convulse | (verb) be overcome with laughter | - |
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(verb) make someone convulse with laughter | - |
(verb) contract involuntarily, as in a spasm | - |
(verb) cause to contract | - |
(verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
(verb) shake uncontrollably | - |
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 |
covenant | (verb) enter into a covenant or formal agreement | - |
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(verb) enter into a covenant | - |
cover | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, hatch, incubate |
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(verb) clothe, as if for protection from the elements | Synonyms: wrap up |
(verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: insure, underwrite |
(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, deal, handle, plow, treat |
(verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: report |
(verb) maintain a check on; especially by patrolling | - |
(verb) protect or defend (a position in a game) | - |
(verb) hold within range of an aimed firearm | - |
(verb) play a higher card than the one previously played | - |
(verb) be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game | - |
(verb) provide with a covering or cause to be covered | - |
(verb) form a cover over | Synonyms: spread over |
(verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: breed |
(verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: enshroud, hide, shroud |
(verb) put something on top of something else | Synonyms: overlay |
(verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
(verb) hide from view or knowledge | Synonyms: cover up |
(verb) spread over a surface to conceal or protect | - |
(verb) be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of | - |
(verb) to take an action to protect against future problems | - |
(verb) invest with a large or excessive amount of something | - |
(verb) help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming his responsibilities | - |
(verb) provide for | - |
(verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: continue, extend |
(verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, embrace, encompass |
(verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, overcompensate |
covet | (verb) wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person) | - |
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crave | (verb) plead or ask for earnestly | - |
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(verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: hunger, lust, starve, thirst |
cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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(verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
(verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
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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deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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(verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
deceive | (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: betray, lead astray |
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(verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, delude, lead on |
defervesce | (verb) experience an abatement of a fever | - |
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deliver | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have |
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(verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: present |
(verb) pass down | Synonyms: render, return |
(verb) utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.) | - |
(verb) bring to a destination, make a delivery | - |
(verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: pitch |
(verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in |
(verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender |
(verb) carry out or perform | Synonyms: drive home |
(verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deport, extradite |
(verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: rescue |
(verb) save from sins | Synonyms: redeem, save |
delve | (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, dig, turn over |
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deprave | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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deprive | (verb) take away | Synonyms: impoverish |
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(verb) keep from having, keeping, or obtaining | - |
(verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: divest, strip |
derive | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | Synonyms: educe |
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(verb) obtain from a particular source | - |
(verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, deduct, infer |
(verb) obtain | Synonyms: gain |
(verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, descend |
deserve | (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: merit |
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detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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devaluate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devalue, undervalue |
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(verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devalue |
devalue | (verb) lower the value or quality of | - |
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(verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, undervalue |
(verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devaluate |
devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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(verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
devein | (verb) remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp) | - |
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develop | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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(verb) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | - |
(verb) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | Synonyms: make grow |
(verb) happen | Synonyms: break, recrudesce |
(verb) change the use of and make available or usable | Synonyms: build up |
(verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | - |
(verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, evolve |
(verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
(verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: grow |
(verb) expand in the form of a series | - |
(verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | - |
(verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
(verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
(verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position | - |
(verb) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | - |
(verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | - |
(verb) work out | Synonyms: evolve, germinate |
(verb) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | - |
(verb) generate gradually | - |
(verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions | - |
(verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
deviate | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
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(verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
(verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
devil | (verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste | - |
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(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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devilize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, diabolise, diabolize |
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devise | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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(verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
(verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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devitalize | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalise |
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devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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(verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
devoice | (verb) utter with tense vocal chords | - |
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devolve | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, drop |
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(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: fall, pass, return |
(verb) pass on or delegate to another | - |
devote | (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: give, pay |
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(verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, give |
(verb) set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use | - |
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 | - |
disadvantage | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour |
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disapprove | (verb) consider bad or wrong | - |
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(verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: reject |
disavow | (verb) refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with | - |
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disbelieve | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: discredit |
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discover | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see |
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(verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
(verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
(verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: find |
(verb) see for the first time; make a discovery | - |
(verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, find, notice, observe |
(verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
disfavor | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disadvantage, disfavour |
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disfavour | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disadvantage, disfavor |
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dishevel | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: tangle, tousle |
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disinvest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: divest, strip, undress |
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(verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: divest |
(verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: divest |
disinvolve | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disentangle |
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disprove | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: confute |
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dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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dissolve | (verb) pass into a solution | - |
