acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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adulterate | (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: debase, dilute, load, stretch |
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alter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: castrate, neuter, spay |
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(verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: change, vary |
(verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: change, modify |
(verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: falsify, interpolate |
(verb) make an alteration to | - |
altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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alternate | (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
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(verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
(verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
(verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
(verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
asphalt | (verb) cover with tar or asphalt | - |
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assault | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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(verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assail, attack, set on |
(verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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belt | (verb) deliver a blow to | - |
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(verb) fasten with a belt | - |
(verb) sing loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: belt out |
bolt | (verb) make or roll into bolts | - |
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(verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: gobble |
(verb) swallow hastily | - |
(verb) secure or lock with a bolt | - |
(verb) move or jump suddenly | - |
(verb) leave suddenly and as if in a hurry | Synonyms: beetle off, bolt out, run off, run out |
(verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
catapult | (verb) shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult | - |
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(verb) hurl as if with a sling | Synonyms: sling |
consult | (verb) advise professionally | - |
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(verb) seek information from | Synonyms: look up, refer |
(verb) get or ask advice from | Synonyms: confer with |
(verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confabulate, confer |
cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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(verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
(verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
culture | (verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
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default | (verb) fail to pay up | Synonyms: default on |
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desalt | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinise, desalinize |
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exalt | (verb) raise in rank, character, or status | - |
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(verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: extol, glorify, laud, proclaim |
(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
exfiltrate | (verb) escape furtively, as from an area under enemy control | - |
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(verb) transfer secretly out of an area under enemy control | - |
exult | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, jubilate, rejoice, triumph |
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(verb) feel extreme happiness or elation | Synonyms: be on cloud nine, jump for joy, walk on air |
falter | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, stammer, stutter |
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(verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, stumble |
(verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: waver |
(verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: waver |
fault | (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: blame |
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felt | (verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up |
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(verb) cover with felt | - |
(verb) mat together and make felt-like | - |
filter | (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter out, filtrate, separate out, strain |
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(verb) pass through | Synonyms: percolate, permeate, sink in |
(verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
filtrate | (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter, filter out, separate out, strain |
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halt | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: stanch, staunch, stem |
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(verb) come to a halt, stop moving | Synonyms: stop |
(verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: arrest, hold |
(verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, kibosh, stop |
halter | (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, hamper, strangle |
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(verb) hang with a halter | - |
infiltrate | (verb) pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict | Synonyms: pass through |
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(verb) cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices | - |
(verb) pass into or through by filtering or permeating | - |
(verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: penetrate |
insult | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: affront, diss |
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jilt | (verb) cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly | - |
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jolt | (verb) disturb (someone's) composure | - |
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(verb) move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion | Synonyms: jar |
lilt | (verb) articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way | - |
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malt | (verb) convert into malt | - |
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(verb) turn into malt, become malt | - |
(verb) convert grain into malt | - |
(verb) treat with malt or malt extract | - |
maltreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, mistreat, step |
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melt | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
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(verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt down, run |
(verb) lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually | Synonyms: meld |
(verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow, mellow out |
(verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly | Synonyms: fade |
(verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, evaporate |
molt | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, moult, shed, slough |
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moult | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, shed, slough |
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multiply | (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: breed |
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(verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: procreate, reproduce |
(verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: manifold |
(verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: manifold |
(verb) combine by multiplication | - |
occult | (verb) hide from view | - |
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(verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: eclipse |
(verb) become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished | - |
overcultivate | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcrop |
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palter | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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pelt | (verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pepper |
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(verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: bombard |
(verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
poultice | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: plaster |
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quilt | (verb) create by stitching together | - |
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(verb) stitch or sew together | - |
result | (verb) come about or follow as a consequence | - |
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(verb) issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end | Synonyms: ensue |
(verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: lead, leave |
revolt | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, sicken |
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(verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: disgust, gross out, repel |
(verb) make revolution | - |
salt | (verb) preserve with salt | - |
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(verb) add zest or liveliness to | - |
(verb) sprinkle as if with salt | - |
(verb) add salt to | - |
saltate | (verb) leap or skip, often in dancing | - |
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(verb) move by saltation | - |
shelter | (verb) invest (money) so that it is not taxable | - |
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(verb) provide shelter for | - |
silt | (verb) become chocked with silt | Synonyms: silt up |
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smelt | (verb) extract (metals) by heating | - |
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somersault | (verb) do a somersault | - |
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stultify | (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: cripple |
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(verb) cause to appear foolish | - |
(verb) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence | - |
swelter | (verb) suffer from intense heat | - |
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(verb) be uncomfortably hot | - |
tilt | (verb) charge with a tilt | - |
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(verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, slant, tip |
(verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, slant |
(verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, shift, wobble |
ultracentrifuge | (verb) subject to the action of an ultracentrifuge | - |
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unbelt | (verb) undo the belt of | - |
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unbolt | (verb) undo the bolt of | - |
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vault | (verb) bound vigorously | - |
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(verb) jump across or leap over (an obstacle) | Synonyms: overleap |
waltz | (verb) dance a waltz | Synonyms: waltz around |
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welt | (verb) put a welt on | - |
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(verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip |
welter | (verb) be immersed in | - |
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(verb) roll around | Synonyms: wallow |
(verb) toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way | - |
wilt | (verb) become limp | Synonyms: droop |
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(verb) lose strength | - |