| ANTIPOVERTY | • antipoverty adj. (Politics) that serves to alleviate poverty. • ANTIPOVERTY adj. opposed to poverty. |
| DEPRAVATION | • depravation n. Detraction; depreciation. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • depravation n. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting. • depravation n. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity. |
| DEPRIVATION | • deprivation n. (Countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. • deprivation n. (Uncountable) The state of being deprived. • deprivation n. (Countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. |
| EVAPORATING | • evaporating v. Present participle of evaporate. • EVAPORATE v. to change into vapour. |
| EVAPORATION | • evaporation n. The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state. • evaporation n. The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to… • evaporation n. (Archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor. |
| INOPERATIVE | • inoperative adj. Not working or functioning; either idle or broken. • inoperative adj. (Law) No longer legally binding. • INOPERATIVE adj. not operative. |
| INSPIRATIVE | • inspirative adj. Tending to inspire. • INSPIRATIVE adj. giving inspiration. |
| OVERPAINTED | • overpainted v. Simple past tense and past participle of overpaint. • OVERPAINT v. to color or describe too strongly. |
| OVERPARTING | • overparting v. Present participle of overpart. • OVERPART v. to give an actor too difficult a part. |
| PENETRATIVE | • penetrative adj. That can or does physically penetrate something; piercing, penetrating. • penetrative adj. Displaying insight or discrimination; acute; penetrating. • penetrative adj. (Sports) That can penetrate opposition defences. |
| PERSONATIVE | • personative adj. Portraying a person or persons. • PERSONATIVE adj. dramatic; presenting or presented through persons. |
| PREVAILMENT | • prevailment n. (Obsolete) prevalence; superior influence; efficacy. • PREVAILMENT n. (Shakespeare) the power of overcoming. |
| PRIVATENESS | • privateness n. The quality or state of being private. • PRIVATENESS n. the state of being private. |
| PULVERATION | • PULVERATION n. pulverization. |
| SERVANTSHIP | • servantship n. The role or status of servant. • SERVANTSHIP n. the state of being a servant. |
| UNOPERATIVE | • unoperative adj. Obsolete form of inoperative. • UNOPERATIVE adj. not operative. |
| VESPERTINAL | • vespertinal adj. Vespertine; occurring in the evening. • vespertinal adj. (Botany, zoology) Opening or active in the evening. • VESPERTINAL adj. of or pertaining to the evening, also VESPERTINE. |