| abase | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify |
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| abash | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: embarrass |
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| abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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| abrase | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| abscise | (verb) remove or separate by abscission | - |
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| (verb) shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue | - |
| abscond | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| abseil | (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: rappel, rope down |
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| absent | (verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: remove |
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| absolve | (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
| absorb | (verb) cause to become one with | - |
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| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: assimilate, ingest, take in |
| (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: engage, engross, occupy |
| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) become imbued | - |
| (verb) assimilate or take in | - |
| (verb) take up, as of debts or payments | Synonyms: take over |
| (verb) suck or take up or in | Synonyms: take in |
| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| abstain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: desist, refrain |
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| (verb) refrain from voting | - |
| abstract | (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
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| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| abuse | (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: misuse, pervert |
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| (verb) use wrongly or improperly or excessively | - |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: blackguard, clapperclaw, shout |
| (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat, step |
| access | (verb) reach or gain access to | Synonyms: get at |
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| (verb) obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer | - |
| accession | (verb) make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library | - |
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| acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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| accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
| accost | (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: hook, solicit |
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| (verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: address, come up to |
| accurse | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| accuse | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: criminate, impeach, incriminate |
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| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: charge |
| accustom | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: habituate |
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| acetylise | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
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| (verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
| achromatise | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatize |
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| acquiesce | (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, assent |
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| actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
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| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
| 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 |
| adjust | (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: correct, set |
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| (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adapt, conform |
| (verb) make correspondent or conformable | - |
| (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: align, aline, line up |
| (verb) decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim | - |
| admeasure | (verb) determine the quantity of someone's share | - |
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| administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
| (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
| (verb) direct the taking of | - |
| administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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| admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
| adolesce | (verb) become adolescent; pass through adolescence | - |
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| adsorb | (verb) accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface | - |
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| advertise | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertize, promote, push |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertize, publicise, publicize |
| advise | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: counsel, rede |
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| (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, give notice, notify, send word |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: propose, suggest |
| aerosolise | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
| aerosolize | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
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| (verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
| aestivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: estivate |
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| afforest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: forest |
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| affranchise | (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: enfranchise |
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| aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| aggress | (verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: attack |
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| agnise | (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnize, realise, realize, recognise, recognize |
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| agonise | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonize |
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| (verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonize |
| airbrush | (verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
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| alchemise | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemize |
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| alcoholise | (verb) make alcoholic, as by fermenting | Synonyms: alcoholize |
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| (verb) treat or infuse with alcohol | Synonyms: alcoholize |
| alkalinise | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
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| (verb) become alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
| alkalise | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalize, basify |
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| allegorise | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
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| (verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
| alphabetise | (verb) arrange in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetize |
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| aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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| amass | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| ambuscade | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| ambush | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing | Synonyms: still-hunt |
| amnesty | (verb) grant a pardon to (a group of people) | - |
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| amortise | (verb) liquidate gradually | Synonyms: amortize |
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| amuse | (verb) make (somebody) laugh | - |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: disport, divert |
| anaesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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| anaesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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| anagrammatise | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatize |
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| analogise | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogize |
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| analyse | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyze, canvass, examine, study |
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| (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze, break down, dissect, take apart |
| (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
| (verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze |
| anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |
| anathematise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| anathemise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| anatomise | (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomize |
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| ancylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ankylose |
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| (verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ankylose |
| anesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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| anesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, put out, put under |
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| anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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| anguish | (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
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| (verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
| animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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| (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
| (verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
| animise | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animize |
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| ankylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ancylose |
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| (verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ancylose |
| anodise | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodize |
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| answer | (verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
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| (verb) respond to a signal | - |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
| (verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
| (verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
| (verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
| (verb) match or correspond | - |
| (verb) be liable or accountable | - |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
| antagonise | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonize |
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| (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonize, counteract |
| anthologise | (verb) compile an anthology | Synonyms: anthologize |
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| anthropomorphise | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphize |
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| antisepticize | (verb) disinfect with an antiseptic | - |
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| aphorise | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorize |
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| apologise | (verb) acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing | Synonyms: apologize |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologize, excuse, rationalise, rationalize |
| apostatise | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatize, tergiversate |
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| apostatize | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatise, tergiversate |
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| apostrophise | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophize |
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| apostrophize | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophise |
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| apotheose | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheosise, apotheosize |
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| apotheosise | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheose, apotheosize |
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| apotheosize | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheose, apotheosise |
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| appease | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: propitiate |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: quell, stay |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| appose | (verb) place side by side or in close proximity | - |
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| appraise | (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: survey |
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| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: assess, evaluate, measure, valuate, value |
| apprise | (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: appreciate, apprize |
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| (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: appreciate, apprize, revalue |
| (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: advise, apprize, give notice, notify, send word |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprize, instruct |
| arborise | (verb) branch out like trees | Synonyms: arborize |
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| archaise | (verb) give an archaic appearance of character to | Synonyms: archaize |
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| arise | (verb) get up and out of bed | Synonyms: get up, rise, turn out, uprise |
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| (verb) result or issue | Synonyms: come up |
| (verb) rise to one's feet | Synonyms: get up, rise, stand up, uprise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: rebel, rise, rise up |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) originate or come into being | Synonyms: bob up, come up |
| aromatise | (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatize, perfume |
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| arouse | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: excite, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) to begin moving | Synonyms: stir |