abdicate | (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: renounce |
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adjudicate | (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: decide, resolve, settle |
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(verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: judge, try |
advocate | (verb) push for something | Synonyms: recommend, urge |
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(verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: preach |
allocate | (verb) distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose | Synonyms: apportion |
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altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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bifurcate | (verb) divide into two branches | - |
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(verb) split or divide into two | - |
caricature | (verb) represent in or produce a caricature of | Synonyms: ape |
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cat | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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(verb) beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails | - |
catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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catabolize | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolise |
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catalog | (verb) make an itemized list or catalog of; classify | Synonyms: catalogue |
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(verb) make a catalogue, compile a catalogue | Synonyms: catalogue |
catalogue | (verb) make an itemized list or catalog of; classify | Synonyms: catalog |
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(verb) make a catalogue, compile a catalogue | Synonyms: catalog |
catalyse | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyze |
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catalyze | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyse |
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catapult | (verb) shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult | - |
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(verb) hurl as if with a sling | Synonyms: sling |
catcall | (verb) utter catcalls at | - |
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catch | (verb) come down with | - |
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(verb) be struck or affected by | - |
(verb) delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned | - |
(verb) detect a blunder or misstep | Synonyms: trip up |
(verb) discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state | - |
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of | Synonyms: get |
(verb) become aware of | - |
(verb) be the catcher | - |
(verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch up with, overtake |
(verb) take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of | Synonyms: grab |
(verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: capture, get |
(verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: capture |
(verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: hitch |
(verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: arrest, get |
(verb) cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled | - |
(verb) spread or be communicated | - |
(verb) take in and retain | - |
(verb) reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot | Synonyms: get |
(verb) apprehend and reproduce accurately | Synonyms: get |
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
(verb) reach in time | - |
(verb) hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers | Synonyms: overhear, take in |
(verb) perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily | Synonyms: pick up |
(verb) see or watch | Synonyms: see, take in, view, watch |
(verb) suffer from the receipt of | Synonyms: get |
(verb) perceive by hearing | Synonyms: get |
(verb) get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly | - |
(verb) check oneself during an action | - |
(verb) start burning | - |
catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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(verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
catechize | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechise |
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(verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechise |
categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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categorize | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorise |
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catenate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenulate |
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catenulate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
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cater | (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: ply, provide, supply |
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(verb) supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets | - |
caterwaul | (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
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catfish | (verb) To deceive someone by professing romantic feelings but actually using a false identity | - |
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cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
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catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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catheterize | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterise |
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catholicise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicize, latinise, latinize |
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catholicize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, latinise, latinize |
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catnap | (verb) take a siesta | Synonyms: catch a wink, nap |
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certificate | (verb) authorize by certificate | - |
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(verb) present someone with a certificate | - |
cicatrise | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrize |
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cicatrize | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrise |
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coeducate | (verb) educate persons of both sexes together | Synonyms: co-educate |
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collocate | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, lump |
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(verb) have a strong tendency to occur side by side | - |
communicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: intercommunicate |
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(verb) transmit information | Synonyms: pass, pass along, pass on, put across |
(verb) be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas | - |
(verb) receive Communion, in the Catholic church | Synonyms: commune |
(verb) administer Communion; in church | - |
(verb) join or connect | - |
(verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: convey, transmit |
complicate | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: perplex |
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(verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: elaborate, rarify, refine |
concatenate | (verb) add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series | - |
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(verb) combine two strings to form a single one | - |
confiscate | (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, impound, seize, sequester |
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contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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coruscate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
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(verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
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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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 | - |
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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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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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 |
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 |
formicate | (verb) crawl about like ants | - |
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fornicate | (verb) have sex without being married | - |
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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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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 |
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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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 |
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 | - |
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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obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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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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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 | - |
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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radiolocate | (verb) locate by means of radar | - |
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reallocate | (verb) allocate, distribute, or apportion anew | Synonyms: reapportion |
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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 |
relocate | (verb) become established in a new location | - |
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(verb) move or establish in a new location | - |