| hyperventilate | (verb) breathe excessively hard and fast | - |
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| (verb) produce hyperventilation in | - |
| immaterialise | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immaterialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immerse | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, swallow, swallow up |
| imperil | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| impersonate | (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: personate, pose |
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| (verb) represent another person with comic intentions | - |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: portray |
| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| incarcerate | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| incinerate | (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) become reduced to ashes | - |
| infer | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, deduct, derive |
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| (verb) believe to be the case | Synonyms: understand |
| (verb) guess correctly; solve by guessing | Synonyms: guess |
| (verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic | Synonyms: deduce |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, generalize |
| inhere | (verb) be inherent in something | - |
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| inherit | (verb) obtain from someone after their death | - |
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| (verb) receive by genetic transmission | - |
| (verb) receive from a predecessor | - |
| innervate | (verb) stimulate to action | - |
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| (verb) supply nerves to (some organ or body part) | - |
| insert | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, inclose, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) insert casually | Synonyms: slip in, sneak in, stick in |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, infix, introduce |
| (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: tuck |
| inter | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, entomb, inhume, lay to rest |
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| interact | (verb) act together or towards others or with others | - |
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| interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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| intercalate | (verb) insert (days) in a calendar | - |
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| intercede | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| intercept | (verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: stop |
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| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, tap, wiretap |
| interchange | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, switch, tack |
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| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, transpose |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, exchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, replace, substitute |
| intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
| interconnect | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interlink |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interlink |
| interdepend | (verb) be connected | Synonyms: hang together |
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| interdict | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | - |
| interest | (verb) excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of | - |
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| (verb) be of importance or consequence | Synonyms: matter to |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, occupy, worry |
| interfere | (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interpose, intervene, step in |
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| (verb) come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle | - |
| interiorise | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorize, internalise, internalize |
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| interiorize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, internalise, internalize |
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| interject | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interpose, put in, throw in |
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| interlace | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlock, lock |
| interlard | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: intersperse |
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| interleave | (verb) intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations | - |
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| (verb) intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data | - |
| (verb) provide (books) with blank leaves | - |
| interlink | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interconnect |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interconnect |
| interlock | (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: mesh |
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| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: lock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, lock |
| interlope | (verb) encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license | - |
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| interlude | (verb) perform an interlude | - |
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| intermarry | (verb) marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group | - |
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| intermediate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, liaise, mediate |
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| intermingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermix |
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| intermit | (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, pause |
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| intermix | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermingle |
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| intern | (verb) deprive of freedom | - |
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| (verb) work as an intern | - |
| internalise | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalize |
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| internalize | (verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal | Synonyms: interiorise, interiorize, internalise |
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| internationalise | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalize |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalize |
| internationalize | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalise |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalise |
| interpellate | (verb) question formally about policy or government business | - |
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| interpenetrate | (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: permeate |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| interpolate | (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, falsify |
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| (verb) estimate the value of something based on known values | Synonyms: extrapolate |
| interpose | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interject, put in, throw in |
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| (verb) to put forth by way of intervention | - |
| (verb) be or come between | - |
| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, intervene, step in |
| interpret | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, see |
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| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: read, translate, understand |
| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: rede |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: render, translate |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: represent |
| interrelate | (verb) place into a mutual relationship | - |
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| (verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: relate |
| interrogate | (verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: question |
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| (verb) transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication | - |
| interrupt | (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: break |
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| (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: disrupt |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, disrupt |
| intersect | (verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: cross |
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| intersperse | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: interlard |
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| (verb) place at intervals in or among | - |
| interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
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| intertwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, lace, twine |
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| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: loop |
| (verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: tat |
| intervene | (verb) occur between other event or between certain points of time | - |
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| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, interpose, step in |
| (verb) be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events | - |
| interview | (verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: question |
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| (verb) discuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation | - |
| (verb) go for an interview in the hope of being hired | - |
| interweave | (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: weave |
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| introvert | (verb) turn inside | - |
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| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| invert | (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: reverse, turn back |
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| (verb) make an inversion (in a musical composition) | - |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: reverse |
| isomerise | (verb) change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerize |
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| (verb) cause to change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerize |
| isomerize | (verb) change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
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| (verb) cause to change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
| iterate | (verb) run or be performed again | - |
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| (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
| itinerate | (verb) travel from place to place, as for work | - |
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| jabber | (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout |
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| jeer | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, scoff |
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| jerk | (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: twitch |
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| (verb) throw or toss with a quick motion | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) pull, or move with a sudden movement | Synonyms: yank |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: twitch |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, hitch |
| jitterbug | (verb) do the jitterbug | - |
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| judder | (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: shake |
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| junketeer | (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junket |
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| keratinise | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
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| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
| keratinize | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
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| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
| kern | (verb) remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) | - |
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| (verb) furnish with a kern | - |
| lacerate | (verb) cut or tear irregularly | - |
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| (verb) deeply hurt the feelings of; distress | - |
| lacquer | (verb) coat with lacquer | - |
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| ladder | (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: run |
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| lateralize | (verb) move or displace to one side so as to make lateral | - |
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| lather | (verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning | Synonyms: soap |
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| (verb) exude sweat or lather | - |
| (verb) form a lather | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
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| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
| layer | (verb) make or form a layer | - |
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| leather | (verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
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| leer | (verb) look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression | - |
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| letter | (verb) mark letters on or mark with letters | - |
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| (verb) set down or print with letters | - |
| (verb) win an athletic letter | - |
| lever | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, prise, prize, pry |
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| leverage | (verb) provide with leverage | - |
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| (verb) supplement with leverage | - |
| liberalise | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalize |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalize |
| liberalize | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalise |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalise |
| liberate | (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, release |
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| (verb) grant freedom to | Synonyms: set free |
| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: emancipate |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, loose, release, unloose, unloosen |
| lighter | (verb) transport in a flatbottom boat | - |
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| limber | (verb) cause to become limber | - |
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| (verb) attach the limber | Synonyms: limber up |
| linger | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: dawdle |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: tarry |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: hover |
| (verb) remain present although waning or gradually dying | - |
| literalise | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalize |
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| literalize | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalise |
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| litter | (verb) give birth to a litter of animals | - |
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| (verb) make a place messy by strewing garbage around | - |
| (verb) strew | - |
| loiter | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| lower | (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lour, turn down |
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| (verb) set lower | Synonyms: lour |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: depress |
| (verb) move something or somebody to a lower position | Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down |
| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lour |