| obscure | (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: bedim, overcloud |
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| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, veil |
| (verb) reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa | - |
| (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obnubilate |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate |
| occult | (verb) hide from view | - |
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| (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: eclipse |
| (verb) become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished | - |
| occupy | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, engross |
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| (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: invade |
| (verb) require (time or space) | Synonyms: take, use up |
| (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: busy |
| (verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: fill, take |
| (verb) live (in a certain place) | Synonyms: lodge in, reside |
| (verb) occupy the whole of | Synonyms: fill |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, interest, worry |
| occur | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, pass, pass off, take place |
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| (verb) come to one's mind; suggest itself | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) to be found to exist | - |
| osculate | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, kiss, snog |
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| (verb) have at least three points in common with | - |
| (verb) be intermediate between two taxonomic groups | - |
| overcultivate | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcrop |
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| particularise | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularize, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| particularize | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| peculate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate |
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| pedicure | (verb) care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| percuss | (verb) strike or tap firmly | - |
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| persecute | (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: oppress |
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| preoccupy | (verb) engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively | - |
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| (verb) occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance | - |
| procure | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, pimp |
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| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: secure |
| prosecute | (verb) bring a criminal action against (in a trial) | - |
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| (verb) conduct a prosecution in a court of law | - |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, pursue |
| recalculate | (verb) calculate anew | - |
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| recumb | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, repose |
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| recuperate | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recover |
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| (verb) restore to good health or strength | - |
| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recover |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recover |
| recur | (verb) happen or occur again | Synonyms: repeat |
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| (verb) return in thought or speech to something | Synonyms: go back |
| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, resort |
| recurve | (verb) curve or bend (something) back or down | - |
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| recuse | (verb) challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law | - |
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| (verb) disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case | - |
| refocus | (verb) put again into focus or focus more sharply | - |
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| (verb) focus anew | - |
| (verb) focus once again | - |
| repercuss | (verb) cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect | - |
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| rescue | (verb) take forcibly from legal custody | - |
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| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: deliver |
| reticulate | (verb) divide so as to form a network | - |
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| (verb) distribute by a network, as of water or electricity | - |
| (verb) form a net or a network | - |
| ridicule | (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
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| scud | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, shoot |
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| (verb) run before a gale | Synonyms: rack |
| scuff | (verb) poke at with the foot or toe | - |
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| (verb) mar by scuffing | - |
| (verb) get or become scuffed | - |
| (verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: drag |
| scuffle | (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: tussle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle |
| scull | (verb) propel with sculls | - |
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| sculpt | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpture |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpture |
| sculpture | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpt |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpt |
| scum | (verb) remove the scum from | - |
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| scupper | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, queer |
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| (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, waylay |
| scurry | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scuttle, skitter |
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| scuttle | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
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| secularise | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularize |
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| secularize | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularise |
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| (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: desacralize |
| secure | (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, guarantee, insure |
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| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fasten, fix |
| (verb) fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug | Synonyms: plug, stop up |
| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten, batten down |
| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: procure |
| (verb) assure payment of | - |
| speculate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think over |
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| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| (verb) talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion | - |
| (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: job |
| succumb | (verb) consent reluctantly | Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, yield |
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| (verb) be fatally overwhelmed | Synonyms: yield |
| succuss | (verb) shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body) | Synonyms: shake up |
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| uncurl | (verb) move out of a curled position | - |
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| undercut | (verb) strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot | - |
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| (verb) cut away the underpart of | - |
| (verb) cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief | - |
| (verb) cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall | - |
| (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undersell |
| vacuum | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: hoover, vacuum-clean |
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| vascularise | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularize |
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| (verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularize |
| vascularize | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularise |
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| (verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularise |
| vermiculate | (verb) decorate with wavy or winding lines | - |
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| vesiculate | (verb) cause to become vesicular or full of air cells | - |
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| (verb) become vesicular or full of air cells | - |