| cement | (verb) bind or join with or as if with cement | - |
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| (verb) make fast as if with cement | - |
| (verb) cover or coat with cement | - |
| cense | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: incense, thurify |
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| censor | (verb) subject to political, religious, or moral censorship | - |
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| (verb) forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) | Synonyms: ban |
| censure | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: criminate, reprimand |
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| census | (verb) conduct a census | - |
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| center | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
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| (verb) move into the center | Synonyms: centre |
| (verb) center upon | Synonyms: center on, centre, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
| centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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| centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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| centre | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
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| (verb) move into the center | Synonyms: center |
| (verb) center upon | Synonyms: center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
| centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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| centrifuge | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifugate |
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| cere | (verb) wrap up in a cerecloth | - |
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| cerebrate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cogitate, think |
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| certificate | (verb) authorize by certificate | - |
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| (verb) present someone with a certificate | - |
| certify | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
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| (verb) declare legally insane | - |
| (verb) guarantee payment on; of checks | - |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: endorse, indorse |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: licence, license |
| chafe | (verb) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | - |
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| (verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: excoriate |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: fray, fret, rub, scratch |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) feel extreme irritation or anger | - |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: fret, gall |
| chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
| challenge | (verb) issue a challenge to | - |
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| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
| (verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
| (verb) ask for identification | - |
| chamber | (verb) place in a chamber | - |
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| chamfer | (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chase, furrow |
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| (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: bevel |
| chance | (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, encounter, find, happen |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) be the case by chance | - |
| chandelle | (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
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| change | (verb) undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature | - |
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| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, modify |
| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, vary |
| (verb) change clothes; put on different clothes | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: commute, convert, exchange |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
| (verb) remove or replace the coverings of | - |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: deepen |
| (verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: exchange, interchange |
| channel | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) direct the flow of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
| channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| channelize | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| chaperon | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperone |
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| chaperone | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperon |
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| character | (verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
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| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
| charge | (verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge | - |
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| (verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on | - |
| (verb) saturate | - |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: blame |
| (verb) set or ask for a certain price | - |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: file, lodge |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, saddle |
| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: accuse |
| (verb) make an accusatory claim | - |
| (verb) instruct or command with authority | - |
| (verb) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence | - |
| (verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle | Synonyms: bear down |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: level, point |
| (verb) fill or load to capacity | - |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: load |
| (verb) place a heraldic bearing on | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt | - |
| (verb) enter a certain amount as a charge | - |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: bill |
| (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: consign |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: appoint |
| charter | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: engage, hire, lease, rent, take |
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| (verb) grant a charter to | - |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: hire, lease, rent |
| chase | (verb) cut a groove into | - |
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| (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, furrow |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
| (verb) pursue someone sexually or romantically | Synonyms: chase after |
| chasse | (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |
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| chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
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| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
| chastise | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, correct, objurgate |
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| chatter | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| (verb) make noise as if chattering away | - |
| (verb) cut unevenly with a chattering tool | - |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: click |
| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| chauffeur | (verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
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| cheapen | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: degrade |
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| cheat | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
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| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: chisel, rip off |
| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: chisel |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| check | (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
| (verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
| (verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
| (verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) place into check | - |
| (verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
| (verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
| (verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
| (verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
| (verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
| (verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
| (verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
| checker | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
| checkmate | (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
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| checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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| cheek | (verb) speak impudently to | - |
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| cheep | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: chirp, chirrup, peep |
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| cheer | (verb) become cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) show approval or good wishes by shouting | - |
| (verb) cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up |
| (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate |
| cheerlead | (verb) act as a cheerleader in a sports event | - |
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| cheese | (verb) wind onto a cheese | - |
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| (verb) used in the imperative (get away, or stop it) | - |
| chelate | (verb) form a chelate, in chemistry | - |
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| chemisorb | (verb) take up a substance by chemisorption | - |
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| cheque | (verb) withdraw money by writing a check | Synonyms: check out |
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| chequer | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: checker |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, checker |
| cherish | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, hold dear, treasure |
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| chevvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chevy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chew | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: jaw, manducate, masticate |
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| chicane | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
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| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
| chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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| chide | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| chime | (verb) emit a sound | - |
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| chine | (verb) cut through the backbone of an animal | - |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chisel | (verb) carve with a chisel | - |
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| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: cheat |
| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: cheat, rip off |
| chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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| chlorinate | (verb) disinfect with chlorine | - |
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| (verb) treat or combine with chlorine | - |
| choke | (verb) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion | - |
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| (verb) cause to retch or choke | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate |
| (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: strangle |
| (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: throttle |
| (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, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: fret, gag |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: scrag |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate |
| (verb) check or slow down the action or effect of | - |
| (verb) fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation | - |
| choose | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: pick out, select, take |
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| (verb) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: opt, prefer |
| choreograph | (verb) plan and oversee the development and details of | - |
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| (verb) compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music | - |
| chortle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chuckle, laugh softly |
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| chouse | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, jockey, screw, shaft |
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| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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| chrome | (verb) treat with a chromium compound | - |
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| (verb) plate with chromium | Synonyms: chromium-plate |
| chronicle | (verb) record in chronological order; make a historical record | - |
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| chronologise | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologize |
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| chronologize | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologise |
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| chuckle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
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| chute | (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: jump, parachute |
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| cicatrise | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrize |
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| cicatrize | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrise |
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| cinematise | (verb) make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film | Synonyms: cinematize |
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| cinematize | (verb) make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film | Synonyms: cinematise |
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| cipher | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| circle | (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: encircle |
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| (verb) move in a circular path above (someone or something) | - |
| (verb) travel around something | - |
| circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
| circularize | (verb) make circular | - |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by using a questionnaire | - |
| circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
| (verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
| (verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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| (verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
| circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| cite | (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, mention, name, refer |
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| (verb) commend | Synonyms: mention |
| (verb) repeat a passage from | Synonyms: quote |
| (verb) refer to for illustration or proof | Synonyms: quote |
| (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: abduce, adduce |
| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: summon, summons |
| (verb) refer to | Synonyms: reference |