dictionary

{wanderjahr}

1: very strong or irresistible impulse to travel [syn: {itchy feet}]

1: a showy often-cultivated plant with tawny yellow often purple-spotted flowers [syn: {Sparaxis tricolor}] 2: tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green roun...

1: a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) [syn: {ebb}, {ebbing}] v 1: grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn: {decline}, {go down}] 2: become smaller; "Interest in his ...

1: an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery [syn: {wangling}] v 1: achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods [syn: {finagle}, {manage}] 2: fake or falsify; "Fudge...

1: a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods [syn: {finagler}]

1: an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery [syn: {wangle}]

1: (of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases; "after full moon comes the waning moon" [ant: {waxing}] n : a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent;...

1: slang terms for masturbation [syn: {jacking off}, {jerking off}, {hand job}] v : get sexual gratification through self-stimulation [syn: {masturbate}, {fuck off}, {she-bop}, {jack off}, {jerk off}]

1: a rotary engine that is a four-stroke internal-combustion engine without reciprocating parts [syn: {Wankel rotary engine}, {epitrochoidal engine}]

1: a rotary engine that is a four-stroke internal-combustion engine without reciprocating parts [syn: {Wankel engine}, {epitrochoidal engine}]

1: terms of abuse for a masturbator [syn: {tosser}, {jerk-off}]

1: in a weak or pale or languid manner; "she was smiling wanly"

1: an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: {aspirant}, {aspirer}, {hopeful}, {wannabee}]

1: an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: {aspirant}, {aspirer}, {hopeful}, {wannabe}]

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1: unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) [syn: {lividness}, {lividity}, {luridness}, {paleness}, {pallidness}, {pallor}, {achromasia}]

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1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: {privation}, {deprivation}] 2: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the cr...

1: a newspaper advertisement stating what is wanted

1: desired or wished for or sought; "couldn't keep her eyes off the wanted toy"; "a wanted criminal"; "a wanted poster" [ant: {unwanted}] 2: freely permitted or invited; "invited guests" [syn: {invite...

1: a public announcement by a law enforcement agency that they desire to question or arrest some person [syn: {wanted poster}]

1: a public announcement by a law enforcement agency that they desire to question or arrest some person [syn: {wanted notice}]

1: a person who wants or needs something; "an owner of many things and needer of none" [syn: {needer}]

1: not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book" [syn: {lacking(p)}, {missing}, {nonexistent}, {wanting(a)}] 2: inadequate in amount or degree; "a...

1: occurring without motivation or provocation; "motiveless malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack"- F.D.Roosevelt [syn: {motiveless}, {unprovoked}] 2: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior...

1: waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently [syn: {piddle}, {wanton}, {piddle away}, {trifle}] 2: spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away" [syn: {wanton}, {trifle away}]

1: in a wanton manner; "the animals were killed wantonly for sport" 2: in a licentious and promiscuous manner; "this young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously" [syn: {lice...

1: the trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon" [syn: {abandon}, {unconstraint}] 2: the quality of being lewd and lascivious [syn: {licentious...

1: large North American deer with large much-branched antlers [syn: {American elk}, {Cervus canadensis}]

1: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war" [syn: {warfare}] 2: a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration durin...

1: thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1937

1: a policy of advocating war [syn: {warmongering}]

1: conceived or born during war

1: civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865 [syn: {American Civil War}, {United States Civil War}]

1: bride of a serviceman during wartime

1: a fund accumulated to finance a war (or a political campaign)

1: an ominous sign that war threatens

1: a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a combat zone or place of battle for publication or broadcast

1: a crime committed in wartime; violation of rules of war

1: an offender who violates international law during times of war

1: a slogan used to rally support for a cause; "a cry to arms"; "our watchword will be `democracy'" [syn: {rallying cry}, {battle cry}, {cry}, {watchword}] 2: a yell intended to rally a group of soldi...

1: a ceremonial dance performed before a battle or after a victory

1: a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947

1: a simulation of a military operation intended to train military commanders or to demonstrate a situation or to test a proposed strategy

1: a god worshipped as giving victory in war [syn: {god of war}]

1: an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations [syn: {hawk}] [ant: {dove}]

1: the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" [syn: {military}, {armed forces}, {armed...

1: a war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France

1: the revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783 [syn: {American Revolution}, {American Revolutionary War}, {American War of Independence}]

1: the Greeks rebelled against Turkish rule in 1821; with the support of England and France and Russia they won independence in 1828 at Navarino (although the country included only half its present si...

1: the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale [syn: {psychological warfare}]

1: Prussian and Austria fought over Silesia and most of the rest of Europe took sides; 1740-1748

1: an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697) [syn: {War of the League of Augsburg}]

1: an aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697) [syn: {War of the Grand Alliance}]

1: struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII [syn: {Wars of the ...

1: a general war in Europe (1701-1714) that broke out when Louis XIV installed his grandson on the throne of Spain; England and Holland hoped to limit Louis' power

1: adornment consisting of paint applied to the face and body of certain Amerindians before a battle 2: full ceremonial regalia 3: cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance [s...