| abjure | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: forswear, recant, resile, retract |
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| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| accurse | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| adjourn | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: break up, recess |
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| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: retire, withdraw |
| adjure | (verb) command solemnly | - |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: beseech, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
| admeasure | (verb) determine the quantity of someone's share | - |
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| adventure | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardize, stake, venture |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| allure | (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: tempt |
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| armour | (verb) equip with armor | Synonyms: armor |
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| assure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: tell |
| (verb) assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence | - |
| (verb) make a promise or commitment | Synonyms: promise |
| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: ensure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| augur | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) predict from an omen | - |
| aurify | (verb) turn golden | - |
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| (verb) transform into gold | - |
| azure | (verb) color azure | - |
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| belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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| (verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
| (verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
| bifurcate | (verb) divide into two branches | - |
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| (verb) split or divide into two | - |
| blur | (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: dim, slur |
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| (verb) make dim or indistinct | Synonyms: blear |
| (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: confuse, obnubilate, obscure |
| (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: smear, smudge, smutch |
| (verb) to make less distinct or clear | - |
| (verb) become glassy; lose clear vision | Synonyms: film over, glaze over |
| blurt | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| bur | (verb) remove the burrs from | Synonyms: burr |
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| burble | (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
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| burden | (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
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| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| burgeon | (verb) grow and flourish | - |
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| burglarise | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarize, burgle, heist |
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| burglarize | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burgle, heist |
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| burgle | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, heist |
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| burke | (verb) get rid of, silence, or suppress | - |
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| (verb) murder without leaving a trace on the body | - |
| burl | (verb) remove the burls from cloth | - |
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| burlesque | (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: parody, spoof |
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| burn | (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
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| (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
| (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
| (verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
| (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
| (verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
| (verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) feel hot or painful | - |
| (verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
| (verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
| burnish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
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| burp | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, eruct |
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| burr | (verb) remove the burrs from | Synonyms: bur |
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| burrow | (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: tunnel |
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| burst | (verb) come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure | Synonyms: break open, split |
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| (verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) emerge suddenly | - |
| (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: explode |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, erupt |
| (verb) move suddenly, energetically, or violently | - |
| (verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: collapse |
| (verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, bristle |
| burthen | (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, weight, weight down |
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| bury | (verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: forget |
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| (verb) place in the earth and cover with soil | - |
| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: sink |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up |
| (verb) cover from sight | - |
| (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
| capture | (verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: catch |
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| (verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: catch, get |
| (verb) succeed in representing or expressing something intangible | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, conquer, seize |
| (verb) bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit | - |
| carburet | (verb) combine with carbon | - |
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| carburise | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburize |
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| carburize | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburise |
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| caricature | (verb) represent in or produce a caricature of | Synonyms: ape |
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| censure | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: criminate, reprimand |
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| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| chauffeur | (verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
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| church | (verb) perform a special church rite or service for | - |
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| churn | (verb) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter | - |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, moil, roil |
| churr | (verb) make a vibrant sound, as of some birds | Synonyms: whirr |
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| clamour | (verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
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| (verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
| clangour | (verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangor |
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| closure | (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: cloture |
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| cloture | (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: closure |
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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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| 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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| concur | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: coincide |
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| (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concord, hold |
| configure | (verb) set up for a particular purpose | - |
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| conjecture | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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| 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 |
| contour | (verb) form the contours of | - |
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| cooccur | (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, coincide |
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| corduroy | (verb) build (a road) from logs laid side by side | - |
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| course | (verb) hunt with hounds | - |
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| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: feed, flow, run |
| (verb) move swiftly through or over | - |
| 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 | - |
| culture | (verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| deodourise | (verb) eliminate the odor from | Synonyms: deodorise, deodorize |
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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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| desulfurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulphurize |
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| desulphurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulfurize |
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| detour | (verb) travel via a detour | - |
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| devour | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: guttle, pig, raven |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, down, go through |
| (verb) to consume | - |
| (verb) enjoy avidly | - |
| disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
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| disburse | (verb) expend, as from a fund | Synonyms: pay out |
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| discolour | (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, colour, discolor |
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| discolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize |
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| discourage | (verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: deter |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, monish, warn |
| (verb) deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged | - |