| hasten | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: induce, rush, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: expedite |
| heist | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, burgle |
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| hemstitch | (verb) sew with hemstitches | - |
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| hoist | (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: lift, wind |
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| (verb) raise by using ropes and pulleys | Synonyms: run up |
| (verb) move from one place to another by lifting | - |
| holystone | (verb) scrub with a holystone | - |
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| homestead | (verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
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| host | (verb) be the host of or for | - |
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| huckster | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
| hustle | (verb) pressure or urge someone into an action | - |
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| (verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle, bustle about |
| (verb) cause to move furtively and hurriedly | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: pluck, roll |
| (verb) get by trying hard | - |
| hypostatise | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatize |
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| hypostatize | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatise |
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| illustrate | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, instance |
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| (verb) depict with an illustration | - |
| (verb) supply with illustrations | - |
| incrust | (verb) form a crust or a hard layer | Synonyms: encrust |
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| (verb) cover or coat with a crust | Synonyms: encrust |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: beset, encrust |
| industrialise | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialize |
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| (verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialize |
| industrialize | (verb) develop industry; become industrial | Synonyms: industrialise |
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| (verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry | Synonyms: industrialise |
| infest | (verb) invade in great numbers | Synonyms: overrun |
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| (verb) live on or in a host, as of parasites | - |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: invade, overrun |
| ingest | (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, assimilate, take in |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, have, take, take in |
| insist | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: assert |
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| (verb) be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge | Synonyms: take a firm stand |
| (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: importune |
| instal | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: install, put in, set up |
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| (verb) place | Synonyms: establish, install, set up |
| (verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: install |
| instalike | (verb) to instantly vote for something on social media | - |
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| install | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: instal, put in, set up |
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| (verb) place | Synonyms: establish, instal, set up |
| (verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: instal |
| instance | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, illustrate |
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| instantiate | (verb) find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) | - |
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| (verb) represent by an instance | - |
| instigate | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up |
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| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, prompt |
| instil | (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instill |
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| instill | (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, tincture |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, ingrain |
| (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, infuse |
| (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instil |
| (verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: transfuse |
| institute | (verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: bring |
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| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, plant |
| institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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| institutionalize | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, send |
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| instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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| (verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| instrument | (verb) address a legal document to | - |
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| (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrumentate |
| (verb) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling | - |
| instrumentate | (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrument |
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| interest | (verb) excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of | - |
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| (verb) be of importance or consequence | Synonyms: matter to |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, occupy, worry |
| interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
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| intrust | (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, trust |
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| invest | (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, place, put |
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| (verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: enthrone, vest |
| (verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: induct, seat |
| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: adorn, clothe |
| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, gift, indue |
| investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| jest | (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: joke |
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| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: joke |
| jostle | (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: shove |
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| (verb) make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving | - |
| joust | (verb) joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback | - |
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| jumpstart | (verb) start or re-start vigorously | Synonyms: jump-start |
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| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jump |
| justify | (verb) adjust the spaces between words | - |
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| (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: vindicate |
| (verb) (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin | - |
| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| last | (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: endure |
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| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, live, live on, survive |
| lipstick | (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
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| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| list | (verb) give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) enumerate | Synonyms: number |
| (verb) tilt to one side | Synonyms: heel |
| (verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: lean |
| (verb) include in a list | - |
| listen | (verb) hear with intention | - |
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| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: hear, take heed |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, mind |
| lust | (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, starve, thirst |
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| lustrate | (verb) purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials | - |
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| manifest | (verb) reveal its presence or make an appearance | - |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, evidence |
| (verb) record in a ship's manifest | - |
| mapquest | (verb) search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program | - |
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| master | (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: control |
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| (verb) be or become completely proficient or skilled in | Synonyms: get the hang |
| (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount |
| (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: dominate |
| mastermind | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| masturbate | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank |
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| (verb) stimulate sexually | - |
| menstruate | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: flow |
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| metastasise | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasize |
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| metastasize | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasise |
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| minister | (verb) work as a minister | - |
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| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| minstrel | (verb) celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels | - |
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| miscast | (verb) cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role | - |
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| misconstrue | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
| misstate | (verb) state something incorrectly | - |
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| mist | (verb) become covered with mist | Synonyms: mist over |
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| (verb) spray finely or cover with mist | - |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, obnubilate, obscure |
| mistake | (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: err, slip |
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| (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: misidentify |
| mistime | (verb) time incorrectly | - |
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| mistranslate | (verb) translate incorrectly | - |
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| mistreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, step |
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| mistrust | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, suspect |
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| misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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| moisten | (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, wash |
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| (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: drizzle |
| moisturise | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturize |
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| moisturize | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturise |
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| molest | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, plague, provoke |
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| (verb) harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to | - |
| mudwrestle | (verb) wrestle in mud | Synonyms: mud-wrestle |
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| muster | (verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | - |
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| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon |
| mystify | (verb) make mysterious | - |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| nest | (verb) fit together or fit inside | - |
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| (verb) gather nests | - |
| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
| (verb) inhabit a nest, usually after building | - |
| nestle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nuzzle, snuggle |
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| (verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: snuggle |
| (verb) lie in a sheltered position | - |
| obstinate | (verb) persist stubbornly | - |
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| obstipate | (verb) constipate severely | - |
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| obstruct | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, stymie, stymy |
| orchestrate | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, organise, organize |
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| (verb) write an orchestra score for | - |
| ostentate | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, show off, swank |
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| ostracise | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracize |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracize, shun |
| ostracize | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with | Synonyms: ostracise |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, shun |
| oust | (verb) remove from a position or office | Synonyms: boot out, drum out, expel, kick out, throw out |
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| (verb) remove and replace | - |
| outdistance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outstrip |
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| outlast | (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlive, survive |
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| outstare | (verb) overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring | Synonyms: outface, stare down |
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| outstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: overstay |
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| (verb) surpass in staying power | - |
| outstrip | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outdistance |
| overcast | (verb) sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next | - |
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| (verb) sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches | - |
| (verb) make overcast or cloudy | Synonyms: cloud |
| overestimate | (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overrate |
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| (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overvalue |
| overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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| overstate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw |
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| overstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: outstay |
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| overstep | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: transgress, trespass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, pass, top, transcend |