| adopt | (verb) take into one's family | Synonyms: take in |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: embrace, espouse, sweep up |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatise, dramatize |
| (verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: borrow, take over, take up |
| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: espouse, follow |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: assume, take on, take over |
| anthropomorphise | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphize |
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| anthropomorphize | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphise |
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| apostrophise | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophize |
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| apostrophize | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophise |
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| appropriate | (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, earmark, reserve, set aside |
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| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: capture, conquer, seize |
| atrophy | (verb) undergo atrophy | - |
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| autopsy | (verb) perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem | - |
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| backstop | (verb) act as a backstop | - |
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| bebop | (verb) dance the bebop | Synonyms: bop |
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| bedhop | (verb) be sexually active with more than one partner | Synonyms: bed-hop, sleep around |
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| blacktop | (verb) coat with blacktop | - |
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| bop | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, sock, whap, whop |
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| (verb) dance the bebop | Synonyms: bebop |
| canopy | (verb) cover with a canopy | - |
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| chop | (verb) hit sharply | - |
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| (verb) cut with a hacking tool | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) cut into pieces with repeated blows | Synonyms: chop up |
| (verb) strike sharply, as in some sports | - |
| (verb) form or shape by chopping | - |
| (verb) move suddenly | - |
| clop | (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clump, clunk, plunk |
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| 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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| cop | (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, nab, nail, pick up |
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| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: glom, hook, knock off, snitch, thieve |
| cope | (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
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| copolymerise | (verb) polymerize together | Synonyms: copolymerize |
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| copolymerize | (verb) polymerize together | Synonyms: copolymerise |
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| copper | (verb) coat with a layer of copper | - |
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| copulate | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair |
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| copy | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: imitate, simulate |
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| (verb) make a replica of | Synonyms: re-create, recreate |
| (verb) reproduce or make an exact copy of | Synonyms: replicate |
| (verb) copy down as is | - |
| copyedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyread, subedit |
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| copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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| copyright | (verb) secure a copyright on a written work | - |
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| crop | (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
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| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, graze, pasture, range |
| (verb) cut short | - |
| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: graze, pasture |
| (verb) yield crops | - |
| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: cultivate, work |
| depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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| develop | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | - |
| (verb) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | Synonyms: make grow |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, recrudesce |
| (verb) change the use of and make available or usable | Synonyms: build up |
| (verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | - |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, evolve |
| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
| (verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) expand in the form of a series | - |
| (verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | - |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
| (verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position | - |
| (verb) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | - |
| (verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: evolve, germinate |
| (verb) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | - |
| (verb) generate gradually | - |
| (verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions | - |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| dope | (verb) give a narcotic to | Synonyms: dope up |
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| (verb) add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties | - |
| (verb) take drugs to improve one's athletic performance | - |
| 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 |
| drop | (verb) give birth; used for animals | - |
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| (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve |
| (verb) go down in value | - |
| (verb) stop pursuing or acting | Synonyms: knock off |
| (verb) change from one level to another | - |
| (verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: flatten |
| (verb) fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death | - |
| (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
| (verb) omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing | - |
| (verb) utter with seeming casualness | - |
| (verb) lose (a game) | - |
| (verb) take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, fell, strike down |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
| (verb) to fall vertically | - |
| (verb) let fall to the ground | - |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop down, sink |
| (verb) pay out | Synonyms: expend, spend |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: dismiss, send away, send packing |
| (verb) terminate an association with | - |
| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, swing |
| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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| dropkick | (verb) make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick | Synonyms: drop-kick |
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| (verb) drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
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| elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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| envelop | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap |
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| escallop | (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: scallop |
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| expropriate | (verb) deprive of possessions | - |
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| flop | (verb) fall suddenly and abruptly | - |
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| (verb) fall loosely | - |
| (verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, founder |
| gallop | (verb) ride at a galloping pace | - |
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| (verb) go at galloping speed | - |
| (verb) cause to move at full gallop | Synonyms: extend |
| grope | (verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
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| (verb) fondle for sexual pleasure | - |
| (verb) search blindly or uncertainly | - |
| hedgehop | (verb) fly very close to the ground | Synonyms: flat-hat |
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| hoop | (verb) bind or fasten with a hoop | - |
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| hop | (verb) jump lightly | Synonyms: hop-skip, skip |
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| (verb) make a jump forward or upward | - |
