| bate | (verb) soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments | - |
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| (verb) flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons | - |
| (verb) moderate or restrain; lessen the force of | - |
| batten | (verb) secure with battens | - |
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| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten down, secure |
| batter | (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: dinge |
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| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, clobber |
| (verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: buffet, knock about |
| beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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| benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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| beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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| berate | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| bespatter | (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: spatter |
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| better | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, improve, meliorate |
| (verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: break |
| bifurcate | (verb) divide into two branches | - |
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| (verb) split or divide into two | - |
| bite | (verb) to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws | Synonyms: seize with teeth |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut, as with a knife | - |
| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: prick, sting |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: burn, sting |
| bitter | (verb) make bitter | - |
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| blate | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, bleat |
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| blister | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
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| (verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
| bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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| bluster | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
| bolster | (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
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| (verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
| (verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
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| brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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| (verb) form into breccia | - |
| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| bromate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
| brominate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
| butter | (verb) spread butter on | - |
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| butterfly | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| (verb) cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking | - |
| (verb) flutter like a butterfly | - |
| butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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| calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
| calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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| (verb) measure the caliber of | - |
| (verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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| cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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| canter | (verb) ride at a canter | - |
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| (verb) go at a canter, of horses | - |
| (verb) cause to ride at a cantering pace | - |
| cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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| canulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, intubate |
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| capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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| (verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
| (verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
| capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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| capsulate | (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| captivate | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| carbonate | (verb) treat with carbon dioxide | - |
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| (verb) turn into a carbonate | - |
| carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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| carpenter | (verb) work as a carpenter | - |
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| caseate | (verb) become cheeselike | - |
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| (verb) turn into cheese | - |
| castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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| (verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
| castrate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, neuter, spay |
| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: emasculate |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten |
| catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
| catechize | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechise |
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| (verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechise |
| categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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| categorize | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorise |
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| catenate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| catenulate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
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| cater | (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: ply, provide, supply |
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| (verb) supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets | - |
| caterwaul | (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
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| catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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| catheterize | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterise |
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| cauterise | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterize |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterize |
| cauterize | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterise |
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| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterise |
| celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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| (verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
| (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |
| center | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
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| (verb) move into the center | Synonyms: centre |
| (verb) center upon | Synonyms: center on, centre, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
| centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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| cerebrate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cogitate, think |
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| certificate | (verb) authorize by certificate | - |
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| (verb) present someone with a certificate | - |
| character | (verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
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| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
| charter | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: engage, hire, lease, rent, take |
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| (verb) grant a charter to | - |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: hire, lease, rent |
| chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
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| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
| chatter | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| (verb) make noise as if chattering away | - |
| (verb) cut unevenly with a chattering tool | - |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: click |
| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| checkmate | (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
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| chelate | (verb) form a chelate, in chemistry | - |
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| chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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| chlorinate | (verb) disinfect with chlorine | - |
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| (verb) treat or combine with chlorine | - |
| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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| chute | (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: jump, parachute |
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| circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
| (verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
| (verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| cite | (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, mention, name, refer |
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| (verb) commend | Synonyms: mention |
| (verb) repeat a passage from | Synonyms: quote |
| (verb) refer to for illustration or proof | Synonyms: quote |
| (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: abduce, adduce |
| (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | Synonyms: summon, summons |
| (verb) refer to | Synonyms: reference |
| citrate | (verb) cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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| clatter | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clack |
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| clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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| cloister | (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
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| (verb) surround with a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
| cluster | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
| clutter | (verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
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| coagulate | (verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: clot |
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| (verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: clot |
| coeducate | (verb) educate persons of both sexes together | Synonyms: co-educate |
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| cogitate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, think |
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| (verb) consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind | - |
| collaborate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: cooperate, join forces |
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| (verb) cooperate as a traitor | - |
| collate | (verb) compare critically; of texts | - |
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| (verb) to assemble in proper sequence | - |
| collateralize | (verb) pledge as a collateral | - |
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| colligate | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: subsume |
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| (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
| collimate | (verb) adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument) | - |
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| (verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: parallel |
| collocate | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, lump |
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| (verb) have a strong tendency to occur side by side | - |
| commemorate | (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: remember |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: mark |
| commentate | (verb) serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting | - |
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| (verb) make a commentary on | - |