| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| airbrush | (verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
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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 |
| anguish | (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
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| (verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
| ash | (verb) convert into ashes | - |
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| astonish | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astound |
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| backlash | (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
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| banish | (verb) drive away | - |
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| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: bar, relegate |
| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
| (verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | Synonyms: ban |
| bash | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bonk, bop, sock, whap, whop |
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| beshrew | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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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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| 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 |
| blush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: crimson, flush, redden |
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| (verb) become rosy or reddish | - |
| 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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| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| brandish | (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
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| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| 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 |
| bullshit | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, fake, talk through one's hat |
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| burnish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
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| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| catfish | (verb) To deceive someone by professing romantic feelings but actually using a false identity | - |
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| cherish | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, hold dear, treasure |
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| clash | (verb) disagree violently | - |
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| (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: collide |
| (verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: collide, jar |
| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| cosh | (verb) hit with a cosh, usually on the head | - |
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| crash | (verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: doss, doss down |
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| (verb) stop operating | Synonyms: go down |
| (verb) undergo a sudden and severe downturn | - |
| (verb) undergo damage or destruction on impact | Synonyms: ram |
| (verb) break violently or noisily; smash | Synonyms: break apart, break up |
| (verb) cause to crash | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: dash |
| (verb) enter uninvited; informal | Synonyms: barge in, gate-crash |
| (verb) move with, or as if with, a crashing noise | - |
| (verb) fall or come down violently | - |
| (verb) move violently as through a barrier | - |
| (verb) make a sudden loud sound | - |
| (verb) occupy, usually uninvited | - |
| crawfish | (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
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| crosshatch | (verb) shade with multiple crossing lines | - |
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| crush | (verb) break into small pieces | - |
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| (verb) become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure | - |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) make ineffective | Synonyms: break down |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: jam |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: smash |
| (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: oppress, suppress |
| cushion | (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
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| dash | (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: smash |
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| (verb) add an enlivening or altering element to | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: crash |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) destroy or break | - |
| demolish | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: pulverise, pulverize |
| (verb) ruin or destroy | - |
| diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
| disestablish | (verb) deprive (an established church) of its status | - |
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| dish | (verb) make concave; shape like a dish | - |
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| (verb) provide (usually but not necessarily food) | Synonyms: dish out, dish up, serve, serve up |
| disharmonize | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: dissonate |
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| dishearten | (verb) take away the enthusiasm of | Synonyms: put off |
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| dishevel | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: tangle, tousle |
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| dishonor | (verb) refuse to accept | Synonyms: dishonour |
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| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonour, shame |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| dishonour | (verb) refuse to accept | Synonyms: dishonor |
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| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, shame |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| enmesh | (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: ensnarl, mesh |
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| enshrine | (verb) enclose in a shrine | Synonyms: shrine |
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| (verb) hold sacred | Synonyms: saint |
| enshroud | (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, hide, shroud |
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| establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
| (verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
| extinguish | (verb) put an end to; kill | Synonyms: snuff out |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, eliminate, get rid of |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, press out, stub, stub out |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, quench, snuff out |
| famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
| fashion | (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: forge |
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| fetishize | (verb) make a fetish of | - |
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| finish | (verb) finally be or do something | Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up |
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| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: complete |
| (verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody | - |
| (verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
| (verb) provide with a finish | - |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate |
| fish | (verb) catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | - |
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| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: angle |
| fishtail | (verb) slow down by moving the tail sideways | - |
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| flash | (verb) appear briefly | - |
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| (verb) emit a brief burst of light | - |
| (verb) make known or cause to appear with great speed | - |
| (verb) protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank |
| (verb) expose or show briefly | - |
| flesh | (verb) remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture | - |
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| flourish | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |
| flush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden |
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| (verb) cause to flow through something | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: purge, scour |
| (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice |
| (verb) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, level |
| (verb) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light | - |
| flyfish | (verb) fish with flies as lures | Synonyms: fly-fish |
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| foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
| foreshow | (verb) foretell by divine inspiration | - |
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| freshen | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: refresh, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen up, refresh, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: refresh |
| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| garnish | (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, trim |
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| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnishee |
| garnishee | (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnish |
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| gash | (verb) cut open | Synonyms: slash |
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| gnash | (verb) grind together, of teeth | - |
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| gush | (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: rave |
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| (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: jet |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: spirt, spout, spurt |
| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| harshen | (verb) make harsh or harsher | - |
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| hash | (verb) chop up | - |
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| horseshoe | (verb) equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes | - |
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| hush | (verb) become quiet or still; fall silent | - |
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| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still |
| (verb) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: wash |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| josh | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, kid |
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| kibosh | (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, stop |
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| languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
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| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
| lash | (verb) strike as if by whipping | Synonyms: whip |
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| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) bind with a rope, chain, or cord | - |
| (verb) lash or flick about sharply | - |
| lavish | (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
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| leash | (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: rope |
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| malnourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: undernourish |
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| marshal | (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: mobilise, mobilize, summon |
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| (verb) arrange in logical order | - |
| (verb) place in proper rank | - |
| (verb) lead ceremoniously, as in a procession | - |
| mash | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, grind |
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| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| mesh | (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: interlock |
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| (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, ensnarl |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, operate |
| (verb) work together in harmony | - |
| mishandle | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
| monish | (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, warn |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, caution |
| moonshine | (verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
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| mosh | (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: slam, slam dance, thrash |
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| mush | (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: dogsled |
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| (verb) drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) | - |
| mushroom | (verb) grow and spread fast | - |
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| (verb) pick or gather mushrooms | - |