| ache | (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: languish, pine, yearn, yen |
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| (verb) be the source of pain | Synonyms: hurt, smart |
| (verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: hurt, suffer |
| achieve | (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, attain, reach |
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| achromatise | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatize |
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| achromatize | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatise |
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| affranchise | (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: enfranchise |
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| alchemise | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemize |
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| alchemize | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemise |
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| anchor | (verb) secure a vessel with an anchor | Synonyms: cast anchor, drop anchor |
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| (verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: ground |
| approach | (verb) make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion | - |
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| (verb) move towards | Synonyms: come near, come on, draw close, draw near, go up, near |
| (verb) come near in time | Synonyms: come near |
| (verb) begin to deal with | Synonyms: go about, set about |
| (verb) come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character | Synonyms: border on |
| arch | (verb) form an arch or curve | Synonyms: arc, curve |
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| archaise | (verb) give an archaic appearance of character to | Synonyms: archaize |
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| archaize | (verb) give an archaic appearance of character to | Synonyms: archaise |
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| archive | (verb) put into an archive | Synonyms: file away |
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| attach | (verb) become attached | - |
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| (verb) cause to be attached | - |
| (verb) be attached; be in contact with | - |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: confiscate, impound, seize, sequester |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: bind, bond, tie |
| avalanche | (verb) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow | Synonyms: roll down |
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| avouch | (verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avow |
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| bach | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bachelor |
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| bachelor | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
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| backstitch | (verb) do backstitches | - |
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| batch | (verb) batch together; assemble or process as a batch | - |
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| beach | (verb) land on a beach | - |
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| bechance | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: befall, happen |
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| (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: befall, betide |
| becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
| belch | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: bubble, burp, eruct |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: erupt, extravasate |
| bellyache | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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| bench | (verb) To lift a weight using a bench press | - |
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| (verb) To exercise using a bench press | - |
| (verb) exhibit on a bench | - |
| (verb) take out of a game; of players | - |
| beseech | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
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| besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
| bewitch | (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
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| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| birch | (verb) whip with a birch twig | - |
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| birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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| bitch | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: backbite |
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| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
| blanch | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blench, pale |
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| (verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: parboil |
| bleach | (verb) make whiter or lighter | - |
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| (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
| blench | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, pale |
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| blotch | (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: mottle, streak |
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| botch | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
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| branch | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
| breach | (verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: gap |
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| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| broach | (verb) bring up a topic for discussion | Synonyms: initiate |
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| brooch | (verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: clasp |
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| brunch | (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
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| bunch | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
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| (verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
| butcher | (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
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| cache | (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
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| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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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 |
| chafe | (verb) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | - |
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| (verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: excoriate |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: fray, fret, rub, scratch |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) feel extreme irritation or anger | - |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: fret, gall |
| chaff | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
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| chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
| chagrin | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, humble, humiliate, mortify |
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| chain | (verb) fasten or secure with chains | - |
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| (verb) connect or arrange into a chain by linking | - |
| chair | (verb) preside over | Synonyms: lead, moderate |
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| (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chairman |
| chairman | (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
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| chalk | (verb) write, draw, or trace with chalk | - |
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| challenge | (verb) issue a challenge to | - |
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| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
| (verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
| (verb) ask for identification | - |
| chamber | (verb) place in a chamber | - |
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| chamfer | (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chase, furrow |
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| (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: bevel |
| champ | (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: chomp |
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| (verb) chafe at the bit, like horses | - |
| champion | (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: defend |
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| chance | (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, encounter, find, happen |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) be the case by chance | - |
| chandelle | (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
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| change | (verb) undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature | - |
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| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, modify |
| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, vary |
| (verb) change clothes; put on different clothes | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: commute, convert, exchange |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
| (verb) remove or replace the coverings of | - |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: deepen |
| (verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: exchange, interchange |
| channel | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) direct the flow of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
| channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| channelize | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| chant | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, intonate, intone |
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| (verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: intone, tone |
| chap | (verb) crack due to dehydration | - |
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| chaperon | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperone |
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| chaperone | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperon |
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| char | (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, scorch, sear |
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| (verb) burn to charcoal | Synonyms: coal |
| character | (verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
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| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
| charcoal | (verb) draw, trace, or represent with charcoal | - |
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| charge | (verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge | - |
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| (verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on | - |
| (verb) saturate | - |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: blame |
| (verb) set or ask for a certain price | - |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: file, lodge |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, saddle |
| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: accuse |
| (verb) make an accusatory claim | - |
| (verb) instruct or command with authority | - |
| (verb) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence | - |
| (verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle | Synonyms: bear down |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: level, point |
| (verb) fill or load to capacity | - |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: load |
| (verb) place a heraldic bearing on | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt | - |
| (verb) enter a certain amount as a charge | - |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: bill |
| (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: consign |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: appoint |
| chariot | (verb) ride in a chariot | - |
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| (verb) transport in a chariot | - |
| charm | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: influence, tempt |
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| (verb) protect through supernatural powers or charms | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: becharm |
| chart | (verb) plan in detail | - |
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| (verb) make a chart of | - |
| (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: graph |
| charter | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: engage, hire, lease, rent, take |
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| (verb) grant a charter to | - |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: hire, lease, rent |
| chase | (verb) cut a groove into | - |
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| (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, furrow |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
| (verb) pursue someone sexually or romantically | Synonyms: chase after |
| chasse | (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |
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| chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
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| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
| chastise | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, correct, objurgate |
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| chat | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| chatter | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| (verb) make noise as if chattering away | - |
| (verb) cut unevenly with a chattering tool | - |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: click |
| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| chauffeur | (verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
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| chaw | (verb) chew without swallowing | - |
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| cheapen | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: degrade |
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| cheat | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
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| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: chisel, rip off |
| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: chisel |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| check | (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
| (verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
| (verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
| (verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) place into check | - |
| (verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
| (verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
| (verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
| (verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
| (verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
| (verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
| (verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
| checker | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
| checkmate | (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
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| checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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| cheek | (verb) speak impudently to | - |
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| cheep | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: chirp, chirrup, peep |
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