| huff | (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, puff |
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| (verb) inhale recreational drugs | Synonyms: snort |
| humidify | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: moisturise, moisturize |
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| humify | (verb) convert (plant remains) into humus | - |
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| identify | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: place |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, key, key out, name |
| (verb) consider to be equal or the same | - |
| (verb) conceive of as united or associated | - |
| (verb) consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else | - |
| (verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property | Synonyms: name |
| indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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| (verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
| infatuate | (verb) arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way | - |
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| infect | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism | Synonyms: taint |
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| (verb) communicate a disease to | - |
| (verb) affect in a contagious way | - |
| (verb) corrupt with ideas or an ideology | - |
| 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 |
| infest | (verb) invade in great numbers | Synonyms: overrun |
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| (verb) live on or in a host, as of parasites | - |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: invade, overrun |
| infiltrate | (verb) pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict | Synonyms: pass through |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices | - |
| (verb) pass into or through by filtering or permeating | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: penetrate |
| infix | (verb) attach a morpheme into a stem word | - |
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| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, insert, introduce |
| inflame | (verb) become inflamed; get sore | - |
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| (verb) cause inflammation in | - |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, kindle |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: kindle |
| inflate | (verb) fill with gas or air | Synonyms: blow up |
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| (verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: amplify, blow up, expand |
| (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, billow |
| (verb) increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value | - |
| (verb) cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit | - |
| inflect | (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: modulate, tone |
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| (verb) change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language | - |
| inflict | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, impose, visit |
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| influence | (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
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| (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: charm, tempt |
| (verb) have and exert influence or effect | Synonyms: act upon, work |
| inform | (verb) give character or essence to | - |
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| (verb) impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to | - |
| (verb) act as an informer | - |
| infract | (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, offend, transgress, violate |
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| infringe | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, impinge |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, contravene, run afoul |
| infuriate | (verb) make furious | Synonyms: exasperate, incense |
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| infuscate | (verb) darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings | - |
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| infuse | (verb) introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes | - |
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| (verb) let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse | Synonyms: steep |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, instill, tincture |
| (verb) undergo the process of infusion | - |
| (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, instill |
| ingraft | (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: engraft, graft |
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| insufflate | (verb) blow or breathe hard on or into | - |
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| (verb) treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity | - |
| (verb) breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit | - |
| intensify | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: deepen |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, heighten |
| (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: escalate, step up |
| (verb) make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark | - |
| 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 | - |
| interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
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| jackknife | (verb) dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife | - |
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| jellify | (verb) become jelly | - |
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| (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jelly |
| jollify | (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
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| justify | (verb) adjust the spaces between words | - |
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| (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: vindicate |
| (verb) (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin | - |
| knife | (verb) use a knife on | Synonyms: stab |
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| lapidify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: petrify |
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| leaf | (verb) produce leaves, of plants | - |
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| (verb) turn over pages | - |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, riff, riffle, thumb |
| leapfrog | (verb) progress by large jumps instead of small increments | - |
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| (verb) to vault | - |
| lenify | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, mollify, pacify, placate |
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| lifehack | (verb) make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
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| lift | (verb) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face | Synonyms: face-lift |
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| (verb) remove from a surface | - |
| (verb) put an end to | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) remove (hair) by scalping | - |
| (verb) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture | - |
| (verb) invigorate or heighten | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: elevate, raise |
| (verb) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery | - |
| (verb) take off or away by decreasing | - |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) make audible | - |
| (verb) take hold of something and move it to a different location | - |
| (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: hoist, wind |
| (verb) take (root crops) out of the ground | - |
| (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: airlift |
| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, raise |
| (verb) move upwards | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plagiarise, plagiarize |
| (verb) pay off (a mortgage) | - |
| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: rustle |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: rear, rise |
| lignify | (verb) convert into wood or cause to become woody | - |
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| liquefy | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquify |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquidise, liquidize, liquify |
| (verb) become liquid | - |
| liquify | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquefy |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquidize |
| loaf | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
| loft | (verb) lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull | - |
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| (verb) propel through the air | - |
| (verb) kick or strike high in the air | - |
| (verb) store in a loft | - |
| luff | (verb) flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides | - |
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| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: point |
| magnify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: amplify |
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| (verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, enlarge |
| (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate |
