| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
| anele | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anoint, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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| apparel | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| bachelor | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
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| barrel | (verb) put in barrels | - |
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| bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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| belabor | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabour |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabour |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabour |
| belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
| belay | (verb) fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
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| (verb) turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him | - |
| belch | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: bubble, burp, eruct |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: erupt, extravasate |
| beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
| belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
| believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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| (verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
| (verb) credit with veracity | - |
| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
| belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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| (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
| bell | (verb) attach a bell to | - |
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| bellow | (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
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| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
| belly | (verb) swell out or bulge out | Synonyms: belly out |
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| bellyache | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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| bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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| belong | (verb) be owned by; be in the possession of | - |
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| (verb) be rightly classified in a class or category | - |
| (verb) be suitable or acceptable | - |
| (verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) be a part or adjunct | Synonyms: belong to |
| (verb) be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place) | - |
| belt | (verb) deliver a blow to | - |
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| (verb) fasten with a belt | - |
| (verb) sing loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: belt out |
| bevel | (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: chamfer |
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| bushel | (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
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| buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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| cackel | (verb) make a cackling sound | - |
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| cancel | (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: invalidate |
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| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) declare null and void; make ineffective | Synonyms: strike down |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, scratch, scrub |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: offset, set off |
| caramelise | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
| caramelize | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
| cartwheel | (verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
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| celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
| (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
| chandelle | (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
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| 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 |
| chelate | (verb) form a chelate, in chemistry | - |
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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 |
| compel | (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: obligate, oblige |
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| (verb) necessitate or exact | - |
| constellate | (verb) form a constellation or cluster | - |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, flock |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: dot, stud |
| corbel | (verb) furnish with a corbel | - |
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| correlate | (verb) bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation | - |
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| (verb) to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation | - |
| counsel | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: advise, rede |
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| crenel | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenelate, crenellate |
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| crenelate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenellate |
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| crenellate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenelate |
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| cudgel | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: fustigate |
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| dateline | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, datemark |
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| decelerate | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: retard, slow, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) reduce the speed of | Synonyms: slow down |
| delay | (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: detain, hold up |
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| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: detain, stay |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, retard |
| (verb) act later than planned, scheduled, or required | - |
| delegate | (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
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| (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
| delete | (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, edit |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: erase |
| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: cancel |
| deliberate | (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: debate |
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| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, moot, turn over |
| delight | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: enjoy, revel |
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| (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: please |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| delimit | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify |
| (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: subtend |
| delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
| delineate | (verb) describe in vivid detail | - |
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| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: describe, draw, line, trace |
| (verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: limn, outline |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, specify |
| (verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: define |
| deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| (verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
| delist | (verb) remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange | - |
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| deliver | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have |
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| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: render, return |
| (verb) utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.) | - |
| (verb) bring to a destination, make a delivery | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: pitch |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in |
| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender |
| (verb) carry out or perform | Synonyms: drive home |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deport, extradite |
| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: rescue |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: redeem, save |
| delocalize | (verb) remove from the proper or usual locality | - |
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| delouse | (verb) free of lice | - |
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| delude | (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, deceive, lead on |
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| deluge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: inundate, submerge |
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| (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: flood out, overwhelm |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: flood, inundate, swamp |
| delve | (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, dig, turn over |
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| demyelinate | (verb) destroy the myelin sheath of | - |
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| develop | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | - |
| (verb) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | Synonyms: make grow |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, recrudesce |
| (verb) change the use of and make available or usable | Synonyms: build up |
| (verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | - |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, evolve |
| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
| (verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) expand in the form of a series | - |
| (verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | - |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
| (verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position | - |
| (verb) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | - |
| (verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: evolve, germinate |
| (verb) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | - |
| (verb) generate gradually | - |
| (verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions | - |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| disbelieve | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: discredit |
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| disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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| dishevel | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: tangle, tousle |
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| dispel | (verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings | Synonyms: chase away, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back |
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| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, disperse, dissipate, scatter |
| drivel | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
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| duel | (verb) fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman | - |
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| dwell | (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: brood |
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| (verb) come back to | Synonyms: harp |
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: inhabit, live, populate |
| (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, lie, lie in |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: inhabit |
| elaborate | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine |
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| (verb) work out in detail | Synonyms: work out |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product | - |
| elapse | (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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| elate | (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
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| elbow | (verb) shove one's elbow into another person's ribs | - |
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| (verb) push one's way with the elbows | - |
| elect | (verb) choose | - |
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| (verb) select by a vote for an office or membership | - |
| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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| electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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| (verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
| (verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
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| elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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| elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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| elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| elide | (verb) leave or strike out | - |
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| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elongate | (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
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| elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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| elucidate | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clarify, clear up |
| elude | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, evade |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: escape |
| elute | (verb) wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography | - |
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| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
| enamel | (verb) coat, inlay, or surface with enamel | - |
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| envelop | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap |
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| evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
| evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |