| condole | (verb) express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death | - |
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| condone | (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: excuse |
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| conduce | (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: contribute, lead |
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| cone | (verb) make cone-shaped | - |
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| confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
| (verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
| confederate | (verb) form a group or unite | Synonyms: band together |
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| (verb) form a confederation with; of nations | - |
| confide | (verb) reveal in private; tell confidentially | - |
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| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, entrust, intrust, trust |
| configure | (verb) set up for a particular purpose | - |
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| confine | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: constrain, hold, restrain |
| (verb) prevent from leaving or from being removed | - |
| (verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: detain |
| (verb) close in | Synonyms: enclose, hold in |
| confiscate | (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, impound, seize, sequester |
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| conflagrate | (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, erupt, ignite, take fire |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: enkindle, inflame, kindle |
| conflate | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| confuse | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, obnubilate, obscure |
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| (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confound |
| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: jumble, mix up |
| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: disconcert, flurry, put off |
| confute | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: disprove |
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| conge | (verb) perform a ceremonious bow | Synonyms: congee |
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| congee | (verb) perform a ceremonious bow | Synonyms: conge |
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| (verb) depart after obtaining formal permission | - |
| conglobate | (verb) assume a globular shape | Synonyms: conglobe |
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| conglobe | (verb) assume a globular shape | Synonyms: conglobate |
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| conglomerate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
| congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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| (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
| (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
| congregate | (verb) come together, usually for a purpose | - |
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| conjecture | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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| conjugate | (verb) unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds | - |
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| (verb) undergo conjugation | - |
| (verb) add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc. | - |
| conjure | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conspire, machinate |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, entreat, press |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| connive | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: intrigue, scheme |
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| (verb) encourage or assent to illegally or criminally | - |
| connote | (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: predicate |
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| (verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: imply |
| consecrate | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify |
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| (verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: vow |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate |
| conserve | (verb) preserve with sugar | - |
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| (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: economise, economize, husband |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve |
| (verb) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change | - |
| consociate | (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: associate |
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| console | (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, solace, soothe |
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| consolidate | (verb) unite into one | - |
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| (verb) bring together into a single whole or system | - |
| (verb) make firm or secure; strengthen | - |
| (verb) make or form into a solid or hardened mass | - |
| (verb) form into a solid mass or whole | - |
| consonate | (verb) sound in sympathy | - |
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| conspire | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, machinate |
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| (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: collude |
| constellate | (verb) form a constellation or cluster | - |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, flock |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: dot, stud |
| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| constipate | (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: bind |
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| (verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog | Synonyms: clog |
| constitute | (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: establish, found, institute, plant |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, name, nominate |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, make up, represent |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: form, make |
| constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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| constitutionalize | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalise |
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| (verb) take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal | - |
| (verb) provide with a constitution, as of a country | - |
| constringe | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, narrow |
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| construe | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: interpret, see |
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| consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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| (verb) unite in one common substance | - |
| consume | (verb) engage fully | - |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: have, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: squander, ware, waste |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: demolish, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | - |
| consummate | (verb) make perfect; bring to perfection | - |
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| (verb) fulfill sexually | - |
| containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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| containerize | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerise |
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| contaminate | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: foul, pollute |
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| (verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material | - |
| contemplate | (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: meditate, study |
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| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| (verb) consider as a possibility | - |
| (verb) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought | - |
| contemporise | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
| contemporize | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, synchronise, synchronize |
| continue | (verb) exist over a prolonged period of time | - |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, go on, proceed |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: go forward, move ahead, proceed |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: keep, keep on, retain |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, preserve, uphold |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: go along, go on, keep, proceed |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: cover, extend |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay on |
| (verb) continue after an interruption | - |
| (verb) do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop | Synonyms: persist in |
| contradance | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
| contredanse | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
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| contribute | (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, give, kick in |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, impart, lend |
| (verb) provide | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, lead |
| contrive | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: design, plan, project |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, project, throw |
| contuse | (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: bruise |
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| convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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| convene | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convoke |
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| (verb) meet formally | - |
| conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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| conventionalize | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalise |
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| (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: stylise, stylize |
| converge | (verb) come together so as to form a single product | - |
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| (verb) move or draw together at a certain location | - |
| (verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit | - |
| converse | (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: discourse |
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| convince | (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convert, win over |
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| convoke | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convene |
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| convolute | (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
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| (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolve |
| convolve | (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolute |
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| convulse | (verb) be overcome with laughter | - |
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| (verb) make someone convulse with laughter | - |
| (verb) contract involuntarily, as in a spasm | - |
| (verb) cause to contract | - |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) shake uncontrollably | - |
| cooperate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: collaborate, join forces |
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| coordinate | (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: organise, organize |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, ordinate |
| (verb) bring into common action, movement, or condition | - |
| (verb) be co-ordinated | - |
| cope | (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
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| copolymerise | (verb) polymerize together | Synonyms: copolymerize |
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| copolymerize | (verb) polymerize together | Synonyms: copolymerise |
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| copulate | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair |
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| coquette | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| core | (verb) remove the core or center from | - |
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| cornice | (verb) furnish with a cornice | - |
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| coronate | (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: crown |
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| corrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, abrase, rub down, rub off |
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| correlate | (verb) bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation | - |
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| (verb) to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation | - |
| corroborate | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, substantiate, support, sustain |
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| (verb) give evidence for | Synonyms: validate |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, support, underpin |
| corrode | (verb) become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid | Synonyms: rust |
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| (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: eat, rust |
| corrugate | (verb) fold into ridges | - |
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| coruscate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
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| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
| costume | (verb) dress in a costume | Synonyms: dress up |
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| (verb) furnish with costumes; as for a film or play | - |
| countenance | (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, let, permit |
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| counterbalance | (verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, countervail, neutralize |
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| (verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: oppose |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| counterchallenge | (verb) challenge in turn | - |
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| counterchange | (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: interchange, transpose |
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| countermine | (verb) destroy enemy mines with one's own mines | - |
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| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
| counterpoise | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpose, counterweight |
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| counterpose | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterweight |
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| counterstrike | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterattack |
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| couple | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, mate, pair |
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| (verb) link together | Synonyms: couple on, couple up |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: match, mate, pair, twin |
| (verb) form a pair or pairs | Synonyms: pair, pair off, partner off |
| course | (verb) hunt with hounds | - |
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| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: feed, flow, run |
| (verb) move swiftly through or over | - |
| cowhide | (verb) flog with a cowhide | - |
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| crackle | (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| cradle | (verb) run with the stick | - |
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| (verb) hold gently and carefully | - |
| (verb) wash in a cradle | - |
| (verb) cut grain with a cradle scythe | - |
| (verb) hold or place in or as if in a cradle | - |
| (verb) bring up from infancy | - |