| deodorize | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorise, deodourise |
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| deplore | (verb) express strong condemnation of | - |
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| (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, lament |
| deport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, do |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, extradite |
| desorb | (verb) go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed | - |
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| (verb) remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed | - |
| deteriorate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, devolve, drop |
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| (verb) become worse or disintegrate | - |
| disaccord | (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disagree, discord |
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| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| discolor | (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, colour, discolour |
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| (verb) lose color or turn colorless | - |
| (verb) cause to lose or change color | - |
| discolorise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorize, discolourise |
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| discolorize | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolourise |
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| discord | (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disaccord, disagree |
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| disfavor | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disadvantage, disfavour |
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| disforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disafforest |
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| disgorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: shed, spill |
| dishonor | (verb) refuse to accept | Synonyms: dishonour |
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| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonour, shame |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| disorder | (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disarray |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| disorganise | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganize |
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| disorganize | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganise |
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| disorient | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorientate |
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| disorientate | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorient |
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| disport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, divert |
| distort | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, strain |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: falsify, garble, warp |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, colour, tinge |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, wring |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: twine, twist |
| divorce | (verb) get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage | Synonyms: split up |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite |
| doctor | (verb) give medical treatment to | - |
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| (verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor up, sophisticate |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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| dulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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| editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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| edulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, sweeten |
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| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| elaborate | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine |
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| (verb) work out in detail | Synonyms: work out |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product | - |
| enamor | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| encore | (verb) request an encore, from a performer | - |
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| endeavor | (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavour, strive |
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| endorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: indorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, indorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, indorse, second |
| enforce | (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, implement |
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| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, impose |
| engorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| escort | (verb) accompany as an escort | - |
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| (verb) conduct someone someplace | Synonyms: see |
| evaporate | (verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | Synonyms: vaporise, vaporize |
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| (verb) change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) cause to change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, melt |
| excoriate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, objurgate, reprobate |
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| (verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: chafe |
| exhort | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: press, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| exorcise | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcize |
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| exorcize | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcise |
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| expectorate | (verb) discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth | Synonyms: cough out, cough up, spit out, spit up |
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| (verb) clear out the chest and lungs | Synonyms: clear out, drive out |
| explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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| (verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
| (verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
| (verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
| export | (verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
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| (verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
| extemporise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporize, improvise, improvize |
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| extemporize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, improvise, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: improvise |
| exteriorise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorize, externalise, externalize, objectify |
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| exteriorize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, externalise, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) bring outside the body for surgery, of organs | Synonyms: bring outside |
| extort | (verb) get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner | Synonyms: wring from |
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| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: gouge, rack, squeeze, wring |
| (verb) obtain through intimidation | - |
| factor | (verb) resolve into factors | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
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| (verb) consider as relevant when making a decision | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
| (verb) be a contributing factor | - |
| factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
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| factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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| favor | (verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favour |
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| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favour, prefer |
| (verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favour |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favour, privilege |
| favorite | (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favourite |
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| flavor | (verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavour, season |
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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 |
| fluoresce | (verb) exhibit or undergo fluorescence | - |
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| fluoridate | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridise, fluoridize |
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| fluoridise | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridize |
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| fluoridize | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridise |
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| forage | (verb) wander and feed | - |
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| (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: scrounge |
| foray | (verb) briefly enter enemy territory | - |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| forbear | (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: refrain |
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| (verb) refrain from doing | Synonyms: hold back |
| forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| force | (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | Synonyms: thrust |
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| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: squeeze, wedge |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: drive, ram |
| (verb) take by force | Synonyms: storm |
| (verb) do forcibly; exert force | - |
| (verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | Synonyms: impel |
| (verb) move with force | Synonyms: push |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze |
| ford | (verb) cross a river where it's shallow | - |
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| forearm | (verb) arm in advance of a confrontation | - |
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| forebode | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| forecast | (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, reckon |
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| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| foreclose | (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage | - |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| foredate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, predate |
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| foredoom | (verb) doom beforehand | - |
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| forefend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| forego | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate |
| foreground | (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
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| foreknow | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, previse |
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| foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
| foresee | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, previse |
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| (verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: envision |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, forestall |
| foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
| foreshow | (verb) foretell by divine inspiration | - |
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| forest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: afforest |
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| forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
| foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
| forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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| forfeit | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| forfend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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| forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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| forge | (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: hammer |
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| (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, fake |
| (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: fashion |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: form, mold, mould, shape, work |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, invent |
| (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: spirt, spurt |
| (verb) move ahead steadily | - |
| forget | (verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, block, draw a blank |
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| (verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: bury |
| (verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: leave |
| (verb) forget to do something | - |
| forgive | (verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness | - |
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| (verb) absolve from payment | - |
| forgo | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, precede, predate |
| fork | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, furcate, ramify, separate |
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| (verb) shape like a fork | - |
| (verb) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces | - |
| (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: pitchfork |
| form | (verb) give shape or form to | Synonyms: shape |
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| (verb) assume a form or shape | - |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, mold, mould, shape, work |
| (verb) create (as an entity) | Synonyms: organise, organize |
| (verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, make |
| (verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: spring, take form, take shape |
| formalise | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalize |
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| (verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalize, validate |
| formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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| (verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |