| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abandon | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake |
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| (verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: empty, vacate |
| (verb) forsake, leave behind | - |
| (verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again | Synonyms: give up |
| abase | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify |
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| abash | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: embarrass |
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| abate | (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: die away, let up, slack, slack off |
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| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: slack, slake |
| abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| abdicate | (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: renounce |
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| abduce | (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: adduce, cite |
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| abduct | (verb) pull away from the body | - |
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| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: kidnap, nobble, snatch |
| aberrate | (verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration | - |
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| (verb) diverge from the expected | - |
| abet | (verb) assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing | - |
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| abhor | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abominate, execrate, loathe |
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| abide | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) dwell | Synonyms: bide, stay |
| abjure | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: forswear, recant, resile, retract |
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| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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| (verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
| abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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| (verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
| (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
| abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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| abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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| abort | (verb) terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion | - |
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| (verb) cease development, die, and be aborted | - |
| (verb) terminate before completion | - |
| abound | (verb) be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities | - |
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| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: bristle, burst |
| abrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: scour |
| abrase | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| abreact | (verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization | - |
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| abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
| abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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| abscise | (verb) remove or separate by abscission | - |
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| (verb) shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue | - |
| abscond | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| abseil | (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: rappel, rope down |
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| absent | (verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: remove |
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| absolve | (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
| absorb | (verb) cause to become one with | - |
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| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: assimilate, ingest, take in |
| (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: engage, engross, occupy |
| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) become imbued | - |
| (verb) assimilate or take in | - |
| (verb) take up, as of debts or payments | Synonyms: take over |
| (verb) suck or take up or in | Synonyms: take in |
| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| abstain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: desist, refrain |
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| (verb) refrain from voting | - |
| abstract | (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
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| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| abuse | (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: misuse, pervert |
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| (verb) use wrongly or improperly or excessively | - |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: blackguard, clapperclaw, shout |
| (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat, step |
| abut | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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| aby | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: abye, atone, expiate |
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| abye | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, atone, expiate |
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| alphabetise | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetize |
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| alphabetize | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetise |
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| (verb) provide with an alphabet | - |
| babbitt | (verb) line with a Babbitt metal | - |
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| babble | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter |
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| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| (verb) utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way | - |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
| baby | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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| babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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| (verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
| belabor | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabour |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabour |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabour |
| belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
| blab | (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| blabber | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| brabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| cab | (verb) ride in a taxicab | Synonyms: taxi |
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| cabal | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: complot, conjure, conspire, machinate |
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| cabbage | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| cabin | (verb) confine to a small space, such as a cabin | - |
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| cable | (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: telegraph, wire |
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| (verb) fasten with a cable | - |
| catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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| catabolize | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolise |
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| clabber | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clot, curdle |
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| cohabit | (verb) share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple | Synonyms: live together, shack up |
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| (verb) exist together | Synonyms: coexist |
| collaborate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: cooperate, join forces |
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| (verb) cooperate as a traitor | - |
| confab | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confabulate, confer, consult |
| confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
| (verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
| crab | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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| (verb) fish for crab | - |
| (verb) scurry sideways like a crab | - |
| (verb) direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind | - |
| dab | (verb) to smoke marijuana using butane hash oil | - |
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| (verb) hit lightly | Synonyms: pat |
| (verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: swab, swob |
| (verb) to perform a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing | - |
| dabble | (verb) dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid | - |
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| (verb) bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water | - |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: paddle, splash around |
| (verb) work with in an amateurish manner | Synonyms: play around, smatter |
| destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
| destabilize | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
| diabolise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolize |
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| diabolize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolise |
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| disable | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: handicap, incapacitate, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disenable, incapacitate |
| disabuse | (verb) free somebody (from an erroneous belief) | - |
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| disenable | (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate |
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| disestablish | (verb) deprive (an established church) of its status | - |
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| elaborate | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine |
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| (verb) work out in detail | Synonyms: work out |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product | - |
| enable | (verb) render capable or able for some task | - |
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| establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
| (verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
| fabricate | (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, invent, make up, manufacture |
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| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, manufacture |
| flabbergast | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: boggle, bowl over |
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| gab | (verb) talk profusely | Synonyms: yak |
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| gabble | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| grab | (verb) capture the attention or imagination of | Synonyms: seize |
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| (verb) take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) take or grasp suddenly | - |
| (verb) make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand | - |
| (verb) get hold of or seize quickly and easily | Synonyms: snaffle, snap up |
| (verb) obtain illegally or unscrupulously | - |
| habilitate | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, raiment, tog |
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| (verb) qualify for teaching at a university in Europe | - |
| habit | (verb) put a habit on | - |
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| habituate | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: accustom |
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| (verb) take or consume (regularly or habitually) | Synonyms: use |
| inhabit | (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, live, populate |
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| (verb) be present in | - |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: dwell |
| jab | (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, poke, prod, stab |
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| (verb) strike or punch with quick and short blows | - |
| (verb) stab or pierce | Synonyms: stab |
| jabber | (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout |
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| jackrabbit | (verb) go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | - |
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| label | (verb) distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions | - |
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| (verb) distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom | - |
| (verb) assign a label to; designate with a label | - |
| (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, pronounce |
| (verb) attach a tag or label to | Synonyms: mark, tag |
| labialise | (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialize, round |
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| labialize | (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, round |
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| labor | (verb) undergo the efforts of childbirth | Synonyms: labour |
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| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labour, push, tug |
| labour | (verb) undergo the efforts of childbirth | Synonyms: labor |
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| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, moil, toil, travail |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, push, tug |
| metabolise | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolize |
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| metabolize | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolise |
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| nab | (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nail, pick up |
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| (verb) seize suddenly | - |
| (verb) tag the base runner to get him out | - |
| prefabricate | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: preassemble |
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| (verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |
| rabbet | (verb) cut a rectangular groove into | - |
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| (verb) join with a rabbet joint | - |
| rabbit | (verb) hunt rabbits | - |
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| reabsorb | (verb) undergo resorption | Synonyms: resorb |
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