| regroup | (verb) reorganize into new groups | - |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: reorganise, reorganize |
| regrow | (verb) grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption | - |
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| reintroduce | (verb) introduce anew | Synonyms: re-introduce |
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| reproach | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: upbraid |
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| reprobate | (verb) reject (documents) as invalid | - |
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| (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate |
| (verb) abandon to eternal damnation | - |
| reprocess | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: recycle, reuse |
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| reproduce | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, procreate |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: regurgitate |
| (verb) make a copy or equivalent of | - |
| (verb) recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. | - |
| reproof | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reprove |
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| reprove | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reproof |
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| retrofit | (verb) substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones | - |
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| (verb) fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house | - |
| (verb) provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture | - |
| retroflex | (verb) articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate | - |
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| (verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: replicate |
| retrograde | (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrogress |
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| (verb) go back over | Synonyms: hash over, rehash |
| (verb) move back | Synonyms: retreat |
| (verb) move in a direction contrary to the usual one | - |
| (verb) move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies | - |
| retrogress | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse |
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| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrograde |
| retrospect | (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, review |
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| retrovert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, return, revert, turn back |
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| roach | (verb) cut the mane off (a horse) | - |
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| (verb) comb (hair) into a roach | - |
| roam | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| roar | (verb) laugh unrestrainedly and heartily | Synonyms: howl |
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| (verb) make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles | Synonyms: howl |
| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl |
| (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: thunder |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: bellow |
| (verb) act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way | - |
| roast | (verb) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven | - |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule |
| rob | (verb) take something away by force or without the consent of the owner | - |
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| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, soak, surcharge |
| robe | (verb) clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes | Synonyms: vest |
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| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, clothe, drape |
| rock | (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: shake, sway |
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| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: sway |
| rocket | (verb) propel with a rocket | - |
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| (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: skyrocket |
| roil | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: rile |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, churn, moil |
| roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| roll | (verb) execute a roll, in tumbling | - |
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| (verb) take the shape of a roll or cylinder | - |
| (verb) show certain properties when being rolled | Synonyms: roll up |
| (verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) shape by rolling | - |
| (verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap |
| (verb) begin operating or running | - |
| (verb) flatten or spread with a roller | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) move by turning over or rotating | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: wheel |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: revolve |
| (verb) move, rock, or sway from side to side | - |
| (verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, pluck |
| (verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: undulate |
| rollick | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| romance | (verb) tell romantic or exaggerated lies | - |
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| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander |
| (verb) have a love affair with | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, solicit, woo |
| romanticise | (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticize |
| romanticize | (verb) act in a romantic way | - |
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| (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticise |
| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticise |
| romp | (verb) win easily | - |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, run around, skylark, sport |
| (verb) run easily and fairly fast | - |
| roneo | (verb) make copies on a Roneograph | - |
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| roof | (verb) provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof | - |
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| rook | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| room | (verb) live and take one's meals at or in | Synonyms: board |
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| roost | (verb) settle down or stay, as if on a roost | - |
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| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, rest |
| root | (verb) take root and begin to grow | - |
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| (verb) cause to take roots | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: settle, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: rootle, rout |
| (verb) plant by the roots | - |
| (verb) cheer for | - |
| (verb) come into existence, originate | - |
| rootle | (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rout |
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| rope | (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: leash |
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| (verb) catch with a lasso | Synonyms: lasso |
| rosin | (verb) rub rosin onto | - |
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| rot | (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: waste |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, moulder |
| rotate | (verb) plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession | - |
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| (verb) perform a job or duty on a rotating basis | - |
| (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: circumvolve |
| (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, revolve |
| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: splay, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) exchange on a regular basis | - |
| rouge | (verb) redden by applying rouge to | - |
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| rough | (verb) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form | Synonyms: rough in, rough out |
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| roughcast | (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
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| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| roughen | (verb) make rough or rougher | - |
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| roughhouse | (verb) engage in rough or disorderly play | - |
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| round | (verb) become round, plump, or shapely | Synonyms: fill out, flesh out |
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| (verb) make round | Synonyms: round off, round out |
| (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off |
| (verb) express as a round number | Synonyms: round down, round off, round out |
| (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, labialize |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe |
| (verb) wind around; move along a circular course | - |
| rouse | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, turn on |
| (verb) force or drive out | Synonyms: drive out, force out, rout out |
| (verb) become active | Synonyms: bestir |
| rout | (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: expel, rout out |
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| (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: spread-eagle, spreadeagle |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: gouge |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rootle |
| route | (verb) send via a specific route | - |
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| (verb) divert in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) send documents or materials to appropriate destinations | - |
| rove | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| row | (verb) propel with oars | - |
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| scroll | (verb) move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen | - |
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| scrounge | (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: forage |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, shnorr |
| shroud | (verb) wrap in a shroud | - |
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| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, enshroud, hide |
| (verb) form a cover like a shroud | - |
| skyrocket | (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: rocket |
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| sorrow | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: grieve |
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| soundproof | (verb) insulate against noise | - |
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| sprout | (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: stock |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud |
| steamroll | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroller |
| steamroller | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroll |
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| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) crush with a steamroller as if to level | - |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroll |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroll |
| stroke | (verb) treat gingerly or carefully | - |
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| (verb) strike a ball with a smooth blow | - |
| (verb) row at a particular rate | - |
| (verb) touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions | - |
| stroll | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: saunter |
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| strop | (verb) sharpen on a strop | - |
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| subrogate | (verb) substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured | - |
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| superordinate | (verb) place in a superior order or rank | - |
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| surround | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent, hem in |
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| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, wall |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, skirt |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: smother |
| synchronise | (verb) make synchronous and adjust in time or manner | Synonyms: sync, synchronize |
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| (verb) operate simultaneously | Synonyms: synchronize |
| (verb) cause to indicate the same time or rate | Synonyms: synchronize |
| (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronize |
| (verb) make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action | Synonyms: synchronize |
| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronize |
| synchronize | (verb) make synchronous and adjust in time or manner | Synonyms: sync, synchronise |
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| (verb) operate simultaneously | Synonyms: synchronise |
| (verb) cause to indicate the same time or rate | Synonyms: synchronise |
| (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronise |
| (verb) make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action | Synonyms: synchronise |
| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronise |
| terrorise | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrify, terrorize |
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| (verb) coerce by violence or with threats | Synonyms: terrorize |
| terrorize | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrify, terrorise |
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| (verb) coerce by violence or with threats | Synonyms: terrorise |
| throb | (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, shudder, thrill |
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| (verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulsate, pulse |
| (verb) pulsate or pound with abnormal force | - |
| thrombose | (verb) become blocked by a thrombus | - |
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| throne | (verb) put a monarch on the throne | Synonyms: enthrone |
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| (verb) sit on the throne as a ruler | - |
| throng | (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, pile |
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| throttle | (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: choke |
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| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, trammel |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, strangulate |
| throw | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle |
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| (verb) convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) utter with force; utter vehemently | Synonyms: hurl |
| (verb) propel through the air | - |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, switch |
| (verb) place or put with great energy | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cause to fall off | - |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) throw (a die) out onto a flat surface | - |
| (verb) make on a potter's wheel | - |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, project |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, hold, make |
| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, discombobulate |
| (verb) move violently, energetically, or carelessly | - |
| (verb) to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly | - |
| troat | (verb) emit a cry intended to attract other animals; used especially of animals at rutting time | - |
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| troll | (verb) sing loudly and without inhibition | - |
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| (verb) praise or celebrate in song | - |
| (verb) speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice | - |
| (verb) angle with a hook and line drawn through the water | - |
| (verb) sing the parts of (a round) in succession | - |
| (verb) cause to move round and round | - |
| (verb) circulate, move around | - |
| troop | (verb) move or march as if in a crowd | - |
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| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, promenade |
| trot | (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: clip, jog |
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| (verb) ride at a trot | - |
| (verb) cause to trot | - |
| trouble | (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: ail, pain |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, upset |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: bother, inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself |
| troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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| trounce | (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, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task |
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| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip |
| trowel | (verb) use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work | - |
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| uncross | (verb) change from a crossed to an uncrossed position | - |
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| undergrow | (verb) grow below something | - |
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| underproduce | (verb) produce below capacity or demand | - |
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| unfrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: defrock |
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| unroll | (verb) unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state | Synonyms: unfurl |
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| (verb) reverse the winding or twisting of | Synonyms: unwind, wind off |
| uproot | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: deracinate, extirpate, root out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out |
| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: deracinate |
| velcro | (verb) fasten with Velcro | - |
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| vroom | (verb) make a loud, roaring sound, as of a car engine, while moving | - |
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| waterproof | (verb) make watertight | - |
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| weatherproof | (verb) make resistant to bad weather | - |
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| wheelbarrow | (verb) transport in a wheelbarrow | - |
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| wrong | (verb) treat unjustly; do wrong to | - |
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| xerox | (verb) reproduce by xerography | Synonyms: photocopy, run off |
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