| eschew | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: shun |
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| etch | (verb) selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons | - |
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| (verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: engrave |
| (verb) make an etching of | - |
| (verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: engrave |
| (verb) cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible | - |
| exchange | (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, convert |
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| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: switch, switch over |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, convert |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, interchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: interchange, replace, substitute |
| (verb) hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent | - |
| fetch | (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, convey, get |
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| (verb) remove | - |
| (verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring, bring in |
| filch | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| flinch | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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| franchise | (verb) grant a franchise to | - |
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| frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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| (verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
| glitch | (verb) To suffer a minor malfunction | - |
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| grouch | (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grumble, scold |
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| hatch | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate |
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| (verb) emerge from the eggs | - |
| (verb) draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper | - |
| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up |
| (verb) inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating | - |
| hatchel | (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, heckle |
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| hemstitch | (verb) sew with hemstitches | - |
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| hibachi | (verb) cook over a hibachi grill | - |
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| hitch | (verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: catch |
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| (verb) connect to a vehicle: | - |
| (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitchhike, thumb |
| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hobble, limp |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, jerk |
| hitchhike | (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitch, thumb |
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| hunch | (verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over |
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| impeach | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate |
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| (verb) charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office | - |
| (verb) challenge the honesty or veracity of | - |
| inch | (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: edge |
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| interchange | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, switch, tack |
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| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, transpose |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, exchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, replace, substitute |
| intrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: entrench |
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| itch | (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: spoil |
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| (verb) have or perceive an itch | - |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: rub, scratch |
| (verb) cause to perceive an itch | - |
| kvetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, plain, quetch, sound off |
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| latch | (verb) fasten with a latch | - |
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| launch | (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: plunge |
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| (verb) propel with force | - |
| (verb) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage | - |
| (verb) get going; give impetus to | Synonyms: set in motion |
| (verb) smoothen the surface of | - |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, found, set up |
| leach | (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: percolate |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate | - |
| leech | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
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| lunch | (verb) take the midday meal | - |
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| (verb) provide a midday meal for | - |
| lurch | (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
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| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
| (verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
| lynch | (verb) kill without legal sanction | - |
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| machicolate | (verb) supply with projecting galleries | - |
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| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| machine | (verb) make by machinery | - |
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| (verb) turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery | - |
| march | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge |
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| (verb) walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride | - |
| (verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: process |
| (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: exhibit, parade |
| (verb) force to march | - |
| (verb) cause to march or go at a marching pace | - |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: demonstrate |
| match | (verb) be equal or harmonize | - |
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| (verb) make correspond or harmonize | Synonyms: fit |
| (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, equate |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: oppose, pit, play off |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair, twin |
| (verb) give or join in marriage | - |
| (verb) provide funds complementary to | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, tally |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, rival, touch |
| mechanise | (verb) make mechanical | Synonyms: mechanize |
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| (verb) make monotonous; make automatic or routine | Synonyms: mechanize |
| (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanize, motorise, motorize |
| mechanize | (verb) make mechanical | Synonyms: mechanise |
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| (verb) make monotonous; make automatic or routine | Synonyms: mechanise |
| (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, motorise, motorize |
| merchandise | (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: trade |
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| mismatch | (verb) match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together | - |
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| mooch | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, sponge |
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| mulch | (verb) cover with mulch | - |
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| munch | (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: crunch |
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| notch | (verb) notch a surface to record something | - |
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| (verb) cut or make a notch into | - |
| orchestrate | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, organise, organize |
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| (verb) write an orchestra score for | - |
| outmarch | (verb) march longer distances and for a longer time than | - |
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| outmatch | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| overachieve | (verb) perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected | - |
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| overarch | (verb) form an arch over | Synonyms: arch over |
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| (verb) be central or dominant | - |
| overcharge | (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overload, surcharge |
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| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| overreach | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit |
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| (verb) fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | - |
| overstretch | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: pull |
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| parachute | (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: chute, jump |
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| parch | (verb) cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat | Synonyms: sear |
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| patch | (verb) mend by putting a patch on | Synonyms: patch up |
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| (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) provide with a patch; also used metaphorically | - |
| peach | (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
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| perch | (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
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| (verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
| pinch | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
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| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
| (verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| pitch | (verb) set to a certain pitch | - |
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| (verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: gear |
| (verb) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit | - |
| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, sky, toss |
| (verb) erect and fasten | Synonyms: set up |
| (verb) hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) fall or plunge forward | - |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, slope |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, shift |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend |
| pitchfork | (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: fork |
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| pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
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| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
| poach | (verb) cook in a simmering liquid | - |
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| (verb) hunt illegally | - |
| polychrome | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychromise, polychromize |
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| polychromise | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromize |
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| polychromize | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromise |
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| pooch | (verb) round one's lips as if intending to kiss | Synonyms: pooch out |
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| pouch | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, protrude |
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| (verb) put into a small bag | - |
| (verb) send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels | - |
| preach | (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: advocate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: prophesy |
| preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
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| psychoanalyse | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyze |
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| psychoanalyze | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyse |
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| punch | (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: plug |
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| (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch | - |
| purchase | (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: buy |
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| quench | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, squelch |
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| (verb) cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid | - |
| (verb) reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance | - |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, slake |
| (verb) suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device | - |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, extinguish, snuff out |
| quetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, sound off |
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| ranch | (verb) manage or run a ranch | - |
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| ratchet | (verb) move by degrees in one direction only | Synonyms: rachet up, ratchet down |
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| reach | (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: contact, get hold of, get through |
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| (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: strain, strive |
| (verb) move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: reach out |
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, hit |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make |
| (verb) reach a goal | Synonyms: get to, make, progress to |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass, pass on, turn over |
| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, attain |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, touch |
| recharge | (verb) charge anew | - |
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| (verb) load anew | Synonyms: reload |
| reecho | (verb) repeat back like an echo | - |
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| (verb) repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back | - |
| (verb) echo repeatedly, echo again and again | - |
| reproach | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: upbraid |
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| repurchase | (verb) buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away | Synonyms: buy back |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| research | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, search |
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| (verb) attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner | - |
| retch | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, heave |
| retouch | (verb) alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance | Synonyms: touch up |
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| (verb) give retouches to (hair) | - |
| retrench | (verb) make a reduction, as in one's workforce | - |
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| (verb) tighten one's belt; use resources carefully | - |
| rewatch | (verb) to watch a show or television one more time | - |
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| ricochet | (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, spring, take a hop |
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| roach | (verb) cut the mane off (a horse) | - |
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| (verb) comb (hair) into a roach | - |
| saccharify | (verb) convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate | - |
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| (verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: sugar |
| sandwich | (verb) insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects | - |
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| (verb) make into a sandwich | - |
| schedule | (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
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| (verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
| schematise | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematize |
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| schematize | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematise |
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| (verb) formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula | - |
| scheme | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, intrigue |
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| (verb) devise a system or form a scheme for | - |
| schlep | (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, shlep |
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| schmoose | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
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| schmooze | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, shmoose, shmooze |
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| schnorr | (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, scrounge, shnorr |
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| school | (verb) swim in or form a large group of fish | - |
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| (verb) educate in or as if in a school | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train |