| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| allow | (verb) allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: take into account |
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| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: countenance, let, permit |
| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: permit, tolerate |
| (verb) let have | Synonyms: grant |
| (verb) grant as a discount or in exchange | - |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: let, permit |
| (verb) allow the other (baseball) team to score | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide |
| (verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: admit |
| allowance | (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
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| answer | (verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
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| (verb) respond to a signal | - |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
| (verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
| (verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
| (verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
| (verb) match or correspond | - |
| (verb) be liable or accountable | - |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
| avow | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, swan, swear, verify |
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| (verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avouch |
| await | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: expect, look, wait |
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| awake | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
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| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| award | (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: present |
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| (verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: grant |
| awe | (verb) inspire awe in | - |
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| batfowl | (verb) catch birds by temporarily blinding them | - |
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| bawl | (verb) cry loudly | - |
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| (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bellow |
| (verb) make a raucous noise | Synonyms: yawp |
| bedew | (verb) cover with drops of dew or as with dew | - |
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| beeswax | (verb) cover with beeswax | - |
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| bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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| bellow | (verb) shout loudly and without restraint | Synonyms: bawl |
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| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: roar |
| beshrew | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| bestow | (verb) present | Synonyms: confer |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bring, contribute, impart, lend |
| (verb) give as a gift | - |
| bestrew | (verb) cover by strewing | - |
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| bewail | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, deplore, lament |
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| beware | (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: mind |
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| bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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| bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
| bewitch | (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
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| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| bewray | (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: betray |
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| billow | (verb) become inflated | Synonyms: balloon, inflate |
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| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: heave, surge |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) move with great difficulty | - |
| birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
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| blackwash | (verb) color with blackwash | - |
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| (verb) bring (information) out of concealment | - |
| blow | (verb) exhale hard | - |
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| (verb) free of obstruction by blowing air through | - |
| (verb) melt, break, or become otherwise unusable | Synonyms: blow out, burn out |
| (verb) burst suddenly | - |
| (verb) shape by blowing | - |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) cause to be revealed and jeopardized | - |
| (verb) allow to regain its breath | - |
| (verb) deposit eggs (of insects) | - |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, drift, float |
| (verb) cause to move by means of an air current | - |
| (verb) leave; informal or rude | Synonyms: shove along, shove off |
| (verb) cause air to go in, on, or through | - |
| (verb) spout moist air from the blowhole | - |
| (verb) play or sound a wind instrument | - |
| (verb) make a sound as if blown | - |
| (verb) sound by having air expelled through a tube | - |
| (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: fellate, go down on, suck |
| (verb) spend lavishly or wastefully on | - |
| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: squander, waste |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| (verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: suck |
| (verb) be blowing or storming | - |
| borrow | (verb) get temporarily | - |
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| (verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, take over, take up |
| bow | (verb) bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head | Synonyms: bow down |
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| (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, defer, give in, submit |
| (verb) bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting | - |
| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, crouch, stoop |
| (verb) play on a stringed instrument with a bow | - |
| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
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| bowl | (verb) engage in the sport of bowling | - |
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| (verb) hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end | - |
| (verb) roll (a ball) | - |
| bowse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bouse |
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| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| brawl | (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: wrangle |
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| brew | (verb) sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor | - |
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| (verb) prepare by brewing | - |
| browbeat | (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: bully, swagger |
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| (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
| brown | (verb) fry in a pan until it changes color | - |
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| (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: embrown |
| browse | (verb) eat lightly, try different dishes | Synonyms: graze |
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| (verb) look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular | Synonyms: surf |
| (verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: crop, graze, pasture, range |
| (verb) shop around; not necessarily buying | Synonyms: shop |
| bulwark | (verb) defend with a bulwark | - |
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| burrow | (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: tunnel |
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| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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| cakewalk | (verb) perform the cakewalk dance | - |
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| cartwheel | (verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
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| caterwaul | (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
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| causeway | (verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
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| (verb) provide with a causeway | - |
| caw | (verb) utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens | - |
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| chaw | (verb) chew without swallowing | - |
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| checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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| chew | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: jaw, manducate, masticate |
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| clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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| (verb) claw with the nails | - |
| claw | (verb) attack as if with claws | - |
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| (verb) scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails | - |
| (verb) clutch as if in panic | - |
| (verb) move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging | - |
| clew | (verb) roll into a ball | Synonyms: clue |
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| clown | (verb) act as or like a clown | Synonyms: antic, clown around |
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| coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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| corkscrew | (verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: spiral |
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| counterweight | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
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| cow | (verb) subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) | Synonyms: overawe |
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| cower | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
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| (verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: huddle |
| cowhide | (verb) flog with a cowhide | - |
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| cowl | (verb) cover with or as with a cowl | - |
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| crawfish | (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
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| crawl | (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
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| (verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| (verb) be full of | - |
| (verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
| crew | (verb) serve as a crew member on | - |
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| crow | (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: gloat, triumph |
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| (verb) express pleasure verbally | - |
| (verb) utter shrill sounds | - |
| crowd | (verb) to gather together in large numbers | Synonyms: crowd together |
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| (verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: herd |
| (verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: push |
| (verb) fill or occupy to the point of overflowing | - |
| crown | (verb) be the culminating event | Synonyms: top |
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| (verb) put an enamel cover on | - |
| (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: coronate |
| (verb) form the topmost part of | - |
| cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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| dawdle | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: linger |
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| (verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: fall back, fall behind, lag |
| (verb) waste time | Synonyms: dally |
| dawn | (verb) become light | - |
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| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
| (verb) appear or develop | - |
| declaw | (verb) remove the claws from | - |
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| deflower | (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: impair, mar, spoil, vitiate |
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| (verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: ruin |
| dethaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
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| disallow | (verb) command against | Synonyms: forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| disavow | (verb) refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with | - |
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| disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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| disown | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: renounce, repudiate |
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| (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disinherit |
| dower | (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: endow |
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| down | (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: fine-tune, polish, refine |
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| (verb) bring down or defeat (an opponent) | - |
| (verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, devour, go through |
| (verb) cause to come or go down | Synonyms: cut down, knock down, pull down, push down |
| (verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: land, shoot down |
| downgrade | (verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
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| download | (verb) transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location | - |
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| downplay | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: background, play down |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, minimize, understate |
| downsize | (verb) (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees | - |
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| (verb) design or manufacture in a smaller size | - |
| (verb) dismiss from work | - |
| dowse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) slacken | Synonyms: douse |
| (verb) use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal | - |
| (verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: douse |
| draw | (verb) cause to localize at one point | - |
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| (verb) shrink | - |
| (verb) flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching | - |
| (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate |
| (verb) reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die | - |
| (verb) bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition | - |
| (verb) steep; pass through a strainer | - |
| (verb) make, formulate, or derive in the mind | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) select or take in from a given group or region | - |
| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, describe |
| (verb) finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. | Synonyms: tie |
| (verb) choose at random | Synonyms: cast |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: drag, puff |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, line, trace |
| (verb) move or pull so as to cover or uncover something | - |
| (verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: pull |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw in, pull, pull in |
| (verb) stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow) | Synonyms: pull back |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: guide, pass, run |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: string, thread |
| (verb) represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface | - |
| (verb) earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) engage in drawing | - |
| (verb) write a legal document or paper | - |
| (verb) elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc. | - |
| (verb) take liquid out of a container or well | Synonyms: take out |
| (verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: get out, pull, pull out, take out |
| (verb) move or go steadily or gradually | - |
| (verb) to obtain a liquid from somewhere | - |
| (verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: pull |
| (verb) get or derive | Synonyms: reap |
| (verb) remove (a commodity) from (a supply source) | Synonyms: draw off, take out, withdraw |
| (verb) pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him | Synonyms: draw and quarter, quarter |
| (verb) allow a draft | - |
| (verb) require a specified depth for floating | - |
| drawl | (verb) lengthen and slow down or draw out | - |
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| drown | (verb) die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating | - |
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| (verb) kill by submerging in water | - |
| (verb) get rid of as if by submerging | - |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: overwhelm, submerge |
| (verb) be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: swim |
| drowse | (verb) be on the verge of sleeping | - |
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| (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: doze, snooze |
| dwarf | (verb) check the growth of | - |
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| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: overshadow, shadow |
| dwell | (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: brood |
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| (verb) come back to | Synonyms: harp |
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: inhabit, live, populate |
| (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, lie, lie in |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: inhabit |
| dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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| elbow | (verb) shove one's elbow into another person's ribs | - |
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| (verb) push one's way with the elbows | - |
| embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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| embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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| (verb) cause to darken | - |
| empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
| endow | (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: dower |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endue, gift, indue, invest |