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Word Meanings - AVOIDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. 2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

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  • CARRIBOO
    See CARIBOU
  • CARRIABLE
    Capable of being carried.
  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • PERSONIZE
    To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
  • CARRIAGEABLE
    Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
  • PERSONATE
    To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
  • PERSONATOR
    One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • ANYTHINGARIAN
    One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
  • JOHNSONIANISM
    A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
  • JOHNSONESE
    The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
  • PERSONAL
    Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
  • PERSONIFY
    1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
  • PERSONIFIER
    One who personifies.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • CARRIAGE
    carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
  • VESSELFUL
    As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
  • PERSONA
    See 8
  • PERSONABLE
    1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E.
  • UNIPERSONAL
    Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
  • SCARRING
    A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.
  • RECARRIAGE
    Act of carrying back.
  • AIR VESSEL
    A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
  • UNIPERSONALIST
    One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.
  • TRIPERSONALITY
    The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
  • IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
    The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
  • TRIPERSONAL
    Consisting of three persons. Milton.

 

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