| becloud | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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| bed | (verb) prepare for sleep | Synonyms: crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in |
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| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| (verb) put to bed | - |
| (verb) place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil | - |
| (verb) furnish with a bed | - |
| bedamn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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| bedaze | (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: daze, stun |
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| bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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| bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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| bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| bedew | (verb) cover with drops of dew or as with dew | - |
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| bedhop | (verb) be sexually active with more than one partner | Synonyms: bed-hop, sleep around |
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| bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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| bedim | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: benight |
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| (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: obscure, overcloud |
| bedizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: dizen |
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| (verb) decorate tastelessly | - |
| bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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| befriend | (verb) become friends with | - |
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| befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
| begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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| begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
| behead | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: decapitate, decollate |
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| behold | (verb) see with attention | Synonyms: lay eyes on |
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| bend | (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: deform, flex, turn, twist |
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| (verb) bend a joint | Synonyms: flex |
| (verb) form a curve | Synonyms: flex |
| (verb) change direction | - |
| (verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: deflect, turn away |
| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bow, crouch, stoop |
| benday | (verb) reproduce by the Benday process | - |
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| bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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| betide | (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
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| bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
| bid | (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: invite |
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| (verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: wish |
| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, press |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: offer, tender |
| (verb) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands | Synonyms: call |
| (verb) make a serious effort to attain something | - |
| bide | (verb) dwell | Synonyms: abide, stay |
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| bind | (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: constipate |
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| (verb) form a chemical bond with | - |
| (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: hold, obligate, oblige |
| (verb) make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope | - |
| (verb) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord | Synonyms: tie |
| (verb) provide with a binding | - |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to |
| (verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss |
| (verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bandage |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bond, tie |
| biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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| bird | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: birdwatch |
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| birdie | (verb) shoot in one stroke under par | - |
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| birdlime | (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: lime |
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| birdnest | (verb) gather birdnests | Synonyms: bird-nest |
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| birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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| blackguard | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, clapperclaw, shout |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
| blacklead | (verb) cover with graphite | - |
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| blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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| bleed | (verb) lose blood from one's body | Synonyms: hemorrhage, shed blood |
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| (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
| (verb) drain of liquid or steam | - |
| (verb) be diffused | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone | - |
| blend | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: immingle, intermingle, intermix |
| (verb) blend or harmonize | Synonyms: blend in, go |
| blind | (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: dim |
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| (verb) make blind by putting the eyes out | - |
| (verb) render unable to see | - |
| blindfold | (verb) cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing | - |
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| blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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| (verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
| blockade | (verb) impose a blockade on | Synonyms: seal off |
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| (verb) obstruct access to | Synonyms: block off |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, stop |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| blood | (verb) smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill | - |
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| bloody | (verb) cover with blood | - |
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| bludgeon | (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: club |
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| (verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club | - |
| blunder | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
| board | (verb) provide food and lodging (for) | - |
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| (verb) lodge and take meals (at) | - |
| (verb) get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.) | Synonyms: get on |
| (verb) live and take one's meals at or in | Synonyms: room |
| bobsled | (verb) ride a bobsled | Synonyms: bob |
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| bode | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| bodge | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| body | (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: personify |
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| bodypaint | (verb) apply paint to a body | - |
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| boldface | (verb) print in boldface | - |
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| bombard | (verb) direct high energy particles or radiation against | - |
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| (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: barrage |
| (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bomb |
| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: pelt |
| bond | (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, hold fast, stick, stick to |
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| (verb) bring together in a common cause or emotion | Synonyms: draw together |
| (verb) issue bonds on | - |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bind, tie |
| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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| boondoggle | (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
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| border | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: environ, ring, skirt, surround |
| (verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: frame, frame in |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: edge |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: bound |
| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| bound | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: jump, leap, spring |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: border |
| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| brad | (verb) fasten with brads | - |
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| braid | (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: pleach |
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| (verb) decorate with braids or ribbons | - |
| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: lace, plait |
| brand | (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
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| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| (verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
| brandish | (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
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| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| bread | (verb) cover with bread crumbs | - |
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| breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| breed | (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: multiply |
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| (verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: cover |
| (verb) cause to procreate (animals) | - |
| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: engender, spawn |
| bridge | (verb) make a bridge across | - |
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| (verb) cross over on a bridge | - |
| (verb) connect or reduce the distance between | Synonyms: bridge over |
| bridle | (verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
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| (verb) put a bridle on | - |
| (verb) anger or take offense | - |
| brigade | (verb) form or unite into a brigade | - |
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| broadcast | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, send, transmit |
| (verb) sow over a wide area, especially by hand | - |
| broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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| (verb) make broader | - |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
| (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
| broadside | (verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
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| brocade | (verb) weave a design into (textiles) | - |
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| broider | (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: embroider |
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| brood | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: cover, hatch, incubate |
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| (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: dwell |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: grizzle, stew |
| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: pout, sulk |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: bulk large, hover, loom |
| bud | (verb) develop buds | - |
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| (verb) start to grow or develop | - |
| budge | (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, shift, stir |
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| budget | (verb) make a budget | - |
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| build | (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build up, progress, work up |
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| (verb) improve the cleansing action of | - |
| (verb) bolster or strengthen | Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up |
| (verb) develop and grow | - |
| (verb) found or ground | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: construct, make |
| (verb) give form to, according to a plan | - |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: establish |
| (verb) be engaged in building | - |
| (verb) order, supervise, or finance the construction of | - |
| bulldog | (verb) attack viciously and ferociously | - |
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| (verb) throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo | - |
| bulldoze | (verb) flatten with or as if with a bulldozer | - |
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| bundle | (verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed | Synonyms: practice bundling |
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| (verb) make into a bundle | Synonyms: bundle up, roll up |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: compact, pack, wad |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
| burden | (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
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| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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| caddie | (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddy |
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| caddy | (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddie |
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| cadge | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, grub, mooch, sponge |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: schnorr, scrounge, shnorr |
| calendar | (verb) enter into a calendar | - |
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| calender | (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
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| candle | (verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
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| candy | (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat |
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| cannonade | (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
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| canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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| card | (verb) ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor | - |
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| (verb) separate the fibers of | Synonyms: tease |