| cypher | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| dash | (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: smash |
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| (verb) add an enlivening or altering element to | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: crash |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) destroy or break | - |
| debauch | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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| debouch | (verb) pass out or emerge; especially of rivers | - |
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| (verb) march out (as from a defile) into open ground | Synonyms: march out |
| dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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| decipher | (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: trace |
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| (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decode, decrypt |
| declutch | (verb) disengage the clutch of a car | - |
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| dehisce | (verb) burst or split open | - |
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| dehorn | (verb) take the horns off (an animal) | - |
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| (verb) prevent the growth of horns of certain animals | - |
| dehumanise | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanize |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanize |
| dehumanize | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanise |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanise |
| dehumidify | (verb) make less humid | - |
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| dehydrate | (verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: desiccate, dry up, exsiccate |
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| (verb) remove water from | Synonyms: desiccate |
| (verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from | Synonyms: desiccate |
| dehydrogenate | (verb) remove hydrogen from | - |
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| delight | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: enjoy, revel |
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| (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: please |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| demolish | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: pulverise, pulverize |
| (verb) ruin or destroy | - |
| demythologise | (verb) remove the mythical element from (writings) | Synonyms: demythologize |
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| demythologize | (verb) remove the mythical element from (writings) | Synonyms: demythologise |
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| despatch | (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: dispatch, send off |
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| desulphurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulfurize |
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| desynchronise | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronize |
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| desynchronize | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronise |
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| detach | (verb) come to be detached | Synonyms: come away, come off |
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| (verb) cause to become detached or separated; take off | - |
| (verb) separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment | - |
| dethaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
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| dethrone | (verb) remove a monarch from the throne | - |
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| dichotomise | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomize |
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| dichotomize | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomise |
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| diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
| diphthongise | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongize |
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| diphthongize | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongise |
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| 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 |
| disenchant | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disillusion |
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| disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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| disestablish | (verb) deprive (an established church) of its status | - |
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| disfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disenfranchise |
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| dish | (verb) make concave; shape like a dish | - |
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| (verb) provide (usually but not necessarily food) | Synonyms: dish out, dish up, serve, serve up |
| disharmonize | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: dissonate |
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| dishearten | (verb) take away the enthusiasm of | Synonyms: put off |
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| dishevel | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: tangle, tousle |
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| dishonor | (verb) refuse to accept | Synonyms: dishonour |
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| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonour, shame |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| dishonour | (verb) refuse to accept | Synonyms: dishonor |
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| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, shame |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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| dispatch | (verb) kill without delay | - |
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| (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: despatch, send off |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, discharge |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| (verb) dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently | - |
| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| ditch | (verb) crash or crash-land | - |
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| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: trench |
| (verb) make an emergency landing on water | - |
| (verb) forsake | - |
| (verb) throw away | Synonyms: chuck |
| (verb) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly | Synonyms: dump |
| dither | (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: flap, pother |
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| (verb) act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain | - |
| dogfight | (verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
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| (verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
| douche | (verb) direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning | - |
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| draught | (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draft |
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| drench | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: imbrue |
| (verb) force to drink | - |
| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: swamp |
| earth | (verb) connect to the earth | - |
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| (verb) hide in the earth like a hunted animal | - |
| echo | (verb) to say again or imitate | Synonyms: repeat |
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| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: resound, reverberate, ring |
| (verb) bring to mind | Synonyms: recall |
| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
| enchain | (verb) restrain or bind with chains | - |
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| enchant | (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
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| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| encipher | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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| enclothe | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| encroach | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: impinge, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: entrench, impinge, trench |
| enfranchise | (verb) grant voting rights | - |
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| (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: affranchise |
| enhance | (verb) increase the level of | Synonyms: heighten, raise |
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| (verb) make better or more attractive | - |
| 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 |
| enmesh | (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: ensnarl, mesh |
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| enrich | (verb) make better or improve in quality | - |
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| (verb) make wealthy or richer | - |
| enshrine | (verb) enclose in a shrine | Synonyms: shrine |
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| (verb) hold sacred | Synonyms: saint |
| enshroud | (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, hide, shroud |
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| enthral | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| enthrall | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, ravish, transport |
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| enthrone | (verb) put a monarch on the throne | Synonyms: throne |
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| (verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: invest, vest |
| enthuse | (verb) utter with enthusiasm | - |
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| (verb) cause to feel enthusiasm | - |
| entrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: intrench |
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| (verb) occupy a trench or secured area | Synonyms: dig in |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, impinge, trench |
| eschew | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: shun |
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| establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
| (verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
| etch | (verb) selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons | - |
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| (verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: engrave |
| (verb) make an etching of | - |
| (verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: engrave |
| (verb) cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible | - |
| etherealize | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherialise |
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| etherialise | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherealize |
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| etherify | (verb) change into an ether | - |
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| etherise | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherize |
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| etherize | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherise |
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| euphemise | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemize |
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| euphemize | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemise |
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| euthanatise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatize, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanatize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanise, mercy kill |
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| 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 | - |
| exhale | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, expire |
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| (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: emanate, give forth |
| exhaust | (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: beat, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
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| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel, release |
| (verb) use up the whole supply of | - |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) deplete | Synonyms: play out, run down, sap, tire |
| exhibit | (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: march, parade |
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| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, present, show |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, expose |
| (verb) show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill | - |
| exhilarate | (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
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| exhort | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: press, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| exhume | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | Synonyms: disinter |
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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 |
| famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
| fashion | (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: forge |
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| father | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| fathom | (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: sound |
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| (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, penetrate |