| 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 |
| exacerbate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate |
| exhibit | (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: march, parade |
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| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, present, show |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, expose |
| (verb) show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill | - |
| exuberate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exult, jubilate, rejoice, triumph |
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| eyeball | (verb) look at | Synonyms: eye |
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| 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 |
| featherbed | (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| fib | (verb) tell a relatively insignificant lie | - |
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| fibrillate | (verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements | - |
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| filibuster | (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
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| firebomb | (verb) attack with incendiary bombs | - |
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| flabbergast | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: boggle, bowl over |
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| flambe | (verb) pour liquor over and ignite (a dish) | - |
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| flub | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| fob | (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick |
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| follback | (verb) to return someone's following of you on a social media platform | - |
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| forbear | (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: refrain |
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| (verb) refrain from doing | Synonyms: hold back |
| forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| forebode | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| fullback | (verb) play the fullback | - |
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| fumble | (verb) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder | - |
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| (verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: grope |
| (verb) handle clumsily | - |
| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: blunder |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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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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| gamble | (verb) play games for money | - |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| gambol | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| garb | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| garble | (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, warp |
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| gibber | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) chatter inarticulately; of monkeys | - |
| gibbet | (verb) hang on an execution instrument | - |
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| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: pillory |
| gibe | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, jeer, scoff |
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| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, jibe, match, tally |
| globalise | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalize |
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| globalize | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalise |
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| gobble | (verb) make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys | - |
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| (verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: bolt |
| goldbrick | (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, shirk, shrink from |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| 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 | - |
| grub | (verb) search about busily | - |
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| (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, mooch, sponge |
| grubstake | (verb) supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits | - |
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| grumble | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, murmur, mutter |
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| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, scold |
| (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, rumble |
| (verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: rumble |
| gybe | (verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, jib, jibe |
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| 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 |
| handbuild | (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: coil, hand-build |
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| harbinger | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
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| harbor | (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbour, hold, nurse |
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| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbour, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbour |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbour |
| harbour | (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, hold, nurse |
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| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbor |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbor |
| headbutt | (verb) butt with the head | - |
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| hibachi | (verb) cook over a hibachi grill | - |
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| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| hob | (verb) cut with a hob | - |
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| hobble | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hopple |
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| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, limp |
| (verb) hamper the action or progress of | - |
| hobnail | (verb) supply with hobnails | - |
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| hobnob | (verb) rub elbows with | - |
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| honeycomb | (verb) make full of cavities, like a honeycomb | - |
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| (verb) penetrate thoroughly and into every part | - |
| (verb) carve a honeycomb pattern into | - |
| housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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| humble | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humiliate, mortify |
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| (verb) cause to be unpretentious | - |
| humbug | (verb) trick or deceive | - |
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| husband | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, economize |
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| hybridise | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridize, interbreed |
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| hybridize | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed |
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| hyperbolise | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| hyperbolize | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| imbed | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, implant, plant |
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| imbibe | (verb) receive into the mind and retain | - |
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| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: drink |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilate |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| imbricate | (verb) overlap | - |
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| (verb) place so as to overlap | - |
| imbrue | (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: drench |
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| imbue | (verb) suffuse with color | Synonyms: hue |
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| (verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: soak |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| immobilise | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilize |
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| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilize |
| (verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
| (verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilize |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilize, pin, trap |
| (verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
| immobilize | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilise |
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| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilise |
| (verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
| (verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilise |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, pin, trap |
| (verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
| incubate | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, hatch |
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| (verb) grow under conditions that promote development | - |
| inebriate | (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, soak, souse |
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| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: intoxicate, soak |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink |
| 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 |
| inhibit | (verb) prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something | - |
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| (verb) make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally | - |
| (verb) consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior | Synonyms: bottle up, suppress |
| (verb) limit, block, or decrease the action or function of | - |
| inscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: autograph |
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| (verb) address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication | - |
| (verb) write, engrave, or print as a lasting record | - |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, write in code |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, scratch |
| (verb) draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, raise, recruit |
| interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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| intubate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, canulate |
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| 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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| jawbone | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
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| jib | (verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, gybe, jibe |
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| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, resist |
| jibe | (verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, gybe, jib |
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| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, match, tally |
| jitterbug | (verb) do the jitterbug | - |
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| job | (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: speculate |
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| (verb) work occasionally | - |
| (verb) profit privately from public office and official business | - |
| (verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others | Synonyms: farm out, subcontract |
| jubilate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph |
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| (verb) celebrate a jubilee | - |
| jumble | (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: scramble, throw together |
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| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: confuse, mix up |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: mingle |
| kibbitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibitz |
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| kibitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibbitz |
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| kibosh | (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, stop |
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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 |
| lamb | (verb) give birth to a lamb | - |
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| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| libel | (verb) print slanderous statements against | - |
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| liberalise | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalize |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalize |