| backstroke | (verb) swim on one's back | - |
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| betoken | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, indicate, point, signal |
| book | (verb) engage for a performance | - |
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| (verb) record a charge in a police register | - |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: hold, reserve |
| (verb) register in a hotel booker | - |
| breaststroke | (verb) swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg | - |
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| broker | (verb) act as a broker | - |
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| brook | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| choke | (verb) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion | - |
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| (verb) cause to retch or choke | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate |
| (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: strangle |
| (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: throttle |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: fret, gag |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: scrag |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate |
| (verb) check or slow down the action or effect of | - |
| (verb) fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation | - |
| coke | (verb) become coke | - |
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| convoke | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convene |
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| cook | (verb) transform and make suitable for consumption by heating | - |
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| (verb) transform by heating | - |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready |
| (verb) prepare a hot meal | - |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| crook | (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: curve |
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| decoke | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize |
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| evoke | (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: paint a picture, suggest |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, kick up, provoke |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, extract |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| grok | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, savvy |
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| hook | (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, solicit |
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| (verb) entice and trap | Synonyms: snare |
| (verb) secure with the foot | - |
| (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: addict |
| (verb) fasten with a hook | - |
| (verb) catch with a hook | - |
| (verb) hit with a hook | - |
| (verb) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left | - |
| (verb) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crochet |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, knock off, snitch, thieve |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| invoke | (verb) cite as an authority; resort to | Synonyms: appeal |
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| (verb) request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection | Synonyms: appeal |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| joke | (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: jest |
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| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: jest |
| look | (verb) to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group | - |
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| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, wait |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) convey by one's expression | - |
| (verb) perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; look | - |
| (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: appear, seem |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: search |
| (verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: attend, see, take care |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, front |
| (verb) accord in appearance with | - |
| okay | (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: approve, O.K., sanction |
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| overcook | (verb) cook too long | - |
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| overlook | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, pretermit |
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| (verb) watch over | - |
| (verb) look past, fail to notice | - |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, dominate, overtop |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction | Synonyms: look across, look out on, look out over |
| poke | (verb) make a hole by poking | - |
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| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, prod, stab |
| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) stir by poking | - |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, nose, pry |
| precook | (verb) cook beforehand so that the actual preparation won't take long | - |
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| provoke | (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, evoke, kick up |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, raise |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague |
| revoke | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, vacate |
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| (verb) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so | - |
| rook | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| smoke | (verb) inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes | - |
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| (verb) emit a cloud of fine particles | Synonyms: fume |
| snooker | (verb) leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot | - |
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| (verb) fool or dupe | - |
| spook | (verb) frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action | - |
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| stoke | (verb) stir up or tend; of a fire | - |
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| stroke | (verb) treat gingerly or carefully | - |
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| (verb) strike a ball with a smooth blow | - |
| (verb) row at a particular rate | - |
| (verb) touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions | - |
| unhook | (verb) take off a hook | - |
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| unyoke | (verb) remove the yoke from | - |
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| yoke | (verb) put a yoke on or join with a yoke | - |
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| (verb) link with or as with a yoke | Synonyms: link |
| (verb) become joined or linked together | - |