| accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
| amplify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: magnify |
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| (verb) increase the volume of | - |
| (verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: blow up, expand, inflate |
| (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
| applaud | (verb) express that something is worthy of praise | - |
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| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, clap, spat |
| applique | (verb) sew on as a decoration | - |
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| apply | (verb) ask (for something) | - |
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| (verb) refer (a word or name) to a person or thing | - |
| (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: employ, use, utilise, utilize |
| (verb) coat, cover or smear a surface with | Synonyms: put on |
| (verb) give or convey physically | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: practice, use |
| (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: enforce, implement |
| (verb) apply oneself to | - |
| (verb) be pertinent or relevant or applicable | Synonyms: go for, hold |
| (verb) be applicable to; as to an analysis | Synonyms: lend oneself |
| aquaplane | (verb) ride on an aquaplane | - |
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| (verb) rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road | - |
| beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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| complain | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
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| (verb) make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge | - |
| complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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| complement | (verb) make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to | - |
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| complete | (verb) bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements | - |
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| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: finish |
| (verb) write all the required information onto a form | Synonyms: fill in, fill out, make out |
| (verb) complete a pass | Synonyms: nail |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: discharge, dispatch |
| complexify | (verb) make complex | - |
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| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: ramify |
| complexion | (verb) give a certain color to | - |
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| complicate | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: perplex |
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| (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: elaborate, rarify, refine |
| compliment | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: congratulate |
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| (verb) express respect or esteem for | - |
| complot | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, conjure, conspire, machinate |
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| comply | (verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, follow |
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| contemplate | (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: meditate, study |
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| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| (verb) consider as a possibility | - |
| (verb) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought | - |
| cosplay | (verb) wear a costume to resemble a character from some media especially anime | - |
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| counterplot | (verb) make a plot in response to another plot | - |
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| couple | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, mate, pair |
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| (verb) link together | Synonyms: couple on, couple up |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: match, mate, pair, twin |
| (verb) form a pair or pairs | Synonyms: pair, pair off, partner off |
| cripple | (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: lame |
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| (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: stultify |
| crumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, knit, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: buckle |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, tumble |
| dapple | (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, mottle |
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| decouple | (verb) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) | - |
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| (verb) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) | - |
| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: dissociate |
| (verb) disconnect or separate | Synonyms: uncouple |
| deplane | (verb) get off an airplane | - |
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| deplete | (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
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| deplore | (verb) express strong condemnation of | - |
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| (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, lament |
| deploy | (verb) to distribute systematically or strategically | Synonyms: roll out |
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| deplumate | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplume, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| deplume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: displume |
| dimple | (verb) produce dimples while smiling | - |
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| (verb) mark with, or as if with, dimples | - |
| discipline | (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: correct, sort out |
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| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, train |
| displace | (verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure | - |
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| (verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: move |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: preempt |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| display | (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: exhibit, expose |
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| (verb) attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals | - |
| displease | (verb) give displeasure to | - |
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| displume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: deplume |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
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| 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 |
| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| enplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: emplane |
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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 |
| 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 | - |
| goldplate | (verb) plate with gold | Synonyms: gold-plate, gold plate |
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| grapple | (verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grip |
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| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, make do, make out, manage |
| hopple | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hobble |
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| hydroplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: seaplane |
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| implant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: plant |
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| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, plant |
| (verb) become attached to and embedded in the uterus | - |
| implement | (verb) pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue | Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through with, put through |
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| (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, enforce |
| (verb) apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design | - |
| implicate | (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: entail |
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| (verb) bring into intimate and incriminating connection | - |
| implode | (verb) burst inward | Synonyms: go off |
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| implore | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, pray |
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| imply | (verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: connote |
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| (verb) suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic | - |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, mean |
| (verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: involve |
| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: incriminate, inculpate |
| misapply | (verb) apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly | Synonyms: misuse |
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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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| outplay | (verb) excel or defeat in a game | - |
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| overexploit | (verb) exploit excessively | - |
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| overplay | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overact |
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| oversimplify | (verb) simplify to an excessive degree | - |
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| oversupply | (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, glut |
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| people | (verb) fill with people | - |
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| (verb) furnish with people | - |
| perplex | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: complicate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| placard | (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: bill |
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| (verb) post in a public place | - |
| placate | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify |
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| place | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: identify |
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| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal | Synonyms: come in, come out |
| (verb) estimate | Synonyms: put, set |
| (verb) sing a note with the correct pitch | - |
| (verb) to arrange for | - |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: post, send, station |
| (verb) finish second or better in a horse or dog race | - |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, point, target |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, pose, position, put, set |
| (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, localize, set |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, site |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, put |
| (verb) assign to (a job or a home) | - |
| (verb) place somebody in a particular situation or location | - |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, localize |
| plagiarise | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarize |
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| plagiarize | (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: lift, plagiarise |
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| plague | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, provoke |
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| (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: blight |
| plain | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off |
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| plait | (verb) weave into plaits | - |
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| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: braid, lace |
| plan | (verb) make plans for something | - |
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| (verb) have the will and intention to carry out some action | Synonyms: be after |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, project |
| plane | (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: shave |
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| (verb) make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane | - |
| (verb) travel on the surface of water | Synonyms: skim |
| plank | (verb) cook and serve on a plank | - |
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| (verb) cover with planks | Synonyms: plank over |
| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk, plunk down |
| plant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: implant |
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| (verb) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, implant |
| (verb) place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive | - |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, institute |
| (verb) place into a river | - |
| plash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
| plaster | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
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| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
| (verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
| (verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
| (verb) affix conspicuously | - |
| (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
| plasticise | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticize |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticize |
| plasticize | (verb) make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer | Synonyms: plasticise |
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| (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added | Synonyms: plasticise |
| plastinate | (verb) preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes | - |
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| plat | (verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plot |
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| plate | (verb) coat with a layer of metal | - |
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| platinize | (verb) coat with metallic platinum | - |
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| platitudinize | (verb) utter platitudes | - |
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| play | (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: toy |
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| (verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act, act as |
| (verb) exhaust by allowing to pull on the line | - |
| (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, trifle |
| (verb) participate in games or sport | - |
| (verb) bet or wager (money) | - |
| (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, meet, take on |
| (verb) put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game | - |
| (verb) make bets | - |
| (verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, wager |
| (verb) shoot or hit in a particular manner | - |
| (verb) employ in a game or in a specific position | - |
| (verb) use or move | - |
| (verb) use to one's advantage | - |
| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, toy |
| (verb) discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream | - |
| (verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: spiel |
| (verb) perform music on (a musical instrument) | - |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, represent |
| (verb) perform on a certain location | - |
| (verb) be performed or presented for public viewing | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity | - |
| (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, playact, roleplay |
| (verb) emit recorded sound | - |
| (verb) play on an instrument | - |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, work, wreak |
| (verb) move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly | - |
| (verb) cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space | - |
| (verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: recreate |
| (verb) behave in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children | - |
| (verb) act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome | - |
| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, toy |
| (verb) be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way | - |
| playact | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, roleplay |
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| pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
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| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
| plead | (verb) appeal or request earnestly | - |
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| (verb) enter a plea, as in courts of law | - |
| (verb) offer as an excuse or plea | - |
| (verb) make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts | - |
| please | (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: delight |
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| (verb) be the will of or have the will (to) | - |
| (verb) give satisfaction | - |