| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| emerge | (verb) come out into view, as from concealment | - |
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| (verb) become known or apparent | - |
| (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, egress, go forth, issue |
| (verb) come up to the surface of or rise | - |
| (verb) happen or occur as a result of something | Synonyms: come forth |
| emigrate | (verb) leave one's country of residence for a new one | - |
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| encourage | (verb) spur on | - |
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| (verb) inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to | - |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, further, promote |
| endanger | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: expose, peril, queer, scupper |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
| energise | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energize, excite |
| energize | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, excite |
| engage | (verb) get caught | - |
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| (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engross, occupy |
| (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, plight |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: lock, mesh, operate |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, hire, lease, rent, take |
| (verb) hire for work or assistance | Synonyms: enlist |
| (verb) ask to represent; of legal counsel | - |
| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: employ, hire |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: prosecute, pursue |
| (verb) carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Synonyms: wage |
| engender | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, spawn |
| engild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, gild |
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| engineer | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| (verb) design as an engineer | - |
| englut | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| engorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| engraft | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, imbed, implant, plant |
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| (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: graft, ingraft |
| engrave | (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch |
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| (verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: etch |
| (verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: etch |
| (verb) impress or affect deeply | - |
| engross | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, occupy |
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| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
| engulf | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) flow over or cover completely | - |
| enlarge | (verb) become larger or bigger | - |
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| (verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, magnify |
| (verb) make larger | - |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| enlighten | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make understand | Synonyms: edify |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: irradiate |
| enrage | (verb) put into a rage; make violently angry | - |
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| entangle | (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: mat, snarl, tangle |
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| (verb) entrap | Synonyms: mire |
| envisage | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, ideate, imagine |
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| estrange | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, disaffect |
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| (verb) remove from customary environment or associations | - |
| etymologise | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologize |
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| (verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologize |
| etymologize | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologise |
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| (verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologise |
| eulogise | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogize |
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| eulogize | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogise |
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| evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
| evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |
| exaggerate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| (verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: overdo |
| exchange | (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, convert |
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| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: switch, switch over |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, convert |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, interchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: interchange, replace, substitute |
| (verb) hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent | - |
| excogitate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, forge, formulate, invent |
| expunge | (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, scratch, strike |
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| expurgate | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
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| extinguish | (verb) put an end to; kill | Synonyms: snuff out |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, eliminate, get rid of |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, press out, stub, stub out |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, quench, snuff out |
| 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 |
| fangirl | (verb) to be a extreme female fan of something | - |
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| 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 |
| feign | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, sham, simulate |
| fidget | (verb) move restlessly | - |
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| fight | (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, struggle |
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| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight back, fight down, oppose |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: struggle |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, press, push |
| figure | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) understand | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: enter |
| filigree | (verb) make filigree, as with a precious metal | - |
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| finagle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: manage, wangle |
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| finger | (verb) indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments | - |
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| (verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: thumb |
| (verb) search for on the computer | - |
| (verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: feel |
| fingerprint | (verb) take an impression of a person's fingerprints | - |
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| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| fistfight | (verb) fight with the fists | - |
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| flabbergast | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: boggle, bowl over |
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| flag | (verb) provide with a flag | - |
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| (verb) become less intense | Synonyms: ease off, ease up, slacken off |
| (verb) communicate or signal with a flag | - |
| (verb) decorate with flags | - |
| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, sag, swag |
| flagellate | (verb) whip | Synonyms: scourge |
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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 | - |
| flight | (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
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| (verb) fly in a flock | - |
| (verb) shoot a bird in flight | - |
| fling | (verb) throw with force or recklessness | - |
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| (verb) move in an abrupt or headlong manner | - |
| (verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: splurge |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
| flog | (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, lambast, lambaste |
| floodlight | (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
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| fog | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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| footslog | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge |
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| forage | (verb) wander and feed | - |
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| (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: scrounge |
| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| forego | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate |
| foreground | (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
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| forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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| forge | (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: hammer |
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| (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, fake |
| (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: fashion |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: form, mold, mould, shape, work |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, invent |
| (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: spirt, spurt |
| (verb) move ahead steadily | - |
| forget | (verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, block, draw a blank |
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| (verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: bury |
| (verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: leave |
| (verb) forget to do something | - |
| forgive | (verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness | - |
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| (verb) absolve from payment | - |
| forgo | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, precede, predate |
| fragment | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragmentise, fragmentize |
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| fragmentise | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentize |
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| fragmentize | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentise |
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| freight | (verb) load with goods for transportation | - |
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| (verb) transport commercially as cargo | - |
| fright | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, frighten, scare |
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| frighten | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, scare |
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| fringe | (verb) decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe | - |
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| (verb) adorn with a fringe | - |
| frog | (verb) hunt frogs for food | - |
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| frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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| (verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
| fudge | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| fumigate | (verb) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests | Synonyms: fume |
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| furlough | (verb) grant a leave to | - |
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| (verb) dismiss, usually for economic reasons | Synonyms: lay off |
| fustigate | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: cudgel |
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| gab | (verb) talk profusely | Synonyms: yak |
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| gabble | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| gad | (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gallivant, jazz around |
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| gag | (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, strangle, suffocate |
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| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: heave, retch |
| (verb) cause to retch or choke | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) make jokes or quips | Synonyms: quip |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: choke, fret |
| (verb) tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them | Synonyms: muzzle |
| (verb) prevent from speaking out | Synonyms: muzzle |
| gage | (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, game, punt, stake |
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| gaggle | (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: cackle |
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| gain | (verb) increase (one's body weight) | Synonyms: put on |
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| (verb) rise in rate or price | Synonyms: advance |
| (verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gather |
| (verb) obtain advantages, such as points, etc. | Synonyms: advance, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, hit, make, reach |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: acquire, win |
| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, profit |
| (verb) obtain | Synonyms: derive |
| gainsay | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, dispute |
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| gall | (verb) irritate or vex | Synonyms: irk |
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| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: chafe, fret |
| gallivant | (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gad, jazz around |
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| gallop | (verb) ride at a galloping pace | - |
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| (verb) go at galloping speed | - |
| (verb) cause to move at full gallop | Synonyms: extend |
| galumph | (verb) move around heavily and clumsily | - |
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| galvanise | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanize |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanize |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanize, startle |
| galvanize | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanise |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanise |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, startle |
| gamble | (verb) play games for money | - |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| gambol | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| game | (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, punt, stake |
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| gang | (verb) act as an organized group | Synonyms: gang up |
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