| impress | (verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun | Synonyms: yarn-dye |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: ingrain, instill |
| (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: shanghai |
| (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: print |
| (verb) impress positively | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, move, strike |
| imprint | (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: impress |
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| (verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: form |
| imprison | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| (verb) confine as if in a prison | - |
| improve | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, meliorate |
| improvise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: extemporize |
| improvize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvise |
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| impugn | (verb) attack as false or wrong | - |
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| impute | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, attribute |
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| (verb) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source | - |
| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| incorporate | (verb) make into a whole or make part of a whole | Synonyms: integrate |
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| (verb) unite or merge with something already in existence | - |
| (verb) form a corporation | - |
| (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: comprise, contain |
| inculpate | (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, incriminate |
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| indispose | (verb) cause to feel unwell | - |
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| (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: disqualify, unfit |
| (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: disincline |
| input | (verb) enter (data or a program) into a computer | - |
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| inspan | (verb) attach a yoke or harness to | - |
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| inspect | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, scrutinise, scrutinize |
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| (verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: visit |
| (verb) look over carefully | - |
| inspire | (verb) draw in (air) | Synonyms: breathe in, inhale |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: instigate, prompt |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) supply the inspiration for | - |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, invigorate |
| inspirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: spirit, spirit up |
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| inspissate | (verb) become thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
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| (verb) make thick or thicker | Synonyms: thicken |
| (verb) make viscous or dense | Synonyms: thicken |
| intercept | (verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: stop |
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| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, tap, wiretap |
| interdepend | (verb) be connected | Synonyms: hang together |
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| interlope | (verb) encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license | - |
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| interpellate | (verb) question formally about policy or government business | - |
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| interpenetrate | (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: permeate |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| interpolate | (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, falsify |
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| (verb) estimate the value of something based on known values | Synonyms: extrapolate |
| 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 |
| interpret | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, see |
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| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: read, translate, understand |
| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: rede |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: render, translate |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: represent |
| interrupt | (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: break |
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| (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: disrupt |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, disrupt |
| intersperse | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: interlard |
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| (verb) place at intervals in or among | - |
| introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| intussuscept | (verb) introvert or invaginate | - |
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| irrupt | (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: explode |
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| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare, flare up |
| (verb) enter uninvited | Synonyms: intrude |
| jampack | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, ram, wad |
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| japan | (verb) coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan | - |
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| jeopardise | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| jeopardize | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, stake, venture |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, menace, peril, threaten |
| jump | (verb) increase suddenly and significantly | - |
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| (verb) rise in rank or status | Synonyms: climb up, rise |
| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: alternate |
| (verb) pass abruptly from one state or topic to another | Synonyms: leap |
| (verb) bypass | Synonyms: pass over, skip, skip over |
| (verb) make a sudden physical attack on | - |
| (verb) enter eagerly into | - |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, leap, spring |
| (verb) cause to jump or leap | Synonyms: leap |
| (verb) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm | Synonyms: start, startle |
| (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: derail |
| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jumpstart |
| (verb) jump down from an elevated point | Synonyms: jump off, leap |
| (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: chute, parachute |
| (verb) be highly noticeable | Synonyms: jump out, leap out, stand out, stick out |
| jumpstart | (verb) start or re-start vigorously | Synonyms: jump-start |
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| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jump |
| juxtapose | (verb) place side by side | - |
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| keep | (verb) prevent (food) from rotting | Synonyms: preserve |
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| (verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep back, restrain |
| (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: maintain, observe |
| (verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: maintain, sustain |
| (verb) hold and prevent from leaving | - |
| (verb) retain possession of | Synonyms: hold on |
| (verb) look after; be the keeper of; have charge of | - |
| (verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep open, save |
| (verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) have as a supply | - |
| (verb) store or keep customarily | - |
| (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: prevent |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep on, retain |
| (verb) conform one's action or practice to | Synonyms: observe |
| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: celebrate, observe |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, maintain |
| (verb) supply with room and board | - |
| (verb) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger | Synonyms: preserve |
| (verb) fail to spoil or rot | Synonyms: stay fresh |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, proceed |
| (verb) to rear | - |
| kidnap | (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, nobble, snatch |
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| kip | (verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, log Z's, sleep, slumber |
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| knap | (verb) strike sharply | Synonyms: rap |
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| (verb) break a small piece off from | Synonyms: break off, chip, cut off |
| kneecap | (verb) shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning | - |
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| lampoon | (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: satirise, satirize |
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| landscape | (verb) do landscape gardening | - |
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| (verb) embellish with plants | - |
| lap | (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lave, wash |
