| amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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| catapult | (verb) shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult | - |
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| (verb) hurl as if with a sling | Synonyms: sling |
| compute | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| computerise | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerize, cybernate |
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| (verb) store in a computer | Synonyms: computerize |
| (verb) provide with computers | Synonyms: computerize |
| computerize | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, cybernate |
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| (verb) store in a computer | Synonyms: computerise |
| (verb) provide with computers | Synonyms: computerise |
| copulate | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair |
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| depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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| depute | (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: delegate |
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| (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, designate |
| deputise | (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: depute, deputize |
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| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputize, step in, substitute |
| deputize | (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: depute, deputise |
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| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, step in, substitute |
| dispute | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, gainsay |
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| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, quarrel, scrap |
| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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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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| 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 | - |
| input | (verb) enter (data or a program) into a computer | - |
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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 |
| oppugn | (verb) challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of | Synonyms: call into question, question |
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| output | (verb) to create or manufacture a specific amount | - |
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| overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
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| popularise | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularize |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| populate | (verb) fill with inhabitants | - |
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| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, live |
| publicise | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicize |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicize |
| publicize | (verb) make public | Synonyms: air, bare, publicise |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, publicise |
| publish | (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, put out, release |
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| (verb) have (one's work) issued for publication | - |
| (verb) put into print | Synonyms: print |
| pucker | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple |
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| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, tuck |
| (verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: ruck, ruck up |
| puddle | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, muddle |
| (verb) mess around, as in a liquid or paste | - |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: muddle |
| (verb) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud | - |
| (verb) make a puddle by splashing water | - |
| (verb) dip into mud before planting | - |
| (verb) subject to puddling or form by puddling | - |
| (verb) wade or dabble in a puddle | - |
| puff | (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, heave, pant |
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| (verb) blow hard and loudly | Synonyms: chuff, huff |
| (verb) to swell or cause to enlarge | Synonyms: blow up, puff out, puff up |
| (verb) speak in a blustering or scornful manner | - |
| (verb) praise extravagantly | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, draw |
| (verb) smoke and exhale strongly | Synonyms: whiff |
| (verb) make proud or conceited | - |
| puke | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| pule | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, wail, whimper |
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| pull | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: overstretch |
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| (verb) take away | - |
| (verb) take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for | Synonyms: root for, side with |
| (verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: rend, rip, rive |
| (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw, draw in, pull in |
| (verb) hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing | - |
| (verb) apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion | - |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, tear |
| (verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
| (verb) steer into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) move into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) operate when rowing a boat | - |
| (verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: draw, get out, pull out, take out |
| (verb) rein in to keep from winning a race | - |
| (verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, perpetrate |
| pullulate | (verb) breed freely and abundantly | - |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud |
| (verb) become abundant; increase rapidly | - |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem |
| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: swarm, teem |
| pulp | (verb) reduce to pulp | - |
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| (verb) remove the pulp from, as from a fruit | - |
| pulsate | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulse |
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| (verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulse, throb |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, quiver |
| pulse | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulsate |
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| (verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulsate, throb |
| (verb) drive by or as if by pulsation | - |
| pulverise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverize |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverize |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverize |
| pulverize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverise |
| pumice | (verb) rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen | - |
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| pummel | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: biff, pommel |
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| pump | (verb) question persistently | - |
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| (verb) deliver forth | - |
| (verb) operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal | - |
| (verb) raise (gases or fluids) with a pump | - |
| (verb) draw or pour with a pump | - |
| (verb) flow intermittently | - |
| (verb) move up and down | - |
| (verb) supply in great quantities | - |
| pun | (verb) make a play on words | - |
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| punch | (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: plug |
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| (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch | - |
| punctuate | (verb) insert punctuation marks into | Synonyms: mark |
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| (verb) interrupt periodically | - |
| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, stress |
| puncture | (verb) cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing | - |
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| (verb) be pierced or punctured | - |
| (verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: deflate |
