acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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(verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
(verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
(verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
(verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
(verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
allow | (verb) allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: take into account |
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(verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside |
(verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: countenance, let, permit |
(verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: permit, tolerate |
(verb) let have | Synonyms: grant |
(verb) grant as a discount or in exchange | - |
(verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: let, permit |
(verb) allow the other (baseball) team to score | Synonyms: give up |
(verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide |
(verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: admit |
allowance | (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
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avow | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, swan, swear, verify |
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(verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avouch |
batfowl | (verb) catch birds by temporarily blinding them | - |
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bellow | (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
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(verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
bestow | (verb) present | Synonyms: confer |
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(verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bring, contribute, impart, lend |
(verb) give as a gift | - |
billow | (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, inflate |
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(verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: heave, surge |
(verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: wallow |
(verb) move with great difficulty | - |
blow | (verb) exhale hard | - |
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(verb) free of obstruction by blowing air through | - |
(verb) melt, break, or become otherwise unusable | Synonyms: blow out, burn out |
(verb) burst suddenly | - |
(verb) shape by blowing | - |
(verb) show off | Synonyms: bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
(verb) cause to be revealed and jeopardized | - |
(verb) allow to regain its breath | - |
(verb) deposit eggs (of insects) | - |
(verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, drift, float |
(verb) cause to move by means of an air current | - |
(verb) leave; informal or rude | Synonyms: shove along, shove off |
(verb) cause air to go in, on, or through | - |
(verb) spout moist air from the blowhole | - |
(verb) play or sound a wind instrument | - |
(verb) make a sound as if blown | - |
(verb) sound by having air expelled through a tube | - |
(verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: fellate, go down on, suck |
(verb) spend lavishly or wastefully on | - |
(verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: squander, waste |
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
(verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: suck |
(verb) be blowing or storming | - |
borrow | (verb) get temporarily | - |
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(verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, take over, take up |
bow | (verb) bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head | Synonyms: bow down |
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(verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, defer, give in, submit |
(verb) bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting | - |
(verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, crouch, stoop |
(verb) play on a stringed instrument with a bow | - |
bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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bower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
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bowl | (verb) engage in the sport of bowling | - |
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(verb) hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end | - |
(verb) roll (a ball) | - |
bowse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bouse |
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browbeat | (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: bully, swagger |
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(verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
brown | (verb) fry in a pan until it changes color | - |
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(verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: embrown |
browse | (verb) eat lightly, try different dishes | Synonyms: graze |
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(verb) look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular | Synonyms: surf |
(verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: crop, graze, pasture, range |
(verb) shop around; not necessarily buying | Synonyms: shop |
burrow | (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: tunnel |
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checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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clown | (verb) act as or like a clown | Synonyms: antic, clown around |
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cow | (verb) subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) | Synonyms: overawe |
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cower | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
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(verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: huddle |
cowhide | (verb) flog with a cowhide | - |
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cowl | (verb) cover with or as with a cowl | - |
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crow | (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: gloat, triumph |
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(verb) express pleasure verbally | - |
(verb) utter shrill sounds | - |
crowd | (verb) to gather together in large numbers | Synonyms: crowd together |
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(verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: herd |
(verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: push |
(verb) fill or occupy to the point of overflowing | - |
crown | (verb) be the culminating event | Synonyms: top |
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(verb) put an enamel cover on | - |
(verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: coronate |
(verb) form the topmost part of | - |
cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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deflower | (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: impair, mar, spoil, vitiate |
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(verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: ruin |
disallow | (verb) command against | Synonyms: forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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disavow | (verb) refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with | - |
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disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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disown | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: renounce, repudiate |
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(verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disinherit |
dower | (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: endow |
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down | (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: fine-tune, polish, refine |
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(verb) bring down or defeat (an opponent) | - |
(verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off |
(verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, devour, go through |
(verb) cause to come or go down | Synonyms: cut down, knock down, pull down, push down |
(verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: land, shoot down |
downgrade | (verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
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download | (verb) transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location | - |
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downplay | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: background, play down |
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(verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, minimize, understate |
downsize | (verb) (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees | - |
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(verb) design or manufacture in a smaller size | - |
(verb) dismiss from work | - |
dowse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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(verb) slacken | Synonyms: douse |
(verb) use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal | - |
(verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: douse |
drown | (verb) die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating | - |
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(verb) kill by submerging in water | - |
(verb) get rid of as if by submerging | - |
(verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: overwhelm, submerge |
(verb) be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation | - |
(verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: swim |
drowse | (verb) be on the verge of sleeping | - |
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(verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: doze, snooze |
elbow | (verb) shove one's elbow into another person's ribs | - |
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(verb) push one's way with the elbows | - |
embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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(verb) cause to darken | - |
empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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(verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
endow | (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: dower |
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(verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endue, gift, indue, invest |
farrow | (verb) give birth to (piglets) | Synonyms: pig |
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flow | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: menstruate |
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(verb) cover or swamp with water | - |
(verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: fall, hang |
(verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, run |
(verb) move or progress freely as if in a stream | Synonyms: flux |
(verb) cause to flow | - |
(verb) be abundantly present | - |
flower | (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
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follow | (verb) behave in accordance or in agreement with | Synonyms: conform to |
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(verb) keep informed | Synonyms: keep abreast, keep up |
(verb) keep to | Synonyms: stick to, stick with |
(verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: trace |
(verb) grasp the meaning | - |
(verb) imitate in behavior; take as a model | Synonyms: take after |
(verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: accompany, play along |
(verb) to travel behind, go after, come after | - |
(verb) travel along a certain course | Synonyms: travel along |
(verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: pursue |
(verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: surveil, survey |
(verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, espouse |
(verb) to subscribe to someone's updates on social media | - |
(verb) to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media | - |
(verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, comply |
(verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, succeed |
(verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over |
(verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: be |
(verb) accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of | - |
(verb) adhere to or practice | - |
(verb) be later in time | Synonyms: postdate |
(verb) come after in time, as a result | Synonyms: come after |
(verb) be next | - |
(verb) to bring something about at a later time than | - |
(verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: come |
(verb) come as a logical consequence; follow logically | Synonyms: fall out |
foreknow | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, previse |
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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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foreshow | (verb) foretell by divine inspiration | - |
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fowl | (verb) hunt fowl in the forest | - |
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(verb) hunt fowl | - |
frown | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: glower, lour, lower |
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furrow | (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: groove, rut |
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(verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, wrinkle |
(verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, chase |
glow | (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine |
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(verb) be exuberant or high-spirited | - |
(verb) emit a steady even light without flames | - |
(verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine |
(verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: burn |
glower | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, lour, lower |
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(verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glare |
gown | (verb) dress in a gown | - |
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grow | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, produce |
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(verb) become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain | - |
(verb) cause to grow or develop | - |
(verb) increase in size by natural process | - |
(verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | Synonyms: turn |
(verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: maturate, mature |
(verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: develop |
(verb) become attached by or as if by the process of growth | - |
(verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, produce, raise |
(verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
growl | (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: grumble, rumble |
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hallow | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, sanctify |
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harrow | (verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: disk |
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hollow | (verb) remove the interior of | Synonyms: core out, hollow out |
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(verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, excavate |
howl | (verb) laugh unrestrainedly and heartily | Synonyms: roar |
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(verb) make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles | Synonyms: roar |
(verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: roar, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl |
(verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: wrawl, yammer, yowl |
know | (verb) be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object | - |
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(verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognise, cognize |
(verb) know how to do or perform something | - |
(verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: experience, live |
(verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: acknowledge, recognise, recognize |
(verb) know the nature or character of | - |
(verb) be able to distinguish, recognize as being different | - |
(verb) perceive as familiar | - |
(verb) have fixed in the mind | - |
(verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
kotow | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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kowtow | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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(verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: genuflect, scrape |
low | (verb) make a low noise, characteristic of bovines | Synonyms: moo |
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lowball | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: underestimate |
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lower | (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lour, turn down |
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(verb) set lower | Synonyms: lour |
(verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: depress |
(verb) move something or somebody to a lower position | Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down |
(verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lour |
mellow | (verb) make or grow (more) mellow | - |
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(verb) soften, make mellow | - |
(verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow out, melt |
meow | (verb) cry like a cat | Synonyms: mew |
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miaow | (verb) make a cat-like sound | Synonyms: miaou |
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microwave | (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, nuke, zap |
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mow | (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mop, pout |
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(verb) cut with a blade or mower | Synonyms: cut down |
narrow | (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: contract |
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(verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, constringe |
(verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | Synonyms: narrow down, specialise, specialize |
(verb) define clearly | Synonyms: nail down, narrow down, peg down, pin down, specify |
outgrow | (verb) grow too large or too mature for | - |
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(verb) grow faster than | - |
overcrowd | (verb) crowd together too much | - |
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(verb) cause to crowd together too much | - |
overflow | (verb) overflow with a certain feeling | Synonyms: bubble over, spill over |
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(verb) flow or run over (a limit or brim) | Synonyms: brim over, overrun, run over, well over |
overgrow | (verb) grow beyond or across | Synonyms: grow over |
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(verb) become overgrown | - |
(verb) grow too large | - |
overpower | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overwhelm |
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(verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
overshadow | (verb) cast a shadow upon | - |
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(verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, eclipse |
(verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, shadow |
overthrow | (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overturn, reverse |
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(verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overturn, subvert |
owe | (verb) be in debt | - |
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(verb) be obliged to pay or repay | - |
(verb) be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense | - |
own | (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: have, possess |
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pillow | (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: rest |
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plow | (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, treat |
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(verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plough, turn |
(verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plough |
powder | (verb) apply powder to | - |
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(verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
powderise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
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(verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
powderize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, pulverise, pulverize |
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(verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, pulverise, pulverize |
power | (verb) supply the force or power for the functioning of | - |
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powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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powwow | (verb) hold a powwow, talk, conference or meeting | - |
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prowl | (verb) move about in or as if in a predatory manner | - |
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(verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: lurch |
regrow | (verb) grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption | - |
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row | (verb) propel with oars | - |
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