| aspirate | (verb) inhale (air, water, etc.) | - |
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| (verb) pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds | - |
| (verb) remove by suction | Synonyms: draw out, suck out |
| aspire | (verb) have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal | Synonyms: aim, draw a bead on, shoot for |
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| auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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| (verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
| (verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
| capitalize | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalise |
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| (verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalise |
| (verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalise |
| (verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalise |
| (verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalise, take advantage |
| (verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalise |
| capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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| champion | (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: defend |
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| coconspire | (verb) conspire together | - |
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| compile | (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compose |
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| (verb) use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed | - |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| conspire | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, machinate |
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| (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: collude |
| creampie | (verb) The act of ejaculating inside another person | - |
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| crepitate | (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crackle |
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| decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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| decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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| (verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
| depict | (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: describe, draw |
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| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: picture, render, show |
| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: limn, portray |
| depilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: epilate |
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| despise | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, disdain, scorn |
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| dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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| (verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
| dispirit | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, get down |
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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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| 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 |
| horripilate | (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps | - |
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| (verb) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps | - |
| hospitalise | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalize |
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| hospitalize | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalise |
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| impinge | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, trench |
| 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 |
| 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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| nitpick | (verb) be overly critical; criticize minor details | - |
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| opine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, reckon, suppose, think |
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| (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: animadvert, sound off, speak out, speak up |
| overcapitalise | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| overcapitalize | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| palpitate | (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: flutter |
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| (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: quake, quiver |
| (verb) cause to throb or beat rapidly | - |
| perspire | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: sudate, sweat |
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| pick | (verb) remove in small bits | - |
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| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) select carefully from a group | - |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: blame, find fault |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, piece |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, peck |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pluck |
| (verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pluck, plunk |
| (verb) provoke | - |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: foot |
| (verb) pilfer or rob | - |
| picket | (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
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| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| pickle | (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
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| picnic | (verb) eat alfresco, in the open air | - |
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| picture | (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
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| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| piddle | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
| piece | (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: patch |
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| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, pick |
| (verb) join during spinning | - |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: patch |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
| pierce | (verb) make a hole into | - |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cut or make a way through | - |
| (verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | - |
| (verb) sound sharply or shrilly | - |
| piffle | (verb) act in a trivial or ineffective way | - |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| pig | (verb) give birth to (piglets) | Synonyms: farrow |
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| (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, guttle, raven |
| (verb) live like a pig, in squalor | Synonyms: pig it |
| pigeonhole | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
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| (verb) place into a small compartment | - |
| piggyback | (verb) bring into alignment with | - |
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| (verb) support on the back and shoulders | - |
| (verb) haul by railroad car | - |
| (verb) haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars | - |
| (verb) ride on someone's shoulders or back | - |
| pigment | (verb) color or dye with a pigment | - |
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| (verb) acquire pigment; become colored or imbued | - |
| pile | (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, stack |
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| (verb) place or lay as if in a pile | - |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng |
| pilfer | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| pillage | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
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| pillory | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, savage |
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| (verb) punish by putting in a pillory | - |
| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: gibbet |
| pillow | (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: rest |
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| pilot | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: aviate, fly |
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| (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: navigate |
| pimp | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, procure |
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| pin | (verb) (chess) immobilize a piece | - |
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| (verb) attach or fasten with pins | - |
| (verb) pierce with a pin | - |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, trap |
| pinch | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
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| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
| (verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| pine | (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, languish, yearn, yen |
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| ping | (verb) send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active | - |
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| (verb) contact, usually in order to remind of something | - |
| (verb) hit with a pinging noise | - |
| (verb) make a short high-pitched sound | - |
| (verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: knock, pink |
| pinion | (verb) cut the wings off (of birds) | - |
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| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: shackle |
| pink | (verb) cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing | - |
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| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: knock, rap, tap |
| (verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: knock, ping |
| pinkify | (verb) make pink | - |
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| pinnacle | (verb) raise on or as if on a pinnacle | - |
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| (verb) surmount with a pinnacle | - |
| pinpoint | (verb) locate exactly | Synonyms: nail |
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| pioneer | (verb) open up and explore a new area | - |
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| (verb) open up an area or prepare a way | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of | Synonyms: initiate |
| pip | (verb) defeat thoroughly | Synonyms: mop up, rack up, whip, worst |
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| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, shoot |
| (verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: shoot |
| pipe | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe up, shriek, shrill |
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| (verb) play on a pipe | - |
| (verb) trim with piping | - |
| (verb) transport by pipeline | - |
| pique | (verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: offend |
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| pirate | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, hijack |
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| (verb) copy illegally; of published material | - |
| pirouette | (verb) do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance | - |
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| piss | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| pit | (verb) remove the pits from | Synonyms: stone |
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| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, oppose, play off |
| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pock, scar |
| pitch | (verb) set to a certain pitch | - |
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| (verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: gear |
| (verb) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit | - |
| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, sky, toss |
| (verb) erect and fasten | Synonyms: set up |
| (verb) hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) fall or plunge forward | - |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, slope |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, shift |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend |
| pitchfork | (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: fork |
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| pith | (verb) remove the pith from (a plant) | - |
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| pity | (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: compassionate, condole with, feel for, sympathize with |
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| pivot | (verb) turn on a pivot | Synonyms: swivel |
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| precipitate | (verb) separate as a fine suspension of solid particles | - |
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| (verb) hurl or throw violently | - |
| (verb) bring about abruptly | - |
| (verb) fall vertically, sharply, or headlong | - |
| (verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, fall |
| propitiate | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: appease |
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| recapitulate | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life | - |
| repine | (verb) express discontent | - |
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| respire | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: breathe, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide | - |
| (verb) breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety | - |
| respite | (verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: reprieve |
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| spice | (verb) make more interesting or flavorful | Synonyms: spice up |
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| (verb) add herbs or spices to | Synonyms: spice up, zest |
| spiel | (verb) speak at great length (about something) | - |
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| (verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: play |
| spike | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: fortify, lace |
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| (verb) bring forth a spike or spikes | Synonyms: spike out |
| (verb) manifest a sharp increase | - |
| (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, impale, transfix |
| (verb) secure with spikes | - |
| (verb) stand in the way of | - |
| spill | (verb) reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) | - |
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| (verb) reveal information | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, shed |
| (verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, shed |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, splatter |
| (verb) flow, run or fall out and become lost | Synonyms: run out |
| spin | (verb) prolong or extend | Synonyms: spin out |
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| (verb) twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation | - |
| (verb) work natural fibers into a thread | - |
| (verb) form a web by making a thread | - |
| (verb) make up a story | - |
| (verb) stream in jets, of liquids | - |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, reel, spin around, whirl |
| (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: birl, twirl, whirl |
| spiral | (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: coil, gyrate |
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| (verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: corkscrew |
| (verb) form a spiral | - |
| spirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: inspirit, spirit up |
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| spiritise | (verb) imbue with a spirit | Synonyms: spiritize |
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| spiritize | (verb) imbue with a spirit | Synonyms: spiritise |
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| spiritualise | (verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world | Synonyms: spiritualize |
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| (verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense | Synonyms: spiritualize |
| spiritualize | (verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world | Synonyms: spiritualise |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, transfigure |
| (verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense | Synonyms: spiritualise |
| spirt | (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: forge, spurt |
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| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spout, spurt |
| spit | (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, ptyalize, spew, spue |
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| (verb) utter with anger or contempt | Synonyms: spit out |
| (verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: skewer |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, sprinkle |