account | (verb) furnish a justifying analysis or explanation | Synonyms: answer for |
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(verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: describe, report |
(verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: calculate |
(verb) be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something | - |
amount | (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, come |
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(verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, come, number, total |
(verb) be tantamount or equivalent to | - |
blunt | (verb) make less sharp | - |
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(verb) make less intense | - |
(verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: deaden |
(verb) make dull or blunt | Synonyms: dull |
(verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, dull, numb |
bunt | (verb) to strike, thrust or shove against | Synonyms: butt |
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(verb) hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance | Synonyms: drag a bunt |
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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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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discount | (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside |
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(verb) give a reduction in price on | - |
discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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(verb) look with disfavor on | - |
disgruntle | (verb) put into a bad mood or into bad humour | - |
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dismount | (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: get down, get off, light, unhorse |
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encounter | (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: meet, play, take on |
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(verb) come together | Synonyms: come across, meet, run across, run into, see |
(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, find, happen |
(verb) be beset by | Synonyms: run into |
(verb) experience as a reaction | Synonyms: meet, receive |
flaunt | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, ostentate, show off, swank |
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foxhunt | (verb) hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs | - |
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grunt | (verb) issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise | - |
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gruntle | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
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haunt | (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: ghost, obsess |
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(verb) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to | Synonyms: stalk |
(verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: frequent |
hunt | (verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | Synonyms: hunt down, run, track down |
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(verb) search (an area) for prey | - |
(verb) seek, search for | - |
(verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hound, trace |
(verb) chase away, with as with force | - |
(verb) yaw back and forth about a flight path | - |
(verb) oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent | - |
jaunt | (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: travel, trip |
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miscount | (verb) count wrongly | - |
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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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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 | - |
recount | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, tell |
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(verb) count again | - |
remount | (verb) provide with fresh horses | - |
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(verb) mount again, as after disassembling something | - |
(verb) mount again | - |
saunter | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: stroll |
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shunt | (verb) transfer to another track, of trains | - |
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(verb) provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt | - |
stunt | (verb) perform a stunt or stunts | - |
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(verb) to look good | - |
(verb) check the growth or development of | - |
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 | - |
taunt | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, tease, twit |
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untag | (verb) to remove a metadata tag from an internet post | - |
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untangle | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble |
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(verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, disentangle, extricate |
unteach | (verb) cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier | - |
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(verb) cause to unlearn | - |
unthaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze |
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untie | (verb) undo the ties of | Synonyms: unbrace, unlace |
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(verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: loosen, undo |
untune | (verb) cause to be out of tune | - |
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(verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, upset |
untwine | (verb) undo what has been twined together | - |
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untwist | (verb) cause to become untwisted | - |
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vaunt | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout |
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volunteer | (verb) tell voluntarily | - |
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(verb) do volunteer work | - |
(verb) agree freely | Synonyms: offer |