| harp | (verb) come back to | Synonyms: dwell |
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| (verb) play the harp | - |
| harpoon | (verb) spear with a harpoon | - |
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| harrow | (verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: disk |
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| harry | (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | Synonyms: ravage |
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| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| harshen | (verb) make harsh or harsher | - |
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| harvest | (verb) remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation | - |
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| (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: glean, reap |
| hash | (verb) chop up | - |
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| hasp | (verb) secure or lock with a hasp | - |
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| hassle | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, molest, plague, provoke |
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| hasten | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: induce, rush, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: expedite |
| hat | (verb) put on or wear a hat | - |
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| (verb) furnish with a hat | - |
| hatch | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate |
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| (verb) emerge from the eggs | - |
| (verb) draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper | - |
| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up |
| (verb) inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating | - |
| hatchel | (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, heckle |
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| hate | (verb) to have and express negative sentiments about a person | - |
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| (verb) dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards | Synonyms: detest |
| haul | (verb) transport in a vehicle | - |
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| (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, drag, hale |
| haunt | (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: ghost, obsess |
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| (verb) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to | Synonyms: stalk |
| (verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: frequent |
| have | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, deliver, give birth |
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| (verb) suffer from; be ill with | - |
| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, suffer, sustain |
| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: get, let |
| (verb) undergo | Synonyms: experience |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, induce, make, stimulate |
| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) have sex with; archaic use | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, hold, make, throw |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: experience, get, receive |
| (verb) have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense | Synonyms: have got, hold |
| (verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: get, make |
| (verb) get something; come into possession of | Synonyms: receive |
| (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: own, possess |
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: accept, take |
| (verb) have a personal or business relationship with someone | - |
| (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: feature |
| (verb) be confronted with | - |
| haw | (verb) utter `haw' | - |
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| hawk | (verb) clear mucus or food from one's throat | Synonyms: clear the throat |
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| (verb) hunt with hawks | - |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: huckster, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
| hay | (verb) convert (plant material) into hay | - |
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| hazard | (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, pretend, venture |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, jeopardize, stake, venture |
| haze | (verb) harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions | - |
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| (verb) become hazy, dull, or cloudy | - |
| head | (verb) remove the head of | - |
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| (verb) to go or travel towards | - |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) travel in front of; go in advance of others | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be in charge of | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be in the front of or on top of | - |
| (verb) be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel | Synonyms: head up |
| (verb) form a head or come or grow to a head | - |
| (verb) take its rise | - |
| headbutt | (verb) butt with the head | - |
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| headline | (verb) publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline | - |
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| (verb) provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline | - |
| headquarter | (verb) provide with headquarters | - |
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| heal | (verb) get healthy again | - |
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| (verb) provide a cure for, make healthy again | Synonyms: bring around, cure |
| (verb) heal or recover | Synonyms: mend |
| heap | (verb) fill to overflow | - |
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| (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: pile, stack |
| (verb) bestow in large quantities | - |
| hear | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, learn, pick up, see |
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| (verb) perceive (sound) via the auditory sense | - |
| (verb) receive a communication from someone | - |
| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: listen, take heed |
| (verb) examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process | Synonyms: try |
| hearken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, harken |
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| hearten | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, recreate |
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| heat | (verb) gain heat or get hot | Synonyms: heat up, hot up |
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| (verb) make hot or hotter | Synonyms: heat up |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) provide with heat | - |
| heave | (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, retch |
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| (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, pant, puff |
| (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, warp |
| (verb) utter a sound, as with obvious effort | - |
| (verb) lift or elevate | Synonyms: heave up, heft, heft up |
| (verb) throw with great effort | - |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, surge |
| (verb) move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position | - |
| heckle | (verb) challenge aggressively | - |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
| hectograph | (verb) copy on a duplicator | - |
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| hector | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, push around, strong-arm |
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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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| heed | (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: listen, mind |
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| heel | (verb) put a new heel on | Synonyms: reheel |
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| (verb) strike with the heel of the club | - |
| (verb) perform with the heels | - |
| (verb) follow at the heels of a person | - |
| (verb) tilt to one side | Synonyms: list |
| heft | (verb) lift or elevate | Synonyms: heave, heave up, heft up |
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| (verb) test the weight of something by lifting it | - |
| heighten | (verb) increase the level of | Synonyms: enhance, raise |
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| (verb) become more extreme | Synonyms: rise |
| (verb) make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity | - |
| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, intensify |
| (verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: sharpen |
| (verb) increase the height of | - |
| heist | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, burgle |
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| heliograph | (verb) signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays | - |
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| helm | (verb) be at or take the helm of | - |
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| help | (verb) improve the condition of | Synonyms: aid |
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| (verb) improve; change for the better | - |
| (verb) help to some food; help with food or drink | Synonyms: serve |
| (verb) take or use | Synonyms: avail |
| (verb) give help or assistance; be of service | Synonyms: aid, assist |
| (verb) contribute to the furtherance of | - |
| (verb) be of use | Synonyms: facilitate |
| (verb) abstain from doing; always used with a negative | Synonyms: help oneself |
| hem | (verb) utter `hem' or `ahem' | - |
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| (verb) fold over and sew together to provide with a hem | - |
| hemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: haemagglutinate |
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| hemorrhage | (verb) lose blood from one's body | Synonyms: bleed, shed blood |
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| hemstitch | (verb) sew with hemstitches | - |
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| henna | (verb) apply henna to one's hair | - |
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| herald | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, harbinger |
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| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, hail |
| (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: hail |
| herd | (verb) move together, like a herd | - |
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| (verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) keep, move, or drive animals | - |
| hesitate | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: waffle, waver |
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| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: pause |
| heterodyne | (verb) combine (a radio frequency wave) with a locally generated wave of a different frequency so as to produce a new frequency equal to the sum or the difference between the two | - |
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| hew | (verb) strike with an axe; cut down, strike | - |
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| (verb) make or shape as with an axe | Synonyms: hew out |
| hex | (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, jinx, witch |
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| hibachi | (verb) cook over a hibachi grill | - |
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| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| hiccough | (verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccup |
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| hiccup | (verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccough |
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| hide | (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, obliterate, obscure, veil |
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| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, enshroud, shroud |
| (verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: conceal |
| (verb) be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety | Synonyms: hide out |
| hie | (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
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| higgle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, huckster |
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| highjack | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, hijack, pirate |
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| highlight | (verb) apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent | - |
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| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, play up, spotlight |
| hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
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| hijack | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, pirate |
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| (verb) seize control of | - |
| hike | (verb) walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise | - |
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| (verb) increase | Synonyms: boost, hike up |
| hill | (verb) form into a hill | - |
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| hinder | (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, handicap |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: impede |
| hinge | (verb) attach with a hinge | - |
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| hint | (verb) drop a hint; intimate by a hint | Synonyms: suggest |
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| hire | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, lease, rent, take |
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| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: employ, engage |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, lease, rent |
| hiss | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: sibilate, siss, sizz |
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| (verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: sibilate, siss, sizz |
| (verb) show displeasure, as after a performance or speech | Synonyms: boo |
| (verb) move with a whooshing sound | Synonyms: whoosh |
| hit | (verb) pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to | - |
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| (verb) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: pip, shoot |
| (verb) hit the intended target or goal | - |
| (verb) deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument | - |
| (verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with | Synonyms: collide with, impinge on, run into, strike |
| (verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) cause to move by striking | - |
| (verb) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, make, reach |
| (verb) drive something violently into a location | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, reach |
| (verb) cause to experience suddenly | Synonyms: come to, strike |
| (verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: stumble |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| hitch | (verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: catch |
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| (verb) connect to a vehicle: | - |
| (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitchhike, thumb |
| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hobble, limp |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, jerk |
| hitchhike | (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitch, thumb |
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| hive | (verb) gather into a hive | - |
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| (verb) move together in a hive or as if in a hive | - |
| (verb) store, like bees | - |
| hoard | (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, compile, pile up, roll up |
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| (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: cache, hive up, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
| hoax | (verb) subject to a playful hoax or joke | Synonyms: play a joke on, pull someone's leg |
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| hob | (verb) cut with a hob | - |
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| hobble | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hopple |
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| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, limp |
| (verb) hamper the action or progress of | - |
| hobnail | (verb) supply with hobnails | - |
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| hobnob | (verb) rub elbows with | - |
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| hock | (verb) disable by cutting the hock | - |
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| (verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: pawn, soak |
| hoe | (verb) dig with a hoe | - |
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| hog | (verb) take greedily; take more than one's share | - |
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| hoist | (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: lift, wind |
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| (verb) raise by using ropes and pulleys | Synonyms: run up |
| (verb) move from one place to another by lifting | - |
| hold | (verb) keep from exhaling or expelling | - |
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| (verb) keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view | Synonyms: deem, take for, view as |
| (verb) hold the attention of | - |
| (verb) assert or affirm | - |
| (verb) remain committed to | - |
| (verb) declare to be | Synonyms: adjudge, declare |
| (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, obligate, oblige |
| (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concord, concur |
| (verb) aim, point, or direct | - |
| (verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: defend, guard |
| (verb) drink alcohol without showing ill effects | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) have or hold in one's hands or grip | - |
| (verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold up, support, sustain |
| (verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: bear, carry |
| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, constrain, restrain |
| (verb) cover as for protection against noise or smell | - |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, make, throw |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, harbour, nurse |
| (verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: arrest, halt |
| (verb) have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense | Synonyms: have, have got |
| (verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application | Synonyms: hold back, keep back, retain |
| (verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices | Synonyms: bear |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: book, reserve |
| (verb) keep from departing | - |
| (verb) take and maintain control over, often by violent means | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: keep, maintain |
| (verb) remain in a certain state, position, or condition | - |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: obtain, prevail |
| (verb) be pertinent or relevant or applicable | Synonyms: apply, go for |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: accommodate, admit |
| (verb) have as a major characteristic | - |
| (verb) resist or confront with resistance | Synonyms: defy, hold up, withstand |
| (verb) stop dealing with | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, carry, contain |
| (verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: contain, take |
| hole | (verb) make holes in | - |
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| (verb) hit the ball into the hole | Synonyms: hole out |
| holiday | (verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: vacation |
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| holler | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, squawk |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) shout out | Synonyms: holler out |
| hollo | (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
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| (verb) cry hollo | - |
| (verb) encourage somebody by crying hollo | - |
| hollow | (verb) remove the interior of | Synonyms: core out, hollow out |
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| (verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, excavate |
| holystone | (verb) scrub with a holystone | - |
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| home | (verb) return home accurately from a long distance | - |
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| (verb) provide with, or send to, a home | - |
| homer | (verb) hit a home run | - |
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| homestead | (verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
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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 |