| overgeneralize | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralise |
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| overspend | (verb) spend at a high rate | - |
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| (verb) spend more than available of (a budget) | - |
| oxygenate | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenise, oxygenize |
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| oxygenise | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenate, oxygenize |
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| (verb) dehydrogenate with oxygen | Synonyms: oxygenize |
| (verb) change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule) | Synonyms: oxygenize |
| oxygenize | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenate, oxygenise |
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| (verb) dehydrogenate with oxygen | Synonyms: oxygenise |
| (verb) change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule) | Synonyms: oxygenise |
| parent | (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, raise, rear |
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| patent | (verb) make open to sight or notice | - |
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| (verb) obtain a patent for | - |
| (verb) grant rights to; grant a patent for | - |
| pen | (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, write |
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| penalise | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalize, punish |
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| penalize | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, punish |
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| pencil | (verb) write, draw, or trace with a pencil | - |
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| penetrate | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, fathom |
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| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, sink in |
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) insert the penis into the vagina or anus of | - |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) make one's way deeper into or through | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: infiltrate |
| pension | (verb) grant a pension to | Synonyms: pension off |
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| perennate | (verb) survive from season to season, of plants | - |
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| photosensitise | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitize |
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| photosensitize | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitise |
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| pigment | (verb) color or dye with a pigment | - |
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| (verb) acquire pigment; become colored or imbued | - |
| pollenate | (verb) fertilize by transferring pollen | Synonyms: cross-pollinate, pollinate |
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| portend | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| potentiate | (verb) increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon) | - |
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| preen | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, primp |
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| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: congratulate |
| (verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: plume |
| prehend | (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, seize, take hold, take hold of |
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| present | (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, represent |
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| (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: acquaint, introduce |
| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: salute |
| (verb) formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc. | - |
| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, face |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: represent, stage |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: portray |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, show |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, give |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: award |
| (verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: pose |
| pretend | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
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| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make, make believe |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: profess |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, dissemble |
| (verb) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | - |
| prevent | (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude |
| promenade | (verb) take a leisurely walk | - |
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| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, troop |
| queen | (verb) become a queen | - |
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| (verb) promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess | - |
| quench | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, squelch |
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| (verb) cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid | - |
| (verb) reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance | - |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, slake |
| (verb) suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device | - |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, extinguish, snuff out |
| quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) show signs of life | - |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
| quieten | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, shut up, silence, still |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down |
| raiment | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, tog |
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| raven | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, guttle, pig |
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| (verb) feed greedily | - |
| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, prey |
| (verb) obtain or seize by violence | - |
| reawaken | (verb) awaken once again | - |
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| recommence | (verb) begin again | - |
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| (verb) cause to start anew | - |
| recommend | (verb) make attractive or acceptable | - |
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| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, urge |
| recompense | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, remunerate |
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| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, repair |
| reconvene | (verb) meet again | - |
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| 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 | - |
| reenact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, enact |
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| (verb) enact or perform again | - |
| (verb) enact again | - |
| reenforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| reference | (verb) refer to | Synonyms: cite |
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| refreshen | (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refresh |
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| (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refresh |
| regenerate | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: revitalize |
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| (verb) undergo regeneration | - |
| (verb) form or produce anew | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore |
| (verb) replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue | - |
| (verb) be formed or shaped anew | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform |
| (verb) amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit | - |
| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: renew |
| regiment | (verb) assign to a regiment | - |
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| (verb) form (military personnel) into a regiment | - |
| (verb) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization | - |
| reinvent | (verb) create anew and make over | - |
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| (verb) bring back into existence | - |
| rejuvenate | (verb) become young again | - |
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| (verb) make younger or more youthful | - |
| (verb) develop youthful topographical features | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: regenerate, restore |
| (verb) cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land | - |
| relent | (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: soften, yield |
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| rename | (verb) assign a new name to | - |
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| (verb) name again or anew | - |
| rend | (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rip, rive |
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| render | (verb) cause to become | - |
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| (verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: try |
