absolve | (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
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(verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
achieve | (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, attain, reach |
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advect | (verb) convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid | - |
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adventure | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardize, stake, venture |
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(verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
advert | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: allude, touch |
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(verb) make reference to | Synonyms: bring up, cite, mention, name, refer |
(verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: attend, give ear, hang, pay heed |
advertise | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertize, promote, push |
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(verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertize, publicise, publicize |
advertize | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, promote, push |
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(verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, publicise, publicize |
aggrieve | (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: grieve |
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(verb) infringe on the rights of | - |
animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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(verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
apperceive | (verb) perceive in terms of a past experience | - |
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approve | (verb) judge to be right or commendable; think well of | - |
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(verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: O.K., okay, sanction |
archive | (verb) put into an archive | Synonyms: file away |
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arrive | (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: come, get |
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(verb) succeed in a big way; get to the top | Synonyms: get in, go far, make it |
asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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autoclave | (verb) subject to the action of an autoclave | - |
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avenge | (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: retaliate, revenge |
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aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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(verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
average | (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
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(verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
(verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
beaver | (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
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behave | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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(verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: comport |
behoove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behove |
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behove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behoove |
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believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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(verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
(verb) credit with veracity | - |
(verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
bereave | (verb) deprive through death | - |
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bevel | (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: chamfer |
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brave | (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave out, endure, weather |
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brevet | (verb) promote somebody by brevet, in the military | - |
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calve | (verb) give birth to (a calf) | Synonyms: have young |
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(verb) release ice | Synonyms: break up |
cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
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(verb) project as a cantilever | - |
carve | (verb) cut to pieces | Synonyms: cut up |
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(verb) form by carving | - |
(verb) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface | Synonyms: chip at |
cave | (verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: spelunk |
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(verb) hollow out as if making a cave or opening | Synonyms: undermine |
cavern | (verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
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circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
circumvolve | (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: rotate |
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claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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cleave | (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: rive, split |
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(verb) make by cutting into | - |
(verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cling, cohere, stick |
commove | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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(verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, excite, rouse, turn on |
conceive | (verb) become pregnant; undergo conception | - |
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(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, consider, think |
(verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate |
connive | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: intrigue, scheme |
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(verb) encourage or assent to illegally or criminally | - |
conserve | (verb) preserve with sugar | - |
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(verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: economise, economize, husband |
(verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve |
(verb) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change | - |
contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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(verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
contrive | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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(verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: design, plan, project |
(verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, project, throw |
controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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(verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
convect | (verb) circulate hot air by convection | - |
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convene | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convoke |
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(verb) meet formally | - |
conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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conventionalize | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalise |
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(verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: stylise, stylize |
converge | (verb) come together so as to form a single product | - |
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(verb) move or draw together at a certain location | - |
(verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: meet |
(verb) approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit | - |
converse | (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: discourse |
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convert | (verb) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy | Synonyms: change over |
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(verb) change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief | - |
(verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, exchange |
(verb) change the nature, purpose, or function of something | - |
(verb) change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change | - |
(verb) cause to adopt a new or different faith | - |
(verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, exchange |
(verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convince, win over |
(verb) score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone | - |
convey | (verb) (of information) make known; pass on | - |
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(verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, express |
(verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, fetch, get |
(verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | Synonyms: bring, take |
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, impart, transmit |
(verb) transmit a title or property | - |
(verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: communicate, transmit |
convolve | (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolute |
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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 |
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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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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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 |
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 | - |
disapprove | (verb) consider bad or wrong | - |
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(verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: reject |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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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 |
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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evolve | (verb) undergo development or evolution | - |
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(verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, develop |
(verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, germinate |
forgive | (verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness | - |
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(verb) absolve from payment | - |
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 | - |