| abstract | (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
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| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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| arbitrage | (verb) practice arbitrage, as in the stock market | - |
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| arbitrate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| attract | (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: draw, draw in, pull, pull in |
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| (verb) exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away | - |
| (verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: appeal |
| backtrack | (verb) retrace one's course | Synonyms: double back, turn back |
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| betray | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: bewray |
| (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: deceive, lead astray |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: fail |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: sell |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| bootstrap | (verb) help oneself, often through improvised means | - |
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| 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 |
| centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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| centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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| citrate | (verb) cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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| concentrate | (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, reduce |
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| (verb) make denser, stronger, or purer | - |
| (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, centralize |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, decoct, reduce |
| (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: condense, digest |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: condense, contract |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, focus, pore, rivet |
| (verb) draw together or meet in one common center | - |
| constrain | (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: stiffen, tighten, tighten up |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, hold, restrain |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: enforce, impose |
| contract | (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: get, take |
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| (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: narrow |
| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
| (verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: undertake |
| (verb) make smaller | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze |
| (verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up |
| contradance | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
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| contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contrast | (verb) put in opposition to show or emphasize differences | - |
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| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: counterpoint |
| contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
| decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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| decentralize | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, deconcentrate |
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| deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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| defenestrate | (verb) throw through or out of the window | - |
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| demonstrate | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: establish, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, evidence, manifest |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, exhibit, present, show |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: march |
| detract | (verb) take away a part from; diminish | Synonyms: take away |
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| detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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| detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| entrain | (verb) board a train | - |
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| entrance | (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: spellbind |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, fascinate, trance |
| entrap | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, snare, trammel, trap |
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| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, frame, set up |
| estrange | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, disaffect |
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| (verb) remove from customary environment or associations | - |
| exfiltrate | (verb) escape furtively, as from an area under enemy control | - |
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| (verb) transfer secretly out of an area under enemy control | - |
| extract | (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill |
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| (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: excerpt, take out |
| (verb) calculate the root of a number | - |
| (verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, pull, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: express, press out |
| (verb) separate (a metal) from an ore | - |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, evoke |
| (verb) get despite difficulties or obstacles | - |
| extradite | (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, deport |
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| extrapolate | (verb) estimate the value of something based on known values | Synonyms: interpolate |
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| (verb) gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating | - |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, infer |
| extravasate | (verb) cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth | - |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, erupt |
| (verb) force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel | - |
| filtrate | (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter, filter out, separate out, strain |
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| frustrate | (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, rag, torment |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| illustrate | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, instance |
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| (verb) depict with an illustration | - |
| (verb) supply with illustrations | - |
| infiltrate | (verb) pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict | Synonyms: pass through |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices | - |
| (verb) pass into or through by filtering or permeating | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: penetrate |
| interpenetrate | (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: permeate |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
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| intransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivize |
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| intransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise |
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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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| mistranslate | (verb) translate incorrectly | - |
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| neutralise | (verb) make chemically neutral | Synonyms: neutralize |
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| (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralize, nullify |
| (verb) make incapable of military action | Synonyms: neutralize |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralize, waste |
| neutralize | (verb) make chemically neutral | Synonyms: neutralise |
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| (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralise, nullify |
| (verb) make incapable of military action | Synonyms: neutralise |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, waste |
| (verb) make politically neutral and thus inoffensive | - |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, countervail |
| nitrate | (verb) treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate | - |
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| orchestrate | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, organise, organize |
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| (verb) write an orchestra score for | - |
| 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 |
| outrage | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
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| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, rape, ravish, violate |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, profane, violate |
| outrange | (verb) have a greater range than (another gun) | - |
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| outrank | (verb) take precedence or surpass others in rank | Synonyms: rank |
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| overstrain | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overextend |
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| penetrate | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, fathom |
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| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, sink in |
