| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| expurgate | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
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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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| repurchase | (verb) buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away | Synonyms: buy back |
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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 |
| suppurate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, maturate |
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| (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: mature |