funnel | (verb) move or pour through a funnel | - |
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gangrene | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: mortify, necrose, sphacelate |
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garner | (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, gather, pull together |
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(verb) store grain | - |
(verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: earn, win |
general | (verb) command as a general | - |
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generalise | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalize |
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(verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalize |
(verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer |
(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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(verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
(verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
generate | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, get, mother, sire |
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(verb) produce, create | Synonyms: bring forth |
(verb) produce (energy) | - |
(verb) give or supply | Synonyms: give, render, return, yield |
guillotine | (verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine | - |
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harness | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: rein, rule |
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(verb) exploit the power of | - |
(verb) put a harness | Synonyms: tackle |
(verb) control and direct with or as if by reins | Synonyms: draw rein, rein, rein in |
headline | (verb) publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline | - |
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(verb) provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline | - |
heterodyne | (verb) combine (a radio frequency wave) with a locally generated wave of a different frequency so as to produce a new frequency equal to the sum or the difference between the two | - |
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holystone | (verb) scrub with a holystone | - |
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hone | (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: perfect |
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(verb) sharpen with a hone | - |
honey | (verb) sweeten with honey | - |
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honeycomb | (verb) make full of cavities, like a honeycomb | - |
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(verb) penetrate thoroughly and into every part | - |
(verb) carve a honeycomb pattern into | - |
honeymoon | (verb) spend a holiday after one's marriage | - |
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hydroplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: seaplane |
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illumine | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, light, light up |
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imagine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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(verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, ideate |
impanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, panel |
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(verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: empanel |
importune | (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: insist |
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incarnadine | (verb) make flesh-colored | - |
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incinerate | (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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(verb) become reduced to ashes | - |
incline | (verb) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief | Synonyms: dispose |
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(verb) feel favorably disposed or willing | - |
(verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: pitch, slope |
(verb) lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow | - |
(verb) bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well | - |
(verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, lean, run, tend |
inebriate | (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, soak, souse |
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(verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: intoxicate, soak |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink |
innervate | (verb) stimulate to action | - |
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(verb) supply nerves to (some organ or body part) | - |
interconnect | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interlink |
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(verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interlink |
interpenetrate | (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: permeate |
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(verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
intertwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, lace, twine |
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(verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: loop |
(verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: tat |
intervene | (verb) occur between other event or between certain points of time | - |
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(verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, interpose, step in |
(verb) be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events | - |
intone | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, chant, intonate |
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(verb) speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone | Synonyms: intonate |
(verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: chant, tone |
itinerate | (verb) travel from place to place, as for work | - |
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jawbone | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
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journey | (verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: travel |
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(verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: travel |
julienne | (verb) cut into long thin strips | - |
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kennel | (verb) put up in a kennel | - |
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knead | (verb) to mix into a homogeneous mass | Synonyms: work |
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(verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: massage, rub down |
kneecap | (verb) shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning | - |
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kneel | (verb) rest one's weight on one's knees | - |
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knell | (verb) ring as in announcing death | - |
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(verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification | Synonyms: ring |
line | (verb) fill plentifully | - |
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(verb) reinforce with fabric | - |
(verb) cover the interior of | - |
(verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, trace |
(verb) mark with lines | - |
(verb) be in line with; form a line along | Synonyms: run along |
linearise | (verb) make linear or get into a linear form | Synonyms: linearize |
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linearize | (verb) make linear or get into a linear form | Synonyms: linearise |
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luminesce | (verb) be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence | - |
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machine | (verb) make by machinery | - |
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(verb) turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery | - |
magnetise | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetize |
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(verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
magnetize | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetise |
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(verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
mainline | (verb) inject into the vein | - |
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maneuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre, operate |
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(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
(verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre |
medicine | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicate |
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mine | (verb) lay mines | - |
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(verb) get from the earth by excavation | - |
mineralize | (verb) transform (a metal) into an ore | - |