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(verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, resolve |
(verb) come to an end | Synonyms: break up |
(verb) grow less and less substantial until it disappears | Synonyms: fade away, fade out |
(verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
(verb) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | Synonyms: break up |
(verb) declare void | Synonyms: dismiss |
(verb) cause to fade away | - |
(verb) lose control emotionally | - |
(verb) cause to lose control emotionally | - |
(verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: disband |
divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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divaricate | (verb) spread apart | - |
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(verb) branch off | - |
dive | (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: plunge, plunk |
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(verb) swim under water | - |
(verb) plunge into water | - |
diverge | (verb) move or draw apart | - |
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(verb) extend in a different direction | - |
(verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, vary |
(verb) have no limits as a mathematical series | - |
diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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(verb) make (more) diverse | - |
(verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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(verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
(verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
(verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
divest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, strip, undress |
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(verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: disinvest |
(verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, strip |
(verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: disinvest |
divide | (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: fraction |
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(verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
(verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, part, separate |
(verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: separate |
(verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up |
(verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: separate |
divine | (verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
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(verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
divorce | (verb) get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage | Synonyms: split up |
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(verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite |
divulge | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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dovetail | (verb) fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail | - |
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drive | (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, get |
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(verb) (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground | - |
(verb) (hunting) search for game | - |
(verb) cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling | - |
(verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: force, ram |
(verb) cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force | - |
(verb) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally | - |
(verb) strike with a driver, as in teeing off | - |
(verb) excavate horizontally | - |
(verb) push, propel, or press with force | - |
(verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse |
(verb) compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment | - |
(verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: motor |
(verb) operate or control a vehicle | - |
(verb) cause someone or something to move by driving | - |
(verb) move by being propelled by a force | - |
(verb) urge forward | - |
(verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: take |
(verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug |
(verb) to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly | - |
(verb) work as a driver | - |
(verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: ride |
drivel | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
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eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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(verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
(verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
endeavor | (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavour, strive |
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endeavour | (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, strive |
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enervate | (verb) weaken mentally or morally | - |
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(verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: faze, unnerve, unsettle |
engrave | (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch |
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(verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: etch |
(verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: etch |
(verb) impress or affect deeply | - |
enliven | (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, invigorate, liven, liven up |
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(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
enslave | (verb) make a slave of; bring into servitude | - |
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envelop | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap |
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envenom | (verb) add poison to | Synonyms: poison |
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(verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, embitter |
environ | (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, ring, skirt, surround |
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envisage | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, ideate, imagine |
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envision | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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(verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: foresee |
envy | (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: begrudge |
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(verb) feel envious towards; admire enviously | - |
equivocate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, palter, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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estivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: aestivate |
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evacuate | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, void |
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(verb) remove content from | - |
(verb) create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel) | - |
(verb) move people from their homes or country | - |
(verb) move out of an unsafe location into safety | - |
evade | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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(verb) use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid | - |
(verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, elude |
(verb) practice evasion | - |
evaluate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, measure, valuate, value |
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(verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: judge, pass judgment |
evanesce | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, fade, fleet, pass, pass off |
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evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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(verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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(verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |
evaporate | (verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | Synonyms: vaporise, vaporize |
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(verb) change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
(verb) cause to change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
(verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, melt |
even | (verb) become even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
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(verb) make even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
(verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even out, flush, level |
eventuate | (verb) come out in the end | - |
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evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
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(verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
evidence | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, manifest |
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(verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, prove, show, testify |
(verb) give evidence | Synonyms: tell |
evince | (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: express, show |
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eviscerate | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, draw |
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(verb) remove the contents of | - |
(verb) take away a vital or essential part of | - |
(verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: resect |
evoke | (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: paint a picture, suggest |
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(verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, kick up, provoke |
(verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, extract |
(verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
evolve | (verb) undergo development or evolution | - |
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(verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, develop |
(verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, germinate |
excavate | (verb) find by digging in the ground | Synonyms: dig up, turn up |
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(verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, hollow |
(verb) form by hollowing | - |
(verb) recover through digging | Synonyms: unearth |
extravasate | (verb) cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth | - |
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(verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, erupt |
(verb) force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel | - |
exuviate | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: molt, moult, shed, slough |
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