| acquire | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: develop, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: adopt, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: larn, learn |
| (verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: gain, win |
| (verb) locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar | - |
| admire | (verb) feel admiration for | Synonyms: look up to |
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| (verb) look at with admiration | - |
| affirm | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: assert, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) say yes to | - |
| air | (verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air out, vent, ventilate |
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| (verb) expose to warm or heated air, so as to dry | - |
| (verb) make public | Synonyms: bare, publicise, publicize |
| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: beam, broadcast, send, transmit |
| (verb) be broadcast | - |
| (verb) expose to fresh air | Synonyms: aerate, air out |
| airbrush | (verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
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| airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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| airlift | (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: lift |
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| airmail | (verb) send or transport by airmail | - |
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| airt | (verb) channel into a new direction | Synonyms: redirect |
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| aspirate | (verb) inhale (air, water, etc.) | - |
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| (verb) pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds | - |
| (verb) remove by suction | Synonyms: draw out, suck out |
| aspire | (verb) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal | Synonyms: aim, draw a bead on, shoot for |
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| attire | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| backfire | (verb) set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire | - |
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| (verb) emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire | - |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backlash, recoil |
| bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
| bestir | (verb) become active | Synonyms: rouse |
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| birch | (verb) whip with a birch twig | - |
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| bird | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: birdwatch |
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| birdie | (verb) shoot in one stroke under par | - |
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| birdlime | (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: lime |
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| birdnest | (verb) gather birdnests | Synonyms: bird-nest |
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| birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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| birl | (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: spin, twirl, whirl |
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| (verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birle |
| birle | (verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birl |
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| birr | (verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: purr, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz |
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| birth | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, deliver, give birth, have |
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| chair | (verb) preside over | Synonyms: lead, moderate |
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| (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chairman |
| chairman | (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
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| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chirp | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirrup, peep |
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| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: tweedle |
| chirr | (verb) make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas | - |
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| chirrup | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, peep |
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| choir | (verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: chorus |
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| circle | (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: encircle |
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| (verb) move in a circular path above (someone or something) | - |
| (verb) travel around something | - |
| circuit | (verb) make a circuit | - |
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| circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
| circularize | (verb) make circular | - |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by using a questionnaire | - |
| circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
| (verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
| (verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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| (verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
| circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| coconspire | (verb) conspire together | - |
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| confirm | (verb) make more firm | - |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
| (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: reassert |
| (verb) administer the rite of confirmation to | - |
| (verb) support a person for a position | - |
| conspire | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, machinate |
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| (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: collude |
| desire | (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: want |
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| (verb) express a desire for | - |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: hope, trust |
| despair | (verb) abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart | - |
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| direct | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
| (verb) command with authority | - |
| (verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
| (verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) govern or manage | - |
| dirty | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, grime, soil |
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| dispirit | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, get down |
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| encircle | (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: gird |
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| (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: circle |
| enquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: inquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, inquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: inquire, investigate |
| environ | (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, ring, skirt, surround |
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| expire | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, exhale |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) lose validity | Synonyms: run out |
| extirpate | (verb) surgically remove (an organ) | - |
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| (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: deracinate, root out, uproot |
| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, root out, uproot |
| fair | (verb) join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly | - |
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| fangirl | (verb) to be a extreme female fan of something | - |
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| fire | (verb) bake in a kiln so as to harden | - |
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| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn, burn down |
| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: ignite, light |
| (verb) become ignited | Synonyms: flame up |
| (verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) start firing a weapon | Synonyms: open fire |
| (verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: discharge, go off |
| (verb) generate an electrical impulse | - |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise |
| (verb) drive out or away by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) provide with fuel | Synonyms: fuel |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| firebomb | (verb) attack with incendiary bombs | - |
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| fireproof | (verb) make resistant to fire | - |
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| firm | (verb) become taut or tauter | Synonyms: tauten |
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| (verb) make taut or tauter | Synonyms: tauten |
| flirt | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, mash, philander, romance |
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| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, play, toy |
| gird | (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, fortify |
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| (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: encircle |
| (verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: girdle |
| girdle | (verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: gird |
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| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: deaden |
| girth | (verb) tie a cinch around | Synonyms: cinch |
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| hire | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, lease, rent, take |
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| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: employ, engage |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, lease, rent |
| impair | (verb) make worse or less effective | - |
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| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, mar, spoil, vitiate |
| inquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: enquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, enquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, investigate |
| inspire | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inhale |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: instigate, prompt |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) supply the inspiration for | - |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, invigorate |
| inspirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: spirit, spirit up |
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| iridesce | (verb) be iridescent | - |
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| irk | (verb) irritate or vex | Synonyms: gall |
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| iron | (verb) press and smooth with a heated iron | Synonyms: iron out, press |
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| irradiate | (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: ray |
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| (verb) cast rays of light upon | - |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: enlighten |
| irrigate | (verb) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting | - |
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| (verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: water |
| irritate | (verb) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame | - |
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| (verb) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| irrupt | (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: explode |
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| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare, flare up |
| (verb) enter uninvited | Synonyms: intrude |
| mire | (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: muck, muck up, mud |
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| (verb) be unable to move further | Synonyms: bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt |
| (verb) cause to get stuck as if in a mire | Synonyms: bog down |
| (verb) entrap | Synonyms: entangle |
| mirror | (verb) reflect or resemble | - |
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| (verb) reflect as if in a mirror | - |
| misdirect | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misaddress |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misguide, mislead |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| misfire | (verb) fail to fire or detonate | - |
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| overtire | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overweary |
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| pair | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, couple, mate |
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| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, mate, twin |
| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: geminate |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: geminate |
| (verb) form a pair or pairs | Synonyms: couple, pair off, partner off |
| perspire | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: sudate, sweat |
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| pirate | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, hijack |
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| (verb) copy illegally; of published material | - |
| pirouette | (verb) do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance | - |
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| quirk | (verb) twist or curve abruptly | - |
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| reaffirm | (verb) affirm once again | - |
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| reconfirm | (verb) confirm again | - |
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| redirect | (verb) channel into a new direction | Synonyms: airt |
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| repair | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, restore, touch on |
| (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, remedy |
| (verb) move, travel, or proceed toward some place | Synonyms: resort |
| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, recompense |
| require | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: command |
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| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, expect |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, want |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take |
| respire | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: breathe, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide | - |
| (verb) breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety | - |