| 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 | - |
| prevaricate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, tergiversate |
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| prognosticate | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage |
| quadruplicate | (verb) reproduce fourfold | - |
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| radicalize | (verb) make more radical in social or political outlook | - |
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| radiolocate | (verb) locate by means of radar | - |
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| reallocate | (verb) allocate, distribute, or apportion anew | Synonyms: reapportion |
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| rebroadcast | (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
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| recalcitrate | (verb) show strong objection or repugnance; manifest vigorous opposition or resistance; be obstinately disobedient | - |
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| recalculate | (verb) calculate anew | - |
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| recall | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recollect, remember, retrieve, think |
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| (verb) cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression | - |
| (verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, return |
| (verb) summon to return | Synonyms: call back |
| (verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, withdraw |
| (verb) make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution | - |
| (verb) bring to mind | Synonyms: echo |
| recant | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, resile, retract |
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| recap | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recapitulate |
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| recapitulate | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life | - |
| recapture | (verb) capture again | Synonyms: retake |
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| (verb) take up anew | - |
| (verb) experience anew | - |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: retake |
| recast | (verb) cast again, in a different role | - |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: remold, remould |
| (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: reforge, remodel |
| reciprocate | (verb) alternate the direction of motion of | - |
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| (verb) act, feel, or give mutually or in return | - |
| rededicate | (verb) dedicate anew | - |
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| reduplicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, repeat, replicate |
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| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: geminate |
| reincarnate | (verb) cause to appear in a new form | Synonyms: renew |
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| (verb) be born anew in another body after death | Synonyms: transmigrate |
| relocate | (verb) become established in a new location | - |
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| (verb) move or establish in a new location | - |
| replicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat |
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| (verb) reproduce or make an exact copy of | Synonyms: copy |
| (verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: retroflex |
| rescale | (verb) establish on a new scale | - |
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| roughcast | (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
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| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| 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 | - |
| rusticate | (verb) lend a rustic character to | - |
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| (verb) give (stone) a rustic look | - |
| (verb) send to the country | - |
| (verb) suspend temporarily from college or university, in England | Synonyms: send down |
| (verb) live in the country and lead a rustic life | - |
| scab | (verb) form a scab | - |
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| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, fink, rat |
| scaffold | (verb) provide with a scaffold for support | - |
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| scald | (verb) burn with a hot liquid or steam | - |
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| (verb) heat to the boiling point | - |
| (verb) treat with boiling water | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scorch, whip |
| scale | (verb) measure with or as if with scales | - |
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| (verb) size or measure according to a scale | - |
| (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: descale |
| (verb) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard | - |
| (verb) climb up by means of a ladder | - |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: surmount |
| (verb) take by attacking with scaling ladders | - |
| (verb) measure by or as if by a scale | - |
| scallop | (verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
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| (verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
| (verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scollop |
| (verb) decorate an edge with scallops | - |
| (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: escallop |
| scalp | (verb) remove the scalp of | - |
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| (verb) sell illegally, as on the black market | - |
| scam | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| scamp | (verb) perform hastily and carelessly | - |
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| scamper | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scurry, scuttle, skitter |
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| scan | (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: read |
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| (verb) read metrically | - |
| (verb) make a wide, sweeping search of | - |
| (verb) move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image | - |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, skim |
| (verb) examine minutely or intensely | - |
| (verb) conform to a metrical pattern | - |
| scandalise | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalize, shock |
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| scandalize | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, shock |
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| scant | (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: skimp |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: skimp |
| scar | (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, pock |
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| scare | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten |
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| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off |
| scarf | (verb) wrap in or adorn with a scarf | - |
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| (verb) masturbate while strangling oneself | - |
| (verb) unite by a scarf joint | - |
| scarify | (verb) puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals | - |
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| (verb) break up | - |
| (verb) scratch the surface of | - |
| scarper | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| scat | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| scatter | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
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| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle |
| (verb) sow by scattering | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: spread, spread out |
| scavenge | (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) feed on carrion or refuse | - |
| (verb) clean refuse from | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: salvage |
| sophisticate | (verb) make more complex or refined | - |
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| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor, doctor up |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around |
| (verb) make less natural or innocent | - |
| sportscast | (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
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| subvocalise | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalize |
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| subvocalize | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalise |
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| suffocate | (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, strangle |
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| (verb) feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air | - |
| (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, smother |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, stifle |
| supplicate | (verb) ask humbly (for something) | - |
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| (verb) ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer | - |
| (verb) make a humble, earnest petition | - |
| syllabicate | (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabify, syllabise, syllabize |
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| syndicate | (verb) sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations | - |
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| (verb) organize into or form a syndicate | - |
| (verb) join together into a syndicate | - |
| telecast | (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: televise |
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| telecommunicate | (verb) communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail | - |
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| topicalize | (verb) emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence | - |
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| translocate | (verb) move from one place to another, especially of wild animals | - |
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| (verb) transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position | - |
| trifurcate | (verb) divide into three | - |
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| triplicate | (verb) reproduce threefold | - |
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| truncate | (verb) make shorter as if by cutting off | Synonyms: cut short |
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| (verb) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one | - |
| (verb) replace a corner by a plane | - |
| typecast | (verb) identify as belonging to a certain type | Synonyms: type |
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| (verb) cast repeatedly in the same kind of role | - |
| uncase | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, unclothe, undress |
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| urticate | (verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: nettle |
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| (verb) whip with or as with nettles | - |
| vacate | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke |
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| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, empty |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, renounce, resign |
| vacation | (verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: holiday |
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| vellicate | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: pinch |
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| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: tickle, titillate |
| vesicate | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: blister |
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| vindicate | (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: justify |
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| (verb) clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof | - |
| (verb) maintain, uphold, or defend | - |
| vocalise | (verb) pronounce as a vowel | Synonyms: vocalize, vowelise, vowelize |
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| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, enunciate, vocalize |
| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: sound, vocalize, voice |
| (verb) utter speech sounds | Synonyms: phonate, vocalize |
| (verb) sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel | Synonyms: vocalize |
| vocalize | (verb) pronounce as a vowel | Synonyms: vocalise, vowelise, vowelize |
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| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, enunciate, vocalise |
| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: sound, vocalise, voice |
| (verb) utter speech sounds | Synonyms: phonate, vocalise |
| (verb) sing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel | Synonyms: vocalise |
| vulcanise | (verb) undergo vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanize |
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| (verb) subject to vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanize |
| vulcanize | (verb) undergo vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanise |
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| (verb) subject to vulcanization | Synonyms: vulcanise |