| shoo | (verb) drive away by crying `shoo!' | Synonyms: shoo away, shoo off |
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| shoot | (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: inject |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud |
| (verb) measure the altitude of by using a sextant | - |
| (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: photograph, snap |
| (verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: film, take |
| (verb) utter fast and forcefully | - |
| (verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, pip |
| (verb) score | - |
| (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away |
| (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: inject |
| (verb) throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective | - |
| (verb) throw dice, as in a crap game | - |
| (verb) variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp and sudden pain in | - |
| (verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: pip |
| (verb) emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully | - |
| shop | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) do one's shopping | - |
| (verb) shop around; not necessarily buying | Synonyms: browse |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop at, sponsor |
| shoplift | (verb) steal in a store | - |
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| shore | (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop, prop up, shore up |
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| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: land, set ashore |
| (verb) serve as a shore to | - |
| short | (verb) create a short circuit in | Synonyms: short-circuit |
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| (verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money | Synonyms: short-change |
| shorten | (verb) become short or shorter | - |
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| (verb) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate |
| (verb) make short or shorter | - |
| shortlist | (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
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| shoulder | (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
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| (verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
| (verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
| shout | (verb) utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) | - |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw |
| shove | (verb) push roughly | - |
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| (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: jostle |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: squeeze, stuff, thrust |
| shovel | (verb) dig with or as if with a shovel | - |
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| show | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, shew |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, testify |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, point |
| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, express |
| (verb) give evidence of, as of records | - |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, register |
| (verb) finish third or better in a horse or dog race | - |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, render |
| (verb) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums | Synonyms: usher |
| (verb) make visible or noticeable | - |
| (verb) be or become visible or noticeable | Synonyms: show up |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, present |
| shower | (verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
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| (verb) provide abundantly with | - |
| (verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
| (verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
| shred | (verb) tear into shreds | Synonyms: rip up, tear up |
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| shriek | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shrill |
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| shrill | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shriek |
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| shrimp | (verb) fish for shrimp | - |
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| shrine | (verb) enclose in a shrine | Synonyms: enshrine |
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| shrink | (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: contract |
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| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: reduce |
| (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrivel, shrivel up, wither |
| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrivel |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince |
| shrinkwrap | (verb) wrap something tightly with heated plastic that shrinks upon cooling | - |
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| shrive | (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: absolve |
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| shrivel | (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrink, shrivel up, wither |
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| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrink |
| shroud | (verb) wrap in a shroud | - |
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| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, enshroud, hide |
| (verb) form a cover like a shroud | - |
| shrug | (verb) raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation | - |
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| shuck | (verb) remove the shucks from | - |
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| (verb) remove from the shell | - |
| shudder | (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shiver |
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| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, thrill, throb |
| shuffle | (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, ruffle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shamble |
| (verb) move about, move back and forth | - |
| shun | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: eschew |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize |
| shunt | (verb) transfer to another track, of trains | - |
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| (verb) provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt | - |
| shush | (verb) silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' | - |
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| shut | (verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: close |
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| (verb) become closed | Synonyms: close |
| (verb) prevent from entering; shut out | Synonyms: exclude, keep out, shut out |
| shutter | (verb) close with shutters | - |
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| shuttle | (verb) travel back and forth between two points | - |
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| shuttlecock | (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
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| shy | (verb) throw quickly | - |
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| (verb) start suddenly, as from fright | - |
| skirmish | (verb) engage in a skirmish | - |
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| slash | (verb) cut drastically | - |
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| (verb) cut open | Synonyms: gash |
| (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete | Synonyms: cut down |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| slosh | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh around, slush, slush around |
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| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, splash, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slush, splash, splosh |
| slush | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh, slosh around, slush around |
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| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh |
| smash | (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: dash |
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| (verb) break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow | - |
| (verb) overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful) | - |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, boom, nail |
| (verb) collide or strike violently and suddenly | - |
| (verb) hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke | - |
| (verb) damage or destroy as if by violence | Synonyms: bang up, smash up |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: crush |
| (verb) hit violently | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, break, ruin |
| snowshoe | (verb) travel on snowshoes | - |
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| splash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splosh, sprinkle |
| (verb) strike and dash about in a liquid | - |
| (verb) soil or stain with a splashed liquid | - |
| (verb) mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splosh |
| splosh | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, swash |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, sprinkle |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splash |
| squash | (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squeeze, squelch |
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| squish | (verb) put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action | - |
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| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch |
| stash | (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: cache, hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away |
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| stonewash | (verb) wash with stones to achieve a worn appearance | Synonyms: stone-wash |
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| swash | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swagger |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh |
| (verb) make violent, noisy movements | - |
| swish | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swoosh, swosh |
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| swoosh | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swosh |
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| swosh | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swoosh |
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| tarnish | (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, sully |
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| thrash | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thresh |
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| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thresh |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick |
| (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: mosh, slam, slam dance |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all | - |
| (verb) move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation | - |
| thresh | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thrash |
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| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thrash |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: flail |
| transship | (verb) transfer for further transportation from one ship or conveyance to another | - |
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| trash | (verb) express a totally negative opinion of | Synonyms: pan, tear apart |
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| (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: junk, scrap |
| troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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| undernourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: malnourish |
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| undershoot | (verb) shoot short of or below (a target) | - |
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| (verb) fall short of (the runway) in a landing | - |
| unlash | (verb) untie the lashing of | - |
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| unleash | (verb) release or vent | - |
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| (verb) release from a leash | - |
| (verb) turn loose or free from restraint | Synonyms: let loose, loose |
| unsheathe | (verb) draw from a sheath or scabbard | - |
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| usher | (verb) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums | Synonyms: show |
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| vanish | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
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| (verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: fly, vaporize |
| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: disappear |
| (verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fell, fly |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
| vanquish | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce |
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| varnish | (verb) cover with varnish | Synonyms: seal |
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| wash | (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: lave |
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| (verb) to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking | - |
| (verb) remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent | Synonyms: wash away, wash off, wash out |
| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, moisten |
| (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, lave |
| (verb) form by erosion | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: hush |
| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: launder |
| (verb) separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) | - |
| (verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: rinse |
| (verb) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to | - |
| (verb) move by or as if by water | - |
| (verb) be capable of being washed | - |
| (verb) admit to testing or proof | - |
| welsh | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welch |
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| whish | (verb) move with a whishing sound | - |
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| (verb) make a sibilant sound | - |
| whitewash | (verb) exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data | - |
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| (verb) cover with whitewash | - |
| (verb) cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error | Synonyms: gloss over, hush up, sleek over |
| whoosh | (verb) gush or squirt out | - |
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| (verb) move with a whooshing sound | Synonyms: hiss |
| (verb) move with a sibilant sound | Synonyms: woosh |
| wish | (verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: bid |
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| (verb) order politely; express a wish for | - |
| (verb) make or express a wish | - |
| (verb) feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of | Synonyms: wish well |
| (verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: care, like |
| woosh | (verb) move with a sibilant sound | Synonyms: whoosh |
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| worship | (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, revere |
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| (verb) show devotion to (a deity) | - |
| (verb) attend religious services | - |