| dismember | (verb) separate the limbs from the body | - |
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| (verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: discerp, take apart |
| dismiss | (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dissolve |
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| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave | Synonyms: usher out |
| (verb) cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration | Synonyms: throw out |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: drop, send away, send packing |
| dismount | (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: get down, get off, light, unhorse |
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| disobey | (verb) refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient | - |
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| disoblige | (verb) ignore someone's wishes | - |
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| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| disorder | (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disarray |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| disorganise | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganize |
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| disorganize | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganise |
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| disorient | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorientate |
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| disorientate | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorient |
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| disown | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: renounce, repudiate |
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| (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disinherit |
| disparage | (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: belittle, pick at |
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| dispatch | (verb) kill without delay | - |
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| (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: despatch, send off |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, discharge |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| (verb) dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently | - |
| dispel | (verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings | Synonyms: chase away, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back |
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| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, disperse, dissipate, scatter |
| dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
| disperse | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, scatter |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) separate (light) into spectral rays | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: dissipate, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter |
| dispirit | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, get down |
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| displace | (verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure | - |
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| (verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: move |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: preempt |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| display | (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: exhibit, expose |
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| (verb) attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals | - |
| displease | (verb) give displeasure to | - |
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| displume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: deplume |
| disport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, divert |
| dispose | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: qualify |
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| (verb) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief | Synonyms: incline |
| (verb) place or put in a particular order | - |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
| (verb) give, sell, or transfer to another | - |
| dispossess | (verb) deprive of the possession of real estate | - |
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| dispread | (verb) spread abroad or out | - |
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| disprove | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: confute |
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| dispute | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, gainsay |
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| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, quarrel, scrap |
| disqualify | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: indispose, unfit |
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| (verb) declare unfit | - |
| disquiet | (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
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| disregard | (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: ignore, neglect |
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| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, ignore, snub |
| disrespect | (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
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| (verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
| disrobe | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| disrupt | (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) throw into disorder | - |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, interrupt |
| diss | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: affront, insult |
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| dissatisfy | (verb) fail to satisfy | - |
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| dissect | (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, break down, take apart |
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| (verb) cut open or cut apart | - |
| dissemble | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, feign, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, pretend |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, mask |
| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dissent | (verb) withhold assent | - |
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| (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, disagree, take issue |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: protest, resist |
| dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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| dissimilate | (verb) become dissimilar or less similar | - |
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| (verb) make dissimilar; cause to become less similar | - |
| (verb) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities | - |
| dissimulate | (verb) hide (feelings) from other people | - |
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| dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter |
| (verb) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | - |
| dissociate | (verb) to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms | - |
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| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: decouple |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce |
| dissolve | (verb) pass into a solution | - |
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| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, resolve |
| (verb) come to an end | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) grow less and less substantial until it disappears | Synonyms: fade away, fade out |
| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
| (verb) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dismiss |
| (verb) cause to fade away | - |
| (verb) lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) cause to lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: disband |
| dissonate | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: disharmonize |
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| (verb) be dissonant or harsh | - |
| dissuade | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: deter |
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| distance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip |
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| (verb) keep at a distance | - |
| distemper | (verb) paint with distemper | - |
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| distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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| (verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
| (verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
| distil | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distill |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, extract |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distill |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| distill | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distil |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, extract |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distil |
| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| distort | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, strain |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: falsify, garble, warp |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, colour, tinge |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, wring |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: twine, twist |
| distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| distress | (verb) cause mental pain to | - |
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| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: straiten |
| distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
| (verb) release | - |
| (verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
| (verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
| (verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
| district | (verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: zone |
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| distrust | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: mistrust, suspect |
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| disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
| disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
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| disunite | (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: divide, part, separate |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce |
| ditch | (verb) crash or crash-land | - |
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| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: trench |
| (verb) make an emergency landing on water | - |
| (verb) forsake | - |
| (verb) throw away | Synonyms: chuck |
| (verb) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly | Synonyms: dump |
| dither | (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: flap, pother |
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| (verb) act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain | - |
| ditto | (verb) repeat an action or statement | - |
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| divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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| divaricate | (verb) spread apart | - |
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| (verb) branch off | - |
| dive | (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: plunge, plunk |
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| (verb) swim under water | - |
| (verb) plunge into water | - |
| diverge | (verb) move or draw apart | - |
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| (verb) extend in a different direction | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, vary |
| (verb) have no limits as a mathematical series | - |
| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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| (verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
| (verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
| divest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: disinvest |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, strip |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: disinvest |
| divide | (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: fraction |
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| (verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
| (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, part, separate |
| (verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: separate |
| (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up |
| (verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: separate |
| divine | (verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
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| (verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
| divorce | (verb) get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage | Synonyms: split up |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite |
| divulge | (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, disclose, discover, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| dizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: bedizen |
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| dizzy | (verb) make dizzy or giddy | - |
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| do | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, dress, set |
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| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport |
| (verb) create or design, often in a certain way | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: execute, perform |
| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: cause, make |
| (verb) travel or traverse (a distance) | - |
| (verb) engage in | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise |
| (verb) carry on or function | Synonyms: manage |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: perform |
| (verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: come, fare, get along, make out |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, serve, suffice |
| (verb) spend time in prison or in a labor camp | Synonyms: serve |
| dock | (verb) maneuver into a dock | - |
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| (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, tail |
| (verb) come into dock | - |
| (verb) deduct from someone's wages | - |
| (verb) deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty | - |
| docket | (verb) make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list | - |
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| (verb) place on the docket for legal action | - |
| doctor | (verb) give medical treatment to | - |
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| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor up, sophisticate |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| document | (verb) support or supply with references | - |
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| (verb) record in detail | - |
| dodder | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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| dodge | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid | - |
| (verb) move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course | - |
| doff | (verb) to take off from the body or head | - |
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| dog | (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
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| dogfight | (verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
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| (verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
| dogmatise | (verb) state as a dogma | Synonyms: dogmatize |
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| (verb) speak dogmatically | Synonyms: dogmatize |
| dogmatize | (verb) state as a dogma | Synonyms: dogmatise |
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| (verb) speak dogmatically | Synonyms: dogmatise |
| dogsled | (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: mush |
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| domesticate | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
| (verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: tame |
| domesticise | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| domesticize | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, reclaim, tame |
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| domicile | (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domiciliate, reside, shack |
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| domiciliate | (verb) provide someone with accomodation | Synonyms: house, put up |
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| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, reside, shack |
| dominate | (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: master |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: predominate, prevail, reign, rule |
| (verb) be in control | - |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, overlook, overtop |
| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow |
| domineer | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: tyrannise, tyrannize |
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