| immunise | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunize, inoculate, vaccinate |
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| (verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunize |
| immunize | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, inoculate, vaccinate |
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| (verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunise |
| importune | (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: insist |
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| impound | (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: pound |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester |
| intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
| inunct | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, embrocate, oil |
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| inundate | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, submerge |
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| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, swamp |
| jaundice | (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice | - |
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| (verb) distort adversely | - |
| jaunt | (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: travel, trip |
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| jounce | (verb) move up and down repeatedly | Synonyms: bounce |
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| junk | (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: scrap, trash |
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| junket | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
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| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junketeer |
| junketeer | (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junket |
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| launch | (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: plunge |
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| (verb) propel with force | - |
| (verb) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage | - |
| (verb) get going; give impetus to | Synonyms: set in motion |
| (verb) smoothen the surface of | - |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, found, set up |
| launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
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| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
| lounge | (verb) sit or recline comfortably | - |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| lunch | (verb) take the midday meal | - |
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| (verb) provide a midday meal for | - |
| lunge | (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, thrust |
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| malfunction | (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: misfunction |
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| maunder | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: mumble, mussitate, mutter |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) wander aimlessly | - |
| miscount | (verb) count wrongly | - |
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| misfunction | (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: malfunction |
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| mispronounce | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: misspeak |
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| misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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| mound | (verb) form into a rounded elevation | - |
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| mount | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: climb, rise, wax |
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| (verb) fix onto a backing, setting, or support | - |
| (verb) attach to a support | - |
| (verb) copulate with | Synonyms: ride |
| (verb) put up or launch | - |
| (verb) prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance | Synonyms: put on |
| (verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Synonyms: climb, climb up, go up |
| (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: bestride, climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount up |
| mountaineer | (verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
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| munch | (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: crunch |
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| munition | (verb) supply with weapons | - |
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| obtund | (verb) reduce the edge or violence of | - |
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| outrun | (verb) run faster than | - |
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| overrun | (verb) run beyond or past | - |
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| (verb) seize the position of and defeat | - |
| (verb) flow or run over (a limit or brim) | Synonyms: brim over, overflow, run over, well over |
| (verb) invade in great numbers | Synonyms: infest |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, invade |
| plunder | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
| plunge | (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: launch |
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| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, soak up, steep |
| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: immerse |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, souse |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: immerse |
| (verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: dump |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunk |
| (verb) dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity | - |
| plunk | (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
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| (verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk down |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunge |
| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, clunk |
| pounce | (verb) move down on as if in an attack | Synonyms: swoop |
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| pound | (verb) break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle | - |
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| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: poke, thump |
| (verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact | Synonyms: ram, ram down |
| (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: impound |
| (verb) shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits | Synonyms: pound up |
| (verb) partition off into compartments | Synonyms: pound off |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: beat, thump |
| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: lumber |
| pronounce | (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, label |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, say, sound out |
| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| prune | (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, rationalise, rationalize |
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| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim |
| pun | (verb) make a play on words | - |
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| punch | (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: plug |
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| (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch | - |
| 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 | - |
| punish | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, penalize |
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| punt | (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, stake |
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| (verb) propel with a pole | Synonyms: pole |
| (verb) kick the ball | - |
| rebound | (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| recount | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, tell |
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| (verb) count again | - |
| redound | (verb) contribute | - |
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| (verb) have an effect for good or ill | - |
| (verb) return or recoil | - |
| refund | (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, repay, return |
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| remount | (verb) provide with fresh horses | - |
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| (verb) mount again, as after disassembling something | - |
| (verb) mount again | - |
| remunerate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, recompense |
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| renounce | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: disown, repudiate |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, relinquish |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, resign, vacate |
| (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: abdicate |
| rerun | (verb) cause to perform again | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rebroadcast |
| (verb) run again for office | - |
| (verb) rerun a performance of a play, for example | - |
| resound | (verb) emit a noise | Synonyms: make noise, noise |
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| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, reverberate, ring |
| reunify | (verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunite |
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| reunite | (verb) have a reunion; unite again | - |
