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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relative |
| Synonyms: | agnate, aunt, blood, brother-in-law, clansperson, cognate, connection, cousin, father, father-in-law, folk, folks, grandparents, great-grandparents, in-laws, kin, kinsman, kinsperson, mother, mother-in-law, nephew, niece, relation, sib, sibling, sister-in-law, stepbrother, stepparent, stepsister, uncle |
| Main Entry: | noblesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nobility |
| Synonyms: | birth, blood, blue blood, dignity, elevation, elite, ennoblement, exaltation, excellence, generosity, gentry, glorification, grandeur, greatness, high society, honor, illustriousness, incorruptibility, integrity, loftiness, magnanimity, magnificence, majesty, nobleness, patricians, peerage, royalty, ruling class, society, stateliness, sublimity, superiority, upper class, uprightness, virtue, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | parentage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, birth, blood, bloodline, breed, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, family, forebear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, forerunner, genealogy, heritage, house, kindred, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor, race, seed, source, stock |
| Main Entry: | pureblood |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoroughbred |
| Synonyms: | blood, full-blooded, graded, highbred, papered, pedigree, pedigreed, pure-blooded, pureblooded, purebred |
| Main Entry: | pureblooded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoroughbred |
| Synonyms: | blood, full-blooded, graded, highbred, papered, pedigree, pedigreed, pure-blooded, pureblood, purebred |
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| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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deciduous, declivous, decurrent, decursive, defluous, demersal, descendent, descending, downgyred, labent, nodding to its fall, stillatitious
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| Main Entry: | parentage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
adopted, adoptive, agnate, akin, allied, ampherotokous, ancestral, aval, avunculocal, biparental, close, collateral, congenital, connate, consanguineous, familial, family, filial, full, kindred, linear, maternal, matrilineal, matrilocal, matroclinous, neolocal, nerled, novercal, orbate, parental, paternal, patriarchal, patricentric, patrilineal, patrilocal, patroclinous, philoprogenitive, spoiled, unfathered, unfilial, unilineal, uxorilocal, virilocal
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| Concept: | [Motion downwards] Descent. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus., avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide., declivity, dip, hill.
-verbs
descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump., dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall., tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.
-adjectives
descending; descendent; decurrent, decursive; labent, deciduous; nodding to its fall.
-adverbs
downhill, downwards.
-phrases
the bottom fell out.
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| Antonyms: | ascent |
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| Concept: | [Forcible egress] Extraction. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
extraction; extracting; removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution., evulsion, avulsion; wrench; expression, squeezing; extirpation, extermination; ejection; export (egress)., extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers.
-verbs
extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge., remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate (eject); eviscerate., express, squeeze out, press out.
-adjectives
extracted.
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| Antonyms: | insertion |
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