| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| extend | (verb) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body | Synonyms: stretch |
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| (verb) thrust or extend out | Synonyms: exsert, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: broaden, widen |
| (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, prolong, protract |
| (verb) continue or extend | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) expand the influence of | Synonyms: expand |
| (verb) increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance | Synonyms: stretch |
| (verb) prolong the time allowed for payment of | - |
| (verb) use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity | Synonyms: strain |
| (verb) open or straighten out; unbend | - |
| (verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: stretch, stretch out, unfold |
| (verb) cause to move at full gallop | Synonyms: gallop |
| (verb) offer verbally | Synonyms: offer |
| (verb) make available; provide | Synonyms: offer |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: continue, cover |
| (verb) reach outward in space | Synonyms: poke out, reach out |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: go, lead, pass, run |
| featherbed | (verb) hire more workers than are necessary | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| feed | (verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
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| (verb) introduce continuously | Synonyms: feed in |
| (verb) take in food; used of animals only | Synonyms: eat |
| (verb) give food to | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) serve as food for; be the food for | - |
| (verb) feed into; supply | - |
| (verb) provide as food | - |
| (verb) gratify | Synonyms: feast |
| (verb) profit from in an exploitatory manner | Synonyms: prey |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, flow, run |
| (verb) support or promote | - |
| fend | (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: resist, stand |
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| (verb) try to manage without help | - |
| feud | (verb) carry out a feud | - |
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| field | (verb) select (a team or individual player) for a game | - |
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| (verb) answer adequately or successfully | - |
| (verb) play as a fielder | - |
| (verb) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket | - |
| find | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: get, incur, obtain, receive |
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| (verb) accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation | Synonyms: find oneself |
| (verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out |
| (verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: rule |
| (verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: discover |
| (verb) succeed in reaching; arrive at | - |
| (verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with | Synonyms: see, witness |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, discover, notice, observe |
| (verb) perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place | - |
| (verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost | Synonyms: regain |
| (verb) get something or somebody for a specific purpose | Synonyms: come up, get hold, line up |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, happen |
| (verb) obtain through effort or management | - |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: recover, regain, retrieve |
| flood | (verb) cover with liquid, usually water | - |
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| (verb) become filled to overflowing | - |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp |
| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: glut, oversupply |
| fold | (verb) incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating | - |
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| (verb) become folded or folded up | Synonyms: fold up |
| (verb) bend or lay so that one part covers the other | Synonyms: fold up, turn up |
| (verb) confine in a fold, like sheep | Synonyms: pen up |
| (verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close, close down, close up, shut down |
| forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| ford | (verb) cross a river where it's shallow | - |
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| forefend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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| foreground | (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
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| forfend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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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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| found | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, ground |
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| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, institute, plant |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, launch, set up |
| freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
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| fund | (verb) furnish money for | - |
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| (verb) place or store up in a fund for accumulation | - |
| (verb) convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds | - |
| (verb) accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability | - |
| (verb) invest money in government securities | - |
| (verb) provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest | - |
| gad | (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gallivant, jazz around |
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| garland | (verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
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| geld | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: cut |
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| gild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, engild |
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| gird | (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, fortify |
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| (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: encircle |
| (verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: girdle |
| goad | (verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: needle |
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| (verb) urge with or as if with a goad | - |
| (verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick | Synonyms: prick |
| (verb) give heart or courage to | Synonyms: spur |
| grandstand | (verb) perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause | - |
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| grind | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash |
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| (verb) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together | Synonyms: grate |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch |
| (verb) shape or form by grinding | - |
| (verb) created by grinding | - |
| (verb) dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced | - |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| ground | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, found |
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| (verb) instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject | - |
| (verb) place or put on the ground | - |
| (verb) confine or restrict to the ground | - |
| (verb) connect to a ground | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: prime, undercoat |
| (verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: anchor |
| (verb) (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field. | - |
| (verb) throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage | - |
| (verb) hit or reach the ground | Synonyms: run aground |
| (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: run aground, strand |