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| (verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunify |
| round | (verb) become round, plump, or shapely | Synonyms: fill out, flesh out |
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| (verb) make round | Synonyms: round off, round out |
| (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off |
| (verb) express as a round number | Synonyms: round down, round off, round out |
| (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, labialize |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe |
| (verb) wind around; move along a circular course | - |
| run | (verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt, melt down |
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| (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: ladder |
| (verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) change from one state to another | - |
| (verb) become undone | Synonyms: unravel |
| (verb) cause to perform | - |
| (verb) compete in a race | Synonyms: race |
| (verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | Synonyms: hunt, hunt down, track down |
| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: campaign |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, operate, work |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, pass |
| (verb) be operating, running or functioning | - |
| (verb) conduct to completion | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: play |
| (verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time | - |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, flow |
| (verb) keep company | Synonyms: consort |
| (verb) sail before the wind | - |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) cover by running; run a certain distance | - |
| (verb) run with the ball; in such sports as football | - |
| (verb) be diffused | Synonyms: bleed |
| (verb) travel a route regularly | Synonyms: ply |
| (verb) cause an animal to move fast | - |
| (verb) move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way | - |
| (verb) travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means | - |
| (verb) deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor | Synonyms: black market |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: execute |
| (verb) make without a miss | - |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: operate |
| (verb) set animals loose to graze | - |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, pass |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, tend |
| (verb) be affected by; be subjected to | - |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, prevail |
| (verb) have a particular form | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) extend or continue for a certain period of time | Synonyms: run for |
| (verb) occur persistently | - |
| (verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: range |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: lead |
| saunter | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: stroll |
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| scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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| scrounge | (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: forage |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, shnorr |
| scrunch | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
| shun | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: eschew |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize |
| shunt | (verb) transfer to another track, of trains | - |
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| (verb) provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt | - |
| skunk | (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: lurch |
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| sound | (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: fathom |
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| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, voice |
| (verb) make a certain noise or sound | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) cause to sound | - |
| (verb) announce by means of a sound | - |
| (verb) give off a certain sound or sounds | - |
| (verb) appear in a certain way | - |
| soundproof | (verb) insulate against noise | - |
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| spelunk | (verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: cave |
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| staunch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, stem |
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| stun | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow | Synonyms: stupefy |
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| (verb) hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag | Synonyms: sandbag |
| (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: bedaze, daze |
| stunt | (verb) perform a stunt or stunts | - |
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| (verb) to look good | - |
| (verb) check the growth or development of | - |
| sun | (verb) expose one's body to the sun | Synonyms: sunbathe |
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| (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: insolate, solarise, solarize |
| sunbathe | (verb) expose one's body to the sun | Synonyms: sun |
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| sunburn | (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: burn |
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| sunder | (verb) break apart or in two, using violence | - |
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| suntan | (verb) get a tan from being exposed to the sun | - |
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| surmount | (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, master, overcome, subdue |
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| (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: scale |
| (verb) be on top of | - |
| surround | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent, hem in |
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| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, wall |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, skirt |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: smother |
| taunt | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, tease, twit |
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| telecommunicate | (verb) communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail | - |
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| thunder | (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: roar |
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| (verb) to make or produce a loud noise | - |
| (verb) move fast, noisily, and heavily | - |
| (verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: boom |
| trounce | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task |
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| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip |
| truncate | (verb) make shorter as if by cutting off | Synonyms: cut short |
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| (verb) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one | - |
| (verb) replace a corner by a plane | - |
| trundle | (verb) move heavily | - |
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| tune | (verb) adjust the pitches of (musical instruments) | Synonyms: tune up |
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| (verb) adjust for (better) functioning | Synonyms: tune up |
| tunnel | (verb) force a way through | - |
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| (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: burrow |
| unarm | (verb) take away the weapons from; render harmless | Synonyms: disarm |
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| unbalance | (verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: derange |
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| (verb) throw out of balance or equilibrium | - |
| unbar | (verb) remove a bar from (a door) | - |
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| unbelt | (verb) undo the belt of | - |
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| unbend | (verb) release from mental strain, tension, or formality | - |
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| (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unwind |
| (verb) make less taut | Synonyms: relax |
| (verb) free from flexure | - |
| (verb) unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay | - |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: straighten |
| unbind | (verb) untie or unfasten | - |
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| unblock | (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: free, release, unfreeze |
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| (verb) play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding | - |
| (verb) clear or remove an obstruction from | - |
| unbolt | (verb) undo the bolt of | - |
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| unbosom | (verb) relieve oneself of troubling information | Synonyms: relieve |
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| unbox | (verb) remove from a box | - |
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| (verb) to open a new product on a video stream | - |
| unbrace | (verb) remove a brace or braces from | - |
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| (verb) remove from tension | - |
| (verb) undo the ties of | Synonyms: unlace, untie |
| unbraid | (verb) undo the braids of | - |
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| unbridle | (verb) remove the bridle from (a horse or mule) | - |
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