| credit | (verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
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| (verb) give someone credit for something | - |
| (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
| (verb) enter as credit | - |
| creep | (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: crawl |
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| (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: mouse, pussyfoot, sneak |
| (verb) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| cremate | (verb) reduce to ashes | - |
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| crenel | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenelate, crenellate |
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| crenelate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenellate |
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| crenellate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenelate |
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| creolize | (verb) develop into a creole | - |
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| creosote | (verb) treat with creosote | - |
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| crepe | (verb) cover or drape with crape | Synonyms: crape |
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| crepitate | (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crackle |
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| crescendo | (verb) grow louder | - |
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| crest | (verb) reach a high point | - |
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| (verb) lie at the top of | Synonyms: cap |
| crew | (verb) serve as a crew member on | - |
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| crossbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
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| culture | (verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
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| cure | (verb) provide a cure for, make healthy again | Synonyms: bring around, heal |
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| (verb) prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve | - |
| (verb) be or become preserved | - |
| (verb) make (substances) hard and improve their usability | - |
| dare | (verb) challenge | Synonyms: defy |
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| (verb) take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission | Synonyms: make bold, presume |
| (verb) to be courageous enough to try or do something | - |
| daydream | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgather |
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| (verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: moon |
| decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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| declare | (verb) state emphatically and authoritatively | - |
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| (verb) state firmly | - |
| (verb) make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official | - |
| (verb) declare to be | Synonyms: adjudge, hold |
| (verb) announce publicly or officially | Synonyms: announce |
| (verb) proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against | - |
| (verb) designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand | - |
| (verb) authorize payments of | - |
| decompress | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: depressurise, depressurize |
| (verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: uncompress |
| decrease | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
| decree | (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: rule |
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| (verb) issue a decree | - |
| decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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| (verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
| decrescendo | (verb) grow quieter | - |
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| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| deforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: disafforest, disforest |
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| degrease | (verb) remove grease or oil from (a pan) | - |
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| denature | (verb) make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes | - |
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| (verb) modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished | - |
| (verb) add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb | - |
| deplore | (verb) express strong condemnation of | - |
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| (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, lament |
| deprecate | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: depreciate, vilipend |
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| (verb) express strong disapproval of; deplore | - |
| depreciate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) lower the value of something | - |
| (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend |
| depress | (verb) lessen the activity or force of | - |
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| (verb) press down | Synonyms: press down |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: lower |
| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, dispirit, get down |
| (verb) lower (prices or markets) | - |
| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| depressurize | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurise |
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| derecognise | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognize |
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| derecognize | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: decertify, derecognise |
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| deregulate | (verb) lift the regulations on | - |
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| derequisition | (verb) release from government control | - |
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| derestrict | (verb) make free from restrictions | - |
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| desegregate | (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: integrate, mix |
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| desire | (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: want |
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| (verb) express a desire for | - |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: hope, trust |
| destress | (verb) reduce the emphasis | Synonyms: de-emphasise, de-emphasize |
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| differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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| (verb) become different during development | - |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |
| digress | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: divagate, stray, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, sidetrack, straggle |
| direct | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
| (verb) command with authority | - |
| (verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
| (verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) govern or manage | - |
| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| disagree | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, dissent, take issue |
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| (verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disaccord, discord |
| discredit | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: disbelieve |
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| (verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved | - |
| (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: disgrace |
| disfigure | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: blemish, deface |
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| disforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disafforest |
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| dispread | (verb) spread abroad or out | - |
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| disregard | (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: ignore, neglect |
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| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, ignore, snub |
| disrespect | (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
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| (verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
| distress | (verb) cause mental pain to | - |
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| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: straiten |
| dread | (verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: fear |
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| dream | (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather |
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| (verb) experience while sleeping | - |
| dredge | (verb) remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | - |
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| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: drag |
| (verb) cover before cooking | - |
| drench | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: imbrue |
| (verb) force to drink | - |
| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: swamp |
| dress | (verb) put on clothes | Synonyms: get dressed |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| (verb) apply a bandage or medication to | - |
| (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, set |
| (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: plume, preen, primp |
| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: curry, groom |
| (verb) dress in a certain manner | Synonyms: dress up |
| (verb) kill and prepare for market or consumption | Synonyms: dress out |
| (verb) convert into leather | - |
| (verb) put a dressing on | - |
| (verb) put a finish on | - |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: decorate |
| (verb) cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width | - |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: garnish, trim |
| (verb) arrange in ranks | Synonyms: line up |
| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| egress | (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, emerge, go forth, issue |
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| encore | (verb) request an encore, from a performer | - |
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| endure | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive |
| (verb) last and be usable | Synonyms: hold out, wear |
| (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, weather |
| (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: last |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, persist, prevail, run |
| enquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: inquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, inquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: inquire, investigate |
| enrapture | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| ensnare | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: entrap, snare, trammel, trap |
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| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: entrap, frame, set up |
| ensure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| entreat | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press |
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| entrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: intrench |
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| (verb) occupy a trench or secured area | Synonyms: dig in |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, impinge, trench |
| erect | (verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: put up, raise, rear, set up |
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| (verb) cause to rise up | Synonyms: rear |
| etherealize | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherialise |
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| excrete | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, pass |
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| expire | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, exhale |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) lose validity | Synonyms: run out |
| explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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| (verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
| (verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
| (verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
| express | (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, show |
| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, convey |
| (verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: state |
| (verb) send by rapid transport or special messenger service | - |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: extract, press out |
| (verb) manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait) | - |
| fare | (verb) eat well | - |
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| (verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: come, do, get along, make out |
| feature | (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: have |
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| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, sport |
| ferret | (verb) search and discover through persistent investigation | Synonyms: ferret out |
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| (verb) hunt with ferrets | - |
| (verb) hound or harry relentlessly | - |
| figure | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) understand | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: enter |
| filigree | (verb) make filigree, as with a precious metal | - |
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| fire | (verb) bake in a kiln so as to harden | - |
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| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn, burn down |
| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: ignite, light |
| (verb) become ignited | Synonyms: flame up |
| (verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) start firing a weapon | Synonyms: open fire |
| (verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: discharge, go off |
| (verb) generate an electrical impulse | - |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise |
| (verb) drive out or away by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) provide with fuel | Synonyms: fuel |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| firebomb | (verb) attack with incendiary bombs | - |
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| fireproof | (verb) make resistant to fire | - |
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| fissure | (verb) break into fissures or fine cracks | - |
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| flare | (verb) become flared and widen, usually at one end | Synonyms: flare out |
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| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare up, irrupt |
| (verb) burn brightly | Synonyms: blaze up, burn up, flame up |
| (verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flame |
| fluoresce | (verb) exhibit or undergo fluorescence | - |
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| forearm | (verb) arm in advance of a confrontation | - |
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| forebode | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| forecast | (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, reckon |
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| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| foreclose | (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage | - |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| foredate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, predate |
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| foredoom | (verb) doom beforehand | - |
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| forefend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| forego | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate |
| foreground | (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
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| foreknow | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, previse |
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| foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
| foresee | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, previse |
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| (verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: envision |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, forestall |