| machicolate | (verb) supply with projecting galleries | - |
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| maculate | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, foul |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, stain, sully, tarnish |
| 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 |
| matriculate | (verb) enroll as a student | - |
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| melanise | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, blacken, melanize |
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| (verb) convert into, or infiltrate with melanin | Synonyms: melanize |
| melanize | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: black, blacken, melanise |
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| (verb) convert into, or infiltrate with melanin | Synonyms: melanise |
| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |
| mislay | (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: misplace |
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| misplace | (verb) place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position | - |
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| (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: mislay |
| misplay | (verb) play wrong or in an unskillful manner | - |
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| (verb) play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note | - |
| mistranslate | (verb) translate incorrectly | - |
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| modulate | (verb) adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of | - |
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| (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: regulate |
| (verb) vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) | - |
| (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: inflect, tone |
| (verb) change the key of, in music | - |
| mutilate | (verb) destroy or injure severely | Synonyms: mar |
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| (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mangle |
| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, murder |
| obnubilate | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obscure |
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| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obscure |
| oscillate | (verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: vibrate |
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| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, vacillate, vibrate |
| osculate | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, kiss, snog |
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| (verb) have at least three points in common with | - |
| (verb) be intermediate between two taxonomic groups | - |
| outbalance | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outweigh, overbalance, preponderate |
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| outclass | (verb) cause to appear in a lower class | - |
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| outflank | (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outdo, scoop, trump |
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| (verb) go around the flank of (an opposing army) | Synonyms: go around |
| outlast | (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlive, survive |
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| outlaw | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize |
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| outplay | (verb) excel or defeat in a game | - |
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| overbalance | (verb) cause to be off balance | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, preponderate |
| overlap | (verb) extend over and cover a part of | - |
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| (verb) coincide partially or wholly | - |
| overlay | (verb) put something on top of something else | Synonyms: cover |
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| (verb) kill by lying on | Synonyms: overlie |
| overplay | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overact |
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| overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
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| ovulate | (verb) produce and discharge eggs | - |
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| palatalise | (verb) pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate | Synonyms: palatalize |
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| palatalize | (verb) pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate | Synonyms: palatalise |
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| palaver | (verb) have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds | - |
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| (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle |
| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| parlay | (verb) stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager | Synonyms: double up |
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| particularise | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularize, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| particularize | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| peculate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate |
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| perambulate | (verb) walk with no particular goal | Synonyms: walk about, walk around |
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| (verb) make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) | - |
| percolate | (verb) gain or regain energy | Synonyms: gain vigor, perk, perk up, pick up |
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| (verb) pass through | Synonyms: filter, permeate, sink in |
| (verb) cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent | - |
| (verb) prepare in a percolator | - |
| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: leach |
| (verb) spread gradually | - |
| philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
| pillage | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
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| placard | (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: bill |
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| (verb) post in a public place | - |
| placate | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify |
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| place | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: identify |
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| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal | Synonyms: come in, come out |
| (verb) estimate | Synonyms: put, set |
| (verb) sing a note with the correct pitch | - |
| (verb) to arrange for | - |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: post, send, station |
| (verb) finish second or better in a horse or dog race | - |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, point, target |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, pose, position, put, set |
| (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, localize, set |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, site |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, put |
| (verb) assign to (a job or a home) | - |
| (verb) place somebody in a particular situation or location | - |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, localize |
| plagiarise | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarize |
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| plagiarize | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarise |
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| plague | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, provoke |
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| (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: blight |
| plain | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off |
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| plait | (verb) weave into plaits | - |
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| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: braid, lace |
| plan | (verb) make plans for something | - |
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| (verb) have the will and intention to carry out some action | Synonyms: be after |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, project |
| plane | (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: shave |
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| (verb) make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane | - |
| (verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: skim |
| plank | (verb) cook and serve on a plank | - |
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| (verb) cover with planks | Synonyms: plank over |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| plant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: implant |
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| (verb) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, implant |
| (verb) place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive | - |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, institute |
| (verb) place into a river | - |
| plash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
| plaster | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
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| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
| (verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
| (verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
| (verb) affix conspicuously | - |
| (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
| plasticise | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticize |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticize |
| plasticize | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticise |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticise |
| plastinate | (verb) preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes | - |
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| plat | (verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plot |
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| plate | (verb) coat with a layer of metal | - |
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| platinize | (verb) coat with metallic platinum | - |
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| platitudinize | (verb) utter platitudes | - |
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| play | (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: toy |
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| (verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act, act as |
| (verb) exhaust by allowing to pull on the line | - |
| (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, trifle |
| (verb) participate in games or sport | - |
| (verb) bet or wager (money) | - |
| (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, meet, take on |
| (verb) put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game | - |
| (verb) make bets | - |
| (verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, wager |
| (verb) shoot or hit in a particular manner | - |
| (verb) employ in a game or in a specific position | - |
| (verb) use or move | - |
| (verb) use to one's advantage | - |
| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, toy |
| (verb) discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream | - |
| (verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: spiel |
| (verb) perform music on (a musical instrument) | - |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, represent |
| (verb) perform on a certain location | - |
| (verb) be performed or presented for public viewing | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity | - |
| (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, playact, roleplay |
| (verb) emit recorded sound | - |
| (verb) play on an instrument | - |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, work, wreak |
| (verb) move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly | - |
| (verb) cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space | - |
| (verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: recreate |
| (verb) behave in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children | - |
| (verb) act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome | - |
| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, toy |
| (verb) be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way | - |
| playact | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, roleplay |
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| polarise | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarize |
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| (verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarize |
| (verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarize |
| polarize | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarise |
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| (verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarise |
| (verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarise |
| pollard | (verb) convert into a pollard | Synonyms: poll |
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| popularise | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularize |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| populate | (verb) fill with inhabitants | - |
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| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, live |
| porcelainize | (verb) coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface | - |
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| postulate | (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: posit |
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| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: contend |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, require, take |
| preisolate | (verb) isolate beforehand | - |
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| proclaim | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, promulgate |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, laud |
| (verb) declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: predicate |
| prolapse | (verb) slip or fall out of place, as of body parts | - |
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| pullulate | (verb) breed freely and abundantly | - |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud |
| (verb) become abundant; increase rapidly | - |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem |
| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: swarm, teem |
| recalculate | (verb) calculate anew | - |
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| recapitulate | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life | - |
| reclaim | (verb) make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state | - |
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| (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, tame |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: rectify, reform, regenerate |
| (verb) claim back | Synonyms: repossess |
| (verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: recover |
| reclassify | (verb) classify anew, change the previous classification | - |
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| reflate | (verb) become inflated again | - |
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| (verb) inflate again | - |
| (verb) raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation | - |
| (verb) experience reflation | - |
| reformulate | (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: redevelop |
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| regularise | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularize |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularize, regulate |
| regularize | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularise |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regulate |
| regulate | (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: modulate |
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| (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: baffle |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, mould, shape |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regularize |
| relace | (verb) lace again | - |
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| relapse | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress |
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| (verb) deteriorate in health | Synonyms: get worse |
| relate | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, tie in |
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| (verb) give an account of; narrate | - |
| (verb) have or establish a relationship to | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, touch, touch on |
| (verb) be in a relationship with | Synonyms: interrelate |
| relativise | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativize |
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| relativize | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativise |
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| relax | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, unlax, unstrain, unwind |
| (verb) make less taut | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, loosen |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: slack, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner | Synonyms: loosen up |
| relay | (verb) pass along | - |
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| (verb) control or operate by relay | - |
| replace | (verb) substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected) | - |
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| (verb) put something back where it belongs | Synonyms: put back |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, substitute |
| (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: supersede, supervene upon, supplant |
| replant | (verb) plant again or anew | - |
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| replay | (verb) play again | - |
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| (verb) repeat a game against the same opponent | - |
| (verb) play (a melody) again | - |
| (verb) reproduce (a recording) on a recorder | Synonyms: play back |
| reticulate | (verb) divide so as to form a network | - |
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| (verb) distribute by a network, as of water or electricity | - |
| (verb) form a net or a network | - |
| retranslate | (verb) translate again | - |
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| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| sailplane | (verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: soar |
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| salaam | (verb) greet with a salaam | - |
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| sandblast | (verb) grind with a sandblast | - |
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| scintillate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
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| (verb) fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon | - |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: twinkle, winkle |
| (verb) give off | - |
| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |