| librate | (verb) vibrate before coming to a total rest | - |
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| (verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: weigh |
| lucubrate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
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| lustrate | (verb) purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials | - |
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| macerate | (verb) soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result | - |
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| (verb) become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking | - |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, waste |
| (verb) separate into constituents by soaking | - |
| maturate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, suppurate |
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| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, mature |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, mature, senesce |
| meliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, improve |
| mensurate | (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure, measure out |
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| micturate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| migrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: transmigrate |
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| (verb) move periodically or seasonally | - |
| moderate | (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: mollify, season, temper |
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| (verb) make less fast or intense | - |
| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, lead |
| (verb) make less strong or intense; soften | Synonyms: tame, tone down |
| (verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: mince, soften |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in |
| narrate | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: recite, recount, tell |
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| (verb) provide commentary for a film, for example | - |
| nitrate | (verb) treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate | - |
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| numerate | (verb) read out loud as words written numbers | - |
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| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, number |
| obliterate | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: efface |
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| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obscure, veil |
| (verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: kill, wipe out |
| (verb) do away with completely, without leaving a trace | - |
| obturate | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude |
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| operate | (verb) perform surgery on | Synonyms: operate on |
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| (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| (verb) handle and cause to function | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, mesh |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, run, work |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: run |
| orate | (verb) talk pompously | - |
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| orchestrate | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, organise, organize |
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| (verb) write an orchestra score for | - |
| overrate | (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overestimate |
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| palpebrate | (verb) wink or blink, especially repeatedly | - |
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| penetrate | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, fathom |
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| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, sink in |
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) insert the penis into the vagina or anus of | - |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) make one's way deeper into or through | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: infiltrate |
| perforate | (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: punch |
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| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: penetrate |
| perorate | (verb) deliver an oration in grandiloquent style | - |
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| (verb) conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation | - |
| perpetrate | (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, pull |
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| perseverate | (verb) repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus | - |
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| pervaporate | (verb) cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
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| (verb) evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
| pirate | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, hijack |
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| (verb) copy illegally; of published material | - |
| prate | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| prattle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| preponderate | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, overbalance |
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| proliferate | (verb) grow rapidly | - |
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| (verb) cause to grow or increase rapidly | - |
| prorate | (verb) divide or assess proportionally | - |
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| (verb) make a proportional settlement or distribution | - |
| prostrate | (verb) render helpless or defenseless | - |
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| (verb) throw down flat, as on the ground | - |
| (verb) get into a prostrate position, as in submission | Synonyms: bow down |
| protuberate | (verb) form a rounded prominence | - |
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| (verb) cause to bulge out or project | - |
| purpurate | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purple |
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| rat | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) catch rats, especially with dogs | - |
| (verb) give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat | - |
| (verb) desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage | - |
| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, fink, scab |
| (verb) employ scabs or strike breakers in | - |
| ratchet | (verb) move by degrees in one direction only | Synonyms: rachet up, ratchet down |
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| rate | (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, place, range, rank |
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| (verb) estimate the value of | Synonyms: value |
| (verb) be worthy of or have a certain rating | - |
| ratify | (verb) approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation | Synonyms: sign |
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| ratiocinate | (verb) reason methodologically and logically | - |
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| ration | (verb) distribute in rations, as in the army | Synonyms: ration out |
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| (verb) restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war | - |
| rationalise | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, prune, rationalize |
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| (verb) remove irrational quantities from | Synonyms: rationalize |
| (verb) think rationally; employ logic or reason | Synonyms: rationalize |
| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, excuse, rationalize |
| (verb) structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results | Synonyms: rationalize |
| rationalize | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, prune, rationalise |
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| (verb) remove irrational quantities from | Synonyms: rationalise |
| (verb) think rationally; employ logic or reason | Synonyms: rationalise |
| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, excuse, rationalise |
| (verb) structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results | Synonyms: rationalise |
| rattle | (verb) shake and cause to make a rattling noise | - |
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| (verb) make short successive sounds | - |
| recalcitrate | (verb) show strong objection or repugnance; manifest vigorous opposition or resistance; be obstinately disobedient | - |
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| reconsecrate | (verb) consecrate anew, as after a desecration | - |
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| recuperate | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recover |
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| (verb) restore to good health or strength | - |
| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recover |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recover |
| redecorate | (verb) redo the decoration of an apartment or house | - |
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| refrigerate | (verb) cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator | - |
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| (verb) preserve by chilling | - |
| regenerate | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: revitalize |
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| (verb) undergo regeneration | - |
| (verb) form or produce anew | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore |
| (verb) replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue | - |
| (verb) be formed or shaped anew | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform |
| (verb) amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit | - |
| (verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: renew |
| reintegrate | (verb) integrate again | - |
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| reinvigorate | (verb) impart vigor, strength, or vitality to | Synonyms: invigorate |
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| reiterate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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| remonstrate | (verb) argue in protest or opposition | - |
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| (verb) present and urge reasons in opposition | Synonyms: point out |
| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| remunerate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, recompense |
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| reverberate | (verb) treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace | - |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, resound, ring |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves | - |
| (verb) have a long or continuing effect | - |
| saturate | (verb) cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance | - |
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| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: impregnate |
| scratch | (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scrape, scratch up |
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| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, rub |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, inscribe |
| (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape, scrape up |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, strike |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, rub |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scrub |
| separate | (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments | Synonyms: break, come apart, fall apart, split up |
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| (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, ramify |
| (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, classify, sort, sort out |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: divide, part |
| (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, divide, part |
| (verb) divide into components or constituents | - |
| (verb) go one's own way; move apart | Synonyms: part, split |
| (verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: divide |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: discriminate, single out |
| (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, split, split up |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break, break up, part, split, split up |
| (verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: divide |
| sequestrate | (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequester, set apart |
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| (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, withdraw |
| serrate | (verb) make saw-toothed or jag the edge of | - |
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| stratify | (verb) render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand | - |
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| (verb) form layers or strata | - |
| (verb) form, arrange, or deposit in layers | - |
| (verb) divide society into social classes or castes | - |
| (verb) develop different social levels, classes, or castes | - |
| suppurate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, maturate |
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| (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: mature |
| susurrate | (verb) issue soft noises | - |
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| titrate | (verb) measure by (the volume or concentration of solutions) by titration | - |
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| tolerate | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support |
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| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, permit |
| (verb) have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition | - |
| (verb) recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others) | - |
| transliterate | (verb) rewrite in a different script | Synonyms: transcribe |
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| transmigrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: migrate |
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| (verb) be born anew in another body after death | Synonyms: reincarnate |
| transpirate | (verb) pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas | Synonyms: transpire |
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| ulcerate | (verb) affect with an ulcer | - |
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| (verb) undergo ulceration | - |
| uncrate | (verb) remove from the crate | - |
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| underrate | (verb) make too low an estimate of | Synonyms: underestimate |
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| venerate | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, reverence |
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| vibrate | (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, tickle |
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| (verb) shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner | - |
| (verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: oscillate |
| (verb) sound with resonance | Synonyms: resonate |
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vacillate |
| vituperate | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, revile, vilify |
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| vociferate | (verb) utter in a very loud voice | Synonyms: shout out |
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