| affright | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
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| airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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| alight | (verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
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| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
| align | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, aline, line up |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: coordinate, ordinate |
| (verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: array |
| (verb) be or come into adjustment with | - |
| alligator | (verb) crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes | - |
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| arraign | (verb) accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy | - |
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| (verb) call before a court to answer an indictment | - |
| assign | (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose | Synonyms: set apart, specify |
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| (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, attribute, impute |
| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: attribute |
| (verb) attribute or give | Synonyms: put |
| (verb) transfer one's right to | - |
| (verb) give out | Synonyms: allot, portion |
| (verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: arrogate |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: delegate, depute, designate |
| bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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| benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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| (verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
| (verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
| bight | (verb) fasten with a bight | - |
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| blight | (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
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| brigade | (verb) form or unite into a brigade | - |
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| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| calligraph | (verb) write beautifully and ornamentally | - |
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| campaign | (verb) go on a campaign; go off to war | Synonyms: take the field |
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| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: run |
| (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, crusade, fight, press, push |
| castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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| (verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
| chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| colligate | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: subsume |
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| (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
| configure | (verb) set up for a particular purpose | - |
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| consign | (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: charge |
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| (verb) commit forever; commit irrevocably | - |
| (verb) send to an address | - |
| copyright | (verb) secure a copyright on a written work | - |
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| cosign | (verb) sign and endorse (another person's signature), as for a loan | Synonyms: co-sign |
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| (verb) sign jointly | Synonyms: co-sign |
| countersign | (verb) add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity | - |
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| counterweight | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
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| deign | (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, descend |
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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 |
| denigrate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, derogate, minimize |
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| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
| design | (verb) plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect | - |
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| (verb) intend or have as a purpose | - |
| (verb) create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner | - |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, plan, project |
| (verb) create designs | - |
| (verb) conceive or fashion in the mind; invent | - |
| designate | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
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| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| dig | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, delve, turn over |
| (verb) create by digging | Synonyms: dig out |
| (verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: excavate, hollow |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: jab, poke, prod, stab |
| (verb) thrust down or into | - |
| (verb) remove, harvest, or recover by digging | Synonyms: dig out, dig up |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| digest | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
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| (verb) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing | - |
| (verb) become assimilated into the body | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture | - |
| (verb) arrange and integrate in the mind | - |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) convert food into absorbable substances | - |
| digitalise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalize, digitise, digitize |
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| digitalize | (verb) administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects | - |
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| (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitise, digitize |
| digitise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitize |
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| digitize | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitalize, digitise |
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| dignify | (verb) raise the status of | - |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: ennoble |
| digress | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: divagate, stray, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, sidetrack, straggle |
| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| disfigure | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, deface |
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| disoblige | (verb) ignore someone's wishes | - |
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| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| dogfight | (verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
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| (verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
| emigrate | (verb) leave one's country of residence for a new one | - |
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| 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 |
| fatigue | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: jade, pall, tire, weary |
| feign | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, sham, simulate |
| 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 |
| figure | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) understand | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: enter |
| filigree | (verb) make filigree, as with a precious metal | - |
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| fistfight | (verb) fight with the fists | - |
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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 | - |
| floodlight | (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
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| freight | (verb) load with goods for transportation | - |
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| (verb) transport commercially as cargo | - |
| 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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| fumigate | (verb) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests | Synonyms: fume |
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| fustigate | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: cudgel |
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| giggle | (verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: titter |
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| greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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| 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 | - |
| 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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| ignite | (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, light |
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| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, erupt, take fire |
| ignore | (verb) be ignorant of or in the dark about | - |
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| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, neglect |
| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, push aside |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, disregard, snub |
| (verb) fail to notice | - |
| immigrate | (verb) come into a new country and change residency | - |
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| (verb) migrate to a new environment | - |
| (verb) introduce or send as immigrants | - |
| instigate | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, prompt |
| intrigue | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, scheme |
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| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: fascinate |
| inveigh | (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: rail |
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| (verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: declaim |
| inveigle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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| investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| invigilate | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: proctor |
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| invigorate | (verb) impart vigor, strength, or vitality to | Synonyms: reinvigorate |
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| (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, enliven, liven, liven up |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, inspire |
| irrigate | (verb) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting | - |
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| (verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: water |
| jacklight | (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jack |
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| jig | (verb) dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions | - |
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| jigg | (verb) dancing in a style associated with the South Louisiana club scene | - |
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| jiggle | (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: joggle, wiggle |
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| knight | (verb) raise (someone) to knighthood | Synonyms: dub |
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| ligate | (verb) bind with a bandage or ligature | - |
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| (verb) bind chemically | - |
| (verb) join letters in a ligature when writing | - |
| light | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, illumine, light up |
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| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, ignite |
| (verb) begin to smoke | Synonyms: fire up, light up |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, perch |
| (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, unhorse |
| (verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: ignite |
| lighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: brighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become lighter | Synonyms: lighten up |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: relieve |
| (verb) become more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| (verb) reduce the weight on; make lighter | - |
| (verb) make more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| lighter | (verb) transport in a flatbottom boat | - |
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| lignify | (verb) convert into wood or cause to become woody | - |
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| litigate | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, process, sue |
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| (verb) engage in legal proceedings | - |
| madrigal | (verb) sing madrigals | - |
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| malign | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, traduce |
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| migrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: transmigrate |
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| (verb) move periodically or seasonally | - |
| misalign | (verb) align imperfectly or badly | - |
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| mitigate | (verb) to temper | - |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, palliate |
| moonlight | (verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
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| navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
| (verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
| neigh | (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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| neighbor | (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbour |
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| (verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbour |
| neighbour | (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbor |
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| (verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbor |
| niggle | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, fuss |
| obligate | (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige |
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| (verb) commit in order to fulfill an obligation | - |
| (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, oblige |
| oblige | (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, obligate |
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| (verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: accommodate |
| (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, obligate |
| originate | (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, start |
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| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. | - |