| (verb) pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into | - |
| (verb) make by piercing | - |
| punish | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, penalize |
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| punt | (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, stake |
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| (verb) propel with a pole | Synonyms: pole |
| (verb) kick the ball | - |
| pup | (verb) give birth to (a puppy) | Synonyms: whelp |
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| pupate | (verb) develop into a pupa | - |
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| purchase | (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: buy |
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| puree | (verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: strain |
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| purge | (verb) excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) | - |
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| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| (verb) rid of impurities | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, scour |
| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purify, sanctify |
| (verb) clear of a charge | - |
| (verb) oust politically | - |
| purify | (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, sublimate |
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| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, sanctify |
| (verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin | - |
| purl | (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: sough |
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| (verb) embroider with gold or silver thread | - |
| (verb) edge or border with gold or silver embroidery | - |
| (verb) knit with a purl stitch | - |
| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
| purloin | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| purple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purpurate |
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| (verb) become purple | - |
| purport | (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purpose |
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| (verb) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming | - |
| purpose | (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: resolve |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purport |
| purpurate | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purple |
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| purr | (verb) indicate pleasure by purring; characteristic of cats | Synonyms: make vibrant sounds |
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| (verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz |
| purse | (verb) contract one's lips into a rounded shape | - |
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| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: wrinkle |
| pursue | (verb) go in search of or hunt for | Synonyms: go after, quest after, quest for |
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| (verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, prosecute |
| (verb) carry further or advance | Synonyms: act on, follow up on |
| purvey | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: provision |
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| push | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, promote |
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| (verb) press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action | Synonyms: bear on |
| (verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: press |
| (verb) move with force | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) press against forcefully without moving | - |
| (verb) move strenuously and with effort | - |
| (verb) sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs) | - |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, labour, tug |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, press |
| pussyfoot | (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, sneak |
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| pussyfuck | (verb) to have vaginal intercourse | - |
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| put | (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, order, set up |
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| (verb) estimate | Synonyms: place, set |
| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, redact |
| (verb) attribute or give | Synonyms: assign |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, set |
| (verb) cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation | - |
| (verb) adapt | - |
| (verb) cause (someone) to undergo something | - |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, place |
| putrefy | (verb) become putrid; decay with an offensive smell | - |
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| putt | (verb) strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter | - |
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| (verb) hit a putt | - |
| putter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around |
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| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: potter |
| putty | (verb) apply putty in order to fix or fill | - |
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| puzzle | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide | - |
| republish | (verb) revive (a cancelled will or a libel) | - |
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| (verb) publish again | - |
| repudiate | (verb) refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid | - |
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| (verb) cast off | Synonyms: disown, renounce |
| (verb) reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust | - |
| (verb) refuse to recognize or pay | - |
| repugn | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contend, contest |
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| repulse | (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, rebuff, repel |
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| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repel |
| (verb) be repellent to; cause aversion in | Synonyms: repel |
| repurchase | (verb) buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away | Synonyms: buy back |
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| repute | (verb) look on as or consider | Synonyms: be known as, esteem, know as, look on, look upon, regard as, take to be, think of |
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| rumpus | (verb) cause a disturbance | - |
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| spud | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout |
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| (verb) initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum | - |
| spue | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, ptyalize, spew, spit |
| spume | (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: froth, suds |
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| spur | (verb) goad with spurs | - |
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| (verb) equip with spurs | - |
| (verb) strike with a spur | - |
| (verb) give heart or courage to | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) incite or stimulate | - |
| spurn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, turn down |
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| spurt | (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: squirt |
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| (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: forge, spirt |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spout |
| sputter | (verb) spit up in an explosive manner | Synonyms: spit out, splutter |
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| (verb) cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed | - |
| (verb) utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | Synonyms: splutter |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle |
| (verb) make an explosive sound | - |
| stipulate | (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify |
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| (verb) give a guarantee or promise of | - |
| (verb) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force | - |
| suppurate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, maturate |
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| (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: mature |