| guard | (verb) watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect | Synonyms: ward |
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| (verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: defend, hold |
| (verb) to keep watch over | - |
| (verb) take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence | - |
| hand | (verb) guide or conduct or usher somewhere | - |
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| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
| handbuild | (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: coil, hand-build |
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| hazard | (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, pretend, venture |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, jeopardize, stake, venture |
| head | (verb) remove the head of | - |
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| (verb) to go or travel towards | - |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) travel in front of; go in advance of others | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be in charge of | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be in the front of or on top of | - |
| (verb) be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel | Synonyms: head up |
| (verb) form a head or come or grow to a head | - |
| (verb) take its rise | - |
| heed | (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: listen, mind |
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| herald | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, harbinger |
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| (verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: acclaim, hail |
| (verb) greet enthusiastically or joyfully | Synonyms: hail |
| herd | (verb) move together, like a herd | - |
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| (verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) keep, move, or drive animals | - |
| hoard | (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, compile, pile up, roll up |
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| (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: cache, hive up, lay away, squirrel away, stash |
| hold | (verb) keep from exhaling or expelling | - |
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| (verb) keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view | Synonyms: deem, take for, view as |
| (verb) hold the attention of | - |
| (verb) assert or affirm | - |
| (verb) remain committed to | - |
| (verb) declare to be | Synonyms: adjudge, declare |
| (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, obligate, oblige |
| (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concord, concur |
| (verb) aim, point, or direct | - |
| (verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: defend, guard |
| (verb) drink alcohol without showing ill effects | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) have or hold in one's hands or grip | - |
| (verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold up, support, sustain |
| (verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: bear, carry |
| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, constrain, restrain |
| (verb) cover as for protection against noise or smell | - |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, make, throw |
| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, harbour, nurse |
| (verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: arrest, halt |
| (verb) have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense | Synonyms: have, have got |
| (verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application | Synonyms: hold back, keep back, retain |
| (verb) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices | Synonyms: bear |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: book, reserve |
| (verb) keep from departing | - |
| (verb) take and maintain control over, often by violent means | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: keep, maintain |
| (verb) remain in a certain state, position, or condition | - |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: obtain, prevail |
| (verb) be pertinent or relevant or applicable | Synonyms: apply, go for |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: accommodate, admit |
| (verb) have as a major characteristic | - |
| (verb) resist or confront with resistance | Synonyms: defy, hold up, withstand |
| (verb) stop dealing with | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, carry, contain |
| (verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: contain, take |
| homestead | (verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
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| hood | (verb) cover with a hood | - |
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| hound | (verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hunt, trace |
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| husband | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, economize |
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| hyperextend | (verb) extend a joint beyond its normal range | - |
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| imbed | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, implant, plant |
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| impend | (verb) be imminent or about to happen | - |
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| impound | (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: pound |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester |
| intend | (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: mean, think |
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| (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, destine, specify |
| (verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: mean |
| (verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: mean, signify, stand for |
| interbreed | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize |
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| interdepend | (verb) be connected | Synonyms: hang together |
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| interlard | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: intersperse |
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| invalid | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, incapacitate |
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| (verb) force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen | - |
| kid | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, josh |
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| (verb) tell false information to for fun | Synonyms: pull the leg of |
| knead | (verb) to mix into a homogeneous mass | Synonyms: work |
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| (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: massage, rub down |
| land | (verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: bring |
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| (verb) reach or come to rest | Synonyms: set down |
| (verb) cause to come to the ground | Synonyms: bring down, put down |
| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: set ashore, shore |
| (verb) bring ashore | - |
| (verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: down, shoot down |
| (verb) deliver (a blow) | - |
| lard | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, pad |
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| (verb) prepare or cook with lard | - |
| laud | (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, proclaim |
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| lead | (verb) cause to undertake a certain action | - |
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| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, moderate |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, direct |
| (verb) travel in front of; go in advance of others | Synonyms: head |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, direct, guide, take |
| (verb) move ahead (of others) in time or space | Synonyms: precede |