| (verb) bestow | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, return |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, translate |
| (verb) coat with plastic or cement | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, return, yield |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, show |
| (verb) give back | Synonyms: return |
| (verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, provide, supply |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: deliver, fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, turn in |
| rendezvous | (verb) meet at a rendezvous | - |
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| renegade | (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: rebel |
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| renege | (verb) fail to fulfill a promise or obligation | Synonyms: go back on, renege on, renegue on |
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| renegociate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegotiate |
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| (verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegotiate |
| renegotiate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegociate |
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| (verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegociate |
| renew | (verb) cause to appear in a new form | Synonyms: reincarnate |
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| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: regenerate |
| renormalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalize |
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| renormalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalise |
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| renounce | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: disown, repudiate |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, relinquish |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, resign, vacate |
| (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: abdicate |
| renovate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) restore to a previous or better condition | Synonyms: restitute |
| (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, refurbish |
| rent | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take |
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| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: lease, let |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, hire, lease |
| (verb) let for money | Synonyms: lease |
| reopen | (verb) open again or anew | - |
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| reorient | (verb) set or arrange in a new or different determinate position | - |
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| (verb) cause to turn | - |
| (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorientate |
| reorientate | (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorient |
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| repent | (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: regret, rue |
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| (verb) turn away from sin or do penitence | Synonyms: atone |
| replenish | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, refill |
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| reprehend | (verb) to rebuke or reprimand | - |
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| represent | (verb) to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | Synonyms: map |
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| (verb) serve as a means of expressing something | - |
| (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify |
| (verb) point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance | - |
| (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, present |
| (verb) describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality | - |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, play |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: present, stage |
| (verb) be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute | - |
| (verb) be representative or typical for | - |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, constitute, make up |
| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: exemplify |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: correspond, stand for |
| resent | (verb) feel bitter or indignant about | - |
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| (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: begrudge |
| resplend | (verb) be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly | - |
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| restrengthen | (verb) make strong again | - |
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| resuspend | (verb) put back into suspension | - |
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| retrench | (verb) make a reduction, as in one's workforce | - |
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| (verb) tighten one's belt; use resources carefully | - |
| revenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, retaliate |
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| reverence | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, venerate |
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| ripen | (verb) grow ripe | - |
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| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: mature |
| roughen | (verb) make rough or rougher | - |
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| sadden | (verb) come to feel sad | - |
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| (verb) make unhappy | - |
| scavenge | (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) feed on carrion or refuse | - |
| (verb) clean refuse from | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: salvage |
| scend | (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| scent | (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: perfume |
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| (verb) catch the scent of; get wind of | Synonyms: nose, wind |
| (verb) cause to smell or be smelly | Synonyms: odorize, odourise |
| screen | (verb) examine methodically | - |
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| (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: shield |
| (verb) prevent from entering | Synonyms: block out |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: riddle |
| (verb) project onto a screen for viewing | - |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen out, sieve, sort |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: test |
| screenshot | (verb) to capture an image from a computer's display | - |
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| sediment | (verb) settle as sediment | - |
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| (verb) deposit as a sediment | - |
| segment | (verb) divide into segments | Synonyms: section |
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| (verb) divide or split up | - |
| send | (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: mail, post |
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| (verb) transfer | Synonyms: get off, send off |
| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, transmit |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: place, post, station |
| (verb) to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: send out |
| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: ship, transport |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: direct |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, institutionalize |
| senesce | (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, mature |
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| sense | (verb) discern | - |
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| (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: smell, smell out |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) detect some circumstance or entity automatically | - |
| sensibilise | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensibilize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensify | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensitise | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitize |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitize |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitize |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitize |
| sensitize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitise |
| sensualise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualize |
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| sensualize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualise |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: carnalize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: carnalize |
| sentence | (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: condemn, doom |
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| sentimentalise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalize, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| sentimentalize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| sentimentise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentize |
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| sentimentize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentise |
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