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- tarnish
collapse - discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man" related words >
- achromatize,
- asperse,
- aspersion,
- attaint,
- badge of infamy,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bedaub,
- befoul,
- begrime,
- benasty,
- bend sinister,
- besmear,
- besmirch,
- besmoke,
- besoil,
- bespatter,
- bestain,
- black eye,
- black mark,
- blacken,
- blanch,
- bleach,
- blemish,
- bloodstain,
- blot,
- blotch,
- blow upon,
- blur,
- brand,
- broad arrow,
- call names,
- calumniate,
- censure,
- champain,
- contaminate,
- corrupt,
- dab,
- damage,
- darken,
- daub,
- debase,
- decolor,
- decolorize,
- defame,
- defile,
- degrade,
- denigrate,
- dim,
- dirty,
- disapprove,
- discolor,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- disparage,
- disparagement,
- drain,
- drain of color,
- dull,
- embarrass,
- engage in personalities,
- etiolate,
- expose,
- expose to infamy,
- eyesore,
- fade,
- fleck,
- flick,
- flyspeck,
- foul,
- fume,
- gibbet,
- grime,
- hang in effigy,
- harm,
- heap dirt upon,
- hurt,
- impair,
- imputation,
- infect,
- injure,
- macula,
- maculation,
- macule,
- mar,
- mark,
- mark of Cain,
- mess,
- mess up,
- muckrake,
- muddy,
- nasty,
- onus,
- pale,
- patch,
- peroxide,
- pillory,
- pillorying,
- point champain,
- pollute,
- prejudice,
- reflection,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- revile,
- ruin,
- scorch,
- sear,
- singe,
- slander,
- slubber,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smoke,
- smooch,
- smouch,
- smudge,
- smut,
- smutch,
- soil,
- spatter,
- speck,
- speckle,
- splash,
- splatter,
- splotch,
- spoil,
- spot,
- stain,
- stigma,
- stigmatism,
- stigmatization,
- stigmatize,
- sully,
- taint,
- tar,
- throw mud at,
- tone down,
- vilify,
- vitiate,
- wash out,
- whiten
- squab
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- an unfledged pigeon
- a soft padded sofa
- flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled
- short and fat related words >
- Cornish hen,
- avifauna,
- baby bird,
- bear,
- bird,
- bird of Jove,
- bird of Juno,
- bird of Minerva,
- bird of night,
- bird of passage,
- bird of prey,
- birdie,
- birdlife,
- birdy,
- broiler,
- cage bird,
- caille,
- canard,
- caneton,
- capon,
- chapon,
- chick,
- chicken,
- crowd,
- crush,
- cygnet,
- dindon,
- diving bird,
- dove,
- duck,
- duckling,
- dumpy,
- eagle,
- eaglet,
- faisan,
- fish-eating bird,
- fledgling,
- flightless bird,
- fowl,
- fruit-eating bird,
- fryer,
- fulmar,
- game bird,
- goose,
- grouse,
- guinea hen,
- insect-eating bird,
- jam,
- migrant,
- migratory bird,
- nestling,
- oie,
- oscine bird,
- owl,
- partridge,
- passerine bird,
- peacock,
- peafowl,
- peahen,
- perching bird,
- pheasant,
- pigeon,
- pigeonneau,
- poulet,
- push,
- quail,
- ratite,
- roaster,
- sea bird,
- seed-eating bird,
- shore bird,
- slop,
- songbird,
- squash,
- squeeze,
- squish,
- stewing chicken,
- storm petrel,
- stormy petrel,
- stubby,
- stumpy,
- swan,
- thick,
- thickset,
- turkey,
- volaille,
- wading bird,
- warbler,
- water bird,
- waterfowl,
- wild duck,
- wildfowl
- temporal
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- of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"
- not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt
- concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"
- of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church"
- of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone"
- of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art" related words >
- Philistine,
- annalistic,
- banausic,
- bodily,
- brittle,
- calendarial,
- calendric,
- capricious,
- carnal,
- carnal-minded,
- changeable,
- chronogrammatic,
- chronographic,
- chronologic,
- chronological,
- chronoscopic,
- civil,
- congregational,
- continuous,
- corporal,
- corporeal,
- corruptible,
- dated,
- deciduous,
- diaristic,
- durational,
- durative,
- dying,
- earthly,
- earthy,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- fleshly,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- horologic,
- hylic,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- intercalary,
- intercalated,
- laic,
- laical,
- lasting,
- lay,
- material,
- materialistic,
- materiate,
- metronomic,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mundane,
- mutable,
- nonclerical,
- nondurable,
- nonecclesiastical,
- nonministerial,
- nonordained,
- nonpastoral,
- nonpermanent,
- nonreligious,
- nonsacred,
- nonspiritual,
- passing,
- perishable,
- physical,
- popular,
- profane,
- reprobate,
- secular,
- secularist,
- secularistic,
- sensual,
- short-lived,
- somatic,
- substantial,
- temporary,
- terrene,
- terrestrial,
- timekeeping,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- unblessed,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unhallowed,
- unholy,
- unregenerate,
- unsacred,
- unsanctified,
- unspiritual,
- unstable,
- volatile,
- worldly
- unpromising
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- unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment; "faced an unpromising task"; "music for unpromising combinations of instruments" related words >
- adverse,
- apocalyptic,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- dark,
- dire,
- doomful,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dreary,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- gloomy,
- hardly possible,
- hopeless,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inauspicious,
- incredible,
- lowering,
- menacing,
- more than doubtful,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- portending,
- portentous,
- questionable,
- sinister,
- somber,
- threatening,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unlikely,
- unlucky,
- unpropitious,
- untoward
- on the spot
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- without delay or immediately; "we hired her on the spot"; "thought they were going to shoot us down on the spot"
- at the place in question; there; "they were on the spot when it happened"; "it had to be decided by the man on the spot"
- in a difficult situation; "that question really put him on the spot" related words >
- PDQ,
- aboard,
- among us,
- apace,
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at once,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- between two fires,
- but now,
- cornered,
- cursory,
- decisively,
- directly,
- endangered,
- even now,
- expeditious,
- expeditiously,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- flying,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- forthwith,
- furious,
- hasty,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- hereat,
- hereinto,
- hereto,
- hereunto,
- hic et nunc,
- hither,
- hitherward,
- hitherwards,
- hurried,
- immediate,
- immediately,
- imperiled,
- in Dutch,
- in a bind,
- in a fix,
- in a mess,
- in a pickle,
- in a predicament,
- in a scrape,
- in a spot,
- in danger,
- in deep water,
- in desperate case,
- in extremis,
- in jeopardy,
- in no time,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- in this place,
- in this vicinity,
- in trouble,
- instant,
- instantaneously,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- jeopardized,
- just here,
- just now,
- just then,
- last-minute,
- momentaneously,
- momentarily,
- momently,
- now,
- nowadays,
- on Queer Street,
- on board,
- on the dot,
- on the instant,
- on the nail,
- passing,
- pretty damned quick,
- prompt,
- promptly,
- pronto,
- quick,
- quickly,
- right away,
- right off,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- smartly,
- snap,
- somewhere about,
- speedily,
- speedy,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- subito,
- summarily,
- superficial,
- swift,
- swiftly,
- this day,
- this night,
- threatened,
- to this place,
- today,
- tonight,
- urgent,
- with all speed,
- with us,
- without delay,
- without further delay
- corn belt
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- midwestern United States (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana); excellent for raising corn and corn-fed livestock related words >
- agricultural region,
- arable land,
- black belt,
- citrus belt,
- cotton belt,
- countryside,
- dust bowl,
- farm belt,
- farm country,
- farmland,
- fruit belt,
- grass roots,
- grassland,
- grazing region,
- highlands,
- lowlands,
- meadows and pastures,
- moors,
- plains,
- prairies,
- province,
- provinces,
- rural district,
- rustic region,
- steppes,
- the country,
- the soil,
- the sticks,
- tobacco belt,
- uplands,
- veld,
- wheat belt,
- wide-open spaces,
- woodland,
- woods and fields,
- yokeldom
- countryside
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- rural regions related words >
- agricultural region,
- arable land,
- black belt,
- citrus belt,
- corn belt,
- cotton belt,
- dust bowl,
- farm belt,
- farm country,
- farmland,
- fruit belt,
