| awake | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
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| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| backstroke | (verb) swim on one's back | - |
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| bake | (verb) cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven | - |
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| (verb) heat by a natural force | Synonyms: broil |
| (verb) prepare with dry heat in an oven | - |
| (verb) be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun | Synonyms: broil |
| betoken | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, indicate, point, signal |
| bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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| bicker | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| bike | (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, pedal, wheel |
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| blacken | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, melanise, melanize |
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| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: char, scorch, sear |
| blanket | (verb) cover as if with a blanket | - |
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| (verb) form a blanket-like cover (over) | - |
| blinker | (verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
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| bracket | (verb) classify or group | - |
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| (verb) place into brackets | Synonyms: bracket out |
| (verb) support with brackets | - |
| brake | (verb) cause to stop by applying the brakes | - |
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| (verb) stop travelling by applying a brake | - |
| breaststroke | (verb) swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg | - |
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| brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
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| broker | (verb) act as a broker | - |
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| bucket | (verb) carry in a bucket | - |
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| (verb) put into a bucket | - |
| bunker | (verb) hit a golf ball into a bunker | - |
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| (verb) transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse | - |
| (verb) fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil | - |
| burke | (verb) get rid of, silence, or suppress | - |
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| (verb) murder without leaving a trace on the body | - |
| cackel | (verb) make a cackling sound | - |
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| cake | (verb) form a coat over | Synonyms: coat |
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| cakewalk | (verb) perform the cakewalk dance | - |
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| canker | (verb) infect with a canker | - |
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| (verb) become infected with a canker | - |
| casket | (verb) enclose in a casket | - |
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| checker | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
| chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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| choke | (verb) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion | - |
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| (verb) cause to retch or choke | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate |
| (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: strangle |
| (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: throttle |
| (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, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: fret, gag |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: scrag |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate |
| (verb) check or slow down the action or effect of | - |
| (verb) fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation | - |
| clinker | (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
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| (verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
| cocker | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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| coke | (verb) become coke | - |
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| convoke | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convene |
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| counterstrike | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| cricket | (verb) play cricket | - |
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| darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
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| (verb) make dark or darker | - |
| (verb) tarnish or stain | - |
| decoke | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize |
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| dicker | (verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange | Synonyms: bargain |
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| dike | (verb) enclose with a dike | Synonyms: dyke |
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| dislike | (verb) have or feel a dislike or distaste for | - |
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| docket | (verb) make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list | - |
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| (verb) place on the docket for legal action | - |
| dyke | (verb) enclose with a dike | Synonyms: dike |
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| evoke | (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: paint a picture, suggest |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, kick up, provoke |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, extract |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| fake | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, talk through one's hat |
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| (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, forge |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| flake | (verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake off, peel, peel off |
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| (verb) cover with flakes or as if with flakes | - |
| (verb) form into flakes | - |
| flicker | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flitter, flutter, quiver, waver |
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| (verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flick |
| forsake | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, desolate |
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| grubstake | (verb) supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits | - |
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| hanker | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: long, yearn |
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| harken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, hearken |
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| hearken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, harken |
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| hike | (verb) walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise | - |
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| (verb) increase | Synonyms: boost, hike up |
| hitchhike | (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitch, thumb |
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| housekeep | (verb) maintain a household; take care of all business related to a household | - |
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| hunker | (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
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| instalike | (verb) to instantly vote for something on social media | - |
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| invoke | (verb) cite as an authority; resort to | Synonyms: appeal |
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| (verb) request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection | Synonyms: appeal |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| jacket | (verb) put a jacket on | - |
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| (verb) provide with a thermally non-conducting cover | - |
| jockey | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft |
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| (verb) ride a racehorse as a professional jockey | - |
| (verb) compete (for an advantage or a position) | - |
| joke | (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: jest |
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| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: jest |
| junket | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
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| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junketeer |
| junketeer | (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junket |
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| keel | (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
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| keen | (verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: lament |
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| keep | (verb) prevent (food) from rotting | Synonyms: preserve |
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| (verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep back, restrain |
| (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: maintain, observe |
| (verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: maintain, sustain |
| (verb) hold and prevent from leaving | - |
| (verb) retain possession of | Synonyms: hold on |
