| 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 |
| awe | (verb) inspire awe in | - |
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| bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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| bower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
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| buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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| counterweight | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
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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 |
| deflower | (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: impair, mar, spoil, vitiate |
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| (verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: ruin |
| disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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| dower | (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: endow |
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| 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 |
| embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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| 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 |
| flower | (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
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| foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| forswear | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, recant, resile, retract |
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| glower | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, lour, lower |
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| (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glare |
| indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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| interweave | (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: weave |
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| inweave | (verb) weave together into a fabric or design | - |
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| jewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: bejewel |
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| lower | (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lour, turn down |
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| (verb) set lower | Synonyms: lour |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: depress |
| (verb) move something or somebody to a lower position | Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down |
| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lour |
| outwear | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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| (verb) last longer than others | - |
| outweigh | (verb) be heavier than | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, overbalance, preponderate |
| overawe | (verb) subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) | Synonyms: cow |
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| overpower | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overwhelm |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| overweary | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overtire |
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| owe | (verb) be in debt | - |
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| (verb) be obliged to pay or repay | - |
| (verb) be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense | - |
| power | (verb) supply the force or power for the functioning of | - |
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| powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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| shower | (verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
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| (verb) provide abundantly with | - |
| (verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
| (verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
| skewer | (verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: spit |
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| spotweld | (verb) make circular welds | Synonyms: spot-weld |
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| swear | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, rely |
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| (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, depose |
| (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, imprecate |
| (verb) promise solemnly; take an oath | - |
| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, verify |
| sweat | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: perspire, sudate |
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| sweep | (verb) win an overwhelming victory in or on | - |
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| (verb) sweep with a broom or as if with a broom | Synonyms: broom |
| (verb) clean by sweeping | - |
| (verb) make a big sweeping gesture or movement | Synonyms: swing, swing out |
| (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sail |
| (verb) sweep across or over | Synonyms: brush |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep up, tangle |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, traverse |
| (verb) cover the entire range of | - |
| sweeten | (verb) make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable | - |
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| (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate |
| swell | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
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| (verb) cause to become swollen | - |
| (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
| (verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |
| swelter | (verb) suffer from intense heat | - |
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| (verb) be uncomfortably hot | - |
| swerve | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, trend, veer |
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| towel | (verb) wipe with a towel | - |
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| tower | (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, predominate |
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| trowel | (verb) use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work | - |
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| tweak | (verb) adjust finely | Synonyms: fine-tune |
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| (verb) to be under the influence of methamphetamine | - |
| (verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pluck, pull off |
| (verb) pinch or squeeze sharply | - |
| tweedle | (verb) entice through the use of music | - |
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| (verb) play negligently on a musical instrument | - |
| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: chirp |
| tweet | (verb) To post a message on Twitter; post tweets, i.e. short text messages on the popular social media website Twitter | - |
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| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make a weak, chirping sound | Synonyms: twirp |
| tweeze | (verb) pluck with tweezers | - |
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| twerk | (verb) to dance with thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance | - |
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| unweave | (verb) undo strands that have been woven together | - |
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| vowelise | (verb) pronounce as a vowel | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, vowelize |
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| vowelize | (verb) pronounce as a vowel | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, vowelise |
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| weaken | (verb) become weaker | - |
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| (verb) lessen the strength of | - |
| (verb) reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of | Synonyms: de-escalate, step down |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, soften |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine |
| wean | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: ablactate |
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| (verb) detach the affections of | - |
| weaponize | (verb) make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon | - |
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| wear | (verb) be dressed in | Synonyms: have on |
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| (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: assume, don, get into, put on |
| (verb) have or show an appearance of | - |
| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| (verb) have on one's person | Synonyms: bear |
| (verb) deteriorate through use or stress | Synonyms: wear down, wear off, wear out, wear thin |
| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: break, bust, fall apart, wear out |
| (verb) last and be usable | Synonyms: endure, hold out |
| (verb) have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality | - |
| weary | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon |
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| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, pall, tire |
| weather | (verb) change under the action or influence of the weather | - |
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| (verb) cause to slope | - |
| (verb) sail to the windward of | - |
| (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, endure |
| weatherproof | (verb) make resistant to bad weather | - |
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| weatherstrip | (verb) provide with weatherstripping | - |
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| weave | (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: interweave |
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| (verb) create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton | Synonyms: tissue |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, wind |
| (verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: waver |
| web | (verb) construct or form a web, as if by weaving | Synonyms: net |
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| wed | (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry |
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| (verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: marry, splice, tie |
| wedel | (verb) ski, alternating directions | - |
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| wedge | (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: force, squeeze |
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| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, stick |
| wee | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee |
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| weed | (verb) clear of weeds | - |
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| weekend | (verb) spend the weekend | - |
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| weep | (verb) shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain | Synonyms: cry |
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| weigh | (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: consider, count |
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| (verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: librate |
| (verb) have a certain weight | - |
| (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: count, matter |
| (verb) to be oppressive or burdensome | Synonyms: press |
| weight | (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, slant |
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| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down |
| weightlift | (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: press, weight-lift |
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| welch | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welsh |
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| welcome | (verb) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival | Synonyms: receive |
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| (verb) receive someone, as into one's house | - |
| (verb) accept gladly | - |
| weld | (verb) unite closely or intimately | - |
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| (verb) join together by heating | - |
| well | (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: swell |
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| welsh | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welch |
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| welt | (verb) put a welt on | - |
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| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip |
| welter | (verb) be immersed in | - |
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| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way | - |
| wench | (verb) frequent prostitutes | - |
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| wend | (verb) direct one's course or way | - |
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| westernise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernize |
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| westernize | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise |
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| wet | (verb) make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating | - |
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| (verb) cause to become wet | - |