| abseil | (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: rappel, rope down |
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| affiliate | (verb) join in an affiliation | - |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: associate, assort, consort |
| ail | (verb) be ill or unwell | - |
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| (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: pain, trouble |
| airmail | (verb) send or transport by airmail | - |
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| annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| assail | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assault, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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| (verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assault, attack, set on |
| (verb) launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with | Synonyms: attack |
| assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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| (verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
| assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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| (verb) make similar | - |
| (verb) become similar in sound | - |
| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
| assoil | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
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| automobile | (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
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| avail | (verb) take advantage of | - |
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| (verb) take or use | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) be of use to, be useful to | - |
| bail | (verb) remove (water) from a vessel with a container | - |
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| (verb) empty (a vessel) by bailing | - |
| (verb) secure the release of (someone) by providing security | - |
| (verb) deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period | - |
| (verb) release after a security has been paid | - |
| bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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| beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
| bewail | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, deplore, lament |
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| bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
| bilge | (verb) take in water at the bilge | Synonyms: take in water |
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| (verb) cause to leak | - |
| bilk | (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: elude, evade |
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| (verb) evade payment to | - |
| (verb) cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| bill | (verb) advertise especially by posters or placards | - |
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| (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: placard |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: charge |
| billet | (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: canton, quarter |
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| billow | (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, inflate |
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| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: heave, surge |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) move with great difficulty | - |
| blackmail | (verb) obtain through threats | - |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
| boil | (verb) immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes | - |
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| (verb) come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor | - |
| (verb) bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated emotional state | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: churn, moil, roil |
| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| brail | (verb) haul fish aboard with brails | - |
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| (verb) take in a sail with a brail | - |
| braille | (verb) transcribe in braille | - |
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| broil | (verb) cook under a broiler | Synonyms: oven broil |
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| (verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: bake |
| (verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: bake |
| build | (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build up, progress, work up |
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| (verb) improve the cleansing action of | - |
| (verb) bolster or strengthen | Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up |
| (verb) develop and grow | - |
| (verb) found or ground | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: construct, make |
| (verb) give form to, according to a plan | - |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: establish |
| (verb) be engaged in building | - |
| (verb) order, supervise, or finance the construction of | - |
| cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
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| (verb) project as a cantilever | - |
| cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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| cavil | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, chicane |
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| childproof | (verb) make safe against children | Synonyms: child-proof |
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| chill | (verb) loose heat | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
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| (verb) make cool or cooler | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
| (verb) depress or discourage | - |
| civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| civilize | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilise |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| coil | (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: curl, loop |
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| (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: hand-build, handbuild |
| (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: gyrate, spiral |
| compile | (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compose |
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| (verb) use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed | - |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| conciliate | (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, reconcile |
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| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: make up, patch up, reconcile, settle |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| countervail | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize |
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| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: offset |
| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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| defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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| defile | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, foul, maculate |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: maculate, stain, sully, tarnish |
| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, sully, taint |
| demilitarise | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarize |
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| (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarize, disarm |
| demilitarize | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarise |
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| (verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, disarm |
| demobilise | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilize |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilize, inactivate |
| demobilize | (verb) retire from military service | Synonyms: demob, demobilise |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, inactivate |
| depilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: epilate |
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| derail | (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: jump |
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| (verb) cause to run off the tracks | - |
| despoil | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: plunder, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
| destabilize | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
| detail | (verb) assign to a specific task | - |
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| (verb) provide details for | - |
| devil | (verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste | - |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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| devilize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, diabolise, diabolize |
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| dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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| (verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
| dilate | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: distend |
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| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| dillydally | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall |
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| dilute | (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, reduce, thin, thin out |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, load, stretch |
| disembroil | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disentangle, disinvolve |
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| disillusion | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disenchant |
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| dissimilate | (verb) become dissimilar or less similar | - |
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| (verb) make dissimilar; cause to become less similar | - |
| (verb) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities | - |
| distil | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distill |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, extract |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distill |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| distill | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distil |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, extract |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distil |
| domicile | (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domiciliate, reside, shack |
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| domiciliate | (verb) provide someone with accomodation | Synonyms: house, put up |
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| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, reside, shack |
| dovetail | (verb) fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail | - |
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| drill | (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise |
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| (verb) teach by repetition | - |
| (verb) train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons | - |
| (verb) undergo military training or do military exercises | - |
| (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: bore |
| email | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, netmail |
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| embroil | (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
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| enfilade | (verb) rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction | - |
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| engild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, gild |
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| ensile | (verb) store in a silo | - |
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| entail | (verb) limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs | Synonyms: fee-tail |
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| (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: implicate |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: imply, mean |
| epilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: depilate |
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| equilibrate | (verb) bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium | - |
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| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
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| equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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| exfiltrate | (verb) escape furtively, as from an area under enemy control | - |
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| (verb) transfer secretly out of an area under enemy control | - |
| exhilarate | (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
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| exile | (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, expatriate |
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| facilitate | (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, ease |
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| (verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) | - |
| (verb) be of use | Synonyms: help |
| facsimile | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
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| fail | (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, give out, give way, go, go bad |
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| (verb) deteriorate | - |
| (verb) prove insufficient | Synonyms: give out, run out |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close | - |
| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: go wrong, miscarry |
| (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, flunk, flush it |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: neglect |
| (verb) judge unacceptable | - |
| (verb) be unable | - |
| (verb) fall short in what is expected | - |
| familiarise | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarize |
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| familiarize | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise |
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| fertilise | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilize |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize |
| fertilize | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilise |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise |
| fibrillate | (verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements | - |
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| filch | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| file | (verb) place in a container for keeping records | Synonyms: file away |
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| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, lodge |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: register |
| (verb) smooth with a file | - |
| (verb) proceed in line | - |
| filet | (verb) cut into filets | Synonyms: fillet |
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| (verb) decorate with a lace of geometric designs | Synonyms: fillet |
| filiate | (verb) fix the paternity of | - |
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| filibuster | (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
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| filigree | (verb) make filigree, as with a precious metal | - |
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| fill | (verb) become full | Synonyms: fill up |
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| (verb) make full, also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: fill up, make full |
| (verb) plug with a substance | - |
| (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: replete, sate, satiate |
| (verb) eat until one is sated | Synonyms: fill up |
| (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fit, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
| (verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: occupy, take |
| (verb) appoint someone to (a position or a job) | - |
| (verb) occupy the whole of | Synonyms: occupy |
| fillet | (verb) cut into filets | Synonyms: filet |
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| (verb) decorate with a lace of geometric designs | Synonyms: filet |
| film | (verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: shoot, take |
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| (verb) record in film | - |