| bioassay | (verb) subject to a bio-assay | - |
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| birdnest | (verb) gather birdnests | Synonyms: bird-nest |
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| bisect | (verb) cut in half or cut in two | - |
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| bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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| blacklist | (verb) put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted | - |
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| blackwash | (verb) color with blackwash | - |
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| (verb) bring (information) out of concealment | - |
| blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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| blaspheme | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: curse, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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| (verb) speak of in an irreverent or impious manner | - |
| blast | (verb) shatter as if by explosion | Synonyms: knock down |
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| (verb) shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly | - |
| (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: crucify, pillory, savage |
| (verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: shell |
| (verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: shoot |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: boom, nail, smash |
| (verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: shell |
| (verb) make with or as if with an explosion | - |
| (verb) apply a draft or strong wind to to | - |
| (verb) make a strident sound | Synonyms: blare |
| blemish | (verb) add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective | Synonyms: flaw |
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| (verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: spot |
| (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: deface, disfigure |
| bless | (verb) give a benediction to | - |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: consecrate, hallow, sanctify |
| (verb) make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate | Synonyms: sign |
| (verb) confer prosperity or happiness on | - |
| blindside | (verb) attack or hit on or from the side where the attacked person's view is obstructed | - |
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| (verb) catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences | - |
| blister | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
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| (verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
| blossom | (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | Synonyms: blossom forth, blossom out, unfold |
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| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
| blush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: crimson, flush, redden |
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| (verb) become rosy or reddish | - |
| bluster | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
| boast | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: feature, sport |
| bobsled | (verb) ride a bobsled | Synonyms: bob |
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| bollocks | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bolshevise | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevize, communise, communize |
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| bolshevize | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, communise, communize |
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| bolster | (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
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| (verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
| (verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| boost | (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: advance, supercharge |
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| (verb) give a boost to; be beneficial to | - |
| (verb) push or shove upward, as if from below or behind | - |
| (verb) increase | Synonyms: hike, hike up |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, encourage, further, promote |
| bootstrap | (verb) help oneself, often through improvised means | - |
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| bosom | (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: embrace, hug, squeeze |
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| (verb) hide in one's bosom | - |
| boss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: emboss, stamp |
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| botanise | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanize |
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| bouse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bowse |
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| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bouse |
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| brainstorm | (verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
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| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| braise | (verb) cook in liquid | - |
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| brandish | (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
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| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| breakfast | (verb) eat an early morning meal | - |
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| (verb) provide breakfast for | - |
| breast | (verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: front |
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| (verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: summit |
| (verb) meet at breast level | - |
| breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| breaststroke | (verb) swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg | - |
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| breathalyse | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyze |
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| brisk | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk up, brisken |
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| brisken | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk, brisk up |
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| bristle | (verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
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| (verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
| (verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
| broadcast | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, send, transmit |
| (verb) sow over a wide area, especially by hand | - |
| broadside | (verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
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| browse | (verb) eat lightly, try different dishes | Synonyms: graze |
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| (verb) look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular | Synonyms: surf |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: crop, graze, pasture, range |
| (verb) shop around; not necessarily buying | Synonyms: shop |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| bullshit | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, fake, talk through one's hat |
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| burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
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| burlesque | (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: parody, spoof |
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| burnish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
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| burst | (verb) come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure | Synonyms: break open, split |
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| (verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) emerge suddenly | - |
| (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: explode |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, erupt |
| (verb) move suddenly, energetically, or violently | - |
| (verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: collapse |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, bristle |
| bus | (verb) remove used dishes from the table in restaurants | - |
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| (verb) ride in a bus | - |
| (verb) send or move around by bus | - |
| bush | (verb) provide with a bushing | - |
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| bushel | (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
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| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| busk | (verb) play music in a public place and solicit money for it | - |
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| buss | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: kiss, osculate, snog |
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| bust | (verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: burst |
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| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: break, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| (verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: rupture, snap, tear |
| (verb) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on | Synonyms: raid |
| bustle | (verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle about, hustle |
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| busy | (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: occupy |
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| buttress | (verb) make stronger or defensible | - |
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| (verb) reinforce with a buttress | - |
| bypass | (verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious | Synonyms: get around, go around, short-circuit |
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| callous | (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
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| callus | (verb) form a callus or calluses | - |
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| (verb) cause a callus to form on | - |
| canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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| cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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| (verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
| cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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| (verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
| canvas | (verb) cover with canvas | - |
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| canvass | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, examine, study |
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| (verb) solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | - |
| (verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: poll |
| caparison | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, barde, dress up |
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| capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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| (verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
| (verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
| (verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
| caponise | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponize |
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| capsize | (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: turn turtle, turtle |
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| capsulate | (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| capsule | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsulise, capsulize, encapsulate |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsulise, capsulize |
| capsulise | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulize, encapsulate |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsule, capsulize |
| capsulize | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, encapsulate |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsule, capsulise |
| caramelise | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
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| (verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
| carbonise | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonize |
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| (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonize, carburise, carburize |
| carburise | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburize |
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| caress | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: fondle |
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| carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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| carouse | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
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| cascade | (verb) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible | - |
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| (verb) rush down in big quantities, like a cascade | Synonyms: cascade down |
| case | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: encase, incase |
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| (verb) look over, usually with the intention to rob | - |
| caseate | (verb) become cheeselike | - |
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| (verb) turn into cheese | - |
| cash | (verb) exchange for cash | Synonyms: cash in |
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| cashier | (verb) discharge with dishonor, as in the army | - |
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| (verb) discard or do away with | - |
| casket | (verb) enclose in a casket | - |
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| cast | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: couch, frame, put, redact |
| (verb) choose at random | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) throw forcefully | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold | Synonyms: mold, mould |
| (verb) select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet | - |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: contrive, project, throw |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) deposit | - |
| (verb) assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors | - |
| castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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| (verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
| castle | (verb) move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king | - |
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| castrate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, neuter, spay |
| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: emasculate |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten |
| catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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| catalyse | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyze |
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| catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |