absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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accentuate | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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(verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, stress |
acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
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(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
actualize | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualise |
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(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, realise, realize, substantiate |
actuate | (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
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(verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: incite, motivate, move, prompt, propel |
adventure | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardize, stake, venture |
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(verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
attitudinise | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinize |
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attitudinize | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinise |
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attune | (verb) adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with | - |
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bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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capture | (verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: catch |
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(verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: catch, get |
(verb) succeed in representing or expressing something intangible | - |
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
(verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, conquer, seize |
(verb) bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit | - |
caricature | (verb) represent in or produce a caricature of | Synonyms: ape |
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chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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cloture | (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: closure |
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conceptualise | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualize, gestate |
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conceptualize | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualise, gestate |
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congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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(verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
(verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
(verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
conjecture | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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constitute | (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: establish, found, institute, plant |
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(verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, name, nominate |
(verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, make up, represent |
(verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: form, make |
constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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constitutionalize | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalise |
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(verb) take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal | - |
(verb) provide with a constitution, as of a country | - |
contuse | (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: bruise |
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costume | (verb) dress in a costume | Synonyms: dress up |
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(verb) furnish with costumes; as for a film or play | - |
culture | (verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
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denaturalise | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalize |
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(verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalize |
denaturalize | (verb) strip of the rights and duties of citizenship | Synonyms: denaturalise |
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(verb) make less natural or unnatural | Synonyms: denaturalise |
denature | (verb) make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes | - |
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(verb) modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished | - |
(verb) add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb | - |
detusk | (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: tusk |
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disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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(verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
(verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
(verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
(verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
effectuate | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effect, set up |
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enrapture | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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eventuate | (verb) come out in the end | - |
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expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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feature | (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: have |
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(verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, sport |
fluctuate | (verb) be unstable | - |
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(verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: vacillate, waver |
(verb) cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern | - |
fracture | (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
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(verb) become fractured | - |
(verb) violate or abuse | - |
(verb) break into pieces | - |
(verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
gesture | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesticulate, motion |
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habituate | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: accustom |
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(verb) take or consume (regularly or habitually) | Synonyms: use |
importune | (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: insist |
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indenture | (verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indent |
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infatuate | (verb) arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way | - |
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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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intubate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, canulate |
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intuit | (verb) know or grasp by intuition or feeling | - |
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intumesce | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
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(verb) move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: bubble up |
intussuscept | (verb) introvert or invaginate | - |
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lecture | (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, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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(verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: talk |
manufacture | (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
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(verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
(verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
(verb) produce naturally | - |
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 | - |
maturate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, suppurate |
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(verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, mature |
(verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, mature, senesce |
mature | (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: suppurate |
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(verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, maturate |
(verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, senesce |
(verb) become due for repayment | - |
(verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: ripen |
(verb) develop and work out fully in one's mind | - |
micturate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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miniaturise | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturize |
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miniaturize | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturise |
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moisturise | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturize |
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moisturize | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturise |
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naturalise | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalize |
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(verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalize |
(verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalize |
(verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalize, tame |
naturalize | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalise |
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(verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalise |
(verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalise |
(verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame |
(verb) explain with reference to nature | - |
nurture | (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: foster |
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(verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nourish, sustain |
(verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, parent, raise, rear |
obtund | (verb) reduce the edge or violence of | - |
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obturate | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude |
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overstuff | (verb) stuff too much | - |
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overturn | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
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(verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, reverse |
(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
(verb) turn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: tip over, tump over, turn over |
(verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, tip over, tump over, turn over, upset |
(verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, subvert |
pasture | (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, range |
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(verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, graze |
perpetuate | (verb) cause to continue or prevail | - |
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perturb | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: derange, throw out of kilter |
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(verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, trouble, unhinge |
(verb) cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull | - |
(verb) disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom | - |
picture | (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
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(verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
platitudinize | (verb) utter platitudes | - |
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postulate | (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: posit |
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(verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: contend |
(verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, require, take |
posture | (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, sit |
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(verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: pose |
prostitute | (verb) sell one's body; exchange sex for money | - |
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protuberate | (verb) form a rounded prominence | - |
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(verb) cause to bulge out or project | - |
punctuate | (verb) insert punctuation marks into | Synonyms: mark |
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(verb) interrupt periodically | - |
(verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, stress |
puncture | (verb) cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing | - |
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(verb) be pierced or punctured | - |
(verb) reduce or lessen the size or importance of | Synonyms: deflate |
(verb) pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into | - |
(verb) make by piercing | - |
quintuple | (verb) increase fivefold | - |
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recapitulate | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recap |
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(verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize |
(verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life | - |
recapture | (verb) capture again | Synonyms: retake |
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(verb) take up anew | - |
(verb) experience anew | - |
(verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: retake |
reconstitute | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: restructure |
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refracture | (verb) break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way | - |
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restitute | (verb) restore to a previous or better condition | Synonyms: renovate |
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(verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restore |
restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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return | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, revert, turn back |
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(verb) be restored | Synonyms: come back |
(verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, recall |
(verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, riposte |
(verb) submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority | - |
(verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, render |
(verb) make a return | - |
(verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, render, yield |
(verb) go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before | - |
(verb) return to a previous position; in mathematics | - |
(verb) bring back to the point of departure | Synonyms: bring back, take back |
(verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, repay |
(verb) return in kind | - |
(verb) give back | Synonyms: render |
(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, pass |
(verb) elect again | Synonyms: reelect |
ritualise | (verb) make or evolve into a ritual | Synonyms: ritualize |
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ritualize | (verb) make or evolve into a ritual | Synonyms: ritualise |
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rupture | (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, snap, tear |
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saturate | (verb) cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance | - |
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(verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: impregnate |
sculpture | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpt |
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(verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpt |
situate | (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, posit |
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(verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: locate |
spiritualise | (verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world | Synonyms: spiritualize |
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(verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense | Synonyms: spiritualize |
spiritualize | (verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world | Synonyms: spiritualise |
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(verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, transfigure |
(verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense | Synonyms: spiritualise |
structure | (verb) give a structure to | - |
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stub | (verb) strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object | - |
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(verb) clear of weeds by uprooting them | - |
(verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, extinguish, press out, stub out |
(verb) pull up (weeds) by their roots | - |
stucco | (verb) coat with stucco | - |
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(verb) decorate with stucco work | - |
stud | (verb) provide with or construct with studs | - |
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(verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: constellate, dot |
study | (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, read, take |
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(verb) learn by reading books | Synonyms: hit the books |
(verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, examine |
(verb) be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning | - |
(verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, meditate |
(verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: consider |