| (verb) jump across | - |
| (verb) traverse as if by a short airplane trip | - |
| (verb) move quickly from one place to another | - |
| (verb) travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc. | - |
| hope | (verb) intend with some possibility of fulfilment | Synonyms: go for |
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| (verb) be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes | - |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: desire, trust |
| hopple | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hobble |
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| hydroplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: seaplane |
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| hypertrophy | (verb) undergo hypertrophy | - |
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| hypophysectomise | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomize |
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| hypophysectomize | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomise |
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| interlope | (verb) encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license | - |
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| jeopardise | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| jeopardize | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, stake, venture |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, menace, peril, threaten |
| lollop | (verb) walk clumsily and with a bounce | - |
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| 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 | - |
| lop | (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, prune, snip, trim |
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| (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, sever |
| lope | (verb) run easily | - |
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| lyophilise | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilize |
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| lyophilize | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilise |
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| microcopy | (verb) photocopy printed or other graphic matter so that it is reduced in size | - |
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| misappropriate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate |
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| monopolise | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolize |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolize |
| monopolize | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolise |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolise |
| mop | (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mow, pout |
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| (verb) to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop | Synonyms: mop up, wipe up |
| mope | (verb) be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed | Synonyms: moon about, moon around |
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| (verb) move around slowly and aimlessly | Synonyms: mope around |
| namedrop | (verb) refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them | - |
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| opacify | (verb) become opaque | - |
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| (verb) make opaque | - |
| opalesce | (verb) exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal | - |
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| (verb) reflect light or colors like an opal | - |
| opalise | (verb) replace or convert into opal | Synonyms: opalize |
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| (verb) make opalescent | Synonyms: opalize |
| opalize | (verb) replace or convert into opal | Synonyms: opalise |
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| (verb) make opalescent | Synonyms: opalise |
| open | (verb) make available | Synonyms: open up |
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| (verb) become available | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) make the opening move | - |
| (verb) cause to open or to become open | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) become open | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: spread, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer | - |
| (verb) afford access to | Synonyms: afford, give |
| (verb) start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc. | - |
| (verb) have an opening or passage or outlet | - |
| operate | (verb) perform surgery on | Synonyms: operate on |
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| (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| (verb) handle and cause to function | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, mesh |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, run, work |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: run |
| 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 |
| oppose | (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, controvert |
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| (verb) be against; express opposition to | - |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, pit, play off |
| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight, fight back, fight down |
| (verb) act against or in opposition to | Synonyms: react |
| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| oppress | (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, suppress |
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| (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: persecute |
| oppugn | (verb) challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of | Synonyms: call into question, question |
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| opsonize | (verb) make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes | - |
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| opt | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, prefer |
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| optimise | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimize |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimize |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimize |
| optimize | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimise |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimise |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimise |
| outcrop | (verb) appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground | - |
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| overcrop | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcultivate |
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| overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
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| overtop | (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, dominate, overlook |
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| people | (verb) fill with people | - |
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| (verb) furnish with people | - |
| philosophise | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophize |
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| philosophize | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophise |
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| photocopy | (verb) reproduce by xerography | Synonyms: run off, xerox |
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| photoshop | (verb) To digitally alter a photo | - |
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| plop | (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
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| (verb) drop with the sound of something falling into water | - |
| (verb) drop something with a plopping sound | - |
| pop | (verb) burst open with a sharp, explosive sound | - |
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| (verb) cause to burst with a loud, explosive sound | - |
| (verb) fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise | - |
| (verb) take drugs, especially orally | - |
| (verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, kill, pour down, toss off |
| (verb) hit a pop-fly | - |
| (verb) put or thrust suddenly and forcefully | - |
| (verb) hit or strike | - |
| (verb) release suddenly | - |
| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop out, protrude, start |
| (verb) make a sharp explosive noise | - |
| (verb) appear suddenly or unexpectedly; happen unexpectedly | Synonyms: burst out, crop up, pop out, pop up |
| (verb) cause to make a sharp explosive sound | - |
| popularise | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularize |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| populate | (verb) fill with inhabitants | - |
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| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, live |
| prop | (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop up, shore, shore up |
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| propagandise | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |