abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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acclimatize | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatise |
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accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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(verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
acetylise | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
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(verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
acetylize | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylise |
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(verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylise |
actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
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(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
actualize | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualise |
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(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, realise, realize, substantiate |
aerosolise | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
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(verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
aerosolize | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
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(verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
affiliate | (verb) join in an affiliation | - |
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(verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: associate, assort, consort |
afflict | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: smite |
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(verb) cause great unhappiness for; distress | - |
airlift | (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: lift |
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alcoholise | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholize |
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(verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholize |
alcoholize | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholise |
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(verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholise |
(verb) subject to the influence of alcohol | - |
alibi | (verb) exonerate by means of an alibi | - |
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alien | (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alienate |
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alienate | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: disaffect, estrange |
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(verb) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated | - |
(verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alien |
alight | (verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
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(verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
align | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, aline, line up |
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(verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: coordinate, ordinate |
(verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: array |
(verb) be or come into adjustment with | - |
aliment | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: nourish, nutrify |
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aline | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, align, line up |
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alkalify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalise, alkalize, basify |
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alkalinise | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
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(verb) become alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
alkalinize | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinise |
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(verb) become alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinise |
alkalise | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalize, basify |
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alkalize | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, basify |
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alligator | (verb) crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes | - |
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alliterate | (verb) use alliteration as a form of poetry | - |
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ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
amplify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: magnify |
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(verb) increase the volume of | - |
(verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: blow up, expand, inflate |
(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
animalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalise |
applique | (verb) sew on as a decoration | - |
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arterialise | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialize |
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arterialize | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialise |
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backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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(verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
(verb) credit with veracity | - |
(verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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(verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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bestialize | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialise |
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birdlime | (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: lime |
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blacklist | (verb) put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted | - |
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blight | (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
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blind | (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: dim |
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(verb) make blind by putting the eyes out | - |
(verb) render unable to see | - |
blindfold | (verb) cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing | - |
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blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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(verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
blink | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: nictate, nictitate, wink |
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(verb) keep back by blinking | Synonyms: blink away, wink |
(verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: flash, twinkle, wink, winkle |
blinker | (verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
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blister | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
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(verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
(verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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blitz | (verb) attack suddenly and without warning | - |
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blitzkrieg | (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
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bollix | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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bootlick | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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brutalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
(verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalize |
brutalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
(verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalise |
calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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(verb) measure the caliber of | - |
(verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
caliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
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calligraph | (verb) write beautifully and ornamentally | - |
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calliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: caliper |
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canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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canalize | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalise |
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cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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(verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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(verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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cannulize | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, canulate, intubate |
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capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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(verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
(verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
capitalize | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalise |
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(verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalise, take advantage |
(verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalise |
capsulise | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulize, encapsulate |
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(verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsule, capsulize |
capsulize | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, encapsulate |
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(verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsule, capsulise |
caramelise | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
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(verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
caramelize | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
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(verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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carnalize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, sensualise, sensualize |
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(verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: sensualize |
(verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: sensualize |
catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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catabolize | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolise |
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catholicise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicize, latinise, latinize |
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catholicize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, latinise, latinize |
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centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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(verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
(verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
channelize | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, transfer, transmit, transport |
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(verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
(verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
civilize | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilise |
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(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, cultivate, educate, school, train |
click | (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
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(verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, cluck |
(verb) produce a click | - |
(verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: flick, snap |
(verb) move or strike with a noise | Synonyms: snap |
(verb) make a clicking or ticking sound | Synonyms: tick |
(verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: chatter |
climax | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: culminate |
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climb | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: mount, rise, wax |
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(verb) increase in value or to a higher point | Synonyms: go up, rise |
(verb) improve one's social status | - |
(verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Synonyms: climb up, go up, mount |
(verb) move with effort, by grasping | - |
(verb) slope upward | - |
clinch | (verb) settle conclusively | - |
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(verb) flatten the ends (of nails and rivets) | - |
(verb) secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts | - |
(verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clench |
(verb) embrace amorously | - |
(verb) hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches | - |
cling | (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cohere, stick |
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(verb) hold on tightly or tenaciously | Synonyms: hang |
(verb) to remain emotionally or intellectually attached | - |
clink | (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, tink, tinkle |
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(verb) make a high sound typical of glass | - |
clinker | (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
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(verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
clip | (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: curtail, cut short |
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(verb) attach with a clip | - |
(verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: nip, nip off, snip, snip off |
(verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
(verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: jog, trot |
clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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collateralize | (verb) pledge as a collateral | - |
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collide | (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: clash |
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(verb) cause to collide | - |
(verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: clash, jar |