| favor | (verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favour |
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| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favour, prefer |
| (verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favour |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favour, privilege |
| favorite | (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favourite |
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| favour | (verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favor |
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| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, prefer |
| (verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favor |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, privilege |
| favourite | (verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favorite |
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| flavor | (verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavour, season |
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| flavour | (verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavor, season |
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| forgive | (verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness | - |
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| (verb) absolve from payment | - |
| frivol | (verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: trifle |
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| gallivant | (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gad, jazz around |
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| galvanise | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanize |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanize |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanize, startle |
| galvanize | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanise |
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| (verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanise |
| (verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, startle |
| give | (verb) proffer (a body part) | - |
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| (verb) consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man | - |
| (verb) occur | - |
| (verb) estimate the duration or outcome of something | - |
| (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: devote, pay |
| (verb) convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture | Synonyms: throw |
| (verb) convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow | Synonyms: pay |
| (verb) bestow | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, devote |
| (verb) allow to have or take | - |
| (verb) manifest or show | - |
| (verb) guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion | - |
| (verb) inflict as a punishment | - |
| (verb) accord by verdict | - |
| (verb) submit for consideration, judgment, or use | - |
| (verb) offer in good faith | - |
| (verb) give food to | Synonyms: feed |
| (verb) propose | - |
| (verb) be flexible under stress of physical force | Synonyms: yield |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, render, return, yield |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: establish |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: have, hold, make, throw |
| (verb) cause to happen or be responsible for | Synonyms: yield |
| (verb) perform for an audience | - |
| (verb) present to view | - |
| (verb) move in order to make room for someone for something | Synonyms: ease up, give way, move over, yield |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give way |
| (verb) transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody | - |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, present |
| (verb) leave with; give temporarily | - |
| (verb) cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense | - |
| (verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: afford, yield |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: hand, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
| (verb) convey or reveal information | - |
| (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, contribute, kick in |
| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: impart, leave, pass on |
| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: sacrifice |
| (verb) bestow, especially officially | Synonyms: grant |
| (verb) deliver in exchange or recompense | - |
| (verb) give (as medicine) | - |
| (verb) give or convey physically | Synonyms: apply |
| (verb) afford access to | Synonyms: afford, open |
| (verb) emit or utter | - |
| (verb) execute and deliver | - |
| govern | (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: rule |
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| (verb) direct or strongly influence the behavior of | - |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: order, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood | - |
| grave | (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, inscribe, scratch |
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| (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: sculpt, sculpture |
| gravel | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cover with gravel | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| gravitate | (verb) move due to the pull of gravitation | - |
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| (verb) be attracted to | - |
| (verb) move toward | - |
| grieve | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: sorrow |
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| (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: aggrieve |
| groove | (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, rut |
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| (verb) make a groove in, or provide with a groove | - |
| grovel | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn |
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| halve | (verb) divide by two; divide into halves | - |
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| harvest | (verb) remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation | - |
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| (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: glean, reap |
| have | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, deliver, give birth |
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| (verb) suffer from; be ill with | - |
| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, suffer, sustain |
| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: get, let |
| (verb) undergo | Synonyms: experience |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, induce, make, stimulate |
| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) have sex with; archaic use | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, hold, make, throw |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: experience, get, receive |
| (verb) have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense | Synonyms: have got, hold |
| (verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: get, make |
| (verb) get something; come into possession of | Synonyms: receive |
| (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: own, possess |
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: accept, take |
| (verb) have a personal or business relationship with someone | - |
| (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: feature |
| (verb) be confronted with | - |
| heave | (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, retch |
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| (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, pant, puff |
| (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, warp |
| (verb) utter a sound, as with obvious effort | - |
| (verb) lift or elevate | Synonyms: heave up, heft, heft up |
| (verb) throw with great effort | - |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, surge |
| (verb) move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position | - |
| hive | (verb) gather into a hive | - |
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| (verb) move together in a hive or as if in a hive | - |
| (verb) store, like bees | - |
| hoover | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: vacuum-clean, vacuum |
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| hover | (verb) hang in the air; fly or be suspended above | - |
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| (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: levitate |
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, vibrate |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: linger |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, loom |
| hyperventilate | (verb) breathe excessively hard and fast | - |
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| (verb) produce hyperventilation in | - |
| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| improve | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, meliorate |
| improvise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: extemporize |
| improvize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvise |
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| inactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: deactivate |
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| (verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
| inconvenience | (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, put out, trouble |
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| incurvate | (verb) cause to curve inward | - |
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| (verb) bend inwards | - |
| individualise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualize, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualize |
| individualize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualise |
| individuate | (verb) give individual shape or form to | - |
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| (verb) give individual character to | - |
| innervate | (verb) stimulate to action | - |
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| (verb) supply nerves to (some organ or body part) | - |
| innovate | (verb) bring something new to an environment | Synonyms: introduce |
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| interleave | (verb) intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations | - |
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| (verb) intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data | - |
| (verb) provide (books) with blank leaves | - |
| intervene | (verb) occur between other event or between certain points of time | - |
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| (verb) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Synonyms: interfere, interpose, step in |
| (verb) be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events | - |
| interview | (verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: question |
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| (verb) discuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation | - |
| (verb) go for an interview in the hope of being hired | - |
| interweave | (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: weave |
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| intransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivize |
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| intransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise |
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| introvert | (verb) turn inside | - |
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| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| invade | (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: occupy |
