| contradance | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
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| contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contrast | (verb) put in opposition to show or emphasize differences | - |
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| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: counterpoint |
| contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
| cooperate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: collaborate, join forces |
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| corrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, abrase, rub down, rub off |
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| corral | (verb) enclose in a corral | - |
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| (verb) arrange wagons so that they form a corral | - |
| (verb) gather and secure | - |
| corroborate | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, substantiate, support, sustain |
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| (verb) give evidence for | Synonyms: validate |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, support, underpin |
| counteract | (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, antagonize |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: countercheck |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counterbalance, countervail, neutralize |
| counterattack | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterstrike |
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| crab | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
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| (verb) fish for crab | - |
| (verb) scurry sideways like a crab | - |
| (verb) direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind | - |
| crack | (verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
| (verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
| (verb) cause to become cracked | - |
| (verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
| (verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
| (verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
| (verb) tell spontaneously | - |
| (verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
| (verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
| crackle | (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| cradle | (verb) run with the stick | - |
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| (verb) hold gently and carefully | - |
| (verb) wash in a cradle | - |
| (verb) cut grain with a cradle scythe | - |
| (verb) hold or place in or as if in a cradle | - |
| (verb) bring up from infancy | - |
| craft | (verb) make by hand and with much skill | - |
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| cram | (verb) prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam | - |
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| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, jam, jampack, ram, wad |
| (verb) put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled | - |
| cramp | (verb) suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | - |
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| (verb) affect with or as if with a cramp | - |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: halter, hamper, strangle |
| (verb) secure with a cramp | - |
| cranch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: craunch, crunch, grind |
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| crane | (verb) stretch (the neck) so as to see better | Synonyms: stretch out |
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| crank | (verb) rotate with a crank | Synonyms: crank up |
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| (verb) bend into the shape of a crank | - |
| (verb) fasten with a crank | - |
| (verb) start by cranking | Synonyms: crank up |
| (verb) travel along a zigzag path | Synonyms: zigzag |
| crap | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, defecate, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| crape | (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up |
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| (verb) cover or drape with crape | Synonyms: crepe |
| crash | (verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: doss, doss down |
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| (verb) stop operating | Synonyms: go down |
| (verb) undergo a sudden and severe downturn | - |
| (verb) undergo damage or destruction on impact | Synonyms: ram |
| (verb) break violently or noisily; smash | Synonyms: break apart, break up |
| (verb) cause to crash | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: dash |
| (verb) enter uninvited; informal | Synonyms: barge in, gate-crash |
| (verb) move with, or as if with, a crashing noise | - |
| (verb) fall or come down violently | - |
| (verb) move violently as through a barrier | - |
| (verb) make a sudden loud sound | - |
| (verb) occupy, usually uninvited | - |
| crate | (verb) put into a crate; as for protection | - |
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| craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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| crave | (verb) plead or ask for earnestly | - |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: hunger, lust, starve, thirst |
| crawfish | (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
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| crawl | (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
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| (verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| (verb) be full of | - |
| (verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
| crayon | (verb) write, draw, or trace with a crayon | - |
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| craze | (verb) develop a fine network of cracks | - |
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| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: madden |
| deaerate | (verb) remove air or gas from | Synonyms: de-aerate |
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| decelerate | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: retard, slow, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) reduce the speed of | Synonyms: slow down |
| decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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| decentralize | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, deconcentrate |
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| decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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| deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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| deconsecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: desecrate, unhallow |
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| decorate | (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: dress |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, embellish, grace, ornament |
| (verb) award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to | - |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, embellish, grace |
| defenestrate | (verb) throw through or out of the window | - |
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| deflagrate | (verb) burn with great heat and intense light | - |
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| (verb) cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity | - |
| defraud | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| defray | (verb) bear the expenses of | - |
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| degenerate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop |
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| degrade | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: cheapen |
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| (verb) reduce the level of land, as by erosion | - |
| (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: demean, disgrace, put down, take down |
| dehydrate | (verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: desiccate, dry up, exsiccate |
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| (verb) remove water from | Synonyms: desiccate |
| (verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from | Synonyms: desiccate |
| deliberate | (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: debate |
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| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, moot, turn over |
| demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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| demineralize | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralise |
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| democratise | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
| democratize | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
| demonstrate | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: establish, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, evidence, manifest |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, exhibit, present, show |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: march |
| demoralise | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| demoralize | (verb) confuse or put into disorder | - |
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| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
