| slander | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, smear, smirch, sully |
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| slang | (verb) abuse with coarse language | - |
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| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, take in |
| (verb) use slang or vulgar language | - |
| slant | (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, weight |
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| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, tilt, tip |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, tilt |
| (verb) lie obliquely | - |
| sloganeer | (verb) coin new slogans | - |
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| span | (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, sweep, traverse |
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| spang | (verb) leap, jerk, bang | Synonyms: bang |
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| spangle | (verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: bespangle |
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| (verb) glitter as if covered with spangles | - |
| spank | (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, paddle |
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| squander | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, ware, waste |
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| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, waste |
| stanch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, staunch, stem |
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| stand | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) have or maintain a position or stand on an issue | - |
| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, resist |
| (verb) be standing; be upright | Synonyms: stand up |
| (verb) put into an upright position | Synonyms: place upright, stand up |
| (verb) be available for stud services | - |
| (verb) hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright | Synonyms: remain firm |
| (verb) be tall; have a height of; copula | - |
| (verb) be in effect; be or remain in force | - |
| (verb) occupy a place or location, also metaphorically | - |
| (verb) be in some specified state or condition | - |
| (verb) remain inactive or immobile | - |
| standardise | (verb) cause to conform to standard or norm | Synonyms: standardize |
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| (verb) evaluate by comparing with a standard | Synonyms: standardize |
| standardize | (verb) cause to conform to standard or norm | Synonyms: standardise |
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| (verb) evaluate by comparing with a standard | Synonyms: standardise |
| strand | (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: ground, run aground |
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| (verb) drive (a vessel) ashore | - |
| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: maroon |
| strangle | (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: choke |
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| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, suffocate |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, hamper |
| (verb) die from strangulation | - |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangulate, throttle |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, stifle |
| strangulate | (verb) become constricted | - |
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| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, throttle |
| (verb) constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air | - |
| substantiate | (verb) solidify, firm, or strengthen | - |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain |
| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, realize |
| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, incarnate |
| suburbanise | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
| suburbanize | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
| suntan | (verb) get a tan from being exposed to the sun | - |
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| superannuate | (verb) retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity | - |
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| (verb) become obsolete | - |
| (verb) declare to be obsolete | - |
| (verb) retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability | - |
| supplant | (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: replace, supersede, supervene upon |
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| swan | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swear, verify |
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| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) sweep majestically | - |
| swank | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off |
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| tan | (verb) get a tan, from wind or sun | Synonyms: bronze |
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| (verb) treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather | - |
| tangle | (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl |
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| (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tousle |
| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, ravel |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up |
| tango | (verb) dance a tango | - |
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| tank | (verb) treat in a tank | - |
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| (verb) consume excessive amounts of alcohol | - |
| (verb) store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it | - |
| tantalise | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| tantalize | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, taunt, tease, twit |
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| tapdance | (verb) dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes | Synonyms: tap |
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| tenant | (verb) occupy as a tenant | - |
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| thank | (verb) express gratitude or show appreciation to | Synonyms: give thanks |
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| toboggan | (verb) move along on a luge or toboggan | Synonyms: luge |
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| trance | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate |
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| tranquilize | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| tranquillise | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillize |
| tranquillize | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise |
| transact | (verb) conduct business | - |
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| transaminate | (verb) undergo transfer from one compound to another | - |
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| (verb) change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another | - |
| transcend | (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, surpass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, pass, top |
| transcribe | (verb) convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA | - |
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| (verb) rewrite in a different script | Synonyms: transliterate |
| (verb) write out from speech, notes, etc. | - |
| (verb) make a phonetic transcription of | - |
| (verb) rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended | - |
| transduce | (verb) cause transduction (of energy forms) | - |
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| transect | (verb) cut across or divide transversely | - |
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| transfer | (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transplant, transpose |
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| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: shift |
| (verb) shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes | Synonyms: remove |
| (verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transplant |
| (verb) cause to change ownership | - |
| (verb) move from one place to another | - |
| (verb) transfer somebody to a different position or location of work | Synonyms: reassign |
| transfigure | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmogrify |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, spiritualize |
| transfix | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, impale, spike |
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| (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, grip, spellbind |
| transform | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transmute, transubstantiate |
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| (verb) change from one form or medium into another | Synonyms: translate |
| (verb) subject to a mathematical transformation | - |
| (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmute |
| (verb) increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage) | - |
| (verb) change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species | - |
| (verb) convert (one form of energy) to another | - |
| transfuse | (verb) treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin | Synonyms: cup |
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| (verb) give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to | - |
| (verb) pour out of one vessel into another | - |
| (verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: instill |
| transgress | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, trespass |
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| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, violate |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, trespass |
| (verb) spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline | - |
| transistorise | (verb) equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors | Synonyms: transistorize |
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| transistorize | (verb) equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors | Synonyms: transistorise |
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| transit | (verb) make a passage or journey from one place to another | Synonyms: move through, pass across, pass over, pass through |
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| (verb) cause or enable to pass through | - |
| (verb) revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction | - |
| (verb) pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place) | - |