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) insert the penis into the vagina or anus of | - |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) make one's way deeper into or through | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: infiltrate |
| perpetrate | (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, pull |
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| portray | (verb) portray in words | - |
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| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, limn |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: impersonate |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: present |
| prostrate | (verb) render helpless or defenseless | - |
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| (verb) throw down flat, as on the ground | - |
| (verb) get into a prostrate position, as in submission | Synonyms: bow down |
| protract | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, prolong |
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| recalcitrate | (verb) show strong objection or repugnance; manifest vigorous opposition or resistance; be obstinately disobedient | - |
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| remonstrate | (verb) argue in protest or opposition | - |
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| (verb) present and urge reasons in opposition | Synonyms: point out |
| (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, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| restrain | (verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep, keep back |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, constrain, hold |
| (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, encumber |
| (verb) prevent (someone or something) from doing something | - |
| retrace | (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, reconstruct |
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| (verb) to go back over again | Synonyms: trace |
| retract | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, resile |
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| (verb) pull inward or towards a center | Synonyms: draw in |
| (verb) use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ) | Synonyms: draw back, pull back |
| (verb) pull away from a source of disgust or fear | Synonyms: shrink back |
| retrain | (verb) train again | - |
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| (verb) teach new skills | - |
| retranslate | (verb) translate again | - |
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| retransmit | (verb) transmit again | - |
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| sequestrate | (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequester, set apart |
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| (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, withdraw |
| sidetrack | (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, straggle |
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| straddle | (verb) be noncommittal | - |
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| (verb) sit or stand astride of | - |
| (verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: range |
| strafe | (verb) attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane | - |
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| straggle | (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, sidetrack |
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| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: sprawl |
| straighten | (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
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| (verb) make straight or straighter | - |
| (verb) make straight | Synonyms: straighten out |
| (verb) straighten by unrolling | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) get up from a sitting or slouching position | - |
| strain | (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: tense, tense up |
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| (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, distort |
| (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strive |
| (verb) use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter, filter out, filtrate, separate out |
| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sieve, sift |
| (verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: tense |
| (verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: puree |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: stress, try |
| straiten | (verb) squeeze together | - |
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| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: distress |
| strand | (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: ground, run aground |
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| (verb) drive (a vessel) ashore | - |
| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: maroon |
| strangle | (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: choke |
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| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, suffocate |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, hamper |
| (verb) die from strangulation | - |
| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangulate, throttle |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, stifle |
| strangulate | (verb) become constricted | - |
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| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, throttle |
| (verb) constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air | - |
| strap | (verb) secure (a sprained joint) with a strap | - |
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| (verb) sharpen with a strap | - |
| (verb) tie with a strap | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, trounce, welt, whip |
| stratify | (verb) render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand | - |
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| (verb) form layers or strata | - |
| (verb) form, arrange, or deposit in layers | - |
| (verb) divide society into social classes or castes | - |
| (verb) develop different social levels, classes, or castes | - |
| straw | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: strew |
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| (verb) cover or provide with or as if with straw | - |
| stray | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, err |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| subcontract | (verb) work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract | - |
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| (verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others | Synonyms: farm out, job |
| subtract | (verb) take off or away | - |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: deduct, take off |
| titrate | (verb) measure by (the volume or concentration of solutions) by titration | - |
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| trace | (verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: follow |
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| (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: decipher |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, line |
| (verb) copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of | - |
| (verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hound, hunt |
| (verb) to go back over again | Synonyms: retrace |
| (verb) make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along | - |
| (verb) discover traces of | - |
| track | (verb) make tracks upon | - |
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| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, trail |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, traverse |
| (verb) carry on the feet and deposit | - |
| (verb) observe or plot the moving path of something | - |
| trade | (verb) turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase | Synonyms: trade in |
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| (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: merchandise |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, switch, swop |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, sell |
| (verb) be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions | - |
| trademark | (verb) register the trademark of | - |
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| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, brandmark |
| traduce | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, malign |
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| traffic | (verb) deal illegally | - |
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| (verb) trade or deal a commodity | - |
| trail | (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: train |
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| (verb) hang down so as to drag along the ground | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track |
| (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: shack |
| (verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back |
| train | (verb) exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition | - |
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| (verb) undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession | Synonyms: prepare |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, educate, prepare |
| (verb) teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports | Synonyms: coach |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, direct, take, take aim |
| (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: trail |
| (verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: rail |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: groom, prepare |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, discipline |
| (verb) cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it | - |