| mellow | (verb) make or grow (more) mellow | - |
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| (verb) soften, make mellow | - |
| (verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow out, melt |
| melodise | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodize |
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| melodize | (verb) supply a melody for | Synonyms: melodise |
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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 |
| memorialise | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialize |
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| (verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialize |
| memorialize | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise |
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| (verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialise |
| memorise | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorize |
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| memorize | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorise |
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| menace | (verb) act in a threatening manner | - |
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| (verb) express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture | - |
| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, peril, threaten |
| mend | (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, repair, restore, touch on |
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| (verb) heal or recover | Synonyms: heal |
| menstruate | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: flow |
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| mensurate | (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure, measure out |
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| mention | (verb) make mention of | Synonyms: note, observe, remark |
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| (verb) commend | Synonyms: cite |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, name, refer |
| mentor | (verb) serve as a teacher or trusted counselor | - |
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| meow | (verb) cry like a cat | Synonyms: mew |
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| mercerise | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerize |
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| mercerize | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerise |
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| merchandise | (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: trade |
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| merge | (verb) become one | Synonyms: unify, unite |
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| (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, mix |
| (verb) join or combine | Synonyms: unify, unite |
| merit | (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: deserve |
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| mesh | (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: interlock |
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| (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, ensnarl |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, operate |
| (verb) work together in harmony | - |
| mesmerise | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerize |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerize, spellbind |
| mesmerize | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, spellbind |
| mess | (verb) make a mess of or create disorder in | Synonyms: mess up |
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| (verb) eat in a mess hall | - |
| message | (verb) send a message | - |
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| (verb) send as a message | - |
| (verb) send a message to | - |
| metabolise | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolize |
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| metabolize | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolise |
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| metal | (verb) cover with metal | - |
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| metalize | (verb) coat with metal | Synonyms: metallize |
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| metallize | (verb) coat with metal | Synonyms: metalize |
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| metamorphose | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: transfigure, transmogrify |
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| (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
| metastasise | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasize |
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| metastasize | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasise |
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| meter | (verb) measure with a meter | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a meter indicating the postage | - |
| metricate | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricise, metricize, metrify |
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| metricise | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricize, metrify |
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| (verb) express in the metric system | Synonyms: metricize |
| metricize | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metrify |
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| (verb) express in the metric system | Synonyms: metricise |
| metrify | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metricize |
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| (verb) compose in poetic meter | - |
| mew | (verb) cry like a cat | Synonyms: meow |
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| (verb) utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls | - |
| mewl | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: pule, wail, whimper |
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| mime | (verb) act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only | Synonyms: pantomime |
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| (verb) imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect | Synonyms: mimic |
| mimeo | (verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeograph |
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| mimeograph | (verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeo |
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| misdemean | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misconduct |
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| misname | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: miscall |
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| misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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| mistime | (verb) time incorrectly | - |
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| monumentalise | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalize |
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| monumentalize | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalise |
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| name | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: diagnose |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out |
| (verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property | Synonyms: identify |
| (verb) assign a specified (usually proper) name to | Synonyms: be known as, call, know as |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, refer |
| (verb) mention and identify by name | - |
| (verb) give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of | Synonyms: list |
| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, nominate |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, nominate |
| namedrop | (verb) refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them | - |
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| nickname | (verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: dub |
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| numerate | (verb) read out loud as words written numbers | - |
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| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, number |
| omen | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| ornament | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
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| (verb) be an ornament to | - |
| overcome | (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, master, subdue, surmount |
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| (verb) overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome | Synonyms: get the best, have the best |
| (verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: defeat, get the better of |
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| pantomime | (verb) act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only | Synonyms: mime |
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| perfume | (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: scent |
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| (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatise, aromatize |
| permeate | (verb) pass through | Synonyms: filter, percolate, sink in |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: interpenetrate |
| pigment | (verb) color or dye with a pigment | - |
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| (verb) acquire pigment; become colored or imbued | - |
| plume | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, preen, primp |
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| (verb) form a plume | - |
| (verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) deck with a plume | - |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: congratulate, pride |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, rob, soak, surcharge |
| plummet | (verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plump |
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| polychrome | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychromise, polychromize |
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| polymerise | (verb) undergo polymerization | Synonyms: polymerize |
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| (verb) cause (a compound) to polymerize | Synonyms: polymerize |
| polymerize | (verb) undergo polymerization | Synonyms: polymerise |
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| (verb) cause (a compound) to polymerize | Synonyms: polymerise |
| pommel | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: biff, pummel |
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| premeditate | (verb) consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand | - |
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| (verb) think or reflect beforehand or in advance | - |
| presume | (verb) take liberties or act with too much confidence | - |
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| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: assume, take for granted |
| (verb) constitute reasonable evidence for | - |
| (verb) take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission | Synonyms: dare, make bold |
| prime | (verb) insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing | - |
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| (verb) fill with priming liquid | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: ground, undercoat |
| programme | (verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: program |
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| (verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: program |
| promenade | (verb) take a leisurely walk | - |
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| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, troop |
| pummel | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: biff, pommel |
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| raiment | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, tog |
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| recommence | (verb) begin again | - |
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| (verb) cause to start anew | - |
| recommend | (verb) make attractive or acceptable | - |
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| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, urge |
| regiment | (verb) assign to a regiment | - |
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| (verb) form (military personnel) into a regiment | - |
| (verb) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization | - |
| remediate | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remedy, repair |
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| remedy | (verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: relieve |
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| (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, repair |
| remember | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, retrieve, think |
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| (verb) keep in mind for attention or consideration | Synonyms: think of |
| (verb) recapture the past; indulge in memories | Synonyms: think back |
| (verb) exercise, or have the power of, memory | - |
| (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: commemorate |
| (verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) mention favorably, as in prayer | - |
| (verb) show appreciation to | - |
| rename | (verb) assign a new name to | - |
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| (verb) name again or anew | - |
| resublime | (verb) sublime (a compound) once again | - |
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| resume | (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, restart |
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| (verb) return to a previous location or condition | Synonyms: take up |
| (verb) give a summary (of) | Synonyms: sum up, summarise, summarize |
| (verb) assume anew | - |
| rhyme | (verb) compose rhymes | Synonyms: rime |
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| (verb) be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | Synonyms: rime |
| rime | (verb) compose rhymes | Synonyms: rhyme |
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| (verb) be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | Synonyms: rhyme |
| scheme | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, intrigue |
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| (verb) devise a system or form a scheme for | - |
| sediment | (verb) settle as sediment | - |
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| (verb) deposit as a sediment | - |
| segment | (verb) divide into segments | Synonyms: section |
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| (verb) divide or split up | - |
| sentimentalise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalize, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| sentimentalize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| sentimentise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentize |
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| sentimentize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentise |
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| shame | (verb) surpass or beat by a wide margin | - |
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| (verb) cause to be ashamed | - |
| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour |
| (verb) compel through a sense of shame | - |
| shimmer | (verb) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk | - |
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| (verb) shine with a weak or fitful light | - |
| simmer | (verb) boil slowly at low temperature | - |
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| sledgehammer | (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledge |
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| slime | (verb) cover or stain with slime | - |
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| smear | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smirch, sully |
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| (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smudge, smutch |
| (verb) stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance | - |
| (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: daub |
| smell | (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: sense, smell out |
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| (verb) emit an odor | - |
| (verb) inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense | - |
| (verb) smell bad | - |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smack |
| smelt | (verb) extract (metals) by heating | - |
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| somersault | (verb) do a somersault | - |
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