| hesitate | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: waffle, waver |
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| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: pause |
| hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
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| hospitalise | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalize |
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| hospitalize | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalise |
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| 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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| imitate | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, simulate |
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| (verb) make a reproduction or copy of | - |
| (verb) appear like, as in behavior or appearance | - |
| immortalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalize |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| immortalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, memorialise, memorialize |
| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| ingurgitate | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| 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 | - |
| instrumentate | (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrument |
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| irritate | (verb) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame | - |
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| (verb) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| italicise | (verb) print in italics | Synonyms: italicize |
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| italicize | (verb) print in italics | Synonyms: italicise |
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| jactitate | (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
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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 |
| juxtapose | (verb) place side by side | - |
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| lactate | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| levitate | (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: hover |
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| (verb) cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity | - |
| maintain | (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: keep, observe |
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| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, asseverate |
| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) support against an opponent | Synonyms: uphold |
| (verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: keep, sustain |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: conserve, keep up, preserve |
| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: exert, wield |
| (verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, keep |
| meditate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, study |
| metabolise | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolize |
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| metabolize | (verb) produce by metabolism | Synonyms: metabolise |
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| metal | (verb) cover with metal | - |
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| metalize | (verb) coat with metal | Synonyms: metallize |
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| metallize | (verb) coat with metal | Synonyms: metalize |
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| metamorphose | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: transfigure, transmogrify |
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| (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
| metastasise | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasize |
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| metastasize | (verb) spread throughout the body | Synonyms: metastasise |
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| militarise | (verb) adopt for military use | Synonyms: militarize |
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| (verb) lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force | Synonyms: militarize |
| militarize | (verb) adopt for military use | Synonyms: militarise |
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| (verb) lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force | Synonyms: militarise |
| militate | (verb) have force or influence; bring about an effect or change | - |
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| misstate | (verb) state something incorrectly | - |
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| mistake | (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: err, slip |
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| (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: misidentify |
| misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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| monumentalise | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalize |
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| monumentalize | (verb) record or memorialize lastingly with a monument | Synonyms: monumentalise |
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| mortar | (verb) plaster with mortar | - |
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| mountaineer | (verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
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| mussitate | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mutter |
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| mutate | (verb) undergo mutation | - |
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| necessitate | (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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| (verb) cause to be a concomitant | - |
| nictate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictitate, wink |
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| nictitate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, wink |
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| notarise | (verb) authenticate as a notary | Synonyms: notarize |
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| notarize | (verb) authenticate as a notary | Synonyms: notarise |
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| notate | (verb) put into notation, as of music or choreography | - |
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| nutate | (verb) rock, sway, or nod; usually involuntarily | - |
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| obtain | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: find, get, incur, receive |
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| (verb) come into possession of | - |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, prevail |
| occidentalise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalize, westernise, westernize |
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| occidentalize | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, westernise, westernize |
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| orientalise | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalize |
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| orientalize | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalise |
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| orientate | (verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orient |
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| ostentate | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, show off, swank |
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| outdistance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outstrip |
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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 | - |
| overcapitalise | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
| overcapitalize | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
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| (verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| (verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
| 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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| overtake | (verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch, catch up with |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, pass |
| overtax | (verb) tax excessively | - |
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| palatalise | (verb) pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate | Synonyms: palatalize |
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| palatalize | (verb) pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate | Synonyms: palatalise |
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| palpitate | (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: flutter |
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| (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: quake, quiver |
| (verb) cause to throb or beat rapidly | - |
| partake | (verb) consume | Synonyms: touch |
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| (verb) have, give, or receive a share of | Synonyms: partake in, share |
| (verb) have some of the qualities or attributes of something | - |
| pertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: appertain |
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| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
| photostat | (verb) make a copy by means of a Photostat device | - |
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| precipitate | (verb) separate as a fine suspension of solid particles | - |
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| (verb) hurl or throw violently | - |
| (verb) bring about abruptly | - |
| (verb) fall vertically, sharply, or headlong | - |
| (verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, fall |
| premeditate | (verb) consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand | - |
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| (verb) think or reflect beforehand or in advance | - |
| reestablish | (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reinstate, restore |
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| regurgitate | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: reproduce |
| (verb) feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food | - |
| (verb) pour or rush back | - |
| rehabilitate | (verb) help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute | - |
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| (verb) reinstall politically | - |
| (verb) restore to a state of good condition or operation | - |
| reinstall | (verb) install again | - |
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| reinstate | (verb) restore to the previous state or rank | - |
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| (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, restore |
| remilitarise | (verb) militarize anew | Synonyms: remilitarize |
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| remilitarize | (verb) militarize anew | Synonyms: remilitarise |
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| reorientate | (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorient |
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| restart | (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, resume |
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| (verb) start an engine again, for example | Synonyms: re-start |
| restate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, retell |
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| resuscitate | (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: revive |
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| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, revive |
| retail | (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
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| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| retain | (verb) keep in one's mind | - |
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| (verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application | Synonyms: hold, hold back, keep back |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep, keep on |
| (verb) hold back within | - |
| retake | (verb) photograph again | - |
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| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: recapture |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: recapture |
| retaliate | (verb) make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | Synonyms: strike back |
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| (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, revenge |
| retard | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate | - |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, delay |
| (verb) be delayed | - |
| revitalise | (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalize |
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| revitalize | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: regenerate |
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| (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalise |
| rotate | (verb) plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession | - |
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| (verb) perform a job or duty on a rotating basis | - |
| (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: circumvolve |
| (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, revolve |
| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: splay, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) exchange on a regular basis | - |
| rubberstamp | (verb) approve automatically | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: handstamp |
| sabotage | (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, subvert, undermine, weaken |
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| saltate | (verb) leap or skip, often in dancing | - |
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| (verb) move by saltation | - |