Excrescence

//ɛkˈskɹɛsəns//

Synonyms for "excrescence" (71 found)

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23 translations across 16 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • епентеза noun (epenthesis of a consonant)
  • израстък noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Catalan

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  • excrescència noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Dutch

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  • exces noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)
  • uitwas noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Finnish

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  • kasvannainen noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)
  • kohouma noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

French

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  • excroissance noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)
  • excès noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Galician

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  • excrecencia noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Hungarian

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  • inetimologikus mássalhangzó (betoldás) noun (epenthesis of a consonant)
  • kinövés noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Italian

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  • escrescenza noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Latin

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  • tūber noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Māori

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  • pukuwhenewhene noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Persian

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  • آگنه noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Polish

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  • epenteza samogłosek noun (epenthesis of a consonant)
  • narośl noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Portuguese

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  • excrescência noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Russian

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  • нарост noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)
  • отро́сток noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Spanish

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  • excrecencia noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

Swedish

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  • utväxt noun (something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else)

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I have again and again intimated that I desire the hair to be arranged closely, modestly, plainly. Miss Temple, that girl’s hair must be cut off entirely; I will send a barber to-morrow: and I see others who have far too much of the excrescence—that tall girl, tell her to turn round.

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The squirrels were in hiding. One only he saw,—a sleek gray fellow, flattened against a gray dead limb so that he seemed a part of it, a woody excrescence upon the wood itself.

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Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

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It is taken for granted that a beggar does not 'earn' his living, as a bricklayer or a literary critic 'earns' his. He is a mere social excrescence, tolerated because we live in a humane age, but essentially despicable.

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