| hull | (verb) remove the hulls from | - |
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| inculcate | (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: infuse, instill |
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| inculpate | (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, incriminate |
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| indulge | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, pander |
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| (verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| (verb) give free rein to | - |
| inoculate | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, immunize, vaccinate |
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| (verb) insert a bud for propagation | - |
| (verb) impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune | - |
| (verb) introduce a microorganism into | - |
| (verb) introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of | - |
| inosculate | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: anastomose |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: anastomose |
| insulate | (verb) place or set apart | Synonyms: isolate |
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| (verb) protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material | - |
| insult | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: affront, diss |
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| julienne | (verb) cut into long thin strips | - |
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| lull | (verb) become quiet or less intensive | Synonyms: calm down |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) calm by deception | - |
| maculate | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, foul |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, stain, sully, tarnish |
| manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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| (verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
| (verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
| masculinise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinize, virilise, virilize |
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| masculinize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, virilise, virilize |
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| (verb) give a masculine appearance or character to | - |
| matriculate | (verb) enroll as a student | - |
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| maul | (verb) injure badly by beating | Synonyms: mangle |
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| (verb) split (wood) with a maul and wedges | - |
| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |
| modulate | (verb) adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of | - |
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| (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: regulate |
| (verb) vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) | - |
| (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: inflect, tone |
| (verb) change the key of, in music | - |
| mould | (verb) become moldy; spoil due to humidity | Synonyms: mildew, mold |
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| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, regulate, shape |
| (verb) fit tightly, follow the contours of | Synonyms: mold |
| (verb) form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold | Synonyms: cast, mold |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, form, mold, shape, work |
| (verb) form in clay, wax, etc | Synonyms: model, mold |
| moulder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, rot |
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| moult | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, shed, slough |
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| mulch | (verb) cover with mulch | - |
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| mulct | (verb) impose a fine on | Synonyms: fine |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| mull | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink | - |
| multiply | (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: breed |
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| (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: procreate, reproduce |
| (verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: manifold |
| (verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: manifold |
| (verb) combine by multiplication | - |
| nullify | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralise, neutralize |
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| (verb) show to be invalid | Synonyms: invalidate |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, quash, void |
| occult | (verb) hide from view | - |
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| (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: eclipse |
| (verb) become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished | - |
| osculate | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, kiss, snog |
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| (verb) have at least three points in common with | - |
| (verb) be intermediate between two taxonomic groups | - |
| overcultivate | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcrop |
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| overhaul | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
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| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overtake, pass |
| overindulge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| overpopulate | (verb) cause to have too great a population | - |
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| overrule | (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overthrow, overturn, reverse |
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| ovulate | (verb) produce and discharge eggs | - |
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| particularise | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularize, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| particularize | (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, specialise, specialize, specify |
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| peculate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate |
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| perambulate | (verb) walk with no particular goal | Synonyms: walk about, walk around |
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| (verb) make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) | - |
| popularise | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularize |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| populate | (verb) fill with inhabitants | - |
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| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, live |
| 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 |
| poultice | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: plaster |
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| promulgate | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, proclaim |
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| (verb) put a law into effect by formal declaration | - |
| pule | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, wail, whimper |
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| pull | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: overstretch |
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| (verb) take away | - |
| (verb) take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for | Synonyms: root for, side with |
| (verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: rend, rip, rive |
| (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw, draw in, pull in |
| (verb) hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing | - |
| (verb) apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion | - |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, tear |
| (verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
| (verb) steer into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) move into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) operate when rowing a boat | - |
| (verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: draw, get out, pull out, take out |
| (verb) rein in to keep from winning a race | - |
| (verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, perpetrate |
| pullulate | (verb) breed freely and abundantly | - |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud |
| (verb) become abundant; increase rapidly | - |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem |
| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: swarm, teem |
| pulp | (verb) reduce to pulp | - |
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| (verb) remove the pulp from, as from a fruit | - |
| pulsate | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulse |
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| (verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulse, throb |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, quiver |
| pulse | (verb) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | Synonyms: pulsate |
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| (verb) expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically | Synonyms: pulsate, throb |
| (verb) drive by or as if by pulsation | - |
| pulverise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverize |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverize |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverize |
| pulverize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverise |
| recalculate | (verb) calculate anew | - |
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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 | - |
| reformulate | (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: redevelop |
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| regularise | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularize |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularize, regulate |
| regularize | (verb) make regular or more regular | Synonyms: regularise |
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| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regulate |
| regulate | (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: modulate |
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| (verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: baffle |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, mould, shape |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regularize |
| remould | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, retread |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remold |
| repulse | (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, rebuff, repel |
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| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repel |
| (verb) be repellent to; cause aversion in | Synonyms: repel |
| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| result | (verb) come about or follow as a consequence | - |
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| (verb) issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end | Synonyms: ensue |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: lead, leave |
| reticulate | (verb) divide so as to form a network | - |
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| (verb) distribute by a network, as of water or electricity | - |
| (verb) form a net or a network | - |
| ridicule | (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
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| rule | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: harness, rein |
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| (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: decree |
| (verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) mark or draw with a ruler | - |
| (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: govern |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, reign |
| (verb) have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac | - |
| schedule | (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
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| (verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
| scull | (verb) propel with sculls | - |
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| sculpt | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpture |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpture |
| 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 |
| secularise | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularize |
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| secularize | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularise |
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| (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: desacralize |
| shoulder | (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
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| (verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
| (verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
| simulate | (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, feign, sham |
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| (verb) create a representation or simulation of | Synonyms: model |
| (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, imitate |
| singularise | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularize |
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| singularize | (verb) distinguish as singular | Synonyms: singularise |
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| skulk | (verb) move furtively | - |
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| (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: malinger |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: lurk |
| smoulder | (verb) burn slowly and without a flame | Synonyms: smolder |
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| (verb) have strong suppressed feelings | Synonyms: smolder |
| somersault | (verb) do a somersault | - |
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| somnambulate | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: sleepwalk |
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| speculate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think over |
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| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| (verb) talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion | - |
| (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: job |
| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
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| (verb) produce spores | - |
| stimulate | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up |
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| (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: excite |
| (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: provoke |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, make |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, rush |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stir |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: excite, stir |
| stipulate | (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify |
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| (verb) give a guarantee or promise of | - |
| (verb) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force | - |
| 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 | - |
| stridulate | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: clitter |
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| stultify | (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: cripple |
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| (verb) cause to appear foolish | - |
| (verb) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence | - |
| sulfate | (verb) convert into a sulfate | - |
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| sulfur | (verb) treat with sulphur in order to preserve | Synonyms: sulphur |
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| sulfurette | (verb) combine with sulfur | Synonyms: sulphurette |
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| sulk | (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: brood, pout |
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| sully | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, tarnish |
| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, defile, taint |
| sulphur | (verb) treat with sulphur in order to preserve | Synonyms: sulfur |
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| sulphurette | (verb) combine with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfurette |
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| tabularise | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularize, tabulate |
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| tabularize | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabulate |
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| tabulate | (verb) shape or cut with a flat surface | - |
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| (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabularize |
| tintinnabulate | (verb) ring or sound like a small bell | - |
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| triangulate | (verb) survey by triangulation | - |
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| (verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
| (verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
| tribulate | (verb) oppress or trouble greatly | - |
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| ulcerate | (verb) affect with an ulcer | - |
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| (verb) undergo ulceration | - |