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| (verb) take up with the tongue | Synonyms: lap up, lick |
| (verb) pass the tongue over | Synonyms: lick |
| (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: swish, swoosh, swosh |
| (verb) lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another | - |
| lapidate | (verb) kill by throwing stones at | Synonyms: stone |
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| (verb) throw stones at | - |
| lapidify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: petrify |
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| lapse | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress |
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| (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: backslide |
| (verb) end, at least for a long time | - |
| (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: pass, sink |
| (verb) let slip | - |
| larrup | (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: paddle, spank |
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| leap | (verb) pass abruptly from one state or topic to another | Synonyms: jump |
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| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, jump, spring |
| (verb) cause to jump or leap | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) jump down from an elevated point | Synonyms: jump, jump off |
| leapfrog | (verb) progress by large jumps instead of small increments | - |
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| (verb) to vault | - |
| limp | (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, hobble |
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| (verb) proceed slowly or with difficulty | - |
| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| lipstick | (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
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| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| lisp | (verb) speak with a lisp | - |
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| lithograph | (verb) make by lithography | - |
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| lollop | (verb) walk clumsily and with a bounce | - |
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| loop | (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, curl |
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| (verb) fasten or join with a loop | - |
| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: intertwine |
| (verb) fly loops, perform a loop | - |
| (verb) move in loops | - |
| lop | (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, prune, snip, trim |
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| (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, sever |
| lope | (verb) run easily | - |
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| lump | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, collocate |
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| (verb) put together indiscriminately | Synonyms: chunk |
| lyophilise | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilize |
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| lyophilize | (verb) to dry (blood, serum, or tissue) by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: lyophilise |
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| manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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| (verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
| (verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
| map | (verb) to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | Synonyms: represent |
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| (verb) explore or survey for the purpose of making a map | - |
| (verb) make a map of; show or establish the features of details of | - |
| (verb) depict as if on a map | - |
| (verb) plan, delineate, or arrange in detail | Synonyms: map out |
| (verb) locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences | - |
| mapquest | (verb) search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program | - |
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| 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 |
| microcopy | (verb) photocopy printed or other graphic matter so that it is reduced in size | - |
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| mimeograph | (verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeo |
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| misapply | (verb) apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly | Synonyms: misuse |
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| misapprehend | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| misappropriate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate |
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| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| misperceive | (verb) perceive incorrectly | - |
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| misplace | (verb) place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position | - |
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| (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: mislay |
| misplay | (verb) play wrong or in an unskillful manner | - |
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| (verb) play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note | - |
| misprint | (verb) print incorrectly | - |
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| mispronounce | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: misspeak |
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| misrepresent | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: belie |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, wangle |
| misspeak | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: mispronounce |
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| misspell | (verb) spell incorrectly | - |
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| misspend | (verb) spend (money or other resources) unwisely | - |
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| (verb) spend time badly or unwisely | - |
| monopolise | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolize |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolize |
| monopolize | (verb) have or exploit a monopoly of | Synonyms: monopolise |
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| (verb) have and control fully and exclusively | Synonyms: monopolise |
| mop | (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mow, pout |
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| (verb) to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop | Synonyms: mop up, wipe up |
| mope | (verb) be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed | Synonyms: moon about, moon around |
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| (verb) move around slowly and aimlessly | Synonyms: mope around |
| morph | (verb) change shape as via computer animation | - |
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| (verb) cause to change shape in a computer animation | - |
| mothproof | (verb) protect from moths | - |
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| multiply | (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: breed |
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| (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: procreate, reproduce |
| (verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: manifold |
| (verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: manifold |
| (verb) combine by multiplication | - |
| namedrop | (verb) refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them | - |
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| nap | (verb) take a siesta | Synonyms: catch a wink, catnap |
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| nip | (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
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| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: clip, nip off, snip, snip off |
| (verb) give a small sharp bite to | - |
| nitpick | (verb) be overly critical; criticize minor details | - |
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| nonplus | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| obstipate | (verb) constipate severely | - |
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| occupy | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, engross |
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| (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: invade |
| (verb) require (time or space) | Synonyms: take, use up |
| (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: busy |
| (verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: fill, take |
| (verb) live (in a certain place) | Synonyms: lodge in, reside |
| (verb) occupy the whole of | Synonyms: fill |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, interest, worry |
| opacify | (verb) become opaque | - |
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| (verb) make opaque | - |
| opalesce | (verb) exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal | - |
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| (verb) reflect light or colors like an opal | - |
| opalise | (verb) replace or convert into opal | Synonyms: opalize |
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| (verb) make opalescent | Synonyms: opalize |