| accede | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: bow, defer, give in, submit |
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| (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: acquiesce, assent |
| (verb) take on duties or office | Synonyms: enter |
| 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 | - |
| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| antecede | (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antedate, forego, forgo, precede, predate |
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| antedate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: foredate, predate |
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| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, forego, forgo, precede, predate |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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| bedaze | (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: daze, stun |
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| bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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| bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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| bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| bedew | (verb) cover with drops of dew or as with dew | - |
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| bedhop | (verb) be sexually active with more than one partner | Synonyms: bed-hop, sleep around |
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| 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 | - |
| bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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| bleed | (verb) lose blood from one's body | Synonyms: hemorrhage, shed blood |
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| (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
| (verb) drain of liquid or steam | - |
| (verb) be diffused | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone | - |
| bobsled | (verb) ride a bobsled | Synonyms: bob |
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| bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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| breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| breed | (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: multiply |
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| (verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: cover |
| (verb) cause to procreate (animals) | - |
| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: engender, spawn |
| cede | (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: deliver, give up, surrender |
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| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: concede, grant, yield |
| coeducate | (verb) educate persons of both sexes together | Synonyms: co-educate |
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| concede | (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: confess, profess |
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| (verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: grant, yield |
| (verb) acknowledge defeat | - |
| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, grant, yield |
| confederate | (verb) form a group or unite | Synonyms: band together |
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| (verb) form a confederation with; of nations | - |
| contredanse | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
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| 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 | - |
| crossbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
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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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| deduce | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduct, derive, infer |
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| (verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic | Synonyms: infer |
| deduct | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, derive, infer |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: subtract, take off |
| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: recoup, withhold |
| discredit | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: disbelieve |
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| (verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved | - |
| (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: disgrace |
| dogsled | (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: mush |
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| dredge | (verb) remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | - |
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| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: drag |
| (verb) cover before cooking | - |
| eddy | (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: purl, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
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| edge | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, march |
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| (verb) provide with an edge | - |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: inch |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: border |
| edify | (verb) make understand | Synonyms: enlighten |
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| edit | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: redact |
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| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: cut, edit out |
| (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, delete |
| (verb) supervise the publication of | - |
| editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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| editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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| educate | (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, prepare, train |
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| (verb) give an education to | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train |
| educe | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | Synonyms: derive |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, elicit, evoke, extract |
| edulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, sweeten |
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| embed | (verb) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war | - |
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| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: engraft, imbed, implant, plant |
| exceed | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: go past, overstep, pass, top, transcend |
| (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: surpass, transcend |
| expedite | (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: hasten |
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| (verb) process fast and efficiently | - |
| featherbed | (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| 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 |
| feed | (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
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| (verb) introduce continuously | Synonyms: feed in |
| (verb) take in food; used of animals only | Synonyms: eat |
| (verb) give food to | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) serve as food for; be the food for | - |
| (verb) feed into; supply | - |
| (verb) provide as food | - |
| (verb) gratify | Synonyms: feast |
| (verb) profit from in an exploitatory manner | Synonyms: prey |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, flow, run |
| (verb) support or promote | - |
| finedraw | (verb) sew together very finely | - |
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| fledge | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: feather |
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| (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: flight |
| (verb) feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight | - |
| foredate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, predate |
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| foredoom | (verb) doom beforehand | - |
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| hedge | (verb) minimize loss or risk | - |
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| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
| (verb) enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges | Synonyms: hedge in |
| (verb) hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge | - |
| hedgehop | (verb) fly very close to the ground | Synonyms: flat-hat |
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| heed | (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: listen, mind |
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| imbed | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, implant, plant |
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| 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 |
| interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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| intercede | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| intermediate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, liaise, mediate |
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| maledict | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
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| meddle | (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: tamper |
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| mediate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise |
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| (verb) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others | - |
| medicate | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicine |
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| (verb) impregnate with a medicinal substance | - |
| medicine | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicate |
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| meditate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, study |
| namedrop | (verb) refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them | - |
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| need | (verb) have need of | Synonyms: require, want |
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| (verb) have or feel a need for | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take |
| needle | (verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: goad |
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| (verb) prick with a needle | - |
| nosedive | (verb) plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft | - |
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| overfeed | (verb) feed excessively | - |
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| pedal | (verb) operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument | - |
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| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle, wheel |
| peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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| pedicure | (verb) care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| pledge | (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: plight |
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| (verb) bind or secure by a pledge | - |
| (verb) give as a guarantee | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, salute, toast, wassail |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: subscribe |
| precede | (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, preface, premise |
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| (verb) move ahead (of others) in time or space | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be the predecessor of | Synonyms: come before |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, predate |
| (verb) come before | Synonyms: predate |
| predate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, foredate |
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| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, precede |
| (verb) come before | Synonyms: precede |
| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: prey, raven |
| predecease | (verb) die before; die earlier than | - |
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| predestinate | (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| predestine | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestinate |
| (verb) decree or determine beforehand | - |
| predetermine | (verb) determine beforehand | - |
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| (verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: bias |
| predicate | (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: proclaim |
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| (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: connote |
| (verb) make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition | - |
| predict | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| predigest | (verb) digest (food) beforehand | - |
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| predispose | (verb) make susceptible | - |
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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 |
| premeditate | (verb) consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand | - |
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| (verb) think or reflect beforehand or in advance | - |
| proceed | (verb) follow a certain course | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, continue, go on |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: continue, go forward, move ahead |
| (verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, keep |
| recede | (verb) become faint or more distant | - |
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| (verb) retreat | Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, retire, retreat, withdraw |
| redact | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: edit |
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| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, put |
| redden | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, flush |
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| (verb) turn red or redder | - |
| (verb) make red | - |
| rede | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: advise, counsel |
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| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: interpret |