| portend | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| pound | (verb) break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle | - |
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| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: poke, thump |
| (verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact | Synonyms: ram, ram down |
| (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: impound |
| (verb) shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits | Synonyms: pound up |
| (verb) partition off into compartments | Synonyms: pound off |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: beat, thump |
| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: lumber |
| prehend | (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, seize, take hold, take hold of |
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| prerecord | (verb) record before presentation, as of a broadcast | - |
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| pretend | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
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| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make, make believe |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: profess |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, dissemble |
| (verb) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | - |
| proceed | (verb) follow a certain course | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, continue, go on |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: continue, go forward, move ahead |
| (verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, keep |
| prod | (verb) urge on; cause to act | Synonyms: egg on, incite |
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| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, poke, stab |
| (verb) to push against gently | Synonyms: nudge, poke at |
| proofread | (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proof |
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| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| pyramid | (verb) increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base | - |
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| (verb) arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid | - |
| (verb) enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts | - |
| (verb) use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal | - |
| raid | (verb) search for something needed or desired | - |
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| (verb) enter someone else's territory and take spoils | Synonyms: foray into |
| (verb) take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock | - |
| (verb) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on | Synonyms: bust |
| railroad | (verb) transport by railroad | - |
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| (verb) supply with railroad lines | - |
| (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, sandbag |
| read | (verb) interpret something that is written or printed | - |
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| (verb) look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed | - |
| (verb) interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior | - |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, translate, understand |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, study, take |
| (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: scan |
| (verb) to hear and understand | - |
| (verb) interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: record, register, show |
| (verb) audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role | - |
| (verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: say |
| rebind | (verb) provide with a new binding | - |
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| rebound | (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
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| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| rebuild | (verb) build again | Synonyms: reconstruct |
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| recommend | (verb) make attractive or acceptable | - |
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| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, urge |
| record | (verb) make a record of; set down in permanent form | Synonyms: enter, put down |
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| (verb) register electronically | Synonyms: tape |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, register, show |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: register |
| redound | (verb) contribute | - |
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| (verb) have an effect for good or ill | - |
| (verb) return or recoil | - |
| refund | (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, repay, return |
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| regard | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, see, view |
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| (verb) look at attentively | Synonyms: consider |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: affect, involve |
| reload | (verb) place a new load on | - |
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| (verb) load anew | Synonyms: recharge |
| remand | (verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remit, send back |
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| (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars |
| remind | (verb) put in the mind of someone | - |
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| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, prompt |
| remold | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remould, retread |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remould |
| (verb) shape again or shape differently | Synonyms: reshape |
| remould | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, retread |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: recast, remold |
| rend | (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rip, rive |
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| reprehend | (verb) to rebuke or reprimand | - |
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| reprimand | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |
| reread | (verb) read anew; read again | - |
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| rescind | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| reseed | (verb) maintain by seeding without human intervention | - |
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| (verb) seed again or anew | - |
| resound | (verb) emit a noise | Synonyms: make noise, noise |
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| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, reverberate, ring |
| resplend | (verb) be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly | - |
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| respond | (verb) show a response or a reaction to something | Synonyms: react |
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| (verb) respond favorably or as hoped | - |
| (verb) react verbally | Synonyms: answer, reply |
| resuspend | (verb) put back into suspension | - |
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| retard | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate | - |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, delay |
| (verb) be delayed | - |
| retread | (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, remould |
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| (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, rework |
| reward | (verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| (verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions | Synonyms: pay back, repay |
| (verb) bestow honor or rewards upon | Synonyms: honor, honour |
| rewind | (verb) wind (up) again | - |
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| reword | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: paraphrase, rephrase |
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| rid | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: disembarrass, free |
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| round | (verb) become round, plump, or shapely | Synonyms: fill out, flesh out |
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| (verb) make round | Synonyms: round off, round out |
| (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off |
| (verb) express as a round number | Synonyms: round down, round off, round out |
| (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, labialize |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe |
| (verb) wind around; move along a circular course | - |
| safeguard | (verb) make safe | - |
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| (verb) escort safely | - |
| sand | (verb) rub with sandpaper | Synonyms: sandpaper |
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| scaffold | (verb) provide with a scaffold for support | - |
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| scald | (verb) burn with a hot liquid or steam | - |
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| (verb) heat to the boiling point | - |
| (verb) treat with boiling water | - |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scorch, whip |
| scend | (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| scold | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, grumble |
| scud | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, shoot |
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| (verb) run before a gale | Synonyms: rack |
| second | (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse |
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| (verb) transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment | - |
| seed | (verb) inoculate with microorganisms | - |
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| (verb) remove the seeds from | - |
| (verb) sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain | - |
| (verb) distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds | - |
| (verb) go to seed; shed seeds | - |
| (verb) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth | Synonyms: sow |
| (verb) bear seeds | - |
| (verb) help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money | - |
| send | (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: mail, post |
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| (verb) transfer | Synonyms: get off, send off |
| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, transmit |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: place, post, station |
| (verb) to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: send out |
| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: ship, transport |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: direct |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, institutionalize |
| shed | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, slough |
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| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, spill |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, spill |
| shepherd | (verb) tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats | - |
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| (verb) watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils | - |
| shield | (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: screen |
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| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, harbour |
| shred | (verb) tear into shreds | Synonyms: rip up, tear up |
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| shroud | (verb) wrap in a shroud | - |
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| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, enshroud, hide |
| (verb) form a cover like a shroud | - |
| sightread | (verb) perform music from a score without having seen the score before | Synonyms: sight-read |
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| skateboard | (verb) ride on a flat board with rollers attached to the bottom | - |
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| skid | (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: slew, slide, slip, slue |
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| (verb) apply a brake or skid to | - |
| (verb) elevate onto skids | - |
| (verb) slide without control | - |
| sled | (verb) ride (on) a sled | Synonyms: sleigh |
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| snowboard | (verb) glide down a snow-covered slope while standing on a board | - |
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| sod | (verb) cover with sod | - |
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| sound | (verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: fathom |
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| (verb) utter with vibrating vocal chords | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize, voice |
| (verb) make a certain noise or sound | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) cause to sound | - |
| (verb) announce by means of a sound | - |
| (verb) give off a certain sound or sounds | - |
| (verb) appear in a certain way | - |
| spearhead | (verb) be the leader of | - |
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| speed | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, quicken, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed up |
| (verb) move very fast | Synonyms: hurry, travel rapidly, zip |
| (verb) travel at an excessive or illegal velocity | - |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, step on it |
| spellbind | (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: entrance |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize |
| (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, grip, transfix |
| spend | (verb) pay out | Synonyms: drop, expend |
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| (verb) spend completely | - |
| (verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: pass |
| spoonfeed | (verb) teach without challenging the students | - |
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| (verb) feed with a spoon | - |
| spotweld | (verb) make circular welds | Synonyms: spot-weld |
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| spread | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
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| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: circulate, go around |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: propagate |
| (verb) cover by spreading something over | - |
| (verb) distribute over a surface in a layer | - |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
| (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: overspread |
| spud | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout |
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| (verb) initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum | - |
| stand | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) have or maintain a position or stand on an issue | - |
| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, resist |
| (verb) be standing; be upright | Synonyms: stand up |
| (verb) put into an upright position | Synonyms: place upright, stand up |
| (verb) be available for stud services | - |
| (verb) hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright | Synonyms: remain firm |
| (verb) be tall; have a height of; copula | - |
| (verb) be in effect; be or remain in force | - |
| (verb) occupy a place or location, also metaphorically | - |
| (verb) be in some specified state or condition | - |
| (verb) remain inactive or immobile | - |
| starboard | (verb) turn to the right, of helms or rudders | - |
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| strand | (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: ground, run aground |
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| (verb) drive (a vessel) ashore | - |
| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: maroon |
| stud | (verb) provide with or construct with studs | - |
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| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: constellate, dot |
| subtend | (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: delimit |
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| succeed | (verb) attain success or reach a desired goal | Synonyms: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, win |
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| (verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, follow |
| superintend | (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: manage, oversee, supervise |
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| surfboard | (verb) ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard | Synonyms: surf |
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| surround | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, circumvent, hem in |
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| (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, wall |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, skirt |
| (verb) envelop completely | Synonyms: smother |
| suspend | (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: freeze |
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| (verb) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid | - |
| (verb) make inoperative or stop | Synonyms: set aside |
| (verb) hang freely | - |
| (verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: debar |
| (verb) render temporarily ineffective | - |
| tend | (verb) have care of or look after | - |
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| (verb) manage or run | - |
| (verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, run |
| thread | (verb) pass a thread through | - |
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| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, string |
| (verb) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string | - |
| (verb) pass through or into | - |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind |
| thud | (verb) strike with a dull sound | - |
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| (verb) make a dull sound | Synonyms: thump |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, scrunch |
| transcend | (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, surpass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, pass, top |
| tread | (verb) crush as if by treading on | - |
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| (verb) brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center | - |
| (verb) mate with (used of male birds) | - |
| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: trample |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: step |
| (verb) apply (the tread) to a tire | - |
| trend | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, veer |
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| (verb) to be temporarily popular | - |
| unbend | (verb) release from mental strain, tension, or formality | - |
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| (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unwind |
| (verb) make less taut | Synonyms: relax |
| (verb) free from flexure | - |
| (verb) unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay | - |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: straighten |
| unbind | (verb) untie or unfasten | - |
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| unbraid | (verb) undo the braids of | - |
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| underbid | (verb) bid too low | - |
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| (verb) bid lower than a competing bidder | - |
| (verb) bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants | - |
| undergird | (verb) make secure underneath | Synonyms: brace up |
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| (verb) lend moral support to | - |
| underspend | (verb) spend at less than the normal rate | - |
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| (verb) spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example) | - |
| understand | (verb) know and comprehend the nature or meaning of | - |
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| (verb) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally | Synonyms: realise, realize, see |
| (verb) believe to be the case | Synonyms: infer |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, read, translate |
| (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize |
| unfold | (verb) develop or come to a promising stage | Synonyms: blossom, blossom forth, blossom out |
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| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread, spread out |
| (verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: extend, stretch, stretch out |
| (verb) open to the view | - |
| unfriend | (verb) To remove someone from your list of friends on a social network | - |
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| unhand | (verb) remove the hand from | - |
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| unload | (verb) remove the load from (a container or vehicle) | Synonyms: offload, unlade |
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| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop, drop off, put down, set down |