| roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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| rubber | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubberise, rubberize |
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| rubberise | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubber, rubberize |
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| rubberize | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubber, rubberise |
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| rubberneck | (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
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| rubberstamp | (verb) approve automatically | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: handstamp |
| saber | (verb) kill with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
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| (verb) cut or injure with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
| sandpaper | (verb) rub with sandpaper | Synonyms: sand |
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| saunter | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: stroll |
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| scamper | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scurry, scuttle, skitter |
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| scarper | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| scatter | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
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| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle |
| (verb) sow by scattering | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: spread, spread out |
| scupper | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, queer |
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| (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, waylay |
| secern | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| secernate | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| sequester | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw |
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| (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart |
| (verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | - |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize |
| (verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property | - |
| serenade | (verb) sing and play for somebody | - |
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| serialise | (verb) arrange serially | Synonyms: serialize |
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| serialize | (verb) arrange serially | Synonyms: serialise |
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| sermonise | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, preachify, sermonize |
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| sermonize | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, preachify, sermonise |
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| serrate | (verb) make saw-toothed or jag the edge of | - |
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| serve | (verb) do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function | - |
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| (verb) put the ball into play | - |
| (verb) provide (usually but not necessarily food) | Synonyms: dish, dish out, dish up, serve up |
| (verb) help to some food; help with food or drink | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: process, swear out |
| (verb) mate with | Synonyms: service |
| (verb) be used by; as of a utility | Synonyms: service |
| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: assist, attend, attend to, wait on |
| (verb) devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas | - |
| (verb) do military service | - |
| (verb) spend time in prison or in a labor camp | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) contribute or conduce to | - |
| (verb) promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to | Synonyms: serve well |
| (verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: function |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, suffice |
| service | (verb) make fit for use | - |
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| (verb) mate with | Synonyms: serve |
| (verb) be used by; as of a utility | Synonyms: serve |
| sever | (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, lop |
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| (verb) set or keep apart | Synonyms: break up |
| severalise | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalize |
| severalize | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalise |
| shatter | (verb) break into many pieces | - |
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| (verb) cause to break into many pieces | - |
| (verb) damage or destroy | - |
| sheer | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
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| (verb) cause to sheer | - |
| shelter | (verb) invest (money) so that it is not taxable | - |
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| (verb) provide shelter for | - |
| shepherd | (verb) tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats | - |
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| (verb) watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils | - |
| shimmer | (verb) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk | - |
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| (verb) shine with a weak or fitful light | - |
| shiver | (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shudder |
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| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shudder, thrill, throb |
| shoulder | (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
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| (verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
| (verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
| shower | (verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
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| (verb) provide abundantly with | - |
| (verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
| (verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
| shudder | (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shiver |
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| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, thrill, throb |
| shutter | (verb) close with shutters | - |
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| silver | (verb) make silver in color | - |
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| (verb) turn silver | - |
| (verb) coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam | - |
| silverplate | (verb) plate with silver | Synonyms: silver-plate |
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| simmer | (verb) boil slowly at low temperature | - |
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| simper | (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: smirk |
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| sinter | (verb) cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting | - |
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| skewer | (verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: spit |
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| skipper | (verb) work as the skipper on a vessel | - |
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| skitter | (verb) twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water | - |
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| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skim, skip |
| (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, scuttle |
| (verb) glide easily along a surface | - |
| slabber | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slaver, slobber |
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| slander | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, smear, smirch, sully |
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| slather | (verb) spread thickly | - |
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| slaughter | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: massacre, mow down |
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| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: butcher |
| slaver | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slobber |
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| sledgehammer | (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledge |
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| slenderise | (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderize |
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| slenderize | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderise |
| slither | (verb) to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly | Synonyms: slide |
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| sliver | (verb) break up into splinters or slivers | Synonyms: splinter |
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| (verb) form into slivers | - |
| (verb) divide into slivers or splinters | Synonyms: splinter |
| slobber | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slaver |
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| sloganeer | (verb) coin new slogans | - |
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| slumber | (verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep |
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| smatter | (verb) speak with spotty or superficial knowledge | - |
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| (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, blither |
| (verb) work with in an amateurish manner | Synonyms: dabble, play around |
| smolder | (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smoulder |
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| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smoulder |
| smother | (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
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| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: surround |
| (verb) deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion | Synonyms: put out |
| (verb) form an impenetrable cover over | - |
| smoulder | (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smolder |
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| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smolder |
| sneer | (verb) smile contemptuously | - |
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| (verb) express through a scornful smile | - |
| snicker | (verb) laugh quietly | Synonyms: snigger |
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| snigger | (verb) laugh quietly | Synonyms: snicker |
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| snooker | (verb) leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot | - |
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| (verb) fool or dupe | - |
| sober | (verb) become sober after excessive alcohol consumption | Synonyms: sober up |
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| (verb) become more realistic | Synonyms: sober up |
| (verb) cause to become sober | - |
| solder | (verb) join or fuse with solder | - |
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| soldier | (verb) serve as a soldier in the military | - |
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| somersault | (verb) do a somersault | - |
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| sorcerise | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerize |
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| sorcerize | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerise |
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| spatter | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: bespatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spit, sprinkle |
| splatter | (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, spill |
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| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splosh, swash |
| splinter | (verb) break up into splinters or slivers | Synonyms: sliver |
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| (verb) withdraw from an organization or communion | Synonyms: break away, secede |
| (verb) divide into slivers or splinters | Synonyms: sliver |
| splutter | (verb) spit up in an explosive manner | Synonyms: spit out, sputter |
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| (verb) utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | Synonyms: sputter |
| sputter | (verb) spit up in an explosive manner | Synonyms: spit out, splutter |
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| (verb) cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed | - |
| (verb) utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | Synonyms: splutter |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle |
| (verb) make an explosive sound | - |
| squander | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, ware, waste |
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| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, waste |
| stagger | (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: distribute |
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| (verb) astound or overwhelm, as with shock | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, swag |
| (verb) walk with great difficulty | Synonyms: flounder |
| stammer | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, falter, stutter |
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| steamer | (verb) travel by means of steam power | Synonyms: steam |
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| steamroller | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroll |
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| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) crush with a steamroller as if to level | - |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroll |
| steer | (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point |
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| (verb) direct (oneself) somewhere | - |
| (verb) be a guiding or motivating force or drive | Synonyms: guide |
| stereotype | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: pigeonhole, stamp |
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| sterilise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilize |
| sterilize | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilise |
| stopper | (verb) close or secure with or as if with a stopper | Synonyms: stopple |
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| stutter | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, falter, stammer |
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| submerge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, inundate |
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| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, overwhelm |
| (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerse |
| (verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerse |
| submerse | (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerge |
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| (verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerge |
| subserve | (verb) be helpful or useful | - |
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| subvert | (verb) to raze to the ground, also figuratively | - |
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| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate |
| suffer | (verb) be in pain | Synonyms: hurt |
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| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, have, sustain |
| (verb) feel unwell or uncomfortable | - |
| (verb) get worse in quality | - |
| (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: lose |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, support, tolerate |
| (verb) experience (emotional) pain | - |
| (verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: ache, hurt |
| (verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: endure |
| (verb) undergo or suffer | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) be given to | - |
| summer | (verb) spend the summer | - |
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| summerise | (verb) prepare for summer | Synonyms: summerize |
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| summerize | (verb) prepare for summer | Synonyms: summerise |
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| sunder | (verb) break apart or in two, using violence | - |
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| superannuate | (verb) retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity | - |
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| (verb) become obsolete | - |
| (verb) declare to be obsolete | - |
| (verb) retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability | - |
| supercharge | (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, pressurize |
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| (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: advance, boost |
| superfetate | (verb) conceive when a fetus is already present in the uterus | - |
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