| feather | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
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| (verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) cover or fit with feathers | - |
| (verb) join tongue and groove, in carpentry | - |
| featherbed | (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| fetch | (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, convey, get |
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| (verb) remove | - |
| (verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring, bring in |
| fetishize | (verb) make a fetish of | - |
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| fight | (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, struggle |
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| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight back, fight down, oppose |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: struggle |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, press, push |
| filch | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| finish | (verb) finally be or do something | Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up |
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| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: complete |
| (verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody | - |
| (verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
| (verb) provide with a finish | - |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate |
| fish | (verb) catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | - |
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| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: angle |
| fishtail | (verb) slow down by moving the tail sideways | - |
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| fistfight | (verb) fight with the fists | - |
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| flash | (verb) appear briefly | - |
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| (verb) emit a brief burst of light | - |
| (verb) make known or cause to appear with great speed | - |
| (verb) protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank |
| (verb) expose or show briefly | - |
| flesh | (verb) remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture | - |
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| flight | (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
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| (verb) fly in a flock | - |
| (verb) shoot a bird in flight | - |
| flinch | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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| floodlight | (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
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| flourish | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |
| flush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden |
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| (verb) cause to flow through something | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: purge, scour |
| (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice |
| (verb) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, level |
| (verb) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light | - |
| flyfish | (verb) fish with flies as lures | Synonyms: fly-fish |
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| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
| foreshow | (verb) foretell by divine inspiration | - |
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| forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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| foxhunt | (verb) hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs | - |
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| franchise | (verb) grant a franchise to | - |
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| freewheel | (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | - |
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| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: drift |
| freight | (verb) load with goods for transportation | - |
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| (verb) transport commercially as cargo | - |
| freshen | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: refresh, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen up, refresh, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: refresh |
| fright | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, frighten, scare |
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| frighten | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, scare |
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| frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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| (verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
| froth | (verb) exude or expel foam | - |
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| (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, sparkle |
| (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: spume, suds |
| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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| furlough | (verb) grant a leave to | - |
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| (verb) dismiss, usually for economic reasons | Synonyms: lay off |
| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| further | (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, promote |
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| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, foster |
| galumph | (verb) move around heavily and clumsily | - |
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| 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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| gash | (verb) cut open | Synonyms: slash |
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| 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 |
| 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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| girth | (verb) tie a cinch around | Synonyms: cinch |
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| glitch | (verb) To suffer a minor malfunction | - |
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| gnash | (verb) grind together, of teeth | - |
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| graph | (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: chart |
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| (verb) plot upon a graph | - |
| greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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| grouch | (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grumble, scold |
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| gush | (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: rave |
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| (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: jet |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: spirt, spout, spurt |
| habilitate | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, raiment, tog |
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| (verb) qualify for teaching at a university in Europe | - |
| habit | (verb) put a habit on | - |
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| habituate | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: accustom |
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| (verb) take or consume (regularly or habitually) | Synonyms: use |
| hack | (verb) cough spasmodically | Synonyms: whoop |
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| (verb) significantly cut up a manuscript | Synonyms: cut up |
| (verb) fix a computer program piecemeal until it works | Synonyms: hack on |
| (verb) kick on the shins | - |
| (verb) kick on the arms | - |
| (verb) cut away | - |
| (verb) cut with a hacking tool | Synonyms: chop |
| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: cut |
| hackle | (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
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| haemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: hemagglutinate |
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| haggle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, higgle, huckster |
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| hail | (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: herald |
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| (verb) call for | - |
| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, herald |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) precipitate as small ice particles | - |
| hale | (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, drag, haul |
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| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, pressure, squeeze |
| halloo | (verb) shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention | - |
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| (verb) urge on with shouts | - |
| hallow | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, sanctify |
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| hallucinate | (verb) perceive what is not there; have illusions | - |
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| halt | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: stanch, staunch, stem |
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| (verb) come to a halt, stop moving | Synonyms: stop |
| (verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: arrest, hold |
| (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, kibosh, stop |
| halter | (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, hamper, strangle |
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| (verb) hang with a halter | - |
| halve | (verb) divide by two; divide into halves | - |
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| ham | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham it up, overact, overplay |
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| hammer | (verb) beat with or as if with a hammer | - |
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| (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: forge |
| hamper | (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, strangle |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: handicap, hinder |
| hamstring | (verb) cripple by cutting the hamstring | - |
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| (verb) make ineffective or powerless | - |
| hand | (verb) guide or conduct or usher somewhere | - |
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| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
| handbuild | (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: coil, hand-build |
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| handcolor | (verb) color by hand | Synonyms: handcolour |
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| handcolour | (verb) color by hand | Synonyms: handcolor |
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| handcraft | (verb) make something by hand | - |
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| handcuff | (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, manacle |
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| handicap | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate, invalid |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, hinder |
| (verb) attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant | - |
| handle | (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, plow, treat |
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| (verb) touch, lift, or hold with the hands | Synonyms: palm |
| (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: manage, wield |
| (verb) show and train | - |
| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, manage |
| (verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, treat |
| handstamp | (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: rubberstamp |
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| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| handwrite | (verb) write by hand | - |
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| hang | (verb) suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste | - |
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| (verb) cause to be hanging or suspended | Synonyms: hang up |
| (verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: fall, flow |
| (verb) be suspended or hanging | - |
| (verb) place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction | - |
| (verb) be placed in position as by a hinge | - |
| (verb) be suspended or poised | - |
| (verb) hold on tightly or tenaciously | Synonyms: cling |
| (verb) decorate or furnish with something suspended | - |
| (verb) let drop or droop | - |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: advert, attend, give ear, pay heed |
| (verb) kill by hanging | Synonyms: string up |
| (verb) prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury | - |
| (verb) be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive | - |
| (verb) be exhibited | - |
| hanker | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: long, yearn |
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| hap | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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| happen | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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| (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: materialise, materialize |
| (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find |
| (verb) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation | - |
| harangue | (verb) deliver a harangue to; address forcefully | - |
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| harass | (verb) exhaust by attacking repeatedly | - |
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| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| harbinger | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
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| harbor | (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbour, hold, nurse |
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| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbour, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbour |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbour |
| harbour | (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, hold, nurse |
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| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, shield |
| (verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbor |
| (verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbor |
| harden | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
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| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
| (verb) make healthy | Synonyms: season |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: indurate, inure |
| (verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: temper |
| hare | (verb) run quickly, like a hare | - |
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| hark | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: harken, hearken |
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| harken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, hearken |
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| harlequin | (verb) variegate with spots or marks | - |
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| harm | (verb) cause or do harm to | - |
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| harmonise | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonize |
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| (verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonize, reconcile |
| (verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonize |
| (verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonize |
| (verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonize |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonize |
| harmonize | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonise |
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| (verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, reconcile |
| (verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonise |
| (verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonise |
| (verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonise |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise |
| harness | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: rein, rule |
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| (verb) exploit the power of | - |
| (verb) put a harness | Synonyms: tackle |
| (verb) control and direct with or as if by reins | Synonyms: draw rein, rein, rein in |