| anticipate | (verb) be a forerunner of or occur earlier than | - |
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| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: expect |
| (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: foreknow, foresee, previse |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
| (verb) be excited or anxious about | Synonyms: look for, look to |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: counter, foresee, forestall |
| caliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
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| calliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: caliper |
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| chip | (verb) break a small piece off from | Synonyms: break off, cut off, knap |
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| (verb) break off (a piece from a whole) | Synonyms: break away, break off, chip off, come off |
| (verb) form by chipping | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: nick |
| (verb) play a chip shot | - |
| cipher | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| clip | (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: curtail, cut short |
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| (verb) attach with a clip | - |
| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: nip, nip off, snip, snip off |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: jog, trot |
| conscript | (verb) enroll into service compulsorily | - |
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| constipate | (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: bind |
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| (verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog | Synonyms: clog |
| cripple | (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: lame |
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| (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: stultify |
| decipher | (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: trace |
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| (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decode, decrypt |
| dip | (verb) stain an object by immersing it in a liquid | - |
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| (verb) go down momentarily | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dunk |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: douse, dunk, plunge, souse |
| (verb) plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container | - |
| (verb) immerse in a disinfectant solution | - |
| (verb) scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface | - |
| (verb) place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: douse, duck |
| (verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: sink |
| (verb) slope downwards | - |
| (verb) lower briefly | - |
| (verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dim |
| (verb) take a small amount from | - |
| diphthongise | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongize |
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| diphthongize | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongise |
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| discipline | (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: correct, sort out |
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| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, train |
| dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter |
| (verb) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | - |
| drip | (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drop |
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| (verb) fall in drops | - |
| eclipse | (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: occult |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, overshadow |
| egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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| emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
| encipher | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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| equip | (verb) provide with abilities or understanding | - |
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| (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: fit, fit out, outfit |
| flip | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, interchange, switch, tack |
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| (verb) go mad, go crazy | Synonyms: flip out |
| (verb) react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way | Synonyms: flip out |
| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: pitch, sky, toss |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: switch, throw |
| (verb) turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse | Synonyms: flip over, turn over |
| (verb) move with a flick or light motion | - |
| (verb) lightly throw to see which side comes up | Synonyms: toss |
| (verb) cause to move with a flick | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: twitch |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb |
| gip | (verb) (sometimes offensive) to cheat or swindle | Synonyms: gyp |
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| gossip | (verb) wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies | Synonyms: dish the dirt |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| grip | (verb) hold fast or firmly | - |
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| (verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grapple |
| (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, spellbind, transfix |
| gripe | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, grouse, holler, squawk |
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| horripilate | (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps | - |
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| (verb) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps | - |
| horsewhip | (verb) whip with a whip intended for horses | - |
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| kip | (verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, log Z's, sleep, slumber |
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| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| lipstick | (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
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| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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| (verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
| (verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
| multiply | (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: breed |
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| (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: procreate, reproduce |
| (verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: manifold |
| (verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: manifold |
| (verb) combine by multiplication | - |
| nip | (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
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| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: clip, nip off, snip, snip off |
| (verb) give a small sharp bite to | - |
| obstipate | (verb) constipate severely | - |
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| outstrip | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outdistance |
| participate | (verb) become a participant; be involved in | Synonyms: enter |
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| (verb) share in something | Synonyms: take part |
| pip | (verb) defeat thoroughly | Synonyms: mop up, rack up, whip, worst |
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| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, shoot |
| (verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: shoot |
| pipe | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe up, shriek, shrill |
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| (verb) play on a pipe | - |
| (verb) trim with piping | - |
| (verb) transport by pipeline | - |
| precipitate | (verb) separate as a fine suspension of solid particles | - |
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| (verb) hurl or throw violently | - |
| (verb) bring about abruptly | - |
| (verb) fall vertically, sharply, or headlong | - |
| (verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, fall |
| quip | (verb) make jokes or quips | Synonyms: gag |
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| receipt | (verb) mark or stamp as paid | - |
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| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
| reciprocate | (verb) alternate the direction of motion of | - |