| (verb) look after; be the keeper of; have charge of | - |
| (verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep open, save |
| (verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) have as a supply | - |
| (verb) store or keep customarily | - |
| (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: prevent |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep on, retain |
| (verb) conform one's action or practice to | Synonyms: observe |
| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: celebrate, observe |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, maintain |
| (verb) supply with room and board | - |
| (verb) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger | Synonyms: preserve |
| (verb) fail to spoil or rot | Synonyms: stay fresh |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, proceed |
| (verb) to rear | - |
| kennel | (verb) put up in a kennel | - |
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| keratinise | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
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| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
| keratinize | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
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| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
| kern | (verb) remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) | - |
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| (verb) furnish with a kern | - |
| key | (verb) harmonize with or adjust to | - |
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| (verb) regulate the musical pitch of | - |
| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key out, name |
| (verb) vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key | - |
| (verb) provide with a key | - |
| keynote | (verb) set the keynote of | - |
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| (verb) give the keynote address to (an audience) | - |
| like | (verb) feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard | - |
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| (verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: care, wish |
| (verb) be fond of | - |
| (verb) find enjoyable or agreeable | - |
| (verb) want to have | - |
| liken | (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: compare, equate |
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| make | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner | - |
| (verb) act in a certain way so as to acquire | - |
| (verb) give certain properties to something | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) put in order or neaten | Synonyms: make up |
| (verb) cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable | - |
| (verb) develop into | - |
| (verb) favor the development of | - |
| (verb) change from one form into another | - |
| (verb) make, formulate, or derive in the mind | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) consider as being | - |
| (verb) calculate as being | - |
| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: establish, lay down |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make believe, pretend |
| (verb) assure the success of | - |
| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: score, seduce |
| (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: create |
| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: create, produce |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, hold, throw |
| (verb) create or design, often in a certain way | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, prepare, ready |
| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: cause, do |
| (verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: create |
| (verb) gather and light the materials for | - |
| (verb) make by shaping or bringing together constituents | - |
| (verb) perform, produce, or carry out | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, construct |
| (verb) compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, reach |
| (verb) reach a goal | Synonyms: get to, progress to, reach |
| (verb) head into a specified direction | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) proceed along a path | Synonyms: work |
| (verb) reach in time | - |
| (verb) appear to begin an activity | - |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, gain, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: get, have |
| (verb) engage in | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) form by assembling individuals or constituents | - |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: name, nominate |
| (verb) carry out or commit | - |
| (verb) be or be capable of being changed or made into | - |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, form |
| (verb) undergo fabrication or creation | - |
| (verb) amount to | - |
| (verb) add up to | - |
| (verb) be suitable for | - |
| (verb) constitute the essence of | - |
| market | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, commercialize |
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| (verb) engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of | - |
| (verb) deal in a market | - |
| (verb) buy household supplies | - |
| mistake | (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: err, slip |
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| (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: misidentify |
| monkey | (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter, tinker |
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| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, tamper |
| motorbike | (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorcycle |
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| muckrake | (verb) explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures | - |
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| nickel | (verb) plate with nickel | - |
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| nicker | (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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| nuke | (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, microwave, zap |
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| (verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomise, atomize, zap |
| (verb) bomb with atomic weapons | Synonyms: atom-bomb |
| ovenbake | (verb) bake in an oven | - |
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| overtake | (verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch, catch up with |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, pass |
| partake | (verb) consume | Synonyms: touch |
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| (verb) have, give, or receive a share of | Synonyms: partake in, share |
| (verb) have some of the qualities or attributes of something | - |
| picket | (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
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| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| pocket | (verb) put in one's pocket | - |
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| (verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: bag |
| poke | (verb) make a hole by poking | - |
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| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, prod, stab |
| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) stir by poking | - |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, nose, pry |
| provoke | (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, evoke, kick up |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, raise |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague |
| pucker | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple |
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| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, tuck |
| (verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: ruck, ruck up |
| puke | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| quake | (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quiver |
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| (verb) shake with seismic vibrations | Synonyms: tremor |
| quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) show signs of life | - |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
| racket | (verb) hit (a ball) with a racket | - |
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| (verb) make loud and annoying noises | - |
| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
| racketeer | (verb) carry on illegal business activities involving crime | - |
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| rake | (verb) gather with a rake | - |
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| (verb) level or smooth with a rake | - |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: crease, graze |
| (verb) move through with or as if with a rake | - |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, run down, scan, skim |
| (verb) sweep the length of | - |
| reawaken | (verb) awaken once again | - |
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| rebuke | (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, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| remake | (verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, redo, refashion |
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| retake | (verb) photograph again | - |
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| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: recapture |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: recapture |
| revoke | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, vacate |
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| (verb) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so | - |
| rocket | (verb) propel with a rocket | - |
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| (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: skyrocket |