| pedicure | (verb) care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| perjure | (verb) knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury | - |
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| perturb | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: derange, throw out of kilter |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, trouble, unhinge |
| (verb) cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull | - |
| (verb) disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom | - |
| picture | (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
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| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| pluralise | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralize |
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| pluralize | (verb) mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural | Synonyms: pluralise |
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| pompadour | (verb) style women's hair in a pompadour | - |
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| posture | (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, sit |
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| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: pose |
| pour | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pullulate, stream, swarm, teem |
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| (verb) flow in a spurt | - |
| (verb) cause to run | - |
| (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: decant, pour out |
| (verb) supply in large amounts or quantities | - |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| pressure | (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, squeeze |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, blackmail |
| pressurise | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurize |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurize |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurize, supercharge |
| pressurize | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurise |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurise |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, supercharge |
| procure | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, pimp |
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| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: secure |
| 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 | - |
| purchase | (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction | Synonyms: buy |
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| puree | (verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: strain |
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| purge | (verb) excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) | - |
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| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| (verb) rid of impurities | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, scour |
| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purify, sanctify |
| (verb) clear of a charge | - |
| (verb) oust politically | - |
| purify | (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, sublimate |
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| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, sanctify |
| (verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin | - |
| purl | (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: sough |
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| (verb) embroider with gold or silver thread | - |
| (verb) edge or border with gold or silver embroidery | - |
| (verb) knit with a purl stitch | - |
| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
| purloin | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| purple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purpurate |
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| (verb) become purple | - |
| purport | (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purpose |
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| (verb) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming | - |
| purpose | (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: resolve |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purport |
| purpurate | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purple |
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| purr | (verb) indicate pleasure by purring; characteristic of cats | Synonyms: make vibrant sounds |
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| (verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz |
| purse | (verb) contract one's lips into a rounded shape | - |
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| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: wrinkle |
| pursue | (verb) go in search of or hunt for | Synonyms: go after, quest after, quest for |
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| (verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, prosecute |
| (verb) carry further or advance | Synonyms: act on, follow up on |
| purvey | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: provision |
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| reassure | (verb) give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain | - |
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| rebury | (verb) bury again | - |
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| recapture | (verb) capture again | Synonyms: retake |
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| (verb) take up anew | - |
| (verb) experience anew | - |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: retake |
| recur | (verb) happen or occur again | Synonyms: repeat |
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| (verb) return in thought or speech to something | Synonyms: go back |
| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, resort |
| recurve | (verb) curve or bend (something) back or down | - |
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| refracture | (verb) break (a bone) that was previously broken but mended in an abnormal way | - |
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| refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| regurgitate | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: reproduce |
| (verb) feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food | - |
| (verb) pour or rush back | - |
| reimburse | (verb) pay back for some expense incurred | - |
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| (verb) reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | Synonyms: recoup |
| reinsure | (verb) insure again by transferring to another insurance company all or a part of a liability assumed | - |
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| (verb) insure again by assuming all or a part of the liability of an insurance company already covering a risk | - |
| (verb) provide additional insurance for | - |
| repurchase | (verb) buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away | Synonyms: buy back |
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| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| resurface | (verb) to come out of obscurity or hiding | - |
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| (verb) cover with a new surface | - |
| (verb) reappear on the surface | - |
| resurge | (verb) rise again | - |
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| resurrect | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: raise, upraise |
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| (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: rise, uprise |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: revive |
| return | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, revert, turn back |
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| (verb) be restored | Synonyms: come back |
| (verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, recall |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, riposte |
| (verb) submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority | - |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, render |
| (verb) make a return | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, render, yield |
| (verb) go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before | - |
| (verb) return to a previous position; in mathematics | - |
| (verb) bring back to the point of departure | Synonyms: bring back, take back |
| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, repay |
| (verb) return in kind | - |
| (verb) give back | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, pass |
| (verb) elect again | Synonyms: reelect |
| rumour | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumor |
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| rupture | (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, snap, tear |
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| saturate | (verb) cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance | - |
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| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: impregnate |
