acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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acclimatize | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatise |
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animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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(verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
animalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalise |
animate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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(verb) make lively | Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up |
(verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animise, animize |
(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
approximate | (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
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(verb) be close or similar | Synonyms: come close |
climax | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: culminate |
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collimate | (verb) adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument) | - |
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(verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: parallel |
decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
decimalize | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalise |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalise |
decimate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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(verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies | - |
estimate | (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, gauge, guess, judge |
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(verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, figure, forecast, reckon |
grimace | (verb) contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state | Synonyms: make a face, pull a face |
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guesstimate | (verb) estimate based on a calculation | - |
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image | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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(verb) render visible, as by means of MRI | - |
imagine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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(verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, ideate |
intimate | (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: adumbrate, insinuate |
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(verb) imply as a possibility | Synonyms: suggest |
legitimate | (verb) make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone) | - |
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(verb) show or affirm to be just and legitimate | - |
(verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
legitimatise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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legitimatize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimise, legitimize |
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misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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(verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
overestimate | (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overrate |
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(verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overvalue |
reanimate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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reprimand | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
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(verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |
sublimate | (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublime |
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(verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, purify |
(verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, subtilize |
(verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublime |
(verb) direct energy or urges into useful activities | - |
underestimate | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: lowball |
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(verb) make too low an estimate of | Synonyms: underrate |
(verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: undervalue |