| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abscise | (verb) remove or separate by abscission | - |
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| (verb) shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue | - |
| acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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| (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
| acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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| anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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| anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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| annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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| anticipate | (verb) be a forerunner of or occur earlier than | - |
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| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: expect |
| (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: foreknow, foresee, previse |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
| (verb) be excited or anxious about | Synonyms: look for, look to |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: counter, foresee, forestall |
| antisepticize | (verb) disinfect with an antiseptic | - |
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| appreciate | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, revalue |
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| (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| (verb) be fully aware of; realize fully | Synonyms: take account |
| (verb) recognize with gratitude; be grateful for | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: prize, treasure, value |
| associate | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: consociate |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, assort, consort |
| beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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| benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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| brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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| (verb) form into breccia | - |
| calcify | (verb) turn into lime; become calcified | - |
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| (verb) convert into lime | - |
| (verb) become impregnated with calcium salts | - |
| (verb) become inflexible and unchanging | - |
| calcimine | (verb) cover with calcimine | - |
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| calcine | (verb) heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces | - |
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| capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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| (verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
| (verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
| 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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| 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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| cinch | (verb) get a grip on; get mastery of | - |
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| (verb) make sure of | - |
| (verb) tie a cinch around | Synonyms: girth |
| cinematise | (verb) make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film | Synonyms: cinematize |
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| cinematize | (verb) make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film | Synonyms: cinematise |
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| cipher | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| circle | (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: encircle |
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| (verb) move in a circular path above (someone or something) | - |
| (verb) travel around something | - |
| circuit | (verb) make a circuit | - |
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| circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
| circularize | (verb) make circular | - |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by using a questionnaire | - |
| circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
| (verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
| (verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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| (verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
| circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| cite | (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, mention, name, refer |
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| (verb) commend | Synonyms: mention |
| (verb) repeat a passage from | Synonyms: quote |
| (verb) refer to for illustration or proof | Synonyms: quote |
| (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: abduce, adduce |
| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: summon, summons |
| (verb) refer to | Synonyms: reference |
| citify | (verb) accustom to urban ways | - |
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| citrate | (verb) cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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| civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| civilize | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilise |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| classicise | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicize |
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| classicize | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicise |
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| coincide | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: concur |
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| (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, cooccur |
| (verb) be the same | - |
| commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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| commercialize | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, market |
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| (verb) exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality | - |
| conciliate | (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, reconcile |
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| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: make up, patch up, reconcile, settle |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| consociate | (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: associate |
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| criticise | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticize, knock, pick apart |
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| (verb) act as a critic | Synonyms: criticize |
| criticize | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticise, knock, pick apart |
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| (verb) act as a critic | Synonyms: criticise |
| crucify | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, pillory, savage |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: mortify, subdue |
| (verb) kill by nailing onto a cross | - |
| decalcify | (verb) remove calcium or lime from | - |
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| (verb) lose calcium or calcium compounds | - |
| decide | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: determine, make up one's mind |
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| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, resolve, settle |
| (verb) cause to decide | - |
| (verb) influence or determine | - |
| decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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| (verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
| decimalize | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalise |
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| (verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalise |
| decimate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies | - |
| decipher | (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: trace |
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| (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decode, decrypt |
| depreciate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) lower the value of something | - |
| (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend |
| deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
| disassociate | (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
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| discipline | (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: correct, sort out |
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| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, train |
| dissociate | (verb) to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms | - |
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| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: decouple |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce |
| domesticise | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| domesticize | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, reclaim, tame |
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| domicile | (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domiciliate, reside, shack |
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| domiciliate | (verb) provide someone with accomodation | Synonyms: house, put up |
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| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, reside, shack |
| dulcify | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| elucidate | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clarify, clear up |
| emaciate | (verb) grow weak and thin or waste away physically | - |
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| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: macerate, waste |
| emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
| encipher | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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| encircle | (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: gird |
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| (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: circle |
| enunciate | (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, vocalise, vocalize |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, pronounce, say, sound out |
| eroticize | (verb) give erotic character to or make more interesting | Synonyms: sex up |
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| excise | (verb) remove by cutting | - |
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| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: expunge, scratch, strike |
| (verb) levy an excise tax on | - |
| excite | (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) produce a magnetic field in | - |
| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, energize |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) arouse or elicit a feeling | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: stimulate, stir |
| excruciate | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: rack, torment, torture |
| exercise | (verb) do physical exercise | Synonyms: work out |
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| (verb) give a workout to | Synonyms: work, work out |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, practice, practise |
| (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exert |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, practice, practise |
| exorcise | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcize |
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| exorcize | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcise |
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| facilitate | (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, ease |
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| (verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) | - |
| (verb) be of use | Synonyms: help |
| fancify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, prettify |
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| fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
| felicitate | (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: congratulate |
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| financier | (verb) conduct financial operations | - |
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| glaciate | (verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers | - |
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| (verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier | - |
| hallucinate | (verb) perceive what is not there; have illusions | - |
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| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| incinerate | (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) become reduced to ashes | - |
| incise | (verb) make an incision into by carving or cutting | - |
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| incite | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: instigate, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) urge on; cause to act | Synonyms: egg on, prod |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, motivate, move, prompt, propel |
| italicise | (verb) print in italics | Synonyms: italicize |
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| italicize | (verb) print in italics | Synonyms: italicise |
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| laicise | (verb) reduce to lay status | Synonyms: laicize |
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