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Abreact
- verb - discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization
Attract
- verb - be attractive to; "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"; "The beautiful garden attracted many people"
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes; "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
- Drawn to, enticed.
- exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away; "the gravitational pull of a planet attracts other bodies"
Charact
- - A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character.
Compact
- adjective - a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- a small and economical car
- a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
- briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"
- closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"
- compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box"
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"
- having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"
- make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"
- squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm cont
Contact
- noun - (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts"
- a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"
- a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"
- a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor"
- a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
- be in or establish communication with;
- close interaction; "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings"
Detract
- verb - take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character"
Extract
- noun - a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
- a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
- calculate the root of a number
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
- extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
In Fact
- adverb - in reality or actuality; "in fact, it was a wonder anyone survived"; "painters who are in fact anything but unsophisticated"; "as a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father"