| 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 |
| deflect | (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, parry |
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| (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distract |
| (verb) turn aside and away from an initial or intended course | - |
| (verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: bend, turn away |
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| fleck | (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, spot |
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| fledge | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: feather |
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| (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: flight |
| (verb) feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight | - |
| flee | (verb) run away quickly | Synonyms: fly, take flight |
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| fleece | (verb) shear the wool from | Synonyms: shear |
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| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| fleer | (verb) to smirk contemptuously | - |
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| fleet | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, pass, pass off |
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| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, flit, flutter |
| flense | (verb) strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal) | - |
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| flesh | (verb) remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture | - |
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| flex | (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, turn, twist |
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| (verb) bend a joint | Synonyms: bend |
| (verb) form a curve | Synonyms: bend |
| (verb) contract | - |
| (verb) exhibit the strength of | - |
| genuflect | (verb) bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image | - |
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| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: kowtow, scrape |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| raffle | (verb) dispose of in a lottery | Synonyms: raffle off |
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| reflect | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) give evidence of the quality of | - |
| (verb) give evidence of a certain behavior | - |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reverberate |
| (verb) manifest or bring back | - |
| (verb) show an image of | - |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: shine |
| reflectorise | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorize |
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| reflectorize | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorise |
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| reshuffle | (verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people | - |
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| (verb) shuffle again | - |
| retroflex | (verb) articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate | - |
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| (verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: replicate |
| 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 |
| rifle | (verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| sniffle | (verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
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| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, 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 |
| stifle | (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: dampen |
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| (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, strangle |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, suffocate |
| trifle | (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, play |
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| (verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: frivol |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, wanton, wanton away |
| waffle | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waver |
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