| abandon | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake |
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| (verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: empty, vacate |
| (verb) forsake, leave behind | - |
| (verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again | Synonyms: give up |
| adolesce | (verb) become adolescent; pass through adolescence | - |
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| adopt | (verb) take into one's family | Synonyms: take in |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: embrace, espouse, sweep up |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatise, dramatize |
| (verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: borrow, take over, take up |
| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: espouse, follow |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: assume, take on, take over |
| adore | (verb) love intensely | - |
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| adorn | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
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| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: clothe, invest |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: beautify, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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| bastinado | (verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
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| boondoggle | (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
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| 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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| condole | (verb) express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death | - |
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| condone | (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: excuse |
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| crescendo | (verb) grow louder | - |
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| dado | (verb) cut a dado into or fit into a dado | - |
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| (verb) provide with a dado | - |
| decrescendo | (verb) grow quieter | - |
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| deodorise | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorize, deodourise |
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| deodorize | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorise, deodourise |
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| deodourise | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorise, deodorize |
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| dingdong | (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: ding, dong |
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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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| don | (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: assume, get into, put on, wear |
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| donate | (verb) give to a charity or good cause | - |
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| dong | (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: ding, dingdong |
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| doodle | (verb) make a doodle; draw aimlessly | - |
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| doom | (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: condemn, sentence |
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| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, destine, fate |
| (verb) make certain of the failure or destruction of | - |
| dope | (verb) give a narcotic to | Synonyms: dope up |
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| (verb) add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties | - |
| (verb) take drugs to improve one's athletic performance | - |
| dose | (verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: drug |
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| (verb) treat with an agent; add (an agent) to | - |
| doss | (verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: crash, doss down |
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| dot | (verb) mark with a dot | - |
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| (verb) make a dot or dots | - |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: constellate, stud |
| dote | (verb) shower with love; show excessive affection for | - |
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| (verb) be foolish or senile due to old age | - |
| double | (verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: duplicate |
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| (verb) hit a two-base hit | - |
| (verb) do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions | - |
| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
| (verb) bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain | Synonyms: double over, double up |
| (verb) make a demand for (a card or suit) | - |
| doubt | (verb) consider unlikely | - |
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| (verb) lack confidence in | - |
| douche | (verb) direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning | - |
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| douse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) slacken | Synonyms: dowse |
| (verb) lower quickly | - |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, dunk, plunge, souse |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: dip, duck |
| (verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: dowse |
| (verb) put out, as of a candle or a light | Synonyms: put out |
| dovetail | (verb) fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail | - |
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| dower | (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: endow |
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| down | (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: fine-tune, polish, refine |
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| (verb) bring down or defeat (an opponent) | - |
| (verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, devour, go through |
| (verb) cause to come or go down | Synonyms: cut down, knock down, pull down, push down |
| (verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: land, shoot down |
| downgrade | (verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
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| download | (verb) transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location | - |
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| downplay | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: background, play down |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, minimize, understate |
| downsize | (verb) (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees | - |
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| (verb) design or manufacture in a smaller size | - |
| (verb) dismiss from work | - |
| dowse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) slacken | Synonyms: douse |
| (verb) use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal | - |
| (verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: douse |
| doze | (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: drowse, snooze |
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| drydock | (verb) maneuver (a ship) into a drydock | Synonyms: dry-dock |
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| endorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: indorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, indorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, indorse, second |
| endow | (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: dower |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endue, gift, indue, invest |
| foredoom | (verb) doom beforehand | - |
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| foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| hoodoo | (verb) bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune | - |
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| idolise | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolize, revere, worship |
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| idolize | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship |
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| indoctrinate | (verb) teach doctrines to; teach uncritically | - |
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| indorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: endorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, endorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, endorse, second |
| misdo | (verb) do wrongly or improperly | - |
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| odorize | (verb) cause to smell or be smelly | Synonyms: odourise, scent |
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| odourise | (verb) cause to smell or be smelly | Synonyms: odorize, scent |
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| outdo | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outflank, scoop, trump |
| overdo | (verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: exaggerate |
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| overdose | (verb) dose too heavily | Synonyms: o.d. |
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| overshadow | (verb) cast a shadow upon | - |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, eclipse |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, shadow |
| pardon | (verb) grant a pardon to | - |
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| (verb) accept an excuse for | Synonyms: excuse |
| pompadour | (verb) style women's hair in a pompadour | - |
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| predominate | (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, prevail, reign, rule |
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| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, tower |
| randomise | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomize |
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| randomize | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomise |
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| redo | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: reconstruct, remodel |
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| (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, refashion, remake |
| redouble | (verb) double in magnitude, extent, or intensity | - |
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| (verb) make twice as great or intense | - |
| (verb) double again | - |
| redound | (verb) contribute | - |
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| (verb) have an effect for good or ill | - |
| (verb) return or recoil | - |
| shadow | (verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge | - |
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| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade, shade off |
| shadowbox | (verb) go through boxing motions without an opponent | - |
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| sodomise | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: bugger, sodomize |
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| (verb) copulate with an animal | Synonyms: sodomize |
| sodomize | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: bugger, sodomise |
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| (verb) copulate with an animal | Synonyms: sodomise |
| torpedo | (verb) attack or hit with torpedoes | - |
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| undo | (verb) cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect | - |
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| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: loosen, untie |
| (verb) remove the outer cover or wrapping of | Synonyms: unwrap |
| (verb) deprive of certain characteristics | Synonyms: unmake |
| (verb) cause the ruin or downfall of | - |
| undock | (verb) take (a ship) out of a dock | - |
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| (verb) move out of a dock | - |
| voodoo | (verb) bewitch by or as if by a voodoo | - |
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| widow | (verb) cause to be without a spouse | - |
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