| excel | (verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: stand out, surpass |
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| expel | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, release |
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| (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: rout, rout out |
| (verb) force to leave or move out | Synonyms: kick out, throw out |
| (verb) remove from a position or office | Synonyms: boot out, drum out, kick out, oust, throw out |
| feel | (verb) be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state | - |
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| (verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude | - |
| (verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: finger |
| (verb) examine (a body part) by palpation | Synonyms: palpate |
| (verb) pass one's hands over the sexual organs of | - |
| (verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: experience |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: sense |
| (verb) undergo passive experience of | - |
| (verb) produce a certain impression | - |
| (verb) grope or feel in search of something | - |
| (verb) find by testing or cautious exploration | - |
| (verb) be felt or perceived in a certain way | - |
| felicitate | (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: congratulate |
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| fell | (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, drop, strike down |
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| (verb) sew a seam by folding the edges | - |
| (verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fly, vanish |
| fellate | (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, go down on, suck |
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| felt | (verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up |
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| (verb) cover with felt | - |
| (verb) mat together and make felt-like | - |
| field | (verb) select (a team or individual player) for a game | - |
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| (verb) answer adequately or successfully | - |
| (verb) play as a fielder | - |
| (verb) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket | - |
| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| flagellate | (verb) whip | Synonyms: scourge |
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| foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
| freelance | (verb) work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer | - |
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| freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
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| freewheel | (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | - |
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| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: drift |
| fuel | (verb) stimulate | - |
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| (verb) provide with a combustible substance that provides energy | - |
| (verb) provide with fuel | Synonyms: fire |
| (verb) take in fuel, as of a ship | - |
| funnel | (verb) move or pour through a funnel | - |
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| gel | (verb) apply a styling gel to | Synonyms: mousse |
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| (verb) become a gel | - |
| gelatinise | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
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| (verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
| gelatinize | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
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| (verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
| (verb) coat with gelatin | - |
| geld | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: cut |
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| gravel | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cover with gravel | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| grovel | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn |
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| hatchel | (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, heckle |
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| heel | (verb) put a new heel on | Synonyms: reheel |
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| (verb) strike with the heel of the club | - |
| (verb) perform with the heels | - |
| (verb) follow at the heels of a person | - |
| (verb) tilt to one side | Synonyms: list |
| heliograph | (verb) signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays | - |
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| helm | (verb) be at or take the helm of | - |
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| help | (verb) improve the condition of | Synonyms: aid |
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| (verb) improve; change for the better | - |
| (verb) help to some food; help with food or drink | Synonyms: serve |
| (verb) take or use | Synonyms: avail |
| (verb) give help or assistance; be of service | Synonyms: aid, assist |
| (verb) contribute to the furtherance of | - |
| (verb) be of use | Synonyms: facilitate |
| (verb) abstain from doing; always used with a negative | Synonyms: help oneself |
| impanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: empanel |
| impel | (verb) cause to move forward with force | Synonyms: propel |
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| (verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | Synonyms: force |
| indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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| interpellate | (verb) question formally about policy or government business | - |
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| interrelate | (verb) place into a mutual relationship | - |
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| (verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: relate |
| jell | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: congeal, set |
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| jellify | (verb) become jelly | - |
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| (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jelly |
| jelly | (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jellify |
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| jewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: bejewel |
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| keel | (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
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| kennel | (verb) put up in a kennel | - |
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| kneel | (verb) rest one's weight on one's knees | - |
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| knell | (verb) ring as in announcing death | - |
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| (verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification | Synonyms: ring |
| label | (verb) distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions | - |
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| (verb) distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom | - |
| (verb) assign a label to; designate with a label | - |
| (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, pronounce |
| (verb) attach a tag or label to | Synonyms: mark, tag |
| level | (verb) become level or even | Synonyms: level off |
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| (verb) talk frankly with; lay it on the line | - |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, point |
| (verb) aim at | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, flush |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: dismantle, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| libel | (verb) print slanderous statements against | - |
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| marcel | (verb) make a marcel in a woman's hair | - |
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| marvel | (verb) express astonishment or surprise about something | - |
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| (verb) be amazed at | Synonyms: wonder |
| melanise | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, blacken, melanize |
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| (verb) convert into, or infiltrate with melanin | Synonyms: melanize |
| melanize | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, blacken, melanise |
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| (verb) convert into, or infiltrate with melanin | Synonyms: melanise |
| meld | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, merge, mix |
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| (verb) lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually | Synonyms: melt |
| (verb) announce for a score; of cards in a card game | - |
| meliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, improve |
| mellow | (verb) make or grow (more) mellow | - |
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| (verb) soften, make mellow | - |
| (verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow out, melt |
| melodise | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodize |
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| melodize | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodise |
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| melt | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
