| activate | (verb) make active or more active | - |
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| (verb) make (substances) radioactive | - |
| (verb) aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | Synonyms: aerate |
| (verb) make more adsorptive | - |
| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
| advance | (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: come along, come on, get along, get on, progress, shape up |
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| (verb) rise in rate or price | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: boost, supercharge |
| (verb) develop further | - |
| (verb) bring forward for consideration or acceptance | Synonyms: throw out |
| (verb) obtain advantages, such as points, etc. | Synonyms: gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win |
| (verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress |
| (verb) cause to move forward | Synonyms: bring forward |
| (verb) move forward | Synonyms: set ahead |
| (verb) pay in advance | - |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: boost, encourage, further, promote |
| advantage | (verb) give an advantage to | - |
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| aestivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: estivate |
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| aggravate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate |
| avail | (verb) take advantage of | - |
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| (verb) take or use | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) be of use to, be useful to | - |
| avalanche | (verb) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow | Synonyms: roll down |
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| canvas | (verb) cover with canvas | - |
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| canvass | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, examine, study |
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| (verb) solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | - |
| (verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: poll |
| captivate | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| caravan | (verb) travel in a caravan | - |
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| circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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| (verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
| 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 | - |
| disadvantage | (verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour |
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| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| enervate | (verb) weaken mentally or morally | - |
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| (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: faze, unnerve, unsettle |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| incurvate | (verb) cause to curve inward | - |
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| (verb) bend inwards | - |
| 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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| 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 |
| levant | (verb) run off without paying a debt | - |
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| motivate | (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, move, prompt, propel |
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| novate | (verb) replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one | - |
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| outrival | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outvie |
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| overcultivate | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcrop |
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| overvalue | (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overestimate |
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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 | - |
| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| reactivate | (verb) activate (an old file) anew | - |
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| recidivate | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, regress, relapse, retrogress |
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| reevaluate | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reassess |
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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 |
| 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 |
| rival | (verb) be the rival of, be in competition with | - |
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| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, touch |
| salivate | (verb) produce saliva | - |
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| (verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something | Synonyms: drool |
| salvage | (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: scavenge |
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| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salve, save |
| savage | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, pillory |
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| (verb) attack brutally and fiercely | - |
| solvate | (verb) undergo solvation or convert into a solvate | - |
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| (verb) cause a solvation in (a substance) | - |
| titivate | (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, tittivate |
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| tittivate | (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate |
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| travail | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil |
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| undervalue | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, devalue |
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| (verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: underestimate |
| (verb) esteem lightly | - |
| vacate | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke |
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| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, empty |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, renounce, resign |
| vacation | (verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: holiday |
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| vaccinate | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, immunize, inoculate |
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| vacillate | (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, waver |
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| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vibrate |
| vacuum | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: hoover, vacuum-clean |
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| vagabond | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, wander |
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| valet | (verb) serve as a personal attendant to | - |
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| validate | (verb) make valid or confirm the validity of | - |
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| (verb) prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something | - |
| (verb) give evidence for | Synonyms: corroborate |
| (verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, formalize |
| valuate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, value |
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| value | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, valuate |
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| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, respect |
| (verb) estimate the value of | Synonyms: rate |
| (verb) fix or determine the value of; assign a value to | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, prize, treasure |
| vamoose | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: decamp, skip |
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| vamp | (verb) provide (a shoe) with a new vamp | Synonyms: revamp |
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| (verb) act seductively with (someone) | - |
| (verb) piece (something old) with a new part | Synonyms: vamp up |
| (verb) make up | Synonyms: vamp up |
| vandalise | (verb) destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism | Synonyms: vandalize |
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| vandalize | (verb) destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism | Synonyms: vandalise |
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| vanish | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
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| (verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: fly, vaporize |
| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: disappear |
| (verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fell, fly |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
| vanquish | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce |
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| vape | (verb) to use an electronic cigarette | - |
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| vaporise | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: aerify, gasify, vaporize |
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| (verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | Synonyms: evaporate, vaporize |
| (verb) change into a vapor | Synonyms: evaporate |
| (verb) cause to change into a vapor | Synonyms: evaporate |
| vaporize | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: aerify, gasify, vaporise |
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| (verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | Synonyms: evaporate, vaporise |
| (verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: fly, vanish |
| (verb) kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting | Synonyms: zap |
| variegate | (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: motley, vary |
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| (verb) change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors | - |
| varnish | (verb) cover with varnish | Synonyms: seal |
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| vary | (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, change |
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| (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: motley, variegate |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, diverge |
| (verb) be subject to change in accordance with a variable | - |
| vascularise | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularize |
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| (verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularize |
| vascularize | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularise |
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| (verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularise |
| vasectomise | (verb) remove the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasectomize |
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| vasectomize | (verb) remove the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasectomise |
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| vaticinate | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophesy |
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| (verb) foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy | - |