| acclaim | (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: hail, herald |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: applaud, clap, spat |
| acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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| acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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| acclimatize | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatise |
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| article | (verb) bind by a contract; especially for a training period | - |
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| autoclave | (verb) subject to the action of an autoclave | - |
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| becloud | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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| bicycle | (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bike, cycle, pedal, wheel |
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| chronicle | (verb) record in chronological order; make a historical record | - |
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| 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 | - |
| clabber | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clot, curdle |
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| clack | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: click, cluck |
| (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clatter |
| claim | (verb) assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing | - |
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| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: exact, take |
| (verb) ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example | - |
| (verb) lay claim to; as of an idea | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: arrogate, lay claim |
| clam | (verb) gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean | - |
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| clamber | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| clamor | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamour |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring | - |
| clamour | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
| clamp | (verb) impose or inflict forcefully | - |
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| (verb) fasten or fix with a clamp | - |
| clang | (verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clangor |
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| clangor | (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangour |
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| (verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clang |
| clangour | (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangor |
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| clank | (verb) make a clank | - |
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| clap | (verb) clap one's hands together | Synonyms: spat |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, applaud, spat |
| (verb) strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise | - |
| (verb) strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting | - |
| (verb) put quickly or forcibly | - |
| (verb) strike the air in flight | - |
| (verb) cause to strike the air in flight | - |
| clapboard | (verb) cover with clapboards | - |
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| clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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| (verb) claw with the nails | - |
| claret | (verb) drink claret | - |
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| clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
| clarion | (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion | - |
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| (verb) blow the clarion | - |
| clash | (verb) disagree violently | - |
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| (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: collide |
| (verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: collide, jar |
| clasp | (verb) hold firmly and tightly | - |
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| (verb) grasp firmly | - |
| (verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: buckle |
| (verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: brooch |
| class | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
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| classicise | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicize |
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| classicize | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicise |
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| classify | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out |
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| (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: relegate |
| (verb) declare unavailable, as for security reasons | - |
| clatter | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clack |
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| claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| claw | (verb) attack as if with claws | - |
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| (verb) scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails | - |
| (verb) clutch as if in panic | - |
| (verb) move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging | - |
| claxon | (verb) use the horn of a car | Synonyms: honk |
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| (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, honk, toot |
| clean | (verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: cleanse |
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| (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: scavenge |
| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: pick |
| (verb) remove shells or husks from | - |
| (verb) make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from | Synonyms: make clean |
| (verb) clean and tidy up the house | Synonyms: clean house, houseclean |
| (verb) remove while making clean | - |
| (verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely | Synonyms: strip |
| (verb) deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc. | - |
| (verb) be cleanable | - |
| cleanse | (verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins | - |
| clear | (verb) remove | - |
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| (verb) rid of obstructions | Synonyms: unclutter |
| (verb) make clear, bright, light, or translucent | - |
| (verb) free (the throat) by making a rasping sound | Synonyms: clear up |
| (verb) make a way or path by removing objects | - |
| (verb) remove the occupants of | - |
| (verb) remove (people) from a building | - |
| (verb) rid of instructions or data | - |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
| (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, pass |
| (verb) settle, as of a debt | Synonyms: solve |
| (verb) pass by, over, or under without making contact | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) pass an inspection or receive authorization | - |
| (verb) go away or disappear | - |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, earn, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) yield as a net profit | Synonyms: net |
| (verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: net, sack, sack up |
| (verb) be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts | - |
| (verb) sell to get rid of | - |
| (verb) clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc. | - |
| (verb) free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment | - |
| (verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: pass |
| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: brighten, clear up, light up |
| cleat | (verb) secure on a cleat | - |
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| (verb) provide with cleats | - |
| cleave | (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: rive, split |
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| (verb) make by cutting into | - |
| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cling, cohere, stick |
| clench | (verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clinch |
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| (verb) squeeze together tightly | - |
| clerk | (verb) work as a clerk, as in the legal business | - |
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| clew | (verb) roll into a ball | Synonyms: clue |
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| click | (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
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| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, cluck |
| (verb) produce a click | - |
| (verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: flick, snap |
| (verb) move or strike with a noise | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a clicking or ticking sound | Synonyms: tick |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: chatter |
| climax | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: culminate |
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| climb | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: mount, rise, wax |
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| (verb) increase in value or to a higher point | Synonyms: go up, rise |
| (verb) improve one's social status | - |
| (verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Synonyms: climb up, go up, mount |
| (verb) move with effort, by grasping | - |
| (verb) slope upward | - |
| clinch | (verb) settle conclusively | - |
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| (verb) flatten the ends (of nails and rivets) | - |
| (verb) secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts | - |
| (verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clench |
| (verb) embrace amorously | - |
| (verb) hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches | - |
| cling | (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cohere, stick |
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| (verb) hold on tightly or tenaciously | Synonyms: hang |
| (verb) to remain emotionally or intellectually attached | - |
| clink | (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, tink, tinkle |
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| (verb) make a high sound typical of glass | - |
| clinker | (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
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| (verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
| clip | (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: curtail, cut short |
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| (verb) attach with a clip | - |
| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: nip, nip off, snip, snip off |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: jog, trot |
| clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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| cloak | (verb) cover with or as if with a cloak | - |
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| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: clothe, drape, robe |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: dissemble, mask |
| clobber | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
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| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, batter |
| clock | (verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time | Synonyms: time |
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| clog | (verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog | Synonyms: constipate |
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| (verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired | Synonyms: overload |
| (verb) coalesce or unite in a mass | Synonyms: clot |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
| (verb) impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden | - |
| (verb) dance a clog dance | - |
| cloister | (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
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| (verb) surround with a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
| clomp | (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clump |
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| clone | (verb) make multiple identical copies of | - |
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| clop | (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clump, clunk, plunk |
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| close | (verb) finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead | - |
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| (verb) complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement | - |
| (verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: shut |
| (verb) become closed | Synonyms: shut |
| (verb) bar access to | - |
| (verb) fill or stop up | Synonyms: fill up |
| (verb) bring together all the elements or parts of | - |
| (verb) unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of | Synonyms: close up |
| (verb) change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact | - |
| (verb) come together, as if in an embrace | Synonyms: come together |
| (verb) draw near | - |
| (verb) cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop | - |
| (verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close down, close up, fold, shut down |
| (verb) finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.) | - |
| (verb) engage at close quarters | - |
| (verb) come to a close | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) be priced or listed when trading stops | - |
| closet | (verb) confine to a small space, as for intensive work | - |
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| closure | (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: cloture |
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| clot | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, curdle |
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| (verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: coagulate |
| (verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: coagulate |
| (verb) coalesce or unite in a mass | Synonyms: clog |
| clothe | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, drape, robe |
| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: adorn, invest |
| cloture | (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: closure |
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| cloud | (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: dapple, mottle |
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| (verb) make milky or dull | - |
| (verb) make less clear | - |
| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: corrupt, defile, sully, taint |
| (verb) make gloomy or depressed | - |
| (verb) billow up in the form of a cloud | - |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
| (verb) make overcast or cloudy | Synonyms: overcast |
| clout | (verb) strike hard, especially with the fist | - |
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| clown | (verb) act as or like a clown | Synonyms: antic, clown around |
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| cloy | (verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: pall |
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| (verb) supply or feed to surfeit | Synonyms: surfeit |
| club | (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: bludgeon |
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| (verb) gather into a club-like mass | - |
| (verb) gather and spend time together | - |
| (verb) unite with a common purpose | - |
| cluck | (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, click |
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| clue | (verb) roll into a ball | Synonyms: clew |
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| clump | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, cluster |
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| (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clomp |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: cluster, constellate, flock |
| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clunk, plunk |
| clunk | (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, plunk |
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| cluster | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
| clutch | (verb) affect | Synonyms: get hold of, seize |
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| (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: prehend, seize, take hold, take hold of |
| (verb) hold firmly, usually with one's hands | Synonyms: cling to, hold close, hold tight |
| clutter | (verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
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| conclude | (verb) decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion | Synonyms: reason, reason out |
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| (verb) bring to a close | - |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) reach agreement on | - |
| (verb) come to a close | Synonyms: close |
| counterclaim | (verb) set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim | - |
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| cycle | (verb) recur in repeating sequences | - |
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| (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: motorbike, motorcycle |
| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, pedal, wheel |
| (verb) pass through a cycle | - |
| (verb) cause to go through a recurring sequence | - |
| cyclostyle | (verb) print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil | - |
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| declaim | (verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: recite |
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| (verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: inveigh |
| declare | (verb) state emphatically and authoritatively | - |
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| (verb) state firmly | - |
| (verb) make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official | - |
| (verb) declare to be | Synonyms: adjudge, hold |
| (verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: announce |
| (verb) proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against | - |
| (verb) designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand | - |
| (verb) authorize payments of | - |
| declassify | (verb) lift the restriction on and make available again | - |
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| declaw | (verb) remove the claws from | - |
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| decline | (verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: go down, wane |
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| (verb) grow worse | Synonyms: worsen |
| (verb) show unwillingness towards | Synonyms: refuse |
| (verb) inflect for number, gender, case, etc. | - |
| (verb) go down | - |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: correct, slump |
| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: pass up, refuse, reject, turn down |
| declutch | (verb) disengage the clutch of a car | - |
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| disclaim | (verb) make a disclaimer about | - |
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| (verb) renounce a legal claim or title to | - |
| disclose | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: expose, uncover |
| disincline | (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: indispose |
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| eclipse | (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: occult |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, overshadow |
| encircle | (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: gird |
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| (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: circle |
| enclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, inclose, shut in |
| (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
| (verb) close in | Synonyms: confine, hold in |
| enclothe | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| enucleate | (verb) remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover | - |
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| (verb) remove the nucleus from (a cell) | - |
| exclaim | (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, outcry, shout |
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| (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: proclaim, promulgate |