dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
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(verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
(verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
dismay | (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, horrify |
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(verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dispirit, get down |
mismanage | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mishandle |
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mismarry | (verb) marry an unsuitable partner | - |
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mismatch | (verb) match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together | - |
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mismate | (verb) provide with an unsuitable mate | - |
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outsmart | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outwit, overreach |
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(verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre |
smack | (verb) press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating | - |
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(verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: peck |
(verb) deliver a hard blow to | Synonyms: thwack |
(verb) have a distinctive or characteristic taste | Synonyms: taste |
(verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smell |
smart | (verb) be the source of pain | Synonyms: ache, hurt |
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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 |
smatter | (verb) speak with spotty or superficial knowledge | - |
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(verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, blither |
(verb) work with in an amateurish manner | Synonyms: dabble, play around |