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 | - |
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 |
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 |
halter | (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, hamper, strangle |
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(verb) hang with a halter | - |
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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shelter | (verb) invest (money) so that it is not taxable | - |
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(verb) provide shelter for | - |
swelter | (verb) suffer from intense heat | - |
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(verb) be uncomfortably hot | - |
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 | - |