abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
advise | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: counsel, rede |
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(verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, give notice, notify, send word |
(verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: propose, suggest |
alleviate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: assuage, palliate, relieve |
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(verb) make easier | Synonyms: ease, facilitate |
avianise | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianize |
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avianize | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianise |
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aviate | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: fly, pilot |
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bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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(verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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bolshevise | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevize, communise, communize |
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bolshevize | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, communise, communize |
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cavil | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, chicane |
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circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
civilize | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilise |
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(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, cultivate, educate, school, train |
collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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collectivize | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivise |
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convict | (verb) find or declare guilty | - |
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convince | (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convert, win over |
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detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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deviate | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
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(verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
(verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
devil | (verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste | - |
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(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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devilize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, diabolise, diabolize |
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devise | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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(verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
(verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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devitalize | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalise |
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devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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(verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
divide | (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: fraction |
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(verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
(verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, part, separate |
(verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: separate |
(verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up |
(verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: separate |
divine | (verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
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(verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
environ | (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, ring, skirt, surround |
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envisage | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, ideate, imagine |
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envision | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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(verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: foresee |
evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
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(verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
evidence | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, manifest |
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(verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, prove, show, testify |
(verb) give evidence | Synonyms: tell |
evince | (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: express, show |
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eviscerate | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, draw |
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(verb) remove the contents of | - |
(verb) take away a vital or essential part of | - |
(verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: resect |
exuviate | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: molt, moult, shed, slough |
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gravitate | (verb) move due to the pull of gravitation | - |
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(verb) be attracted to | - |
(verb) move toward | - |
improvise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvize |
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(verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: extemporize |
improvize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvise |
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individualise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualize, personalise, personalize |
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(verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualize |
individualize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, personalise, personalize |
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(verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualise |
individuate | (verb) give individual shape or form to | - |
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(verb) give individual character to | - |
interview | (verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: question |
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(verb) discuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation | - |
(verb) go for an interview in the hope of being hired | - |
intransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivize |
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intransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise |
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invigilate | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: proctor |
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invigorate | (verb) impart vigor, strength, or vitality to | Synonyms: reinvigorate |
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(verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, enliven, liven, liven up |
(verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken |
(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, inspire |
invite | (verb) ask someone in a friendly way to do something | Synonyms: bid |
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(verb) request the participation or presence of | Synonyms: call for |
(verb) ask to enter | Synonyms: ask in |
(verb) express willingness to have in one's home or environs | Synonyms: receive, take in |
(verb) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting | Synonyms: tempt |
(verb) increase the likelihood of | Synonyms: ask for |
(verb) invite someone to one's house | Synonyms: ask over, ask round |
(verb) have as a guest | Synonyms: pay for |
lavish | (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
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levitate | (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: hover |
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(verb) cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity | - |
misadvise | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misguide |
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navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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(verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
(verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
obviate | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, stave off, ward off |
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(verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: eliminate, rid of |
outvie | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outrival |
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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 |
privilege | (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
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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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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 |
reconvict | (verb) convict anew | - |
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reinvigorate | (verb) impart vigor, strength, or vitality to | Synonyms: invigorate |
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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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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 |
revile | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, vilify, vituperate |
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revise | (verb) make revisions in | - |
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(verb) revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving | Synonyms: retool |
revisit | (verb) visit again | - |
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revitalise | (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalize |
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revitalize | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: regenerate |
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(verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalise |
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 |
revivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, vivify |
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service | (verb) make fit for use | - |
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(verb) mate with | Synonyms: serve |
(verb) be used by; as of a utility | Synonyms: serve |
sovietise | (verb) model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union | Synonyms: sovietize |
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(verb) bring under Soviet control, of a country | Synonyms: sovietize |
sovietize | (verb) model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union | Synonyms: sovietise |
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(verb) bring under Soviet control, of a country | Synonyms: sovietise |
subdivide | (verb) divide into smaller and smaller pieces | - |
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(verb) form into subdivisions | - |
supervise | (verb) keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance | Synonyms: monitor |
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(verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: manage, oversee, superintend |
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 |
televise | (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: telecast |
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transitivise | (verb) make transitive | Synonyms: transitivize |
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transitivize | (verb) make transitive | Synonyms: transitivise |
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trivialise | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialize |
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trivialize | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialise |
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vibe | (verb) to feel emotionally | - |
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vibrate | (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, tickle |
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(verb) shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner | - |
(verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: oscillate |
(verb) sound with resonance | Synonyms: resonate |
(verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vacillate |
victimise | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimize |
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(verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimize |
victimize | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimise |
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(verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimise |
(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle |
victual | (verb) take in nourishment | - |
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(verb) lay in provisions | - |
(verb) supply with food | - |
videotape | (verb) record on videotape | Synonyms: tape |
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vie | (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, contend |
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view | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, regard, see |
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(verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: consider, look at |
(verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, see, take in, watch |
vilify | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, revile, vituperate |
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vilipend | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, depreciate |
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vindicate | (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: justify |
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(verb) clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof | - |
(verb) maintain, uphold, or defend | - |
vinify | (verb) convert a juice into wine by fermentation | - |
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violate | (verb) destroy | - |
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(verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, spoil |
(verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress |
(verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish |
(verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, profane |
(verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: break, go against |
virilise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, masculinize, virilize |
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virilize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, masculinize, virilise |
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