| allowance | (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
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| 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 |
| beeswax | (verb) cover with beeswax | - |
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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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| 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 | - |
| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| bulwark | (verb) defend with a bulwark | - |
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| cakewalk | (verb) perform the cakewalk dance | - |
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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 | - |
| cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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| dwarf | (verb) check the growth of | - |
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| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: overshadow, shadow |
| forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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| forward | (verb) send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit | Synonyms: send on |
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| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| jaywalk | (verb) cross the road at a red light | - |
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| microwave | (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, nuke, zap |
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| powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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| reawaken | (verb) awaken once again | - |
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| reward | (verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| (verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions | Synonyms: pay back, repay |
| (verb) bestow honor or rewards upon | Synonyms: honor, honour |
| rewatch | (verb) to watch a show or television one more time | - |
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| sleepwalk | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: somnambulate |
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| spacewalk | (verb) move in space outside a space craft | - |
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| stonewall | (verb) engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate | - |
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| (verb) obstruct or hinder any discussion | - |
| stonewash | (verb) wash with stones to achieve a worn appearance | Synonyms: stone-wash |
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| streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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| swab | (verb) wash with a swab or a mop | Synonyms: swob |
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| (verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: dab, swob |
| swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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| swag | (verb) sway heavily or unsteadily | - |
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| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, stagger |
| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, flag, sag |
| swage | (verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: upset |
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| swagger | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swash |
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| (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: browbeat, bully |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, tittup |
| swallow | (verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge | - |
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| (verb) keep from expressing | - |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: accept, live with |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
| (verb) utter unclearly | - |
| (verb) engulf and destroy | - |
| (verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking | Synonyms: get down |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up |
| swamp | (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundate |
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| (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: drench |
| swan | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swear, verify |
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| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) sweep majestically | - |
| swank | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off |
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| swap | (verb) move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science | - |
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| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: switch, swop, trade |
| swarm | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, teem |
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| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: pullulate, teem |
| swash | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swagger |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh |
| (verb) make violent, noisy movements | - |
| swat | (verb) to make an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location | - |
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| (verb) hit swiftly with a violent blow | - |
| swathe | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swaddle |
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| swatter | (verb) splash and flutter about in or as if in water | - |
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| sway | (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, shake |
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| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: swing |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: rock |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, persuade |
| thwack | (verb) deliver a hard blow to | Synonyms: smack |
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| thwart | (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil |
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| twaddle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
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| twang | (verb) pronounce with a nasal twang | - |
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| (verb) pluck (strings of an instrument) | - |
| (verb) sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) cause to sound with a twang | - |
| (verb) twitch or throb with pain | - |
| wad | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram |
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| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, compact, pack |
| waddle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |
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| wade | (verb) walk (through relatively shallow water) | - |
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| waffle | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waver |
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| waft | (verb) be driven or carried along, as by the air | - |
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| (verb) blow gently | - |
| wag | (verb) move from side to side | Synonyms: waggle |
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| wage | (verb) carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Synonyms: engage |
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| wager | (verb) maintain with or as if with a bet | Synonyms: bet |
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| (verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, play |
| waggle | (verb) move from side to side | Synonyms: wag |
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| (verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: wamble |
| wail | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, whimper |
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| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, yaup, yawl |
| wait | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, look |
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| (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: waitress |
| (verb) stay in one place and anticipate or expect something | - |
| (verb) wait before acting | Synonyms: hold back, hold off |
| waitress | (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: wait |
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| waive | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, relinquish |
| wake | (verb) be awake, be alert, be there | - |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake up, waken |
| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake up, waken |
| (verb) to alert someone to something | - |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up |
| waken | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up |
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| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up |
| walk | (verb) obtain a base on balls | - |
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| (verb) give a base on balls to | - |
| (verb) use one's feet to advance; advance by steps | - |
| (verb) accompany or escort | - |
| (verb) walk at a pace | - |
| (verb) traverse or cover by walking | - |
| (verb) take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure | Synonyms: take the air |
| (verb) make walk | - |
| (verb) live or behave in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) be or act in association with | - |
| wall | (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, surround |
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| wallop | (verb) defeat soundly and utterly | - |
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| (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: whack, wham, whop |
| wallow | (verb) delight greatly in | - |
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| (verb) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure | - |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, triumph |
| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: welter |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: billow |
| wallpaper | (verb) cover with wallpaper | Synonyms: paper |
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| waltz | (verb) dance a waltz | Synonyms: waltz around |
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| wamble | (verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: waggle |
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| wan | (verb) become pale and sickly | - |
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| wander | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, stray |
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| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, weave, wind |
| (verb) go via an indirect route or at no set pace | - |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold |
| wane | (verb) become smaller | - |
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| (verb) decrease in phase | - |
| (verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: decline, go down |
| wangle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, manage |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent |
| wank | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, masturbate, she-bop |
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| want | (verb) wish or demand the presence of | - |
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| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, require |
| (verb) hunt or look for; want for a particular reason | - |
| (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: desire |
| (verb) be without, lack; be deficient in | - |
| wanton | (verb) behave extremely cruelly and brutally | - |
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| (verb) engage in amorous play | - |
| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) spend wastefully | Synonyms: trifle away, wanton away |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton away |
| (verb) indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life | - |
| war | (verb) make or wage war | - |
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| warble | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, trill |
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| (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: descant, yodel |
| ward | (verb) watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect | Synonyms: guard |
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| ware | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, waste |
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| warehouse | (verb) store in a warehouse | - |
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| warm | (verb) get warm or warmer | Synonyms: warm up |
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| (verb) make warm or warmer | - |
| warn | (verb) notify of danger, potential harm, or risk | - |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, monish |
| (verb) notify, usually in advance | - |
| (verb) ask to go away | - |
| warp | (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, heave |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, garble |
| warrant | (verb) provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action) | - |
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| (verb) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of | Synonyms: guarantee |
| wash | (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: lave |
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| (verb) to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking | - |
| (verb) remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent | Synonyms: wash away, wash off, wash out |
| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, moisten |
| (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, lave |
| (verb) form by erosion | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: hush |
| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: launder |
| (verb) separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) | - |
| (verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: rinse |
| (verb) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to | - |
| (verb) move by or as if by water | - |
| (verb) be capable of being washed | - |
| (verb) admit to testing or proof | - |
| wassail | (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, toast |
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| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, whoop it up |
| waste | (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: rot |
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| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, macerate |
| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: languish, pine away |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, ware |
| (verb) use inefficiently or inappropriately | - |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize |
| (verb) run off as waste | Synonyms: run off |
| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, squander |
| (verb) dispose of | - |
| watch | (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, determine, find out, learn, see |
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| (verb) look attentively | - |
| (verb) be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful | Synonyms: look out, watch out |
| (verb) observe without intervening | Synonyms: look on |
| (verb) observe or determine by looking | - |
| (verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, see, take in, view |
| (verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: follow, keep an eye on, observe, watch over |
| water | (verb) secrete or form water, as tears or saliva | - |
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| (verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: irrigate |
| (verb) fill with tears | - |
| (verb) provide with water | - |
| watercolor | (verb) paint with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolour |
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| watercolour | (verb) paint with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolor |
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| waterproof | (verb) make watertight | - |
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| wattle | (verb) interlace to form wattle | - |
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| (verb) build of or with wattle | - |
| waul | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, wawl |
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| wave | (verb) set waves in | - |
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| (verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: beckon |
| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, flourish |
| (verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: curl |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, roll, undulate |