| gangrene | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: mortify, necrose, sphacelate |
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| gank | (verb) to kill with little effort in a video game | - |
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| gaol | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| gap | (verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: breach |
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| gape | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gawk, gawp, goggle |
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| (verb) be wide open | Synonyms: yaw, yawn |
| garage | (verb) keep or store in a garage | - |
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| garb | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| garble | (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, warp |
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| garden | (verb) work in the garden | - |
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| gargle | (verb) rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash | Synonyms: rinse |
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| (verb) utter with gargling or burbling sounds | - |
| garland | (verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
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| garment | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| garner | (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, gather, pull together |
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| (verb) store grain | - |
| (verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: earn, win |
| garnish | (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, trim |
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| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnishee |
| garnishee | (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnish |
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| garotte | (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garrote, garrotte, scrag |
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| garrison | (verb) station (troops) in a fort or garrison | - |
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| garrote | (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrotte, scrag |
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| garrotte | (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, scrag |
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| garter | (verb) fasten with or as if with a garter | - |
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| gas | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| (verb) attack with gas; subject to gas fumes | - |
| gasconade | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| gash | (verb) cut open | Synonyms: slash |
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| gasify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: aerify, vaporise, vaporize |
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| gasp | (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: heave, pant, puff |
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| gate | (verb) restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment | - |
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| (verb) control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate | - |
| (verb) supply with a gate | - |
| gather | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up |
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| (verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) conclude from evidence | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together |
| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: pucker, tuck |
| (verb) look for (food) in nature | - |
| (verb) draw and bring closer | - |
| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet |
| (verb) get people together | Synonyms: assemble, get together |
| gauffer | (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: goffer |
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| gauge | (verb) measure precisely and against a standard | - |
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| (verb) adapt to a specified measurement | - |
| (verb) mix in specific proportions | - |
| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, guess, judge |
| (verb) determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation | - |
| (verb) rub to a uniform size | - |
| gawk | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawp, goggle |
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| gawp | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawk, goggle |
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| gaze | (verb) look at with fixed eyes | Synonyms: stare |
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| gazette | (verb) publish in a gazette | - |
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| gazump | (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
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| (verb) raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price | - |
| gear | (verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: pitch |
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| gee | (verb) give a command to a horse to turn to the right side | - |
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| (verb) turn to the right side | - |
| geek | (verb) to be intoxicated | - |
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| gel | (verb) apply a styling gel to | Synonyms: mousse |
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| (verb) become a gel | - |
| gelatinise | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
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| (verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
| gelatinize | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
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| (verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinise |
| (verb) coat with gelatin | - |
| geld | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: cut |
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| geminate | (verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
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| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
| general | (verb) command as a general | - |
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| generalise | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalize |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalize |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generate | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) produce, create | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) produce (energy) | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: give, render, return, yield |
| gentle | (verb) stroke soothingly | - |
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| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, entitle |
| gentrify | (verb) renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations | - |
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| 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 |
| germinate | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| (verb) cause to grow or sprout | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| gerrymander | (verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | - |
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| gestate | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, expect, have a bun in the oven |
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| (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize |
| gesticulate | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesture, motion |
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| gesture | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesticulate, motion |
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| get | (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: contract, take |
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| (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, grow, produce |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, mother, sire |
| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: have, suffer, sustain |
| (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: become, go |
| (verb) give certain properties to something | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: have, let |
| (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: find, incur, obtain, receive |
| (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, commence, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
| (verb) reach by calculation | - |
| (verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, have, induce, make, stimulate |
| (verb) communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, drive |
| (verb) take vengeance on or get even | Synonyms: fix, pay back, pay off |
| (verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: arrest, catch |
| (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, convey, fetch |
| (verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: capture, catch |
| (verb) reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) overcome or destroy | - |
| (verb) earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) apprehend and reproduce accurately | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) evoke an emotional response | - |
| (verb) irritate | Synonyms: get under one's skin |
| (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: arrive, come |
| (verb) reach and board | - |
| (verb) leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form | Synonyms: bugger off, buzz off, fuck off, scram |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: experience, have, receive |
| (verb) suffer from the receipt of | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) perceive by hearing | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) receive as a retribution or punishment | Synonyms: receive |
