| affect | (verb) act physically on; have an effect upon | - |
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| (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: impress, move, strike |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: involve, regard |
| affiance | (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: betroth, engage, plight |
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| affiliate | (verb) join in an affiliation | - |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: associate, assort, consort |
| affirm | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: assert, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) say yes to | - |
| affix | (verb) stick or fasten to | Synonyms: stick on |
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| (verb) add to the very end | Synonyms: add on, append, supplement |
| (verb) attach or become attached to a stem word | - |
| afflict | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: smite |
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| (verb) cause great unhappiness for; distress | - |
| afford | (verb) be able to spare or give up | - |
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| (verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: give, yield |
| (verb) afford access to | Synonyms: give, open |
| (verb) have the financial means to do something or buy something | - |
| afforest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: forest |
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| affranchise | (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: enfranchise |
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| affright | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
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| affront | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: diss, insult |
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| baffle | (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: regulate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| biff | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: pommel, pummel |
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| bluff | (verb) frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is | - |
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| (verb) deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand | Synonyms: bluff out |
| buff | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: burnish, furbish |
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| (verb) strike, beat repeatedly | Synonyms: buffet |
| buffalo | (verb) intimidate or overawe | - |
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| buffer | (verb) add a buffer (a solution) | - |
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| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: cushion, soften |
| buffet | (verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: batter, knock about |
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| (verb) strike, beat repeatedly | Synonyms: buff |
| chaff | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
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| chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
| chauffeur | (verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
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| chuff | (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: huff, puff |
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| coffin | (verb) place into a coffin | - |
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| coiffe | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffure, do, dress, set |
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| coiffure | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, do, dress, set |
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| crossruff | (verb) trump alternately in two hands | - |
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| cuff | (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: whomp |
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| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: handcuff, manacle |
| (verb) to get involved in a relationship with another person | - |
| decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| differ | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: disagree, dissent, take issue |
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| (verb) be different | - |
| differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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| (verb) become different during development | - |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |
| diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
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| diffuse | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: fan out, spread, spread out |
| disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| doff | (verb) to take off from the body or head | - |
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| eff | (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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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 | - |
| effect | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effectuate, set up |
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| (verb) act so as to bring into existence | - |
| effectuate | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effect, set up |
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| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| effuse | (verb) give out or emit (also metaphorically) | - |
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| (verb) flow or spill forth | Synonyms: flow out |
| (verb) pour out liberally | Synonyms: pour out |
| enfeoff | (verb) put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of service, in feudal society | - |
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| fluff | (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: tease |
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| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: ruffle |
| (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, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| gauffer | (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: goffer |
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| goffer | (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: gauffer |
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| guffaw | (verb) laugh boisterously | Synonyms: laugh loudly |
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| handcuff | (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, manacle |
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| huff | (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, puff |
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| (verb) inhale recreational drugs | Synonyms: snort |
| 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 | - |
| luff | (verb) flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides | - |
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| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: point |
| miff | (verb) cause to be annoyed | - |
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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 |
| 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 |
| overstuff | (verb) stuff too much | - |
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| piffle | (verb) act in a trivial or ineffective way | - |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| proffer | (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offer |
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| puff | (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, heave, pant |
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| (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, huff |
| (verb) to swell or cause to enlarge | Synonyms: blow up, puff out, puff up |
| (verb) speak in a blustering or scornful manner | - |
| (verb) praise extravagantly | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, draw |
| (verb) smoke and exhale strongly | Synonyms: whiff |
| (verb) make proud or conceited | - |
| quaff | (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught | Synonyms: gulp, swig |
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| raffle | (verb) dispose of in a lottery | Synonyms: raffle off |
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| reaffirm | (verb) affirm once again | - |
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| rebuff | (verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: repel, snub |
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| (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, repel, repulse |
| reshuffle | (verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people | - |
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| (verb) shuffle again | - |
| riff | (verb) play riffs | - |
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| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riffle, thumb |
| riffle | (verb) shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix | - |
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| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, ruffle |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb |
| ruff | (verb) play a trump | Synonyms: trump |
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| ruffle | (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: pleat |
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| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: fluff |
| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, riffle |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, shuffle |
| (verb) trouble or vex | - |
| (verb) discompose | - |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| scaffold | (verb) provide with a scaffold for support | - |
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| sclaff | (verb) strike (a golf ball) such that the ground is scraped first | - |
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| (verb) strike (the ground) in making a sclaff | - |
| scoff | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, jeer |
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| (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: flout |
| scuff | (verb) poke at with the foot or toe | - |
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| (verb) mar by scuffing | - |
| (verb) get or become scuffed | - |
| (verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: drag |
| scuffle | (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: tussle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle |
| shuffle | (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, ruffle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shamble |
| (verb) move about, move back and forth | - |
| snaffle | (verb) fit or restrain with a snaffle | - |
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| (verb) get hold of or seize quickly and easily | Synonyms: grab, snap up |
| sniff | (verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniffle |
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| (verb) perceive by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: whiff |
| sniffle | (verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
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| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, snuffle |
| snuff | (verb) inhale (something) through the nose | - |
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| (verb) sniff or smell inquiringly | Synonyms: snuffle |
| snuffle | (verb) snuff up mucus through the nose | Synonyms: snivel |
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| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, sniffle, snivel |
| (verb) sniff or smell inquiringly | Synonyms: snuff |
| staff | (verb) provide with staff | - |
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| (verb) serve on the staff of | - |
| stiffen | (verb) become stiff or stiffer | - |
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| (verb) make stiff or stiffer | - |
| (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: constrain, tighten, tighten up |
| stuff | (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: farce |
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| (verb) fill tightly with a material | - |
| (verb) treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting | - |
| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out |
| (verb) cram into a cavity | - |
| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: block, choke up, lug |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, thrust |
| 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 | - |
| suffice | (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, serve |
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| suffix | (verb) attach a suffix to | - |
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| suffocate | (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, strangle |
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| (verb) feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air | - |
| (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, smother |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, stifle |
| suffuse | (verb) to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light | - |
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| (verb) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | Synonyms: perfuse |
| tariff | (verb) charge a tariff | - |
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