| dissent | (verb) withhold assent | - |
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| (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, disagree, take issue |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: protest, resist |
| dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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| dogmatise | (verb) state as a dogma | Synonyms: dogmatize |
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| (verb) speak dogmatically | Synonyms: dogmatize |
| domesticise | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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| dose | (verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: drug |
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| (verb) treat with an agent; add (an agent) to | - |
| douse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) slacken | Synonyms: dowse |
| (verb) lower quickly | - |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, dunk, plunge, souse |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: dip, duck |
| (verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: dowse |
| (verb) put out, as of a candle or a light | Synonyms: put out |
| dowse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) slacken | Synonyms: douse |
| (verb) use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal | - |
| (verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: douse |
| dramatise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| (verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatize |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatize |
| drowse | (verb) be on the verge of sleeping | - |
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| (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: doze, snooze |
| dynamise | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamize |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamize |
| ease | (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: comfort |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, facilitate |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, relieve, still |
| (verb) move gently or carefully | - |
| ebonise | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonize |
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| eclipse | (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: occult |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, overshadow |
| economise | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economize, husband |
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| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economize, save |
| editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effuse | (verb) give out or emit (also metaphorically) | - |
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| (verb) flow or spill forth | Synonyms: flow out |
| (verb) pour out liberally | Synonyms: pour out |
| elapse | (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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| elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| encase | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: case, incase |
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| enclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, inclose, shut in |
| (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
| (verb) close in | Synonyms: confine, hold in |
| endorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: indorse |
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| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, indorse |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, indorse, second |
| energise | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energize, excite |
| enfranchise | (verb) grant voting rights | - |
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| (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: affranchise |
| enthuse | (verb) utter with enthusiasm | - |
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| (verb) cause to feel enthusiasm | - |
| epitomise | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomize, typify |
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| equalise | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalize, equate, match |
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| (verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalize, get even |
| equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
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| erase | (verb) remove from memory or existence | Synonyms: wipe out |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: efface, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| espouse | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, embrace, sweep up |
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| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, follow |
| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| etherialise | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherealize |
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| etherise | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherize |
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| etymologise | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologize |
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| (verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologize |
| eulogise | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogize |
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| euphemise | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemize |
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| euthanatise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatize, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
| excise | (verb) remove by cutting | - |
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| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: expunge, scratch, strike |
| (verb) levy an excise tax on | - |
| excuse | (verb) accept an excuse for | Synonyms: pardon |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: condone |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: explain |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: exempt, let off, relieve |
| (verb) ask for permission to be released from an engagement | Synonyms: beg off |
| exercise | (verb) do physical exercise | Synonyms: work out |
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| (verb) give a workout to | Synonyms: work, work out |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, practice, practise |
| (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exert |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, practice, practise |
| exorcise | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcize |
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| expense | (verb) reduce the estimated value of something | Synonyms: write down, write off |
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| expose | (verb) abandon by leaving out in the open air | - |
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| (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: debunk |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, peril, queer, scupper |
| (verb) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body | Synonyms: uncover |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
| (verb) expose to light, of photographic film | - |
| (verb) expose or make accessible to some action or influence | - |
| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: disclose, uncover |
| exsert | (verb) thrust or extend out | Synonyms: extend, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out |
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| extemporise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporize, improvise, improvize |
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| exteriorise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorize, externalise, externalize, objectify |
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| externalise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalize, project |
| factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
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| familiarise | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarize |
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| fantasise | (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasize, fantasy |
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| (verb) portray in the mind | Synonyms: fantasize |
| federalise | (verb) unite on a federal basis or band together as a league | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
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| (verb) put under the control and authority of a federal government | Synonyms: federalize |
| (verb) enter into a league for a common purpose | Synonyms: federalize, federate |
| feminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminize, womanize |
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| (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminize |
| fertilise | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize, inseminate |
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| (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: feed, fertilize |
| (verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize |
| fictionalise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalize, novelise, novelize |
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| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalize, retell |
| finalise | (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalize, nail down, settle |
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| flense | (verb) strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal) | - |
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| fluoridise | (verb) subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride | Synonyms: fluoridate, fluoridize |
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| focalise | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus |
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| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus, sharpen |
| (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalize, focus |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalize, localise, localize |
| foreclose | (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage | - |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| foresee | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, previse |
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| (verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: envision |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, forestall |
| formalise | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalize |
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| (verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalize, validate |
| formularise | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularize |
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| fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
| fragmentise | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentize |
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| franchise | (verb) grant a franchise to | - |
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| fraternise | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternize |
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| fricassee | (verb) make a fricassee of by cooking | - |
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| fundraise | (verb) raise money for a cause or project | Synonyms: fund-raise, fund raise |
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| fuse | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) make liquid or plastic by heating | - |
| (verb) become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat | - |
| (verb) equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse | - |
| galvanise | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanize |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanize |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanize, startle |
| gelatinise | (verb) become gelatinous or change into a jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
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| (verb) convert into gelatinous form or jelly | Synonyms: gelatinize |
| generalise | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalize |
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| (verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalize |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer |
| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| geyser | (verb) to overflow like a geyser | - |
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| ghettoise | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoize |
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| glamorise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, glamourize |
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| glamourise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, romanticise, romanticize |
| glimpse | (verb) catch a glimpse of or see briefly | - |
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| globalise | (verb) make world-wide in scope or application | Synonyms: globalize |
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| gluttonise | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonize |
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| glycerolise | (verb) place in glycerol | Synonyms: glycerolize |
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| goose | (verb) pinch in the buttocks | - |
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| (verb) give a spurt of fuel to | - |
| (verb) prod into action | - |
| gormandise | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| grease | (verb) lubricate with grease | - |
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| grouse | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, holler, squawk |
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| (verb) hunt grouse | - |
| harmonise | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonize |
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| (verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonize, reconcile |
| (verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonize |
| (verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonize |
| (verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonize |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonize |
| homogenise | (verb) become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenize |
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| (verb) cause to become equal or homogeneous as by mixing | Synonyms: homogenize |
| (verb) break up the fat globules of | Synonyms: homogenize |
| homologise | (verb) make homologous | Synonyms: homologize |
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| horse | (verb) provide with a horse or horses | - |
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| horseshoe | (verb) equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes | - |
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| horsewhip | (verb) whip with a whip intended for horses | - |
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| hose | (verb) water with a hose | Synonyms: hose down |
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| hospitalise | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalize |
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| house | (verb) provide someone with accomodation | Synonyms: domiciliate, put up |
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| (verb) contain or cover | - |
| housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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