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| (verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt down, run |
| (verb) lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually | Synonyms: meld |
| (verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow, mellow out |
| (verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly | Synonyms: fade |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, evaporate |
| minstrel | (verb) celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels | - |
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| misbelieve | (verb) hold a false or unorthodox belief | - |
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| misdeliver | (verb) deliver to the wrong address | - |
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| misspell | (verb) spell incorrectly | - |
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| model | (verb) form in clay, wax, etc | Synonyms: mold, mould |
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| (verb) construct a model in the likeness of | Synonyms: mock up |
| (verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: pattern |
| (verb) create a representation or simulation of | Synonyms: simulate |
| (verb) display (clothes) as a mannequin | - |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: pose, posture, sit |
| mongrelise | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelize |
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| mongrelize | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelise |
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| nickel | (verb) plate with nickel | - |
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| novelise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelize |
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| novelize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelise |
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| outsell | (verb) sell more than others | - |
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| (verb) be sold more often than other, similar products | - |
| overwhelm | (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: deluge, flood out |
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| (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overpower |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, submerge |
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overtake, sweep over, whelm |
| panel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, impanel |
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| (verb) decorate with panels | - |
| parallel | (verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: collimate |
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| (verb) be parallel to | - |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: duplicate, twin |
| parallelize | (verb) place parallel to one another | - |
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| parcel | (verb) make into a wrapped container | - |
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| (verb) cover with strips of canvas | - |
| (verb) divide into parts | - |
| peel | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, skin |
| (verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake, flake off, peel off |
| pelt | (verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pepper |
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| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: bombard |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| pommel | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: biff, pummel |
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| porcelainize | (verb) coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface | - |
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| prelude | (verb) play as a prelude | - |
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| (verb) serve as a prelude or opening to | - |
| propel | (verb) cause to move forward with force | Synonyms: impel |
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| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, prompt |
| proselytise | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytize |
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| proselytize | (verb) convert to another faith or religion | Synonyms: proselytise |
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| pummel | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: biff, pommel |
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| quarrel | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, scrap |
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| quell | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quench, squelch |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, stay |
| rappel | (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: abseil, rope down |
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| ravel | (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, tangle |
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| (verb) disentangle | Synonyms: ravel out, unravel |
| rebel | (verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: arise, rise, rise up |
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| (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: renegade |
| redevelop | (verb) change the plans for the use of (land) | - |
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| (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: reformulate |
| (verb) develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print | - |
| reel | (verb) wind onto or off a reel | - |
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| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, spin, spin around, whirl |
| reelect | (verb) elect again | Synonyms: return |
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| refuel | (verb) take on more fuel, as of a plane, ship, or car | - |
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| (verb) provide with additional fuel, as of aircraft, ships, and cars | - |
| reheel | (verb) put a new heel on | Synonyms: heel |
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| relace | (verb) lace again | - |
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| relapse | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress |
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| (verb) deteriorate in health | Synonyms: get worse |
| relate | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, tie in |
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| (verb) give an account of; narrate | - |
| (verb) have or establish a relationship to | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, touch, touch on |
| (verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: interrelate |
| relativise | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativize |
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| relativize | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativise |
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| relax | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, unlax, unstrain, unwind |
| (verb) make less taut | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, loosen |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: slack, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner | Synonyms: loosen up |
| relay | (verb) pass along | - |
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| (verb) control or operate by relay | - |
| relearn | (verb) learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it | - |
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| release | (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | Synonyms: secrete |
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| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, expel |
| (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: free, unblock, unfreeze |
| (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, publish, put out |
| (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, relinquish |
| (verb) let (something) fall or spill from a container | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, liberate |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, relinquish, resign |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, unloose, unloosen |
| (verb) make (information) available for publication | Synonyms: free |
| relegate | (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: classify |
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| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs |
| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, bar |
| (verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, submit |
| relent | (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: soften, yield |
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| relieve | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, palliate |
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| (verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: remedy |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: lighten |
| (verb) relieve oneself of troubling information | Synonyms: unbosom |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, exempt, let off |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, still |
| (verb) take by stealing | - |
| (verb) free from a burden, evil, or distress | - |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: salvage, salve, save |
| (verb) free someone temporarily from his or her obligations | Synonyms: take over |
| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: exempt, free |