| calender | (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
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| calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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| (verb) measure the caliber of | - |
| (verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
| caliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
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| calligraph | (verb) write beautifully and ornamentally | - |
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| calliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: caliper |
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| camber | (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
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| camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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| canker | (verb) infect with a canker | - |
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| (verb) become infected with a canker | - |
| canter | (verb) ride at a canter | - |
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| (verb) go at a canter, of horses | - |
| (verb) cause to ride at a cantering pace | - |
| cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
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| (verb) project as a cantilever | - |
| caparison | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, barde, dress up |
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| caper | (verb) jump about playfully | - |
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| capriole | (verb) perform a capriole, in ballet | - |
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| (verb) perform a capriole, of horses in dressage | - |
| capture | (verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: catch |
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| (verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: catch, get |
| (verb) succeed in representing or expressing something intangible | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, conquer, seize |
| (verb) bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit | - |
| caracole | (verb) make a half turn on a horse, in dressage | - |
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| caramelise | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
| caramelize | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
| caravan | (verb) travel in a caravan | - |
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| carbonate | (verb) treat with carbon dioxide | - |
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| (verb) turn into a carbonate | - |
| carbonise | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonize |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonize, carburise, carburize |
| carbonize | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonise |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carburise, carburize |
| carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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| carburet | (verb) combine with carbon | - |
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| carburise | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburize |
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| carburize | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburise |
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| card | (verb) ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor | - |
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| (verb) separate the fibers of | Synonyms: tease |
| care | (verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: like, wish |
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| (verb) feel concern or interest | - |
| (verb) be concerned with | Synonyms: worry |
| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: deal, handle, manage |
| (verb) provide care for | Synonyms: give care |
| careen | (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: shift, tilt, wobble |
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| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: keel, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
| career | (verb) move headlong at high speed | - |
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| caress | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: fondle |
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| caricature | (verb) represent in or produce a caricature of | Synonyms: ape |
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| carjack | (verb) take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it | - |
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| cark | (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
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| carmine | (verb) color carmine | - |
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| carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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| carnalize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, sensualise, sensualize |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: sensualize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: sensualize |
| carnify | (verb) become muscular or fleshy | - |
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| carol | (verb) sing carols | - |
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| carom | (verb) make a carom | - |
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| (verb) rebound after hitting | - |
| carouse | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
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| carp | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: cavil, chicane |
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| carpenter | (verb) work as a carpenter | - |
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| carpet | (verb) cover with a carpet | - |
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| (verb) cover completely, as if with a carpet | - |
| (verb) form a carpet-like cover (over) | - |
| carry | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, comport, conduct, deport, do |
| (verb) continue or extend | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) include, as on a list | - |
| (verb) sing or play against other voices or parts | - |
| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: convey, express |
| (verb) pass on a communication | - |
| (verb) win in an election | - |
| (verb) secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions) | - |
| (verb) cover a certain distance or advance beyond | - |
| (verb) have a certain range | - |
| (verb) be successful in | - |
| (verb) drink alcohol without showing ill effects | Synonyms: hold |
| (verb) be able to feed | - |
| (verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: bear, hold |
| (verb) move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body | Synonyms: transport |
| (verb) propel | Synonyms: dribble |
| (verb) bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of | - |
| (verb) propel or give impetus to | - |
| (verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) bear (a crop) | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: channel, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
| (verb) pursue a line of scent or be a bearer | - |
| (verb) transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication | - |
| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: stock, stockpile |
| (verb) capture after a fight | - |
| (verb) have on the surface or on the skin | - |
| (verb) transfer (entries) from one account book to another | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) extend to a certain degree | - |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: persuade, sway |
| (verb) compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance | - |
| (verb) take further or advance | - |
| (verb) have with oneself; have on one's person | Synonyms: pack, take |
| (verb) be necessarily associated with or result in or involve | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, contain, hold |
| (verb) be equipped with (a mast or sail) | - |
| (verb) have or possess something abstract | - |
| (verb) have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence | - |
| (verb) keep up with financial support | - |
| (verb) be conveyed over a certain distance | - |
| cart | (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: drag, hale, haul |
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| (verb) transport something in a cart | - |
| cartoon | (verb) draw cartoons of | - |
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| cartwheel | (verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
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| carve | (verb) cut to pieces | Synonyms: cut up |
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| (verb) form by carving | - |
| (verb) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface | Synonyms: chip at |
| cashier | (verb) discharge with dishonor, as in the army | - |
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| (verb) discard or do away with | - |
| castrate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, neuter, spay |
| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: emasculate |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten |
| categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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| categorize | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorise |
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| cater | (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: ply, provide, supply |
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| (verb) supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets | - |
| caterwaul | (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
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| catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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| catheterize | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterise |
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| cauterise | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterize |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterize |
| cauterize | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterise |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterise |
| cavern | (verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
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| cavort | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
| (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
| censor | (verb) subject to political, religious, or moral censorship | - |
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| (verb) forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) | Synonyms: ban |
| censure | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: criminate, reprimand |
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| center | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
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| (verb) move into the center | Synonyms: centre |
| (verb) center upon | Synonyms: center on, centre, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
| centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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| centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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| centre | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
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| (verb) move into the center | Synonyms: center |
| (verb) center upon | Synonyms: center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
| centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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| centrifuge | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifugate |
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| cere | (verb) wrap up in a cerecloth | - |
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| cerebrate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cogitate, think |
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| certificate | (verb) authorize by certificate | - |
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| (verb) present someone with a certificate | - |
| certify | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
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| (verb) declare legally insane | - |
| (verb) guarantee payment on; of checks | - |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: endorse, indorse |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: licence, license |
| chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
| chagrin | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, humble, humiliate, mortify |
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| chair | (verb) preside over | Synonyms: lead, moderate |
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| (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chairman |
| chairman | (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
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| chamber | (verb) place in a chamber | - |
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| chamfer | (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chase, furrow |
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| (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: bevel |
| chaperon | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperone |
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| chaperone | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperon |
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| char | (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, scorch, sear |
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| (verb) burn to charcoal | Synonyms: coal |
| character | (verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
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| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
| charcoal | (verb) draw, trace, or represent with charcoal | - |
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| charge | (verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge | - |
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| (verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on | - |
| (verb) saturate | - |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: blame |
| (verb) set or ask for a certain price | - |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: file, lodge |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, saddle |
| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: accuse |
| (verb) make an accusatory claim | - |
| (verb) instruct or command with authority | - |
| (verb) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence | - |
| (verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle | Synonyms: bear down |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: level, point |
| (verb) fill or load to capacity | - |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: load |
| (verb) place a heraldic bearing on | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt | - |
| (verb) enter a certain amount as a charge | - |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: bill |
| (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: consign |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: appoint |
| chariot | (verb) ride in a chariot | - |
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| (verb) transport in a chariot | - |
| charm | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: influence, tempt |
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| (verb) protect through supernatural powers or charms | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: becharm |
| chart | (verb) plan in detail | - |
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| (verb) make a chart of | - |
| (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: graph |
| charter | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: engage, hire, lease, rent, take |
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| (verb) grant a charter to | - |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: hire, lease, rent |
| chatter | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| (verb) make noise as if chattering away | - |
| (verb) cut unevenly with a chattering tool | - |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: click |
| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| chauffeur | (verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
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| checker | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
| checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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| cheer | (verb) become cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) show approval or good wishes by shouting | - |
| (verb) cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up |
| (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate |
| cheerlead | (verb) act as a cheerleader in a sports event | - |
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| chemisorb | (verb) take up a substance by chemisorption | - |
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| chequer | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: checker |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, checker |