| discolorise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorize, discolourise |
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| discolorize | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolourise |
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| discolour | (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, colour, discolor |
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| discolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize |
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| dislocate | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: luxate, slip, splay |
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| (verb) put out of its usual place, position, or relationship | - |
| dislodge | (verb) remove or force out from a position | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied | Synonyms: bump |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: reposition, shift |
| download | (verb) transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location | - |
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| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elongate | (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
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| elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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| employ | (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, use, utilise, utilize |
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| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: engage, hire |
| enclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, inclose, shut in |
| (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
| (verb) close in | Synonyms: confine, hold in |
| enclothe | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| envelop | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap |
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| escallop | (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: scallop |
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| etymologise | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologize |
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| (verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologize |
| etymologize | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologise |
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| (verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologise |
| eulogise | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogize |
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| eulogize | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogise |
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| explode | (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: burst |
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| (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, detonate, set off |
| (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: irrupt |
| (verb) be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise | Synonyms: break loose, burst forth |
| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, detonate |
| (verb) show a violent emotional reaction | - |
| (verb) show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete | - |
| (verb) drive from the stage by noisy disapproval | - |
| (verb) cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ | - |
| (verb) destroy by exploding | - |
| exploit | (verb) use or manipulate to one's advantage | Synonyms: work |
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| (verb) draw from; make good use of | Synonyms: tap |
| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: overwork |
| explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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| (verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
| (verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
| (verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
| float | (verb) convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation | - |
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| (verb) allow (currencies) to fluctuate | - |
| (verb) make the surface of level or smooth | - |
| (verb) put into the water | - |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, drift |
| (verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: swim |
| (verb) set afloat | - |
| (verb) move lightly, as if suspended | - |
| (verb) circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with | - |
| flocculate | (verb) form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass | - |
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| (verb) cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate | - |
| flock | (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate |
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| (verb) move as a crowd or in a group | - |
| flog | (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, lambast, lambaste |
| flood | (verb) cover with liquid, usually water | - |
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| (verb) become filled to overflowing | - |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp |
| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: glut, oversupply |
| floodlight | (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
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| floor | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, deck, dump, knock down |
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| (verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off | Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, shock, take aback |
| flop | (verb) fall suddenly and abruptly | - |
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| (verb) fall loosely | - |
| (verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, founder |
| floss | (verb) use dental floss to clean | - |
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| flounce | (verb) walk emphatically | - |
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| flounder | (verb) walk with great difficulty | Synonyms: stagger |
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| (verb) behave awkwardly; have difficulties | - |
| flour | (verb) convert grain into flour | - |
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| (verb) cover with flour | - |
| flourish | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |
| flout | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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| (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: scoff |
| flow | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: menstruate |
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| (verb) cover or swamp with water | - |
| (verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: fall, hang |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, run |
| (verb) move or progress freely as if in a stream | Synonyms: flux |
| (verb) cause to flow | - |
| (verb) be abundantly present | - |
| flower | (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
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| follow | (verb) behave in accordance or in agreement with | Synonyms: conform to |
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| (verb) keep informed | Synonyms: keep abreast, keep up |
| (verb) keep to | Synonyms: stick to, stick with |
| (verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: trace |
| (verb) grasp the meaning | - |
| (verb) imitate in behavior; take as a model | Synonyms: take after |
| (verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: accompany, play along |
| (verb) to travel behind, go after, come after | - |
| (verb) travel along a certain course | Synonyms: travel along |
| (verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: pursue |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: surveil, survey |
| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, espouse |
| (verb) to subscribe to someone's updates on social media | - |
| (verb) to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media | - |
| (verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, comply |
| (verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, succeed |
| (verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over |
| (verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of | - |
| (verb) adhere to or practice | - |
| (verb) be later in time | Synonyms: postdate |
| (verb) come after in time, as a result | Synonyms: come after |
| (verb) be next | - |
| (verb) to bring something about at a later time than | - |
| (verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) come as a logical consequence; follow logically | Synonyms: fall out |
| footslog | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge |
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| foreclose | (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage | - |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
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| furlough | (verb) grant a leave to | - |
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| (verb) dismiss, usually for economic reasons | Synonyms: lay off |
| gallop | (verb) ride at a galloping pace | - |
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| (verb) go at galloping speed | - |
| (verb) cause to move at full gallop | Synonyms: extend |
| gloat | (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: crow, triumph |
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| (verb) gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy | - |
| globalise | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalize |
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| globalize | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalise |
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| glom | (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, hook, knock off, snitch, thieve |
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| (verb) seize upon or latch onto something | - |
| glorify | (verb) bestow glory upon | - |
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| (verb) cause to seem more splendid | - |
| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: spiritualize, transfigure |
| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, laud, proclaim |
| glory | (verb) rejoice proudly | - |
