| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| emigrate | (verb) leave one's country of residence for a new one | - |
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| encourage | (verb) spur on | - |
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| (verb) inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to | - |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, further, promote |
| enfranchise | (verb) grant voting rights | - |
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| (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: affranchise |
| engraft | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, imbed, implant, plant |
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| (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: graft, ingraft |
| engrave | (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch |
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| (verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: etch |
| (verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: etch |
| (verb) impress or affect deeply | - |
| enrage | (verb) put into a rage; make violently angry | - |
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| enrapture | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| enthral | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| enthrall | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, ravish, transport |
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| entrain | (verb) board a train | - |
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| entrance | (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: spellbind |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, fascinate, trance |
| entrap | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, snare, trammel, trap |
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| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, frame, set up |
| enumerate | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: itemise, itemize, recite |
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| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, number, numerate |
| enwrap | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, envelop, wrap |
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| equilibrate | (verb) bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium | - |
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| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| eradicate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: exterminate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| erase | (verb) remove from memory or existence | Synonyms: wipe out |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: efface, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| estrange | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, disaffect |
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| (verb) remove from customary environment or associations | - |
| evaporate | (verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | Synonyms: vaporise, vaporize |
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| (verb) change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) cause to change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, melt |
| eviscerate | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, draw |
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| (verb) remove the contents of | - |
| (verb) take away a vital or essential part of | - |
| (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: resect |
| exaggerate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| (verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: overdo |
| exasperate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: incense, infuriate |
| execrate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate |
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| (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, abominate, loathe |
| exenterate | (verb) remove the contents of (an organ) | - |
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| exfiltrate | (verb) escape furtively, as from an area under enemy control | - |
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| (verb) transfer secretly out of an area under enemy control | - |
| exhilarate | (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
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| exonerate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate |
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| expectorate | (verb) discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth | Synonyms: cough out, cough up, spit out, spit up |
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| (verb) clear out the chest and lungs | Synonyms: clear out, drive out |
| extract | (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill |
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| (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: excerpt, take out |
| (verb) calculate the root of a number | - |
| (verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, pull, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: express, press out |
| (verb) separate (a metal) from an ore | - |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, evoke |
| (verb) get despite difficulties or obstacles | - |
| extradite | (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, deport |
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| extrapolate | (verb) estimate the value of something based on known values | Synonyms: interpolate |
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| (verb) gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating | - |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, infer |
| extravasate | (verb) cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth | - |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, erupt |
| (verb) force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel | - |
| exuberate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exult, jubilate, rejoice, triumph |
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| federalise | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalize |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
| federalize | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalise |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federate |
| federate | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
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| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalise, federalize |
| filtrate | (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter, filter out, separate out, strain |
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| finedraw | (verb) sew together very finely | - |
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| forage | (verb) wander and feed | - |
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| (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: scrounge |
| foray | (verb) briefly enter enemy territory | - |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| fraction | (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: divide |
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| fractionate | (verb) obtain by a fractional process | - |
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| (verb) separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents | - |
| fracture | (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
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| (verb) become fractured | - |
| (verb) violate or abuse | - |
| (verb) break into pieces | - |
| (verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
| fragment | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragmentise, fragmentize |
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| fragmentise | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentize |
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| fragmentize | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentise |
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| frame | (verb) make up plans or basic details for | Synonyms: compose, draw up |
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| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, put, redact |
| (verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: border, frame in |
| (verb) construct by fitting or uniting parts together | Synonyms: frame up |
| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, set up |
| (verb) enclose in a frame, as of a picture | - |
| franchise | (verb) grant a franchise to | - |
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| frank | (verb) exempt by means of an official pass or letter, as from customs or other checks | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing | Synonyms: postmark |
| frap | (verb) take up the slack of | - |
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| (verb) make secure by lashing | - |
| fraternise | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternize |
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| fraternize | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternise |
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| fray | (verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: frazzle |
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| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fret, rub, scratch |
