| asperse | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| crispen | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, toast |
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| dispel | (verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings | Synonyms: chase away, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back |
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| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, disperse, dissipate, scatter |
| dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
| disperse | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, scatter |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) separate (light) into spectral rays | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: dissipate, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter |
| disrespect | (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
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| (verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
| exasperate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: incense, infuriate |
| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| inspect | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, scrutinise, scrutinize |
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| (verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: visit |
| (verb) look over carefully | - |
| intersperse | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: interlard |
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| (verb) place at intervals in or among | - |
| introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| misperceive | (verb) perceive incorrectly | - |
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| misspeak | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: mispronounce |
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| misspell | (verb) spell incorrectly | - |
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| misspend | (verb) spend (money or other resources) unwisely | - |
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| (verb) spend time badly or unwisely | - |
| overspecialise | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialize |
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| overspecialize | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialise |
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| overspend | (verb) spend at a high rate | - |
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| (verb) spend more than available of (a budget) | - |
| prospect | (verb) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals | - |
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| (verb) search for something desirable | - |
| prosper | (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, thrive |
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| respect | (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, value |
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| (verb) show respect towards | Synonyms: abide by, honor, honour, observe |
| resuspend | (verb) put back into suspension | - |
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| retrospect | (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, review |
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| speak | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) exchange thoughts; talk with | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) use language | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) make a characteristic or natural sound | - |
| spear | (verb) pierce with a spear | - |
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| (verb) thrust up like a spear | Synonyms: spear up |
| spearhead | (verb) be the leader of | - |
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| specialise | (verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | Synonyms: narrow, narrow down, specialize |
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| (verb) suit to a special purpose | Synonyms: specialize |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: differentiate, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialize, specify |
| (verb) devote oneself to a special area of work | Synonyms: specialize |
| specialize | (verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | Synonyms: narrow, narrow down, specialise |
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| (verb) suit to a special purpose | Synonyms: specialise |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: differentiate, specialise, speciate |
| (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialise, specify |
| (verb) devote oneself to a special area of work | Synonyms: specialise |
| speciate | (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: differentiate, specialise, specialize |
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| specify | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, destine, intend |
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| (verb) define clearly | Synonyms: nail down, narrow, narrow down, peg down, pin down |
| (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose | Synonyms: assign, set apart |
| (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, limit, set |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, stipulate |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, delineate |
| speck | (verb) produce specks in or on | - |
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| speckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: bespeckle |
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| (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: stipple |
| spectate | (verb) be a spectator in a sports event | - |
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| speculate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think over |
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| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| (verb) talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion | - |
| (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: job |
| speechify | (verb) make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality | - |
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| speed | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, quicken, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed up |
| (verb) move very fast | Synonyms: hurry, travel rapidly, zip |
| (verb) travel at an excessive or illegal velocity | - |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, step on it |
| spell | (verb) take turns working | - |
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| (verb) orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of | Synonyms: spell out |
| (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: import |
| (verb) place under a spell | - |
| (verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn | - |
| spellbind | (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: entrance |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize |
| (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, grip, transfix |
| spelunk | (verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: cave |
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| spend | (verb) pay out | Synonyms: drop, expend |
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| (verb) spend completely | - |
| (verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: pass |
| spew | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, ptyalize, spit, spue |
| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: eruct, spew out |
| suspect | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
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| (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable | Synonyms: surmise |
| (verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty | - |
| suspend | (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: freeze |
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| (verb) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid | - |
| (verb) make inoperative or stop | Synonyms: set aside |
| (verb) hang freely | - |
| (verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: debar |
| (verb) render temporarily ineffective | - |
| underspend | (verb) spend at less than the normal rate | - |
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| (verb) spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example) | - |
| unspell | (verb) release from a spell | - |
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| whisper | (verb) speak softly; in a low voice | - |
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