| (verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract | Synonyms: acquire |
| (verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: have, make |
| (verb) purchase | - |
| (verb) acquire as a result of some effort or action | - |
| geyser | (verb) to overflow like a geyser | - |
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| ghettoise | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoize |
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| ghettoize | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoise |
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| ghost | (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghostwrite |
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| (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: haunt, obsess |
| (verb) move like a ghost | - |
| ghostwrite | (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| gibber | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) chatter inarticulately; of monkeys | - |
| gibbet | (verb) hang on an execution instrument | - |
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| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: pillory |
| gibe | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, jeer, scoff |
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| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, jibe, match, tally |
| gift | (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: give, present |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, indue, invest |
| giggle | (verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: titter |
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| gild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, engild |
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| gimp | (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: hitch, hobble, limp |
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| gin | (verb) trap with a snare | - |
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| (verb) separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin | - |
| ginger | (verb) add ginger to in order to add flavor | - |
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| gip | (verb) (sometimes offensive) to cheat or swindle | Synonyms: gyp |
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| gird | (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, fortify |
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| (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: encircle |
| (verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: girdle |
| girdle | (verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: gird |
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| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: deaden |
| girth | (verb) tie a cinch around | Synonyms: cinch |
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| give | (verb) proffer (a body part) | - |
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| (verb) consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man | - |
| (verb) occur | - |
| (verb) estimate the duration or outcome of something | - |
| (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: devote, pay |
| (verb) convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture | Synonyms: throw |
| (verb) convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow | Synonyms: pay |
| (verb) bestow | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, devote |
| (verb) allow to have or take | - |
| (verb) manifest or show | - |
| (verb) guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion | - |
| (verb) inflict as a punishment | - |
| (verb) accord by verdict | - |
| (verb) submit for consideration, judgment, or use | - |
| (verb) offer in good faith | - |
| (verb) give food to | Synonyms: feed |
| (verb) propose | - |
| (verb) be flexible under stress of physical force | Synonyms: yield |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, render, return, yield |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: establish |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: have, hold, make, throw |
| (verb) cause to happen or be responsible for | Synonyms: yield |
| (verb) perform for an audience | - |
| (verb) present to view | - |
| (verb) move in order to make room for someone for something | Synonyms: ease up, give way, move over, yield |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give way |
| (verb) transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody | - |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, present |
| (verb) leave with; give temporarily | - |
| (verb) cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense | - |
| (verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: afford, yield |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: hand, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
| (verb) convey or reveal information | - |
| (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, contribute, kick in |
| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: impart, leave, pass on |
| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: sacrifice |
| (verb) bestow, especially officially | Synonyms: grant |
| (verb) deliver in exchange or recompense | - |
| (verb) give (as medicine) | - |
| (verb) give or convey physically | Synonyms: apply |
| (verb) afford access to | Synonyms: afford, open |
| (verb) emit or utter | - |
| (verb) execute and deliver | - |
| glaciate | (verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers | - |
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| (verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier | - |
| gladden | (verb) become glad or happy | - |
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| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: joy |
| glamorise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, glamourize |
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| glamorize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamourise, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamourise, romanticise, romanticize |
| glamour | (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, hex, jinx, witch |
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| glamourise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, romanticise, romanticize |
| glamourize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourise |
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| glance | (verb) hit at an angle | - |
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| (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glint, peek |
| glare | (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glower |
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| (verb) shine intensely | - |
| (verb) be sharply reflected | - |
| glass | (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass over, glaze, glaze over |
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| (verb) put in a glass container | - |
| (verb) enclose with glass | Synonyms: glass in |
| (verb) scan (game in the forest) with binoculars | - |
| (verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glaze |
| glaze | (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass, glass over, glaze over |
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| (verb) coat with a glaze | - |
| (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: candy, sugarcoat |
| (verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glass |
| gleam | (verb) to shine with faint or brief light | - |
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| (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: glimmer |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: glint, glisten, glitter, shine |
| glean | (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: harvest, reap |
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| glide | (verb) move smoothly and effortlessly | - |
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| (verb) fly in or as if in a glider plane | - |
| (verb) cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly | - |
| glimmer | (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: gleam |
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| glimpse | (verb) catch a glimpse of or see briefly | - |
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| glint | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine |
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| (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, peek |
| glissade | (verb) perform a glissade, in ballet | - |
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| glisten | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glitter, shine |
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| glitch | (verb) To suffer a minor malfunction | - |
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| glitter | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, shine |
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| gloat | (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: crow, triumph |
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| (verb) gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy | - |
| globalise | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalize |
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| globalize | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalise |
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| glom | (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, hook, knock off, snitch, thieve |
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| (verb) seize upon or latch onto something | - |
| glorify | (verb) bestow glory upon | - |
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| (verb) cause to seem more splendid | - |
| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: spiritualize, transfigure |
| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, laud, proclaim |