| fleck | (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, spot |
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| fledge | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: feather |
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| (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: flight |
| (verb) feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight | - |
| flee | (verb) run away quickly | Synonyms: fly, take flight |
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| fleece | (verb) shear the wool from | Synonyms: shear |
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| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| fleer | (verb) to smirk contemptuously | - |
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| fleet | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, pass, pass off |
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| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, flit, flutter |
| flense | (verb) strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal) | - |
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| flesh | (verb) remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture | - |
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| flex | (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, turn, twist |
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| (verb) bend a joint | Synonyms: bend |
| (verb) form a curve | Synonyms: bend |
| (verb) contract | - |
| (verb) exhibit the strength of | - |
| fondle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: caress |
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| footle | (verb) act foolishly, as by talking nonsense | - |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| frazzle | (verb) exhaust physically or emotionally | - |
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| (verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: fray |
| freckle | (verb) mark with freckles | - |
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| (verb) become freckled | - |
| frizzle | (verb) fry something until it curls and becomes crisp | - |
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| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, kink, kink up |
| fuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw |
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| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, drink, hit the bottle |
| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: befuddle |
| fumble | (verb) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder | - |
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| (verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: grope |
| (verb) handle clumsily | - |
| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: blunder |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| gabble | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| gaggle | (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: cackle |
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| gamble | (verb) play games for money | - |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| garble | (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, warp |
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| gargle | (verb) rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash | Synonyms: rinse |
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| (verb) utter with gargling or burbling sounds | - |
| gentle | (verb) stroke soothingly | - |
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| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, entitle |
| genuflect | (verb) bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image | - |
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| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: kowtow, scrape |
| giggle | (verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: titter |
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| girdle | (verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: gird |
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| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: deaden |
| gleam | (verb) to shine with faint or brief light | - |
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| (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: glimmer |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: glint, glisten, glitter, shine |
| glean | (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: harvest, reap |
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| gobble | (verb) make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys | - |
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| (verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: bolt |
| goggle | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawk, gawp |
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| google | (verb) search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine | - |
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| grapple | (verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grip |
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| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, make do, make out, manage |
| griddle | (verb) cook on a griddle | - |
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| grizzle | (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: whine, yammer, yawp |
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| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, stew |
| grumble | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, murmur, mutter |
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| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, scold |
| (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, rumble |
| (verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: rumble |
| gruntle | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
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| guggle | (verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: gurgle |
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| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, gurgle, ripple |
| (verb) make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle | - |
| gurgle | (verb) utter with a gurgling sound | - |
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| (verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: guggle |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, ripple |
| (verb) make sounds similar to gurgling water | - |
| guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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| guzzle | (verb) drink greedily or as if with great thirst | - |
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| hackle | (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
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| haggle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, higgle, huckster |
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| hale | (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, drag, haul |
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| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, pressure, squeeze |
| handle | (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, plow, treat |
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| (verb) touch, lift, or hold with the hands | Synonyms: palm |
| (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: manage, wield |
| (verb) show and train | - |
| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, manage |
| (verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, treat |
| harlequin | (verb) variegate with spots or marks | - |
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| hassle | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, molest, plague, provoke |
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| heckle | (verb) challenge aggressively | - |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
| higgle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, huckster |
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| hobble | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hopple |
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| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, limp |
| (verb) hamper the action or progress of | - |
| hole | (verb) make holes in | - |
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| (verb) hit the ball into the hole | Synonyms: hole out |
| holler | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, squawk |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) shout out | Synonyms: holler out |
| hopple | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hobble |
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| hornswoggle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| houseclean | (verb) clean and tidy up the house | Synonyms: clean, clean house |
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| huddle | (verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: cower |
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| (verb) crowd or draw together | Synonyms: huddle together |
| humble | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humiliate, mortify |
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| (verb) cause to be unpretentious | - |
| hurdle | (verb) jump a hurdle | - |
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| hurtle | (verb) throw forcefully | Synonyms: cast, hurl |
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| (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, lunge, thrust |
| (verb) move with or as if with a rushing sound | - |
| hustle | (verb) pressure or urge someone into an action | - |
