epistemophilia
psychotropism
infatuation
doting
adoration
cling
stir
benevolent
instruction
weakness
engagedness
impassionating
concern
intriguing
raga
brain
awe
volume
dream
mystique
aspiration
infatuated
ambition
lovelore
bug
passional
in love
loved
headful
fanatical
everloving
interest
incredible
rabid
amorousness
possession of interest
fanatic
worship
enamoredness
overzealous
know like the back of one's hand
reflective
thought-provoking
captive
sweet on
fire
idolatry
zeal
inkling
challenging
logolepsy
bee in one's bonnet
AIDA
dearest
egomaniac
beloved
awful
lovingly
marvel
infovore
fondly
love
honey
overinterestedness
set alight
well
dear
amoristic
philomathy
awed
roll around
philautia
intimately
wisdom
impress
wiseness
egomania
descant
passionateness
extravagance
affinity
craving
grab
narcissism
romance
lurve
stomach
kindle
mindful
take
wondering
desirously
matter
perspicaciousness
hyperfixation
learning
benevolent
impassionating
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everloving
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reflective
thought-provoking
captive
sweet on
challenging
awful
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well
intimately
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epistemophilia
psychotropism
infatuation
doting
adoration
stir
instruction
weakness
engagedness
raga
brain
awe
volume
dream
mystique
aspiration
ambition
lovelore
bug
headful
interest
amorousness
possession of interest
worship
enamoredness
fire
idolatry
zeal
inkling
logolepsy
bee in one's bonnet
AIDA
dearest
egomaniac
beloved
infovore
love
honey
overinterestedness
dear
philomathy
philautia
wisdom
impress
wiseness
egomania
passionateness
extravagance
affinity
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narcissism
romance
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stomach
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perspicaciousness
hyperfixation
learning
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concern
know like the back of one's hand
marvel
set alight
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descant
grab
kindle
take
matter
noun
- The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
- The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
- An act of religious worship.
- Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.
- Admiration or esteem.
verb
- To be fond of, to feel strongly about and dependent on.
- To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
- To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.
- To cause to dry up or wither.
- To dry up or wither.
- To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
- To produce a high-pitched ringing sound, like a small bell.
noun
noun
- Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
- The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
- agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
- Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- Jail; prison.
verb
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
noun
- An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
- The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
- An order or command.
- A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
- A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
verb
- To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
- To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
- To make somebody worried.
noun
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
noun
- Mind.
- A part of the brain, especially associated with particular mental functions, abilities, etc.
- A loose compartment of a backpack that straps on over the top opening.
- An intellectual or mental capacity.
- A person who provides the intelligence required for something.
- By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
- Oral sex.
- An intelligent person.
- Intellect.
- The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
verb
noun
- A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
- Strength of sound; loudness.
- Quantity.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
- A bound book.
- A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
verb
noun
- a cherished desire
- a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
- a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
- someone or something wonderful
verb
noun
- An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
- A problem that needs fixing.
- A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- HIV.
- A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
- A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- A young apprentice jockey.
- A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device.
- A trilobite.
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- Synonym of union bug.
- Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
- A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
- A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
- An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
verb
noun
- A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
- An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
- The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
- Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
- Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
- The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
- Something or someone one is interested in.
- Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
verb
noun
- Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
- Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- The elements necessary to start a fire.
- Red coloration in a piece of opal.
- The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
- Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
- A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
- A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
- An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
- The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
verb
- To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- To forcibly direct (something).
- To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- To drive away by setting a fire.
- To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- To set off an explosive in a mine.
- To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- To feed or serve the fire of.
- To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
- To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
- To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- To cause an action potential in a cell.
- To cauterize.
adj
noun
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
- any object of warm affection or devotion
- a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
- a score of zero in tennis or squash
- sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
verb
adv
- with great or especially intimate knowledge
- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')
- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form
- indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
- to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
- favorably; with approval
- to a great extent or degree
- with prudence or propriety
- with skill or in a pleasing manner
- in a manner affording benefit or advantage
- in financial comfort
- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor
adj
noun
- a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
- an abundant source
- an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
- an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
adj
verb
noun
- An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
- An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
- The act of impressing.
- Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
- The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
- A heraldic device; an impresa.
- A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
verb
- To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
- To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
- To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
- To make an impression, to be impressive.
- To produce a vivid impression of (something).
- To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
- To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
- To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
noun
- A love interest; a paramour.
- Any passionate love for something.
- A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
- The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
- An automorphism of affine space.
- resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.
- The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
- structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
- An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
- tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
- Any romantic relationship.
- A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
- A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
verb
- To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
- To consume something quickly.
- To take the opportunity of.
- To restrain someone; to arrest.
- To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
- To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
- To quickly collect or retrieve.
noun
- An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
- A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
- A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
- A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
- A sound bite.
- A simple card game.
- A sudden snatch at something.
noun
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- A tale of high adventure.
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- A romanza, or sentimental ballad.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
verb
verb
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
noun
- Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
- An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
- The basic structural component of the universe, usually having mass and volume.
- An approximate amount or extent.
- Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- A kind of substance.
noun
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