| savour | (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, relish, savor |
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| (verb) taste appreciatively | Synonyms: savor |
| (verb) give taste to | Synonyms: savor |
| (verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savor, taste |
| scour | (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, purge |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: abrade |
| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scrub |
| (verb) examine minutely | - |
| scourge | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
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| (verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
| (verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
| 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 |
| scurry | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scuttle, skitter |
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| secure | (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, guarantee, insure |
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| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fasten, fix |
| (verb) fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug | Synonyms: plug, stop up |
| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten, batten down |
| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: procure |
| (verb) assure payment of | - |
| slur | (verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: blur, dim |
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| (verb) utter indistinctly | - |
| (verb) speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur | - |
| (verb) play smoothly or legato | - |
| slurp | (verb) eat noisily | - |
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| sojourn | (verb) spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily | - |
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| sour | (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: ferment, turn, work |
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| (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, acidulate |
| source | (verb) specify the origin of | - |
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| (verb) get (a product) from another country or business | - |
| splurge | (verb) be showy or ostentatious | - |
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| (verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: fling |
| spur | (verb) goad with spurs | - |
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| (verb) equip with spurs | - |
| (verb) strike with a spur | - |
| (verb) give heart or courage to | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) incite or stimulate | - |
| spurn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, turn down |
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| spurt | (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: squirt |
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| (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: forge, spirt |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spout |
| structure | (verb) give a structure to | - |
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| suburbanise | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
| suburbanize | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
| succour | (verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succor |
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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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| 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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| sunburn | (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: burn |
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| suppurate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, maturate |
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| (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: mature |
| surcharge | (verb) show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given | - |
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| (verb) fill to an excessive degree | - |
| (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, overload |
| (verb) print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote | - |
| (verb) fill to capacity with people | - |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak |
| (verb) charge an extra fee, as for a special service | - |
| surf | (verb) switch channels, on television | Synonyms: channel-surf |
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| (verb) look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular | Synonyms: browse |
| (verb) ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard | Synonyms: surfboard |
| surface | (verb) appear or become visible; make a showing | Synonyms: come on, come out, show up, turn up |
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| (verb) put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface | Synonyms: coat |
| (verb) come to the surface | Synonyms: come up, rise, rise up |
| surfboard | (verb) ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard | Synonyms: surf |
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| surfeit | (verb) indulge (one's appetite) to satiety | - |
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| (verb) supply or feed to surfeit | Synonyms: cloy |
| surge | (verb) see one's performance improve | - |
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| (verb) rise rapidly | Synonyms: soar, soar up, soar upwards, zoom |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, heave |
| (verb) rise or move forward | Synonyms: tide |
| (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: scend |
| surmise | (verb) infer from incomplete evidence | - |
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| (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable | Synonyms: suspect |
| 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 | - |
| surpass | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount |
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| (verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass, pass by, travel by |
| (verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: excel, stand out |
| (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, transcend |
| surprise | (verb) cause to be surprised | - |
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| (verb) attack by storm; attack suddenly | Synonyms: storm |
| (verb) come upon or take unawares | - |
| surrender | (verb) give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another | Synonyms: give up |
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| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, deliver, give up |
| 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 |
| surtax | (verb) levy an extra tax on | - |
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| surveil | (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, survey |
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| survey | (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: appraise |
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| (verb) plot a map of (land) | - |
| (verb) make a survey of; for statistical purposes | - |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, review |
| (verb) look over carefully or inspect | - |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, surveil |
| survive | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, subsist |
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| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on |
| (verb) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) | Synonyms: come through, make it, pull round, pull through |
| (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlast, outlive |
| susurrate | (verb) issue soft noises | - |
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| suture | (verb) join with a suture | - |
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| tenure | (verb) give life-time employment to | - |
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| thurify | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: cense, incense |
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| tincture | (verb) stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color | - |
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| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, instill |
| tonsure | (verb) shave the head of a newly inducted monk | - |
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| torture | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torment |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torment |
| tour | (verb) make a tour of a certain place | - |
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| tourney | (verb) engage in a tourney | - |
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| transfigure | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmogrify |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, spiritualize |