| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| accurse | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| accuse | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: criminate, impeach, incriminate |
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| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: charge |
| accustom | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: habituate |
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| acuminate | (verb) make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point | - |
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| articulate | (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
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| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: enunciate, vocalise, vocalize |
| (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: formulate, give voice, phrase, word |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: joint |
| (verb) unite by forming a joint or joints | - |
| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| barbecue | (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbeque, cook out |
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| calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
| caucus | (verb) meet to select a candidate or promote a policy | - |
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| 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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| concur | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: coincide |
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| (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concord, hold |
| concuss | (verb) injure the brain; sustain a concussion | - |
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| (verb) shake violently | - |
| cooccur | (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, coincide |
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| crosscut | (verb) cut using a diagonal line | Synonyms: cut across |
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| cub | (verb) give birth to cubs | - |
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| cube | (verb) raise to the third power | - |
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| (verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: dice |
| cuckold | (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander |
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| cuckoo | (verb) repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call | - |
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| cuddle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
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| (verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
| cudgel | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: fustigate |
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| cue | (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: prompt, remind |
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| cuff | (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: whomp |
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| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: handcuff, manacle |
| (verb) to get involved in a relationship with another person | - |
| cull | (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
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| (verb) remove something that has been rejected | - |
| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
| culture | (verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
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| cumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: encumber, restrain |
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| cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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| cumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, gather, pile up |
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| cup | (verb) treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin | Synonyms: transfuse |
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| (verb) form into the shape of a cup | - |
| (verb) put into a cup | - |
| curb | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curtail, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) keep to the curb | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, hold, hold in, moderate |
| curdle | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, clot |
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| (verb) turn from a liquid to a solid mass | - |
| (verb) go bad or sour | - |
| cure | (verb) provide a cure for, make healthy again | Synonyms: bring around, heal |
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| (verb) prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve | - |
| (verb) be or become preserved | - |
| (verb) make (substances) hard and improve their usability | - |
| curl | (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curve, kink |
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| (verb) play the Scottish game of curling | - |
| (verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: wave |
| (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, loop |
| (verb) shape one's body into a curl | Synonyms: curl up, draw in |
| curry | (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: dress, groom |
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| (verb) treat by incorporating fat | - |
| (verb) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking | - |
| currycomb | (verb) clean (a horse) with a currycomb | - |
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| curse | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| (verb) heap obscenities upon | - |
| (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch |
| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| curtain | (verb) provide with drapery | - |
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| curtsey | (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsy |
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| curtsy | (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: bob |
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| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsey |
| curve | (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, kink |
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| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) form an arch or curve | Synonyms: arc, arch |
| (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: crook |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: twist, wind |
| curvet | (verb) perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse | - |
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| cushion | (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
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| cuss | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, imprecate, swear |
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| customise | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customize |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customize, tailor-make |
| customize | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customise |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customise, tailor-make |
| cut | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: geld |
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| (verb) have grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) cease, stop | Synonyms: cut off |
| (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: prune, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: dilute, reduce, thin, thin out |
| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: edit, edit out |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) have a reducing effect | - |
| (verb) shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of | - |
| (verb) dissolve by breaking down the fat of | - |
| (verb) make out and issue | Synonyms: issue, make out, write out |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: disregard, ignore, snub |
| (verb) separate with or as if with an instrument | - |
| (verb) divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult | - |
| (verb) hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch | Synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out |
| (verb) make an incision or separation | - |
| (verb) allow incision or separation | - |
| (verb) function as a cutting instrument | - |
| (verb) fell by sawing; hew | - |
| (verb) penetrate injuriously | - |
| (verb) reap or harvest | - |
| (verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: tailor |
| (verb) form by probing, penetrating, or digging | - |
| (verb) record a performance on (a medium) | - |
| (verb) make a recording of | - |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: burn |
| (verb) form or shape by cutting or incising | - |
| (verb) perform or carry out | - |
| (verb) stop filming | - |
| (verb) make an abrupt change of image or sound | - |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) pass through or across | - |
| (verb) pass directly and often in haste | - |
| (verb) move (one's fist) | - |
| (verb) give the appearance or impression of | - |
| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) discharge from a group | - |
| (verb) intentionally fail to attend | Synonyms: skip |
| cutinize | (verb) convert into cutin | - |
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| decussate | (verb) cross or intersect so as to form a cross | - |
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| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| demasculinize | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, emasculate |
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| disarticulate | (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disjoint |
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| discuss | (verb) speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion | Synonyms: hash out, talk over |
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| (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discourse, talk about |
| disencumber | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disentangle, extricate, untangle |
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| document | (verb) support or supply with references | - |
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| (verb) record in detail | - |
| ejaculate | (verb) eject semen | - |
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| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out |
| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| emasculate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize |
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| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: castrate |
| encumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, restrain |
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| evacuate | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, void |
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| (verb) remove content from | - |
| (verb) create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel) | - |
| (verb) move people from their homes or country | - |
| (verb) move out of an unsafe location into safety | - |
| exculpate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate |
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| excuse | (verb) accept an excuse for | Synonyms: pardon |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: condone |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: explain |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: exempt, let off, relieve |
| (verb) ask for permission to be released from an engagement | Synonyms: beg off |
| execute | (verb) sign in the presence of witnesses | - |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, fulfil, fulfill |
| (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, perform |
| (verb) kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment | Synonyms: put to death |
| (verb) murder in a planned fashion | - |
| (verb) carry out the legalities of | - |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: run |
| fecundate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize, inseminate |
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| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
| flocculate | (verb) form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass | - |
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| (verb) cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate | - |
| focus | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize |
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| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, sharpen |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, pore, rivet |
| (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focalize |
| (verb) cause to converge on or toward a central point | - |
| gesticulate | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesture, motion |
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| handcuff | (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, manacle |
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| hiccup | (verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccough |
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| incubate | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, hatch |
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| (verb) grow under conditions that promote development | - |
| inculcate | (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: infuse, instill |
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| inculpate | (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, incriminate |
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| incur | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: find, get, obtain, receive |
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| (verb) make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to | - |
| incurvate | (verb) cause to curve inward | - |
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| (verb) bend inwards | - |
| inoculate | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, immunize, vaccinate |
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| (verb) insert a bud for propagation | - |
| (verb) impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune | - |
| (verb) introduce a microorganism into | - |
| (verb) introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of | - |
| inosculate | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: anastomose |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: anastomose |
| lucubrate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
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| maculate | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, foul |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, stain, sully, tarnish |
| manicure | (verb) care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| (verb) trim carefully and neatly | - |
| masculinise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinize, virilise, virilize |
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| masculinize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, virilise, virilize |
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| (verb) give a masculine appearance or character to | - |
| matriculate | (verb) enroll as a student | - |
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| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |