| abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| adjudge | (verb) declare to be | Synonyms: declare, hold |
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| advantage | (verb) give an advantage to | - |
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| age | (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: get on, maturate, mature, senesce |
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| (verb) begin to seem older; get older | - |
| (verb) make older | - |
| allege | (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: aver, say |
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| anger | (verb) make angry | - |
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| (verb) become angry | Synonyms: see red |
| arbitrage | (verb) practice arbitrage, as in the stock market | - |
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| arrange | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set |
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| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: order, put, set up |
| (verb) make arrangements for | Synonyms: fix up |
| (verb) put into a proper or systematic order | Synonyms: set up |
| (verb) adapt for performance in a different way | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: format |
| (verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event) | Synonyms: stage |
| assuage | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, quench, slake |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| astringe | (verb) become constricted or compressed | - |
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| (verb) constrict or bind or draw together | - |
| avenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: retaliate, revenge |
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| average | (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
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| (verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
| (verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
| badge | (verb) put a badge on | - |
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| badger | (verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
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| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
| bandage | (verb) dress by covering or binding | - |
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| (verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bind |
| barge | (verb) push one's way | Synonyms: push forward, thrust ahead |
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| (verb) transport by barge on a body of water | - |
| barrage | (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
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| beget | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| bilge | (verb) take in water at the bilge | Synonyms: take in water |
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| (verb) cause to leak | - |
| binge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| (verb) to watch a large amount of media in a single seating | - |
| bludgeon | (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: club |
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| (verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club | - |
| bodge | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, 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, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bogey | (verb) to shoot in one stroke over par | - |
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| bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| bridge | (verb) make a bridge across | - |
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| (verb) cross over on a bridge | - |
| (verb) connect or reduce the distance between | Synonyms: bridge over |
| budge | (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, shift, stir |
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| budget | (verb) make a budget | - |
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| bugger | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: sodomise, sodomize |
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| bulge | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: pouch, protrude |
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| (verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulk |
| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude, start |
| (verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge | Synonyms: bag |
| burgeon | (verb) grow and flourish | - |
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| cabbage | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| cadge | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, grub, mooch, sponge |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: schnorr, scrounge, shnorr |
| cage | (verb) confine in a cage | Synonyms: cage in |
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| camouflage | (verb) disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something | - |
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| centrifuge | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifugate |
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| challenge | (verb) issue a challenge to | - |
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| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
| (verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
| (verb) ask for identification | - |
| change | (verb) undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature | - |
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| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, modify |
| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, vary |
| (verb) change clothes; put on different clothes | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: commute, convert, exchange |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
| (verb) remove or replace the coverings of | - |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: deepen |
| (verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: exchange, interchange |
| charge | (verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge | - |
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| (verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on | - |
| (verb) saturate | - |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: blame |
| (verb) set or ask for a certain price | - |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: file, lodge |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, saddle |
| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: accuse |
| (verb) make an accusatory claim | - |
| (verb) instruct or command with authority | - |
| (verb) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence | - |
| (verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle | Synonyms: bear down |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: level, point |
| (verb) fill or load to capacity | - |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: load |
| (verb) place a heraldic bearing on | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt | - |
| (verb) enter a certain amount as a charge | - |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: bill |
| (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: consign |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: appoint |
| conge | (verb) perform a ceremonious bow | Synonyms: congee |
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| congeal | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: jell, set |
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| congee | (verb) perform a ceremonious bow | Synonyms: conge |
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| (verb) depart after obtaining formal permission | - |
| congest | (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, crap up, foul |
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| constringe | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, narrow |
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| converge | (verb) come together so as to form a single product | - |
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| (verb) move or draw together at a certain location | - |
| (verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit | - |
| counterchallenge | (verb) challenge in turn | - |
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| counterchange | (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: interchange, transpose |
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| cringe | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, fawn, grovel |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
| cudgel | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: fustigate |
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| damage | (verb) inflict damage upon | - |
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| (verb) suffer or be susceptible to damage | - |
| degenerate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop |
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| dehydrogenate | (verb) remove hydrogen from | - |
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| deluge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: inundate, submerge |
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| (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: flood out, overwhelm |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: flood, inundate, swamp |
| deoxygenate | (verb) remove oxygen from (water) | - |
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| derange | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: perturb, throw out of kilter |
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| (verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: unbalance |
| deterge | (verb) wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body | - |
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| digest | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
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| (verb) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing | - |
| (verb) become assimilated into the body | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture | - |
| (verb) arrange and integrate in the mind | - |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) convert food into absorbable substances | - |
| dinge | (verb) make dingy | - |
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| (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: batter |
| disadvantage | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour |
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| disarrange | (verb) disturb the arrangement of | - |
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| (verb) destroy the arrangement or order of | - |
| discharge | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: eject, exhaust, expel, release |
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| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: empty |
| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate |
| (verb) release from military service | Synonyms: muster out |
| (verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: fire |
| (verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: fire, go off |
| (verb) pour forth or release | - |
| (verb) remove the charge from | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: drop, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, dispatch |
| (verb) free from obligations or duties | Synonyms: free |
| discourage | (verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: deter |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, monish, warn |
| (verb) deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged | - |
| disengage | (verb) become free | - |
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| (verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: withdraw |
| (verb) free or remove obstruction from | Synonyms: free |
| disgorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: shed, spill |
| dislodge | (verb) remove or force out from a position | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied | Synonyms: bump |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: reposition, shift |
| disoblige | (verb) ignore someone's wishes | - |
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| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| disparage | (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: belittle, pick at |
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| diverge | (verb) move or draw apart | - |
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| (verb) extend in a different direction | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, vary |
| (verb) have no limits as a mathematical series | - |
| divulge | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| dodge | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid | - |
| (verb) move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course | - |
| dredge | (verb) remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | - |
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| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: drag |
| (verb) cover before cooking | - |
| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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| drudge | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
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| edge | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, march |
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| (verb) provide with an edge | - |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: inch |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: border |
| egest | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: eliminate, excrete, pass |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| enrage | (verb) put into a rage; make violently angry | - |
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| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| expunge | (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, scratch, strike |
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| fidget | (verb) move restlessly | - |
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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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| 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 | - |
| forage | (verb) wander and feed | - |
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| (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: scrounge |
| 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 | - |