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| (verb) act, feel, or give mutually or in return | - |
| reship | (verb) place on a ship again or transfer to another ship | - |
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| rip | (verb) criticize or abuse strongly and violently | - |
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| (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rend, rive |
| (verb) cut (wood) along the grain | - |
| (verb) move precipitously or violently | - |
| (verb) take without the owner's consent | Synonyms: rip off, steal |
| ripen | (verb) grow ripe | - |
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| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: mature |
| riposte | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return |
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| (verb) make a return thrust | - |
| ripple | (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ruffle, undulate |
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| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle |
| script | (verb) write a script for | - |
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| ship | (verb) place on board a ship | - |
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| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: send, transport |
| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: embark |
| (verb) travel by ship | - |
| (verb) hire for work on a ship | - |
| shipwreck | (verb) destroy a ship | - |
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| (verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
| (verb) ruin utterly | - |
| (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
| sideswipe | (verb) strike from the side | - |
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| sip | (verb) drink in sips | - |
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| siphon | (verb) move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action | - |
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| (verb) convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon | Synonyms: siphon off, syphon |
| skip | (verb) bypass | Synonyms: jump, pass over, skip over |
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| (verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skim, skitter |
| (verb) jump lightly | Synonyms: hop-skip, hop |
| (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: decamp, vamoose |
| (verb) bound off one point after another | Synonyms: bound off |
| (verb) intentionally fail to attend | Synonyms: cut |
| skipper | (verb) work as the skipper on a vessel | - |
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| slip | (verb) fall to a lower standard | Synonyms: drop away, drop off, fall away |
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| (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, splay |
| (verb) insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly | - |
| (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: err, mistake |
| (verb) pass out of one's memory | Synonyms: slip one's mind |
| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slew, slide, slue |
| (verb) move stealthily | Synonyms: steal |
| (verb) move easily | - |
| (verb) move smoothly and easily | - |
| (verb) cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion | - |
| (verb) pass on stealthily | Synonyms: sneak |
| snip | (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, trim |
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| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: clip, nip, nip off, snip off |
| snipe | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, round |
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| (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: sharpshoot |
| (verb) hunt or shoot snipe | - |
| stipple | (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: speckle |
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| (verb) engrave by means of dots and flicks | - |
| (verb) make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink | - |
| (verb) apply (paint) in small dots or strokes | - |
| stipulate | (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify |
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| (verb) give a guarantee or promise of | - |
| (verb) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force | - |
| strip | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| (verb) draw the last milk (of cows) | - |
| (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: dismantle |
| (verb) remove a constituent from a liquid | - |
| (verb) remove the thread (of screws) | - |
| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude |
| (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: leach |
| (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, divest, undress |
| (verb) remove the surface from | - |
| (verb) strip the cured leaves from | - |
| (verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, divest |
| stripe | (verb) mark with stripes | - |
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| swipe | (verb) strike with a swiping motion | - |
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| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak |
| tip | (verb) mark with a tip | - |
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| (verb) remove the tip from | - |
| (verb) give insider information or advise to | Synonyms: tip off |
| (verb) strike lightly | Synonyms: tap |
| (verb) walk on one's toes | Synonyms: tippytoe, tiptoe |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, slant, tilt |
| (verb) cause to tilt | - |
| (verb) cause to topple or tumble by pushing | Synonyms: topple, tumble |
| (verb) give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on | Synonyms: bung, fee |
| tipple | (verb) drink moderately but regularly | Synonyms: bib |
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| tippytoe | (verb) walk on one's toes | Synonyms: tip, tiptoe |
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| tiptoe | (verb) walk on one's toes | Synonyms: tip, tippytoe |
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| traipse | (verb) walk or tramp about | Synonyms: shlep |
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| transship | (verb) transfer for further transportation from one ship or conveyance to another | - |
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| trip | (verb) get high, stoned, or drugged | Synonyms: get off, trip out, turn on |
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| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off |
| (verb) miss a step and fall or nearly fall | Synonyms: stumble |
| (verb) cause to stumble | Synonyms: trip up |
| (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: jaunt, travel |
| triple | (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: treble |
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| (verb) hit a three-base hit | - |
| triplicate | (verb) reproduce threefold | - |
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| unclip | (verb) remove the clip from | - |
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| unzip | (verb) open the zipper of | - |
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| vilipend | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, depreciate |
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| weatherstrip | (verb) provide with weatherstripping | - |
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| whip | (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scald, scorch |
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| (verb) defeat thoroughly | Synonyms: mop up, pip, rack up, worst |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt |
| (verb) whip with or as if with a wire whisk | Synonyms: whisk |
| (verb) strike as if by whipping | Synonyms: lash |
| (verb) thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash | - |
| whipsaw | (verb) saw with a whipsaw | - |
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| (verb) victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations | - |
| wipe | (verb) rub with a circular motion | Synonyms: pass over |
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| worship | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, revere |
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| (verb) show devotion to (a deity) | - |
| (verb) attend religious services | - |
| yip | (verb) bark in a high-pitched tone | Synonyms: yap, yelp |
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| zip | (verb) close with a zipper | Synonyms: zip up, zipper |
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| (verb) move very fast | Synonyms: hurry, speed, travel rapidly |
| zipper | (verb) close with a zipper | Synonyms: zip, zip up |
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