| decamp | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: skip, vamoose |
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| (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, go off, make off, run off |
| (verb) leave a camp | Synonyms: break camp |
| decant | (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: pour, pour out |
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| decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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| 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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| decay | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, dilapidate |
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| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decompose, disintegrate |
| (verb) undergo decay or decomposition | - |
| decorticate | (verb) remove the cortex of (an organ) | - |
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| (verb) remove the outer layer of | - |
| dedicate | (verb) set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church | - |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, devote, give |
| (verb) inscribe or address by way of compliment | - |
| (verb) open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building | - |
| defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| defecate | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| delocalize | (verb) remove from the proper or usual locality | - |
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| demarcate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate |
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| (verb) separate clearly, as if by boundaries | - |
| deprecate | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: depreciate, vilipend |
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| (verb) express strong disapproval of; deplore | - |
| descale | (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: scale |
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| descant | (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: warble, yodel |
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| (verb) talk at great length about something of one's interest | - |
| (verb) sing in descant | - |
| desiccate | (verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: dehydrate, dry up, exsiccate |
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| (verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from | Synonyms: dehydrate |
| (verb) remove water from | Synonyms: dehydrate |
| detoxicate | (verb) remove poison from | Synonyms: detoxify |
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| discard | (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
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| discase | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| dislocate | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: luxate, slip, splay |
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| (verb) put out of its usual place, position, or relationship | - |
| divaricate | (verb) spread apart | - |
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| (verb) branch off | - |
| domesticate | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
| (verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: tame |
| duplicate | (verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: double |
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| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
| (verb) make a duplicate or duplicates of | - |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: parallel, twin |
| educate | (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, prepare, train |
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| (verb) give an education to | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train |
| embrocate | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, inunct, oil |
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| encamp | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, tent |
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| encapsulate | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container | - |
| encase | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: case, incase |
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| equivocate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, palter, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| eradicate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: exterminate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| escalade | (verb) climb up and over | - |
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| escalate | (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: intensify, step up |
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| escallop | (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: scallop |
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| escape | (verb) issue or leak, as from a small opening | - |
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| (verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action | Synonyms: get away, get by, get off, get out |
| (verb) run away from confinement | Synonyms: break loose, get away |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion | Synonyms: get away |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: elude |
| excavate | (verb) find by digging in the ground | Synonyms: dig up, turn up |
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| (verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, hollow |
| (verb) form by hollowing | - |
| (verb) recover through digging | Synonyms: unearth |
| excommunicate | (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: curse, unchurch |
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| (verb) oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree | - |
| explicate | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explain |
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| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, formulate |
| exsiccate | (verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: dehydrate, desiccate, dry up |
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| extricate | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, disentangle, untangle |
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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 |
| focalise | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus |
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| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus, sharpen |
| (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalize, focus |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalize, localise, localize |
| focalize | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus |
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| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus, sharpen |
| (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focus |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, localise, localize |
| forecast | (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, reckon |
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| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| formicate | (verb) crawl about like ants | - |
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| fornicate | (verb) have sex without being married | - |
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| fricassee | (verb) make a fricassee of by cooking | - |
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| furcate | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, ramify, separate |
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| handicap | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate, invalid |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, hinder |
| (verb) attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant | - |
| hypothecate | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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| (verb) pledge without delivery or title of possession | - |
| imbricate | (verb) overlap | - |
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| (verb) place so as to overlap | - |
| implicate | (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: entail |
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| (verb) bring into intimate and incriminating connection | - |
| imprecate | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, maledict |
| incandesce | (verb) become incandescent or glow with heat | - |
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| (verb) cause to become incandescent or glow | - |
| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| incarcerate | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| incarnadine | (verb) make flesh-colored | - |
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| incarnate | (verb) make concrete and real | - |
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| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, substantiate |
| incase | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: case, encase |
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| inculcate | (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: infuse, instill |
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| indicate | (verb) to state or express briefly | - |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, point, signal |
| (verb) give evidence of | Synonyms: argue |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, point, show |
| (verb) suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine | - |
| infuscate | (verb) darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings | - |
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| intercalate | (verb) insert (days) in a calendar | - |
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| intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
| intoxicate | (verb) have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug | - |
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| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: inebriate, soak |
| (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: elate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
| kneecap | (verb) shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning | - |
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| landscape | (verb) do landscape gardening | - |
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| (verb) embellish with plants | - |
| lexicalise | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalize |
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| lexicalize | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalise |
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| localise | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localize, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localize |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localize |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localize, place |
| localize | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localise |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localise |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, place |
| locate | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: settle |
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| (verb) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining | Synonyms: turn up |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: place, site |
| (verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: situate |
| 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 | - |
| macadam | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadamise, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamise | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamize | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, tarmac |
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| manducate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, masticate |
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| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| medicate | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicine |
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| (verb) impregnate with a medicinal substance | - |
| metricate | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricise, metricize, metrify |
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| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |
| miscall | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: misname |
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| miscarry | (verb) suffer a miscarriage | - |
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| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: fail, go wrong |
| miscast | (verb) cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role | - |
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| obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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| occasion | (verb) give occasion to | - |
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| outcall | (verb) make a higher bid than (the previous bid or player); in a card game | - |
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| overcapitalise | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| overcapitalize | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| overcast | (verb) sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next | - |
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| (verb) sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches | - |
| (verb) make overcast or cloudy | Synonyms: cloud |
| placard | (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: bill |
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| (verb) post in a public place | - |
| placate | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify |
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| plicate | (verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: pleat |
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| podcast | (verb) distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer | - |
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| pontificate | (verb) talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner | - |
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| (verb) administer a pontifical office | - |
| predicate | (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: proclaim |
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| (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: connote |
| (verb) make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition | - |