| overhang | (verb) be suspended over or hang over | Synonyms: beetle |
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| (verb) project over | - |
| overhaul | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
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| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overtake, pass |
| overhear | (verb) hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers | Synonyms: catch, take in |
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| overheat | (verb) get excessively and undesirably hot | - |
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| (verb) make excessively or undesirably hot | - |
| overreach | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit |
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| (verb) fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | - |
| overshadow | (verb) cast a shadow upon | - |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, eclipse |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, shadow |
| overshoot | (verb) aim too high | - |
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| (verb) shoot beyond or over (a target) | - |
| overstretch | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: pull |
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| overthink | (verb) to spend to much time considering something and thus reach the wrong conclusion | - |
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| overthrow | (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overturn, reverse |
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| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overturn, subvert |
| overwhelm | (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: deluge, flood out |
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| (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overpower |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, submerge |
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overtake, sweep over, whelm |
| panhandle | (verb) beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money | - |
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| parachute | (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: chute, jump |
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| paragraph | (verb) write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher | - |
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| (verb) write about in a paragraph | - |
| (verb) divide into paragraphs, as of text | - |
| paraphrase | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: rephrase, reword |
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| parch | (verb) cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat | Synonyms: sear |
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| patch | (verb) mend by putting a patch on | Synonyms: patch up |
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| (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) provide with a patch; also used metaphorically | - |
| peach | (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
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| perch | (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
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| (verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
| perish | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it |
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| phase | (verb) adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition | - |
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| (verb) arrange in phases or stages | - |
| philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
| philosophise | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophize |
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| philosophize | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophise |
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| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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| phonate | (verb) utter speech sounds | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize |
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| phone | (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, ring, telephone |
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| phosphoresce | (verb) to exhibit phosphorescence | - |
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| photobomb | (verb) to jump into someone's photo | - |
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| photocopy | (verb) reproduce by xerography | Synonyms: run off, xerox |
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| photograph | (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: shoot, snap |
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| (verb) undergo being photographed in a certain way | - |
| photosensitise | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitize |
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| photosensitize | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitise |
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| photoshop | (verb) To digitally alter a photo | - |
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| photostat | (verb) make a copy by means of a Photostat device | - |
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| phrase | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, formulate, give voice, word |
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| (verb) divide, combine, or mark into phrases | - |
| pigeonhole | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
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| (verb) place into a small compartment | - |
| pinch | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
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| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
| (verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| pitch | (verb) set to a certain pitch | - |
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| (verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: gear |
| (verb) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit | - |
| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, sky, toss |
| (verb) erect and fasten | Synonyms: set up |
| (verb) hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) fall or plunge forward | - |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, slope |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, shift |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend |
| pitchfork | (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: fork |
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| pith | (verb) remove the pith from (a plant) | - |
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| plash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
| pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
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| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
| plight | (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: pledge |
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| (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, engage |
| plough | (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plow, turn |
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| (verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plow |
| poach | (verb) cook in a simmering liquid | - |
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| (verb) hunt illegally | - |
| polish | (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish up, round, round off |
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| (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, refine |
| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: shine, smooth, smoothen |
| polychrome | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychromise, polychromize |
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| polychromise | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromize |
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| polychromize | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromise |
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| pooch | (verb) round one's lips as if intending to kiss | Synonyms: pooch out |
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| pother | (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, flap |
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| (verb) make upset or troubled | - |
| pouch | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, protrude |
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| (verb) put into a small bag | - |
| (verb) send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels | - |
| powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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| preach | (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: advocate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: prophesy |
| preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
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| preheat | (verb) heat beforehand | - |
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| prehend | (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, seize, take hold, take hold of |
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| prizefight | (verb) box for a prize or money | - |
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| prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
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| prophesy | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: vaticinate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: preach |
| psychoanalyse | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyze |
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| psychoanalyze | (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, psychoanalyse |
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| publish | (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, put out, release |
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| (verb) have (one's work) issued for publication | - |
| (verb) put into print | Synonyms: print |
| punch | (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: plug |
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| (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch | - |
| punish | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, penalize |
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| purchase | (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: buy |
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| push | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, promote |
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| (verb) press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action | Synonyms: bear on |
| (verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: press |
| (verb) move with force | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) press against forcefully without moving | - |
| (verb) move strenuously and with effort | - |
| (verb) sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs) | - |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, labour, tug |
| (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, fight, press |
| quash | (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, void |
| quench | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, squelch |
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| (verb) cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid | - |
| (verb) reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance | - |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, slake |
| (verb) suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device | - |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, extinguish, snuff out |
| quetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, sound off |
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| ranch | (verb) manage or run a ranch | - |
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| ratchet | (verb) move by degrees in one direction only | Synonyms: rachet up, ratchet down |
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| ravish | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport |
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| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, violate |
| reach | (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: contact, get hold of, get through |
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| (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: strain, strive |
| (verb) move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: reach out |
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, hit |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make |
| (verb) reach a goal | Synonyms: get to, make, progress to |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass, pass on, turn over |
| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, attain |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, touch |
| recharge | (verb) charge anew | - |
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| (verb) load anew | Synonyms: reload |
| reecho | (verb) repeat back like an echo | - |
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| (verb) repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back | - |
| (verb) echo repeatedly, echo again and again | - |
| reestablish | (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reinstate, restore |
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| refashion | (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, redo, remake |
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| refinish | (verb) give a new surface | - |
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| refresh | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: freshen |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, review |
| refreshen | (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refresh |
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| (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refresh |
| refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| rehabilitate | (verb) help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute | - |
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| (verb) reinstall politically | - |
| (verb) restore to a state of good condition or operation | - |
| reharmonise | (verb) provide with a different harmony | Synonyms: reharmonize |
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| reharmonize | (verb) provide with a different harmony | Synonyms: reharmonise |
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| rehash | (verb) go back over | Synonyms: hash over, retrograde |
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| (verb) present or use over, with no or few changes | - |
| rehear | (verb) hear or try a court case anew | Synonyms: retry |
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| rehearse | (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practice, practise |
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| reheat | (verb) heat again | - |
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| reheel | (verb) put a new heel on | Synonyms: heel |
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| rehouse | (verb) put up in a new or different housing | - |
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| relinquish | (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, release |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, renounce |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, resign |
| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, waive |
| relish | (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, savor, savour |
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| rephrase | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: paraphrase, reword |
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| replenish | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, refill |
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| reprehend | (verb) to rebuke or reprimand | - |
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| reproach | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: upbraid |
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