| befall | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, happen |
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| (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, betide |
| benefact | (verb) help as a benefactor | - |
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| boldface | (verb) print in boldface | - |
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| breakfast | (verb) eat an early morning meal | - |
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| (verb) provide breakfast for | - |
| buffalo | (verb) intimidate or overawe | - |
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| confab | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confabulate, confer, consult |
| confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
| (verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
| deface | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, disfigure |
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| defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| defame | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| defang | (verb) remove the fangs from | - |
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| defat | (verb) remove the fat from | - |
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| default | (verb) fail to pay up | Synonyms: default on |
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| disfavor | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disadvantage, disfavour |
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| disfavour | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disadvantage, disfavor |
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| efface | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: obliterate |
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| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: erase, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| (verb) make inconspicuous | - |
| fabricate | (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, invent, make up, manufacture |
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| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, manufacture |
| face | (verb) deal with (something unpleasant) head on | Synonyms: confront, face up |
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| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, present |
| (verb) oppose, as in hostility or a competition | Synonyms: confront |
| (verb) line the edge (of a garment) with a different material | - |
| (verb) cover the front or surface of | - |
| (verb) turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction | - |
| (verb) turn so as to expose the face | - |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: front, look |
| (verb) be opposite | - |
| facilitate | (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, ease |
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| (verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) | - |
| (verb) be of use | Synonyms: help |
| facsimile | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
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| factor | (verb) resolve into factors | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
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| (verb) consider as relevant when making a decision | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
| (verb) be a contributing factor | - |
| factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
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| factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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| fade | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: languish |
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| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fleet, pass, pass off |
| (verb) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality | Synonyms: wither |
| (verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly | Synonyms: melt |
| fag | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| (verb) act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools | - |
| faggot | (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot up, fagot |
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| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: fagot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: fagot |
| fagot | (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot, faggot up |
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| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: faggot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: faggot |
| fail | (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, give out, give way, go, go bad |
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| (verb) deteriorate | - |
| (verb) prove insufficient | Synonyms: give out, run out |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close | - |
| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: go wrong, miscarry |
| (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, flunk, flush it |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: neglect |
| (verb) judge unacceptable | - |
| (verb) be unable | - |
| (verb) fall short in what is expected | - |
| faint | (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: conk, pass out, swoon |
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| fair | (verb) join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly | - |
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| fake | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, talk through one's hat |
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| (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, forge |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| falcon | (verb) hunt with falcons | - |
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| fall | (verb) occur at a specified time or place | - |
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| (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, lessen |
| (verb) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind | - |
| (verb) be born, used chiefly of lambs | - |
| (verb) come out; issue | - |
| (verb) assume a disappointed or sad expression | - |
| (verb) begin vigorously | - |
| (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, settle |
| (verb) be cast down | - |
| (verb) go as if by falling | - |
| (verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: flow, hang |
| (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, descend, go down |
| (verb) move in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) descend in free fall under the influence of gravity | - |
| (verb) slope downward | - |
| (verb) drop oneself to a lower or less erect position | - |
| (verb) lose an upright position suddenly | Synonyms: fall down |
| (verb) to be given by assignment or distribution | - |
| (verb) be captured | - |
| (verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) come into the possession of | Synonyms: accrue |
| (verb) to be given by right or inheritance | - |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, pass, return |
| (verb) lose office or power | - |
| (verb) yield to temptation or sin | - |
| (verb) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin | - |
| (verb) lose one's chastity | - |
| (verb) die, as in battle or in a hunt | - |
| (verb) be due | - |
| (verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: shine, strike |
| (verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, precipitate |
| falsify | (verb) falsify knowingly | - |
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| (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, interpolate |
| (verb) prove false | - |
| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, garble, warp |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| falter | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, stammer, stutter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, stumble |
| (verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: waver |
| (verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: waver |
| familiarise | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarize |
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| familiarize | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise |
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| famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
| fan | (verb) make (an emotion) fiercer | - |
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| (verb) blow away or off with a current of air | Synonyms: winnow |
| (verb) strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher) | - |
| (verb) agitate the air | - |
| fancify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, prettify |
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| fancy | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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| (verb) have a fancy or particular liking or desire for | Synonyms: go for, take to |
| fangirl | (verb) to be a extreme female fan of something | - |
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| fantasise | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasize, fantasy |
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| (verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasize |
| fantasize | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasy |
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| (verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasise |
| fantasy | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasize |
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| farce | (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: stuff |
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| fare | (verb) eat well | - |
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| (verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: come, do, get along, make out |
| farm | (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: grow, produce, raise |
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| (verb) collect fees or profits | - |
| (verb) be a farmer; work as a farmer | - |
| farrow | (verb) give birth to (piglets) | Synonyms: pig |
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| fart | (verb) expel intestinal gases through the anus | Synonyms: break wind |
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| fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
| fashion | (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: forge |
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| fast | (verb) abstain from eating | - |
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| (verb) abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons | - |
| fasten | (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: tighten |
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| (verb) become fixed or fastened | - |
| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fix, secure |
| (verb) attach to | - |
| fat | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
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| fate | (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, destine, doom |
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| father | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| fathom | (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: sound |
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| (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, penetrate |
| fatigue | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: jade, pall, tire, weary |
| fatten | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
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| fault | (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: blame |
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| favor | (verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favour |
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| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favour, prefer |
| (verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favour |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favour, privilege |
| favorite | (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favourite |
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| favour | (verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favor |
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| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, prefer |
| (verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favor |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, privilege |
| favourite | (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favorite |
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| fawn | (verb) have fawns | - |
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| (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, grovel |
| fax | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: facsimile, telefax |
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| faze | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, unnerve, unsettle |
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| guffaw | (verb) laugh boisterously | Synonyms: laugh loudly |
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| infatuate | (verb) arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way | - |
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| 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 | - |
| outface | (verb) overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring | Synonyms: outstare, stare down |
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| overfatigue | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overtire, overweary |
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| prefabricate | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: preassemble |
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| (verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |
| preface | (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, premise |
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| profane | (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, violate |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, subvert, vitiate |
| reface | (verb) put a new facing on (a garment) | - |
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| (verb) provide with a new facing | - |
| refashion | (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, redo, remake |
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| resurface | (verb) to come out of obscurity or hiding | - |
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| (verb) cover with a new surface | - |
| (verb) reappear on the surface | - |
| sulfate | (verb) convert into a sulfate | - |
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| surface | (verb) appear or become visible; make a showing | Synonyms: come on, come out, show up, turn up |
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| (verb) put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface | Synonyms: coat |
| (verb) come to the surface | Synonyms: come up, rise, rise up |
| telefax | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: facsimile, fax |
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| unfasten | (verb) become undone or untied | - |
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| (verb) cause to become undone | - |