abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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(verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
(verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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(verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
emaciate | (verb) grow weak and thin or waste away physically | - |
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(verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: macerate, waste |
facilitate | (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, ease |
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(verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) | - |
(verb) be of use | Synonyms: help |
glaciate | (verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers | - |
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(verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier | - |
incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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(verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
opacify | (verb) become opaque | - |
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(verb) make opaque | - |
ostracise | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracize |
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(verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracize, shun |
ostracize | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracise |
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(verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, shun |
pacify | (verb) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location) | - |
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(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, placate |
vacillate | (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, waver |
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(verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vibrate |