| outscore | (verb) score more points than one's opponents | Synonyms: outpoint |
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| outsell | (verb) sell more than others | - |
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| (verb) be sold more often than other, similar products | - |
| outshine | (verb) attract more attention and praise than others | - |
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| (verb) shine brighter than | - |
| outshout | (verb) shout louder than | Synonyms: outcry |
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| outsmart | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outwit, overreach |
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| (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre |
| outsource | (verb) obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out | - |
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| outspan | (verb) remove the yoke or harness from | - |
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| outstare | (verb) overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring | Synonyms: outface, stare down |
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| outstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: overstay |
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| (verb) surpass in staying power | - |
| outstrip | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outdistance |
| outvie | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outrival |
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| outvote | (verb) defeat by a majority of votes | - |
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| outwear | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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| (verb) last longer than others | - |
| outweigh | (verb) be heavier than | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, overbalance, preponderate |
| outwit | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, overreach |
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| overcloud | (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: bedim, obscure |
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| (verb) become covered with clouds | Synonyms: cloud over, cloud up |
| pirouette | (verb) do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance | - |
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| plough | (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plow, turn |
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| (verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plow |
| pompadour | (verb) style women's hair in a pompadour | - |
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| pouch | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, protrude |
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| (verb) put into a small bag | - |
| (verb) send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels | - |
| poultice | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: plaster |
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| pounce | (verb) move down on as if in an attack | Synonyms: swoop |
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| pound | (verb) break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle | - |
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| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: poke, thump |
| (verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact | Synonyms: ram, ram down |
| (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: impound |
| (verb) shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits | Synonyms: pound up |
| (verb) partition off into compartments | Synonyms: pound off |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: beat, thump |
| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: lumber |
| pour | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pullulate, stream, swarm, teem |
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| (verb) flow in a spurt | - |
| (verb) cause to run | - |
| (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: decant, pour out |
| (verb) supply in large amounts or quantities | - |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| pout | (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mop, mow |
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| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: brood, sulk |
| pronounce | (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, label |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, say, sound out |
| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| rebound | (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| recount | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, tell |
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| (verb) count again | - |
| recoup | (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: deduct, withhold |
| (verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: reimburse |
| redouble | (verb) double in magnitude, extent, or intensity | - |
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| (verb) make twice as great or intense | - |
| (verb) double again | - |
| redound | (verb) contribute | - |
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| (verb) have an effect for good or ill | - |
| (verb) return or recoil | - |
| regroup | (verb) reorganize into new groups | - |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: reorganise, reorganize |
| rehouse | (verb) put up in a new or different housing | - |
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| remould | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, retread |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remold |
| remount | (verb) provide with fresh horses | - |
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| (verb) mount again, as after disassembling something | - |
| (verb) mount again | - |
| rendezvous | (verb) meet at a rendezvous | - |
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| renounce | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: disown, repudiate |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, relinquish |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, resign, vacate |
| (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: abdicate |
| resound | (verb) emit a noise | Synonyms: make noise, noise |
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| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, reverberate, ring |
| retouch | (verb) alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance | Synonyms: touch up |
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| (verb) give retouches to (hair) | - |
| rouge | (verb) redden by applying rouge to | - |
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| rough | (verb) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form | Synonyms: rough in, rough out |
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| roughcast | (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
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| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| roughen | (verb) make rough or rougher | - |
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| roughhouse | (verb) engage in rough or disorderly play | - |
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| round | (verb) become round, plump, or shapely | Synonyms: fill out, flesh out |
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| (verb) make round | Synonyms: round off, round out |
| (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off |
| (verb) express as a round number | Synonyms: round down, round off, round out |
| (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, labialize |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe |
| (verb) wind around; move along a circular course | - |
| rouse | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, turn on |
| (verb) force or drive out | Synonyms: drive out, force out, rout out |
| (verb) become active | Synonyms: bestir |
| rout | (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: expel, rout out |
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| (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: spread-eagle, spreadeagle |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: gouge |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rootle |
| route | (verb) send via a specific route | - |
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| (verb) divert in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) send documents or materials to appropriate destinations | - |
| rumour | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumor |
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| savour | (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, relish, savor |
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| (verb) taste appreciatively | Synonyms: savor |
| (verb) give taste to | Synonyms: savor |
| (verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savor, taste |
| scour | (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, purge |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: abrade |
| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scrub |
| (verb) examine minutely | - |
| scourge | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
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| (verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
| (verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
| scout | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre |
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| scrounge | (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: forage |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, shnorr |
| shoulder | (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
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| (verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
| (verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
| shout | (verb) utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) | - |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw |
| shroud | (verb) wrap in a shroud | - |
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| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, enshroud, hide |
| (verb) form a cover like a shroud | - |
| silhouette | (verb) represent by a silhouette | - |
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| (verb) project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette | - |
| slouch | (verb) walk slovenly | - |
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| (verb) assume a drooping posture or carriage | Synonyms: slump |
| slough | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, shed |
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| smoulder | (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smolder |
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| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smolder |
| sojourn | (verb) spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily | - |
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| sough | (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: purl |
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| sound | (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: fathom |
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| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, voice |
| (verb) make a certain noise or sound | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) cause to sound | - |
| (verb) announce by means of a sound | - |
| (verb) give off a certain sound or sounds | - |
| (verb) appear in a certain way | - |
| soundproof | (verb) insulate against noise | - |
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| soup | (verb) dope (a racehorse) | - |
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| sour | (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, turn, work |
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| (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate |
| source | (verb) specify the origin of | - |
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| (verb) get (a product) from another country or business | - |
| souse | (verb) cook in a marinade | - |
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| (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop |
| (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, soak |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, plunge |
| spout | (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave |
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| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spurt |
| sprout | (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: stock |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud |
| succour | (verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succor |
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| surmount | (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, master, overcome, subdue |
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| (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: scale |
| (verb) be on top of | - |
| surround | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent, hem in |
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| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, wall |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, skirt |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: smother |
| talmbout | (verb) to talk about | - |
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| touch | (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on |
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| (verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinct, tinge, tint |
| (verb) comprehend | - |
| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, allude |
| (verb) consume | Synonyms: partake |
| (verb) make physical contact with, come in contact with | - |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, meet |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) cause to be in brief contact with | - |
| (verb) affect emotionally | Synonyms: stir |
| (verb) perceive via the tactile sense | - |
| (verb) deal with; usually used with a form of negation | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, reach |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, rival |
| toughen | (verb) make tough or tougher | - |
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| tour | (verb) make a tour of a certain place | - |
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| tourney | (verb) engage in a tourney | - |
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| tousle | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tangle |
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| tout | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, vaunt |
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| (verb) advertize in strongly positive terms | - |
| trouble | (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: ail, pain |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, upset |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: bother, inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself |
| troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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| trounce | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task |
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| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip |
| uncouple | (verb) disconnect or separate | Synonyms: decouple |
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| undernourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: malnourish |
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| vouch | (verb) give supporting evidence | - |
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| (verb) summon (a vouchee) into court to warrant or defend a title | - |
| (verb) give personal assurance; guarantee | - |
| (verb) give surety or assume responsibility | Synonyms: guarantee |
| vouchsafe | (verb) grant in a condescending manner | - |
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| warehouse | (verb) store in a warehouse | - |
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| watercolour | (verb) paint with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolor |
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| whiteout | (verb) lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain | Synonyms: white-out |
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| (verb) cover up with a liquid correction fluid | Synonyms: white out |
| wound | (verb) cause injuries or bodily harm to | Synonyms: injure |
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| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite |