| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| hemorrhage | (verb) lose blood from one's body | Synonyms: bleed, shed blood |
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| inhabit | (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, live, populate |
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| (verb) be present in | - |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: dwell |
| inhale | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inspire |
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| (verb) draw deep into the lungs in by breathing | - |
| 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 |
| lifehack | (verb) make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
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| manhandle | (verb) handle roughly | - |
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| marshal | (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: mobilise, mobilize, summon |
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| (verb) arrange in logical order | - |
| (verb) place in proper rank | - |
| (verb) lead ceremoniously, as in a procession | - |
| mechanise | (verb) make mechanical | Synonyms: mechanize |
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| (verb) make monotonous; make automatic or routine | Synonyms: mechanize |
| (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanize, motorise, motorize |
| mechanize | (verb) make mechanical | Synonyms: mechanise |
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| (verb) make monotonous; make automatic or routine | Synonyms: mechanise |
| (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, motorise, motorize |
| merchandise | (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: trade |
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| misbehave | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misconduct, misdemean |
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| mishandle | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
| orphan | (verb) deprive of parents | - |
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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 |
| overemphasise | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasize, overstress |
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| overemphasize | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overstress |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| panhandle | (verb) beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money | - |
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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 | - |
| purchase | (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: buy |
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| recharge | (verb) charge anew | - |
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| (verb) load anew | Synonyms: reload |
| 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 | - |
| repurchase | (verb) buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away | Synonyms: buy back |
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| reshape | (verb) shape anew or differently | - |
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| (verb) shape again or shape differently | Synonyms: remold |
| rhapsodise | (verb) say (something) with great enthusiasm | Synonyms: rhapsodize |
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| (verb) recite a rhapsody | Synonyms: rhapsodize |
| rhapsodize | (verb) say (something) with great enthusiasm | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
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| (verb) recite a rhapsody | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
| saccharify | (verb) convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate | - |
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| (verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: sugar |
| sashay | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, strut, swagger, tittup |
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| (verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sidle |
| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: chasse |
| scrimshank | (verb) avoid work | - |
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| shack | (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: trail |
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| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, reside |
| shackle | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
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| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
| shade | (verb) pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree | - |
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| (verb) vary slightly | - |
| (verb) protect from light, heat, or view | - |
| (verb) represent the effect of shade or shadow on | Synonyms: fill in |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade off, shadow |
| shadow | (verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge | - |
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| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade, shade off |
| shadowbox | (verb) go through boxing motions without an opponent | - |
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| shaft | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw |
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| (verb) equip with a shaft | - |
| shag | (verb) dance the shag | - |
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| shake | (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: didder |
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| (verb) undermine or cause to waver | - |
| (verb) bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking | - |
| (verb) shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state | - |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: agitate |
| (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: judder |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, sway |
| (verb) get rid of | Synonyms: escape from, shake off, throw off |
| shallow | (verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
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| (verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
| sham | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, pretend |
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| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, feign, simulate |
| shamanise | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanize |
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| shamanize | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanise |
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| shamble | (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shuffle |
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| shame | (verb) surpass or beat by a wide margin | - |
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| (verb) cause to be ashamed | - |
| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour |
| (verb) compel through a sense of shame | - |
| shampoo | (verb) use shampoo on (hair) | - |
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| shanghai | (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: impress |
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| shank | (verb) hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction | - |
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| shape | (verb) give shape or form to | Synonyms: form |
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| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, mould, regulate |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, form, mold, mould, work |
| share | (verb) communicate | - |
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| (verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out |
| (verb) have, give, or receive a share of | Synonyms: partake, partake in |
| (verb) use jointly or in common | - |
| (verb) have in common | - |
| shark | (verb) hunt shark | - |
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| (verb) play the shark; act with trickery | - |