attune | (verb) adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with | - |
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auctioneer | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
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augment | (verb) grow or intensify | - |
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(verb) enlarge or increase | - |
auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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authorise | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorize, clear, pass |
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(verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorize, empower |
authorize | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, clear, pass |
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(verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, empower |
autoclave | (verb) subject to the action of an autoclave | - |
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automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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automatise | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatize |
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(verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatize |
automatize | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatise |
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(verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatise |
automobile | (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
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autotomise | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomize |
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autotomize | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomise |
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avalanche | (verb) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow | Synonyms: roll down |
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avenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: retaliate, revenge |
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aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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(verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
average | (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
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(verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
(verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
avianise | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianize |
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avianize | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianise |
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aviate | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: fly, pilot |
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avulse | (verb) separate by avulsion | - |
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awake | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
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awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
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(verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
(verb) make aware | - |
awe | (verb) inspire awe in | - |
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axe | (verb) terminate | Synonyms: ax |
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(verb) chop or split with an ax | Synonyms: ax |
azure | (verb) color azure | - |
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babble | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter |
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(verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
(verb) utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way | - |
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
bachelor | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
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backbite | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: bitch |
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backdate | (verb) make effective from an earlier date | - |
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backfire | (verb) set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire | - |
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(verb) emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire | - |
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backlash, recoil |
backpedal | (verb) modify one's opinion, make it less strong | - |
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(verb) pedal backwards on a bicycle | - |
(verb) step backwards, in boxing | - |
backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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backspace | (verb) hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard | - |
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backstroke | (verb) swim on one's back | - |
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bacterise | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterize |
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bacterize | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterise |
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badge | (verb) put a badge on | - |
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badger | (verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
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(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
baffle | (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: regulate |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
bake | (verb) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven | - |
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(verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: broil |
(verb) prepare with dry heat in an oven | - |
(verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: broil |
balance | (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: poise |
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(verb) compute credits and debits of an account | - |
(verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize |
(verb) be in equilibrium | - |
bale | (verb) make into a bale | - |
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bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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bandage | (verb) dress by covering or binding | - |
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(verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bind |
banquet | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: feast, junket |
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(verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: feast, junket |
banter | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: chaff, jolly, josh, kid |
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baptise | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptize, christen |
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baptize | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, christen |
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barbarise | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarize |
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(verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarize |
barbarize | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarise |
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(verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarise |
barbecue | (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbeque, cook out |
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barbeque | (verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbecue, cook out |
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barber | (verb) perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of | - |
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barde | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, caparison, dress up |
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bare | (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: denudate, denude, strip |
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(verb) make public | Synonyms: air, publicise, publicize |
(verb) expose to view | - |
barge | (verb) push one's way | Synonyms: push forward, thrust ahead |
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(verb) transport by barge on a body of water | - |
baronetise | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetize |
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baronetize | (verb) confer baronetcy upon | Synonyms: baronetise |
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barrage | (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
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barrel | (verb) put in barrels | - |
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barricade | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
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(verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
barter | (verb) exchange goods without involving money | - |
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base | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: establish, found, ground |
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(verb) use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes | Synonyms: free-base |
(verb) situate as a center of operations | - |
basset | (verb) appear at the surface | Synonyms: crop 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 |
baste | (verb) cover with liquid before cooking | - |
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(verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: tack |
(verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: batter, clobber |
bate | (verb) soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments | - |
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(verb) flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons | - |
(verb) moderate or restrain; lessen the force of | - |
bathe | (verb) cleanse the entire body | - |
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(verb) suffuse or envelope with something | - |
(verb) swim for pleasure or recreation | - |
batten | (verb) secure with battens | - |
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(verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten down, secure |
batter | (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: dinge |
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(verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, clobber |
(verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: buffet, knock about |
battle | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: combat |
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bayonet | (verb) stab or kill someone with a bayonet | - |
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be | (verb) spend or use time | - |
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(verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: follow |
(verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: exist |
(verb) have life, be alive | Synonyms: live |
(verb) form or compose | Synonyms: comprise, constitute, make up, represent |
(verb) have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) | - |
(verb) occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere | - |
(verb) be identical to; be someone or something | - |
(verb) be identical or equivalent to | Synonyms: equal |
(verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: embody, personify |
(verb) be priced at | Synonyms: cost |
(verb) to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form | - |
beach | (verb) land on a beach | - |
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beacon | (verb) guide with a beacon | - |
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(verb) shine like a beacon | - |
bead | (verb) string together like beads | - |
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(verb) decorate by sewing beads onto | - |
(verb) form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example | - |
beak | (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: peck, pick |
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beam | (verb) smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression | - |
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(verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, broadcast, send, transmit |
(verb) express with a beaming face or smile | - |
(verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
(verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
(verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: shine |
bean | (verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball | - |
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bear | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: carry, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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(verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: birth, deliver, give birth, have |
(verb) have on one's person | Synonyms: wear |
(verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
(verb) move while holding up or supporting | - |
(verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: carry, hold |
(verb) bring forth | Synonyms: turn out |
(verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: entertain, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
(verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices | Synonyms: hold |
(verb) bring in | Synonyms: pay, yield |
(verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, assume, take over |
(verb) have | - |
(verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: carry, contain, hold |
beard | (verb) go along the rim, like a beard around the chin | - |
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beat | (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) hit repeatedly | - |
(verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | Synonyms: beat up, work over |
(verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: scramble |
(verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music | - |
(verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting | - |
(verb) shape by beating | - |
(verb) make by pounding or trampling | - |
(verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly | - |
(verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: pound, thump |
(verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty | - |
(verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: flap |
(verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks | - |
(verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: flap |
(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
(verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: drum, thrum |
(verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
(verb) glare or strike with great intensity | - |
(verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: bunk |
(verb) be superior | - |
beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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(verb) make blessedly happy | - |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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(verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
(verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
beaver | (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
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bebop | (verb) dance the bebop | Synonyms: bop |
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becalm | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: calm, steady |
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bechance | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: befall, happen |
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(verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: befall, betide |
becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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(verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
beckon | (verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: wave |
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(verb) summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture | - |
(verb) appear inviting | - |
becloud | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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become | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: get, go |
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(verb) come into existence | - |
(verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: turn |
(verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: suit |
bed | (verb) prepare for sleep | Synonyms: crawl in, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay, hit the sack, kip down, retire, sack out, turn in |
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(verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
(verb) put to bed | - |
(verb) place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil | - |
(verb) furnish with a bed | - |
bedamn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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