devil
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(verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste: "devilled eggs" |
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Related Words: cook, fix, make, prepare, ready |
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(noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil" or "the deuce with it" or "the dickens you say" |
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Synonyms: deuce, dickens |
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Related Words: exclaiming, exclamation |
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(noun) one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief |
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Synonyms: daemon, daimon, demon, fiend |
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Related Words: dibbuk, dybbuk, evil spirit, incubus, succuba, succubus |
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(noun) (Judeo-Christian religion) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell |
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Synonyms: Beelzebub, Lucifer, Old Nick, Prince of Darkness, Satan, the Devil, the Tempter |
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Related Words: spiritual being, supernatural being |
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(noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he chased the young hellions out of his yard" |
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Synonyms: heller, hellion |
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Related Words: bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker |
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(noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person |
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Synonyms: demon, fiend, monster, ogre |
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Related Words: demoniac, disagreeable person, unpleasant person |
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(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, esp. by minor irritations: "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" |
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Synonyms: annoy, bother, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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Related Words: antagonise, antagonize, bedevil, beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, crucify, displease, dun, eat into, fret, frustrate, get, grate, harass, harry, hassle, molest, peeve, plague, provoke, rag, rankle, ruffle, tantalize, torment |
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