| cherish | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, hold dear, treasure |
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| childproof | (verb) make safe against children | Synonyms: child-proof |
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| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chirp | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirrup, peep |
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| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: tweedle |
| chirr | (verb) make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas | - |
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| chirrup | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, peep |
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| chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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| chlorinate | (verb) disinfect with chlorine | - |
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| (verb) treat or combine with chlorine | - |
| chloroform | (verb) anesthetize with chloroform | - |
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| choir | (verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: chorus |
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| chondrify | (verb) turn into cartilage | - |
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| chord | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize |
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| (verb) play chords on (a stringed instrument) | - |
| choreograph | (verb) plan and oversee the development and details of | - |
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| (verb) compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music | - |
| chortle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chuckle, laugh softly |
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| chorus | (verb) utter in unison | - |
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| (verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: choir |
| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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| chrome | (verb) treat with a chromium compound | - |
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| (verb) plate with chromium | Synonyms: chromium-plate |
| chronicle | (verb) record in chronological order; make a historical record | - |
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| chronologise | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologize |
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| chronologize | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologise |
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| church | (verb) perform a special church rite or service for | - |
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| churn | (verb) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter | - |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, moil, roil |
| churr | (verb) make a vibrant sound, as of some birds | Synonyms: whirr |
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| cicatrise | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrize |
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| cicatrize | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrise |
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| cipher | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
| circle | (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: encircle |
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| (verb) move in a circular path above (someone or something) | - |
| (verb) travel around something | - |
| circuit | (verb) make a circuit | - |
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| circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
| circularize | (verb) make circular | - |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularise |
| (verb) canvass by using a questionnaire | - |
| circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
| (verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
| (verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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| (verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
| circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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| citrate | (verb) cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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| clabber | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clot, curdle |
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| clamber | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| clamor | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamour |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamour |
| (verb) compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring | - |
| clamour | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
| clangor | (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangour |
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| (verb) make a loud noise | Synonyms: clang |
| clangour | (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangor |
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| clapboard | (verb) cover with clapboards | - |
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| clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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| (verb) claw with the nails | - |
| claret | (verb) drink claret | - |
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| clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
| clarion | (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion | - |
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| (verb) blow the clarion | - |
| clatter | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clack |
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| claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| clear | (verb) remove | - |
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| (verb) rid of obstructions | Synonyms: unclutter |
| (verb) make clear, bright, light, or translucent | - |
| (verb) free (the throat) by making a rasping sound | Synonyms: clear up |
| (verb) make a way or path by removing objects | - |
| (verb) remove the occupants of | - |
| (verb) remove (people) from a building | - |
| (verb) rid of instructions or data | - |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
| (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, pass |
| (verb) settle, as of a debt | Synonyms: solve |
| (verb) pass by, over, or under without making contact | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) pass an inspection or receive authorization | - |
| (verb) go away or disappear | - |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, earn, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) yield as a net profit | Synonyms: net |
| (verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: net, sack, sack up |
| (verb) be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts | - |
| (verb) sell to get rid of | - |
| (verb) clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc. | - |
| (verb) free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment | - |
| (verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: pass |
| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: brighten, clear up, light up |
| clerk | (verb) work as a clerk, as in the legal business | - |
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| clinker | (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
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| (verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
| clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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| clobber | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
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| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, batter |
| cloister | (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
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| (verb) surround with a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
| closure | (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: cloture |
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| cloture | (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: closure |
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| cluster | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
| clutter | (verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
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| coarsen | (verb) make less subtle or refined | - |
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| (verb) make or become coarse or coarser | - |
| cocker | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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| coconspire | (verb) conspire together | - |
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| coerce | (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: force, hale, pressure, squeeze |
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| cohere | (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, stick |
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| (verb) have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results | - |
| (verb) cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole | - |
| coiffure | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, do, dress, set |
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| coinsure | (verb) take out coinsurance | - |
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| coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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| collaborate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: cooperate, join forces |
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| (verb) cooperate as a traitor | - |
| collar | (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
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| (verb) furnish with a collar | - |
| (verb) seize by the neck or collar | - |
| collateralize | (verb) pledge as a collateral | - |
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| color | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize |
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| (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: colour, discolor, discolour |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: colour, distort, tinge |
| (verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | Synonyms: colour, gloss |
| (verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: colour, emblazon |
| (verb) modify or bias | Synonyms: colour |
| colorcast | (verb) broadcast in color | - |
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| colorise | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize |
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| colorize | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize |
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| colour | (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, discolor, discolour |
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| (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, distort, tinge |
| (verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | Synonyms: color, gloss |
| (verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, emblazon |
| (verb) modify or bias | Synonyms: color |
| colourise | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourize |
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| colourize | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise |
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| comfort | (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: ease |
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| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: console, solace, soothe |
| commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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| commemorate | (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: remember |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: mark |
| commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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| commercialize | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, market |
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| (verb) exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality | - |
| commiserate | (verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: sympathise, sympathize |
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| compare | (verb) examine and note the similarities or differences of | - |
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| (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: equate, liken |
| (verb) to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb | - |
| (verb) be comparable | - |
| compart | (verb) lay out in parts according to a plan | - |
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| compartmentalise | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalize, cut up |
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| compartmentalize | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalise, cut up |
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| compere | (verb) act as a master of ceremonies | Synonyms: emcee |
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| comport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: behave |
| comprehend | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: perceive |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: cover, embrace, encompass |
| compress | (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compact, pack together |
| comprise | (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: contain, incorporate |
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| (verb) be composed of | Synonyms: consist |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, constitute, make up, represent |
| compromise | (verb) settle by concession | - |
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| (verb) make a compromise; arrive at a compromise | - |
| (verb) expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute | - |