| clue | (verb) roll into a ball | Synonyms: clew |
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| clump | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, cluster |
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| (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clomp |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: cluster, constellate, flock |
| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clunk, plunk |
| clunk | (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, plunk |
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| 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 |
| clutch | (verb) affect | Synonyms: get hold of, seize |
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| (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: prehend, seize, take hold, take hold of |
| (verb) hold firmly, usually with one's hands | Synonyms: cling to, hold close, hold tight |
| 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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| coiffure | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, do, dress, set |
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| coinsure | (verb) take out coinsurance | - |
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| collogue | (verb) confer secretly | - |
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| collude | (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: conspire |
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| colour | (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, discolor, discolour |
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| (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, distort, tinge |
| (verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | Synonyms: color, gloss |
| (verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, emblazon |
| (verb) modify or bias | Synonyms: color |
| colourise | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourize |
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| colourize | (verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise |
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| combust | (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) get very angry and fly into a rage | Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit |
| (verb) cause to become violent or angry | - |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: burn |
| comminute | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, crunch, grind, mash |
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| communalise | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalize |
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| communalize | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalise |
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| commune | (verb) receive Communion, in the Catholic church | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity | - |
| communicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: intercommunicate |
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| (verb) transmit information | Synonyms: pass, pass along, pass on, put across |
| (verb) be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas | - |
| (verb) receive Communion, in the Catholic church | Synonyms: commune |
| (verb) administer Communion; in church | - |
| (verb) join or connect | - |
| (verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: convey, transmit |
| communise | (verb) make into property owned by the state | Synonyms: communize |
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| (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, bolshevize, communize |
| communize | (verb) make into property owned by the state | Synonyms: communise |
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| (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, bolshevize, communise |
| commutate | (verb) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current | - |
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| commute | (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: permute, transpose |
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| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: convert, exchange |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, convert, exchange |
| (verb) exchange positions without a change in value | Synonyms: transpose |
| (verb) travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home | - |
| compound | (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: combine |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: deepen, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) create by mixing or combining | - |
| (verb) calculate principal and interest | - |
| compute | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| computerise | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerize, cybernate |
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| (verb) store in a computer | Synonyms: computerize |
| (verb) provide with computers | Synonyms: computerize |
| computerize | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, cybernate |
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| (verb) store in a computer | Synonyms: computerise |
| (verb) provide with computers | Synonyms: computerise |
| 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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| conclude | (verb) decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion | Synonyms: reason, reason out |
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| (verb) bring to a close | - |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) reach agreement on | - |
| (verb) come to a close | Synonyms: close |
| concur | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: coincide |
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| (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concord, hold |
| concuss | (verb) injure the brain; sustain a concussion | - |
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| (verb) shake violently | - |
| conduce | (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: contribute, lead |
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| conduct | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, deport, do |
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| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: direct, lead |
| (verb) lead musicians in the performance of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, convey, impart, transmit |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: direct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, deal |
| confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
| (verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
| configure | (verb) set up for a particular purpose | - |
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| confound | (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confuse |
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| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| confuse | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, obnubilate, obscure |
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| (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confound |
| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: jumble, mix up |
| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: disconcert, flurry, put off |
| confute | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: disprove |
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| conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
| 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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| conjugate | (verb) unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds | - |
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| (verb) undergo conjugation | - |
| (verb) add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc. | - |
| conjure | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conspire, machinate |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, entreat, press |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| conquer | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: stamp down, subdue, suppress |
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| (verb) overcome by conquest | - |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, seize |
| 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 | - |
| construct | (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace |
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| (verb) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, make |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture |
| (verb) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts | - |
| (verb) create by linking linguistic units | - |
| construe | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: interpret, see |
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| consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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| (verb) unite in one common substance | - |
| consult | (verb) advise professionally | - |
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| (verb) seek information from | Synonyms: look up, refer |
| (verb) get or ask advice from | Synonyms: confer with |
| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confabulate, confer |
| consume | (verb) engage fully | - |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: have, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: squander, ware, waste |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: demolish, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | - |
| consummate | (verb) make perfect; bring to perfection | - |
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| (verb) fulfill sexually | - |
| continue | (verb) exist over a prolonged period of time | - |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, go on, proceed |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: go forward, move ahead, proceed |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: keep, keep on, retain |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, preserve, uphold |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: go along, go on, keep, proceed |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: cover, extend |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay on |
| (verb) continue after an interruption | - |
| (verb) do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop | Synonyms: persist in |
| contour | (verb) form the contours of | - |
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| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| contribute | (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, give, kick in |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, impart, lend |
| (verb) provide | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, lead |
| contuse | (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: bruise |
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| convolute | (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
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| (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolve |
| convulse | (verb) be overcome with laughter | - |
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| (verb) make someone convulse with laughter | - |
| (verb) contract involuntarily, as in a spasm | - |
| (verb) cause to contract | - |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) shake uncontrollably | - |
| cooccur | (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, coincide |
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| copulate | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair |
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| coquet | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| coquette | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| corduroy | (verb) build (a road) from logs laid side by side | - |
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| corrugate | (verb) fold into ridges | - |
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| corrupt | (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: spoil |
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| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, defile, sully, taint |
| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: bribe, buy, grease one's palms |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| coruscate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
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| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
| costume | (verb) dress in a costume | Synonyms: dress up |
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| (verb) furnish with costumes; as for a film or play | - |
| couch | (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, frame, put, redact |
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| cough | (verb) exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion | - |
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| counsel | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: advise, rede |
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| count | (verb) include as if by counting | - |
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| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) take account of | Synonyms: reckon |
| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: enumerate, number, numerate |
| (verb) name or recite the numbers in ascending order | - |
| (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: consider, weigh |
| (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: matter, weigh |
| (verb) put into a group | Synonyms: number |
| (verb) have a certain value or carry a certain weight | - |
| countenance | (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, let, permit |
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| counter | (verb) speak in response | - |
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| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, forestall |
| counteract | (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, antagonize |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: countercheck |
| (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counterbalance, countervail, neutralize |
| counterattack | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterstrike |
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| counterbalance | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, countervail, neutralize |
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| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: oppose |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| counterchallenge | (verb) challenge in turn | - |
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| counterchange | (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: interchange, transpose |
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| countercheck | (verb) check a second time | - |
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| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
| counterclaim | (verb) set up a claim in opposition to a previous claim | - |
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| counterfeit | (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: fake, forge |
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| countermand | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| countermarch | (verb) change the order of soldiers during a march | - |
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| (verb) march back along the same way | - |
| countermine | (verb) destroy enemy mines with one's own mines | - |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| counterplot | (verb) make a plot in response to another plot | - |
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| counterpoint | (verb) write in counterpoint | - |
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| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: contrast |
| counterpoise | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpose, counterweight |
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| counterpose | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterweight |
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| countersign | (verb) add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity | - |
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| countersink | (verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: set |
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| counterstrike | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| countervail | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize |
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| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: offset |
| counterweight | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
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| couple | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, mate, pair |
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| (verb) link together | Synonyms: couple on, couple up |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: match, mate, pair, twin |
| (verb) form a pair or pairs | Synonyms: pair, pair off, partner off |
| course | (verb) hunt with hounds | - |
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| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: feed, flow, run |
| (verb) move swiftly through or over | - |