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| (verb) penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way | - |
| (verb) to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate | Synonyms: encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, overrun |
| invaginate | (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: introvert |
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| (verb) sheathe | - |
| invalid | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, incapacitate |
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| (verb) force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen | - |
| invalidate | (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: vitiate, void |
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| (verb) show to be invalid | Synonyms: nullify |
| (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: cancel |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, nullify, quash, void |
| inveigh | (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: rail |
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| (verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: declaim |
| inveigle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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| invent | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate |
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| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, make up, manufacture |
| inventory | (verb) make or include in an itemized record or report | Synonyms: stock-take, take stock |
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| invert | (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: reverse, turn back |
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| (verb) make an inversion (in a musical composition) | - |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: reverse |
| invest | (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, place, put |
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| (verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: enthrone, vest |
| (verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: induct, seat |
| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: adorn, clothe |
| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, gift, indue |
| investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| invigilate | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: proctor |
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| invigorate | (verb) impart vigor, strength, or vitality to | Synonyms: reinvigorate |
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| (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, enliven, liven, liven up |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, inspire |
| invite | (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: bid |
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| (verb) request the participation or presence of | Synonyms: call for |
| (verb) ask to enter | Synonyms: ask in |
| (verb) express willingness to have in one's home or environs | Synonyms: receive, take in |
| (verb) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting | Synonyms: tempt |
| (verb) increase the likelihood of | Synonyms: ask for |
| (verb) invite someone to one's house | Synonyms: ask over, ask round |
| (verb) have as a guest | Synonyms: pay for |
| invoice | (verb) send a bill to | - |
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| invoke | (verb) cite as an authority; resort to | Synonyms: appeal |
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| (verb) request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection | Synonyms: appeal |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| involve | (verb) make complex or intricate or complicated | - |
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| (verb) occupy or engage the interest of | - |
| (verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: imply |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: affect, regard |
| (verb) contain as a part | - |
| (verb) engage as a participant | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| inweave | (verb) weave together into a fabric or design | - |
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| jive | (verb) dance to jive music; dance the jive | - |
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| kvetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, plain, quetch, sound off |
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| lave | (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: wash |
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| (verb) wash one's face and hands | Synonyms: wash up |
| (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, wash |
| lavish | (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
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| leave | (verb) leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking | Synonyms: leave alone, leave behind, let alone |
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| (verb) be survived by after one's death | Synonyms: leave behind |
| (verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: forget |
| (verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness | - |
| (verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: exit, get out, go out |
| (verb) go away from a place | Synonyms: go away, go forth |
| (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: bequeath, will |
| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, impart, pass on |
| (verb) put into the care or protection of someone | Synonyms: entrust |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: depart, pull up stakes |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: lead, result |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, provide |
| (verb) act or be so as to become in a specified state | - |
| (verb) have left or have as a remainder | - |
| leaven | (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: prove, raise |
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| levant | (verb) run off without paying a debt | - |
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| level | (verb) become level or even | Synonyms: level off |
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| (verb) talk frankly with; lay it on the line | - |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, point |
| (verb) aim at | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, flush |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: dismantle, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| lever | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, prise, prize, pry |
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| leverage | (verb) provide with leverage | - |
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| (verb) supplement with leverage | - |
| levitate | (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: hover |
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| (verb) cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity | - |
| levy | (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: raise, recruit |
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| (verb) impose and collect | Synonyms: impose |
| live | (verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: experience, know |
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| (verb) have life, be alive | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, subsist, survive |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive |
| (verb) lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style | - |
| (verb) pursue a positive and satisfying existence | - |
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, populate |
| liven | (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, enliven, invigorate, liven up |
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| love | (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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| (verb) have a great affection or liking for | - |
| (verb) be enamored or in love with | - |
| (verb) get pleasure from | Synonyms: enjoy |
| malversate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate |
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| maneuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre, operate |
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| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| manoeuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, operate |
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| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre |
| manoeuvre | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver, operate |
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| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver |
| marvel | (verb) express astonishment or surprise about something | - |
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| (verb) be amazed at | Synonyms: wonder |
| microwave | (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, nuke, zap |
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| misadvise | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misguide |
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| misbehave | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misconduct, misdemean |
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| misbelieve | (verb) hold a false or unorthodox belief | - |
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| misconceive | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| misdeliver | (verb) deliver to the wrong address | - |
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| misgive | (verb) suggest fear or doubt | - |
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| misgovern | (verb) govern badly | - |
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| misperceive | (verb) perceive incorrectly | - |
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| motivate | (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, move, prompt, propel |
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| move | (verb) be in a state of action | Synonyms: be active |
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| (verb) go or proceed from one point to another | - |
| (verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: go, run |
| (verb) propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting | Synonyms: make a motion |
| (verb) have a turn; make one's move in a game | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, prompt, propel |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, impress, strike |
| (verb) arouse sympathy or compassion in | - |
| (verb) move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion | - |
| (verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense | Synonyms: displace |
| (verb) change residence, affiliation, or place of employment | - |
| (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, locomote, travel |
| (verb) dispose of by selling | - |
| (verb) perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) | Synonyms: act |
| (verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: go, proceed |
| (verb) live one's life in a specified environment | - |
| navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
| (verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
| negative | (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, veto |
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| nerve | (verb) get ready for something difficult or unpleasant | Synonyms: steel |
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| nosedive | (verb) plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft | - |
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| novate | (verb) replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one | - |
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