| condense | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, digest |
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| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: distil, distill |
| (verb) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid | - |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, contract |
| (verb) remove water from | - |
| (verb) become more compact or concentrated | - |
| (verb) develop due to condensation | - |
| condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
| (verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
| (verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
| condition | (verb) apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny | - |
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| (verb) put into a better state | - |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: qualify, specify, stipulate |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, discipline, train |
| (verb) establish a conditioned response | - |
| condole | (verb) express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death | - |
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| condone | (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: excuse |
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| conduce | (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: contribute, lead |
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| conduct | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, deport, do |
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| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: direct, lead |
| (verb) lead musicians in the performance of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, convey, impart, transmit |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: direct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, deal |
| cone | (verb) make cone-shaped | - |
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| confab | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confabulate, confer, consult |
| confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
| (verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
| confect | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confection |
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| (verb) make or construct | - |
| confection | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confect |
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| confederate | (verb) form a group or unite | Synonyms: band together |
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| (verb) form a confederation with; of nations | - |
| confer | (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confabulate, consult |
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| (verb) present | Synonyms: bestow |
| confess | (verb) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure | Synonyms: fink, squeal |
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| (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: concede, profess |
| (verb) confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith | - |
| confide | (verb) reveal in private; tell confidentially | - |
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| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, entrust, intrust, trust |
| configure | (verb) set up for a particular purpose | - |
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| confine | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: constrain, hold, restrain |
| (verb) prevent from leaving or from being removed | - |
| (verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: detain |
| (verb) close in | Synonyms: enclose, hold in |
| confirm | (verb) make more firm | - |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
| (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: reassert |
| (verb) administer the rite of confirmation to | - |
| (verb) support a person for a position | - |
| confiscate | (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, impound, seize, sequester |
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| conflagrate | (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, erupt, ignite, take fire |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: enkindle, inflame, kindle |
| conflate | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| conflict | (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: contravene, infringe, run afoul |
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| (verb) be in conflict | - |
| conform | (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adapt, adjust |
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| (verb) be similar, be in line with | - |
| confound | (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confuse |
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| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| confront | (verb) deal with (something unpleasant) head on | Synonyms: face, face up |
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| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: face, present |
| (verb) oppose, as in hostility or a competition | Synonyms: face |
| (verb) be face to face with | - |
| confuse | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, obnubilate, obscure |
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| (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confound |
| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: jumble, mix up |
| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: disconcert, flurry, put off |
| confute | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: disprove |
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| conga | (verb) dance the conga | - |
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| conge | (verb) perform a ceremonious bow | Synonyms: congee |
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| congeal | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: jell, set |
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| congee | (verb) perform a ceremonious bow | Synonyms: conge |
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| (verb) depart after obtaining formal permission | - |
| congest | (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, crap up, foul |
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| conglobate | (verb) assume a globular shape | Synonyms: conglobe |
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| conglobe | (verb) assume a globular shape | Synonyms: conglobate |
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| conglomerate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
| congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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| (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
| congregate | (verb) come together, usually for a purpose | - |
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| conjecture | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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| conjoin | (verb) make contact or come together | Synonyms: join |
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| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| conjugate | (verb) unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds | - |
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| (verb) undergo conjugation | - |
| (verb) add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc. | - |
| conjure | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conspire, machinate |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, entreat, press |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| conk | (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: faint, pass out, swoon |
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| (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, choke, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) hit, especially on the head | - |
| (verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: stall |
| conn | (verb) conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane | - |
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| connect | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) join for the purpose of communication | - |
| (verb) join by means of communication equipment | - |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: link, link up, tie |
| (verb) land on or hit solidly | - |
| (verb) plug into an outlet | Synonyms: plug in, plug into |
| (verb) hit or play a ball successfully | - |
| (verb) establish communication with someone | Synonyms: get in touch, touch base |
| (verb) establish a rapport or relationship | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite |
| (verb) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation | - |
| connive | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: intrigue, scheme |
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| (verb) encourage or assent to illegally or criminally | - |
| connote | (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: predicate |
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| (verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: imply |
| conquer | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: stamp down, subdue, suppress |
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| (verb) overcome by conquest | - |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, seize |
| conscript | (verb) enroll into service compulsorily | - |
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| consecrate | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify |
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| (verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: vow |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate |
| consent | (verb) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to | Synonyms: accept, go for |
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| conserve | (verb) preserve with sugar | - |
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| (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: economise, economize, husband |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve |
| (verb) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change | - |
| consider | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: reckon, regard, see, view |
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| (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: deal, look at, take |
| (verb) regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem | - |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, conceive, think |
| (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: count, weigh |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: debate, deliberate, moot, turn over |
| (verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: study |
| (verb) look at attentively | Synonyms: regard |
| (verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: look at, view |
| consign | (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: charge |
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| (verb) commit forever; commit irrevocably | - |
| (verb) send to an address | - |
| consist | (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: dwell, lie, lie in |
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| (verb) be composed of | Synonyms: comprise |
| (verb) be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous | - |
| (verb) have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in | - |
| consociate | (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: associate |
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| console | (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, solace, soothe |
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| consolidate | (verb) unite into one | - |
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| (verb) bring together into a single whole or system | - |
| (verb) make firm or secure; strengthen | - |
| (verb) make or form into a solid or hardened mass | - |
| (verb) form into a solid mass or whole | - |
| consonate | (verb) sound in sympathy | - |
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| consort | (verb) keep company | Synonyms: run |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, assort |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| conspire | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, machinate |
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| (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: collude |
| constellate | (verb) form a constellation or cluster | - |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, flock |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: dot, stud |
| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| constipate | (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: bind |
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| (verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog | Synonyms: clog |
| constitute | (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: establish, found, institute, plant |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, name, nominate |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, make up, represent |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: form, make |
| constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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| constitutionalize | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalise |
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| (verb) take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal | - |
| (verb) provide with a constitution, as of a country | - |
| constrain | (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: stiffen, tighten, tighten up |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, hold, restrain |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: enforce, impose |
| constrict | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constringe, narrow |
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| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, contract, press, squeeze |
| constringe | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, narrow |
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| construct | (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace |
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| (verb) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, make |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture |
| (verb) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts | - |
| (verb) create by linking linguistic units | - |
| construe | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: interpret, see |
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| consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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| (verb) unite in one common substance | - |
| consult | (verb) advise professionally | - |
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| (verb) seek information from | Synonyms: look up, refer |
| (verb) get or ask advice from | Synonyms: confer with |
| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confabulate, confer |
| consume | (verb) engage fully | - |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: have, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: squander, ware, waste |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: demolish, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | - |
| consummate | (verb) make perfect; bring to perfection | - |
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| (verb) fulfill sexually | - |
| contact | (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: get hold of, get through, reach |
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| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, meet, touch |
| contain | (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, check, hold back, stop, turn back |
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| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: comprise, incorporate |
| (verb) be divisible by | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, carry, hold |
| (verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: hold, take |
| containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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| containerize | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerise |
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| contaminate | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: foul, pollute |
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| (verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material | - |
| contemn | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: despise, disdain, scorn |
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| contemplate | (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: meditate, study |
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| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| (verb) consider as a possibility | - |
| (verb) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought | - |
| contemporise | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
| contemporize | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, synchronise, synchronize |
| contend | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contest, repugn |
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| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, debate, fence |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: postulate |
| (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, vie |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: fight, struggle |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| content | (verb) satisfy in a limited way | - |
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| (verb) make content | - |
| contest | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contend, repugn |
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| continue | (verb) exist over a prolonged period of time | - |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, go on, proceed |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: go forward, move ahead, proceed |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: keep, keep on, retain |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, preserve, uphold |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: go along, go on, keep, proceed |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: cover, extend |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay on |
| (verb) continue after an interruption | - |
| (verb) do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop | Synonyms: persist in |
| contort | (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: deform, distort, wring |
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| contour | (verb) form the contours of | - |
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| contract | (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: get, take |
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| (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: narrow |
| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
| (verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: undertake |
| (verb) make smaller | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze |
| (verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up |
| contradance | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
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| contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contrast | (verb) put in opposition to show or emphasize differences | - |
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| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: counterpoint |
| contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
| contredanse | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
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