| rediscover | (verb) discover again | - |
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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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| revive | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: resuscitate |
| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, resuscitate |
| (verb) be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength | - |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: resurrect |
| revolve | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, rotate |
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| (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, orbit |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: roll |
| rive | (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rend, rip |
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| (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cleave, split |
| rivet | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore |
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| (verb) hold (someone's attention) | - |
| (verb) fasten with a rivet or rivets | - |
| rove | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| salve | (verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing | - |
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| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save |
| save | (verb) make unnecessary an expenditure or effort | Synonyms: make unnecessary |
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| (verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use | Synonyms: preserve |
| (verb) accumulate money for future use | Synonyms: lay aside, save up |
| (verb) spend less; buy at a reduced price | - |
| (verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep, keep open |
| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, economize |
| (verb) bring into safety | Synonyms: bring through, carry through, pull through |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, salve |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, redeem |
| (verb) refrain from harming | Synonyms: spare |
| scavenge | (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) feed on carrion or refuse | - |
| (verb) clean refuse from | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: salvage |
| serve | (verb) do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function | - |
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| (verb) put the ball into play | - |
| (verb) provide (usually but not necessarily food) | Synonyms: dish, dish out, dish up, serve up |
| (verb) help to some food; help with food or drink | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: process, swear out |
| (verb) mate with | Synonyms: service |
| (verb) be used by; as of a utility | Synonyms: service |
| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: assist, attend, attend to, wait on |
| (verb) devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas | - |
| (verb) do military service | - |
| (verb) spend time in prison or in a labor camp | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) contribute or conduce to | - |
| (verb) promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to | Synonyms: serve well |
| (verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: function |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, suffice |
| sever | (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, lop |
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| (verb) set or keep apart | Synonyms: break up |
| severalise | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalize |
| severalize | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) distinguish or separate | Synonyms: severalise |
| shave | (verb) remove body hair with a razor | - |
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| (verb) touch the surface of lightly | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: trim |
| (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) make shavings of or reduce to shavings | - |
| (verb) cut the price of | Synonyms: knock off |
| shelve | (verb) place on a shelf | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, table |
| shiver | (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shudder |
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| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shudder, thrill, throb |
| shove | (verb) push roughly | - |
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| (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: jostle |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: squeeze, stuff, thrust |
| shovel | (verb) dig with or as if with a shovel | - |
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| shrive | (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: absolve |
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| shrivel | (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrink, shrivel up, wither |
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| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrink |
| sieve | (verb) distinguish and separate out | Synonyms: sift |
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| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sift, strain |
| (verb) check and sort carefully | Synonyms: sift |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sort |
| silver | (verb) make silver in color | - |
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| (verb) turn silver | - |
| (verb) coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam | - |
| silverplate | (verb) plate with silver | Synonyms: silver-plate |
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| skive | (verb) remove the surface of | - |
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| skydive | (verb) jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute | Synonyms: sky dive |
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| slave | (verb) work very hard, like a slave | Synonyms: break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down |
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| slaver | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slobber |
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| sliver | (verb) break up into splinters or slivers | Synonyms: splinter |
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| (verb) form into slivers | - |
| (verb) divide into slivers or splinters | Synonyms: splinter |
| snivel | (verb) snuff up mucus through the nose | Synonyms: snuffle |
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| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, sniffle, snuffle |
| (verb) talk in a tearful manner | Synonyms: whine |
| solve | (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, work, work out |
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| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) settle, as of a debt | Synonyms: clear |
| starve | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, hunger |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, thirst |
| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: famish |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: famish |
| (verb) deprive of a necessity and cause suffering | - |
| stave | (verb) burst or force (a hole) into something | Synonyms: stave in |
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| (verb) furnish with staves | - |
| strive | (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strain |
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| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
| subserve | (verb) be helpful or useful | - |
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| subvent | (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvention, underwrite |
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| subvention | (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvent, underwrite |
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| subvert | (verb) to raze to the ground, also figuratively | - |
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| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate |
| supervene | (verb) take place as an additional or unexpected development | - |
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| surveil | (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, survey |
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| survey | (verb) consider in a comprehensive way | Synonyms: appraise |
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| (verb) plot a map of (land) | - |
| (verb) make a survey of; for statistical purposes | - |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, review |
| (verb) look over carefully or inspect | - |
| (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, surveil |
| survive | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, subsist |
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| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on |
| (verb) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) | Synonyms: come through, make it, pull round, pull through |
| (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlast, outlive |
| swerve | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, trend, veer |
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| swivel | (verb) turn on a pivot | Synonyms: pivot |
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| tergiversate | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatise, apostatize |
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| (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, prevaricate |
| thieve | (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, hook, knock off, snitch |
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| thrive | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, flourish |
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| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, prosper |
| travel | (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, locomote, move |
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| (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: jaunt, trip |
| (verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: journey |
| (verb) undergo transportation as in a vehicle | - |
| (verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: journey |
| (verb) travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge | Synonyms: move around |
| traverse | (verb) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit | Synonyms: deny |
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| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, sweep |
| travesty | (verb) make a travesty of | - |
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| uncover | (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, reveal, unwrap |
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| (verb) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body | Synonyms: expose |
| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: disclose, expose |
| undeceive | (verb) free from deception or illusion | - |
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| underachieve | (verb) perform less well or with less success than expected | Synonyms: underperform |
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| underdevelop | (verb) process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature | - |
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| universalise | (verb) make universal | Synonyms: universalize |
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| universalize | (verb) make universal | Synonyms: universalise |
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| unlive | (verb) live so as to annul some previous behavior | Synonyms: live down |
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| unnerve | (verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: enervate, faze, unsettle |
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| unravel | (verb) become undone | Synonyms: run |
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| (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unscramble, untangle |
| (verb) disentangle | Synonyms: ravel, ravel out |
| unveil | (verb) remove the veil from | - |
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| (verb) remove the cover from | - |
| (verb) make manifest | Synonyms: bring out, reveal |
| unweave | (verb) undo strands that have been woven together | - |
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| upheave | (verb) lift forcefully from beneath | - |
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| veer | (verb) shift to a clockwise direction | - |
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| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend |
| vegetate | (verb) engage in passive relaxation | Synonyms: veg out |
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| (verb) propagate asexually | - |
| (verb) grow like a plant | - |
| (verb) produce vegetation | - |
| (verb) establish vegetation on | - |
| (verb) grow or spread abnormally | - |
| (verb) lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind | - |
| veil | (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure |
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| (verb) to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil | - |
| vein | (verb) make a veinlike pattern | - |
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| velcro | (verb) fasten with Velcro | - |
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| vellicate | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: pinch |
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| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: tickle, titillate |
| vend | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, pitch |
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| veneer | (verb) cover with veneer | - |
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| venerate | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, reverence |
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| venesect | (verb) practice venesection | - |
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| vent | (verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, ventilate |
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| (verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, ventilate |
| ventilate | (verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, vent |
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| (verb) furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape | - |
| (verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, vent |
| (verb) circulate through and freshen | - |
| (verb) expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage | - |
| venture | (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, pretend |
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| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, jeopardize, stake |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: embark |
| verbalise | (verb) convert into a verb | Synonyms: verbalize |
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| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalize |
| (verb) be verbose | Synonyms: verbalize |
| (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalize |
| verbalize | (verb) convert into a verb | Synonyms: verbalise |
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| (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise |
| (verb) be verbose | Synonyms: verbalise |
| (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise |
| verbify | (verb) make into a verb | - |
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| verdigris | (verb) color verdigris | - |
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| verge | (verb) border on; come close to | - |
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