| ambuscade | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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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 |
| confiscate | (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, impound, seize, sequester |
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| coruscate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
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| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
| descale | (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: scale |
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| descant | (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: warble, yodel |
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| (verb) talk at great length about something of one's interest | - |
| (verb) sing in descant | - |
| discard | (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
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| discase | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| escalade | (verb) climb up and over | - |
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| escalate | (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: intensify, step up |
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| escallop | (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: scallop |
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| escape | (verb) issue or leak, as from a small opening | - |
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| (verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action | Synonyms: get away, get by, get off, get out |
| (verb) run away from confinement | Synonyms: break loose, get away |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion | Synonyms: get away |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: elude |
| infuscate | (verb) darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings | - |
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| landscape | (verb) do landscape gardening | - |
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| (verb) embellish with plants | - |
| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |
| miscall | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: misname |
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| miscarry | (verb) suffer a miscarriage | - |
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| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: fail, go wrong |
| miscast | (verb) cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role | - |
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| obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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| rescale | (verb) establish on a new scale | - |
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| scab | (verb) form a scab | - |
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| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, fink, rat |
| scaffold | (verb) provide with a scaffold for support | - |
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| scald | (verb) burn with a hot liquid or steam | - |
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| (verb) heat to the boiling point | - |
| (verb) treat with boiling water | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scorch, whip |
| scale | (verb) measure with or as if with scales | - |
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| (verb) size or measure according to a scale | - |
| (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: descale |
| (verb) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard | - |
| (verb) climb up by means of a ladder | - |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: surmount |
| (verb) take by attacking with scaling ladders | - |
| (verb) measure by or as if by a scale | - |
| scallop | (verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
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| (verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
| (verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scollop |
| (verb) decorate an edge with scallops | - |
| (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: escallop |
| scalp | (verb) remove the scalp of | - |
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| (verb) sell illegally, as on the black market | - |
| scam | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| scamp | (verb) perform hastily and carelessly | - |
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| scamper | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scurry, scuttle, skitter |
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| scan | (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: read |
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| (verb) read metrically | - |
| (verb) make a wide, sweeping search of | - |
| (verb) move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image | - |
| (verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, skim |
| (verb) examine minutely or intensely | - |
| (verb) conform to a metrical pattern | - |
| scandalise | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalize, shock |
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| scandalize | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, shock |
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| scant | (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: skimp |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: skimp |
| scar | (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, pock |
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| scare | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten |
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| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off |
| scarf | (verb) wrap in or adorn with a scarf | - |
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| (verb) masturbate while strangling oneself | - |
| (verb) unite by a scarf joint | - |
| scarify | (verb) puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals | - |
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| (verb) break up | - |
| (verb) scratch the surface of | - |
| scarper | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| scat | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| scatter | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
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| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle |
| (verb) sow by scattering | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: spread, spread out |
| scavenge | (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) feed on carrion or refuse | - |
| (verb) clean refuse from | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: salvage |
| sportscast | (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
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