| malfunction | (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: misfunction |
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| manifest | (verb) reveal its presence or make an appearance | - |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, evidence |
| (verb) record in a ship's manifest | - |
| manifold | (verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: multiply |
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| (verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: multiply |
| manufacture | (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
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| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
| (verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
| (verb) produce naturally | - |
| metrify | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metricize |
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| (verb) compose in poetic meter | - |
| microfilm | (verb) record on microfilm | - |
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| miff | (verb) cause to be annoyed | - |
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| minify | (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, lessen |
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| misfire | (verb) fail to fire or detonate | - |
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| misfunction | (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: malfunction |
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| misidentify | (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: mistake |
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| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| modify | (verb) make less severe or harsh or extreme | - |
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| (verb) add a modifier to a constituent | Synonyms: qualify |
| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, change |
| mollify | (verb) make less rigid or softer | - |
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| (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: moderate, season, temper |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, pacify, placate |
| mortify | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, necrose, sphacelate |
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| (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: crucify, subdue |
| (verb) practice self-denial of one's body and appetites | - |
| mothproof | (verb) protect from moths | - |
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| muff | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, screw up, spoil |
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| (verb) fail to catch, as of a ball | - |
| muffle | (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: repress, smother, stifle, strangle |
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| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down |
| mummify | (verb) dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture | Synonyms: dry up |
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| (verb) remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it | - |
| (verb) preserve while making lifeless | - |
| mystify | (verb) make mysterious | - |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| nazify | (verb) cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character | - |
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| nitrify | (verb) treat (soil) with nitrates | - |
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| (verb) treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound | Synonyms: nitrogenise, nitrogenize |
| (verb) convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria | - |
| notify | (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: advise, apprise, apprize, give notice, send word |
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| nullify | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralise, neutralize |
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| (verb) show to be invalid | Synonyms: invalidate |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, quash, void |
| nutrify | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nourish |
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| obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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| objectify | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, depersonalize |
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| (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize |
| off | (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, polish off, remove, slay |
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| offend | (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, spite, wound |
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| (verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: pique |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, transgress, violate |
| offer | (verb) put forward for consideration | - |
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| (verb) threaten to do something | - |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, pop the question, propose |
| (verb) produce or introduce on the stage | - |
| (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, tender |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, provide, render, supply |
| (verb) make available for sale | - |
| (verb) offer verbally | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) make available; provide | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) agree freely | Synonyms: volunteer |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: provide, put up |
| (verb) present as an act of worship | Synonyms: offer up |
| officer | (verb) direct or command as an officer | - |
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| officialise | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialize |
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| officialize | (verb) make official | Synonyms: officialise |
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| officiate | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: function |
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| (verb) act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding | - |
| offload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: unlade, unload |
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| (verb) transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data | - |
| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| offset | (verb) produce by offset printing | - |
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| (verb) create an offset in | - |
| (verb) cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface | - |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: cancel, set off |
| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: countervail |
| opacify | (verb) become opaque | - |
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| (verb) make opaque | - |
| ossify | (verb) become bony | - |
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| (verb) cause to become hard and bony | - |
| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: petrify, rigidify |
| outface | (verb) overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring | Synonyms: outstare, stare down |
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| outfight | (verb) to fight better than; get the better of | - |
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| outfit | (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: equip, fit, fit out |
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| outflank | (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outdo, scoop, trump |
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| (verb) go around the flank of (an opposing army) | Synonyms: go around |
| outfox | (verb) outdo someone in trickery | - |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| outperform | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| overfatigue | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overtire, overweary |
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| overfeed | (verb) feed excessively | - |
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| overfill | (verb) fill beyond capacity | - |
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| overflow | (verb) overflow with a certain feeling | Synonyms: bubble over, spill over |
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| (verb) flow or run over (a limit or brim) | Synonyms: brim over, overrun, run over, well over |
| overfly | (verb) fly over | Synonyms: pass over |
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| overrefine | (verb) refine too much or with excess of subtlety | Synonyms: over-refine |
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| oversimplify | (verb) simplify to an excessive degree | - |
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| overstuff | (verb) stuff too much | - |
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| pacify | (verb) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location) | - |
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| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, placate |
| perfect | (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: hone |
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