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| (verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle, bustle about |
| (verb) cause to move furtively and hurriedly | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: pluck, roll |
| (verb) get by trying hard | - |
| idle | (verb) run disconnected or idle | Synonyms: tick over |
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| (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: laze, slug, stagnate |
| illegalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalize, outlaw |
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| illegalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, outlaw |
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| immingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, intermingle, intermix |
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| impale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, spike, transfix |
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| (verb) kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole | Synonyms: stake |
| implement | (verb) pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue | Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through with, put through |
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| (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, enforce |
| (verb) apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design | - |
| inflect | (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: modulate, tone |
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| (verb) change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language | - |
| inhale | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inspire |
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| (verb) draw deep into the lungs in by breathing | - |
| interleave | (verb) intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations | - |
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| (verb) intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data | - |
| (verb) provide (books) with blank leaves | - |
| intermingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermix |
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| inveigle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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| jangle | (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jingle-jangle, jingle |
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| jiggle | (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: joggle, wiggle |
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| jingle | (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jangle, jingle-jangle |
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| joggle | (verb) fasten or join with a joggle | - |
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| (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, wiggle |
| jostle | (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: shove |
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| (verb) make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving | - |
| juggle | (verb) throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously | - |
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| (verb) hold with difficulty and balance insecurely | - |
| (verb) deal with simultaneously | - |
| (verb) manipulate by or as if by moving around components | - |
| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, hoodwink |
| jumble | (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: scramble, throw together |
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| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: confuse, mix up |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: mingle |
| kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: inflame |
| knuckle | (verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
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| (verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
| ladle | (verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: lade, laden |
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| (verb) put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle | - |
| leach | (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: percolate |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate | - |
| lead | (verb) cause to undertake a certain action | - |
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| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, moderate |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, direct |
| (verb) travel in front of; go in advance of others | Synonyms: head |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, guide, take |
| (verb) move ahead (of others) in time or space | Synonyms: precede |
| (verb) be in charge of | Synonyms: head |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, contribute |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, pass, run |
| (verb) be ahead of others; be the first | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) lead, extend, or afford access | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: leave, result |
| (verb) tend to or result in | - |
| leaf | (verb) produce leaves, of plants | - |
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| (verb) turn over pages | - |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, riff, riffle, thumb |
| league | (verb) unite to form a league | - |
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| leak | (verb) have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out | - |
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| (verb) enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure | - |
| (verb) tell anonymously | - |
| (verb) be leaked | Synonyms: leak out |
| lean | (verb) rely on for support | - |
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| (verb) cause to lean or incline | - |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, slant, tilt, tip |
| (verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: list |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, run, tend |
| leap | (verb) pass abruptly from one state or topic to another | Synonyms: jump |
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| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, jump, spring |
| (verb) cause to jump or leap | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) jump down from an elevated point | Synonyms: jump, jump off |
| leapfrog | (verb) progress by large jumps instead of small increments | - |
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| (verb) to vault | - |
| learn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, larn |
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| (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, pick up, see |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: read, study, take |
| (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, memorise, memorize |
| (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: instruct, teach |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, determine, find out, see, watch |
| lease | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, rent, take |
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| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: let, rent |
| (verb) let for money | Synonyms: rent |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, hire, rent |
| leash | (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: rope |
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| leather | (verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
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| leave | (verb) leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking | Synonyms: leave alone, leave behind, let alone |
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| (verb) be survived by after one's death | Synonyms: leave behind |
| (verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: forget |
| (verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness | - |
| (verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: exit, get out, go out |
| (verb) go away from a place | Synonyms: go away, go forth |
| (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: bequeath, will |
| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, impart, pass on |
| (verb) put into the care or protection of someone | Synonyms: entrust |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: depart, pull up stakes |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: lead, result |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, provide |
| (verb) act or be so as to become in a specified state | - |
| (verb) have left or have as a remainder | - |
| leaven | (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: prove, raise |
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| lecture | (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, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: talk |
| leech | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
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| leer | (verb) look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression | - |
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| legalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legislate | (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: pass |
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| legitimate | (verb) make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone) | - |
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| (verb) show or affirm to be just and legitimate | - |
| (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |