| court | (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: romance, solicit, woo |
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| (verb) seek someone's favor | Synonyms: woo |
| (verb) engage in social activities leading to marriage | - |
| craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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| critique | (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: review |
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| croquet | (verb) play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops | - |
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| (verb) drive away by hitting with one's ball | - |
| crosscut | (verb) cut using a diagonal line | Synonyms: cut across |
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| crossruff | (verb) trump alternately in two hands | - |
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| crouch | (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
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| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, bow, stoop |
| crucify | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, pillory, savage |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: mortify, subdue |
| (verb) kill by nailing onto a cross | - |
| cruise | (verb) sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing | - |
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| (verb) travel at a moderate speed | - |
| (verb) drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure | - |
| (verb) look for a sexual partner in a public place | - |
| crumb | (verb) remove crumbs from | - |
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| (verb) break into crumbs | - |
| (verb) coat with bread crumbs | - |
| crumble | (verb) break or fall apart into fragments | Synonyms: fall apart |
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| (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: decay, dilapidate |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumple, tumble |
| crump | (verb) explode heavily or with a loud dull noise | - |
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| (verb) bombard with heavy shells | - |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: scrunch, thud |
| crumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, knit, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: buckle |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, tumble |
| crunch | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
| crusade | (verb) go on a crusade; fight a holy war | - |
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| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, fight, press, push |
| crush | (verb) break into small pieces | - |
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| (verb) become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure | - |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) make ineffective | Synonyms: break down |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: jam |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: smash |
| (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: oppress, suppress |
| crust | (verb) form a crust or form into a crust | - |
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| cub | (verb) give birth to cubs | - |
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| cube | (verb) raise to the third power | - |
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| (verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: dice |
| cuckold | (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander |
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| cuckoo | (verb) repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call | - |
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| cuddle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
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| (verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
| cudgel | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: fustigate |
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| cue | (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: prompt, remind |
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| cuff | (verb) hit with the hand | Synonyms: whomp |
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| (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: handcuff, manacle |
| (verb) to get involved in a relationship with another person | - |
| cull | (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
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| (verb) remove something that has been rejected | - |
| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
| culture | (verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
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| cumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: encumber, restrain |
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| cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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| cumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, gather, pile up |
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| cup | (verb) treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin | Synonyms: transfuse |
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| (verb) form into the shape of a cup | - |
| (verb) put into a cup | - |
| curb | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curtail, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) keep to the curb | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, hold, hold in, moderate |
| curdle | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, clot |
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| (verb) turn from a liquid to a solid mass | - |
| (verb) go bad or sour | - |
| cure | (verb) provide a cure for, make healthy again | Synonyms: bring around, heal |
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| (verb) prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve | - |
| (verb) be or become preserved | - |
| (verb) make (substances) hard and improve their usability | - |
| curl | (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curve, kink |
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| (verb) play the Scottish game of curling | - |
| (verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: wave |
| (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, loop |
| (verb) shape one's body into a curl | Synonyms: curl up, draw in |
| curry | (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: dress, groom |
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| (verb) treat by incorporating fat | - |
| (verb) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking | - |
| currycomb | (verb) clean (a horse) with a currycomb | - |
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| curse | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, cuss, imprecate, swear |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| (verb) heap obscenities upon | - |
| (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: excommunicate, unchurch |
| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| curtain | (verb) provide with drapery | - |
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| curtsey | (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsy |
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| curtsy | (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: bob |
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| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsey |
| curve | (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, kink |
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| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) form an arch or curve | Synonyms: arc, arch |
| (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: crook |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: twist, wind |
| curvet | (verb) perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse | - |
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| cushion | (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
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| cuss | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, imprecate, swear |
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| customise | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customize |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customize, tailor-make |
| customize | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customise |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customise, tailor-make |
| cut | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: geld |
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| (verb) have grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) cease, stop | Synonyms: cut off |
| (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: prune, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: dilute, reduce, thin, thin out |
| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: edit, edit out |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) have a reducing effect | - |
| (verb) shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of | - |
| (verb) dissolve by breaking down the fat of | - |
| (verb) make out and issue | Synonyms: issue, make out, write out |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: disregard, ignore, snub |
| (verb) separate with or as if with an instrument | - |
| (verb) divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult | - |
| (verb) hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch | Synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out |
| (verb) make an incision or separation | - |
| (verb) allow incision or separation | - |
| (verb) function as a cutting instrument | - |
| (verb) fell by sawing; hew | - |
| (verb) penetrate injuriously | - |
| (verb) reap or harvest | - |
| (verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: tailor |
| (verb) form by probing, penetrating, or digging | - |
| (verb) record a performance on (a medium) | - |
| (verb) make a recording of | - |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: burn |
| (verb) form or shape by cutting or incising | - |
| (verb) perform or carry out | - |
| (verb) stop filming | - |
| (verb) make an abrupt change of image or sound | - |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) pass through or across | - |
| (verb) pass directly and often in haste | - |
| (verb) move (one's fist) | - |
| (verb) give the appearance or impression of | - |
| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) discharge from a group | - |
| (verb) intentionally fail to attend | Synonyms: skip |
| cutinize | (verb) convert into cutin | - |
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| daub | (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: smear |
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| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: plaster |
| (verb) apply to a surface | - |
| daunt | (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
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| debauch | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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| debouch | (verb) pass out or emerge; especially of rivers | - |
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| (verb) march out (as from a defile) into open ground | Synonyms: march out |
| debug | (verb) locate and correct errors in a computer program code | - |
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| debunk | (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: expose |
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| debut | (verb) appear for the first time in public | - |
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| (verb) make one's debut | - |
| (verb) present for the first time to the public | - |
| decarburise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburize, decoke |
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| decarburize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decoke |
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| declutch | (verb) disengage the clutch of a car | - |
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| decolour | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| decolourize | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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| decouple | (verb) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) | - |
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| (verb) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) | - |
| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: dissociate |
| (verb) disconnect or separate | Synonyms: uncouple |
| decussate | (verb) cross or intersect so as to form a cross | - |
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| deduce | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduct, derive, infer |
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| (verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic | Synonyms: infer |
| deduct | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, derive, infer |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: subtract, take off |
| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: recoup, withhold |
| default | (verb) fail to pay up | Synonyms: default on |
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| defraud | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| defuse | (verb) remove the triggering device from | - |
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| degauss | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: demagnetise, demagnetize |
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| degust | (verb) taste with relish | - |
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| dehumanise | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanize |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanize |
| dehumanize | (verb) make mechanical or routine | Synonyms: dehumanise |
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| (verb) deprive of human qualities | Synonyms: dehumanise |
| dehumidify | (verb) make less humid | - |
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| deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| (verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
| delouse | (verb) free of lice | - |
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| delude | (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, deceive, lead on |
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| deluge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: inundate, submerge |
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| (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: flood out, overwhelm |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: flood, inundate, swamp |
| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| demasculinize | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, emasculate |
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| demodulate | (verb) extract information from a modulated carrier wave | - |
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| demulsify | (verb) break down into components | - |
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| (verb) cause to demulsify | - |
| demur | (verb) object to | Synonyms: except |
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| (verb) enter a demurrer | - |
| 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 | - |
| denounce | (verb) speak out against | - |
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| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
| (verb) announce the termination of, as of treaties | - |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| denudate | (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denude, strip |
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| denude | (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denudate, strip |
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| deodourise | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorise, deodorize |
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| deplumate | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplume, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| deplume | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| (verb) strip of honors, possessions, or attributes | Synonyms: displume |
| depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| depressurize | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurise |
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| depute | (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: delegate |
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| (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, designate |