laver, Eccles.
chrism; rinse, rinsings.
3. washing, wash, bathing, bath, lavation, lavage, Archaic, laving, cleaning, deterging, shampooing, shampoo, scrubbing, scrub, scrub-up; showering, shower, dousing, rinsing, rinse, flushing; abstersion, wiping, sponging, scouring.
abnegate, v. 1. renounce, resign, abdicate; deny oneself, sacrifice, forgo, abstain from, forbear, refrain from; reject, refuse, decline, turn down, do orgo without.
2. relinquish, give up, surrender, yield; concede, acquiesce, submit.
abnegation, n.1. renunciation, resignation, abdication; self-denial, sacrifice, abstinence, forbearance; rejection, refusal, declining, declination.
2. relinquishment, giving up, surrender, yielding; conceding, acquiescence, submission, submitting.
abnormal, adj.1. anomalous, anomalistic, irregular, variable; deviate, deviant, aberrant, divergent, heterodox, heretical, wayward; deviating, diverging, departing, digressing, lapsing, wandering, straying, rambling, roving.
2. strange, odd, peculiar, queer, offbeat, curious, quizzical, erratic, eccentric, weird, bizarre, Inf. quirky; unconventional, uncommon, unusual, unique, rare, extraordinary, exceptional, singular, individual; monstrous, unnatural, freakish, grotesque, heteroclite, heteroclitical, Inf.freaky.
3. huge, enormous, stupendous, colossal, immense, mammoth, gargantuan, gigantic, vast.
abnormality, n.1. anomaly, aberration, perversion; oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, rarity; monster, monstrosity, mutant, freak, heteroclite, malformation, miscreation, abortion, deformity.
2. deviation, aberrance, aberrancy, irregularity, variation, abnormity, divergence, digression, Rare. anomalism; unconformity, unconventionality, uncommonness, unusualness, uncommonality, singularity, singularness, exception; eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, quirk, hobby-horse; strangeness, oddness, queerness, bizarreness.
aboard, adv.
1. on board, on deck, on ship, on board ship, on shipboard, all aboard, in oron the vessel, topside, before the mast; on; in, inside, inside of, within.
2. alongside, beside, along the side, by the side of, close to the side, to the side, off to the side, flush with, next to, right next to; abreast, side by side, cheek by cheek, cheek by jowl, board by board.
3. Baseball Slang,
on base, on the basepaths, on, SI.on the pond.
-prep.
4. aboard of, on; in, into, to; inside, inside of, within.
abode, n.1. home, domicile, domicil, dwelling, dwelling place, dwelling home, residence, residency, habitation, habitancy, Scot. and North Eng.
bigging, Scot.
howff; lodging, lodgings, lodging place, lodgement orlodgment, nest, roost, perch; quarters, living quarters, rooms, accommodations, housing, roof over one's head, Inf.pad, Inf.crash pad, Chiefly Brit. Inf. diggings, Brit. Inf. digs; apartment, flat, tenement, walk-up, cold-water flat, Brit,
chambers, Chiefly Brit. maisonette; penthouse, townhouse, condominium, SI. condo; mobile home, motor home, camper, trailer; address, location, situation, whereabouts, place.
2. mansion, palace, palatial orstately dwelling, Fr.