appraise | (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: survey |
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(verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: assess, evaluate, measure, valuate, value |
arraign | (verb) accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy | - |
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(verb) call before a court to answer an indictment | - |
braid | (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: pleach |
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(verb) decorate with braids or ribbons | - |
(verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: lace, plait |
brail | (verb) haul fish aboard with brails | - |
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(verb) take in a sail with a brail | - |
braille | (verb) transcribe in braille | - |
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brain | (verb) hit on the head | - |
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(verb) kill by smashing someone's skull | - |
brainstorm | (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
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brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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(verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
braise | (verb) cook in liquid | - |
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constrain | (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: stiffen, tighten, tighten up |
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(verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, hold, restrain |
(verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: enforce, impose |
contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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derail | (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: jump |
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(verb) cause to run off the tracks | - |
detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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(verb) levy a distress on | - |
(verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
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 |
entrain | (verb) board a train | - |
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fundraise | (verb) raise money for a cause or project | Synonyms: fund-raise, fund raise |
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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 | - |
ingrain | (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, instill |
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(verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: grain |
overpraise | (verb) praise excessively | - |
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overstrain | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overextend |
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praise | (verb) express approval of | - |
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raid | (verb) search for something needed or desired | - |
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(verb) enter someone else's territory and take spoils | Synonyms: foray into |
(verb) take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock | - |
(verb) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on | Synonyms: bust |
rail | (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: inveigh |
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(verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: revile, vilify, vituperate |
(verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: fulminate |
(verb) fish with a handline over the rails of a boat | - |
(verb) lay with rails | - |
(verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: train |
(verb) separate with a railing | Synonyms: rail off |
(verb) convey (goods etc.) by rails | - |
(verb) provide with rails | - |
(verb) enclose with rails | Synonyms: rail in |
railroad | (verb) transport by railroad | - |
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(verb) supply with railroad lines | - |
(verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, sandbag |
raiment | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, tog |
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rain | (verb) precipitate as rain | Synonyms: rain down |
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raise | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: resurrect, upraise |
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(verb) increase the level of | Synonyms: enhance, heighten |
(verb) raise the level or amount of something | - |
(verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: elevate, lift |
(verb) invigorate or heighten | Synonyms: lift |
(verb) put an end to | Synonyms: lift |
(verb) bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project | - |
(verb) multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3 | - |
(verb) cause to be heard or known; express or utter | - |
(verb) put forward for consideration or discussion | Synonyms: bring up |
(verb) activate or stir up | - |
(verb) establish radio communications with | - |
(verb) pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth | - |
(verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: levy, recruit |
(verb) bet more than the previous player | - |
(verb) bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level | - |
(verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, stir |
(verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: erect, put up, rear, set up |
(verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, grow, produce |
(verb) create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise | - |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke |
(verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, lift |
(verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: leaven, prove |
(verb) move upwards | Synonyms: lift |
(verb) collect funds for a specific purpose | - |
(verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, parent, rear |
(verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, upgrade |
(verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, inscribe, recruit |
reappraise | (verb) appraise anew | - |
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refrain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, desist |
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(verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: forbear |
restrain | (verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep, keep back |
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(verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, constrain, hold |
(verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, encumber |
(verb) prevent (someone or something) from doing something | - |
retrain | (verb) train again | - |
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(verb) teach new skills | - |
sprain | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
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straighten | (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
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(verb) make straight or straighter | - |
(verb) make straight | Synonyms: straighten out |
(verb) straighten by unrolling | Synonyms: roll out |
(verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: unbend |
(verb) get up from a sitting or slouching position | - |
strain | (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: tense, tense up |
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(verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, distort |
(verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strive |
(verb) use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter, filter out, filtrate, separate out |
(verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sieve, sift |
(verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: tense |
(verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: puree |
(verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: stress, try |
straiten | (verb) squeeze together | - |
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(verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: distress |
trail | (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: train |
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(verb) hang down so as to drag along the ground | - |
(verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track |
(verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: shack |
(verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back |
train | (verb) exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition | - |
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(verb) undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession | Synonyms: prepare |
(verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, educate, prepare |
(verb) teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports | Synonyms: coach |
(verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, direct, take, take aim |
(verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: trail |
(verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: rail |
(verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: groom, prepare |
(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school |
(verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, discipline |
(verb) cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it | - |
traipse | (verb) walk or tramp about | Synonyms: shlep |
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unbraid | (verb) undo the braids of | - |
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unstrain | (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unwind |
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upbraid | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: reproach |
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upraise | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: raise, resurrect |
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