| purple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purpurate |
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| (verb) become purple | - |
| puzzle | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide | - |
| quadruple | (verb) increase fourfold | - |
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| quibble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, squabble |
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| (verb) evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections | - |
| quintuple | (verb) increase fivefold | - |
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| raddle | (verb) mark or paint with raddle | - |
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| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: ruddle |
| raffle | (verb) dispose of in a lottery | Synonyms: raffle off |
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| ramble | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| (verb) continue talking or writing in a desultory manner | Synonyms: jog, ramble on |
| rankle | (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, fret, grate |
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| rattle | (verb) shake and cause to make a rattling noise | - |
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| (verb) make short successive sounds | - |
| reassemble | (verb) assemble once again, after taking something apart | - |
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| recollect | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think |
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| reconcile | (verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize |
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| (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, conciliate |
| (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: resign, submit |
| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, settle |
| recycle | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: reprocess, reuse |
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| (verb) cause to repeat a cycle | - |
| redouble | (verb) double in magnitude, extent, or intensity | - |
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| (verb) make twice as great or intense | - |
| (verb) double again | - |
| reelect | (verb) elect again | Synonyms: return |
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| reflect | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) give evidence of the quality of | - |
| (verb) give evidence of a certain behavior | - |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reverberate |
| (verb) manifest or bring back | - |
| (verb) show an image of | - |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: shine |
| reflectorise | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorize |
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| reflectorize | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorise |
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| regale | (verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: treat |
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| rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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| (verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
| relearn | (verb) learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it | - |
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| release | (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | Synonyms: secrete |
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| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, expel |
| (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: free, unblock, unfreeze |
| (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, publish, put out |
| (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, relinquish |
| (verb) let (something) fall or spill from a container | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, liberate |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, relinquish, resign |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, unloose, unloosen |
| (verb) make (information) available for publication | Synonyms: free |
| relegate | (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: classify |
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| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs |
| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, bar |
| (verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, submit |
| relent | (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: soften, yield |
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| replenish | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, refill |
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| replete | (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: fill, sate, satiate |
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| rescale | (verb) establish on a new scale | - |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| resemble | (verb) appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to | - |
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| resettle | (verb) settle in a new place | - |
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| reshuffle | (verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people | - |
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| (verb) shuffle again | - |
| resile | (verb) return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed | - |
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| (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, retract |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. | - |
| resole | (verb) put a new sole on | Synonyms: sole |
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| resplend | (verb) be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly | - |
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| retroflex | (verb) articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate | - |
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| (verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: replicate |
| revile | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, vilify, vituperate |
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| riddle | (verb) explain a riddle | - |
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| (verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
| (verb) speak in riddles | - |
| (verb) pierce with many holes | - |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
| ridicule | (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
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| riffle | (verb) shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix | - |
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| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, ruffle |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb |
| rifle | (verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip |
| rile | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: roil |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, vex |
| ripple | (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ruffle, undulate |
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| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle |
| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| rootle | (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rout |
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| ruckle | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make a hoarse, rattling sound | - |
| ruddle | (verb) redden as if with a red ocher color | - |
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| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: raddle |
| ruffle | (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: pleat |
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| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: fluff |
| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, riffle |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, shuffle |
| (verb) trouble or vex | - |
| (verb) discompose | - |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| rule | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: harness, rein |
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| (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: decree |
| (verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) mark or draw with a ruler | - |
| (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: govern |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, reign |
| (verb) have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac | - |
| rumble | (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, grumble |
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| (verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: grumble |
| rumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle, ruffle up |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, pucker |
| rustle | (verb) make a dry crackling sound | - |
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| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: lift |
| (verb) forage food | - |
| saddle | (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
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| (verb) put a saddle on | - |
| (verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
| sample | (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: taste, try, try out |
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| scale | (verb) measure with or as if with scales | - |
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| (verb) size or measure according to a scale | - |
| (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: descale |
| (verb) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard | - |
| (verb) climb up by means of a ladder | - |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: surmount |
| (verb) take by attacking with scaling ladders | - |
| (verb) measure by or as if by a scale | - |
| schedule | (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
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| (verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
| schlep | (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, shlep |
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| scrabble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scribble |
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| (verb) feel searchingly | Synonyms: grope for |
| scramble | (verb) make unintelligible | - |
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| (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: jumble, throw together |
| (verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: beat |
| (verb) to move hurriedly | - |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
| scribble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scrabble |
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| (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scrawl |
| scruple | (verb) have doubts about | - |
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| (verb) raise scruples | - |
| (verb) hesitate on moral grounds | - |
| scuffle | (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: tussle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle |
| scuttle | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
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| select | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: choose, pick out, take |
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| settle | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: locate |
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| (verb) form a community | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: root, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) establish or develop as a residence | - |
| (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, finalize, nail down |
| (verb) become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet | - |
| (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, fall |
| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, resolve |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: determine, square off, square up |
| (verb) end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement | - |
| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile |
| (verb) accept despite lack of complete satisfaction | - |
| (verb) get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury | Synonyms: get back |
| (verb) fix firmly | Synonyms: ensconce |
| (verb) arrange or fix in the desired order | - |
| (verb) come to rest | - |
| (verb) settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground | Synonyms: settle down |
| (verb) cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids) | - |
| (verb) sink down or precipitate | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, sink |
| (verb) become clear by the sinking of particles | - |
| (verb) dispose of; make a financial settlement | - |
| shackle | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
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| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
| shamble | (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shuffle |
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| shingle | (verb) cover with shingles | - |
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| shlep | (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, schlep |
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| (verb) walk or tramp about | Synonyms: traipse |
| shuffle | (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, ruffle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shamble |
| (verb) move about, move back and forth | - |
| shuttle | (verb) travel back and forth between two points | - |
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| shuttlecock | (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
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| sidle | (verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sashay |
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| (verb) move unobtrusively or furtively | - |
| silence | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, still |
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| (verb) keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure | - |
| single | (verb) hit a single | - |
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| sizzle | (verb) burn or sear with a sizzling sound | - |
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| (verb) make a sound like frying fat | - |
| (verb) seethe with deep anger or resentment | - |
| skedaddle | (verb) run away, as if in a panic | - |
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| skittle | (verb) play skittles | - |
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| sled | (verb) ride (on) a sled | Synonyms: sleigh |
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| sledge | (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledgehammer |
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| (verb) transport in a sleigh | - |
| (verb) ride in or travel with a sledge | - |
| sledgehammer | (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledge |
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| sleek | (verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: slick |
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| sleep | (verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, slumber |
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| (verb) be able to accommodate for sleeping | - |
| sleepwalk | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: somnambulate |
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| sleet | (verb) precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow | - |
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| sleigh | (verb) ride (on) a sled | Synonyms: sled |
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| slenderise | (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderize |
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| slenderize | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderise |
| sleuth | (verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly | Synonyms: snoop, spy, stag |
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| slew | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
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| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slide, slip, slue |
| smile | (verb) change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure | - |
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| (verb) express with a smile | - |
| smuggle | (verb) import or export without paying customs duties | - |
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| snaffle | (verb) fit or restrain with a snaffle | - |
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| (verb) get hold of or seize quickly and easily | Synonyms: grab, snap up |
| sniffle | (verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
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| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, snuffle |
| snowmobile | (verb) ride a snowmobile | - |
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| snuffle | (verb) snuff up mucus through the nose | Synonyms: snivel |
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| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, sniffle, snivel |
| (verb) sniff or smell inquiringly | Synonyms: snuff |
| snuggle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle |
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| (verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: nestle |
| sole | (verb) put a new sole on | Synonyms: resole |
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| solemnise | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnize |
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| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnize |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnize |
| solemnize | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnise |
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| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnise |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnise |