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• -crat

  a combining form meaning “ruler,” “member of a ruling body,” “advocate of a particular form of rule,” used in the formation of compound words: autocrat; technocrat. compare -cracy. -crat combining form indicating a person who takes part in or is a member of a form of government or cl-ss democrat, technocrat see also -cracy derived […]

• -crazy

  -crazy combining word inordinately devoted to or manic over what is indicated: boy-crazy/ kill-crazy/ speed-crazy

• -creep

  -creep combining word a gradual increase in the thing named: my cost-of-living allowance put me into bracket-creep on my income tax/ in somalia we saw mission-creep (1980s+)

• -cule

  variant of -cle1 : animalcule; molecule; reticule. -cule2 variant of -cle2 : ridicule. origin -cule suffix indicating smallness animalcule word origin from latin -culus, diminutive suffix; compare -cle

• -cy

  a suffix used to form abstract nouns from adjectives with stems in -t, -te, -tic, and especially -nt (democracy; accuracy; expediency; stagnancy; lunacy), and sometimes used to form action nouns (vacancy; occupancy). a suffix of nouns denoting rank or office, sometimes attached to the stem of a word rather than to the word itself: captaincy; […]

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