| hump | (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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| (verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hunch, hunch forward, hunch over |
| hymn | (verb) praise by singing a hymn | - |
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| (verb) sing a hymn | - |
| hypophysectomise | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomize |
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| hypophysectomize | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomise |
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| illume | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illuminate, illumine, light, light up |
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| illuminate | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up |
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| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) | - |
| illumine | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, light, light up |
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| image | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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| (verb) render visible, as by means of MRI | - |
| imagine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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| (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, ideate |
| imbed | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, implant, plant |
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| imbibe | (verb) receive into the mind and retain | - |
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| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: drink |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilate |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| imbricate | (verb) overlap | - |
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| (verb) place so as to overlap | - |
| imbrue | (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: drench |
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| imbue | (verb) suffuse with color | Synonyms: hue |
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| (verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: soak |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| imitate | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, simulate |
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| (verb) make a reproduction or copy of | - |
| (verb) appear like, as in behavior or appearance | - |
| immaterialise | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immaterialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immerse | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, swallow, swallow up |
| immigrate | (verb) come into a new country and change residency | - |
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| (verb) migrate to a new environment | - |
| (verb) introduce or send as immigrants | - |
| immingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, intermingle, intermix |
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| immix | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, meld, merge, mix |
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| immobilise | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilize |
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| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilize |
| (verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
| (verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilize |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilize, pin, trap |
| (verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilize |
| immobilize | (verb) cause to be unable to move | Synonyms: immobilise |
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| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, freeze, immobilise |
| (verb) convert (assets) into fixed capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
| (verb) make defenseless | Synonyms: immobilise |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, pin, trap |
| (verb) hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital | Synonyms: immobilise |
| immolate | (verb) offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction | - |
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| immortalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalize |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| immortalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, memorialise, memorialize |
| immunise | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunize, inoculate, vaccinate |
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| (verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunize |
| immunize | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, inoculate, vaccinate |
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| (verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunise |
| immure | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| impact | (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, touch, touch on |
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| (verb) press or wedge together; pack together | - |
| impair | (verb) make worse or less effective | - |
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| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, mar, spoil, vitiate |
| impale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, spike, transfix |
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| (verb) kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole | Synonyms: stake |
| impanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: empanel |
| impart | (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, transmit |
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| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, leave, pass on |
| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, lend |
| impeach | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate |
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| (verb) charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office | - |
| (verb) challenge the honesty or veracity of | - |
| impede | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: hinder |
| impel | (verb) cause to move forward with force | Synonyms: propel |
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| (verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | Synonyms: force |
| impend | (verb) be imminent or about to happen | - |
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| imperil | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| impersonate | (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: personate, pose |
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| (verb) represent another person with comic intentions | - |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: portray |
| impinge | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, trench |
| implant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: plant |
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| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, plant |
| (verb) become attached to and embedded in the uterus | - |
| implement | (verb) pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue | Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through with, put through |
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| (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, enforce |
| (verb) apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design | - |
| implicate | (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: entail |
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| (verb) bring into intimate and incriminating connection | - |
| 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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| imply | (verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: connote |
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| (verb) suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic | - |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, mean |
| (verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: involve |
| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: incriminate, inculpate |
| import | (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: spell |
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| (verb) bring in from abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) into a database or document | - |
| importune | (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: insist |
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| impose | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, inflict, visit |
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| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: levy |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, enforce |
| impound | (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: pound |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester |
| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| imprecate | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, maledict |
| impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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| (verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
| impress | (verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun | Synonyms: yarn-dye |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: ingrain, instill |
| (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: shanghai |
| (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: print |
| (verb) impress positively | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, move, strike |
| imprint | (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: impress |
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| (verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: form |
| imprison | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| (verb) confine as if in a prison | - |
| improve | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, meliorate |
| improvise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: extemporize |
| improvize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvise |
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| impugn | (verb) attack as false or wrong | - |
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| impute | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, attribute |
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| (verb) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source | - |
| incommode | (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
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| incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
| indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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| (verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
| inflame | (verb) become inflamed; get sore | - |
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| (verb) cause inflammation in | - |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, kindle |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: kindle |
| inform | (verb) give character or essence to | - |
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| (verb) impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to | - |
| (verb) act as an informer | - |
| ingeminate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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| inhume | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, entomb, inter, lay to rest |
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| inmarry | (verb) marry within one's own tribe or group | - |
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| inseminate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, fertilize |
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| (verb) place seeds in or on (the ground) | Synonyms: sow, sow in |
| instrument | (verb) address a legal document to | - |
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| (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrumentate |
| (verb) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling | - |
| instrumentate | (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrument |
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| intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
| intermarry | (verb) marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group | - |
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| intermediate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, liaise, mediate |
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| intermingle | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermix |
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| intermit | (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, pause |
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| intermix | (verb) combine into one | Synonyms: blend, immingle, intermingle |
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| intimate | (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: adumbrate, insinuate |
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| (verb) imply as a possibility | Synonyms: suggest |
| intimidate | (verb) make timid or fearful | - |
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| (verb) to compel or deter by or as if by threats | - |
| intromit | (verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: admit, allow in, let in |
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| intumesce | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
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| (verb) move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: bubble up |
| isomerise | (verb) change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerize |
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| (verb) cause to change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerize |
| isomerize | (verb) change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
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| (verb) cause to change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
| itemise | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemize, recite |
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| (verb) place on a list of items | Synonyms: itemize |
| itemize | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemise, recite |
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| (verb) place on a list of items | Synonyms: itemise |
| jam | (verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | Synonyms: block |
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| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jampack, ram, wad |
| (verb) get stuck and immobilized | - |
| (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: crush |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: mob, pack, pile, throng |
| (verb) push down forcibly | - |
| jampack | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, ram, wad |
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| jimmy | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: lever, prise, prize, pry |
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| jumble | (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: scramble, throw together |
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| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: confuse, mix up |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: mingle |
| jump | (verb) increase suddenly and significantly | - |
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| (verb) rise in rank or status | Synonyms: climb up, rise |
| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: alternate |
| (verb) pass abruptly from one state or topic to another | Synonyms: leap |
| (verb) bypass | Synonyms: pass over, skip, skip over |
| (verb) make a sudden physical attack on | - |
| (verb) enter eagerly into | - |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, leap, spring |
| (verb) cause to jump or leap | Synonyms: leap |
| (verb) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm | Synonyms: start, startle |
| (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: derail |
| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jumpstart |
| (verb) jump down from an elevated point | Synonyms: jump off, leap |
| (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: chute, parachute |
| (verb) be highly noticeable | Synonyms: jump out, leap out, stand out, stick out |
| jumpstart | (verb) start or re-start vigorously | Synonyms: jump-start |
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| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jump |
| lam | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, thrash, thresh |
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| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| lamb | (verb) give birth to a lamb | - |
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| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| lame | (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: cripple |
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| lament | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore |
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| (verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: keen |
| laminate | (verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
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| (verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |