funk has definitions from the fields of psychology,chemistry,biochemistry
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[ verb ] draw back, as with fear or pain

Examples

"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

Related terms

move shrink_back wince

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[ noun ] (chemistry,biochemistry) United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)

Synonyms

casimir_funk

Related terms

biochemist

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1448
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[ noun ] (psychology) a state of nervous depression

Synonyms

blue_funk

Examples

"he was in a funk"

Related terms

depression

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