incise
8 02 2010Verbs
1. (verb) incise;
- make an incision into by carving or cutting;
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Verbs
1. (verb) incise;
- make an incision into by carving or cutting;
Nouns
1. (n.) covert;
- a flock of coots;
2. (n.) concealment, cover, covert, screen;
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;
- “a screen of trees afforded privacy”; “under cover of darkness”; “the brush provided a covert for game”; “the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background”;
Adjectives
1. (adj.) covert;
- secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed;
- “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”;
2. (adj.) covert;
- (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband;
- “a woman covert”;
Adjectives
1. (adj.) blatant, blazing, conspicuous;
- without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious;
- “blatant disregard of the law”; “a blatant appeal to vanity”; “a blazing indiscretion”;
2. (adj.) blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous;
- conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry;
- “blatant radios”; “a clamorous uproar”; “strident demands”; “a vociferous mob”;
Nouns
1. (n.) rave;
- a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played;
- “raves are very popular in Berlin”;
2. (n.) rave;
- an extravagantly enthusiastic review;
- “he gave it a rave”;
Verbs
1. (verb) rave;
- participate in an all-night techno dance party;
2. (verb) jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout;
- talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner;
3. (verb) gush, rave;
- praise enthusiastically;
- “She raved about that new restaurant”;
Adjectives
1. (adj.) byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous;
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;
- “the Byzantine tax structure”; “Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship”; “convoluted legal language”; “convoluted reasoning”; “the plot was too involved”; “a knotty problem”; “got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering”; “Oh, what a tangled web we weave”; “tortuous legal procedures”; “tortuous negotiations lasting for months”;
2. (adj.) tortuous, twisting, twisty, voluminous, winding;
- marked by repeated turns and bends;
- “a tortuous road up the mountain”; “winding roads are full of surprises”; “had to steer the car down a twisty track”;
3. (adj.) tortuous;
- not straightforward;
- “his tortuous reasoning”;