| domiciliate | (verb) provide someone with accomodation | Synonyms: house, put up |
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| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, reside, shack |
| dominate | (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: master |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: predominate, prevail, reign, rule |
| (verb) be in control | - |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, overlook, overtop |
| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow |
| donate | (verb) give to a charity or good cause | - |
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| doodle | (verb) make a doodle; draw aimlessly | - |
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| dope | (verb) give a narcotic to | Synonyms: dope up |
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| (verb) add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties | - |
| (verb) take drugs to improve one's athletic performance | - |
| dose | (verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: drug |
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| (verb) treat with an agent; add (an agent) to | - |
| dote | (verb) shower with love; show excessive affection for | - |
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| (verb) be foolish or senile due to old age | - |
| double | (verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: duplicate |
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| (verb) hit a two-base hit | - |
| (verb) do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions | - |
| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
| (verb) bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain | Synonyms: double over, double up |
| (verb) make a demand for (a card or suit) | - |
| douche | (verb) direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning | - |
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| douse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) slacken | Synonyms: dowse |
| (verb) lower quickly | - |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, dunk, plunge, souse |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: dip, duck |
| (verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: dowse |
| (verb) put out, as of a candle or a light | Synonyms: put out |
| downgrade | (verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
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| downsize | (verb) (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees | - |
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| (verb) design or manufacture in a smaller size | - |
| (verb) dismiss from work | - |
| dowse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) slacken | Synonyms: douse |
| (verb) use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal | - |
| (verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: douse |
| doze | (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: drowse, snooze |
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| draggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: bedraggle |
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| dramatise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| (verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatize |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatize |
| dramatize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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| (verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatise |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatise |
| drape | (verb) arrange in a particular way | - |
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| (verb) place casually | - |
| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, clothe, robe |
| (verb) cover or dress loosely with cloth | - |
| dredge | (verb) remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | - |
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| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: drag |
| (verb) cover before cooking | - |
| dribble | (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
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| (verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
| drive | (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, get |
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| (verb) (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground | - |
| (verb) (hunting) search for game | - |
| (verb) cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling | - |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: force, ram |
| (verb) cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force | - |
| (verb) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally | - |
| (verb) strike with a driver, as in teeing off | - |
| (verb) excavate horizontally | - |
| (verb) push, propel, or press with force | - |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse |
| (verb) compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment | - |
| (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: motor |
| (verb) operate or control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) cause someone or something to move by driving | - |
| (verb) move by being propelled by a force | - |
| (verb) urge forward | - |
| (verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug |
| (verb) to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly | - |
| (verb) work as a driver | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: ride |
| drizzle | (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: moisten |
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| (verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: mizzle |
| drone | (verb) talk in a monotonous voice | Synonyms: drone on |
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| (verb) make a monotonous low dull sound | - |
| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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| drowse | (verb) be on the verge of sleeping | - |
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| (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: doze, snooze |
| drudge | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
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| dulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, edulcorate, sweeten |
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| dupe | (verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
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| duplicate | (verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: double |
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| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
| (verb) make a duplicate or duplicates of | - |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: parallel, twin |
| dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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| dye | (verb) color with dye | - |
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| (verb) color for microscopic study | Synonyms: stain |
| dyke | (verb) enclose with a dike | Synonyms: dike |
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| dynamise | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamize |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamize |
| dynamite | (verb) blow up with dynamite | - |
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| dynamize | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamise |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamise |
| eagle | (verb) shoot in two strokes under par | - |
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| (verb) shoot two strokes under par | Synonyms: double birdie |
| ease | (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: comfort |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, facilitate |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, relieve, still |
| (verb) move gently or carefully | - |
| ebonise | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonize |
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| ebonize | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonise |
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| eclipse | (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: occult |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, overshadow |
| economise | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economize, husband |
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| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economize, save |
| economize | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, husband |
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| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, save |
| edge | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, march |
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| (verb) provide with an edge | - |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: inch |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: border |
| editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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| editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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| educate | (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, prepare, train |
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| (verb) give an education to | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train |
| educe | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | Synonyms: derive |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, elicit, evoke, extract |
| edulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, sweeten |
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| efface | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: obliterate |
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| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: erase, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| (verb) make inconspicuous | - |
| effectuate | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effect, set up |
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| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| effuse | (verb) give out or emit (also metaphorically) | - |
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| (verb) flow or spill forth | Synonyms: flow out |
| (verb) pour out liberally | Synonyms: pour out |
| ejaculate | (verb) eject semen | - |
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| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out |
| elaborate | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine |
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| (verb) work out in detail | Synonyms: work out |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product | - |
| elapse | (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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| elate | (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
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| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
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| elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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| elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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| elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| elide | (verb) leave or strike out | - |
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| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elongate | (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
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| elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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| elucidate | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clarify, clear up |
| elude | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, evade |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: escape |
| elute | (verb) wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography | - |
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| emaciate | (verb) grow weak and thin or waste away physically | - |
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| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: macerate, waste |
| emanate | (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: exhale, give forth |
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| (verb) proceed or issue forth, as from a source | - |
| emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
| emasculate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize |
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| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: castrate |
| embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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| (verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
| embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| embrace | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, espouse, sweep up |
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| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, encompass |
| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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| embrocate | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, inunct, oil |
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| emcee | (verb) act as a master of ceremonies | Synonyms: compere |
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| emerge | (verb) come out into view, as from concealment | - |
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| (verb) become known or apparent | - |
| (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, egress, go forth, issue |
| (verb) come up to the surface of or rise | - |
| (verb) happen or occur as a result of something | Synonyms: come forth |
| emigrate | (verb) leave one's country of residence for a new one | - |
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| emote | (verb) give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role | - |
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| empale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: impale, spike, transfix |
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| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
| emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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| (verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
| emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| emulate | (verb) compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with | - |
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| (verb) strive to equal or match, especially by imitating | - |
| (verb) imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software | - |
| enable | (verb) render capable or able for some task | - |
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| encapsulate | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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| (verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container | - |
| encase | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: case, incase |
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| encircle | (verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: gird |
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| (verb) form or draw a circle around | Synonyms: circle |
| enclose | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) surround completely | Synonyms: close in, inclose, shut in |
| (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap |
| (verb) close in | Synonyms: confine, hold in |