| clew | (verb) roll into a ball | Synonyms: clue |
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| coalesce | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) fuse or cause to grow together | - |
| cobble | (verb) repair or mend | - |
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| (verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobblestone |
| cobblestone | (verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobble |
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| cockle | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: crumple, knit, pucker, rumple |
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| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| coddle | (verb) cook in nearly boiling water | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| coggle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: dodder, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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| (verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: wobble |
| collect | (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
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| (verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| (verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
| (verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
| collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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| collectivize | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivise |
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| commingle | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) mix or blend | - |
| compile | (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compose |
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| (verb) use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed | - |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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| complement | (verb) make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to | - |
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| complete | (verb) bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements | - |
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| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: finish |
| (verb) write all the required information onto a form | Synonyms: fill in, fill out, make out |
| (verb) complete a pass | Synonyms: nail |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: discharge, dispatch |
| complexify | (verb) make complex | - |
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| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: ramify |
| complexion | (verb) give a certain color to | - |
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| condole | (verb) express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death | - |
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| console | (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, solace, soothe |
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| convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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| counterchallenge | (verb) challenge in turn | - |
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| couple | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, mate, pair |
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| (verb) link together | Synonyms: couple on, couple up |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: match, mate, pair, twin |
| (verb) form a pair or pairs | Synonyms: pair, pair off, partner off |
| crackle | (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| cradle | (verb) run with the stick | - |
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| (verb) hold gently and carefully | - |
| (verb) wash in a cradle | - |
| (verb) cut grain with a cradle scythe | - |
| (verb) hold or place in or as if in a cradle | - |
| (verb) bring up from infancy | - |
| crinkle | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| cripple | (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: lame |
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| (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: stultify |
| crumble | (verb) break or fall apart into fragments | Synonyms: fall apart |
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| (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: decay, dilapidate |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumple, tumble |
| crumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, knit, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: buckle |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, tumble |
| cuddle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
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| (verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
| curdle | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, clot |
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| (verb) turn from a liquid to a solid mass | - |
| (verb) go bad or sour | - |
| cycle | (verb) recur in repeating sequences | - |
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| (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: motorbike, motorcycle |
| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, pedal, wheel |
| (verb) pass through a cycle | - |
| (verb) cause to go through a recurring sequence | - |
| cyclostyle | (verb) print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil | - |
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| dabble | (verb) dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid | - |
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| (verb) bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water | - |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: paddle, splash around |
| (verb) work with in an amateurish manner | Synonyms: play around, smatter |
| dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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| (verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
| dangle | (verb) cause to dangle or hang freely | - |
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| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: drop, swing |
| dapple | (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, mottle |
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| dawdle | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: linger |
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| (verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: fall back, fall behind, lag |
| (verb) waste time | Synonyms: dally |
| dazzle | (verb) amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill | - |
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| (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, daze |
| decelerate | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: retard, slow, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) reduce the speed of | Synonyms: slow down |
| decouple | (verb) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) | - |
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| (verb) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) | - |
| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: dissociate |
| (verb) disconnect or separate | Synonyms: uncouple |
| defile | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, foul, maculate |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: maculate, stain, sully, tarnish |
| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, sully, taint |
| deflect | (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, parry |
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| (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distract |
| (verb) turn aside and away from an initial or intended course | - |
| (verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: bend, turn away |
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| delegate | (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
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| (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
| delete | (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, edit |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: erase |
| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: cancel |
| deplete | (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
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| descale | (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: scale |
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| dibble | (verb) plant with a wooden hand tool | - |
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| (verb) make a hole with a wooden hand tool | - |
| diddle | (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| dimple | (verb) produce dimples while smiling | - |
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| (verb) mark with, or as if with, dimples | - |
| disable | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: handicap, incapacitate, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disenable, incapacitate |
| disassemble | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, dismantle, take apart |
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| disenable | (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate |
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| disentangle | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb, comb out |
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| (verb) extricate from entanglement | Synonyms: straighten out, unsnarl |
| (verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: unwind |
| (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, extricate, untangle |
| (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disinvolve |
| disgruntle | (verb) put into a bad mood or into bad humour | - |
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| dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| displease | (verb) give displeasure to | - |
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| dissemble | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, feign, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, pretend |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, mask |
| dogsled | (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: mush |
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| domicile | (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domiciliate, reside, shack |
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| doodle | (verb) make a doodle; draw aimlessly | - |
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| double | (verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: duplicate |
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| (verb) hit a two-base hit | - |
| (verb) do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions | - |
| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
| (verb) bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain | Synonyms: double over, double up |
| (verb) make a demand for (a card or suit) | - |
| draggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: bedraggle |
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| dribble | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
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| (verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
| drizzle | (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: moisten |
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| (verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: mizzle |
| duplex | (verb) change into a duplex | - |
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| dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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| eagle | (verb) shoot in two strokes under par | - |
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| (verb) shoot two strokes under par | Synonyms: double birdie |
| elect | (verb) choose | - |
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| (verb) select by a vote for an office or membership | - |
| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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| electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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| (verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
| (verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
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| elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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| elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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| elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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| (verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
| embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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| empale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: impale, spike, transfix |
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| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| enable | (verb) render capable or able for some task | - |
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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 |
| enfeeble | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, drain |
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| enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
| ennoble | (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: entitle, gentle |
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| (verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: dignify |
| ensile | (verb) store in a silo | - |
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| entangle | (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: mat, snarl, tangle |
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| (verb) entrap | Synonyms: mire |
| entitle | (verb) give a title to | Synonyms: title |
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| (verb) give the right to | - |
| (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, gentle |
| enucleate | (verb) remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover | - |
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| (verb) remove the nucleus from (a cell) | - |
| exhale | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, expire |
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| (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: emanate, give forth |
| exile | (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, expatriate |
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| facsimile | (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
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| fettle | (verb) remove mold marks or sand from (a casting) | - |
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| fiddle | (verb) try to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinker |
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| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, play, toy |
| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: monkey, tamper |
| (verb) play the violin or fiddle | - |
| (verb) play on a violin | - |
| (verb) commit fraud and steal from one's employer | - |
| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from |
| file | (verb) place in a container for keeping records | Synonyms: file away |
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| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, lodge |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: register |
| (verb) smooth with a file | - |
| (verb) proceed in line | - |
| filet | (verb) cut into filets | Synonyms: fillet |
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| (verb) decorate with a lace of geometric designs | Synonyms: fillet |
| fillet | (verb) cut into filets | Synonyms: filet |
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| (verb) decorate with a lace of geometric designs | Synonyms: filet |
| finagle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: manage, wangle |
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| fizzle | (verb) end weakly | Synonyms: fizzle out, peter out, taper off |
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