| denaturalize | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalise |
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| (verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalise |
| denigrate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, derogate, minimize |
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| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
| deprave | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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| deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
| derail | (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: jump |
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| (verb) cause to run off the tracks | - |
| derange | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: perturb, throw out of kilter |
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| (verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: unbalance |
| derate | (verb) lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus | - |
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| desacralize | (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: secularize |
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| desecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, unhallow |
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| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: outrage, profane, violate |
| deteriorate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, devolve, drop |
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| (verb) become worse or disintegrate | - |
| detract | (verb) take away a part from; diminish | Synonyms: take away |
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| detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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| detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| diagram | (verb) make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed | Synonyms: plot |
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| diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
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| disarrange | (verb) disturb the arrangement of | - |
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| (verb) destroy the arrangement or order of | - |
| disarray | (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disorder |
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| discourage | (verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: deter |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, monish, warn |
| (verb) deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged | - |
| disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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| disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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| disfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disenfranchise |
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| disgrace | (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: discredit |
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| (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, demean, put down, take down |
| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, dishonor, dishonour, shame |
| disintegrate | (verb) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity | - |
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| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, decompose |
| (verb) cause to undergo fission or lose particles | - |
| disparage | (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: belittle, pick at |
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| distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| downgrade | (verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
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| draft | (verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: enlist, muster in |
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| (verb) draw up an outline or sketch for something | Synonyms: outline |
| (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draught |
| drag | (verb) proceed for an extended period of time | Synonyms: drag on, drag out |
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| (verb) persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting | - |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: draw, puff |
| (verb) pull, as against a resistance | - |
| (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, hale, haul |
| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: dredge |
| (verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back, trail |
| (verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: scuff |
| (verb) move slowly and as if with great effort | - |
| (verb) use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it | - |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
| draggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: bedraggle |
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| dragoon | (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: railroad, sandbag |
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| (verb) subjugate by imposing troops | - |
| drain | (verb) empty of liquid; drain the liquid from | - |
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| (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, enfeeble |
| (verb) deplete of resources | - |
| (verb) flow off gradually | Synonyms: run out |
| dramatise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| (verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatize |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatize |
| dramatize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| (verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatise |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatise |
| drape | (verb) arrange in a particular way | - |
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| (verb) place casually | - |
| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, clothe, robe |
| (verb) cover or dress loosely with cloth | - |
| draught | (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draft |
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| draw | (verb) cause to localize at one point | - |
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| (verb) shrink | - |
| (verb) flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching | - |
| (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate |
| (verb) reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die | - |
| (verb) bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition | - |
| (verb) steep; pass through a strainer | - |
| (verb) make, formulate, or derive in the mind | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) select or take in from a given group or region | - |
| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, describe |
| (verb) finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. | Synonyms: tie |
| (verb) choose at random | Synonyms: cast |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, puff |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, line, trace |
| (verb) move or pull so as to cover or uncover something | - |
| (verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: pull |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw in, pull, pull in |
| (verb) stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow) | Synonyms: pull back |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: guide, pass, run |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: string, thread |
| (verb) represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface | - |
| (verb) earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) engage in drawing | - |
| (verb) write a legal document or paper | - |
| (verb) elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc. | - |
| (verb) take liquid out of a container or well | Synonyms: take out |
| (verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: get out, pull, pull out, take out |
| (verb) move or go steadily or gradually | - |
| (verb) to obtain a liquid from somewhere | - |
| (verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: pull |
| (verb) get or derive | Synonyms: reap |
| (verb) remove (a commodity) from (a supply source) | Synonyms: draw off, take out, withdraw |
| (verb) pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him | Synonyms: draw and quarter, quarter |
| (verb) allow a draft | - |
| (verb) require a specified depth for floating | - |
| drawl | (verb) lengthen and slow down or draw out | - |
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| dulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| edulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, sweeten |
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| elaborate | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine |
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| (verb) work out in detail | Synonyms: work out |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product | - |
| embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| embrace | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, espouse, sweep up |
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| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, encompass |