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drunkenness
n. intoxication, insobriety, intemperance, sottishness,
bibulousness, inebriety, crapulence, crapulousness, tipsiness,
ebriety; dipsomania, alcoholism, ebriosity; Colloq boozing,
Slang hitting the bottle or US the sauce: Only a psychiatrist
could help cure his drunkenness.
dry adj. 1 dehydrated, desiccated, arid, sear, parched, waterless,
moistureless; barren, bare, fruitless: With no rain for a
month, the dry earth yielded no crops. 2 dreary, boring,
tedious, tiresome, wearisome, wearying, tiring, dull,
uninteresting, monotonous, prosaic, commonplace, stale,
uninspired; plain, unadorned, unembellished: The minister's
speech was as dry as could be, a litany of dry statistics. 3
witty, droll, wry, cynical, biting, sarcastic, cutting, keen,
sly, ironic: Oscar Wilde was known for his dry witticisms.
--v. 4 dehydrate, desiccate, parch: As the rainfall subsided,
the land dried and changed into a desert. 5 dry up or out,
wither, shrivel, shrink, wilt: The plants dried because they
weren't watered.
4.6 duck...
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duck v. 1 bob, dodge, dip, dive, stoop, bow, bend, crouch: I ducked
to avoid hitting my head on the beam. 2 plunge, submerge,
immerse, dunk: In the pool, she ducked me when I least expected
it. 3 avoid, sidestep, evade, dodge, elude, shun, steer clear
of, shy away from; shirk: He is known for ducking his
responsibilities.
dud n. 1 failure, Colloq flop, lead balloon, lemon, washout, Colloq
US and Canadian dog, clinker: Her second novel certainly proved
a dud - it sold only ten copies.
--adj. 2 worthless, valueless, broken, unusable, useless,
inoperative, non-functioning, inoperative, malfunctioning,
Colloq kaput, bust(ed), Brit duff: They deliberately supplied
us with dud ammunition.
dude n. 1 dandy, fop, fancy dresser, Beau Brummell, popinjay,