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| gloss | (verb) provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase | - |
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| (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, comment |
| (verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | Synonyms: color, colour |
| (verb) give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing | - |
| glow | (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine |
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| (verb) be exuberant or high-spirited | - |
| (verb) emit a steady even light without flames | - |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine |
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: burn |
| glower | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, lour, lower |
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| (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glare |
| guillotine | (verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine | - |
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| halloo | (verb) shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention | - |
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| (verb) urge on with shouts | - |
| hallow | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, sanctify |
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| handcolor | (verb) color by hand | Synonyms: handcolour |
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| handcolour | (verb) color by hand | Synonyms: handcolor |
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| hollo | (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
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| (verb) cry hollo | - |
| (verb) encourage somebody by crying hollo | - |
| hollow | (verb) remove the interior of | Synonyms: core out, hollow out |
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| (verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, excavate |
| homologise | (verb) make homologous | Synonyms: homologize |
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| homologize | (verb) make homologous | Synonyms: homologise |
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| (verb) be homologous | - |
| implode | (verb) burst inward | Synonyms: go off |
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| implore | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, pray |
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| inclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, enclose, shut in |
| interlock | (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: mesh |
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| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: lock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, lock |
| interlope | (verb) encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license | - |
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| load | (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch |
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| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, laden, load up |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: charge |
| (verb) put (something) on a structure or conveyance | - |
| (verb) transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory | - |
| loaf | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
| loan | (verb) give temporarily; let have for a limited time | Synonyms: lend |
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| loathe | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, abominate, execrate |
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| lob | (verb) propel in a high arc | - |
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| lobby | (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: buttonhole |
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| localise | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localize, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localize |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localize |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localize, place |
| localize | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localise |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localise |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, place |
| locate | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: settle |
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| (verb) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining | Synonyms: turn up |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: place, site |
| (verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: situate |
| lock | (verb) become rigid or immoveable | - |
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| (verb) fasten with a lock | - |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, mesh, operate |
| (verb) place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape | Synonyms: lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up |
| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: interlock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, interlock |
| (verb) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels | - |
| (verb) hold fast (in a certain state) | - |
| (verb) pass by means through a lock in a waterway | - |
| locomote | (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, move, travel |
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| lodge | (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, file |
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| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, stick, wedge |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: accommodate |
| (verb) be a lodger; stay temporarily | - |
| loft | (verb) lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull | - |
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| (verb) propel through the air | - |
| (verb) kick or strike high in the air | - |
| (verb) store in a loft | - |
| log | (verb) enter into a log, as on ships and planes | - |
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| (verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: lumber |
| logroll | (verb) work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes | - |
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| loiter | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| loll | (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
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| (verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: droop |
| lollop | (verb) walk clumsily and with a bounce | - |
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| lollygag | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| long | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, yearn |
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| look | (verb) to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group | - |
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| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, wait |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) convey by one's expression | - |
| (verb) perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; look | - |
| (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: appear, seem |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: search |
| (verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: attend, see, take care |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, front |
| (verb) accord in appearance with | - |
| loom | (verb) weave on a loom | - |
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| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, predominate, tower |
| (verb) come into view indistinctly, often threateningly | - |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, hover |
| loop | (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, curl |
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| (verb) fasten or join with a loop | - |
| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: intertwine |
| (verb) fly loops, perform a loop | - |
| (verb) move in loops | - |
| loose | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loosen, relax |
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| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) turn loose or free from restraint | Synonyms: let loose, unleash |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen |
| loosen | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, relax |
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| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loose |
| (verb) make less dense | - |
| (verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: tease, tease apart |
| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: undo, untie |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| loot | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
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| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plunder |
| lop | (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, prune, snip, trim |
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| (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, sever |
| lope | (verb) run easily | - |
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| lord | (verb) make a lord of someone | - |
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| lose | (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: suffer |
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| (verb) withdraw, as from reality | - |
| (verb) fail to win | - |
| (verb) suffer the loss of a person through death or removal | - |
| (verb) allow to go out of sight or mind | - |
| (verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) fail to get or obtain | - |
| (verb) miss from one's possessions; lose sight of | - |
| (verb) fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense | - |
| (verb) fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit | Synonyms: turn a loss |
| lot | (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
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| (verb) divide into lots, as of land, for example | - |
| louden | (verb) cause to become loud | - |
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| (verb) become louder | - |