| abdicate | (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: renounce |
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| accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
| acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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| (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
| addict | (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: hook |
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| adjudicate | (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: decide, resolve, settle |
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| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: judge, try |
| aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggrandize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| anodise | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodize |
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| anodize | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodise |
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| attitudinise | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinize |
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| attitudinize | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinise |
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| audit | (verb) attend academic courses without getting credit | - |
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| (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: inspect, scrutinise, scrutinize |
| audition | (verb) perform in order to get a role | Synonyms: try out |
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| bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
| bastardize | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardise |
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| (verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardise |
| 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 | - |
| birdie | (verb) shoot in one stroke under par | - |
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| blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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| brandish | (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
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| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| caddie | (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddy |
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| codify | (verb) organize into a code or system, such as a body of law | - |
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| condition | (verb) apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny | - |
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| (verb) put into a better state | - |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: qualify, specify, stipulate |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, discipline, train |
| (verb) establish a conditioned response | - |
| contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| coordinate | (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: organise, organize |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, ordinate |
| (verb) bring into common action, movement, or condition | - |
| (verb) be co-ordinated | - |
| copyedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyread, subedit |
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| credit | (verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
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| (verb) give someone credit for something | - |
| (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
| (verb) enter as credit | - |
| dandify | (verb) dress like a dandy | - |
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| dedicate | (verb) set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church | - |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, devote, give |
| (verb) inscribe or address by way of compliment | - |
| (verb) open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building | - |
| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| dehumidify | (verb) make less humid | - |
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| deoxidise | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidize, reduce |
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| deoxidize | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidise, reduce |
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| diabolise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolize |
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| diabolize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolise |
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| diagnose | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) subject to a medical analysis | - |
| diagonalise | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalize |
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| diagonalize | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalise |
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| diagram | (verb) make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed | Synonyms: plot |
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| dial | (verb) choose by means of a dial | - |
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| (verb) operate a dial to select a telephone number | - |
| dialyse | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyze |
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| dialyze | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyse |
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| diazotize | (verb) convert (an amine) into a diazo compound | - |
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| dibble | (verb) plant with a wooden hand tool | - |
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| (verb) make a hole with a wooden hand tool | - |
| dice | (verb) play dice | - |
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| (verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: cube |
| dichotomise | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomize |
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| dichotomize | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomise |
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| dicker | (verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange | Synonyms: bargain |
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| dictate | (verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording | - |
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| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: order, prescribe |
| (verb) rule as a dictator | - |
| didder | (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: shake |
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| diddle | (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| die | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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| (verb) disappear or come to an end | - |
| (verb) suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, pall |
| (verb) to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player | - |
| (verb) cut or shape with a die | Synonyms: die out |
| (verb) be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame | - |
| (verb) languish as with love or desire | - |
| (verb) feel indifferent towards | - |
| (verb) suffer or face the pain of death | - |
| diet | (verb) eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight | - |
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| (verb) follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons | - |
| differ | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: disagree, dissent, take issue |
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| (verb) be different | - |
| differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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| (verb) become different during development | - |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |
| diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
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| diffuse | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: fan out, spread, spread out |
| dig | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, delve, turn over |
| (verb) create by digging | Synonyms: dig out |
| (verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: excavate, hollow |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: jab, poke, prod, stab |
| (verb) thrust down or into | - |
| (verb) remove, harvest, or recover by digging | Synonyms: dig out, dig up |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| digest | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
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| (verb) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing | - |
| (verb) become assimilated into the body | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture | - |
| (verb) arrange and integrate in the mind | - |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) convert food into absorbable substances | - |
| digitalise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalize, digitise, digitize |
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| digitalize | (verb) administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects | - |
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| (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitise, digitize |
| digitise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitize |
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| digitize | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitise |
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| dignify | (verb) raise the status of | - |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: ennoble |
| digress | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: divagate, stray, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, sidetrack, straggle |
| dike | (verb) enclose with a dike | Synonyms: dyke |
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| dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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| (verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
| dilate | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: distend |
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| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| dillydally | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall |
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| dilute | (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, reduce, thin, thin out |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, load, stretch |
| dim | (verb) make dim or lusterless | - |
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| (verb) become dim or lusterless | - |
| (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: blind |
| (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: blur, slur |
| (verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dip |
| dimension | (verb) shape or form to required dimensions | - |
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| (verb) indicate the dimensions on | - |
| diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
| dimple | (verb) produce dimples while smiling | - |
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| (verb) mark with, or as if with, dimples | - |
| din | (verb) instill (into a person) by constant repetition | - |
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| (verb) make a resonant sound, like artillery | Synonyms: boom |
| dine | (verb) have supper; eat dinner | - |
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| (verb) give dinner to; host for dinner | - |
| ding | (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: dingdong, dong |
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| dingdong | (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: ding, dong |
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| dinge | (verb) make dingy | - |
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| (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: batter |
| dip | (verb) stain an object by immersing it in a liquid | - |
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| (verb) go down momentarily | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dunk |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: douse, dunk, plunge, souse |
| (verb) plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container | - |
| (verb) immerse in a disinfectant solution | - |
| (verb) scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface | - |
| (verb) place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: douse, duck |
| (verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: sink |
| (verb) slope downwards | - |
| (verb) lower briefly | - |
| (verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dim |
| (verb) take a small amount from | - |
| diphthongise | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongize |
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| diphthongize | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongise |
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| direct | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
| (verb) command with authority | - |
| (verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
| (verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) govern or manage | - |
| dirty | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, grime, soil |
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| disable | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: handicap, incapacitate, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disenable, incapacitate |
| disabuse | (verb) free somebody (from an erroneous belief) | - |
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| disaccord | (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disagree, discord |
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| disadvantage | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour |
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| disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| disagree | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, dissent, take issue |
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| (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disaccord, discord |
| disallow | (verb) command against | Synonyms: forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| disappear | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
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| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: vanish |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: evaporate, melt |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
| disappoint | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | Synonyms: let down |
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| disapprove | (verb) consider bad or wrong | - |
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| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: reject |
| disarm | (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, demilitarize |
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| (verb) take away the weapons from; render harmless | Synonyms: unarm |
| (verb) make less hostile; win over | - |