| (verb) be in charge of | Synonyms: head |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, contribute |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, pass, run |
| (verb) be ahead of others; be the first | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) lead, extend, or afford access | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: leave, result |
| (verb) tend to or result in | - |
| lend | (verb) give temporarily; let have for a limited time | Synonyms: loan |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart |
| (verb) have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to | - |
| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| load | (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, stretch |
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| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, laden, load up |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: charge |
| (verb) put (something) on a structure or conveyance | - |
| (verb) transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory | - |
| lord | (verb) make a lord of someone | - |
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| manifold | (verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: multiply |
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| (verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: multiply |
| maraud | (verb) raid and rove in search of booty | - |
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| mastermind | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| meld | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, merge, mix |
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| (verb) lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually | Synonyms: melt |
| (verb) announce for a score; of cards in a card game | - |
| mend | (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, repair, restore, touch on |
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| (verb) heal or recover | Synonyms: heal |
| mind | (verb) keep in mind | Synonyms: bear in mind |
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| (verb) be concerned with or about something or somebody | - |
| (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: beware |
| (verb) be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by | - |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, listen |
| (verb) be in charge of or deal with | Synonyms: take care |
| misapprehend | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| mislead | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: misinform |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, misguide |
| misread | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misinterpret |
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| (verb) read or interpret wrongly | - |
| misspend | (verb) spend (money or other resources) unwisely | - |
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| (verb) spend time badly or unwisely | - |
| misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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| mold | (verb) become moldy; spoil due to humidity | Synonyms: mildew, mould |
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| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mould, regulate, shape |
| (verb) fit tightly, follow the contours of | Synonyms: mould |
| (verb) form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold | Synonyms: cast, mould |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, form, mould, shape, work |
| (verb) form in clay, wax, etc | Synonyms: model, mould |
| mould | (verb) become moldy; spoil due to humidity | Synonyms: mildew, mold |
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| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, regulate, shape |
| (verb) fit tightly, follow the contours of | Synonyms: mold |
| (verb) form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold | Synonyms: cast, mold |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, form, mold, shape, work |
| (verb) form in clay, wax, etc | Synonyms: model, mold |
| mound | (verb) form into a rounded elevation | - |
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| mud | (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: mire, muck, muck up |
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| (verb) plaster with mud | - |
| need | (verb) have need of | Synonyms: require, want |
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| (verb) have or feel a need for | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take |
| nod | (verb) be almost asleep | - |
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| (verb) let the head fall forward through drowsiness | - |
| (verb) lower and raise the head, as to indicate assent or agreement or confirmation | - |
| (verb) express or signify by nodding | - |
| (verb) sway gently back and forth, as in a nodding motion | - |
| obtund | (verb) reduce the edge or violence of | - |
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| offend | (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, spite, wound |
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| (verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: pique |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, transgress, violate |
| offload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: unlade, unload |
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| (verb) transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data | - |
| outbid | (verb) bid higher than others | - |
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| (verb) bid over an opponent's bid when one's partner has not bid or doubled | - |
| overbid | (verb) bid more than the object is worth | - |
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| (verb) to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win | - |
| overcloud | (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: bedim, obscure |
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| (verb) become covered with clouds | Synonyms: cloud over, cloud up |
| overcrowd | (verb) crowd together too much | - |
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| (verb) cause to crowd together too much | - |
| overextend | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overstrain |
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| overfeed | (verb) feed excessively | - |
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| overload | (verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired | Synonyms: clog |
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| (verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, surcharge |
| (verb) become overloaded | - |
| overspend | (verb) spend at a high rate | - |
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| (verb) spend more than available of (a budget) | - |
| overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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| pad | (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: bolster |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard |
| (verb) line or stuff with soft material | Synonyms: fill out |
| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, plod, slog, tramp, trudge |
| placard | (verb) publicize or announce by placards | Synonyms: bill |
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| (verb) post in a public place | - |
| plead | (verb) appeal or request earnestly | - |
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| (verb) enter a plea, as in courts of law | - |
| (verb) offer as an excuse or plea | - |
| (verb) make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts | - |
| plod | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, slog, tramp, trudge |
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| pod | (verb) produce pods, of plants | - |
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| (verb) take something out of its shell or pod | - |
| pollard | (verb) convert into a pollard | Synonyms: poll |
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| poniard | (verb) stab with a poniard | - |
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