| perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, execute |
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| (verb) give a performance (of something) | - |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) perform a function | - |
| perorate | (verb) deliver an oration in grandiloquent style | - |
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| (verb) conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation | - |
| pervaporate | (verb) cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
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| (verb) evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
| phosphoresce | (verb) to exhibit phosphorescence | - |
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| pillory | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, savage |
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| (verb) punish by putting in a pillory | - |
| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: gibbet |
| pitchfork | (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: fork |
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| porcelainize | (verb) coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface | - |
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| pore | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, rivet |
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| port | (verb) modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform | - |
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| (verb) drink port | - |
| (verb) carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons | - |
| (verb) carry, bear, convey, or bring | - |
| (verb) turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship | - |
| (verb) put or turn on the left side, of a ship | - |
| (verb) land at or reach a port | - |
| (verb) bring to port | - |
| portend | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| porter | (verb) carry luggage or supplies | - |
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| portion | (verb) give out | Synonyms: allot, assign |
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| portray | (verb) portray in words | - |
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| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, limn |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: impersonate |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: present |
| preform | (verb) form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | - |
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| (verb) form into a shape resembling the final, desired one | - |
| preordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| prerecord | (verb) record before presentation, as of a broadcast | - |
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| prioritise | (verb) assign a priority to | Synonyms: prioritize |
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| prioritize | (verb) assign a priority to | Synonyms: prioritise |
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| proctor | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: invigilate |
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| proportion | (verb) adjust in size relative to other things | - |
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| (verb) give pleasant proportions to | - |
| prorate | (verb) divide or assess proportionally | - |
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| (verb) make a proportional settlement or distribution | - |
| prorogue | (verb) adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
| purport | (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purpose |
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| (verb) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming | - |
| razor | (verb) shave with a razor | - |
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| reabsorb | (verb) undergo resorption | Synonyms: resorb |
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| reapportion | (verb) allocate, distribute, or apportion anew | Synonyms: reallocate |
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| record | (verb) make a record of; set down in permanent form | Synonyms: enter, put down |
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| (verb) register electronically | Synonyms: tape |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, register, show |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: register |
| redecorate | (verb) redo the decoration of an apartment or house | - |
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| reenforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| reflectorise | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorize |
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| reflectorize | (verb) provide with reflectors, such as chemicals | Synonyms: reflectorise |
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| reforest | (verb) forest anew | - |
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| reforge | (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: recast, remodel |
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| reform | (verb) make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices | - |
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| (verb) break up the molecules of | - |
| (verb) produce by cracking | - |
| (verb) change for the better | Synonyms: see the light, straighten out |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, regenerate |
| (verb) improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition | - |
| reformulate | (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: redevelop |
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| regorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| reinforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reenforce |
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| (verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reward |
| reinvigorate | (verb) impart vigor, strength, or vitality to | Synonyms: invigorate |
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| renormalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalize |
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| renormalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalise |
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| reorder | (verb) assign a new order to | - |
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| (verb) make a new request to be supplied with | - |
| reorganise | (verb) organize anew | Synonyms: reorganize, shake up |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: regroup, reorganize |
| reorganize | (verb) organize anew | Synonyms: reorganise, shake up |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: regroup, reorganise |
| reorient | (verb) set or arrange in a new or different determinate position | - |
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| (verb) cause to turn | - |
| (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorientate |
| reorientate | (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorient |
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| report | (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, describe |
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| (verb) make known to the authorities | - |
| (verb) complain about; make a charge against | - |
| (verb) announce one's presence | - |
| (verb) announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding | - |
| (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: cover |
| resorb | (verb) undergo resorption | Synonyms: reabsorb |
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| resort | (verb) move, travel, or proceed toward some place | Synonyms: repair |
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| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, recur |
| restore | (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: regenerate, rejuvenate |
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| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, touch on |
| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restitute |
| (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, reinstate |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: reconstruct |
| retort | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, return, riposte |
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| reword | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: paraphrase, rephrase |
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| rework | (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, retread |
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| rumor | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumour |
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| savor | (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, relish, savour |
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| (verb) taste appreciatively | Synonyms: savour |
| (verb) give taste to | Synonyms: savour |
| (verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savour, taste |
