| accrue | (verb) grow by addition | - |
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| (verb) come into the possession of | Synonyms: fall |
| airbrush | (verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
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| bankrupt | (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: break, ruin, smash |
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| begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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| (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
| bruise | (verb) damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure | - |
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| (verb) break up into small pieces for food preparation | - |
| (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: contuse |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound |
| bruit | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
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| brunch | (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
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| brush | (verb) remove with or as if with a brush | - |
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| (verb) touch lightly and briefly | - |
| (verb) rub with a brush, or as if with a brush | - |
| (verb) clean with a brush | - |
| (verb) cover by brushing | - |
| (verb) sweep across or over | Synonyms: sweep |
| brutalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalize |
| brutalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
| (verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalise |
| chirrup | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, peep |
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| chorus | (verb) utter in unison | - |
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| (verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: choir |
| construct | (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace |
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| (verb) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, make |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture |
| (verb) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts | - |
| (verb) create by linking linguistic units | - |
| construe | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: interpret, see |
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| corrugate | (verb) fold into ridges | - |
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| corrupt | (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: spoil |
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| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, defile, sully, taint |
| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: bribe, buy, grease one's palms |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| coruscate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
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| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
| crossruff | (verb) trump alternately in two hands | - |
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| crucify | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, pillory, savage |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: mortify, subdue |
| (verb) kill by nailing onto a cross | - |
| cruise | (verb) sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing | - |
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| (verb) travel at a moderate speed | - |
| (verb) drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure | - |
| (verb) look for a sexual partner in a public place | - |
| crumb | (verb) remove crumbs from | - |
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| (verb) break into crumbs | - |
| (verb) coat with bread crumbs | - |
| crumble | (verb) break or fall apart into fragments | Synonyms: fall apart |
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| (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: decay, dilapidate |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumple, tumble |
| crump | (verb) explode heavily or with a loud dull noise | - |
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| (verb) bombard with heavy shells | - |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: scrunch, thud |
| crumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, knit, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: buckle |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, tumble |
| crunch | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
| crusade | (verb) go on a crusade; fight a holy war | - |
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| (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, fight, press, push |
| crush | (verb) break into small pieces | - |
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| (verb) become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure | - |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) make ineffective | Synonyms: break down |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: jam |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: smash |
| (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: oppress, suppress |
| crust | (verb) form a crust or form into a crust | - |
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| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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| destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
| disgruntle | (verb) put into a bad mood or into bad humour | - |
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| disrupt | (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) throw into disorder | - |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, interrupt |
| distrust | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: mistrust, suspect |
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| drub | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, lick, thrash |
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| drudge | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
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| drug | (verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: dose |
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| (verb) use recreational drugs | Synonyms: do drugs |
| drum | (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
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| (verb) play a percussion instrument | - |
| (verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: beat, thrum |
| encrust | (verb) form a crust or a hard layer | Synonyms: incrust |
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| (verb) cover or coat with a crust | Synonyms: incrust |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: beset, incrust |
| entrust | (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, intrust, trust |
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| (verb) put into the care or protection of someone | Synonyms: leave |
| eruct | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, burp |
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| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: spew, spew out |
| erupt | (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, extravasate |
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| (verb) start abruptly | Synonyms: break out |
| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, flare, flare up, irrupt |
| (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, recrudesce |
| (verb) break out | Synonyms: break through, come out, push through |
| (verb) appear on the skin | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, burst |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, ignite, take fire |
| excruciate | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: rack, torment, torture |
| extrude | (verb) form or shape by forcing through an opening | Synonyms: squeeze out |
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| fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
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| (verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
| (verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
| fruit | (verb) bear fruit | - |
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| (verb) cause to bear fruit | - |
| frustrate | (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, rag, torment |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| grub | (verb) search about busily | - |
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| (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, mooch, sponge |
| grubstake | (verb) supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits | - |
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| grudge | (verb) accept or admit unwillingly | - |
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| (verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: stew |
| grumble | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, murmur, mutter |
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| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, scold |
| (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, rumble |
| (verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: rumble |
| grunt | (verb) issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise | - |
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| gruntle | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
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| imbrue | (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: drench |
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| incrust | (verb) form a crust or a hard layer | Synonyms: encrust |
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| (verb) cover or coat with a crust | Synonyms: encrust |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: beset, encrust |
| instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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| (verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| instrument | (verb) address a legal document to | - |
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| (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrumentate |
| (verb) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling | - |
| instrumentate | (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrument |
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| interrupt | (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: break |
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| (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: disrupt |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, disrupt |
| intrude | (verb) thrust oneself in as if by force | Synonyms: obtrude |
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| (verb) enter uninvited | Synonyms: irrupt |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, nose, poke, pry |
| (verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: trespass |
| intrust | (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, trust |
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| irrupt | (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: explode |
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| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare, flare up |
| (verb) enter uninvited | Synonyms: intrude |
| larrup | (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: paddle, spank |
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| menstruate | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: flow |
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| misconstrue | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| mistrust | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, suspect |
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| obstruct | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, stymie, stymy |
| obtrude | (verb) thrust oneself in as if by force | Synonyms: intrude |
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| (verb) push to thrust outward | Synonyms: push out, thrust out |
| outrun | (verb) run faster than | - |
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| overrule | (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overthrow, overturn, reverse |
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| overrun | (verb) run beyond or past | - |
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| (verb) seize the position of and defeat | - |
| (verb) flow or run over (a limit or brim) | Synonyms: brim over, overflow, run over, well over |
| (verb) invade in great numbers | Synonyms: infest |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, invade |
| overtrump | (verb) play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick | - |
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| overuse | (verb) make use of too often or too extensively | Synonyms: overdrive |
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| peruse | (verb) examine or consider with attention and in detail | - |
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| protrude | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, pouch |
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| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, start |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, project, stick out |
| prune | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, rationalise, rationalize |
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| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim |
| quadruple | (verb) increase fourfold | - |
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| quadruplicate | (verb) reproduce fourfold | - |
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| reconstruct | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: redo, remodel |
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| (verb) cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically | - |
| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, retrace |
| (verb) build again | Synonyms: rebuild |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: restore |
| recrudesce | (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, erupt |
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| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, develop |
| recruit | (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: levy, raise |
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| (verb) seek to employ | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, inscribe, raise |
| rerun | (verb) cause to perform again | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rebroadcast |
| (verb) run again for office | - |
| (verb) rerun a performance of a play, for example | - |
| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| rub | (verb) move over something with pressure | - |
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| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, scratch |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, scratch |
| rubber | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubberise, rubberize |
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| rubberise | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubber, rubberize |
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| rubberize | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubber, rubberise |
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| rubberneck | (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
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| rubberstamp | (verb) approve automatically | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: handstamp |
| rubbish | (verb) attack strongly | - |
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| rubify | (verb) make ruby red | - |
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| rubric | (verb) adorn with ruby red color | - |
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| rubricate | (verb) sign with a mark instead of a name | - |
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| (verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: miniate |
| (verb) furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics | - |
| (verb) place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint | - |
| ruck | (verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: pucker, ruck up |
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| ruckle | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make a hoarse, rattling sound | - |
| ruddle | (verb) redden as if with a red ocher color | - |
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| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: raddle |
| rue | (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: regret, repent |
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| ruff | (verb) play a trump | Synonyms: trump |
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| ruffle | (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: pleat |
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| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: fluff |
| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, riffle |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, shuffle |
| (verb) trouble or vex | - |
| (verb) discompose | - |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| ruggedise | (verb) produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage | Synonyms: ruggedize |
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| ruggedize | (verb) produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage | Synonyms: ruggedise |
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