| address | (verb) adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting | - |
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| (verb) speak to | Synonyms: turn to |
| (verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: accost, come up to |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: direct |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: cover, deal, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) direct a question at someone | - |
| (verb) address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question | - |
| (verb) access or locate by address | - |
| (verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | Synonyms: call |
| afforest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: forest |
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| aggress | (verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: attack |
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| arrest | (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: check, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
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| (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, collar, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
| (verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: catch, get |
| (verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: halt, hold |
| buttress | (verb) make stronger or defensible | - |
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| (verb) reinforce with a buttress | - |
| caress | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: fondle |
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| compress | (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compact, pack together |
| correspond | (verb) exchange messages | - |
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| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: represent, stand for |
| (verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: equate |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| decrescendo | (verb) grow quieter | - |
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| deforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: disafforest, disforest |
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| 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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| derestrict | (verb) make free from restrictions | - |
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| destress | (verb) reduce the emphasis | Synonyms: de-emphasise, de-emphasize |
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| 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 |
| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| disforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disafforest |
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| 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 |
| 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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| 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) | - |
| fluoresce | (verb) exhibit or undergo fluorescence | - |
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| 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 |
| foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
| foreshow | (verb) foretell by divine inspiration | - |
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| forest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: afforest |
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| forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
| foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| fresco | (verb) paint onto wet plaster on a wall | - |
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| freshen | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: refresh, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen up, refresh, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: refresh |
| fress | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: gluttonise, gluttonize |
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| impress | (verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun | Synonyms: yarn-dye |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: ingrain, instill |
| (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: shanghai |
| (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: print |
| (verb) impress positively | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, move, strike |
| interest | (verb) excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of | - |
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| (verb) be of importance or consequence | Synonyms: matter to |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, occupy, worry |
| misaddress | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misdirect |
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| misrepresent | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: belie |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, wangle |
| mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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| oppress | (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, suppress |
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| (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: persecute |
| overdress | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| (verb) dress too warmly | Synonyms: overclothe |
| overestimate | (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overrate |
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| (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overvalue |
| overstress | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overemphasize |
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| phosphoresce | (verb) to exhibit phosphorescence | - |
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| presage | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, prognosticate |
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| prescribe | (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, order |
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| (verb) (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription | - |
| (verb) recommend as beneficial | - |
| present | (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, represent |
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| (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: acquaint, introduce |
| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: salute |
| (verb) formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc. | - |
| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, face |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: represent, stage |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: portray |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, show |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, give |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: award |
| (verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: pose |
| preserve | (verb) prevent (food) from rotting | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: conserve, keep up, maintain |
| (verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use | Synonyms: save |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, continue, uphold |
| (verb) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing | - |
| preside | (verb) act as president | - |
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| press | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: exhort, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, entreat |
| (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: weight-lift, weightlift |
| (verb) exert pressure or force to or upon | - |
| (verb) place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, contract, squeeze |
| (verb) press and smooth with a heated iron | Synonyms: iron, iron out |
| (verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: push |
| (verb) press from a plastic | Synonyms: press out |
| (verb) create by pressing | - |
| (verb) crowd closely | - |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, push |
| (verb) be urgent | - |
| (verb) to be oppressive or burdensome | Synonyms: weigh |
| pressure | (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, squeeze |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, blackmail |
| pressurise | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurize |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurize |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurize, supercharge |
| pressurize | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurise |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurise |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, supercharge |
| presume | (verb) take liberties or act with too much confidence | - |
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| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: assume, take for granted |
| (verb) constitute reasonable evidence for | - |
| (verb) take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission | Synonyms: dare, make bold |
| presuppose | (verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition | Synonyms: suppose |
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| (verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand | Synonyms: suppose |
| progress | (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, shape up |
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| (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build, build up, work up |
| (verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on |
| redress | (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, right |
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| reforest | (verb) forest anew | - |
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| refresh | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: freshen |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, review |
| refreshen | (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refresh |
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| (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refresh |
| regress | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress |
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| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress |
| (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back |
| (verb) go back to a statistical means | - |
| represent | (verb) to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | Synonyms: map |
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| (verb) serve as a means of expressing something | - |
| (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify |
| (verb) point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance | - |
| (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, present |
| (verb) describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality | - |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, play |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: present, stage |
| (verb) be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute | - |
| (verb) be representative or typical for | - |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, constitute, make up |
| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: exemplify |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: correspond, stand for |
| repress | (verb) block the action of | - |
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| (verb) put out of one's consciousness | Synonyms: suppress |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, smother, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, subdue, subjugate |
| (verb) impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of | - |
| rescale | (verb) establish on a new scale | - |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| rescind | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| rescue | (verb) take forcibly from legal custody | - |
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| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: deliver |
| reseal | (verb) seal again | - |
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| research | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, search |
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| (verb) attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner | - |
| reseat | (verb) show to a different seat | - |
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| (verb) provide with new seats | - |
| (verb) provide with a new seat | - |
| resect | (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: eviscerate |
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| reseed | (verb) maintain by seeding without human intervention | - |
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| (verb) seed again or anew | - |
| resell | (verb) sell (something) again after having bought it | - |
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| resemble | (verb) appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to | - |
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| resent | (verb) feel bitter or indignant about | - |
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| (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: begrudge |
| reserve | (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside |
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| (verb) obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance | - |
| (verb) hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency | - |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: book, hold |
| reset | (verb) set to zero | - |
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| (verb) adjust again after an initial failure | Synonyms: readjust |
| (verb) set anew | - |
| resettle | (verb) settle in a new place | - |
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| resew | (verb) sew again | - |
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| reshape | (verb) shape anew or differently | - |
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| (verb) shape again or shape differently | Synonyms: remold |
| reship | (verb) place on a ship again or transfer to another ship | - |
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| reshoot | (verb) shoot again | - |
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| reshuffle | (verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people | - |
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| (verb) shuffle again | - |
| reside | (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, shack |
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| (verb) live (in a certain place) | Synonyms: lodge in, occupy |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: repose, rest |
| resift | (verb) sift anew | - |
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| resign | (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: reconcile, submit |
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| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, relinquish |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, renounce, vacate |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, quit, step down |
| resile | (verb) return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed | - |
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| (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, retract |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. | - |
| resinate | (verb) impregnate with resin to give a special flavor to | - |
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| resist | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, stand firm, withstand |
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| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, stand |
| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, jib |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, protest |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, refuse |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, reject |
| resize | (verb) change the size of; make the size more appropriate | - |
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| resmudge | (verb) smudge again | - |
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| resole | (verb) put a new sole on | Synonyms: sole |
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| resolve | (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, dissolve |
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| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, settle |
| (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: purpose |
| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: solve |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: answer |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) make clearly visible | - |
| resonate | (verb) be received or understood | Synonyms: come across |
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| (verb) sound with resonance | Synonyms: vibrate |
| resorb | (verb) undergo resorption | Synonyms: reabsorb |
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| resort | (verb) move, travel, or proceed toward some place | Synonyms: repair |
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| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, recur |