| sclaff | (verb) strike (a golf ball) such that the ground is scraped first | - |
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| (verb) strike (the ground) in making a sclaff | - |
| seaplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: hydroplane |
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| secularise | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularize |
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| secularize | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularise |
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| (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: desacralize |
| shellac | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellack |
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| shellack | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellac |
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| sibilate | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: hiss, siss, sizz |
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| (verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: hiss, siss, sizz |
| (verb) utter a sibilant | - |
| (verb) pronounce with an initial sibilant | - |
| silverplate | (verb) plate with silver | Synonyms: silver-plate |
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| simulate | (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, feign, sham |
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| (verb) create a representation or simulation of | Synonyms: model |
| (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, imitate |
| singularise | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularize |
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| singularize | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularise |
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| skylark | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, sport |
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| slabber | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slaver, slobber |
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| slack | (verb) release tension on | - |
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| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: abate, slake |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slacken, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water | Synonyms: slake |
| (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: abate, die away, let up, slack off |
| (verb) be inattentive to, or neglect | - |
| (verb) avoid responsibilities and work, be idle | - |
| slacken | (verb) become looser or slack | - |
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| (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: remit |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slack, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack, slack up |
| slag | (verb) convert into slag | - |
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| slake | (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: abate, slack |
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| (verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water | Synonyms: slack |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, quench |
| slalom | (verb) race on skis around obstacles | - |
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| slam | (verb) strike violently | Synonyms: bang |
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| (verb) close violently | Synonyms: bang |
| (verb) throw violently | Synonyms: flap down |
| (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: mosh, slam dance, thrash |
| slander | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, smear, smirch, sully |
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| slang | (verb) abuse with coarse language | - |
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| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, take in |
| (verb) use slang or vulgar language | - |
| slant | (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, weight |
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| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, tilt, tip |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, tilt |
| (verb) lie obliquely | - |
| slap | (verb) hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand | - |
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| (verb) to play music at loud volume | Synonyms: bump |
| slash | (verb) cut drastically | - |
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| (verb) cut open | Synonyms: gash |
| (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete | Synonyms: cut down |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| slat | (verb) close the slats of (windows) | - |
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| (verb) equip or bar with slats | - |
| slate | (verb) designate or schedule | - |
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| (verb) cover with slate | - |
| (verb) enter on a list or slate for an election | - |
| slather | (verb) spread thickly | - |
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| slaughter | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: massacre, mow down |
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| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: butcher |
| slave | (verb) work very hard, like a slave | Synonyms: break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down |
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| slaver | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slobber |
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| slay | (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove |
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| (verb) to succeed greatly | - |
| solace | (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, console, soothe |
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| solarise | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: insolate, solarize, sun |
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| (verb) overexpose to sunlight | Synonyms: solarize |
| (verb) become overexposed | Synonyms: solarize |
| (verb) reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it | Synonyms: solarize |
| solarize | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: insolate, solarise, sun |
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| (verb) overexpose to sunlight | Synonyms: solarise |
| (verb) become overexposed | Synonyms: solarise |
| (verb) reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it | Synonyms: solarise |
| somnambulate | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: sleepwalk |
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| speculate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think over |
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| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| (verb) talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion | - |
| (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: job |
| sphacelate | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, necrose |
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| splash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splosh, sprinkle |
| (verb) strike and dash about in a liquid | - |
| (verb) soil or stain with a splashed liquid | - |
| (verb) mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splosh |
| splat | (verb) split open and flatten for cooking | - |
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| (verb) flatten on impact | - |
| (verb) give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact | - |
| splatter | (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, spill |
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| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splosh, swash |
| splay | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, slip |
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| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: rotate, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) spread open or apart | - |
| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
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| (verb) produce spores | - |
| stimulate | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up |
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| (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: excite |
| (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: provoke |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, make |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, rush |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stir |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: excite, stir |
| stipulate | (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify |
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| (verb) give a guarantee or promise of | - |
| (verb) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force | - |
| strangulate | (verb) become constricted | - |
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| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, throttle |
| (verb) constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air | - |
| stridulate | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: clitter |
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| supplant | (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: replace, supersede, supervene upon |
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| syllabicate | (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabify, syllabise, syllabize |
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| syllabify | (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabicate, syllabise, syllabize |
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| syllabise | (verb) utter with distinct articulation of each syllable | Synonyms: syllabize |
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| (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabicate, syllabify, syllabize |
| syllabize | (verb) utter with distinct articulation of each syllable | Synonyms: syllabise |
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| (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabicate, syllabify, syllabise |
| tabularise | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularize, tabulate |
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| tabularize | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabulate |
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| tabulate | (verb) shape or cut with a flat surface | - |
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| (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabularize |
| tessellate | (verb) tile with tesserae | - |
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| (verb) fit together exactly, of identical shapes | - |
| tintinnabulate | (verb) ring or sound like a small bell | - |
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| titillate | (verb) excite pleasurably or erotically | - |
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| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: tickle, vellicate |
| translate | (verb) change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation | - |
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| (verb) change from one form or medium into another | Synonyms: transform |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, read, understand |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, render |
| (verb) determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA | - |
| (verb) express, as in simple and less technical language | - |
| (verb) bring to a certain spiritual state | - |
| (verb) subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body | - |
| (verb) be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be equivalent in effect | - |
| transplant | (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transpose |
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| (verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: graft |
| (verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) be transplantable | - |
| triangulate | (verb) survey by triangulation | - |
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| (verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
| (verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
| tribulate | (verb) oppress or trouble greatly | - |
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| ululate | (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, wail, yaup, yawl |
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| unbalance | (verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: derange |
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| (verb) throw out of balance or equilibrium | - |
| unclasp | (verb) release from a clasp | - |
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| underlay | (verb) provide with a base, support, lining, or backing | - |
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| (verb) put (something) under or beneath | - |
| (verb) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type | - |
| underplay | (verb) play a card lower than (a held high card) | - |
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| (verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underact |
| undulate | (verb) increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves | - |
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| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, roll, wave |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, ruffle |
| (verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: roll |
| unlace | (verb) undo the ties of | Synonyms: unbrace, untie |
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| unlade | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: offload, unload |
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| unlash | (verb) untie the lashing of | - |
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| unlax | (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unstrain, unwind |
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| vacillate | (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, waver |
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| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vibrate |
| vascularise | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularize |
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| (verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularize |
| vascularize | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularise |
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| (verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularise |
| ventilate | (verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, vent |
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| (verb) furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape | - |
| (verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, vent |
| (verb) circulate through and freshen | - |
| (verb) expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage | - |
| vermiculate | (verb) decorate with wavy or winding lines | - |
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| vesiculate | (verb) cause to become vesicular or full of air cells | - |
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| (verb) become vesicular or full of air cells | - |
| violate | (verb) destroy | - |
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| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, spoil |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, profane |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: break, go against |
| volatilise | (verb) make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor | Synonyms: volatilize |
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| volatilize | (verb) make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor | Synonyms: volatilise |
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| waylay | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper |
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