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 | - |
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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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 |
fibrillate | (verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements | - |
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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 |
housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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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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imbricate | (verb) overlap | - |
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(verb) place so as to overlap | - |
imbrue | (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: drench |
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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 |
interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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librate | (verb) vibrate before coming to a total rest | - |
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(verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: weigh |
lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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(verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
(verb) have lubricating properties | - |
lucubrate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
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outbrave | (verb) be braver than | - |
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(verb) resist bravely | - |
palpebrate | (verb) wink or blink, especially repeatedly | - |
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prefabricate | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: preassemble |
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(verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |
rebroadcast | (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
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rubric | (verb) adorn with ruby red color | - |
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rubricate | (verb) sign with a mark instead of a name | - |
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(verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: miniate |
(verb) furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics | - |
(verb) place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint | - |
sabre | (verb) kill with a saber | Synonyms: saber |
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(verb) cut or injure with a saber | Synonyms: saber |
subrogate | (verb) substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured | - |
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unbrace | (verb) remove a brace or braces from | - |
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(verb) remove from tension | - |
(verb) undo the ties of | Synonyms: unlace, untie |
unbraid | (verb) undo the braids of | - |
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unbridle | (verb) remove the bridle from (a horse or mule) | - |
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upbraid | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: reproach |
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vibrate | (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, tickle |
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(verb) shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner | - |
(verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: oscillate |
(verb) sound with resonance | Synonyms: resonate |
(verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vacillate |