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Word Meanings - SUFFOCATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending or able to choke or stifle. "Suffocative catarrhs." Arbuthnot.

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  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
  • STIFLED
    Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
  • SUFFOCATIVE
    Tending or able to choke or stifle. "Suffocative catarrhs." Arbuthnot.
  • TENDERLY
    In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
  • TENDANCE
    1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
  • CHOKECHERRY
    The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
  • TENDERNESS
    The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
  • TENDRESSE
    Tender feeling; fondness.
  • TENDON
    A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
  • CHOKER
    1. One who, or that which, chokes. 2. A stiff wide cravat; a stock.
  • TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
    Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.
  • TENDRIL
    A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as
  • CHOKEDAR
    A watchman; an officer of customs or police.
  • TENDER-HEARTED
    Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
  • TENDRON
    A tendril. Holland.
  • TEND
    To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
  • TENDRE
    Tender feeling or fondness; affection. You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre. Thackeray.
  • STIFLER
    See CAMOUFLET (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stifles.
  • TENDERLOIN
    A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
  • TENDERFOOT
    A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.
  • INTENDENT
    See N
  • ARTICHOKE
    word as carciofo; cf. older spellings archiciocco, archicioffo, carciocco, and Sp. alcachofa, Pg. alcachofra; prob. fr. Ar. al- 1. The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The
  • INTENDIMENT
    Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
  • OBTEND
    1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • PRETENDER
    The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
  • ENTEND
    To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer.
  • PRETENDANT
    A pretender; a claimant.
  • PORTEND
    to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
  • ATTENDMENT
    An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
  • UPPERTENDOM
    The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
  • EXTENDANT
    Displaced. Ogilvie.

 

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