appease | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: propitiate |
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(verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: quell, stay |
(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
cease | (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
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(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: end, finish, stop, terminate |
crease | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
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(verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
(verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle |
(verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: graze, rake |
decease | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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decrease | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
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(verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
degrease | (verb) remove grease or oil from (a pan) | - |
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displease | (verb) give displeasure to | - |
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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 | - |
grease | (verb) lubricate with grease | - |
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increase | (verb) become bigger or greater in amount | - |
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(verb) make bigger or more | - |
lease | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, rent, take |
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(verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: let, rent |
(verb) let for money | Synonyms: rent |
(verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, hire, rent |
please | (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: delight |
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(verb) be the will of or have the will (to) | - |
(verb) give satisfaction | - |
predecease | (verb) die before; die earlier than | - |
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release | (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | Synonyms: secrete |
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(verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, expel |
(verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: free, unblock, unfreeze |
(verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, publish, put out |
(verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, relinquish |
(verb) let (something) fall or spill from a container | Synonyms: turn |
(verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, liberate |
(verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, relinquish, resign |
(verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, unloose, unloosen |
(verb) make (information) available for publication | Synonyms: free |
sublease | (verb) lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person | Synonyms: sublet |
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tease | (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: fluff |
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(verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, twit |
(verb) mock or make fun of playfully | - |
(verb) separate the fibers of | Synonyms: card |
(verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: loosen, tease apart |
(verb) raise the nap of (fabrics) | - |
(verb) tear into pieces | - |
(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, pester |
(verb) to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them | - |