| schnorr | (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, scrounge, shnorr |
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| scissor | (verb) cut with or as if with scissors | - |
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| scorch | (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, sear |
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| (verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: sear |
| (verb) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions | - |
| (verb) destroy completely by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: sear, singe |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scald, whip |
| score | (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: grade, mark |
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| (verb) make underscoring marks | Synonyms: mark |
| (verb) gain points in a game | Synonyms: rack up, tally |
| (verb) get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance | - |
| (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: mark, nock |
| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, seduce |
| (verb) write a musical score for | - |
| scorn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, spurn, turn down |
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| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, disdain |
| semaphore | (verb) convey by semaphore, of information | - |
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| (verb) send signals by or as if by semaphore | - |
| shnorr | (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, scrounge |
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| shoehorn | (verb) fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited | - |
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| shore | (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop, prop up, shore up |
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| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: land, set ashore |
| (verb) serve as a shore to | - |
| short | (verb) create a short circuit in | Synonyms: short-circuit |
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| (verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money | Synonyms: short-change |
| shorten | (verb) become short or shorter | - |
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| (verb) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate |
| (verb) make short or shorter | - |
| shortlist | (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
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| snore | (verb) breathe noisily during one's sleep | Synonyms: saw logs, saw wood |
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| snorkel | (verb) dive with a snorkel | - |
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| snort | (verb) make a snorting sound by exhaling hard | - |
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| (verb) indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose | - |
| (verb) inhale through the nose | Synonyms: take a hit |
| (verb) inhale recreational drugs | Synonyms: huff |
| sorb | (verb) take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption | Synonyms: take up |
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| sorcerise | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerize |
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| sorcerize | (verb) transform or change by means of sorcery | Synonyms: sorcerise |
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| sorrow | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: grieve |
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| sort | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, classify, separate, sort out |
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| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sieve |
| sponsor | (verb) assume sponsorship of | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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| (verb) assume responsibility for or leadership of | - |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at |
| sport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark |
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| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, feature |
| sportscast | (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
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| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
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| (verb) produce spores | - |
| store | (verb) keep or lay aside for future use | Synonyms: hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away |
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| (verb) find a place for and put away for storage | - |
| storm | (verb) attack by storm; attack suddenly | Synonyms: surprise |
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| (verb) take by force | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | Synonyms: rage, ramp |
| (verb) blow hard | - |
| (verb) rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning | - |
| subordinate | (verb) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient | Synonyms: subdue |
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| (verb) rank or order as less important or consider of less value | - |
| suborn | (verb) induce to commit perjury or give false testimony | - |
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| (verb) procure (false testimony or perjury) | - |
| (verb) incite to commit a crime or an evil deed | - |
| succor | (verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succour |
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| superordinate | (verb) place in a superior order or rank | - |
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| support | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, sustain |
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| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, tolerate |
| (verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: subscribe |
| (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: defend, fend for |
| (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, patronize |
| (verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold, hold up, sustain |
| (verb) play a subordinate role to (another performer) | - |
| (verb) support materially or financially | - |
| (verb) give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to | Synonyms: back up |
| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, corroborate, underpin |
| tailor | (verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: orient |
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| (verb) create (clothes) with cloth | Synonyms: sew, tailor-make |
| (verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: cut |
| teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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| temporise | (verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time | Synonyms: temporize |
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| temporize | (verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time | Synonyms: temporise |
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| territorialise | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialize |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialize |
| territorialize | (verb) extend by adding territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
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| (verb) place on a territorial basis | Synonyms: territorialise |
| (verb) organize as a territory | Synonyms: territorialise |
| terrorise | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrify, terrorize |
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| (verb) coerce by violence or with threats | Synonyms: terrorize |
| terrorize | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrify, terrorise |
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| (verb) coerce by violence or with threats | Synonyms: terrorise |
| theorise | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorize |
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| theorize | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise |
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| (verb) form or construct theories | - |
| (verb) construct a theory about | - |
| thoriate | (verb) impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission | - |
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| torch | (verb) burn maliciously, as by arson | - |
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| torment | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torture |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torture |
| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag |
| torpedo | (verb) attack or hit with torpedoes | - |
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| torture | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torment |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torment |