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 |
burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
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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 |
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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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 |
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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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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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 | - |
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 |
categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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catholicise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicize, latinise, latinize |
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cause | (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: get, have, induce, make, stimulate |
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(verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: do, make |
causeway | (verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
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(verb) provide with a causeway | - |
cauterise | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterize |
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(verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterize |
cease | (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
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(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: end, finish, stop, terminate |
cense | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: incense, thurify |
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centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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(verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
(verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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(verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
chase | (verb) cut a groove into | - |
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(verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, furrow |
(verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
(verb) pursue someone sexually or romantically | Synonyms: chase after |
chasse | (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |
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chastise | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, correct, objurgate |
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cheese | (verb) wind onto a cheese | - |
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(verb) used in the imperative (get away, or stop it) | - |
chisel | (verb) carve with a chisel | - |
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(verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: cheat |
(verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: cheat, rip off |
choose | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: pick out, select, take |
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(verb) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way | - |
(verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: opt, prefer |
chouse | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, jockey, screw, shaft |
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chronologise | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologize |
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cicatrise | (verb) form a scar, after an injury | Synonyms: cicatrize |
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cinematise | (verb) make a film of or adopt so as to make into a film | Synonyms: cinematize |
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circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
(verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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(verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
classicise | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicize |
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cleanse | (verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: clean |
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(verb) purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins | - |
close | (verb) finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead | - |
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(verb) complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement | - |
(verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: shut |
(verb) become closed | Synonyms: shut |
(verb) bar access to | - |
(verb) fill or stop up | Synonyms: fill up |
(verb) bring together all the elements or parts of | - |
(verb) unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of | Synonyms: close up |
(verb) change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact | - |
(verb) come together, as if in an embrace | Synonyms: come together |
(verb) draw near | - |
(verb) cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop | - |
(verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close down, close up, fold, shut down |
(verb) finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.) | - |
(verb) engage at close quarters | - |
(verb) come to a close | Synonyms: conclude |
(verb) be priced or listed when trading stops | - |
closet | (verb) confine to a small space, as for intensive work | - |
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coarsen | (verb) make less subtle or refined | - |
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(verb) make or become coarse or coarser | - |
cocainise | (verb) anesthetize with cocaine | Synonyms: cocainize |
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cognise | (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognize, know |
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collapse | (verb) collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack | Synonyms: break down |
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(verb) lose significance, effectiveness, or value | - |
(verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, crack, crack up, crock up |
(verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, fall in, founder, give, give way |
(verb) fold or close up | - |
(verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, crumble, crumple, tumble |
(verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: burst |
collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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colonise | (verb) settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) | Synonyms: colonize |
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(verb) settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world | Synonyms: colonize |
colorise | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize |
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colourise | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourize |
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commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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commiserate | (verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: sympathise, sympathize |
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communalise | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalize |
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communise | (verb) make into property owned by the state | Synonyms: communize |
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(verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, bolshevize, communize |
compartmentalise | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalize, cut up |
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compose | (verb) make up plans or basic details for | Synonyms: draw up, frame |
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(verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: indite, pen, write |
(verb) write music | Synonyms: write |
(verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compile |
(verb) calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet | - |
(verb) form the substance of | - |
comprise | (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: contain, incorporate |
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(verb) be composed of | Synonyms: consist |
(verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, constitute, make up, represent |
compromise | (verb) settle by concession | - |
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(verb) make a compromise; arrive at a compromise | - |
(verb) expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute | - |
computerise | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerize, cybernate |
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(verb) store in a computer | Synonyms: computerize |
(verb) provide with computers | Synonyms: computerize |
conceptualise | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualize, gestate |
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concertise | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertize |
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concretise | (verb) become specific | Synonyms: concretize |
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condense | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, digest |
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(verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: distil, distill |
(verb) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid | - |
(verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, contract |
(verb) remove water from | - |
(verb) become more compact or concentrated | - |
(verb) develop due to condensation | - |
confuse | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, obnubilate, obscure |
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(verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confound |
(verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
(verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: jumble, mix up |
(verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: disconcert, flurry, put off |
consecrate | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify |
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(verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: vow |
(verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give |
(verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate |
consent | (verb) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to | Synonyms: accept, go for |
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conserve | (verb) preserve with sugar | - |
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(verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: economise, economize, husband |
(verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve |
(verb) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change | - |
constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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contemporise | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
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(verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
contredanse | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
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contuse | (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: bruise |
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conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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converse | (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: discourse |
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convulse | (verb) be overcome with laughter | - |
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(verb) make someone convulse with laughter | - |
(verb) contract involuntarily, as in a spasm | - |
(verb) cause to contract | - |
(verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
(verb) shake uncontrollably | - |
copolymerise | (verb) polymerize together | Synonyms: copolymerize |
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corset | (verb) dress with a corset | - |
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cosset | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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counsel | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: advise, rede |
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counterpoise | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpose, counterweight |
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counterpose | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterweight |
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course | (verb) hunt with hounds | - |
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(verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: feed, flow, run |
(verb) move swiftly through or over | - |
crease | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
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(verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
(verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle |
(verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: graze, rake |
criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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criticise | (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticize, knock, pick apart |
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(verb) act as a critic | Synonyms: criticize |
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 | - |
crystalise | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallize, effloresce |
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(verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
(verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
(verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
crystallise | (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
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(verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
(verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
curse | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict |
(verb) heap obscenities upon | - |
(verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch |
curtsey | (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsy |
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customise | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customize |
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(verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customize, tailor-make |
debase | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: alloy |
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(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch |
(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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decarburise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburize, decoke |
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