| accost | (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: hook, solicit |
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| (verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: address, come up to |
| aerosolise | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
| aerosolize | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
| anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |
| ancylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ankylose |
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| (verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ankylose |
| ankylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ancylose |
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| (verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ancylose |
| apostatise | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatize, tergiversate |
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| apostatize | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatise, tergiversate |
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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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| apotheose | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheosise, apotheosize |
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| apotheosise | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheose, apotheosize |
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| apotheosize | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheose, apotheosise |
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| appose | (verb) place side by side or in close proximity | - |
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| backcross | (verb) mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents | - |
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| blossom | (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | Synonyms: blossom forth, blossom out, unfold |
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| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
| 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 |
| bosom | (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: embrace, hug, squeeze |
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| (verb) hide in one's bosom | - |
| boss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: emboss, stamp |
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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 |
| close | (verb) finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead | - |
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| (verb) complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement | - |
| (verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: shut |
| (verb) become closed | Synonyms: shut |
| (verb) bar access to | - |
| (verb) fill or stop up | Synonyms: fill up |
| (verb) bring together all the elements or parts of | - |
| (verb) unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of | Synonyms: close up |
| (verb) change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact | - |
| (verb) come together, as if in an embrace | Synonyms: come together |
| (verb) draw near | - |
| (verb) cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop | - |
| (verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close down, close up, fold, shut down |
| (verb) finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.) | - |
| (verb) engage at close quarters | - |
| (verb) come to a close | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) be priced or listed when trading stops | - |
| closet | (verb) confine to a small space, as for intensive work | - |
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| closure | (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: cloture |
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| compose | (verb) make up plans or basic details for | Synonyms: draw up, frame |
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| (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: indite, pen, write |
| (verb) write music | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compile |
| (verb) calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet | - |
| (verb) form the substance of | - |
| compost | (verb) convert to compost | - |
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| cosh | (verb) hit with a cosh, usually on the head | - |
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| cosign | (verb) sign and endorse (another person's signature), as for a loan | Synonyms: co-sign |
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| (verb) sign jointly | Synonyms: co-sign |
| cosplay | (verb) wear a costume to resemble a character from some media especially anime | - |
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| cosponsor | (verb) sponsor together with another sponsor | - |
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| cosset | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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| cost | (verb) be priced at | Synonyms: be |
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| (verb) require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice | - |
| costume | (verb) dress in a costume | Synonyms: dress up |
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| (verb) furnish with costumes; as for a film or play | - |
| counterpose | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterweight |
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| creosote | (verb) treat with creosote | - |
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| crisscross | (verb) mark with a pattern of crossing lines | - |
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| (verb) mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines | - |
| (verb) cross in a pattern, often random | - |
| cross | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
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| (verb) trace a line through or across | - |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
| (verb) meet and pass | - |
| (verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: intersect |
| (verb) fold so as to resemble a cross | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: span, sweep, traverse |
| crossbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
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| crosscut | (verb) cut using a diagonal line | Synonyms: cut across |
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| crosshatch | (verb) shade with multiple crossing lines | - |
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| crossruff | (verb) trump alternately in two hands | - |
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| cyclostyle | (verb) print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil | - |
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| decompose | (verb) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts | Synonyms: break down, break up |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: molder, moulder, rot |
| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, disintegrate |
| defrost | (verb) make or become free of frost or ice | Synonyms: de-ice, deice |
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| depose | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, swear |
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| (verb) force to leave (an office) | Synonyms: force out |
| deposit | (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge |
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| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: fix, posit, situate |
| (verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: bank |
| diagnose | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) subject to a medical analysis | - |
| disclose | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: expose, uncover |
| discompose | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, disconcert, untune, upset |
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| dispose | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: qualify |
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| (verb) make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief | Synonyms: incline |
| (verb) place or put in a particular order | - |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
| (verb) give, sell, or transfer to another | - |
| dispossess | (verb) deprive of the possession of real estate | - |
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| dose | (verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: drug |
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| (verb) treat with an agent; add (an agent) to | - |
| doss | (verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: crash, doss down |
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| emboss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: boss, stamp |
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| enclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, inclose, shut in |
| (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
| (verb) close in | Synonyms: confine, hold in |
| engross | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, occupy |
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| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
| expose | (verb) abandon by leaving out in the open air | - |
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| (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: debunk |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, peril, queer, scupper |
| (verb) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body | Synonyms: uncover |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
| (verb) expose to light, of photographic film | - |
| (verb) expose or make accessible to some action or influence | - |
| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: disclose, uncover |
| exposit | (verb) state | Synonyms: expound, set forth |
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| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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| floss | (verb) use dental floss to clean | - |
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| 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 |
| fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
| fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
| foster | (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: nurture |
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| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, further |
| (verb) bring up under fosterage; of children | - |
| frost | (verb) damage by frost | - |
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| (verb) decorate with frosting | Synonyms: ice |
| (verb) provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance | - |
| (verb) cover with frost | - |
| ghost | (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghostwrite |
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| (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: haunt, obsess |
| (verb) move like a ghost | - |
| ghostwrite | (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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| gloss | (verb) provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase | - |
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| (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, comment |
| (verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | Synonyms: color, colour |
| (verb) give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing | - |
| goose | (verb) pinch in the buttocks | - |
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| (verb) give a spurt of fuel to | - |
| (verb) prod into action | - |
| gossip | (verb) wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies | Synonyms: dish the dirt |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| gross | (verb) earn before taxes, expenses, etc. | - |
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| hose | (verb) water with a hose | Synonyms: hose down |
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| hospitalise | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalize |
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| hospitalize | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalise |
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| host | (verb) be the host of or for | - |
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| hypostatise | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatize |
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| hypostatize | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatise |
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| impose | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, inflict, visit |
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| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: levy |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: constrain, enforce |
| inclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, enclose, shut in |
| indispose | (verb) cause to feel unwell | - |
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| (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: disqualify, unfit |
| (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: disincline |
| inosculate | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: anastomose |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: anastomose |
| interpose | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interject, put in, throw in |
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| (verb) to put forth by way of intervention | - |
| (verb) be or come between | - |
| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, intervene, step in |
| introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| josh | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, kid |
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| jostle | (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: shove |
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| (verb) make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving | - |
| juxtapose | (verb) place side by side | - |
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| kibosh | (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, stop |
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| 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 |
| lose | (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: suffer |
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| (verb) withdraw, as from reality | - |
| (verb) fail to win | - |
| (verb) suffer the loss of a person through death or removal | - |
| (verb) allow to go out of sight or mind | - |
| (verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) fail to get or obtain | - |
| (verb) miss from one's possessions; lose sight of | - |
| (verb) fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense | - |
| (verb) fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit | Synonyms: turn a loss |
| metamorphose | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: transfigure, transmogrify |
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| (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
| mosey | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: amble |
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| mosh | (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: slam, slam dance, thrash |
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| necrose | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, sphacelate |
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| noose | (verb) secure with a noose | - |
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| (verb) make a noose in or of | - |
| nose | (verb) defeat by a narrow margin | - |
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| (verb) rub noses | Synonyms: nuzzle |
| (verb) push or move with the nose | - |
| (verb) advance the forward part of with caution | - |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, poke, pry |
| (verb) catch the scent of; get wind of | Synonyms: scent, wind |
| nosedive | (verb) plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft | - |
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| nosh | (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: snack |
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| 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 |
| oscillate | (verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: vibrate |
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| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, vacillate, vibrate |
| osculate | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, kiss, snog |
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| (verb) have at least three points in common with | - |
| (verb) be intermediate between two taxonomic groups | - |