- grass roots,
- grassland,
- grazing region,
- highlands,
- lowlands,
- meadows and pastures,
- moors,
- plains,
- prairies,
- province,
- provinces,
- rural district,
- rustic region,
- steppes,
- the country,
- the soil,
- the sticks,
- tobacco belt,
- uplands,
- veld,
- wheat belt,
- wide-open spaces,
- woodland,
- woods and fields,
- yokeldom
- agricultural region,
- arable land,
- black belt,
- citrus belt,
- corn belt,
- countryside,
- dust bowl,
- farm belt,
- farm country,
- farmland,
- fruit belt,
- grass roots,
- grassland,
- grazing region,
- highlands,
- lowlands,
- meadows and pastures,
- moors,
- plains,
- prairies,
- province,
- provinces,
- rural district,
- rustic region,
- steppes,
- the country,
- the soil,
- the sticks,
- tobacco belt,
- uplands,
- veld,
- wheat belt,
- wide-open spaces,
- woodland,
- woods and fields,
- yokeldom
- persistently
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- with persistence
- in a persistent manner; "he was asking questions, unavoidable questions, persistently..." related words >
- and night,
- assiduously,
- bec et ongles,
- chronically,
- committedly,
- day after day,
- decidedly,
- decisively,
- determinedly,
- devotedly,
- diligently,
- doggedly,
- earnestly,
- enduringly,
- faithfully,
- firmly,
- fixedly,
- for an age,
- for life,
- for long,
- frequently,
- habitually,
- hammer and tongs,
- heart and soul,
- hour after hour,
- in all seriousness,
- in earnest,
- in good earnest,
- indefatigably,
- industriously,
- inflexibly,
- insistently,
- interminably,
- inveterately,
- like a bulldog,
- like a leech,
- long,
- long ago,
- long since,
- loyally,
- month after month,
- morning,
- noon,
- obstinately,
- patiently,
- perseveringly,
- persistingly,
- pertinaciously,
- ploddingly,
- protractedly,
- purposefully,
- recurringly,
- regularly,
- relentlessly,
- repetitively,
- resolutely,
- resolvedly,
- routinely,
- sedulously,
- seriously,
- since time began,
- sincerely,
- singlemindedly,
- sloggingly,
- staunchly,
- steadfastly,
- steadily,
- tenaciously,
- the livelong day,
- till doomsday,
- time immemorial,
- tirelessly,
- tooth and nail,
- unabatingly,
- undyingly,
- unendingly,
- unfalteringly,
- unflaggingly,
- unflinchingly,
- unintermittingly,
- uninterruptedly,
- unrelentingly,
- unremittingly,
- unrestingly,
- unsleepingly,
- unswervingly,
- untiringly,
- unwaveringly,
- unwearyingly,
- unyieldingly,
- wearilessly,
- wholeheartedly,
- with a will,
- with constancy,
- with total dedication,
- year after year
- radio operator
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- someone who operates a radio transmitter related words >
- ARRL,
- amateur radio operator,
- bakehead,
- black gang,
- boilerman,
- bungs,
- cabin boy,
- chips,
- commissary steward,
- complement,
- control engineer,
- deckhand,
- deckie,
- fireman,
- gun loader,
- gunner,
- ham,
- hand,
- hospital steward,
- landing signalman,
- mail orderly,
- mixer,
- monitor,
- navigator,
- oiler,
- purser,
- radio electrician,
- radio engineer,
- radio technician,
- radioman,
- radiotelegrapher,
- radiotrician,
- roustabout,
- snip,
- snips,
- sparks,
- steward,
- stewardess,
- stoker,
- torpedoman,
- watch,
- yeoman
- baneful,
- black,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- catastrophic,
- consuming,
- consumptive,
- convulsive,
- deadly,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- devastating,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- doomful,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fratricidal,
- grievous,
- herky-jerky,
- insurrectionary,
- internecine,
- jerky,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- orgasmic,
- paroxysmal,
- radical,
- ravaging,
- revolutional,
- revolutionary,
- revulsionary,
- revulsive,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- seismic,
- self-destructive,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- sweeping,
- tragic,
- transilient,
- upheaving,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering,
- wreckful
- satellite
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- man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
- any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
- a person who follows or serves another
- surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power; "a city and its satellite communities"
- broadcast or disseminate via satellite related words >
- ATDA,
- ATS,
- Alouette,
- Anna,
- Apollo,
- Ariel,
- Atlas-Score,
- Biosatellite,
- Comsat,
- Cosmos,
- Courier,
- Diapason,
- Discoverer,
- ERS,
- Early Bird,
- Echo,
- Elektron,
- Explorer,
- GATV,
- Gemini,
- Injun,
- Intelsat,
- Lofti,
- Luna,
- Lunar Orbiter,
- Lunik,
- Mariner,
- Mars probes,
- Mercury,
- Midas,
- Nimbus,
- OAO,
- OGO,
- OSO,
- Pageos,
- Pegasus,
- Pioneer,
- Proton,
- Ranger,
- Relay,
- Samos,
- San Marco,
- Secor,
- Sputnik,
- Surveyor,
- Syncom,
- Telstar,
- Transit,
- Vanguard,
- Viking,
- Voskhod,
- WRESAT,
- Zond,
- accompanying,
- acolyte,
- adherent,
- aide,
- aide-de-camp,
- ally,
- ancillary,
- appendage,
- archduchy,
- archdukedom,
- artificial satellite,
- artificial satellites,
- assistant,
- attendance,
- attendant,
- attending,
- body of retainers,
- body politic,
- buff,
- buffer state,
- captive nation,
- cavaliere servente,
- chieftaincy,
- chieftainry,
- city-state,
- cohort,
- coincident,
- collateral,
- colony,
- commonweal,
- commonwealth,
- communications satellite,
- cortege,
- country,
- county,
- court,
- courtier,
- creature,
- crescent,
- crescent moon,
- dangler,
- decrescent,
- decrescent moon,
- demilune,
- dependant,
- dependent,
- disciple,
- domain,
- dominion,
- duchy,
- dukedom,
- dummy,
- earldom,
- empery,
- empire,
- entourage,
- fan,
- favorite,
- figurehead,
- flunky,
- follower,
- following,
- free city,
- full moon,
- geo probe,
- geodetic satellite,
- geophysical satellite,
- gibbous moon,
- gillie,
- goon,
- grand duchy,
- half-moon,
- hanger-on,
- harvest moon,
- heeler,
- helper,
- henchman,
- homme de cour,
- incident,
- increscent,
- increscent moon,
- jackal,
- kingdom,
- lackey,
- land,
- lieutenant,
- man,
- mandant,
- mandate,
- mandated territory,
- mandatee,
- mandatory,
- minion,
- moon,
- myrmidon,
- nation,
- nationality,
- navigational satellite,
- new moon,
- orb of night,
- parasite,
- partisan,
- polis,
- polity,
- possession,
- power,
- principality,
- principate,
- probe,
- protectorate,
- province,
- public,
- puppet,
- puppet government,
- puppet regime,
- pursuer,
- pursuivant,
- queen of heaven,
- queen of night,
- realm,
- republic,
- research satellite,
- retainer,
- retinue,
- right-hand man,
- robot satellite,
- rout,
- sectary,
- seneschalty,
- servant,
- settlement,
- shadow,
- sidekick,
- silvery moon,
- sovereign nation,
- space probe,
- space satellite,
- spacecraft,
- sputnik,
- state,
- stooge,
- successor,
- suite,
- sultanate,
- superpower,
- supporter,
- sycophant,
- tagtail,
- tail,
- territory,
- the wandering Moon,
- thug,
- toparchia,
- toparchy,
- train,
- trainbearer,
- unmanned satellite,
- vassal,
- votary,
- waning crescent moon,
- waning moon,
- ward heeler,
- waxing crescent moon,
- waxing moon,
- weather satellite,
- wet moon
- actionable,
- against the law,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- banned,
- barred,
- black-market,
- bootleg,
- chargeable,
- contraband,
- contrary to law,
- criminal,
- felonious,
- flawed,
- forbade,
- forbid,
- forbidden,
- illegal,
- illegitimate,
- illicit,
- impermissible,
- irregular,
- justiciable,
- lawless,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
- nonpermissible,
- not permitted,
- off limits,
- out of bounds,
- outlaw,
- prohibited,
- punishable,
- ruled out,
- taboo,
- tabooed,
- triable,
- unallowed,
- unauthorized,
- unconstitutional,
- under the ban,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- unlawful,
- unlicensed,
- unofficial,
- unpermissible,
- unsanctioned,
- unstatutory,
- untouchable,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- verboten,
- vetoed,
- wrongful
- actionable,
- against the law,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- banned,
- barred,
- black-market,
- bootleg,
- chargeable,
- contraband,
- contrary to law,
- criminal,
- felonious,
- flawed,
- forbade,
- forbid,
- forbidden,
- illegal,
- illegitimate,
- illicit,
- impermissible,
- irregular,
- justiciable,
- lawless,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
- nonpermissible,
- not permitted,
- off limits,
- out of bounds,
- outlaw,
- outlawed,
- prohibited,
- punishable,
- ruled out,
- taboo,
- tabooed,
- triable,
- unauthorized,
- unconstitutional,
- under the ban,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- unlawful,
- unlicensed,
- unofficial,
- unpermissible,
- unsanctioned,
- unstatutory,
- untouchable,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- verboten,
- vetoed,
- wrongful
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