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Sauna
- noun - a Finnish steam bath; steam is produced by pouring water over heated rocks
Shuns
- verb - avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
- expel from a community or group
Shunt
- noun - a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt"
- implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
- provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt
- transfer to another track, of trains
Skunk
- noun - a defeat in a game where one side fails to score
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"
- American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
- defeat by a lurch
- street names for marijuana
Slung
- verb - hang loosely or freely; let swing
- hold or carry in a sling; "he cannot button his shirt with his slinged arm"
- hurl as if with a sling
- move with a sling; "sling the cargo onto the ship"
Slunk
- verb - walk stealthily; "I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey"
Sound
- adjective - (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- a large ocean inlet or deep bay; "the main body of the sound ran parallel to the coast"
- a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
- announce by means of a sound; "sound the alarm"
- appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"
- cause to sound; "sound the bell"; "sound a certain note"
- exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision"
- financially secure and safe; "sound investments"; "a sound economy"
Spunk
- noun - material for starting a fire
- the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball"
Stung
- verb - aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay"
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"
- cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin"
- cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her"
- deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday"
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"