abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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acclaim | (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: hail, herald |
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(verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: applaud, clap, spat |
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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accommodate | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: adapt |
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(verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: conciliate, reconcile |
(verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: oblige |
(verb) provide with something desired or needed | - |
(verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: fit, suit |
(verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: lodge |
(verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: admit, hold |
accompany | (verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: follow, play along |
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(verb) go or travel along with | - |
(verb) be present or associated with an event or entity | Synonyms: attach to, come with, go with |
(verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: companion, company, keep company |
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 |
accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
accustom | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: habituate |
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achromatise | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatize |
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achromatize | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatise |
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acuminate | (verb) make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point | - |
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admeasure | (verb) determine the quantity of someone's share | - |
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administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
(verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
(verb) direct the taking of | - |
administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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admire | (verb) feel admiration for | Synonyms: look up to |
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(verb) look at with admiration | - |
admit | (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
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(verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: accept, take, take on |
(verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: include, let in |
(verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: allow in, intromit, let in |
(verb) give access or entrance to | - |
(verb) serve as a means of entrance | - |
(verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: accommodate, hold |
(verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: allow |
admix | (verb) mix or mingle | - |
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admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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(verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
(verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
adumbrate | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: outline, sketch |
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(verb) give to understand | Synonyms: insinuate, intimate |
affirm | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
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(verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: assert, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
(verb) say yes to | - |
agglomerate | (verb) form into one cluster | - |
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aim | (verb) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal | Synonyms: aspire, draw a bead on, shoot for |
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(verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: propose, purport, purpose |
(verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: calculate, direct |
(verb) direct (a remark) toward an intended goal | - |
(verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: drive, get |
(verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: direct, take, take aim, train |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: direct, place, point, target |
airmail | (verb) send or transport by airmail | - |
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alarm | (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alert |
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(verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: appal, appall, dismay, horrify |
alchemise | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemize |
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alchemize | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemise |
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aliment | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: nourish, nutrify |
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aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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aluminize | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminise |
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amalgamate | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
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amass | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
amaze | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: astonish, astound |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
ambition | (verb) have as one's ambition | - |
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amble | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: mosey |
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ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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ambuscade | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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ambush | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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(verb) hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing | Synonyms: still-hunt |
ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
amend | (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair |
(verb) make amendments to | - |
amerce | (verb) punish with an arbitrary penalty | - |
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(verb) punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court | - |
ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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amnesty | (verb) grant a pardon to (a group of people) | - |
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amortise | (verb) liquidate gradually | Synonyms: amortize |
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amortize | (verb) liquidate gradually | Synonyms: amortise |
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amount | (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, come |
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(verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, come, number, total |
(verb) be tantamount or equivalent to | - |
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 |
amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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amuse | (verb) make (somebody) laugh | - |
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(verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: disport, divert |
anagram | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagrammatise, anagrammatize |
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anagrammatise | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatize |
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anagrammatize | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatise |
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anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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(verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |
anathematise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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anathematize | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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anathemise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
anathemize | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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(verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, comminate, execrate |
anatomise | (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomize |
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anatomize | (verb) analyze down to the smallest detail | - |
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(verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomise |
animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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(verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
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 |
animate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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(verb) make lively | Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up |
(verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animise, animize |
(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
animise | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animize |
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animize | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animise |
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anthropomorphise | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphize |
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anthropomorphize | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphise |
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approximate | (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
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(verb) be close or similar | Synonyms: come close |
arm | (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: build up, fortify, gird |
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(verb) supply with arms | - |
armor | (verb) equip with armor | Synonyms: armour |
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armour | (verb) equip with armor | Synonyms: armor |
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aromatise | (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatize, perfume |
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aromatize | (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatise, perfume |
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assemble | (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
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(verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: foregather, forgather, gather, meet |
(verb) get people together | Synonyms: gather, get together |
assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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(verb) make similar | - |
(verb) become similar in sound | - |
(verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
(verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
assume | (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: don, get into, put on, wear |
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(verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, adopt, take, take on |
(verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: presume, take for granted |
(verb) take up someone's soul into heaven | - |
(verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: feign, sham, simulate |
(verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: strike, take, take up |
(verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, seize, take over, usurp |
(verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, bear, take over |
(verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: adopt, take on, take over |
atomise | (verb) break up into small particles | Synonyms: atomize |
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(verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomize, nuke, zap |
(verb) spray very finely | Synonyms: atomize |
atomize | (verb) break up into small particles | Synonyms: atomise |
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(verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomise, nuke, zap |
(verb) spray very finely | Synonyms: atomise |
attemper | (verb) modify the temperature of | - |
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attempt | (verb) enter upon an activity or enterprise | Synonyms: set about, undertake |
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(verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, essay, seek, try |
augment | (verb) grow or intensify | - |
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(verb) enlarge or increase | - |
automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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automatise | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatize |
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(verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatize |
automatize | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatise |
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(verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatise |
automobile | (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
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autotomise | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomize |
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autotomize | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomise |
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badmouth | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: drag through the mud, malign, traduce |
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bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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barnstorm | (verb) tour the country making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting plays | - |
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(verb) appear at county fairs and carnivals as a stunt flier and parachute jumper | - |
beam | (verb) smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression | - |
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(verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, broadcast, send, transmit |
(verb) express with a beaming face or smile | - |
(verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
(verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
(verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: shine |
becalm | (verb) make steady | Synonyms: calm, steady |
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becharm | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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(verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: charm |
become | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: get, go |
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(verb) come into existence | - |
(verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: turn |
(verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: suit |
bedamn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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bedim | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: benight |
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(verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: obscure, overcloud |
begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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