| misgauge | (verb) gauge something incorrectly or improperly | - |
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| misgive | (verb) suggest fear or doubt | - |
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| misgovern | (verb) govern badly | - |
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| misguide | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misadvise |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, mislead |
| mishandle | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
| misidentify | (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: mistake |
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| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| misjudge | (verb) judge incorrectly | - |
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| mislay | (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: misplace |
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| mislead | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: misinform |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, misguide |
| mismanage | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mishandle |
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| mismarry | (verb) marry an unsuitable partner | - |
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| mismatch | (verb) match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together | - |
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| mismate | (verb) provide with an unsuitable mate | - |
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| misname | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: miscall |
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| misperceive | (verb) perceive incorrectly | - |
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| misplace | (verb) place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position | - |
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| (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: mislay |
| misplay | (verb) play wrong or in an unskillful manner | - |
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| (verb) play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note | - |
| misprint | (verb) print incorrectly | - |
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| mispronounce | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: misspeak |
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| misquote | (verb) quote incorrectly | - |
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| misread | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misinterpret |
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| (verb) read or interpret wrongly | - |
| misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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| misrepresent | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: belie |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, wangle |
| miss | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: escape |
| (verb) fail to reach | - |
| (verb) feel or suffer from the lack of | - |
| (verb) fail to reach or get to | - |
| (verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: lose |
| (verb) be without | Synonyms: lack |
| (verb) fail to attend an event or activity | - |
| (verb) be absent | - |
| misspeak | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: mispronounce |
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| misspell | (verb) spell incorrectly | - |
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| misspend | (verb) spend (money or other resources) unwisely | - |
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| (verb) spend time badly or unwisely | - |
| misstate | (verb) state something incorrectly | - |
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| mist | (verb) become covered with mist | Synonyms: mist over |
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| (verb) spray finely or cover with mist | - |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, obnubilate, obscure |
| mistake | (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: err, slip |
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| (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: misidentify |
| mistime | (verb) time incorrectly | - |
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| mistranslate | (verb) translate incorrectly | - |
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| mistreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, step |
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| mistrust | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, suspect |
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| misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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| misuse | (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: abuse, pervert |
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| (verb) apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly | Synonyms: misapply |
| miter | (verb) bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint | - |
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| (verb) fit together in a miter joint | - |
| (verb) confer a miter on (a bishop) | - |
| mitigate | (verb) to temper | - |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, palliate |
| mix | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge |
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| (verb) add as an additional element or part | Synonyms: mix in |
| (verb) combine (electronic signals) | - |
| (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mingle, unify |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: ruffle, shuffle |
| (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: desegregate, integrate |
| mizzle | (verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: drizzle |
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| mummify | (verb) dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture | Synonyms: dry up |
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| (verb) remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it | - |
| (verb) preserve while making lifeless | - |
| nominate | (verb) propose as a candidate for some honor | Synonyms: put forward, put up |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, name |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, name |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: propose |
| omit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: except, exclude, leave off, leave out, take out |
| optimise | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimize |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimize |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimize |
| optimize | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimise |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimise |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimise |
| pantomime | (verb) act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only | Synonyms: mime |
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| permit | (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, let |
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| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, tolerate |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, let |
| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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| polemicise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicize, polemise, polemize |
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| polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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| polemise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemize |
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| polemize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemise |
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| polychromise | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromize |
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| polychromize | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromise |
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| predetermine | (verb) determine beforehand | - |
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| (verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: bias |
| predominate | (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, prevail, reign, rule |
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| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, tower |
| premier | (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
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| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
| premiere | (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
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| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
| premise | (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premiss |
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| (verb) set forth beforehand, often as an explanation | - |
| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, preface |
| premiss | (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premise |
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| pretermit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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| (verb) disregard intentionally or let pass | - |
| promise | (verb) make a promise or commitment | Synonyms: assure |
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| (verb) promise to undertake or give | - |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate |
| (verb) give grounds for expectations | - |
| pumice | (verb) rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen | - |
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| pyramid | (verb) increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base | - |
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| (verb) arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid | - |
| (verb) enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts | - |
| (verb) use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal | - |
| ramify | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: branch |
| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: complexify |
| randomise | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomize |
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| randomize | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomise |
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| readmit | (verb) admit anew | - |
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| (verb) admit again or anew | - |
| recommit | (verb) send back to a committee | - |
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| (verb) commit again | - |
| (verb) commit once again, as of a crime | - |
| recriminate | (verb) return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return | - |
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| redetermine | (verb) fix, find, or establish again | - |
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| reexamine | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: review |
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| remilitarise | (verb) militarize anew | Synonyms: remilitarize |
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| remilitarize | (verb) militarize anew | Synonyms: remilitarise |
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| remind | (verb) put in the mind of someone | - |
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| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, prompt |
| reminisce | (verb) recall the past | - |
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| remit | (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: slacken |
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| (verb) diminish or abate | - |
| (verb) release from (claims, debts, or taxes) | - |
| (verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remand, send back |
| (verb) forgive | - |
| (verb) send (money) in payment | - |
| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, set back, shelve, table |
| resubmit | (verb) submit (information) again to a program or automatic system | Synonyms: feed back |
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| retransmit | (verb) transmit again | - |
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| ruminate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) chew the cuds | - |
| skirmish | (verb) engage in a skirmish | - |
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| smile | (verb) change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure | - |
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| (verb) express with a smile | - |
| smirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: besmirch |
| smirk | (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: simper |
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| smite | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: afflict |
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| (verb) inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon | - |
| (verb) affect suddenly with deep feeling | - |
| sodomise | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: bugger, sodomize |
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| (verb) copulate with an animal | Synonyms: sodomize |
| sodomize | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: bugger, sodomise |
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| (verb) copulate with an animal | Synonyms: sodomise |
| solmizate | (verb) sing using syllables like `do', `re' and `mi' to represent the tones of the scale | - |
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| (verb) sing by the syllables of solmization | - |
| stymie | (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymy |
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| submit | (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: reconcile, resign |
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| (verb) accept or undergo, often unwillingly | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) put before | Synonyms: posit, put forward, state |
| (verb) refer for judgment or consideration | - |
| (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, bow, defer, give in |
| (verb) yield to the control of another | - |
| (verb) make an application as for a job or funding | Synonyms: put in |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, relegate |
| summit | (verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: breast |
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| surmise | (verb) infer from incomplete evidence | - |
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| (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable | Synonyms: suspect |
| systemise | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systematize, systemize |
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| systemize | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systematize, systemise |
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| terminate | (verb) bring to an end or halt | Synonyms: end |
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| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, finish, stop |
| (verb) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of | Synonyms: end |
| transaminate | (verb) undergo transfer from one compound to another | - |
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| (verb) change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another | - |
| transmigrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: migrate |
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| (verb) be born anew in another body after death | Synonyms: reincarnate |