| ail | (verb) be ill or unwell | - |
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| (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: pain, trouble |
| airmail | (verb) send or transport by airmail | - |
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| assail | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assault, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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| (verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assault, attack, set on |
| (verb) launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with | Synonyms: attack |
| avail | (verb) take advantage of | - |
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| (verb) take or use | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) be of use to, be useful to | - |
| bail | (verb) remove (water) from a vessel with a container | - |
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| (verb) empty (a vessel) by bailing | - |
| (verb) secure the release of (someone) by providing security | - |
| (verb) deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period | - |
| (verb) release after a security has been paid | - |
| bewail | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, deplore, lament |
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| blackmail | (verb) obtain through threats | - |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
| brail | (verb) haul fish aboard with brails | - |
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| (verb) take in a sail with a brail | - |
| countervail | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize |
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| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: offset |
| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| derail | (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: jump |
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| (verb) cause to run off the tracks | - |
| detail | (verb) assign to a specific task | - |
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| (verb) provide details for | - |
| dovetail | (verb) fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail | - |
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| email | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, netmail |
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| entail | (verb) limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs | Synonyms: fee-tail |
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| (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: implicate |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: imply, mean |
| fail | (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, give out, give way, go, go bad |
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| (verb) deteriorate | - |
| (verb) prove insufficient | Synonyms: give out, run out |
| (verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close | - |
| (verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: go wrong, miscarry |
| (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, flunk, flush it |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: neglect |
| (verb) judge unacceptable | - |
| (verb) be unable | - |
| (verb) fall short in what is expected | - |
| fishtail | (verb) slow down by moving the tail sideways | - |
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| flail | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: lam, thrash, thresh |
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| (verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: thresh |
| hail | (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: herald |
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| (verb) call for | - |
| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, herald |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) precipitate as small ice particles | - |
| hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
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| hobnail | (verb) supply with hobnails | - |
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| jail | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| mail | (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: post, send |
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| (verb) send via the postal service | Synonyms: get off |
| nail | (verb) complete a pass | Synonyms: complete |
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| (verb) attach something somewhere by means of nails | - |
| (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nab, pick up |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, boom, smash |
| (verb) locate exactly | Synonyms: pinpoint |
| (verb) succeed at easily | Synonyms: ace, breeze through, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep through |
| (verb) succeed in obtaining a position | Synonyms: nail down, peg |
| netmail | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, email |
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| outsail | (verb) sail faster or better than | - |
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| prevail | (verb) use persuasion successfully | - |
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| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: triumph |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, run |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, obtain |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, reign, rule |
| quail | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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| rail | (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: inveigh |
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| (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: revile, vilify, vituperate |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: fulminate |
| (verb) fish with a handline over the rails of a boat | - |
| (verb) lay with rails | - |
| (verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: train |
| (verb) separate with a railing | Synonyms: rail off |
| (verb) convey (goods etc.) by rails | - |
| (verb) provide with rails | - |
| (verb) enclose with rails | Synonyms: rail in |
| reassail | (verb) assail again | - |
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| retail | (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
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| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| sail | (verb) travel on water propelled by wind | - |
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| (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sweep |
| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: navigate, voyage |
| (verb) traverse or travel on (a body of water) | - |
| snail | (verb) gather snails | - |
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| tail | (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, dock |
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| (verb) remove the stalk of fruits or berries | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, track, trail |
| toenail | (verb) drive obliquely | Synonyms: toe |
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| trail | (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: train |
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| (verb) hang down so as to drag along the ground | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track |
| (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: shack |
| (verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back |
| travail | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil |
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| 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 |
| 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 |