| displume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: deplume |
| disport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, divert |
| 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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| dispread | (verb) spread abroad or out | - |
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| disprove | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: confute |
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| dispute | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, gainsay |
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| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, quarrel, scrap |
| disrespect | (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
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| (verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
| disrupt | (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) throw into disorder | - |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, interrupt |
| dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter |
| (verb) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | - |
| distemper | (verb) paint with distemper | - |
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| dope | (verb) give a narcotic to | Synonyms: dope up |
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| (verb) add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties | - |
| (verb) take drugs to improve one's athletic performance | - |
| 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 |
| drape | (verb) arrange in a particular way | - |
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| (verb) place casually | - |
| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, clothe, robe |
| (verb) cover or dress loosely with cloth | - |
| drip | (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drop |
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| (verb) fall in drops | - |
| droop | (verb) become limp | Synonyms: wilt |
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| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: flag, sag, swag |
| (verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: loll |
| drop | (verb) give birth; used for animals | - |
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| (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve |
| (verb) go down in value | - |
| (verb) stop pursuing or acting | Synonyms: knock off |
| (verb) change from one level to another | - |
| (verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: flatten |
| (verb) fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death | - |
| (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
| (verb) omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing | - |
| (verb) utter with seeming casualness | - |
| (verb) lose (a game) | - |
| (verb) take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, fell, strike down |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
| (verb) to fall vertically | - |
| (verb) let fall to the ground | - |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop down, sink |
| (verb) pay out | Synonyms: expend, spend |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: dismiss, send away, send packing |
| (verb) terminate an association with | - |
| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, swing |
| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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| dropkick | (verb) make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick | Synonyms: drop-kick |
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| (verb) drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| dump | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, deck, floor, knock down |
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| (verb) drop (stuff) in a heap or mass | - |
| (verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) throw away as refuse | - |
| (verb) sell at artificially low prices | Synonyms: underprice |
| (verb) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly | Synonyms: ditch |
| dupe | (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
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| duplex | (verb) change into a duplex | - |
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| duplicate | (verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: double |
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| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
| (verb) make a duplicate or duplicates of | - |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: parallel, twin |
| eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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| eclipse | (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: occult |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, overshadow |
| egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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| elapse | (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
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| elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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| emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
| empale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: impale, spike, transfix |
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| empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
| emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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| (verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
| emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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| employ | (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, use, utilise, utilize |
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| (verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: engage, hire |
| 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 |
| empty | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: evacuate, void |
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| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) make void or empty of contents | - |
| (verb) remove the contents of a container | - |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, vacate |
| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| encamp | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, tent |
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| encapsulate | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container | - |
| encipher | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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| encompass | (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, embrace |
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| encrypt | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, inscribe, write in code |
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| enplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: emplane |
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| enrapture | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| entrap | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, snare, trammel, trap |
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| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, frame, set up |
| envelop | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap |
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| enwrap | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, envelop, wrap |
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| epilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: depilate |
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| epitomise | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomize, typify |
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| epitomize | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, typify |
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| epoxy | (verb) glue with epoxy | - |
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| equip | (verb) provide with abilities or understanding | - |
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| (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: fit, fit out, outfit |
| erupt | (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, extravasate |
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| (verb) start abruptly | Synonyms: break out |
| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, flare, flare up, irrupt |
| (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, recrudesce |
| (verb) break out | Synonyms: break through, come out, push through |
| (verb) appear on the skin | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, burst |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, ignite, take fire |
| escallop | (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: scallop |
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| escape | (verb) issue or leak, as from a small opening | - |
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| (verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action | Synonyms: get away, get by, get off, get out |
| (verb) run away from confinement | Synonyms: break loose, get away |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion | Synonyms: get away |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: elude |
| espouse | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, embrace, sweep up |
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| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, follow |
| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| espy | (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: descry, spot, spy |
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| euphemise | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemize |
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| euphemize | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemise |
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| evaporate | (verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | Synonyms: vaporise, vaporize |
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| (verb) change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) cause to change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, melt |
| exasperate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: incense, infuriate |
| except | (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out |
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| (verb) object to | Synonyms: demur |
| excerpt | (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: extract, take out |
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| exculpate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate |
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| exemplify | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: illustrate, instance |
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| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: represent |
| exempt | (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve |
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| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: free, relieve |
| expand | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, flourish, thrive |
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| (verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: amplify, blow up, inflate |
| (verb) become larger in size or volume or quantity | - |
| (verb) expand the influence of | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity | - |
| (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, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) extend in one or more directions | Synonyms: spread out |
| expatiate | (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, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
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| expatriate | (verb) move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad | - |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, exile |
| expect | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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| (verb) look forward to the birth of a child | - |
| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: anticipate |
| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, look, wait |
| (verb) consider reasonable or due | - |
| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, require |
| expectorate | (verb) discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth | Synonyms: cough out, cough up, spit out, spit up |
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| (verb) clear out the chest and lungs | Synonyms: clear out, drive out |
| expedite | (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: hasten |
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| (verb) process fast and efficiently | - |
| expel | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, release |
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| (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: rout, rout out |
| (verb) force to leave or move out | Synonyms: kick out, throw out |
| (verb) remove from a position or office | Synonyms: boot out, drum out, kick out, oust, throw out |
| expend | (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
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| (verb) pay out | Synonyms: drop, spend |
| expense | (verb) reduce the estimated value of something | Synonyms: write down, write off |
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| experience | (verb) undergo | Synonyms: have |
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| (verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: know, live |
| (verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: get, have, receive |
| (verb) undergo or live through a difficult experience | Synonyms: go through, see |
| experiment | (verb) to conduct a test or investigation | - |
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| (verb) try something new, as in order to gain experience | Synonyms: try out |
| expiate | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, atone |
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| expire | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, exhale |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) lose validity | Synonyms: run out |
| explain | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explicate |
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| (verb) define | - |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: excuse |
| explicate | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explain |
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| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, formulate |
| explode | (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: burst |
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| (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, detonate, set off |
| (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: irrupt |
| (verb) be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise | Synonyms: break loose, burst forth |
| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, detonate |
| (verb) show a violent emotional reaction | - |
| (verb) show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete | - |
| (verb) drive from the stage by noisy disapproval | - |
| (verb) cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ | - |
| (verb) destroy by exploding | - |
| exploit | (verb) use or manipulate to one's advantage | Synonyms: work |
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| (verb) draw from; make good use of | Synonyms: tap |
| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: overwork |
| explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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| (verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
| (verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
| (verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
| export | (verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
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| (verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
| 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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| expound | (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, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate |
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| (verb) state | Synonyms: exposit, set forth |
| express | (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, show |
| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, convey |
| (verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: state |
| (verb) send by rapid transport or special messenger service | - |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: extract, press out |
| (verb) manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait) | - |
| expropriate | (verb) deprive of possessions | - |
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| expunge | (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, scratch, strike |
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| expurgate | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
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| extemporise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporize, improvise, improvize |
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| extemporize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, improvise, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: improvise |