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Dabble

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Short Definition : work at in a nonserious fashion; splash around; move noisily in a liquid

(verb) dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid

(verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children
Synonyms : paddle , splash around

(verb) work with in an amateurish manner
Synonyms : play around , smatter

(verb) bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
dabble. ..sounds like table…and if you see someone putting up their legs on the TABLE in the office, YOU GET the feeling that the person is not serious about his image at work.

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Dainty

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Short Definition : delicate; delicately beautiful; fastidious; not easy to please; Ex. dainty movement/dress

(noun) something considered choice to eat
Synonyms : delicacy , goody , kickshaw , treat

(adj) affectedly dainty or refined
Synonyms : mincing , niminy-piminy , prim , twee

(adj) delicately beautiful
Synonyms : exquisite

(adj) especially pleasing to the taste

(adj) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
Synonyms : nice , overnice , prissy , squeamish

d + ainty.(aunty). Think of your aunty..who even though she is delicate IS NOT EASY TO PLEASE, EVEN IF you gift her beautiful jewellery.

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Dais

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Short Definition : raised platform for speakers or other important people

(noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
Synonyms : ambo , podium , pulpit , rostrum , soapbox , stump

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Dally

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Short Definition : trifle with; toy with; treat without the necessary seriousness; procrastinate; waste time

(verb) behave carelessly or indifferently
Synonyms : flirt , play , toy

(verb) waste time
Synonyms : dawdle

(verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

Synonyms : butterfly , chat up , coquet , coquette , flirt , mash , philander , romance

(verb) consider not very seriously
Synonyms : play , trifle

Dally shops are place of wasting time

sounds like daily..so daily you waste your time.right?/

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Damn

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Short Definition : condemn; criticize severely; condemn to everlasting punishment; doom; bring to ruin; N. damnation

  1. (noun) something of little value
    Synonyms : darn , hoot , red cent , shit , shucks , tinker’s dam , tinker’s damn
  2. (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
    Synonyms : anathemise , anathemize , bedamn , beshrew , curse , imprecate , maledict
  3. (adj) used as expletives
    Synonyms : goddamn
  4. (adj) expletives used informally as intensifiers
    Synonyms : blame , blamed , blasted , blessed , damned , darned , deuced , goddam , goddamn , goddamned , infernal
  5. (adv) extremely
    Synonyms : all-fired , bloody
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Dank

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Short Definition : damp; unpleasantly wet

(adj) unpleasantly cool and humid
Synonyms : clammy

dank…Damp ANd Kool…simple

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Dapper

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Short Definition : neat and trim (in appearance); (of small men) neat in appearance and quick in movements; neat; spry

(adj) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
Synonyms : dashing , jaunty , natty , raffish , rakish , snappy , spiffy , spruce

we add drappery in our house to look the room neat and trim.

dapper(diaper)- if you can remember the diapers used for babies, should be kept neat and trim(spry).

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Dappled

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Short Definition : spotted

Definition
(adj) having spots or patches of color
Synonyms : mottled

d+apple…just imagine a d (damaged or rotten) apple..having many spots on it

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Dart

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Short Definition : move or throw suddenly and quickly

  1. (noun) a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot
  2. (noun) a tapered tuck made in dressmaking
  3. (noun) a sudden quick movement
    Synonyms : flit
  4. (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
    Synonyms : fleet , flit , flutter
  5. (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily
    Synonyms : dash , flash , scoot , scud , shoot
  6. (verb) move with sudden speed

Remember ‘Blue dart’ filght services? known for its fast service of goods

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Daub

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Short Definition : smear (as with paint); cover with something sticky; Ex. daub one’s clothes with mud/paint; N: small bit of sticky substance; Ex. a daub of paint

  1. (noun) material used to daub walls
  2. (noun) a blemish made by dirt
    Synonyms : blot , slur , smear , smirch , smudge , spot
  3. (noun) an unskillful painting
  4. (verb) coat with plaster
    Synonyms : plaster
  5. (verb) apply to a surface
  6. (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

Synonyms : smear

from DAUB, if you can remember DOBBY from the Harry Potter movies: he was always shabby and dirty, as if COVERED WITH MUD or SMEARED WITH PAINT

dhobi..person who cleans “daubed” clothes.

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Daunt

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Short Definition : intimidate; frighten; discourage; dishearten

(verb) cause to lose courage
Synonyms : dash , frighten away , frighten off , pall , scare , scare away , scare off

Nothing daunted him to go to the haunted house.

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Daunt-less

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Short Definition : bold; fearless

(adj) invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Synonyms : audacious , brave , fearless , hardy , intrepid , unfearing

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Daw-dle

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Short Definition : loiter; hang around; waste time doing nothing

  1. (verb) take one’s time; proceed slowly
    Synonyms : linger
  2. (verb) waste time
    Synonyms : dally
  3. (verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
    Synonyms : fall back , fall behind , lag

somewhat similar to idle

In yahoo msngr,theres an environment called doodle which is meant for wasting time in yahoo and doodle is also a synonym of dawdle.

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Daze

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Short Definition : stun as with a blow or shock; bemuse; benumb; N.

  1. (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
    Synonyms : shock , stupor
  2. (noun) confusion characterized by lack of clarity
    Synonyms : fog , haze
  3. (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
    Synonyms : bedazzle , dazzle
  4. (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
    Synonyms : bedaze , stun

daze ==> gaze => look at with fixed eyes – stunned

~amaze:To bewilder; perplex…. means be in shock,bemused

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Dazzle

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Short Definition : make blind with a sudden intense light; amaze; fill with wonder

  1. (noun) brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily
  2. (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
    Synonyms : bedazzle , daze
  3. (verb) amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill

honda dazzler make you blind with the sudden intense of light from the head lamp

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Deadlock

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Short Definition : standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces; stalemate

(noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
Synonyms : dead end , impasse , stalemate , standstill

“dead+lock”. The dead can’t move(are still) and lock (firmly kept in one place).

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Deadpan

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Short Definition : wooden; impassive; with no show of feeling; with an expressionless face

(adj) deliberately impassive in manner
Synonyms : expressionless , impassive , poker-faced , unexpressive

(adv) without betraying any feeling

sounds like deadman… a deadman shows no feelings, is wooden..

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Dearth

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Short Definition : scarcity

(noun) an acute insufficiency
Synonyms : famine , shortage

(noun) an insufficient quantity or number
Synonyms : paucity

ei EARTH e DEAR jinisher boroi ovab.

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Debacle

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Short Definition : sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster

(noun) a sudden and violent collapse
Synonyms : fiasco

(noun) flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer

(noun) a sound defeat
Synonyms : drubbing , slaughter , thrashing , trouncing , walloping , whipping

belt..having bacle ..if we (de)remove bucle from belt,the pant will fall.. then comes the complete disaster

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Debar

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Short Definition : bar; forbid; exclude; Ex. debarred from jury services

(verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
Synonyms : suspend

(verb) prevent from entering; keep out
Synonyms : bar , exclude

Vabi forbidden his debar to enter her room. suspended/ excluded/ debarred

debar – de + bar…just imagine the Mumbai bar girls who have been debarred or forbidden from dancing in the bars

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