accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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(verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
(verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
contredanse | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
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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 | - |
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 |
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 | - |
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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predate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, foredate |
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(verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, precede |
(verb) come before | Synonyms: precede |
(verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: prey, raven |
predecease | (verb) die before; die earlier than | - |
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predestinate | (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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predestine | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, preordain |
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(verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestinate |
(verb) decree or determine beforehand | - |
predetermine | (verb) determine beforehand | - |
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(verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: bias |
predicate | (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: proclaim |
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(verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: connote |
(verb) make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition | - |
predict | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
predigest | (verb) digest (food) beforehand | - |
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predispose | (verb) make susceptible | - |
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predominate | (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, prevail, reign, rule |
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(verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, tower |
redact | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: edit |
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(verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, put |
redden | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, flush |
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(verb) turn red or redder | - |
(verb) make red | - |
rede | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: advise, counsel |
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(verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: interpret |
redecorate | (verb) redo the decoration of an apartment or house | - |
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rededicate | (verb) dedicate anew | - |
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redeem | (verb) convert into cash; of commercial papers | - |
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(verb) pay off (loans or promissory notes) | Synonyms: pay off |
(verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat | Synonyms: ransom |
(verb) to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange | - |
(verb) restore the honor or worth of | - |
(verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, save |
redefine | (verb) give a new or different definition of (a word) | - |
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(verb) give a new or different definition to | - |
redeploy | (verb) deploy anew | - |
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redeposit | (verb) deposit anew | - |
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(verb) deposit once again | - |
redesign | (verb) design anew, make a new design for | - |
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redetermine | (verb) fix, find, or establish again | - |
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redevelop | (verb) change the plans for the use of (land) | - |
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(verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: reformulate |
(verb) develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print | - |
redirect | (verb) channel into a new direction | Synonyms: airt |
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rediscover | (verb) discover again | - |
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redispose | (verb) dispose anew | - |
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redistribute | (verb) distribute anew | - |
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redline | (verb) discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood | - |
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redo | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: reconstruct, remodel |
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(verb) make new | Synonyms: make over, refashion, remake |
redouble | (verb) double in magnitude, extent, or intensity | - |
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(verb) make twice as great or intense | - |
(verb) double again | - |
redound | (verb) contribute | - |
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(verb) have an effect for good or ill | - |
(verb) return or recoil | - |
redress | (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, right |
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reduce | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin |
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(verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down |
(verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: tighten |
(verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate |
(verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidise, deoxidize |
(verb) make smaller | Synonyms: scale down |
(verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: shrink |
(verb) make less complex | - |
(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten |
(verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, dilute, thin, thin out |
(verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, decoct |
(verb) be the essential element | Synonyms: boil down, come down |
(verb) destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it | - |
(verb) undergo meiosis | - |
(verb) reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site | - |
(verb) lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation | - |
(verb) lessen and make more modest | - |
(verb) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another | - |
(verb) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition | - |
(verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate |
reduplicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, repeat, replicate |
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(verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: geminate |
shred | (verb) tear into shreds | Synonyms: rip up, tear up |
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