| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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| (verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| acclaim | (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: hail, herald |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: applaud, clap, spat |
| accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| acetylate | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
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| (verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
| acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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| adulate | (verb) flatter in an obsequious manner | - |
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| alarm | (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alert |
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| (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: appal, appall, dismay, horrify |
| allay | (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: assuage, quench, slake |
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| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: ease, relieve, still |
| ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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| angulate | (verb) make or become angular | - |
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| annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| applaud | (verb) express that something is worthy of praise | - |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, clap, spat |
| aquaplane | (verb) ride on an aquaplane | - |
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| (verb) rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road | - |
| articulate | (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
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| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: enunciate, vocalise, vocalize |
| (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: formulate, give voice, phrase, word |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: joint |
| (verb) unite by forming a joint or joints | - |
| assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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| (verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
| assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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| (verb) make similar | - |
| (verb) become similar in sound | - |
| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
| autoclave | (verb) subject to the action of an autoclave | - |
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| avalanche | (verb) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow | Synonyms: roll down |
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| backlash | (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
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| backslap | (verb) display excessive cordiality (towards) | - |
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| balance | (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: poise |
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| (verb) compute credits and debits of an account | - |
| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| (verb) be in equilibrium | - |
| ballast | (verb) make steady with a ballast | - |
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| belabor | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabour |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabour |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabour |
| belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
| belay | (verb) fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
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| (verb) turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him | - |
| bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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| beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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| blab | (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| blabber | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| black | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: blacken, melanise, melanize |
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| blackball | (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
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| (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: negative, veto |
| blackberry | (verb) pick or gather blackberries | - |
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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 |
| blackguard | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, clapperclaw, shout |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast |
| blackjack | (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackmail, pressure |
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| blacklead | (verb) cover with graphite | - |
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| blackleg | (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: fink, rat, scab |
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| blacklist | (verb) put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted | - |
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| blackmail | (verb) obtain through threats | - |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
| blacktop | (verb) coat with blacktop | - |
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| blackwash | (verb) color with blackwash | - |
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| (verb) bring (information) out of concealment | - |
| blame | (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: charge |
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| (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: fault |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: find fault, pick |
| blanch | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blench, pale |
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| (verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: parboil |
| blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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| blank | (verb) keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning | - |
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| blanket | (verb) cover as if with a blanket | - |
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| (verb) form a blanket-like cover (over) | - |
| blare | (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, claxon, honk, toot |
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| (verb) make a strident sound | Synonyms: blast |
| blarney | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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| blaspheme | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: curse, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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| (verb) speak of in an irreverent or impious manner | - |
| blast | (verb) shatter as if by explosion | Synonyms: knock down |
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| (verb) shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly | - |
| (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: crucify, pillory, savage |
| (verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: shell |
| (verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: shoot |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: boom, nail, smash |
| (verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: shell |
| (verb) make with or as if with an explosion | - |
| (verb) apply a draft or strong wind to to | - |
| (verb) make a strident sound | Synonyms: blare |
| blat | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blate, bleat |
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| blate | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, bleat |
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| blather | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blether, blither, smatter |
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| blaze | (verb) indicate by marking trees with blazes | - |
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| (verb) shoot rapidly and repeatedly | Synonyms: blaze away |
| (verb) move rapidly and as if blazing | Synonyms: blaze out |
| (verb) burn brightly and intensely | - |
| (verb) shine brightly and intensively | - |
| blazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: emblazon |
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| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
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| burglarize | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burgle, heist |
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| butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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| calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
| camouflage | (verb) disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something | - |
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| cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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| canulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, intubate |
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| capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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| capsulate | (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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| catenulate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
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| chelate | (verb) form a chelate, in chemistry | - |
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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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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| clabber | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clot, curdle |
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| clack | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: click, cluck |
| (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clatter |
| claim | (verb) assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing | - |
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| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: exact, take |
| (verb) ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example | - |
| (verb) lay claim to; as of an idea | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: arrogate, lay claim |
| clam | (verb) gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean | - |
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| clamber | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| clamor | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamour |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring | - |
| clamour | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
| clamp | (verb) impose or inflict forcefully | - |
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| (verb) fasten or fix with a clamp | - |
| clang | (verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clangor |
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| clangor | (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangour |
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| (verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clang |
| clangour | (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangor |
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| clank | (verb) make a clank | - |
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| clap | (verb) clap one's hands together | Synonyms: spat |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, applaud, spat |
| (verb) strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise | - |
| (verb) strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting | - |
| (verb) put quickly or forcibly | - |
| (verb) strike the air in flight | - |
| (verb) cause to strike the air in flight | - |
| clapboard | (verb) cover with clapboards | - |
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| clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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| (verb) claw with the nails | - |
| claret | (verb) drink claret | - |
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| clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
| clarion | (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion | - |
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| (verb) blow the clarion | - |
| clash | (verb) disagree violently | - |
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| (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: collide |
| (verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: collide, jar |
| clasp | (verb) hold firmly and tightly | - |
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| (verb) grasp firmly | - |
| (verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: buckle |
| (verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: brooch |
| class | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
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| classicise | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicize |
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| classicize | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicise |
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| classify | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out |
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| (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: relegate |
| (verb) declare unavailable, as for security reasons | - |