| dishearten | (verb) take away the enthusiasm of | Synonyms: put off |
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| dishonor | (verb) refuse to accept | Synonyms: dishonour |
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| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonour, shame |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| dishonour | (verb) refuse to accept | Synonyms: dishonor |
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| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, shame |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| disillusion | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disenchant |
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| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| disincline | (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: indispose |
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| disinfect | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing | - |
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| disinfest | (verb) rid of vermin | - |
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| disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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| disintegrate | (verb) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity | - |
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| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, decompose |
| (verb) cause to undergo fission or lose particles | - |
| disinter | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | Synonyms: exhume |
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| disinvest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: divest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: divest |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: divest |
| disinvolve | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disentangle |
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| disjoin | (verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint | Synonyms: disjoint |
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| (verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of | Synonyms: disjoint |
| disjoint | (verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint | Synonyms: disjoin |
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| (verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of | Synonyms: disjoin |
| (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disarticulate |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
| dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| dismount | (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: get down, get off, light, unhorse |
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| disorganise | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganize |
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| disorganize | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganise |
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| disorient | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorientate |
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| disorientate | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorient |
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| disown | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: renounce, repudiate |
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| (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disinherit |
| dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dissent | (verb) withhold assent | - |
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| (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, disagree, take issue |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: protest, resist |
| dissonate | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: disharmonize |
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| (verb) be dissonant or harsh | - |
| distance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip |
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| (verb) keep at a distance | - |
| distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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| (verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
| (verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
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| disunite | (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: divide, part, separate |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce |
| divine | (verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
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| (verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
| dizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: bedizen |
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| document | (verb) support or supply with references | - |
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| (verb) record in detail | - |
| dominate | (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: master |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: predominate, prevail, reign, rule |
| (verb) be in control | - |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, overlook, overtop |
| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow |
| domineer | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: tyrannise, tyrannize |
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| don | (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: assume, get into, put on, wear |
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| donate | (verb) give to a charity or good cause | - |
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| dong | (verb) go `ding dong', like a bell | Synonyms: ding, dingdong |
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| down | (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: fine-tune, polish, refine |
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| (verb) bring down or defeat (an opponent) | - |
| (verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, devour, go through |
| (verb) cause to come or go down | Synonyms: cut down, knock down, pull down, push down |
| (verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: land, shoot down |
| downgrade | (verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
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| download | (verb) transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location | - |
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| downplay | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: background, play down |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, minimize, understate |
| downsize | (verb) (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees | - |
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| (verb) design or manufacture in a smaller size | - |
| (verb) dismiss from work | - |
| dragoon | (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: railroad, sandbag |
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| (verb) subjugate by imposing troops | - |
| drain | (verb) empty of liquid; drain the liquid from | - |
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| (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, enfeeble |
| (verb) deplete of resources | - |
| (verb) flow off gradually | Synonyms: run out |
| drench | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: imbrue |
| (verb) force to drink | - |
| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: swamp |
| drink | (verb) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to | Synonyms: drink in |
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| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: imbibe |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: tope |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail |
| drone | (verb) talk in a monotonous voice | Synonyms: drone on |
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| (verb) make a monotonous low dull sound | - |
| drown | (verb) die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating | - |
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| (verb) kill by submerging in water | - |
| (verb) get rid of as if by submerging | - |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: overwhelm, submerge |
| (verb) be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: swim |
| dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| dun | (verb) make a dun color | - |
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| (verb) cure by salting | - |
| (verb) persistently ask for overdue payment | - |
| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, frustrate, rag, torment |
| dung | (verb) defecate; used of animals | - |
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| (verb) fertilize or dress with dung | - |
| dunk | (verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dip |
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| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, plunge, souse |
| (verb) make a dunk shot, in basketball | - |
| dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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| dynamise | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamize |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamize |
| dynamite | (verb) blow up with dynamite | - |
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| dynamize | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamise |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamise |
| earn | (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
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| (verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: garner, win |
| ebonise | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonize |
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| ebonize | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonise |
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| economise | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economize, husband |
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| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economize, save |
| economize | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, husband |
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| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, save |
| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| elongate | (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
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| emanate | (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: exhale, give forth |
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| (verb) proceed or issue forth, as from a source | - |
| emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
| embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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| emblazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: blazon |
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| (verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, colour |
| embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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| (verb) cause to darken | - |
| emend | (verb) make improvements or corrections to | - |
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| empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
| emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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| enable | (verb) render capable or able for some task | - |
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| enact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, reenact |
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| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: ordain |
| enamel | (verb) coat, inlay, or surface with enamel | - |
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| enamor | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| enamour | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| encamp | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, tent |
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| encapsulate | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container | - |
| encase | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: case, incase |
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| enchain | (verb) restrain or bind with chains | - |
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| enchant | (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
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| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| encipher | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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| encircle | (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: gird |
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| (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: circle |
| enclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, inclose, shut in |
| (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
| (verb) close in | Synonyms: confine, hold in |
| enclothe | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| encode | (verb) convert information into code | - |
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| encompass | (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, embrace |
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| encore | (verb) request an encore, from a performer | - |
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| encounter | (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: meet, play, take on |
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| (verb) come together | Synonyms: come across, meet, run across, run into, see |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, find, happen |
| (verb) be beset by | Synonyms: run into |
| (verb) experience as a reaction | Synonyms: meet, receive |
| encourage | (verb) spur on | - |
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| (verb) inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to | - |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, further, promote |
| encrimson | (verb) make crimson | - |
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| encroach | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: impinge, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: entrench, impinge, trench |