| legitimatise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimatize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimise, legitimize |
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| legitimise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimize |
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| legitimize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise |
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| lend | (verb) give temporarily; let have for a limited time | Synonyms: loan |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart |
| (verb) have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to | - |
| lengthen | (verb) become long or longer | - |
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| (verb) make longer | - |
| lenify | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, mollify, pacify, placate |
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| lessen | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, fall |
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| (verb) wear off or die down | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, minify |
| let | (verb) leave unchanged | - |
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| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: get, have |
| (verb) actively cause something to happen | - |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, permit |
| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: lease, rent |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, permit |
| letter | (verb) mark letters on or mark with letters | - |
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| (verb) set down or print with letters | - |
| (verb) win an athletic letter | - |
| levant | (verb) run off without paying a debt | - |
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| level | (verb) become level or even | Synonyms: level off |
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| (verb) talk frankly with; lay it on the line | - |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, point |
| (verb) aim at | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, flush |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: dismantle, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| lever | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, prise, prize, pry |
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| leverage | (verb) provide with leverage | - |
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| (verb) supplement with leverage | - |
| levitate | (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: hover |
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| (verb) cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity | - |
| levy | (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: raise, recruit |
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| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: impose |
| lexicalise | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalize |
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| lexicalize | (verb) make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language | Synonyms: lexicalise |
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| maledict | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
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| manacle | (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff |
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| mangle | (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mutilate |
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| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: murder, mutilate |
| (verb) press with a mangle | - |
| (verb) injure badly by beating | Synonyms: maul |
| manhandle | (verb) handle roughly | - |
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| mantle | (verb) cover like a mantle | - |
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| (verb) spread over a surface, like a mantle | - |
| marble | (verb) paint or stain like marble | - |
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| marbleise | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleize |
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| marbleize | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleise |
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| meddle | (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: tamper |
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| middle | (verb) put in the middle | - |
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| mingle | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mix, unify |
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| (verb) get involved or mixed-up with | - |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: jumble |
| mishandle | (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, fumble, louse up, mess up, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
| mislead | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: misinform |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, misguide |
| mizzle | (verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: drizzle |
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| molest | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, plague, provoke |
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| (verb) harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to | - |
| mollycoddle | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, pamper, spoil |
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| motley | (verb) make motley; color with different colors | Synonyms: parti-color |
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| (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: variegate, vary |
| motorcycle | (verb) ride a motorcycle | Synonyms: cycle, motorbike |
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| mottle | (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, dapple |
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| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, streak |
| muddle | (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, puddle |
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| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: puddle |
| mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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| muffle | (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: repress, smother, stifle, strangle |
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| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, mute, tone down |
| mumble | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mussitate, mutter |
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| (verb) grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty | Synonyms: gum |
| muscle | (verb) make one's way by force | - |
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| muzzle | (verb) tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them | Synonyms: gag |
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| (verb) prevent from speaking out | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) fit with a muzzle | - |
| nasale | (verb) speak in a nasal voice | - |
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| needle | (verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: goad |
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| (verb) prick with a needle | - |
| neglect | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
| (verb) fail to attend to | - |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
| nestle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nuzzle, snuggle |
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| (verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: snuggle |
| (verb) lie in a sheltered position | - |
| nettle | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, rag, rile, vex |
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| (verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: urticate |
| nibble | (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: pick, piece |
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| (verb) bite off very small pieces | - |
| (verb) bite gently | - |
| niggle | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, fuss |
| nobble | (verb) disable by drugging | - |
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| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, kidnap, snatch |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| nucleate | (verb) form into a nucleus | - |
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| nuzzle | (verb) rub noses | Synonyms: nose |
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| (verb) dig out with the snout | - |
| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, snuggle |
| obsolesce | (verb) become obsolete, fall into disuse | - |
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| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| ogle | (verb) look at with amorous intentions | Synonyms: perv, perve |
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| opalesce | (verb) exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal | - |
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| (verb) reflect light or colors like an opal | - |
| overleap | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) jump across or leap over (an obstacle) | Synonyms: vault |
| (verb) defeat (oneself) by going too far | - |
| overrule | (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overthrow, overturn, reverse |
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| oversleep | (verb) sleep longer than intended | - |
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| paddle | (verb) stir with a paddle | - |
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| (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, spank |
| (verb) propel with a paddle | - |
| (verb) swim like a dog in shallow water | - |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: dabble, splash around |
| pale | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, blench |
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| panhandle | (verb) beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money | - |
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| parallel | (verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: collimate |
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| (verb) be parallel to | - |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: duplicate, twin |
| parallelize | (verb) place parallel to one another | - |
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| parley | (verb) discuss, as between enemies | - |
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| parole | (verb) release a criminal from detention and place him on parole | - |
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| peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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| people | (verb) fill with people | - |
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| (verb) furnish with people | - |
| perplex | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: complicate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| pestle | (verb) grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar | - |
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| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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| pickle | (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
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| piddle | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
| piffle | (verb) act in a trivial or ineffective way | - |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| pigeonhole | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
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| (verb) place into a small compartment | - |
| pile | (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, stack |
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| (verb) place or lay as if in a pile | - |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng |
| pinnacle | (verb) raise on or as if on a pinnacle | - |
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| (verb) surmount with a pinnacle | - |
| pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
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| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
| plead | (verb) appeal or request earnestly | - |
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| (verb) enter a plea, as in courts of law | - |
| (verb) offer as an excuse or plea | - |
| (verb) make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts | - |
| please | (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: delight |
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| (verb) be the will of or have the will (to) | - |
| (verb) give satisfaction | - |
| pleat | (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: ruffle |
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| (verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: plicate |
| pledge | (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: plight |
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| (verb) bind or secure by a pledge | - |
| (verb) give as a guarantee | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, salute, toast, wassail |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: subscribe |
| pole | (verb) deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole | - |
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| (verb) propel with a pole | Synonyms: punt |
| (verb) support on poles | - |
| poleax | (verb) fell with or as if with a poleax | Synonyms: poleaxe |
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| poleaxe | (verb) fell with or as if with a poleax | Synonyms: poleax |
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| polemicise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicize, polemise, polemize |
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| polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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| polemise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemize |
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| polemize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemise |
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| pollenate | (verb) fertilize by transferring pollen | Synonyms: cross-pollinate, pollinate |
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| prattle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| preamble | (verb) make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document | - |
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| preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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| prickle | (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prick |
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| (verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: tingle |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prick |
| privilege | (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
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| profile | (verb) represent in profile, by drawing or painting | - |
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| (verb) write about | - |
| puddle | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, muddle |
| (verb) mess around, as in a liquid or paste | - |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: muddle |
| (verb) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud | - |
| (verb) make a puddle by splashing water | - |
| (verb) dip into mud before planting | - |
| (verb) subject to puddling or form by puddling | - |
| (verb) wade or dabble in a puddle | - |
| pule | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, wail, whimper |
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