| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abandon | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: desert, desolate, forsake |
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| (verb) stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: empty, vacate |
| (verb) forsake, leave behind | - |
| (verb) give up with the intent of never claiming again | Synonyms: give up |
| abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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| (verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
| (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
| abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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| abound | (verb) be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities | - |
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| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: bristle, burst |
| abscond | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| absent | (verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: remove |
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| abstain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: desist, refrain |
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| (verb) refrain from voting | - |
| accent | (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accentuate, stress |
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| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
| accentuate | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| accession | (verb) make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library | - |
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| 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 |
| account | (verb) furnish a justifying analysis or explanation | Synonyms: answer for |
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| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: describe, report |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something | - |
| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| acquaint | (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: introduce, present |
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| (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: familiarise, familiarize |
| (verb) inform | - |
| action | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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| (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: litigate, process, sue |
| acuminate | (verb) make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point | - |
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| adjoin | (verb) attach or add | - |
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| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: contact, meet, touch |
| adjourn | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: break up, recess |
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| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: retire, withdraw |
| 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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| 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 |
| adorn | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
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| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: clothe, invest |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: beautify, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| advance | (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: come along, come on, get along, get on, progress, shape up |
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| (verb) rise in rate or price | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: boost, supercharge |
| (verb) develop further | - |
| (verb) bring forward for consideration or acceptance | Synonyms: throw out |
| (verb) obtain advantages, such as points, etc. | Synonyms: gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win |
| (verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress |
| (verb) cause to move forward | Synonyms: bring forward |
| (verb) move forward | Synonyms: set ahead |
| (verb) pay in advance | - |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: boost, encourage, further, promote |
| advantage | (verb) give an advantage to | - |
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| adventure | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardize, stake, venture |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| affiance | (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: betroth, engage, plight |
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| affranchise | (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: enfranchise |
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| affront | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: diss, insult |
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| agglutinate | (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
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| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggrandize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| agnise | (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnize, realise, realize, recognise, recognize |
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| agnize | (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, realise, realize, recognise, recognize |
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| agonise | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonize |
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| (verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonize |
| agonize | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonise |
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| (verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonise |
| alien | (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alienate |
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| alienate | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: disaffect, estrange |
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| (verb) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated | - |
| (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alien |
| align | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, aline, line up |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: coordinate, ordinate |
| (verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: array |
| (verb) be or come into adjustment with | - |
| aliment | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: nourish, nutrify |
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| aline | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, align, line up |
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| alkalinise | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
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| (verb) become alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
| alkalinize | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinise |
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| (verb) become alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinise |
| allowance | (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
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| alternate | (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
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| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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| aluminize | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminise |
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| ambition | (verb) have as one's ambition | - |
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| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| anaesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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| anaesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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| 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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| analogise | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogize |
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| analogize | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogise |
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| analyse | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyze, canvass, examine, study |
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| (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze, break down, dissect, take apart |
| (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
| (verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze |
| analyze | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, canvass, examine, study |
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| (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart |
| (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
| (verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse |
| 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 |
| anchor | (verb) secure a vessel with an anchor | Synonyms: cast anchor, drop anchor |
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| (verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: ground |
| ancylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ankylose |
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| (verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ankylose |
| anele | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anoint, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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| anesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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| anesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, put out, put under |
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| anger | (verb) make angry | - |
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| (verb) become angry | Synonyms: see red |
| angle | (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: slant, weight |
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| (verb) fish with a hook | - |
| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: fish |
| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: lean, slant, tilt, tip |
| (verb) move or proceed at an angle | - |
| anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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| anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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| anguish | (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
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| (verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
| angulate | (verb) make or become angular | - |
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| 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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| ankylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ancylose |
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| (verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ancylose |
| anneal | (verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: normalize, temper |
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| annex | (verb) add an extra part to | - |
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| (verb) take (territory) as if by conquest | - |
| annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| annotate | (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: comment, gloss |
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| (verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: footnote |
| announce | (verb) make known; make an announcement | Synonyms: denote |
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| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: annunciate, foretell, harbinger, herald |
| (verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: declare |
| (verb) give the names of | - |
| annoy | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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| annul | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash, void |
| annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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| anodise | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodize |
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| anodize | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodise |
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| anoint | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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| (verb) choose by or as if by divine intervention | - |
| answer | (verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
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| (verb) respond to a signal | - |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
| (verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
| (verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
| (verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
| (verb) match or correspond | - |
| (verb) be liable or accountable | - |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
| antagonise | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonize |
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| (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonize, counteract |