clammy

  • 61sweat — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ heavy ▪ light ▪ clammy ▪ My shirt stuck to the clammy sweat on my back. ▪ cold …

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  • 62damp — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dank, humid, moist. v. t. dampen, dispirit, deaden; smother, muffle, subdue; wet, moisten. See silence, moderation, dejection, dissuasion, moisture. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Somewhat wet] Syn.… …

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  • 63moist — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Damp] Syn. humid, dank, moistened; see wet 1 . 2. [Rainy] Syn. drizzly, muggy, clammy; see wet 2 . See Synonym Study at wet . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. damp, wet, watery, humid, muggy, dewy, dank, steamy, misty,… …

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  • 64clay — [OE] Clay is named from its consistency – its stickiness, its squidginess, its capacity for being smeared. Its ultimate source is the Indo European base *gloi , *glei , *gli , from which English also gets glue and gluten. From it was descended… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 65clean — [OE] Etymologically, clean and German klein ‘small’ are the same word. Both go back to West Germanic *klainoz, which meant ‘clear, pure’, but whereas the English adjective has stayed fairly close to the original meaning, the German one has passed …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 66cleave — [OE] There are two distinct verbs cleave in English, both of Germanic origin. Cleave ‘cut’ comes from Germanic *kleuban, which goes back to an Indo European base *gleubh (this also produced Greek glúphein ‘carve’, source of English hieroglyphics) …

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  • 67βλιχανώδεις — βλιχανώδης clammy masc/fem acc pl βλιχανώδης clammy masc/fem nom/voc pl (attic epic) …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)

  • 68βλιχῶδες — βλιχώδης clammy masc/fem voc sg βλιχώδης clammy neut nom/voc/acc sg …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)

  • 69gel-1 —     gel 1     English meaning: “to curl; round, *gland, growth, ball, fathom, arm”     Deutsche Übersetzung: “ballen, sich ballen; Gerundetes, Kugeliges” etc     Material: evidence for the unadjusted root form are seldom and partly very doubtful …

    Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

  • 70clay — [OE] Clay is named from its consistency – its stickiness, its squidginess, its capacity for being smeared. Its ultimate source is the Indo European base *gloi , *glei , *gli , from which English also gets glue and gluten. From it was descended… …

    Word origins

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