| overprotect | (verb) protect excessively | - |
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| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, mother |
| overshoot | (verb) aim too high | - |
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| (verb) shoot beyond or over (a target) | - |
| parrot | (verb) repeat mindlessly | - |
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| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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| photobomb | (verb) to jump into someone's photo | - |
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| photocopy | (verb) reproduce by xerography | Synonyms: run off, xerox |
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| photograph | (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: shoot, snap |
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| (verb) undergo being photographed in a certain way | - |
| photosensitise | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitize |
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| photosensitize | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitise |
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| photoshop | (verb) To digitally alter a photo | - |
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| photostat | (verb) make a copy by means of a Photostat device | - |
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| pilot | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: aviate, fly |
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| (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: navigate |
| pivot | (verb) turn on a pivot | Synonyms: swivel |
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| plot | (verb) plan secretly, usually something illegal | - |
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| (verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plat |
| (verb) make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed | Synonyms: diagram |
| (verb) devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet) | - |
| pot | (verb) plant in a pot | - |
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| potentiate | (verb) increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon) | - |
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| pother | (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, flap |
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| (verb) make upset or troubled | - |
| potter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter around, putter, putter around |
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| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, putter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: putter |
| promote | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, push |
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| (verb) change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent | - |
| (verb) be changed for a superior chess or checker piece | - |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, raise, upgrade |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, further |
| protect | (verb) shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage | - |
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| (verb) use tariffs to favor domestic industry | - |
| protest | (verb) utter words of protest | - |
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| (verb) affirm or avow formally or solemnly | - |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, resist |
| protract | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, prolong |
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| protrude | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, pouch |
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| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, start |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, project, stick out |
| protuberate | (verb) form a rounded prominence | - |
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| (verb) cause to bulge out or project | - |
| pussyfoot | (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, sneak |
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| quote | (verb) repeat a passage from | Synonyms: cite |
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| (verb) refer to for illustration or proof | Synonyms: cite |
| (verb) put quote marks around | - |
| (verb) name the price of | - |
| reallot | (verb) allot again | - |
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| reboot | (verb) cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes | Synonyms: boot, bring up |
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| renegotiate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegociate |
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| (verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegociate |
| repot | (verb) put in a new, usually larger, pot | - |
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| requote | (verb) to quote again | - |
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| reshoot | (verb) shoot again | - |
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| riot | (verb) take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot | - |
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| (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, roister |
| root | (verb) take root and begin to grow | - |
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| (verb) cause to take roots | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: settle, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: rootle, rout |
| (verb) plant by the roots | - |
| (verb) cheer for | - |
| (verb) come into existence, originate | - |
| rootle | (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rout |
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| rot | (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: waste |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, moulder |
| rotate | (verb) plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession | - |
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| (verb) perform a job or duty on a rotating basis | - |
| (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: circumvolve |
| (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, revolve |
| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: splay, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) exchange on a regular basis | - |
| sabotage | (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, subvert, undermine, weaken |
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| scoot | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scud, shoot |
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| scotch | (verb) make a small cut or score into | - |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, spoil, thwart |
| screenshot | (verb) to capture an image from a computer's display | - |
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| sellotape | (verb) fasten or attach with sellotape | Synonyms: scotch tape |
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| sharpshoot | (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: snipe |
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| shoot | (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: inject |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud |
| (verb) measure the altitude of by using a sextant | - |
| (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: photograph, snap |
| (verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: film, take |
| (verb) utter fast and forcefully | - |
| (verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, pip |
| (verb) score | - |
| (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away |
| (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: inject |
| (verb) throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective | - |
| (verb) throw dice, as in a crap game | - |
| (verb) variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp and sudden pain in | - |
| (verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: pip |
| (verb) emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully | - |
| slot | (verb) assign a time slot | - |
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| smooth | (verb) make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing | Synonyms: smoothen |
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| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, shine, smoothen |
| (verb) free from obstructions | Synonyms: smooth out |
| smoothen | (verb) become smooth | - |
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| (verb) make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing | Synonyms: smooth |
| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, shine, smooth |
| smother | (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
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| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: surround |
| (verb) deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion | Synonyms: put out |
| (verb) form an impenetrable cover over | - |
| soot | (verb) coat with soot | - |
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| soothe | (verb) cause to feel better | - |
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| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, console, solace |
| splotch | (verb) blotch or spot | - |
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| spot | (verb) mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition | - |
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| (verb) become spotted | - |
| (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, fleck |
| (verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: blemish |
| (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: descry, espy, spy |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, tell apart |
| spotlight | (verb) illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater | - |
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| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up |
| spotweld | (verb) make circular welds | Synonyms: spot-weld |
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| stereotype | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: pigeonhole, stamp |
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| swot | (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot up |
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| teetertotter | (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter-totter |
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| teetotal | (verb) practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages | - |
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| throttle | (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: choke |
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| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, trammel |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, strangulate |
| toot | (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, claxon, honk |
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| tootle | (verb) play (a musical instrument) casually | - |
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| tot | (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot up, total, tote up |
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| total | (verb) damage beyond the point of repair | - |
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| (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, tote up |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, come, number |
| totalise | (verb) make into a total | Synonyms: totalize |
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| totalize | (verb) make into a total | Synonyms: totalise |
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| tote | (verb) carry with difficulty | Synonyms: lug, tug |
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| totter | (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, waddle |
| (verb) move without being stable, as if threatening to fall | - |
| trot | (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: clip, jog |
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| (verb) ride at a trot | - |
| (verb) cause to trot | - |
| troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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| unclothe | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, undress |
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| (verb) take the covers off | - |
| (verb) strip | - |
| underquote | (verb) quote a price lower than that quoted by (another seller) | - |
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| (verb) offer for sale at a price lower than the market price | - |
| undershoot | (verb) shoot short of or below (a target) | - |
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| (verb) fall short of (the runway) in a landing | - |
| unknot | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle |
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| uproot | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: deracinate, extirpate, root out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out |
| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: deracinate |
| upvote | (verb) To vote positively on a social media website | - |
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| videotape | (verb) record on videotape | Synonyms: tape |
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| vote | (verb) be guided by in voting | - |
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| (verb) express one's choice or preference by vote | - |
| (verb) express a choice or opinion | - |
| (verb) bring into existence or make available by vote | - |
| (verb) express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote | - |