| admix | (verb) mix or mingle | - |
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| affix | (verb) stick or fasten to | Synonyms: stick on |
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| (verb) add to the very end | Synonyms: add on, append, supplement |
| (verb) attach or become attached to a stem word | - |
| annex | (verb) add an extra part to | - |
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| (verb) take (territory) as if by conquest | - |
| approximate | (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
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| (verb) be close or similar | Synonyms: come close |
| asphyxiate | (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: stifle, suffocate |
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| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: smother, suffocate |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate |
| ax | (verb) terminate | Synonyms: axe |
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| (verb) chop or split with an ax | Synonyms: axe |
| axe | (verb) terminate | Synonyms: ax |
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| (verb) chop or split with an ax | Synonyms: ax |
| beeswax | (verb) cover with beeswax | - |
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| bollix | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, 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 |
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| box | (verb) hit with the fist | - |
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| (verb) engage in a boxing match | - |
| (verb) put into a box | Synonyms: package |
| carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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| claxon | (verb) use the horn of a car | Synonyms: honk |
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| (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, honk, toot |
| climax | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: culminate |
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| coax | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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| coexist | (verb) exist together | Synonyms: cohabit |
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| (verb) coexist peacefully, as of nations | - |
| commix | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, mingle, mix, unify |
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| complexify | (verb) make complex | - |
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| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: ramify |
| complexion | (verb) give a certain color to | - |
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| cox | (verb) act as the coxswain, in a boat race | - |
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| decarboxylate | (verb) lose a carboxyl group | - |
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| (verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | - |
| deoxidise | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidize, reduce |
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| deoxidize | (verb) to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | Synonyms: deoxidise, reduce |
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| deoxygenate | (verb) remove oxygen from (water) | - |
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| desex | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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| desexualise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) direct one's libidinous urges into another direction | Synonyms: desexualize |
| desexualize | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) direct one's libidinous urges into another direction | Synonyms: desexualise |
| detox | (verb) treat for alcohol or drug dependence | Synonyms: detoxify |
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| detoxicate | (verb) remove poison from | Synonyms: detoxify |
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| detoxify | (verb) treat for alcohol or drug dependence | Synonyms: detox |
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| (verb) remove poison from | Synonyms: detoxicate |
| duplex | (verb) change into a duplex | - |
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| epoxy | (verb) glue with epoxy | - |
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| exacerbate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate |
| exact | (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: demand |
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| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: claim, take |
| exaggerate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| (verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: overdo |
| exalt | (verb) raise in rank, character, or status | - |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: extol, glorify, laud, proclaim |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| examine | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, study |
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| (verb) question closely | - |
| (verb) question or examine thoroughly and closely | Synonyms: probe |
| (verb) observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect | Synonyms: see |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, prove, test, try, try out |
| exasperate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: incense, infuriate |
| excavate | (verb) find by digging in the ground | Synonyms: dig up, turn up |
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| (verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, hollow |
| (verb) form by hollowing | - |
| (verb) recover through digging | Synonyms: unearth |
| exceed | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: go past, overstep, pass, top, transcend |
| (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: surpass, transcend |
| excel | (verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: stand out, surpass |
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| except | (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out |
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| (verb) object to | Synonyms: demur |
| excerpt | (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: extract, take out |
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| exchange | (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, convert |
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| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: switch, switch over |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, convert |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, interchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: interchange, replace, substitute |
| (verb) hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent | - |
| excise | (verb) remove by cutting | - |
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| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: expunge, scratch, strike |
| (verb) levy an excise tax on | - |
| excite | (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) produce a magnetic field in | - |
| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, energize |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) arouse or elicit a feeling | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: stimulate, stir |
| exclaim | (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, outcry, shout |
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| (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: proclaim, promulgate |
| exclude | (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: except, leave off, leave out, omit, take out |
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| (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, debar |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, eject, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) prevent from entering; shut out | Synonyms: keep out, shut, shut out |
| (verb) lack or fail to include | - |
| excogitate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, forge, formulate, invent |
| excommunicate | (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: curse, unchurch |
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| (verb) oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree | - |
| excoriate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, objurgate, reprobate |
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| (verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: chafe |
| excrete | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, pass |
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| excruciate | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: rack, torment, torture |
| exculpate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate |
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| excuse | (verb) accept an excuse for | Synonyms: pardon |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: condone |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: explain |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: exempt, let off, relieve |
| (verb) ask for permission to be released from an engagement | Synonyms: beg off |
| execrate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate |
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| (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, abominate, loathe |
| execute | (verb) sign in the presence of witnesses | - |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, fulfil, fulfill |
| (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, perform |
| (verb) kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment | Synonyms: put to death |
| (verb) murder in a planned fashion | - |
| (verb) carry out the legalities of | - |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: run |
| exemplify | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: illustrate, instance |
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| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: represent |
| exempt | (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve |
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| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: free, relieve |
| exenterate | (verb) remove the contents of (an organ) | - |
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| exercise | (verb) do physical exercise | Synonyms: work out |
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| (verb) give a workout to | Synonyms: work, work out |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, practice, practise |
| (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exert |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, practice, practise |
| exert | (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: maintain, wield |
| (verb) make a great effort at a mental or physical task | - |
| exfiltrate | (verb) escape furtively, as from an area under enemy control | - |
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| (verb) transfer secretly out of an area under enemy control | - |
| exfoliate | (verb) grow by producing or unfolding leaves | - |
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| (verb) cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters | - |
| (verb) remove the surface, in scales or laminae | - |
| (verb) spread by opening the leaves of | - |
| (verb) come off in a very thin piece | - |
| exhale | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, expire |
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| (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: emanate, give forth |
| exhaust | (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: beat, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
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| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel, release |
| (verb) use up the whole supply of | - |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) deplete | Synonyms: play out, run down, sap, tire |
| exhibit | (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: march, parade |
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| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, present, show |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, expose |
| (verb) show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill | - |
| exhilarate | (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
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| exhort | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: press, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| exhume | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | Synonyms: disinter |
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| exile | (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, expatriate |
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| exist | (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: be |
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| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: live, subsist, survive |
| exit | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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| (verb) lose the lead | - |
| (verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: get out, go out, leave |
| exonerate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate |
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| exorcise | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcize |
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| exorcize | (verb) expel through adjuration or prayers | Synonyms: exorcise |
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| expand | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, flourish, thrive |
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| (verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: amplify, blow up, inflate |
| (verb) become larger in size or volume or quantity | - |
| (verb) expand the influence of | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity | - |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) extend in one or more directions | Synonyms: spread out |
| expatiate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
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| expatriate | (verb) move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad | - |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, exile |
| expect | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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| (verb) look forward to the birth of a child | - |
| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: anticipate |
| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, look, wait |
| (verb) consider reasonable or due | - |
| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, require |
| expectorate | (verb) discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth | Synonyms: cough out, cough up, spit out, spit up |
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| (verb) clear out the chest and lungs | Synonyms: clear out, drive out |
| expedite | (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: hasten |
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| (verb) process fast and efficiently | - |
| expel | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, release |
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| (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: rout, rout out |
| (verb) force to leave or move out | Synonyms: kick out, throw out |
| (verb) remove from a position or office | Synonyms: boot out, drum out, kick out, oust, throw out |
| expend | (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
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| (verb) pay out | Synonyms: drop, spend |
| expense | (verb) reduce the estimated value of something | Synonyms: write down, write off |
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| experience | (verb) undergo | Synonyms: have |
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| (verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: know, live |
| (verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: get, have, receive |
| (verb) undergo or live through a difficult experience | Synonyms: go through, see |
| experiment | (verb) to conduct a test or investigation | - |
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| (verb) try something new, as in order to gain experience | Synonyms: try out |
| expiate | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, atone |
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| expire | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, exhale |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) lose validity | Synonyms: run out |
| explain | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explicate |
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| (verb) define | - |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: excuse |
| explicate | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explain |
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| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, formulate |
| explode | (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: burst |
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| (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, detonate, set off |
| (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: irrupt |
| (verb) be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise | Synonyms: break loose, burst forth |
| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, detonate |
| (verb) show a violent emotional reaction | - |
| (verb) show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete | - |
| (verb) drive from the stage by noisy disapproval | - |
| (verb) cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ | - |
| (verb) destroy by exploding | - |
| exploit | (verb) use or manipulate to one's advantage | Synonyms: work |
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| (verb) draw from; make good use of | Synonyms: tap |
| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: overwork |
| explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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| (verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
| (verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
| (verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
| export | (verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
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| (verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
| expose | (verb) abandon by leaving out in the open air | - |
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| (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: debunk |
| (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, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, peril, queer, scupper |
| (verb) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body | Synonyms: uncover |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
| (verb) expose to light, of photographic film | - |
| (verb) expose or make accessible to some action or influence | - |
| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: disclose, uncover |
| exposit | (verb) state | Synonyms: expound, set forth |
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| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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| expound | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate |
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| (verb) state | Synonyms: exposit, set forth |
| express | (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, show |
| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, convey |
| (verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: state |
| (verb) send by rapid transport or special messenger service | - |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: extract, press out |
| (verb) manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait) | - |
| expropriate | (verb) deprive of possessions | - |
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