avenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: retaliate, revenge |
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challenge | (verb) issue a challenge to | - |
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(verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
(verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
(verb) ask for identification | - |
counterchallenge | (verb) challenge in turn | - |
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disengage | (verb) become free | - |
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(verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: withdraw |
(verb) free or remove obstruction from | Synonyms: free |
engage | (verb) get caught | - |
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(verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engross, occupy |
(verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, plight |
(verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: lock, mesh, operate |
(verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, hire, lease, rent, take |
(verb) hire for work or assistance | Synonyms: enlist |
(verb) ask to represent; of legal counsel | - |
(verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: employ, hire |
(verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: prosecute, pursue |
(verb) carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Synonyms: wage |
engender | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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(verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, spawn |
engild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, gild |
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engineer | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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(verb) design as an engineer | - |
englut | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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engorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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engraft | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, imbed, implant, plant |
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(verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: graft, ingraft |
engrave | (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch |
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(verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: etch |
(verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: etch |
(verb) impress or affect deeply | - |
engross | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, occupy |
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(verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
engulf | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
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(verb) flow over or cover completely | - |
lengthen | (verb) become long or longer | - |
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(verb) make longer | - |
restrengthen | (verb) make strong again | - |
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revenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, retaliate |
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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 |
strengthen | (verb) give a healthy elasticity to | Synonyms: tone, tone up |
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(verb) gain strength | - |
(verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, fortify |