| frazzle | (verb) exhaust physically or emotionally | - |
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| (verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: fray |
| frustrate | (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, rag, torment |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| fundraise | (verb) raise money for a cause or project | Synonyms: fund-raise, fund raise |
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| garage | (verb) keep or store in a garage | - |
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| general | (verb) command as a general | - |
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| generalise | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalize |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalize |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| generate | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) produce, create | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) produce (energy) | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: give, render, return, yield |
| grab | (verb) capture the attention or imagination of | Synonyms: seize |
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| (verb) take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) take or grasp suddenly | - |
| (verb) make a grasping or snatching motion with the hand | - |
| (verb) get hold of or seize quickly and easily | Synonyms: snaffle, snap up |
| (verb) obtain illegally or unscrupulously | - |
| grace | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, ornament |
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| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, embellish |
| gradate | (verb) pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another | - |
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| (verb) arrange according to grades | - |
| grade | (verb) determine the grade of or assign a grade to | - |
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| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: order, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: mark, score |
| (verb) level to the right gradient | - |
| graduate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: calibrate, fine-tune |
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| (verb) receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; completion of a course or training | - |
| (verb) confer an academic degree upon | - |
| graft | (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: engraft, ingraft |
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| (verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: transplant |
| grain | (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: granulate |
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| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: granulate |
| (verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: ingrain |
| (verb) paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood | - |
| grandstand | (verb) perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause | - |
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| grant | (verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: concede, yield |
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| (verb) allow to have | Synonyms: accord, allot |
| (verb) let have | Synonyms: allow |
| (verb) transfer by deed | Synonyms: deed over |
| (verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: award |
| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, concede, yield |
| (verb) bestow, especially officially | Synonyms: give |
| granulate | (verb) form granulating tissue | - |
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| (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: grain |
| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: grain |
| graph | (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: chart |
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| (verb) plot upon a graph | - |
| grapple | (verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grip |
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| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, make do, make out, manage |
| grasp | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) hold firmly | Synonyms: hold on |
| grass | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) shoot down, of birds | - |
| (verb) feed with grass | - |
| (verb) cover with grass | Synonyms: grass over |
| (verb) spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach | - |
| grate | (verb) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together | Synonyms: grind |
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| (verb) scratch repeatedly | Synonyms: scrape |
| (verb) reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface | - |
| (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, fret, rankle |
| (verb) furnish with a grate | - |
| gratify | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: indulge, pander |
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| (verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfy |
| grave | (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, inscribe, scratch |
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| (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: sculpt, sculpture |
| gravel | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cover with gravel | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| gravitate | (verb) move due to the pull of gravitation | - |
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| (verb) be attracted to | - |
| (verb) move toward | - |
| gray | (verb) turn grey | Synonyms: grey |
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| (verb) make grey | Synonyms: grey |
| graze | (verb) eat lightly, try different dishes | Synonyms: browse |
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| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: crease, rake |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, pasture, range |
| (verb) break the skin (of a body part) by scraping | - |
| (verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, pasture |
| guarantee | (verb) give surety or assume responsibility | Synonyms: vouch |
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| (verb) promise to do or accomplish | Synonyms: undertake |
| (verb) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of | Synonyms: warrant |
| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, insure, secure |
| gyrate | (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: coil, spiral |
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| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: reel, spin, spin around, whirl |
| handcraft | (verb) make something by hand | - |
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| harangue | (verb) deliver a harangue to; address forcefully | - |
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| harass | (verb) exhaust by attacking repeatedly | - |
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| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| hectograph | (verb) copy on a duplicator | - |
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| heliograph | (verb) signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays | - |
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| herald | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, harbinger |
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| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, hail |
| (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: hail |
| hurrah | (verb) shout `hurrah!' | - |
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| hydrate | (verb) cause to be hydrated; add water or moisture to | - |
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| (verb) become hydrated and combine with water | - |
| (verb) supply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance | - |
| illustrate | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, instance |
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| (verb) depict with an illustration | - |
| (verb) supply with illustrations | - |
| immigrate | (verb) come into a new country and change residency | - |
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| (verb) migrate to a new environment | - |
| (verb) introduce or send as immigrants | - |
| inaugurate | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: introduce, usher in |
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| (verb) commence officially | Synonyms: kick off |
| (verb) open ceremoniously or dedicate formally | - |
| incarcerate | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| incinerate | (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) become reduced to ashes | - |
| incorporate | (verb) make into a whole or make part of a whole | Synonyms: integrate |
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| (verb) unite or merge with something already in existence | - |
| (verb) form a corporation | - |
| (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: comprise, contain |
| indurate | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
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| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) become fixed or established | - |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: harden, inure |