| debate | (verb) argue with one another | - |
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| (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: deliberate |
| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, fence |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, deliberate, moot, turn over |
| debauch | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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| debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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| debit | (verb) enter as debit | - |
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| debone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: bone |
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| debouch | (verb) pass out or emerge; especially of rivers | - |
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| (verb) march out (as from a defile) into open ground | Synonyms: march out |
| debrief | (verb) put someone through a debriefing and make him report | - |
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| debug | (verb) locate and correct errors in a computer program code | - |
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| debunk | (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: expose |
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| debut | (verb) appear for the first time in public | - |
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| (verb) make one's debut | - |
| (verb) present for the first time to the public | - |
| decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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| decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarbonize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarboxylate | (verb) lose a carboxyl group | - |
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| (verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | - |
| decarburise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarburize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decoke |
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| decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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| defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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| defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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| deliberate | (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: debate |
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| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, moot, turn over |
| demob | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
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| demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
| demobilize | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilise |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, inactivate |
| describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
| desorb | (verb) go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed | - |
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| (verb) remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed | - |
| 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 |
| detribalise | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalize |
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| detribalize | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalise |
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| 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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| dibble | (verb) plant with a wooden hand tool | - |
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| (verb) make a hole with a wooden hand tool | - |
| 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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| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| disassemble | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, dismantle, take apart |
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| disband | (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: dissolve |
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| (verb) cause to break up or cease to function | - |
| disbar | (verb) remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action | - |
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| disbelieve | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: discredit |
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| disbud | (verb) destroy undeveloped horn buds (of cattle) | - |
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| (verb) thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers | - |
| disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
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| disburse | (verb) expend, as from a fund | Synonyms: pay out |
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| discombobulate | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, throw |
| disembark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: debark, set down |
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| disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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| disembody | (verb) free from a body or physical form or reality | - |
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| disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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| disembroil | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disentangle, disinvolve |
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| disenable | (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate |
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| disencumber | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disentangle, extricate, untangle |
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| disestablish | (verb) deprive (an established church) of its status | - |
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| dismember | (verb) separate the limbs from the body | - |
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| (verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: discerp, take apart |
| disobey | (verb) refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient | - |
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| disoblige | (verb) ignore someone's wishes | - |
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| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| disrobe | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| dissemble | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, feign, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, pretend |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, mask |
| distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
| (verb) release | - |
| (verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
| (verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
| (verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
| disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
| double | (verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: duplicate |
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| (verb) hit a two-base hit | - |
| (verb) do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions | - |
| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
| (verb) bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain | Synonyms: double over, double up |
| (verb) make a demand for (a card or suit) | - |
| doubt | (verb) consider unlikely | - |
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| (verb) lack confidence in | - |
| dribble | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
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| (verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
| drub | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, lick, thrash |
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| dub | (verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: nickname |
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| (verb) provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language | - |
| (verb) raise (someone) to knighthood | Synonyms: knight |
| dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| ebb | (verb) fall away or decline | - |
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| (verb) hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb | - |
| (verb) flow back or recede | Synonyms: ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out |
| ebonise | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonize |
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| ebonize | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonise |
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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 | - |
| elbow | (verb) shove one's elbow into another person's ribs | - |
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| (verb) push one's way with the elbows | - |
| embalm | (verb) preserve a dead body | - |
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| embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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| embargo | (verb) prevent commerce | - |
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| (verb) ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons | - |
| embark | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: enter |
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| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: ship |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: venture |
| embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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| (verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
| embed | (verb) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war | - |
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| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: engraft, imbed, implant, plant |
| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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| emblazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: blazon |
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| (verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, colour |
| embody | (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, personify |
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| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, incarnate, substantiate |
| (verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form | - |
| embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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| emboss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: boss, stamp |
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| embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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| embrace | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, espouse, sweep up |
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| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, encompass |
| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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| embrocate | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, inunct, oil |
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| embroider | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, lard, pad |
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| (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: broider |
| embroil | (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
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| embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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| (verb) cause to darken | - |
| enable | (verb) render capable or able for some task | - |
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| encumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, restrain |
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| enfeeble | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, drain |
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| ennoble | (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: entitle, gentle |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: dignify |
| enrobe | (verb) adorn with a robe | - |
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| (verb) provide with a coating | - |
| entomb | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
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| equilibrate | (verb) bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium | - |
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| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
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| equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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