| countercheck | (verb) check a second time | - |
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| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
| counterclaim | (verb) set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim | - |
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| counterfeit | (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: fake, forge |
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| countermand | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| countermarch | (verb) change the order of soldiers during a march | - |
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| (verb) march back along the same way | - |
| countermine | (verb) destroy enemy mines with one's own mines | - |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| counterplot | (verb) make a plot in response to another plot | - |
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| counterpoint | (verb) write in counterpoint | - |
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| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: contrast |
| counterpoise | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpose, counterweight |
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| counterpose | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterweight |
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| countersign | (verb) add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity | - |
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| countersink | (verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: set |
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| counterstrike | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| countervail | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize |
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| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: offset |
| counterweight | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
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| covenant | (verb) enter into a covenant or formal agreement | - |
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| (verb) enter into a covenant | - |
| cozen | (verb) cheat or trick | - |
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| (verb) act with artful deceit | - |
| (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: deceive, delude, lead on |
| cranch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: craunch, crunch, grind |
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| crane | (verb) stretch (the neck) so as to see better | Synonyms: stretch out |
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| crank | (verb) rotate with a crank | Synonyms: crank up |
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| (verb) bend into the shape of a crank | - |
| (verb) fasten with a crank | - |
| (verb) start by cranking | Synonyms: crank up |
| (verb) travel along a zigzag path | Synonyms: zigzag |
| craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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| crayon | (verb) write, draw, or trace with a crayon | - |
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| crenel | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenelate, crenellate |
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| crenelate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenellate |
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| crenellate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenelate |
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| crescendo | (verb) grow louder | - |
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| criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| criminalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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| (verb) treat as a criminal | - |
| criminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, impeach, incriminate |
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| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, reprimand |
| crimson | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, flush, redden |
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| cringe | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, fawn, grovel |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
| crinkle | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| crispen | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, toast |
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| cronk | (verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: croak |
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| (verb) cry like a goose | Synonyms: honk |
| croon | (verb) sing softly | - |
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| crown | (verb) be the culminating event | Synonyms: top |
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| (verb) put an enamel cover on | - |
| (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: coronate |
| (verb) form the topmost part of | - |
| crunch | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| curtain | (verb) provide with drapery | - |
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| cushion | (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
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| cutinize | (verb) convert into cutin | - |
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| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| damascene | (verb) inlay metal with gold and silver | - |
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| damn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, imprecate, maledict |
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| dampen | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken |
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| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: moisten, wash |
| (verb) check; keep in check (a fire) | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, deaden |
| (verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) | - |
| (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: stifle |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
| dance | (verb) move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance | Synonyms: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe |
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| (verb) move in a graceful and rhythmical way | - |
| (verb) skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways | - |
| dandify | (verb) dress like a dandy | - |
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| dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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| (verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
| dangle | (verb) cause to dangle or hang freely | - |
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| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: drop, swing |
| darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
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| (verb) make dark or darker | - |
| (verb) tarnish or stain | - |
| darn | (verb) repair by sewing | - |
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| dateline | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, datemark |
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| daunt | (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
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| dawn | (verb) become light | - |
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| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
| (verb) appear or develop | - |
| deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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| deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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| (verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
| (verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
| (verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
| (verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
| (verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
| deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
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| (verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
| (verb) be unbearably loud | - |
| deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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| deaminize | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminate |
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| debone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: bone |
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| debunk | (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: expose |
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| decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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| decant | (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: pour, pour out |
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| decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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| decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarbonize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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| decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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| decentralize | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, deconcentrate |
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| dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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| decline | (verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: go down, wane |
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| (verb) grow worse | Synonyms: worsen |
| (verb) show unwillingness towards | Synonyms: refuse |
| (verb) inflect for number, gender, case, etc. | - |
| (verb) go down | - |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: correct, slump |
| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: pass up, refuse, reject, turn down |
| decolonise | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonize |
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| decolonize | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonise |
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| decommission | (verb) withdraw from active service | - |
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| deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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| deconsecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: desecrate, unhallow |
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| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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| decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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| decontrol | (verb) relax or remove controls of | - |
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| decrescendo | (verb) grow quieter | - |
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| decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| deepen | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: intensify |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) make deeper | - |
| defang | (verb) remove the fangs from | - |
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| defeminise | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminize |
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| defeminize | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminise |
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| defend | (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: fend for, support |
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| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) be on the defensive; act against an attack | - |
| (verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: guard, hold |
| (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: champion |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: fight, fight back, fight down, oppose |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: represent |
| defenestrate | (verb) throw through or out of the window | - |
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| defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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| define | (verb) give a definition for the meaning of a word | - |
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| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: determine, fix, limit, set, specify |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify |
| (verb) determine the nature of | - |
| (verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: delineate |
| degenerate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop |
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| dehorn | (verb) take the horns off (an animal) | - |
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| (verb) prevent the growth of horns of certain animals | - |
| dehumanise | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanize |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanize |
| dehumanize | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanise |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanise |
| dehydrogenate | (verb) remove hydrogen from | - |
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| deign | (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, descend |
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| deionize | (verb) deprive of ions | - |
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| delineate | (verb) describe in vivid detail | - |
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| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: describe, draw, line, trace |
| (verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: limn, outline |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, specify |
| (verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: define |
| demagnetise | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetize |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetize |
| demagnetize | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: degauss, demagnetise |
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| (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device) | Synonyms: demagnetise |