| transition | (verb) make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another) | - |
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| (verb) cause to convert or undergo a transition | - |
| transitivise | (verb) make transitive | Synonyms: transitivize |
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| transitivize | (verb) make transitive | Synonyms: transitivise |
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| translate | (verb) change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation | - |
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| (verb) change from one form or medium into another | Synonyms: transform |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, read, understand |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, render |
| (verb) determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA | - |
| (verb) express, as in simple and less technical language | - |
| (verb) bring to a certain spiritual state | - |
| (verb) subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body | - |
| (verb) be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be equivalent in effect | - |
| transliterate | (verb) rewrite in a different script | Synonyms: transcribe |
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| translocate | (verb) move from one place to another, especially of wild animals | - |
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| (verb) transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position | - |
| transmigrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: migrate |
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| (verb) be born anew in another body after death | Synonyms: reincarnate |
| transmit | (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, send |
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| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transport |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, impart |
| (verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: communicate, convey |
| transmogrify | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transfigure |
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| transmute | (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: metamorphose, transform |
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| (verb) alter the nature of (elements) | - |
| (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transubstantiate |
| transpirate | (verb) pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas | Synonyms: transpire |
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| transpire | (verb) give off (water) through the skin | - |
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| (verb) come to light; become known | - |
| (verb) exude water vapor | - |
| (verb) come about, happen, or occur | - |
| (verb) pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas | Synonyms: transpirate |
| transplant | (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transpose |
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| (verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: graft |
| (verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) be transplantable | - |
| transport | (verb) move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body | Synonyms: carry |
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| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish |
| (verb) move something or somebody around; usually over long distances | - |
| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: send, ship |
| transpose | (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: commute, permute |
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| (verb) change key | - |
| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, interchange |
| (verb) exchange positions without a change in value | Synonyms: commute |
| (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transplant |
| (verb) put (a piece of music) into another key | - |
| (verb) transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality | - |
| transship | (verb) transfer for further transportation from one ship or conveyance to another | - |
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| transubstantiate | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
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| (verb) change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ | - |
| transude | (verb) release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: exudate, exude, ooze, ooze out |
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| trepan | (verb) cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery | - |
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| triangulate | (verb) survey by triangulation | - |
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| (verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
| (verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
| twang | (verb) pronounce with a nasal twang | - |
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| (verb) pluck (strings of an instrument) | - |
| (verb) sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) cause to sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) twitch or throb with pain | - |
| tyrannise | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: domineer, tyrannize |
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| (verb) rule a country as a tyrant | Synonyms: grind down, tyrannize |
| tyrannize | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: domineer, tyrannise |
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| (verb) rule a country as a tyrant | Synonyms: grind down, tyrannise |
| unbalance | (verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: derange |
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| (verb) throw out of balance or equilibrium | - |
| understand | (verb) know and comprehend the nature or meaning of | - |
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| (verb) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally | Synonyms: realise, realize, see |
| (verb) believe to be the case | Synonyms: infer |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, read, translate |
| (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize |
| unhand | (verb) remove the hand from | - |
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| unman | (verb) cause to lose one's nerve | - |
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| unsanctify | (verb) remove the sanctification from or make unsanctified | - |
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| unsubstantialise | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialize |
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| unsubstantialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise |
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| untangle | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble |
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| (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, disentangle, extricate |
| urbanise | (verb) make more industrial or city-like | Synonyms: urbanize |
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| (verb) impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon | Synonyms: urbanize |
| urbanize | (verb) make more industrial or city-like | Synonyms: urbanise |
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| (verb) impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon | Synonyms: urbanise |
| vandalise | (verb) destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism | Synonyms: vandalize |
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| vandalize | (verb) destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism | Synonyms: vandalise |
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| vanish | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
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| (verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: fly, vaporize |
| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: disappear |
| (verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fell, fly |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
| vanquish | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce |
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| vulcanise | (verb) undergo vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanize |
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| (verb) subject to vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanize |
| vulcanize | (verb) undergo vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanise |
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| (verb) subject to vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanise |
| wan | (verb) become pale and sickly | - |
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| wander | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, stray |
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| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, weave, wind |
| (verb) go via an indirect route or at no set pace | - |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold |
| wane | (verb) become smaller | - |
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| (verb) decrease in phase | - |
| (verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: decline, go down |
| wangle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, manage |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent |
| wank | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, masturbate, she-bop |
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| want | (verb) wish or demand the presence of | - |
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| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, require |
| (verb) hunt or look for; want for a particular reason | - |
| (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: desire |
| (verb) be without, lack; be deficient in | - |
| wanton | (verb) behave extremely cruelly and brutally | - |
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| (verb) engage in amorous play | - |
| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) spend wastefully | Synonyms: trifle away, wanton away |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton away |
| (verb) indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life | - |
| warrant | (verb) provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action) | - |
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| (verb) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of | Synonyms: guarantee |