bind | (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: constipate |
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(verb) form a chemical bond with | - |
(verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: hold, obligate, oblige |
(verb) make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope | - |
(verb) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord | Synonyms: tie |
(verb) provide with a binding | - |
(verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to |
(verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss |
(verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bandage |
(verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bond, tie |
blind | (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: dim |
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(verb) make blind by putting the eyes out | - |
(verb) render unable to see | - |
blindfold | (verb) cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing | - |
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blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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(verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
find | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: get, incur, obtain, receive |
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(verb) accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation | Synonyms: find oneself |
(verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | Synonyms: feel |
(verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out |
(verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: rule |
(verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: discover |
(verb) succeed in reaching; arrive at | - |
(verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with | Synonyms: see, witness |
(verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, discover, notice, observe |
(verb) perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place | - |
(verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost | Synonyms: regain |
(verb) get something or somebody for a specific purpose | Synonyms: come up, get hold, line up |
(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, happen |
(verb) obtain through effort or management | - |
(verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: recover, regain, retrieve |
grind | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash |
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(verb) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together | Synonyms: grate |
(verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch |
(verb) shape or form by grinding | - |
(verb) created by grinding | - |
(verb) dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced | - |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
hinder | (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, handicap |
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(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
(verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: impede |
indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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(verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
indent | (verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indenture |
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(verb) make a depression into | Synonyms: dent |
(verb) cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication | - |
(verb) notch the edge of or make jagged | - |
(verb) set in from the margin | - |
indenture | (verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indent |
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index | (verb) adjust through indexation | - |
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(verb) provide with an index | - |
(verb) list in an index | - |
indicate | (verb) to state or express briefly | - |
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(verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, point, signal |
(verb) give evidence of | Synonyms: argue |
(verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, point, show |
(verb) suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine | - |
indict | (verb) accuse formally of a crime | - |
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indispose | (verb) cause to feel unwell | - |
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(verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: disqualify, unfit |
(verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: disincline |
indite | (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, pen, write |
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individualise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualize, personalise, personalize |
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(verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualize |
individualize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, personalise, personalize |
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(verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualise |
individuate | (verb) give individual shape or form to | - |
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(verb) give individual character to | - |
indoctrinate | (verb) teach doctrines to; teach uncritically | - |
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indorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: endorse |
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(verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
(verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, endorse |
(verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, endorse, second |
induce | (verb) reason or establish by induction | - |
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(verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, make, stimulate |
(verb) cause to arise | Synonyms: bring on |
(verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, rush, stimulate |
(verb) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes | Synonyms: induct |
induct | (verb) introduce or initiate | - |
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(verb) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes | Synonyms: induce |
(verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: invest, seat |
(verb) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite | Synonyms: initiate |
(verb) admit as a member | - |
indue | (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, gift, invest |
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indulge | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, pander |
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(verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: luxuriate |
(verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
(verb) give free rein to | - |
indurate | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
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(verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
(verb) become fixed or established | - |
(verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: harden, inure |
industrialise | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialize |
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(verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialize |
industrialize | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialise |
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(verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialise |
indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame |
(verb) catch fire | Synonyms: inflame |
mastermind | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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mind | (verb) keep in mind | Synonyms: bear in mind |
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(verb) be concerned with or about something or somebody | - |
(verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: beware |
(verb) be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by | - |
(verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, listen |
(verb) be in charge of or deal with | Synonyms: take care |
overindulge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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rebind | (verb) provide with a new binding | - |
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rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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(verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
remainder | (verb) sell cheaply as remainders | - |
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remind | (verb) put in the mind of someone | - |
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(verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, prompt |
rescind | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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rewind | (verb) wind (up) again | - |
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spellbind | (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: entrance |
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(verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize |
(verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, grip, transfix |
swindle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize |
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unbind | (verb) untie or unfasten | - |
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unwind | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend |
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(verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unstrain |
(verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: disentangle |
(verb) reverse the winding or twisting of | Synonyms: unroll, wind off |
vindicate | (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: justify |
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(verb) clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof | - |
(verb) maintain, uphold, or defend | - |
wind | (verb) coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem | Synonyms: wind up |
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(verb) form into a wreath | Synonyms: wreathe |
(verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: hoist, lift |
(verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: roll, twine, wrap |
(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, weave |
(verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: curve, twist |
(verb) catch the scent of; get wind of | Synonyms: nose, scent |
windsurf | (verb) ride standing on a surfboard with an attached sail, on water | - |
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