| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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| acuminate | (verb) make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point | - |
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| agglutinate | (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
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| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| assassinate | (verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation | - |
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| (verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons | - |
| bastinado | (verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| brominate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
| chlorinate | (verb) disinfect with chlorine | - |
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| (verb) treat or combine with chlorine | - |
| comminate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, execrate |
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| concertina | (verb) collapse like a concertina | - |
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| conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
| contaminate | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: foul, pollute |
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| (verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material | - |
| coordinate | (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: organise, organize |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, ordinate |
| (verb) bring into common action, movement, or condition | - |
| (verb) be co-ordinated | - |
| criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| criminalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| (verb) treat as a criminal | - |
| criminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, impeach, incriminate |
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| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, reprimand |
| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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| decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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| dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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| decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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| demyelinate | (verb) destroy the myelin sheath of | - |
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| denominate | (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: designate |
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| deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
| desalinate | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinise, desalinize, desalt |
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| discriminate | (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
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| (verb) distinguish | - |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dominate | (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: master |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: predominate, prevail, reign, rule |
| (verb) be in control | - |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, overlook, overtop |
| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow |
| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| exterminate | (verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many | Synonyms: kill off |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
| festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| finagle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: manage, wangle |
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| finalise | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalize, nail down, settle |
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| finalize | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, nail down, settle |
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| finance | (verb) obtain or provide money for | - |
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| (verb) sell or provide on credit | - |
| financier | (verb) conduct financial operations | - |
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| fulminate | (verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
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| (verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
| geminate | (verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
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| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
| germinate | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| (verb) cause to grow or sprout | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| haemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: hemagglutinate |
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| hallucinate | (verb) perceive what is not there; have illusions | - |
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| hemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: haemagglutinate |
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| illuminate | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up |
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| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) | - |
| inactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: deactivate |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
| inaugurate | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: introduce, usher in |
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| (verb) commence officially | Synonyms: kick off |
| (verb) open ceremoniously or dedicate formally | - |
| incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
| indoctrinate | (verb) teach doctrines to; teach uncritically | - |
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| ingeminate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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| inseminate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, fertilize |
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| (verb) place seeds in or on (the ground) | Synonyms: sow, sow in |
| invaginate | (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: introvert |
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| (verb) sheathe | - |
| iodinate | (verb) cause to combine with iodine | - |
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| laminate | (verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
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| (verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |
| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| marginalise | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalize |
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| marginalize | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalise |
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| marinade | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinate |
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| marinate | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinade |
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| nominate | (verb) propose as a candidate for some honor | Synonyms: put forward, put up |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, name |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, name |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: propose |
| obstinate | (verb) persist stubbornly | - |
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| ordinate | (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, coordinate |
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| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, order |
| 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. | - |
| paginate | (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, page |
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| patinate | (verb) coat with a patina | Synonyms: patinise, patinize |
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| peregrinate | (verb) travel around, through, or over, especially on foot | - |
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| plastinate | (verb) preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes | - |
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| pollinate | (verb) fertilize by transferring pollen | Synonyms: cross-pollinate, pollenate |
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| predestinate | (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| predominate | (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, prevail, reign, rule |
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| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, tower |
| procrastinate | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, stall |
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| (verb) postpone or delay needlessly | - |
| ratiocinate | (verb) reason methodologically and logically | - |
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| recriminate | (verb) return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return | - |
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| refinance | (verb) renew the financing of | - |
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| resinate | (verb) impregnate with resin to give a special flavor to | - |
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| ruminate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) chew the cuds | - |
| salinate | (verb) make salty | - |
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| subordinate | (verb) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient | Synonyms: subdue |
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| (verb) rank or order as less important or consider of less value | - |
| superordinate | (verb) place in a superior order or rank | - |
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| supinate | (verb) turn (the hand or forearm) so that the back is downward or backward, or turn out (the leg) | - |
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| terminate | (verb) bring to an end or halt | Synonyms: end |
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| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, finish, stop |
| (verb) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of | Synonyms: end |
| transaminate | (verb) undergo transfer from one compound to another | - |
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| (verb) change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another | - |
| urinate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, wee-wee, wee |
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| (verb) pass after the manner of urine | - |
| vaccinate | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, immunize, inoculate |
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| vaticinate | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophesy |
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| (verb) foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy | - |