| fundraise | (verb) raise money for a cause or project | Synonyms: fund-raise, fund raise |
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| garland | (verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
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| gerrymander | (verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | - |
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| gormandise | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| grandstand | (verb) perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause | - |
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| grind | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash |
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| (verb) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together | Synonyms: grate |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch |
| (verb) shape or form by grinding | - |
| (verb) created by grinding | - |
| (verb) dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced | - |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| ground | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, found |
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| (verb) instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject | - |
| (verb) place or put on the ground | - |
| (verb) confine or restrict to the ground | - |
| (verb) connect to a ground | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: prime, undercoat |
| (verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: anchor |
| (verb) (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field. | - |
| (verb) throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage | - |
| (verb) hit or reach the ground | Synonyms: run aground |
| (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: run aground, strand |
| hand | (verb) guide or conduct or usher somewhere | - |
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| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
| handbuild | (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: coil, hand-build |
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| handcolor | (verb) color by hand | Synonyms: handcolour |
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| handcolour | (verb) color by hand | Synonyms: handcolor |
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| handcraft | (verb) make something by hand | - |
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| handcuff | (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, manacle |
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| handicap | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate, invalid |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, hinder |
| (verb) attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant | - |
| handle | (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, plow, treat |
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| (verb) touch, lift, or hold with the hands | Synonyms: palm |
| (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: manage, wield |
| (verb) show and train | - |
| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, manage |
| (verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, treat |
| handstamp | (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: rubberstamp |
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| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| handwrite | (verb) write by hand | - |
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| hinder | (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, handicap |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: impede |
| hound | (verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hunt, trace |
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| husband | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, economize |
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| hyperextend | (verb) extend a joint beyond its normal range | - |
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| impend | (verb) be imminent or about to happen | - |
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| impound | (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: pound |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester |
| incandesce | (verb) become incandescent or glow with heat | - |
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| (verb) cause to become incandescent or glow | - |
| indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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| (verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
| indent | (verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indenture |
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| (verb) make a depression into | Synonyms: dent |
| (verb) cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication | - |
| (verb) notch the edge of or make jagged | - |
| (verb) set in from the margin | - |
| indenture | (verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indent |
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| index | (verb) adjust through indexation | - |
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| (verb) provide with an index | - |
| (verb) list in an index | - |
| indicate | (verb) to state or express briefly | - |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, point, signal |
| (verb) give evidence of | Synonyms: argue |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, point, show |
| (verb) suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine | - |
| indict | (verb) accuse formally of a crime | - |
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| indispose | (verb) cause to feel unwell | - |
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| (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: disqualify, unfit |
| (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: disincline |
| indite | (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, pen, write |
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| individualise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualize, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualize |
| individualize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualise |
| individuate | (verb) give individual shape or form to | - |
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| (verb) give individual character to | - |
| indoctrinate | (verb) teach doctrines to; teach uncritically | - |
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| indorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: endorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, endorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, endorse, second |
| induce | (verb) reason or establish by induction | - |
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| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, make, stimulate |
| (verb) cause to arise | Synonyms: bring on |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, rush, stimulate |
| (verb) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes | Synonyms: induct |
| induct | (verb) introduce or initiate | - |
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| (verb) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes | Synonyms: induce |
| (verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: invest, seat |
| (verb) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite | Synonyms: initiate |
| (verb) admit as a member | - |
| indue | (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, gift, invest |
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| indulge | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, pander |
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| (verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| (verb) give free rein to | - |
| indurate | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
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| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) become fixed or established | - |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: harden, inure |
| industrialise | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialize |
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| (verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialize |
| industrialize | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialise |
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| (verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialise |
| indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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| intend | (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: mean, think |
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| (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, destine, specify |
| (verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: mean |
| (verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: mean, signify, stand for |
| interdepend | (verb) be connected | Synonyms: hang together |
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| inundate | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, submerge |
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| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, swamp |
| jaundice | (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice | - |
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| (verb) distort adversely | - |
| kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: inflame |
| land | (verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: bring |
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| (verb) reach or come to rest | Synonyms: set down |
| (verb) cause to come to the ground | Synonyms: bring down, put down |
| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: set ashore, shore |
| (verb) bring ashore | - |
| (verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: down, shoot down |
| (verb) deliver (a blow) | - |
| landscape | (verb) do landscape gardening | - |
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| (verb) embellish with plants | - |
| launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
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| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
| lend | (verb) give temporarily; let have for a limited time | Synonyms: loan |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart |
| (verb) have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to | - |
| mandate | (verb) assign authority to | - |
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| (verb) make mandatory | - |
| (verb) assign under a mandate | - |
| manducate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, masticate |
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| manhandle | (verb) handle roughly | - |
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| mastermind | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| maunder | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: mumble, mussitate, mutter |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) wander aimlessly | - |
| meander | (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
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| 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 |
| merchandise | (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: trade |
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| mind | (verb) keep in mind | Synonyms: bear in mind |
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| (verb) be concerned with or about something or somebody | - |
| (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: beware |
| (verb) be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by | - |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, listen |
| (verb) be in charge of or deal with | Synonyms: take care |
| misapprehend | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| misconduct | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: mishandle, mismanage |
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| (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misdemean |
| 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 |
| misspend | (verb) spend (money or other resources) unwisely | - |
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| (verb) spend time badly or unwisely | - |
| misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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| mound | (verb) form into a rounded elevation | - |
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| obtund | (verb) reduce the edge or violence of | - |
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| offend | (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, spite, wound |
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| (verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: pique |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, transgress, violate |
| overextend | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overstrain |
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| overindulge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| overspend | (verb) spend at a high rate | - |
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| (verb) spend more than available of (a budget) | - |
| pander | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pimp, procure |
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| (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, indulge |
| panhandle | (verb) beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money | - |
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| philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
| plunder | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
| ponder | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| portend | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| pound | (verb) break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle | - |
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| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: poke, thump |
| (verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact | Synonyms: ram, ram down |
| (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: impound |
| (verb) shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits | Synonyms: pound up |
| (verb) partition off into compartments | Synonyms: pound off |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: beat, thump |
| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: lumber |
| precondition | (verb) put into the required condition beforehand | - |
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| prehend | (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, seize, take hold, take hold of |
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| preponderate | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, overbalance |
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| pretend | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
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| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make, make believe |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: profess |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, dissemble |
| (verb) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | - |
| propagandise | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
| propagandize | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandise |
| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| randomise | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomize |
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| randomize | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomise |
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| rebind | (verb) provide with a new binding | - |
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| rebound | (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| 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 |
| recondition | (verb) bring into an improved condition | - |
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| redound | (verb) contribute | - |
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| (verb) have an effect for good or ill | - |
| (verb) return or recoil | - |
| refund | (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, repay, return |
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| rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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| (verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |