| quetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, sound off |
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| ranch | (verb) manage or run a ranch | - |
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| reach | (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: contact, get hold of, get through |
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| (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: strain, strive |
| (verb) move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: reach out |
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, hit |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make |
| (verb) reach a goal | Synonyms: get to, make, progress to |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass, pass on, turn over |
| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, attain |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, touch |
| reproach | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: upbraid |
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| research | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, search |
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| (verb) attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner | - |
| retch | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, heave |
| retouch | (verb) alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance | Synonyms: touch up |
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| (verb) give retouches to (hair) | - |
| retrench | (verb) make a reduction, as in one's workforce | - |
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| (verb) tighten one's belt; use resources carefully | - |
| rewatch | (verb) to watch a show or television one more time | - |
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| roach | (verb) cut the mane off (a horse) | - |
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| (verb) comb (hair) into a roach | - |
| sandwich | (verb) insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects | - |
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| (verb) make into a sandwich | - |
| scorch | (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, sear |
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| (verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: sear |
| (verb) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions | - |
| (verb) destroy completely by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: sear, singe |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scald, whip |
| scotch | (verb) make a small cut or score into | - |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, spoil, thwart |
| scranch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scraunch |
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| scratch | (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scrape, scratch up |
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| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, rub |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, inscribe |
| (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape, scrape up |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, strike |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, rub |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scrub |
| scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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| screech | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, skreak, squeak, whine |
| scrunch | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
| search | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, research |
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| (verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | Synonyms: look for, seek |
| (verb) subject to a search | - |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: look |
| sketch | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: adumbrate, outline |
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| (verb) make a sketch of | Synonyms: chalk out |
| slouch | (verb) walk slovenly | - |
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| (verb) assume a drooping posture or carriage | Synonyms: slump |
| smirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: besmirch |
| smooch | (verb) snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others | Synonyms: spoon |
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| smutch | (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smear, smudge |
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| snatch | (verb) to grasp hastily or eagerly | Synonyms: snap, snatch up |
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| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, kidnap, nobble |
| (verb) to make grasping motions | - |
| snitch | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, hook, knock off, thieve |
| splotch | (verb) blotch or spot | - |
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| squelch | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, quench |
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| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squash, squeeze |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squish |
| (verb) make a sucking sound | - |
| squinch | (verb) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus | Synonyms: squint |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, wince |
| (verb) crouch down | - |
| stanch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, staunch, stem |
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| starch | (verb) stiffen with starch | - |
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| staunch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, stem |
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| stitch | (verb) fasten by sewing; do needlework | Synonyms: run up, sew, sew together |
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| stomach | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) bear to eat | - |
| stretch | (verb) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body | Synonyms: extend |
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| (verb) extend one's body or limbs | Synonyms: stretch out |
| (verb) become longer by being stretched and pulled | - |
| (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: elongate |
| (verb) extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly | - |
| (verb) increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, load |
| (verb) pull in opposite directions | - |
| (verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: extend, stretch out, unfold |
| (verb) lie down comfortably | Synonyms: stretch out |
| (verb) occupy a large, elongated area | Synonyms: stretch along |
| switch | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, tack |
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| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, shift |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, shift |
| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: exchange, switch over |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, throw |
| (verb) flog with or as if with a flexible rod | - |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
| teach | (verb) accustom gradually to some action or attitude | - |
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| (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: instruct, learn |
| thatch | (verb) cover with thatch | - |
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| torch | (verb) burn maliciously, as by arson | - |
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| touch | (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on |
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| (verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinct, tinge, tint |
| (verb) comprehend | - |
| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, allude |
| (verb) consume | Synonyms: partake |
| (verb) make physical contact with, come in contact with | - |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, meet |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) cause to be in brief contact with | - |
| (verb) affect emotionally | Synonyms: stir |
| (verb) perceive via the tactile sense | - |
| (verb) deal with; usually used with a form of negation | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, reach |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, rival |
| trench | (verb) cut or carve deeply into | - |
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| (verb) dig a trench or trenches | - |
| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: ditch |
| (verb) fortify by surrounding with trenches | - |
| (verb) set, plant, or bury in a trench | - |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge |
| twitch | (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: jerk |
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| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge |
| (verb) move or pull with a sudden motion | - |
| (verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: jerk |
| unchurch | (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: curse, excommunicate |
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| unhitch | (verb) unfasten or release from or as if from a hitch | - |
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| unteach | (verb) cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier | - |
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| (verb) cause to unlearn | - |
| vouch | (verb) give supporting evidence | - |
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| (verb) summon (a vouchee) into court to warrant or defend a title | - |
| (verb) give personal assurance; guarantee | - |
| (verb) give surety or assume responsibility | Synonyms: guarantee |
| 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 |
| welch | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welsh |
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| wench | (verb) frequent prostitutes | - |
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| winch | (verb) pull or lift up with or as if with a winch | - |
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| witch | (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, jinx |
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| wrench | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick |
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| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: twist |
| (verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wring |
| (verb) make a sudden twisting motion | - |