| overstock | (verb) stock excessively | - |
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| overstrain | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overextend |
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| overstress | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overemphasize |
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| overstretch | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: pull |
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| overstuff | (verb) stuff too much | - |
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| oversupply | (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, glut |
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| overtake | (verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch, catch up with |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, pass |
| overtax | (verb) tax excessively | - |
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| overthink | (verb) to spend to much time considering something and thus reach the wrong conclusion | - |
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| overthrow | (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overturn, reverse |
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| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overturn, subvert |
| overtire | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overweary |
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| overtop | (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, dominate, overlook |
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| overtrump | (verb) play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick | - |
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| overturn | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
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| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, reverse |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) turn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: tip over, tump over, turn over |
| (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, tip over, tump over, turn over, upset |
| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, subvert |
| overuse | (verb) make use of too often or too extensively | Synonyms: overdrive |
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| overvalue | (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overestimate |
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| overweary | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overtire |
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| overwhelm | (verb) charge someone with too many tasks | Synonyms: deluge, flood out |
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| (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overpower |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, submerge |
| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overtake, sweep over, whelm |
| overwinter | (verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: winter |
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| overwork | (verb) use too much | - |
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| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: exploit |
| overwrite | (verb) write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data | - |
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| ovulate | (verb) produce and discharge eggs | - |
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| palaver | (verb) have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds | - |
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| (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle |
| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| pave | (verb) cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic | - |
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| peeve | (verb) cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful | - |
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| perceive | (verb) become conscious of | - |
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| (verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: comprehend |
| perseverate | (verb) repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus | - |
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| persevere | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persist |
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| perv | (verb) look at with amorous intentions | Synonyms: ogle, perve |
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| pervade | (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, riddle |
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| pervaporate | (verb) cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
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| (verb) evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
| perve | (verb) look at with amorous intentions | Synonyms: ogle, perv |
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| pervert | (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: abuse, misuse |
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| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| pivot | (verb) turn on a pivot | Synonyms: swivel |
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| preconceive | (verb) conceive beforehand | - |
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| preserve | (verb) prevent (food) from rotting | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: conserve, keep up, maintain |
| (verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use | Synonyms: save |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, continue, uphold |
| (verb) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing | - |
| prevail | (verb) use persuasion successfully | - |
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| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: triumph |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, run |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, obtain |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, reign, rule |
| prevaricate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, tergiversate |
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| prevent | (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude |
| preview | (verb) watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public | - |
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| previse | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, foresee |
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| (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: forewarn |
| privatise | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatize |
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| privatize | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatise |
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| privilege | (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
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| prove | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, shew, show |
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| (verb) obtain probate of | - |
| (verb) prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof | - |
| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, show, testify |
| (verb) take a trial impression of | - |
| (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: leaven, raise |
| (verb) increase in volume | Synonyms: rise |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, test, try, try out |
| (verb) be shown or be found to be | Synonyms: turn out, turn up |
| provide | (verb) take measures in preparation for | - |
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| (verb) determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation | - |
| (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: cater, ply, supply |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, render, supply |
| (verb) supply means of subsistence; earn a living | Synonyms: bring home the bacon |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: offer, put up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, leave |
| provision | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: purvey |
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| provoke | (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, evoke, kick up |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, raise |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague |
| pulverise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverize |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverize |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverize |
| pulverize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, powderize, pulverise |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: demolish, pulverise |
| purvey | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: provision |
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| quaver | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: trill, warble |
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| (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: waver |
| quiver | (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quake |
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| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, pulsate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, waver |
| ravage | (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | Synonyms: harry |
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| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, scourge, waste |
| rave | (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: gush |
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| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, spout |
| (verb) participate in an all-night techno dance party | - |
| ravel | (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, tangle |
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| (verb) disentangle | Synonyms: ravel out, unravel |
| raven | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, guttle, pig |
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| (verb) feed greedily | - |
| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, prey |
| (verb) obtain or seize by violence | - |
| ravish | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport |
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| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, violate |
| reactivate | (verb) activate (an old file) anew | - |
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| reave | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, rifle, strip |
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| receive | (verb) convert into sounds or pictures | - |
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| (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: find, get, incur, obtain |
| (verb) accept as true or valid | - |
| (verb) regard favorably or with disapproval | - |
| (verb) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival | Synonyms: welcome |
| (verb) partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament | - |
| (verb) express willingness to have in one's home or environs | Synonyms: invite, take in |
| (verb) register (perceptual input) | Synonyms: pick up |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: experience, get, have |
| (verb) receive as a retribution or punishment | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) get something; come into possession of | Synonyms: have |
| (verb) have or give a reception | - |
| (verb) experience as a reaction | Synonyms: encounter, meet |
| recidivate | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, regress, relapse, retrogress |
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| reconvene | (verb) meet again | - |
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| reconvert | (verb) convert back | - |
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| reconvict | (verb) convict anew | - |
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| recover | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recuperate |
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| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recuperate |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, regain, retrieve |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recuperate |
| (verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: reclaim |
| (verb) cover anew | - |
| recurve | (verb) curve or bend (something) back or down | - |
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| redevelop | (verb) change the plans for the use of (land) | - |
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| (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: reformulate |
| (verb) develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print | - |
| rediscover | (verb) discover again | - |
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| reevaluate | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reassess |
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| reeve | (verb) fasten by passing through a hole or around something | - |
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| (verb) pass through a hole or opening | - |
| (verb) pass a rope through | - |
| reinvent | (verb) create anew and make over | - |
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| (verb) bring back into existence | - |
| reinvigorate | (verb) impart vigor, strength, or vitality to | Synonyms: invigorate |
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| rejuvenate | (verb) become young again | - |
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| (verb) make younger or more youthful | - |
| (verb) develop youthful topographical features | - |
| (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: regenerate, restore |
| (verb) cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land | - |
| relativise | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativize |
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| relativize | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativise |
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| relieve | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, palliate |
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| (verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: remedy |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: lighten |
| (verb) relieve oneself of troubling information | Synonyms: unbosom |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, exempt, let off |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, still |
| (verb) take by stealing | - |
| (verb) free from a burden, evil, or distress | - |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: salvage, salve, save |
| (verb) free someone temporarily from his or her obligations | Synonyms: take over |
| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: exempt, free |
| relive | (verb) experience again, often in the imagination | Synonyms: live over |
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| remove | (verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract | Synonyms: take, take away, withdraw |
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| (verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: absent |
| (verb) get rid of something abstract | Synonyms: take away |
| (verb) shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) dispose of | Synonyms: get rid of |
| (verb) remove from a position or an office | - |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, slay |
| (verb) cause to leave | Synonyms: move out, take out |
| rendezvous | (verb) meet at a rendezvous | - |
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| renovate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) restore to a previous or better condition | Synonyms: restitute |
| (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, refurbish |
| reprieve | (verb) relieve temporarily | - |
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| (verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: respite |
| reprove | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reproof |
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| reserve | (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside |
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| (verb) obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance | - |
| (verb) hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency | - |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: book, hold |
| resolve | (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, dissolve |
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| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, settle |
| (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: purpose |
| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: solve |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: answer |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) make clearly visible | - |
| retrieve | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, think |
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| (verb) run after, pick up, and bring to the master | - |
| (verb) go for and bring back | - |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, regain |
| retrovert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, return, revert, turn back |
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| rev | (verb) increase the number of rotations per minute | Synonyms: rev up |
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| revalue | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: appreciate, apprise, apprize |
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| (verb) value anew | - |
| revamp | (verb) to patch up or renovate; repair or restore | - |
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| (verb) provide (a shoe) with a new vamp | Synonyms: vamp |
| reveal | (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, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, uncover, unwrap |
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| (verb) make manifest | Synonyms: bring out, unveil |
| (verb) disclose directly or through prophets | - |
| revel | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: delight, enjoy |
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| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, wassail, whoop it up |
| revenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, retaliate |
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| reverberate | (verb) treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace | - |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, resound, ring |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves | - |
| (verb) have a long or continuing effect | - |
| revere | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, reverence, venerate |
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| (verb) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol | Synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, idolize, worship |
| reverence | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, venerate |
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| reverse | (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, turn |
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| (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: invert, turn back |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: invert |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, revoke, vacate |
| revert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back |
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| (verb) undergo reversion, as in a mutation | - |
| revet | (verb) face with a layer of stone or concrete or other supporting material so as to retain | - |
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| (verb) construct a revetment | - |
| review | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: reexamine |
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| (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, retrospect |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, survey |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, refresh |
| (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: critique |