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(verb) convert into a mineral substance | - |
monetise | (verb) give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetize |
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monetize | (verb) give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: monetise |
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moonshine | (verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
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mountaineer | (verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
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near | (verb) move towards | Synonyms: approach, come near, come on, draw close, draw near, go up |
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neaten | (verb) care for one's external appearance | Synonyms: groom |
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(verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
necessitate | (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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(verb) cause to be a concomitant | - |
neck | (verb) kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion | Synonyms: make out |
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necrose | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, sphacelate |
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need | (verb) have need of | Synonyms: require, want |
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(verb) have or feel a need for | - |
(verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take |
needle | (verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: goad |
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(verb) prick with a needle | - |
negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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(verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
(verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
negative | (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, veto |
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neglect | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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(verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
(verb) fail to attend to | - |
(verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
negociate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negotiate, talk terms |
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(verb) confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement | - |
(verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negotiate |
(verb) transfer by endorsement to another in return for value received | - |
(verb) sell or discount | - |
(verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, manage, pull off |
negotiate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negociate, talk terms |
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(verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negociate |
neigh | (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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neighbor | (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbour |
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(verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbour |
neighbour | (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbor |
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(verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbor |
nerve | (verb) get ready for something difficult or unpleasant | Synonyms: steel |
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nest | (verb) fit together or fit inside | - |
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(verb) gather nests | - |
(verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
(verb) inhabit a nest, usually after building | - |
nestle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nuzzle, snuggle |
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(verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: snuggle |
(verb) lie in a sheltered position | - |
net | (verb) catch with a net | Synonyms: nett |
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(verb) construct or form a web, as if by weaving | Synonyms: web |
(verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: clear, sack, sack up |
(verb) yield as a net profit | Synonyms: clear |
netmail | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, email |
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nett | (verb) catch with a net | Synonyms: net |
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nettle | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, rag, rile, vex |
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(verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: urticate |
network | (verb) communicate with and within a group | - |
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neuter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, castrate, spay |
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neutralise | (verb) make chemically neutral | Synonyms: neutralize |
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(verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralize, nullify |
(verb) make incapable of military action | Synonyms: neutralize |
(verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralize, waste |
neutralize | (verb) make chemically neutral | Synonyms: neutralise |
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(verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralise, nullify |
(verb) make incapable of military action | Synonyms: neutralise |
(verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, waste |
(verb) make politically neutral and thus inoffensive | - |
(verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, countervail |
opine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, reckon, suppose, think |
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(verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: animadvert, sound off, speak out, speak up |
outgeneral | (verb) surpass in generalship | - |
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outline | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: adumbrate, sketch |
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(verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: delineate, limn |
(verb) draw up an outline or sketch for something | Synonyms: draft |
outmaneuver | (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmanoeuvre, outsmart |
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outshine | (verb) attract more attention and praise than others | - |
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(verb) shine brighter than | - |
overgeneralise | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralize |
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overgeneralize | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralise |
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overrefine | (verb) refine too much or with excess of subtlety | Synonyms: over-refine |
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panel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, impanel |
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(verb) decorate with panels | - |
partner | (verb) provide with a partner | - |
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(verb) act as a partner | - |
penetrate | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, fathom |
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(verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, sink in |
(verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: perforate |
(verb) insert the penis into the vagina or anus of | - |
(verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
(verb) make one's way deeper into or through | - |
(verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: infiltrate |
phone | (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, ring, telephone |
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pine | (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, yearn, yen |
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pioneer | (verb) open up and explore a new area | - |
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(verb) open up an area or prepare a way | Synonyms: open up |
(verb) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of | Synonyms: initiate |
plane | (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: shave |
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(verb) make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane | - |
(verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: skim |
postpone | (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
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predestine | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, preordain |
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(verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestinate |
(verb) decree or determine beforehand | - |
predetermine | (verb) determine beforehand | - |
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(verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: bias |