nature
,
inner recess
,
inner self
,
innermost being
,
inside
,
interior
,
interior man
,
intern
,
internal
,
intimate
,
intrados
,
inward
,
keep
,
keep back
,
keep between us
,
keep buttoned up
,
keep close
,
keep dark
,
keep from
,
keep hidden
,
keep in ignorance
,
keep mum
,
keep secret
,
keep snug
,
keep under wraps
,
knockers
,
lock up
,
make no sign
,
mama
,
mamelon
,
mamelonation
,
mammary gland
,
mammilla
,
mammillation
,
midst
,
nenes
,
nerve center
,
never let on
,
nipple
,
not give away
,
not tell
,
nurse
,
nurture
,
pair
,
pap
,
papilla
,
penetralia
,
pigeon breast
,
plant
,
play dumb
,
press
,
put away
,
quick
,
recesses
,
seal up
,
secret heart
,
secret place
,
secret places
,
secrete
,
soul
,
special
,
spirit
,
squeeze
,
stash
,
store away
,
stow away
,
teat
,
thorax
,
tit
,
tits
,
titties
,
titty
,
treasure
,
treasure up
,
true being
,
true inwardness
,
udder
,
veil
,
viscera
,
vital center
,
vital principle
,
vitals
,
withhold
guts
collapse
related words >
abdomen
,
anus
,
appendix
,
backbone
,
being
,
bite
,
bitingness
,
blind gut
,
bones
,
bosom
,
bottom
,
bowels
,
brain
,
breast
,
briskness
,
cecum
,
census
,
chutzpah
,
colon
,
composition
,
constituents
,
content
,
contents
,
courage
,
cuttingness
,
decisiveness
,
divisions
,
drive
,
duodenum
,
effectiveness
,
elements
,
endocardium
,
endurance
,
energy
,
entrails
,
esprit
,
force
,
forcefulness
,
foregut
,
fortitude
,
gameness
,
giblets
,
ginger
,
gizzard
,
grit
,
gutsiness
,
guttiness
,
hardiness
,
heart
,
heart of hearts
,
heart of oak
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heartiness
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heartstrings
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hindgut
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hotness
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impressiveness
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incisiveness
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index
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ingredients
,
inmost heart
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inmost soul
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innards
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inner mechanism
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innermost being
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insides
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internals
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intestine
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inventory
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inwards
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items
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jejunum
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kick
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kidney
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kishkes
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large intestine
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list
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liver
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liver and lights
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lung
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lustiness
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mettle
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mettlesomeness
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midgut
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might
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mightiness
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mordancy
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moxie
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nerve
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nervosity
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nervousness
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nip
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nippiness
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obstinacy
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part
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parts
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pepperiness
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perineum
,
pith
,
pluck
,
pluckiness
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poignancy
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potency
,
power
,
powerfulness
,
pump
,
punch
,
pylorus
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raciness
,
rectum
,
relish
,
robustness
,
ruggedness
,
secret places
,
sinew
,
sinewiness
,
small intestine
,
snap
,
snappiness
,
soul
,
spice
,
spiciness
,
spirit
,
spleen
,
spunk
,
spunkiness
,
stalwartness
,
stamina
,
staying power
,
sticking power
,
stomach
,
stout heart
,
stoutness
,
strength
,
strength of will
,
strong language
,
sturdiness
,
tang
,
tanginess
,
ticker
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toughness
,
trenchancy
,
tripes
,
true grit
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vermiform appendix
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vigor
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vigorousness
,
viscera
,
vitality
,
vitals
,
whole
,
works
,
zest
,
zestfulness
,
zip
bones
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a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
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ashes
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axial skeleton
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battery
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being
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bells
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bird cage
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body
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bosom
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breast
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cadaver
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carcass
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carrion
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castanets
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celesta
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chaff
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chime
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chimes
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clappers
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clay
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clod
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corpse
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corpus
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corpus delicti
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crap game
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crap shooting
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craps
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crash cymbal
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crooked dice
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crowbait
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cubes
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culm
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cymbals
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dead body
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dead man
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dead person
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deadwood
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decedent
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dice
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die
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dishwater
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draff
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dregs
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dry bones
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dust
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earth
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embalmed corpse
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esprit
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exoskeleton
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figure
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filings
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finger cymbals
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flesh
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food for worms
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form
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frame
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gamelan
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garbage
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gash
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glockenspiel
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gong
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guts
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handbells
,
heart
,
heart of hearts
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heartstrings
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hogwash
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hulk
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husks
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idiophone
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inmost soul
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innermost being
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ivories
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late lamented
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leavings
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lees
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loaded dice
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lyra
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maraca
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marimba
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material body
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metallophone
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mortal remains
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mummification
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mummy
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offal
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offscourings
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orchestral bells
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organic remains
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orts
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parings
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percussion
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percussion instrument
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percussions
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person
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physical body
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physique
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poker dice
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potsherds
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rags
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raspings
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rattle
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rattlebones
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refuse
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relics
,
reliquiae
,
remains
,
scourings
,
scrap iron
,
scraps
,
scum
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secret places
,
shards
,
shavings
,
sizzler
,
skeleton
,
slack
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slag
,
slop
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slops
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snappers
,
soma
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soul
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spirit
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stiff
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stubble
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sweepings
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swill
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tam-tam
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tares
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teeth
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tenement of clay
,
the dead
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the deceased
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the defunct
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the departed
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the loved one
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tintinnabula
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tonitruone
,
torso
,
triangle
,
trunk
,
tubular bells
,
vibes
,
vibraphone
,
viscera
,
wastage
,
waste
,
waste matter
,
wastepaper
,
weeds
,
xylophone
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