| burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
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| burglarize | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burgle, heist |
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| burgle | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, heist |
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| burke | (verb) get rid of, silence, or suppress | - |
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| (verb) murder without leaving a trace on the body | - |
| burl | (verb) remove the burls from cloth | - |
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| burlesque | (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: parody, spoof |
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| burn | (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
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| (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
| (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
| (verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
| (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
| (verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
| (verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) feel hot or painful | - |
| (verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
| (verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
| burnish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
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| burp | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, eruct |
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| burr | (verb) remove the burrs from | Synonyms: bur |
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| burrow | (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: tunnel |
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| burst | (verb) come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure | Synonyms: break open, split |
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| (verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) emerge suddenly | - |
| (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: explode |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, erupt |
| (verb) move suddenly, energetically, or violently | - |
| (verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: collapse |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, bristle |
| burthen | (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
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| bury | (verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: forget |
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| (verb) place in the earth and cover with soil | - |
| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: sink |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up |
| (verb) cover from sight | - |
| (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
| bus | (verb) remove used dishes from the table in restaurants | - |
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| (verb) ride in a bus | - |
| (verb) send or move around by bus | - |
| bush | (verb) provide with a bushing | - |
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| bushel | (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
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| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| busk | (verb) play music in a public place and solicit money for it | - |
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| buss | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: kiss, osculate, snog |
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| bust | (verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: burst |
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| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: break, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| (verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: rupture, snap, tear |
| (verb) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on | Synonyms: raid |
| bustle | (verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle about, hustle |
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| busy | (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: occupy |
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| butcher | (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
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| butt | (verb) to strike, thrust or shove against | Synonyms: bunt |
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| (verb) place end to end without overlapping | - |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
| butter | (verb) spread butter on | - |
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| butterfly | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| (verb) cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking | - |
| (verb) flutter like a butterfly | - |
| button | (verb) fasten with buttons | - |
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| (verb) provide with buttons | - |
| buttonhole | (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: lobby |
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| buttress | (verb) make stronger or defensible | - |
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| (verb) reinforce with a buttress | - |
| buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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| butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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| buy | (verb) accept as true | - |
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| (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: purchase |
| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: bribe, corrupt, grease one's palms |
| (verb) acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange | - |
| (verb) be worth or be capable of buying | - |
| buzz | (verb) call with a buzzer | - |
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| (verb) fly low | - |
| (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, bombinate |
| (verb) be noisy with activity | Synonyms: hum, seethe |
| bypass | (verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious | Synonyms: get around, go around, short-circuit |
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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 | - |
| calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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| (verb) measure the caliber of | - |
| (verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
| camber | (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
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| cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
| cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
| carbonate | (verb) treat with carbon dioxide | - |
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| (verb) turn into a carbonate | - |
| carbonise | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonize |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonize, carburise, carburize |
| carbonize | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonise |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carburise, carburize |
| carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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| carburet | (verb) combine with carbon | - |
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| carburise | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburize |
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| carburize | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburise |
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| catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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| catabolize | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolise |
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| celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
| (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
| cerebrate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cogitate, think |
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| chamber | (verb) place in a chamber | - |
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| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| chemisorb | (verb) take up a substance by chemisorption | - |
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| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| clabber | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clot, curdle |
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| clamber | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| clapboard | (verb) cover with clapboards | - |
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| climb | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: mount, rise, wax |
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| (verb) increase in value or to a higher point | Synonyms: go up, rise |
| (verb) improve one's social status | - |
| (verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Synonyms: climb up, go up, mount |
| (verb) move with effort, by grasping | - |
| (verb) slope upward | - |
| clobber | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
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| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, batter |
| club | (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: bludgeon |
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| (verb) gather into a club-like mass | - |
| (verb) gather and spend time together | - |
| (verb) unite with a common purpose | - |
| cobble | (verb) repair or mend | - |
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| (verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobblestone |
| cobblestone | (verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobble |
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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 | - |
| comb | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb out, disentangle |
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| (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: ransack |
| (verb) straighten with a comb | - |
| combat | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
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| combine | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: aggregate |
| (verb) add together from different sources | - |
| (verb) join for a common purpose or in a common action | - |
| (verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: unite |
| combust | (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) get very angry and fly into a rage | Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit |
| (verb) cause to become violent or angry | - |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: burn |
| 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 | - |
| conglobate | (verb) assume a globular shape | Synonyms: conglobe |
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| conglobe | (verb) assume a globular shape | Synonyms: conglobate |
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| consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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| (verb) unite in one common substance | - |
| contribute | (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, give, kick in |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, impart, lend |
| (verb) provide | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, lead |
| corbel | (verb) furnish with a corbel | - |
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| corroborate | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, substantiate, support, sustain |
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| (verb) give evidence for | Synonyms: validate |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, support, underpin |
| counterbalance | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, countervail, neutralize |
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| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: oppose |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| 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 | - |
| crib | (verb) line with beams or planks | - |
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| (verb) take unauthorized (intellectual material) | - |
| (verb) use a crib, as in an exam | - |
| crossbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
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| crumb | (verb) remove crumbs from | - |
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| (verb) break into crumbs | - |
| (verb) coat with bread crumbs | - |
| crumble | (verb) break or fall apart into fragments | Synonyms: fall apart |
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| (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: decay, dilapidate |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumple, tumble |
| cub | (verb) give birth to cubs | - |
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| cube | (verb) raise to the third power | - |
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| (verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: dice |
| cumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: encumber, restrain |
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| curb | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curtail, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) keep to the curb | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, hold, hold in, moderate |
| currycomb | (verb) clean (a horse) with a currycomb | - |
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| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| 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 |
| daub | (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: smear |
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| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: plaster |
| (verb) apply to a surface | - |
| debar | (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, exclude |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| (verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: suspend |
| debark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: disembark, set down |
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| debase | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: alloy |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |