| 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 | - |
| fringe | (verb) decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe | - |
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| (verb) adorn with a fringe | - |
| 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 |
| gage | (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, game, punt, stake |
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| garage | (verb) keep or store in a garage | - |
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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 | - |
| 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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| ginger | (verb) add ginger to in order to add flavor | - |
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| gorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gouge | (verb) force with the thumb | Synonyms: force out |
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| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: rout |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, rack, squeeze, wring |
| grudge | (verb) accept or admit unwillingly | - |
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| (verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: stew |
| harbinger | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
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| hedge | (verb) minimize loss or risk | - |
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| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
| (verb) enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges | Synonyms: hedge in |
| (verb) hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge | - |
| hedgehop | (verb) fly very close to the ground | Synonyms: flat-hat |
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| hemorrhage | (verb) lose blood from one's body | Synonyms: bleed, shed blood |
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| hinge | (verb) attach with a hinge | - |
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| homogenise | (verb) become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenize |
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| (verb) cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenize |
| (verb) break up the fat globules of | Synonyms: homogenize |
| homogenize | (verb) become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
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| (verb) cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenise |
| (verb) break up the fat globules of | Synonyms: homogenise |
| hunger | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, starve |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, lust, starve, thirst |
| (verb) feel the need to eat | - |
| hydrogenate | (verb) combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound) | - |
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| image | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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| (verb) render visible, as by means of MRI | - |
| impinge | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, trench |
| indulge | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, pander |
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| (verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| (verb) give free rein to | - |
| infringe | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, impinge |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, contravene, run afoul |
| ingeminate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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| ingest | (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, assimilate, take in |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, have, take, take in |
| interchange | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, switch, tack |
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| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, transpose |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, exchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, replace, substitute |
| judge | (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: evaluate, pass judgment |
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| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess |
| (verb) determine the result of (a competition) | - |
| (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: label, pronounce |
| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: adjudicate, try |
| leverage | (verb) provide with leverage | - |
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| (verb) supplement with leverage | - |
| linger | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: dawdle |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: tarry |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: hover |
| (verb) remain present although waning or gradually dying | - |
| lodge | (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, file |
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| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, stick, wedge |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: accommodate |
| (verb) be a lodger; stay temporarily | - |
| lounge | (verb) sit or recline comfortably | - |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| luge | (verb) move along on a luge or toboggan | Synonyms: toboggan |
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| lunge | (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, thrust |
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| lysogenize | (verb) become integrated into the genome of (a bacterium) | - |
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| malinger | (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: skulk |
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| manage | (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: handle, wield |
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| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, handle |
| (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: oversee, superintend, supervise |
| (verb) carry on or function | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out |
| (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, wangle |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, negociate, pull off |
| massage | (verb) give a massage to | - |
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| (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: knead, rub down |
| merge | (verb) become one | Synonyms: unify, unite |
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| (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, mix |
| (verb) join or combine | Synonyms: unify, unite |
| message | (verb) send a message | - |
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| (verb) send as a message | - |
| (verb) send a message to | - |
| miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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| misgauge | (verb) gauge something incorrectly or improperly | - |
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| misjudge | (verb) judge incorrectly | - |
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| mismanage | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mishandle |
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| monger | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, peddle, pitch, vend |
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| mortgage | (verb) put up as security or collateral | - |
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| nitrogenise | (verb) treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound | Synonyms: nitrify, nitrogenize |
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| nitrogenize | (verb) treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound | Synonyms: nitrify, nitrogenise |
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| nudge | (verb) push into action by pestering or annoying gently | - |
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| (verb) to push against gently | Synonyms: poke at, prod |
| oblige | (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, obligate |
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| (verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: accommodate |
| (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, obligate |
| outgeneral | (verb) surpass in generalship | - |
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| outrage | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
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| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, rape, ravish, violate |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, profane, violate |
| outrange | (verb) have a greater range than (another gun) | - |
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| overcharge | (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overload, surcharge |
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| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| overgeneralise | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralize |
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| overgeneralize | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralise |
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| overgorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| overindulge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| oxygenate | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenise, oxygenize |
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| oxygenise | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenate, oxygenize |
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| (verb) dehydrogenate with oxygen | Synonyms: oxygenize |
| (verb) change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule) | Synonyms: oxygenize |
| oxygenize | (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: aerate, oxygenate, oxygenise |
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| (verb) dehydrogenate with oxygen | Synonyms: oxygenise |
| (verb) change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule) | Synonyms: oxygenise |
| package | (verb) put into a box | Synonyms: box |
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| page | (verb) contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system | - |
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| (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, paginate |
| (verb) work as a page | - |
| parget | (verb) apply ornamental plaster to | - |
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| patronage | (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronise, patronize, support |
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| (verb) support by being a patron of | - |
| pigeonhole | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
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| (verb) place into a small compartment | - |
| pillage | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
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| pledge | (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: plight |
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| (verb) bind or secure by a pledge | - |
| (verb) give as a guarantee | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, salute, toast, wassail |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: subscribe |
| plunge | (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: launch |
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| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, soak up, steep |
| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: immerse |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, souse |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: immerse |
| (verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: dump |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunk |
| (verb) dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity | - |
| prearrange | (verb) arrange beforehand | - |
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| predigest | (verb) digest (food) beforehand | - |
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| prejudge | (verb) judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence | - |
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| presage | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, prognosticate |
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| privilege | (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
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| purge | (verb) excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) | - |
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| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| (verb) rid of impurities | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, scour |
| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purify, sanctify |
| (verb) clear of a charge | - |
| (verb) oust politically | - |
| rage | (verb) feel intense anger | - |
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| (verb) be violent; as of fires and storms | - |
| (verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: ramp, storm |
| rampage | (verb) act violently, recklessly, or destructively | - |
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| range | (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, place, rank, rate |
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| (verb) let eat | - |
| (verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: array, lay out, set out |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, pasture |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: straddle |
| (verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun | - |
| ravage | (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | Synonyms: harry |
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| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, scourge, waste |