| devote | (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: give, pay |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, give |
| (verb) set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use | - |
| devour | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: guttle, pig, raven |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, down, go through |
| (verb) to consume | - |
| (verb) enjoy avidly | - |
| didder | (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: shake |
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| disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
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| discommode | (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
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| 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 |
| dissuade | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: deter |
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| 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 |
| dodder | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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| downgrade | (verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
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| elide | (verb) leave or strike out | - |
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| elude | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, evade |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: escape |
| embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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| embroider | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, lard, pad |
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| (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: broider |
| encode | (verb) convert information into code | - |
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| endear | (verb) make attractive or lovable | - |
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| endeavor | (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavour, strive |
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| endeavour | (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, strive |
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| enfilade | (verb) rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction | - |
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| engender | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, spawn |
| erode | (verb) remove soil or rock | Synonyms: eat away, fret |
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| (verb) become ground down or deteriorate | Synonyms: eat at, gnaw, gnaw at, wear away |
| escalade | (verb) climb up and over | - |
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| evade | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid | - |
| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, elude |
| (verb) practice evasion | - |
| evidence | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, manifest |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, prove, show, testify |
| (verb) give evidence | Synonyms: tell |
| exclude | (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: except, leave off, leave out, omit, take out |
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| (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, debar |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, eject, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) prevent from entering; shut out | Synonyms: keep out, shut, shut out |
| (verb) lack or fail to include | - |
| explode | (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: burst |
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| (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, detonate, set off |
| (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: irrupt |
| (verb) be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise | Synonyms: break loose, burst forth |
| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, detonate |
| (verb) show a violent emotional reaction | - |
| (verb) show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete | - |
| (verb) drive from the stage by noisy disapproval | - |
| (verb) cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ | - |
| (verb) destroy by exploding | - |
| extrude | (verb) form or shape by forcing through an opening | Synonyms: squeeze out |
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| exude | (verb) release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: exudate, ooze, ooze out, transude |
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| (verb) make apparent by one's mood or behavior | - |
| fade | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: languish |
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| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fleet, pass, pass off |
| (verb) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality | Synonyms: wither |
| (verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly | Synonyms: melt |
| federalise | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalize |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
| federalize | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalise |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
| federate | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
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| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
| flounder | (verb) walk with great difficulty | Synonyms: stagger |
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| (verb) behave awkwardly; have difficulties | - |
| fodder | (verb) give fodder (to domesticated animals) | - |
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| forebode | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| founder | (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way |
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| (verb) sink below the surface | - |
| (verb) stumble and nearly fall | - |
| (verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, flop |
| fusillade | (verb) attack with fusillade | - |
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| garden | (verb) work in the garden | - |
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| gasconade | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| gerrymander | (verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | - |
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| gladden | (verb) become glad or happy | - |
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| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: joy |
| glide | (verb) move smoothly and effortlessly | - |
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| (verb) fly in or as if in a glider plane | - |
| (verb) cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly | - |
| glissade | (verb) perform a glissade, in ballet | - |
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| grade | (verb) determine the grade of or assign a grade to | - |
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| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: order, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: mark, score |
| (verb) level to the right gradient | - |
| guide | (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, pass, run |
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| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, lead, take |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) use as a guide | Synonyms: guide on |
| (verb) be a guiding or motivating force or drive | Synonyms: steer |
| harden | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
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| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
| (verb) make healthy | Synonyms: season |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: indurate, inure |
| (verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: temper |
| hide | (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, obliterate, obscure, veil |
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| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, enshroud, shroud |
| (verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: conceal |
| (verb) be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety | Synonyms: hide out |
| hinder | (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, handicap |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: impede |
| idealise | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealize |
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| (verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealize |
| idealize | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealise |
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| (verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealise |
| ideate | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, imagine |
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| identify | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: place |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, key, key out, name |
| (verb) consider to be equal or the same | - |
| (verb) conceive of as united or associated | - |
| (verb) consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else | - |
| (verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property | Synonyms: name |
| impede | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: hinder |
| implode | (verb) burst inward | Synonyms: go off |
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| incandesce | (verb) become incandescent or glow with heat | - |
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| (verb) cause to become incandescent or glow | - |
| include | (verb) add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category | - |
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| (verb) consider as part of something | - |
| (verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: admit, let in |
| (verb) have as a part, be made up out of | - |
| incommode | (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
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| indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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| (verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
| indent | (verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indenture |
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| (verb) make a depression into | Synonyms: dent |
| (verb) cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication | - |
| (verb) notch the edge of or make jagged | - |
| (verb) set in from the margin | - |
| indenture | (verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indent |
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| index | (verb) adjust through indexation | - |
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| (verb) provide with an index | - |
| (verb) list in an index | - |
| intercede | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| interdepend | (verb) be connected | Synonyms: hang together |
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| interlude | (verb) perform an interlude | - |
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| intrude | (verb) thrust oneself in as if by force | Synonyms: obtrude |
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| (verb) enter uninvited | Synonyms: irrupt |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, nose, poke, pry |
| (verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: trespass |
| invade | (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: occupy |
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| (verb) penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way | - |
| (verb) to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate | Synonyms: encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, overrun |
| iridesce | (verb) be iridescent | - |
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| jade | (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, pall, tire, weary |
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| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| joyride | (verb) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it | Synonyms: tool, tool around |
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| judder | (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: shake |
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| ladder | (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: run |
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| lade | (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: laden, load, load up |
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| (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: laden, ladle |
| laden | (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, ladle |
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| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, load, load up |
| launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
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| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
| louden | (verb) cause to become loud | - |
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| (verb) become louder | - |
| madden | (verb) make mad | - |
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| (verb) drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves | - |
| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: craze |
| madder | (verb) color a moderate to strong red | - |
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| marinade | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinate |
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| masquerade | (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
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| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| maunder | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: mumble, mussitate, mutter |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) wander aimlessly | - |
| meander | (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
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| mildew | (verb) become moldy; spoil due to humidity | Synonyms: mold, mould |
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| misdeal | (verb) deal cards wrongly | - |
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| misdeliver | (verb) deliver to the wrong address | - |
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| misdemean | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misconduct |
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| misguide | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misadvise |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, mislead |
| misidentify | (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: mistake |
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| misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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| model | (verb) form in clay, wax, etc | Synonyms: mold, mould |
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| (verb) construct a model in the likeness of | Synonyms: mock up |
| (verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: pattern |
| (verb) create a representation or simulation of | Synonyms: simulate |
| (verb) display (clothes) as a mannequin | - |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: pose, posture, sit |
| moderate | (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: mollify, season, temper |
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| (verb) make less fast or intense | - |
| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, lead |
| (verb) make less strong or intense; soften | Synonyms: tame, tone down |
| (verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: mince, soften |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in |
| modernise | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernize, overhaul |
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| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernize |
| modernize | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, overhaul |
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| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernise |
| molder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, moulder, rot |
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| moulder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, rot |
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| murder | (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, mutilate |
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| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| obtrude | (verb) thrust oneself in as if by force | Synonyms: intrude |
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| (verb) push to thrust outward | Synonyms: push out, thrust out |
| occidentalise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalize, westernise, westernize |
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| occidentalize | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, westernise, westernize |
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| occlude | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate |
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| order | (verb) bring order to or into | - |
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| (verb) place in a certain order | - |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, put, set up |
| (verb) make a request for something | - |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, say, tell |
| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, prescribe |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, ordinate |