| bemoan | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bewail, deplore, lament |
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| bemock | (verb) treat with contempt | Synonyms: mock |
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| bemuse | (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bewilder, discombobulate, throw |
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| benumb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: blunt, dull, numb |
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| beseem | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: befit, suit |
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| besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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| besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
| birdlime | (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: lime |
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| bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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| bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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| blackmail | (verb) obtain through threats | - |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
| blame | (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: charge |
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| (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: fault |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: find fault, pick |
| blaspheme | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: curse, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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| (verb) speak of in an irreverent or impious manner | - |
| blemish | (verb) add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective | Synonyms: flaw |
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| (verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: spot |
| (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: deface, disfigure |
| bloom | (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: blossom, flower |
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| blossom | (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | Synonyms: blossom forth, blossom out, unfold |
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| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
| bomb | (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bombard |
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| (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: fail, flunk, flush it |
| bombard | (verb) direct high energy particles or radiation against | - |
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| (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: barrage |
| (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bomb |
| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: pelt |
| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| bombproof | (verb) make safe against bombings | - |
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| boom | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: expand, flourish, thrive |
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| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, nail, smash |
| (verb) make a resonant sound, like artillery | Synonyms: din |
| (verb) make a deep hollow sound | Synonyms: boom out |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: thunder |
| boomerang | (verb) return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang | - |
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| bosom | (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: embrace, hug, squeeze |
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| (verb) hide in one's bosom | - |
| bottom | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: fathom, penetrate |
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| (verb) strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom | - |
| (verb) provide with a bottom or a seat | - |
| brainstorm | (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
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| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| bream | (verb) clean (a ship's bottom) with heat | - |
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| brim | (verb) fill as much as possible | - |
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| (verb) be completely full | - |
| bromate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
| brominate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
| broom | (verb) sweep with a broom or as if with a broom | Synonyms: sweep |
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| (verb) finish with a broom | - |
| buckram | (verb) stiffen with or as with buckram | - |
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| bum | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: cadge, grub, mooch, sponge |
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| (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
| bumble | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: falter, stammer, stutter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: falter, stumble |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| bump | (verb) knock against with force or violence | Synonyms: knock |
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| (verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied | Synonyms: dislodge |
| (verb) to play music at loud volume | Synonyms: slap |
| (verb) to enjoy some music greatly | - |
| (verb) dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward | - |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: chance, encounter, find, happen |
| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
| calcimine | (verb) cover with calcimine | - |
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| calm | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make steady | Synonyms: becalm, steady |
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation | Synonyms: calm down, chill out, cool it, cool off, settle down, simmer down |
| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| camber | (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
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| camouflage | (verb) disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something | - |
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| camp | (verb) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to | - |
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| (verb) establish or set up a camp | Synonyms: camp down |
| (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent |
| campaign | (verb) go on a campaign; go off to war | Synonyms: take the field |
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| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, crusade, fight, press, push |
| camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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| 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 |
| carmine | (verb) color carmine | - |
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| carom | (verb) make a carom | - |
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| (verb) rebound after hitting | - |
| cement | (verb) bind or join with or as if with cement | - |
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| (verb) make fast as if with cement | - |
| (verb) cover or coat with cement | - |
| chairman | (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
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| chamber | (verb) place in a chamber | - |
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| chamfer | (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chase, furrow |
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| (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: bevel |
| champ | (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: chomp |
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| (verb) chafe at the bit, like horses | - |
| champion | (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: defend |
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| charm | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: influence, tempt |
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| (verb) protect through supernatural powers or charms | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: becharm |
| checkmate | (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
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| chemisorb | (verb) take up a substance by chemisorption | - |
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| chime | (verb) emit a sound | - |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chloroform | (verb) anesthetize with chloroform | - |
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| chomp | (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: champ |
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| chrome | (verb) treat with a chromium compound | - |
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| (verb) plate with chromium | Synonyms: chromium-plate |
| cinematise | (verb) make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film | Synonyms: cinematize |
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| cinematize | (verb) make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film | Synonyms: cinematise |
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| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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| (verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
| circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| claim | (verb) assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing | - |
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| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: exact, take |
| (verb) ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example | - |
| (verb) lay claim to; as of an idea | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: arrogate, lay claim |
| clam | (verb) gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean | - |
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| clamber | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| clamor | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamour |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring | - |
| clamour | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
| clamp | (verb) impose or inflict forcefully | - |
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| (verb) fasten or fix with a clamp | - |
| 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 | - |
| clomp | (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clump |
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| clump | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, cluster |
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| (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clomp |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: cluster, constellate, flock |
| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clunk, plunk |
| collimate | (verb) adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument) | - |
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| (verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: parallel |
| comb | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb out, disentangle |
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| (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: ransack |
| (verb) straighten with a comb | - |
| combat | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
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| combine | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: aggregate |
| (verb) add together from different sources | - |
| (verb) join for a common purpose or in a common action | - |
| (verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: unite |
| combust | (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) get very angry and fly into a rage | Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit |
| (verb) cause to become violent or angry | - |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: burn |
| come | (verb) come to pass; arrive, as in due course | - |
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| (verb) be found or available | - |
| (verb) reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position | - |
| (verb) happen as a result | - |
| (verb) have a certain priority | - |
| (verb) come to one's mind; suggest itself | Synonyms: occur |
| (verb) move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody | Synonyms: come up |
| (verb) be received | Synonyms: come in |
| (verb) cover a certain distance | - |
| (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: arrive, get |
| (verb) experience orgasm | - |
| (verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: do, fare, get along, make out |
| (verb) extend or reach | - |
| (verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) exist or occur in a certain point in a series | - |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: hail |
| (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, amount |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, number, total |
| (verb) come forth | Synonyms: issue forth |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: derive, descend |
| comfit | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: confect, confection |
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| comfort | (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: ease |
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| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: console, solace, soothe |
| command | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: require |
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| (verb) be in command of | - |
| (verb) demand as one's due | - |
| (verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop |
| commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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| commemorate | (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: remember |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: mark |
| commence | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: begin, lead off, start |
| (verb) get off the ground | Synonyms: embark on, start, start up |
| commend | (verb) express approbation of | - |
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| (verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: remember |
| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: recommend |
| (verb) give to in charge | - |
| (verb) present as worthy of regard, kindness, or confidence | - |
| comment | (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: notice, point out, remark |
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| (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, gloss |
| (verb) explain or interpret something | - |
| commentate | (verb) serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting | - |
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| (verb) make a commentary on | - |
| commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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