| hector | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, push around, strong-arm |
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| hypophysectomise | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomize |
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| hypophysectomize | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomise |
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| impact | (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, touch, touch on |
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| (verb) press or wedge together; pack together | - |
| inactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: deactivate |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
| indict | (verb) accuse formally of a crime | - |
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| indoctrinate | (verb) teach doctrines to; teach uncritically | - |
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| induct | (verb) introduce or initiate | - |
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| (verb) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes | Synonyms: induce |
| (verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: invest, seat |
| (verb) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite | Synonyms: initiate |
| (verb) admit as a member | - |
| infect | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism | Synonyms: taint |
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| (verb) communicate a disease to | - |
| (verb) affect in a contagious way | - |
| (verb) corrupt with ideas or an ideology | - |
| inflect | (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: modulate, tone |
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| (verb) change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language | - |
| inflict | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, impose, visit |
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| infract | (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, offend, transgress, violate |
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| inject | (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: shoot |
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| (verb) to introduce (a new aspect or element) | - |
| (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, interject, interpose, put in, throw in |
| (verb) feed intravenously | - |
| (verb) take by injection | - |
| (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: shoot |
| inspect | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, scrutinise, scrutinize |
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| (verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: visit |
| (verb) look over carefully | - |
| instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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| (verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| interact | (verb) act together or towards others or with others | - |
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| interconnect | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interlink |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interlink |
| interdict | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | - |
| interject | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interpose, put in, throw in |
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| intersect | (verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: cross |
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| introject | (verb) incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously | - |
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| introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| inunct | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, embrocate, oil |
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| jactitate | (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
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| lactate | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| lecture | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: talk |
| maledict | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
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| malfunction | (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: misfunction |
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| manufacture | (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
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| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
| (verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
| (verb) produce naturally | - |
| micturate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| misconduct | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: mishandle, mismanage |
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| (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misdemean |
| misdirect | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misaddress |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misguide, mislead |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| misfunction | (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: malfunction |
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| mulct | (verb) impose a fine on | Synonyms: fine |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| neglect | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
| (verb) fail to attend to | - |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
| nictate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictitate, wink |
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| nictitate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, wink |
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| object | (verb) express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent | - |
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| (verb) be averse to or express disapproval of | - |
| objectify | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, depersonalize |
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| (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize |
| obstruct | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, stymie, stymy |
| overact | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overplay |
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| overprotect | (verb) protect excessively | - |
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| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, mother |
| overreact | (verb) show an exaggerated response to something | - |
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| perfect | (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: hone |
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| picture | (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
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| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| playact | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, roleplay |
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| practice | (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practise |
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| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practise, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practise |
| (verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: apply, use |
| (verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: commit |
| practise | (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice |
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| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practice, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practice |
| predict | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| proctor | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: invigilate |
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| project | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: propose |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, externalize |
| (verb) communicate vividly | - |
| (verb) throw, send, or cast forward | Synonyms: send off |
| (verb) transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, plan |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw |
| (verb) draw a projection of | - |
| (verb) cause to be heard | - |
| (verb) project on a screen | - |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out |
| prospect | (verb) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals | - |
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| (verb) search for something desirable | - |
| protect | (verb) shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage | - |
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| (verb) use tariffs to favor domestic industry | - |
| protract | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, prolong |
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| punctuate | (verb) insert punctuation marks into | Synonyms: mark |
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| (verb) interrupt periodically | - |
| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, stress |
| puncture | (verb) cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing | - |
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| (verb) be pierced or punctured | - |
| (verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: deflate |
| (verb) pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into | - |
| (verb) make by piercing | - |
| react | (verb) undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions | - |
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| (verb) show a response or a reaction to something | Synonyms: respond |
| (verb) act against or in opposition to | Synonyms: oppose |
| reactivate | (verb) activate (an old file) anew | - |
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| recollect | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think |
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| reconstruct | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: redo, remodel |
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| (verb) cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically | - |
| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, retrace |
| (verb) build again | Synonyms: rebuild |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: restore |
| reconvict | (verb) convict anew | - |
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| rectify | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, remediate, remedy, repair |
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| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, right |
| (verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | Synonyms: refine |
| (verb) convert into direct current | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, reform, regenerate |
| (verb) determine the length of | - |
| redact | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: edit |
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| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, put |
| redirect | (verb) channel into a new direction | Synonyms: airt |
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| reelect | (verb) elect again | Synonyms: return |
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| reenact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, enact |
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| (verb) enact or perform again | - |
| (verb) enact again | - |
| reflect | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) give evidence of the quality of | - |
| (verb) give evidence of a certain behavior | - |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reverberate |
| (verb) manifest or bring back | - |
| (verb) show an image of | - |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: shine |
| reflectorise | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorize |
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| reflectorize | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorise |
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| refract | (verb) determine the refracting power of (a lens) | - |
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| (verb) subject to refraction | - |
| refracture | (verb) break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way | - |
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| reject | (verb) not accept something given or offered | - |
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| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: eliminate, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: disapprove |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, scorn, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: decline, pass up, refuse, turn down |
| (verb) refuse entrance or membership | Synonyms: refuse, turn away, turn down |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, resist |
| resect | (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: eviscerate |
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| respect | (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, value |
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| (verb) show respect towards | Synonyms: abide by, honor, honour, observe |
| restrict | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back |
| (verb) place under restrictions; limit access to by law | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed | - |
| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| resurrect | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: raise, upraise |
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| (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: rise, uprise |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: revive |
| retract | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, resile |
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| (verb) pull inward or towards a center | Synonyms: draw in |
| (verb) use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ) | Synonyms: draw back, pull back |
| (verb) pull away from a source of disgust or fear | Synonyms: shrink back |
| retrospect | (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, review |
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| sanctify | (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, purify |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanction |
| sanction | (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: approve, O.K., okay |
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| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanctify |
| (verb) give authority or permission to | - |
| section | (verb) divide into segments | Synonyms: segment |
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| sectionalise | (verb) divide into sections, especially into geographic sections | Synonyms: sectionalize |
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| sectionalize | (verb) divide into sections, especially into geographic sections | Synonyms: sectionalise |
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| select | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: choose, pick out, take |
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| spectate | (verb) be a spectator in a sports event | - |
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| structure | (verb) give a structure to | - |
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| subcontract | (verb) work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract | - |
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| (verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others | Synonyms: farm out, job |
| subject | (verb) make accountable for | - |
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| (verb) cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to | - |
| (verb) make subservient; force to submit or subdue | Synonyms: subjugate |
| subtract | (verb) take off or away | - |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: deduct, take off |
| suction | (verb) empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction | - |
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| (verb) remove or draw away by the force of suction | - |
| superinfect | (verb) infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms | - |
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| suspect | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
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| (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable | Synonyms: surmise |
| (verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty | - |
| tinct | (verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinge, tint, touch |
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| tincture | (verb) stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color | - |
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| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, instill |
| transact | (verb) conduct business | - |
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| transect | (verb) cut across or divide transversely | - |
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| trisect | (verb) cut in three | - |
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| underact | (verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underplay |
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| unsanctify | (verb) remove the sanctification from or make unsanctified | - |
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