| heckle | (verb) challenge aggressively | - |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
| highjack | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, hijack, pirate |
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| hijack | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, pirate |
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| (verb) seize control of | - |
| hock | (verb) disable by cutting the hock | - |
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| (verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: pawn, soak |
| huckster | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
| interlock | (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: mesh |
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| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: lock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, lock |
| jack | (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jacklight |
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| (verb) lift with a special device | Synonyms: jack up |
| jacket | (verb) put a jacket on | - |
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| (verb) provide with a thermally non-conducting cover | - |
| jackknife | (verb) dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife | - |
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| jacklight | (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jack |
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| jackrabbit | (verb) go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | - |
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| jampack | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, ram, wad |
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| jockey | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft |
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| (verb) ride a racehorse as a professional jockey | - |
| (verb) compete (for an advantage or a position) | - |
| kick | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
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| (verb) make a goal | - |
| (verb) stop consuming | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) strike with the foot | - |
| (verb) drive or propel with the foot | - |
| (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick back, recoil |
| (verb) thrash about or strike out with the feet | - |
| (verb) kick a leg up | - |
| knock | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticise, criticize, pick apart |
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| (verb) knock against with force or violence | Synonyms: bump |
| (verb) rap with the knuckles | - |
| (verb) deliver a sharp blow or push | Synonyms: strike hard |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: pink, rap, tap |
| (verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: ping, pink |
| knuckle | (verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
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| (verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
| lack | (verb) be without | Synonyms: miss |
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| (verb) To be insufficiently prepared | - |
| lick | (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, puzzle out, solve, work, work out |
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| (verb) take up with the tongue | Synonyms: lap, lap up |
| (verb) pass the tongue over | Synonyms: lap |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash |
| lifehack | (verb) make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
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| lipstick | (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
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| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| lock | (verb) become rigid or immoveable | - |
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| (verb) fasten with a lock | - |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, mesh, operate |
| (verb) place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape | Synonyms: lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up |
| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: interlock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, interlock |
| (verb) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels | - |
| (verb) hold fast (in a certain state) | - |
| (verb) pass by means through a lock in a waterway | - |
| mock | (verb) treat with contempt | Synonyms: bemock |
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| (verb) imitate with mockery and derision | - |
| muck | (verb) remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine | - |
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| (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: mire, muck up, mud |
| (verb) spread manure, as for fertilization | Synonyms: manure |
| muckrake | (verb) explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures | - |
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| neck | (verb) kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion | Synonyms: make out |
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| nick | (verb) mate successfully; of livestock | - |
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| (verb) divide or reset the tail muscles of | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: chip |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: snick |
| nickel | (verb) plate with nickel | - |
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| nicker | (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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| nickname | (verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: dub |
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| nitpick | (verb) be overly critical; criticize minor details | - |
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| nock | (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: mark, score |
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| overclock | (verb) To run a processor (CPU), or any electronic logic device, at a speed higher than is recommended by the manufacturer. | - |
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| overstock | (verb) stock excessively | - |
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| pack | (verb) treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood | - |
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| (verb) arrange in a container | - |
| (verb) load with a pack | Synonyms: load down |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, compact, wad |
| (verb) seal with packing | - |
| (verb) press down tightly | Synonyms: tamp, tamp down |
| (verb) carry, as on one's back | - |
| (verb) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily | Synonyms: compact |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pile, throng |
| (verb) hike with a backpack | Synonyms: backpack |
| (verb) fill to capacity | - |
| (verb) set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome | - |
| (verb) have with oneself; have on one's person | Synonyms: carry, take |
| package | (verb) put into a box | Synonyms: box |
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| padlock | (verb) fasten with a padlock | - |
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| peck | (verb) bother persistently with trivial complaints | Synonyms: hen-peck, nag |
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| (verb) eat by pecking at, like a bird | Synonyms: pick up |
| (verb) eat like a bird | Synonyms: peck at, pick at |
| (verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: smack |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, pick |
| pick | (verb) remove in small bits | - |
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| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) select carefully from a group | - |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: blame, find fault |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, piece |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, peck |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pluck |
| (verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pluck, plunk |
| (verb) provoke | - |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: foot |
| (verb) pilfer or rob | - |
| picket | (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
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| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| pickle | (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
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| piggyback | (verb) bring into alignment with | - |
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| (verb) support on the back and shoulders | - |
| (verb) haul by railroad car | - |
| (verb) haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars | - |
| (verb) ride on someone's shoulders or back | - |
| pluck | (verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pull off, tweak |
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| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pick |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, plunk |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pull, tear |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, roll |
| pock | (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, scar |
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| pocket | (verb) put in one's pocket | - |
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| (verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: bag |
| pockmark | (verb) mark with or as if with pockmarks | - |
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| politick | (verb) engage in political activities | - |
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| prick | (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prickle |
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| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) to cause a sharp emotional pain | - |
| (verb) to stick up | Synonyms: cock up, prick up |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: sting, twinge |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prickle |
| prickle | (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prick |
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| (verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: tingle |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prick |
| pucker | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple |
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| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, tuck |
| (verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: ruck, ruck up |
| pussyfuck | (verb) to have vaginal intercourse | - |
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| quack | (verb) act as a medical quack or a charlatan | - |
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| (verb) utter quacking noises | - |
| quarterback | (verb) play the quarterback | - |
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| quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) show signs of life | - |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
| quickstep | (verb) perform a quickstep | - |
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| rack | (verb) torture on the rack | - |
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| (verb) seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block | - |
| (verb) place in a rack | Synonyms: rack up |
| (verb) work on a rack | - |
| (verb) stretch to the limits | - |
| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, torment, torture |
| (verb) go at a rack | Synonyms: single-foot |
| (verb) draw off from the lees | - |
| (verb) run before a gale | Synonyms: scud |
| (verb) fly in high wind | - |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, squeeze, wring |
| (verb) put on a rack and pinion | - |
| racket | (verb) hit (a ball) with a racket | - |
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| (verb) make loud and annoying noises | - |
| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
| racketeer | (verb) carry on illegal business activities involving crime | - |
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| ransack | (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: comb |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip |
| reckon | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, regard, see, view |
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| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, work out |
| (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, suppose, think |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, forecast |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, look, rely, swear |
| (verb) take account of | Synonyms: count |
| restock | (verb) stock again | - |
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| retick | (verb) sew | Synonyms: tick |
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| rick | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
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| (verb) pile in ricks | - |
| rock | (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: shake, sway |
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| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: sway |
| rocket | (verb) propel with a rocket | - |
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| (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: skyrocket |
| rollick | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| rubberneck | (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
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| ruck | (verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: pucker, ruck up |
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| ruckle | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make a hoarse, rattling sound | - |
| sack | (verb) put in a sack | - |
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| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: plunder |
| (verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: clear, net, sack up |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, send away, terminate |
| shack | (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: trail |
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| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, reside |
| shackle | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
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| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
| shellack | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellac |
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| shipwreck | (verb) destroy a ship | - |
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| (verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
| (verb) ruin utterly | - |
| (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
| shock | (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: traumatise, traumatize |
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| (verb) subject to electrical shocks | - |
| (verb) collect or gather into shocks | - |
| (verb) collide violently | - |
| (verb) strike with horror or terror | - |
| (verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off | Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, floor, take aback |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize |
| shuck | (verb) remove the shucks from | - |
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| (verb) remove from the shell | - |
| shuttlecock | (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
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| sick | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| sicken | (verb) get sick | Synonyms: come down |
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| (verb) make sick or ill | - |
| (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, revolt |
| (verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: nauseate, turn one's stomach |
| sidetrack | (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, straggle |
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| skyjack | (verb) subject an aircraft to air piracy | - |
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| skyrocket | (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: rocket |
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| slack | (verb) release tension on | - |
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| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: abate, slake |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slacken, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water | Synonyms: slake |
| (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: abate, die away, let up, slack off |
| (verb) be inattentive to, or neglect | - |
| (verb) avoid responsibilities and work, be idle | - |
| slacken | (verb) become looser or slack | - |
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| (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: remit |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slack, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack, slack up |
| slick | (verb) give a smooth and glossy appearance | Synonyms: sleek down, slick down |
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| (verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: sleek |
| smack | (verb) press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating | - |
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| (verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: peck |
| (verb) deliver a hard blow to | Synonyms: thwack |
| (verb) have a distinctive or characteristic taste | Synonyms: taste |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smell |
| smock | (verb) embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally | - |
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| snack | (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: nosh |
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| snick | (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: nick |
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| (verb) hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat | - |
| snicker | (verb) laugh quietly | Synonyms: snigger |
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| sock | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, whap, whop |
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| spatchcock | (verb) interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story | - |
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| (verb) prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock | - |
| speck | (verb) produce specks in or on | - |
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| speckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: bespeckle |
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| (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: stipple |
| stack | (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, pile |
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| (verb) load or cover with stacks | - |
| (verb) arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances | - |
| stick | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous | Synonyms: sting |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, bond, hold fast, stick to |
| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, cohere |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, wedge |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed | - |
| (verb) pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument | - |
| (verb) fasten with an adhesive material like glue | - |
| (verb) fasten with or as with pins or nails | - |
| (verb) fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something | - |
| (verb) cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface | - |
| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, remain, stay, stay put, stick around |
| (verb) be loyal to | Synonyms: adhere, stand by, stick by |
| (verb) endure | - |
| (verb) be a devoted follower or supporter | Synonyms: adhere |
| (verb) be or become fixed | - |
| stickle | (verb) dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) | - |
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| stock | (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: sprout |
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| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stockpile |
| (verb) amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use | Synonyms: buy in, stock up |
| (verb) provide or furnish with a stock of something | - |
| (verb) supply with livestock | - |
| (verb) supply with fish | - |
| (verb) equip with a stock | - |
| stockade | (verb) surround with a stockade in order to fortify | - |
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| stockpile | (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stock |
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| strickle | (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strike |
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| (verb) level off with a strickle in a measuring container | - |