| aberrate | (verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration | - |
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| (verb) diverge from the expected | - |
| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| accouter | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accoutre |
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| acerbate | (verb) make sour or bitter | - |
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| (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: embitter, envenom |
| adhere | (verb) follow through or carry out a plan without deviation | - |
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| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: bind, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to |
| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: cleave, cling, cohere, stick |
| (verb) be compatible or in accordance with | - |
| (verb) be loyal to | Synonyms: stand by, stick, stick by |
| (verb) be a devoted follower or supporter | Synonyms: stick |
| administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
| (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
| (verb) direct the taking of | - |
| adulterate | (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: debase, dilute, load, stretch |
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| advert | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: allude, touch |
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| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: bring up, cite, mention, name, refer |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: attend, give ear, hang, pay heed |
| advertise | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertize, promote, push |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertize, publicise, publicize |
| advertize | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, promote, push |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, publicise, publicize |
| aerate | (verb) aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | Synonyms: activate |
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| (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: oxygenate, oxygenise, oxygenize |
| (verb) expose to fresh air | Synonyms: air, air out |
| aerify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: gasify, vaporise, vaporize |
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| aerosolise | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
| aerosolize | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
| agglomerate | (verb) form into one cluster | - |
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| alert | (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alarm |
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| alliterate | (verb) use alliteration as a form of poetry | - |
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| alter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: castrate, neuter, spay |
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| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: change, vary |
| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: change, modify |
| (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: falsify, interpolate |
| (verb) make an alteration to | - |
| altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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| alternate | (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
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| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| amerce | (verb) punish with an arbitrary penalty | - |
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| (verb) punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court | - |
| anger | (verb) make angry | - |
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| (verb) become angry | Synonyms: see red |
| animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
| answer | (verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
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| (verb) respond to a signal | - |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
| (verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
| (verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
| (verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
| (verb) match or correspond | - |
| (verb) be liable or accountable | - |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
| apperceive | (verb) perceive in terms of a past experience | - |
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| appertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: pertain |
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| arterialise | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialize |
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| arterialize | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialise |
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| ascertain | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) learn or discover with certainty | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: check, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: determine, find, find out |
| asperse | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| assert | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: insist |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: asseverate, maintain |
| (verb) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized | Synonyms: put forward |
| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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| asterisk | (verb) mark with an asterisk | Synonyms: star |
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| attemper | (verb) modify the temperature of | - |
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| auctioneer | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
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| aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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| (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
| average | (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
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| (verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
| (verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
| avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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| bacterise | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterize |
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| bacterize | (verb) subject to the action of bacteria | Synonyms: bacterise |
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| badger | (verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
| banter | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: chaff, jolly, josh, kid |
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| barber | (verb) perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of | - |
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| barter | (verb) exchange goods without involving money | - |
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| batter | (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: dinge |
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| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, clobber |
| (verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: buffet, knock about |
| beaver | (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
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| 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 |
| beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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| berate | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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| berry | (verb) pick or gather berries | - |
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| berth | (verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: moor, tie up |
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| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: moor, wharf |
| (verb) provide with a berth | - |
| bespatter | (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: spatter |
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| better | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, improve, meliorate |
| (verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: break |
| bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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| bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
| bicker | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| bitter | (verb) make bitter | - |
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| blabber | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| blackberry | (verb) pick or gather blackberries | - |
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| blather | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blether, blither, smatter |
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| blether | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blither, smatter |
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| blinker | (verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
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| blister | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
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| (verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
| blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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| blubber | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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| (verb) utter while crying | Synonyms: blubber out |
| blunder | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
| bluster | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
| bolster | (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
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| (verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
| (verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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| boomerang | (verb) return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang | - |
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| border | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: environ, ring, skirt, surround |
| (verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: frame, frame in |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: edge |
| (verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: bound |
| bother | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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| (verb) make confused or perplexed or puzzled | - |
| (verb) make nervous or agitated | - |
| (verb) intrude or enter uninvited | - |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
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| broider | (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: embroider |
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| broker | (verb) act as a broker | - |
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| buccaneer | (verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
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| buffer | (verb) add a buffer (a solution) | - |
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| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: cushion, soften |
| bugger | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: sodomise, sodomize |
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| bunker | (verb) hit a golf ball into a bunker | - |
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| (verb) transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse | - |
| (verb) fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil | - |
| butcher | (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
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| butter | (verb) spread butter on | - |
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| butterfly | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| (verb) cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking | - |
| (verb) flutter like a butterfly | - |
| calender | (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
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| caliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
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| calliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: caliper |
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| camber | (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
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| canker | (verb) infect with a canker | - |
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| (verb) become infected with a canker | - |
| canter | (verb) ride at a canter | - |
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| (verb) go at a canter, of horses | - |
| (verb) cause to ride at a cantering pace | - |
| cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
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| (verb) project as a cantilever | - |
| caper | (verb) jump about playfully | - |
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| career | (verb) move headlong at high speed | - |
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| carpenter | (verb) work as a carpenter | - |
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| cashier | (verb) discharge with dishonor, as in the army | - |
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| (verb) discard or do away with | - |
| cater | (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: ply, provide, supply |
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| (verb) supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets | - |
| caterwaul | (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
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