| balloon | (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: billow, inflate |
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| (verb) ride in a hot-air balloon | - |
| ballyhoo | (verb) advertize noisily or blatantly | - |
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| bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| befool | (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
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| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: fool, gull |
| behoove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behove |
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| blood | (verb) smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill | - |
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| bloody | (verb) cover with blood | - |
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| bloom | (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: blossom, flower |
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| bombproof | (verb) make safe against bombings | - |
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| boo | (verb) show displeasure, as after a performance or speech | Synonyms: hiss |
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| boob | (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: blunder, drop the ball, goof, sin |
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| boogie | (verb) dance to boogie music | - |
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| 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 | - |
| boom | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: expand, flourish, thrive |
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| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, nail, smash |
| (verb) make a resonant sound, like artillery | Synonyms: din |
| (verb) make a deep hollow sound | Synonyms: boom out |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: thunder |
| boomerang | (verb) return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang | - |
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| boondoggle | (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
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| boost | (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: advance, supercharge |
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| (verb) give a boost to; be beneficial to | - |
| (verb) push or shove upward, as if from below or behind | - |
| (verb) increase | Synonyms: hike, hike up |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, encourage, further, promote |
| boot | (verb) cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes | Synonyms: bring up, reboot |
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| (verb) kick; give a boot to | - |
| bootleg | (verb) produce or distribute illegally | - |
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| (verb) sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol | - |
| bootlick | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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| bootstrap | (verb) help oneself, often through improvised means | - |
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| booze | (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: drink, fuddle, hit the bottle |
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| brooch | (verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: clasp |
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| brood | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: cover, hatch, incubate |
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| (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: dwell |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: grizzle, stew |
| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: pout, sulk |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: bulk large, hover, loom |
| 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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| broom | (verb) sweep with a broom or as if with a broom | Synonyms: sweep |
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| (verb) finish with a broom | - |
| bulletproof | (verb) make bulletproof | - |
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| canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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| cartoon | (verb) draw cartoons of | - |
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| childproof | (verb) make safe against children | Synonyms: child-proof |
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| choose | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: pick out, select, take |
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| (verb) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: opt, prefer |
| cocoon | (verb) wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection | - |
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| (verb) retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment | - |
| coo | (verb) cry softly, as of pigeons | - |
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| (verb) speak softly or lovingly | - |
| cooccur | (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, coincide |
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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 |
| cool | (verb) loose heat | Synonyms: chill, cool down |
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| (verb) make cool or cooler | Synonyms: chill, cool down |
| (verb) lose intensity | Synonyms: cool down, cool off |
| cooper | (verb) make barrels and casks | - |
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| cooperate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: collaborate, join forces |
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| coordinate | (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: organise, organize |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, ordinate |
| (verb) bring into common action, movement, or condition | - |
| (verb) be co-ordinated | - |
| crook | (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: curve |
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| croon | (verb) sing softly | - |
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| cuckoo | (verb) repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call | - |
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| doodle | (verb) make a doodle; draw aimlessly | - |
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| doom | (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: condemn, sentence |
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| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, destine, fate |
| (verb) make certain of the failure or destruction of | - |
| dragoon | (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: railroad, sandbag |
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| (verb) subjugate by imposing troops | - |
| drool | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slabber, slaver, slobber |
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| (verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something | Synonyms: salivate |
| droop | (verb) become limp | Synonyms: wilt |
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| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: flag, sag, swag |
| (verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: loll |
| festoon | (verb) decorate with strings of flowers | - |
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| fireproof | (verb) make resistant to fire | - |
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| flood | (verb) cover with liquid, usually water | - |
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| (verb) become filled to overflowing | - |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp |
| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: glut, oversupply |
| floodlight | (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
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| floor | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, deck, dump, knock down |
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| (verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off | Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, shock, take aback |
| fool | (verb) indulge in horseplay | Synonyms: arse around, fool around, horse around |
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| (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
| (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
| (verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, gull |
| foolproof | (verb) proof against human misuse or error | Synonyms: goof-proof, goofproof |
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| foot | (verb) add a column of numbers | Synonyms: foot up |
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| (verb) walk | Synonyms: hoof, hoof it, leg it |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: pick |
| footle | (verb) act foolishly, as by talking nonsense | - |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| footnote | (verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: annotate |
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| footslog | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge |
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| foredoom | (verb) doom beforehand | - |
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| goof | (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: blunder, boob, drop the ball, sin |
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| goofproof | (verb) proof against human misuse or error | Synonyms: foolproof, goof-proof |
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| google | (verb) search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine | - |
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| goose | (verb) pinch in the buttocks | - |
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| (verb) give a spurt of fuel to | - |
| (verb) prod into action | - |
| groom | (verb) care for one's external appearance | Synonyms: neaten |
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| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: curry, dress |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: prepare, train |
| groove | (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, rut |
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| (verb) make a groove in, or provide with a groove | - |
| halloo | (verb) shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention | - |
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| (verb) urge on with shouts | - |
| harpoon | (verb) spear with a harpoon | - |
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| honeymoon | (verb) spend a holiday after one's marriage | - |
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| hood | (verb) cover with a hood | - |
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| hoodoo | (verb) bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune | - |
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| hoodwink | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, juggle |
| hoof | (verb) dance in a professional capacity | - |
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| (verb) walk | Synonyms: foot, hoof it, leg it |
| 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 |
| hoop | (verb) bind or fasten with a hoop | - |
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| hoot | (verb) to utter a loud clamorous shout | - |
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| (verb) utter the characteristic sound of owls | - |
| hoover | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: vacuum-clean, vacuum |
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| hotfoot | (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
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| lampoon | (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: satirise, satirize |
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| 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 | - |
| loom | (verb) weave on a loom | - |
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| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, predominate, tower |
| (verb) come into view indistinctly, often threateningly | - |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, hover |
| loop | (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, curl |
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| (verb) fasten or join with a loop | - |
| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: intertwine |
| (verb) fly loops, perform a loop | - |
| (verb) move in loops | - |
| loose | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loosen, relax |
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| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) turn loose or free from restraint | Synonyms: let loose, unleash |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen |
| loosen | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, relax |
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| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loose |
| (verb) make less dense | - |
| (verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: tease, tease apart |
| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: undo, untie |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| loot | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
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| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plunder |
| maroon | (verb) leave stranded on a desert island without resources | - |
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| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: strand |
| moo | (verb) make a low noise, characteristic of bovines | Synonyms: low |
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| mooch | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, sponge |
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| moon | (verb) expose one's buttocks to | - |
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| (verb) be idle in a listless or dreamy way | Synonyms: moon around, moon on |
| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: daydream |
| moonlight | (verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
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| moonshine | (verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
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| moor | (verb) secure with cables or ropes | - |
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| (verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: berth, tie up |
| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, wharf |
| moot | (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, deliberate, turn over |
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| mothproof | (verb) protect from moths | - |
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| mushroom | (verb) grow and spread fast | - |
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| (verb) pick or gather mushrooms | - |
| noose | (verb) secure with a noose | - |
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| (verb) make a noose in or of | - |
| ooh | (verb) express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah' | Synonyms: aah |
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| ooze | (verb) release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: exudate, exude, ooze out, transude |
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| (verb) pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings | Synonyms: seep |
| 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 |
| overshoot | (verb) aim too high | - |
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| (verb) shoot beyond or over (a target) | - |