defy | (verb) challenge | Synonyms: dare |
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(verb) resist or confront with resistance | Synonyms: hold, hold up, withstand |
(verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: refuse, resist |
liquefy | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquify |
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(verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquidise, liquidize, liquify |
(verb) become liquid | - |
putrefy | (verb) become putrid; decay with an offensive smell | - |
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rarefy | (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: attenuate |
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(verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: sublimate, subtilize |
(verb) lessen the density or solidity of | - |
stupefy | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow | Synonyms: stun |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, vex |
(verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation | Synonyms: besot |
tumefy | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumesce |
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(verb) cause to become very swollen | - |