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wasting |
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any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease |
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wasting away |
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a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse |
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wheeziness |
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presence of abnormal high-pitched sound heard with a stethoscope when an airway is blocked (as in asthma or chronic bronchitis) |
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withdrawal symptom |
Noun
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any physical or psychological disturbance (as sweating or depression) experienced by a drug addict when deprived of the drug |
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wellness |
Noun
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a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease |
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whole shebang |
Noun
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everything available |
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whole kit and caboodle |
Noun
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everything available |
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whole kit and boodle |
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everything available |
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whole kit |
Noun
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everything available |
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whole caboodle |
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everything available |
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whole works |
Noun
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everything available |
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wellbeing |
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a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous |
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well-being |
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a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous |
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wetness |
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the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid, especially water |
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welter |
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a confused multitude of things |
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welter |
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be immersed in |
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welter |
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roll around, 'pigs were wallowing in the mud' |
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welter |
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toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way |
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water pollution |
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pollution of the water in rivers and lakes |
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wealthiness |
Noun
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the state of being rich and affluent |
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windlessness |
Noun
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calmness without winds |
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wage setter |
Noun
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any economic condition or variable that serves to set wage rates |
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waterlessness |
Noun
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the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) |
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weapons plutonium |
Noun
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plutonium 239 that is recovered when nuclear weapons are disassembled |
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weapon-grade plutonium |
Noun
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plutonium 239 that is recovered when nuclear weapons are disassembled |
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white lead ore |
Noun
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a mineral consisting of lead carbonate that is an important source of lead |
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wolfram |
Noun
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a heavy grey-white metallic element |
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wood coal |
Noun
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a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air |
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wood coal |
Noun
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intermediate between peat and bituminous coal |
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wood alcohol |
Noun
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a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol |
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wood spirit |
Noun
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a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol |
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white gold |
Noun
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a pale alloy of gold usually with platinum or nickel or palladium |
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white metal |
Noun
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an alloy (often of lead or tin base) used for bearings |
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white arsenic |
Noun
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a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic |
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whalebone |
Noun
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a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales |
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white leather |
Noun
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a leather that has been treated with alum and/or salt |
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whit leather |
Noun
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a leather that has been treated with alum and/or salt |
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wash leather |
Noun
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piece of chamois used for cleaning and polishing |
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whitener |
Noun
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an agent that makes things white or colorless |
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wrought iron |
Noun
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iron having a low carbon content that is tough and malleable and so can be forged and welded |
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wire wool |
Noun
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a mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive |
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weewee |
Noun
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liquid excretory product |
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waste material |
Noun
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any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted |
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well water |
Noun
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underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks |
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waste matter |
Noun
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any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted |
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waste product |
Noun
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any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted |
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wastewater |
Noun
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water mixed with waste matter |
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wool fat |
Noun
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a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool |
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wool grease |
Noun
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a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool |
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white feldspar |
Noun
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a widely distributed feldspar that forms rocks |