accouter | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accoutre |
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administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
(verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
(verb) direct the taking of | - |
alter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: castrate, neuter, spay |
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(verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: change, vary |
(verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: change, modify |
(verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: falsify, interpolate |
(verb) make an alteration to | - |
anger | (verb) make angry | - |
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(verb) become angry | Synonyms: see red |
answer | (verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
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(verb) respond to a signal | - |
(verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
(verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
(verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
(verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
(verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
(verb) match or correspond | - |
(verb) be liable or accountable | - |
(verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
attemper | (verb) modify the temperature of | - |
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auctioneer | (verb) sell at an auction | Synonyms: auction, auction off |
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aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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(verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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badger | (verb) persuade through constant efforts | - |
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(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: beleaguer, bug, pester, tease |
banter | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: chaff, jolly, josh, kid |
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barber | (verb) perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of | - |
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barter | (verb) exchange goods without involving money | - |
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batter | (verb) make a dent or impression in | Synonyms: dinge |
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(verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, clobber |
(verb) strike against forcefully | Synonyms: buffet, knock about |
beaver | (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
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beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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bespatter | (verb) spot, splash, or soil | Synonyms: spatter |
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better | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, improve, meliorate |
(verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: break |
bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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(verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
bicker | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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bitter | (verb) make bitter | - |
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blabber | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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blather | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blether, blither, smatter |
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blether | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blither, smatter |
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blinker | (verb) put blinders on (a horse) | - |
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blister | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: vesicate |
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(verb) cause blisters to form on | - |
(verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: scald, scorch, whip |
blither | (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter |
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blubber | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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(verb) utter while crying | Synonyms: blubber out |
blunder | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate |
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(verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: fumble |
(verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: boob, drop the ball, goof, sin |
bluster | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
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(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
(verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
bolster | (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
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(verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
(verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
border | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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(verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: environ, ring, skirt, surround |
(verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: frame, frame in |
(verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: edge |
(verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: bound |
bother | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
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(verb) make confused or perplexed or puzzled | - |
(verb) make nervous or agitated | - |
(verb) intrude or enter uninvited | - |
(verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself |
(verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
bower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
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broider | (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: embroider |
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broker | (verb) act as a broker | - |
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buccaneer | (verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
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buffer | (verb) add a buffer (a solution) | - |
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(verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: cushion, soften |
bugger | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: sodomise, sodomize |
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bunker | (verb) hit a golf ball into a bunker | - |
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(verb) transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse | - |
(verb) fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil | - |
butcher | (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
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butter | (verb) spread butter on | - |
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calender | (verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
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caliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
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calliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: caliper |
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camber | (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
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canker | (verb) infect with a canker | - |
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(verb) become infected with a canker | - |
canter | (verb) ride at a canter | - |
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(verb) go at a canter, of horses | - |
(verb) cause to ride at a cantering pace | - |
cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
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(verb) project as a cantilever | - |
caper | (verb) jump about playfully | - |
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career | (verb) move headlong at high speed | - |
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carpenter | (verb) work as a carpenter | - |
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cashier | (verb) discharge with dishonor, as in the army | - |
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(verb) discard or do away with | - |
cater | (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: ply, provide, supply |
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(verb) supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets | - |
center | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: centre, concentrate, focus, pore, rivet |
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(verb) move into the center | Synonyms: centre |
(verb) center upon | Synonyms: center on, centre, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around |
chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
chamber | (verb) place in a chamber | - |
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chamfer | (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chase, furrow |
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(verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: bevel |
character | (verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
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charter | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: engage, hire, lease, rent, take |
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(verb) grant a charter to | - |
(verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: hire, lease, rent |
chatter | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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(verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
(verb) make noise as if chattering away | - |
(verb) cut unevenly with a chattering tool | - |
(verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: click |
checker | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
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(verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
cheer | (verb) become cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up |
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(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
(verb) show approval or good wishes by shouting | - |
(verb) cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up |
(verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate |
chequer | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: checker |
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(verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, checker |
chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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cipher | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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(verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
clabber | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clot, curdle |
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clamber | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
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clatter | (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clack |
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claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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clinker | (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
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(verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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clobber | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
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(verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, batter |
cloister | (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
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(verb) surround with a cloister | - |
(verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
cluster | (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
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(verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
clutter | (verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
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cocker | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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concenter | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concentre, focalise, focalize, focus |
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confer | (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confabulate, consult |
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(verb) present | Synonyms: bestow |
conquer | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: stamp down, subdue, suppress |
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(verb) overcome by conquest | - |
(verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, seize |
consider | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: reckon, regard, see, view |
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(verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: deal, look at, take |
(verb) regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem | - |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, conceive, think |
(verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: count, weigh |
(verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: debate, deliberate, moot, turn over |
(verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: study |
(verb) look at attentively | Synonyms: regard |
(verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: look at, view |
cooper | (verb) make barrels and casks | - |
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copper | (verb) coat with a layer of copper | - |
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corner | (verb) turn a corner | - |
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(verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: tree |
(verb) gain control over | - |
counter | (verb) speak in response | - |
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(verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, forestall |
cover | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, hatch, incubate |
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(verb) clothe, as if for protection from the elements | Synonyms: wrap up |
(verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: insure, underwrite |
(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, deal, handle, plow, treat |
(verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: report |
(verb) maintain a check on; especially by patrolling | - |
(verb) protect or defend (a position in a game) | - |
(verb) hold within range of an aimed firearm | - |
(verb) play a higher card than the one previously played | - |
(verb) be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game | - |
(verb) provide with a covering or cause to be covered | - |
(verb) form a cover over | Synonyms: spread over |
(verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: breed |
(verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: enshroud, hide, shroud |
(verb) put something on top of something else | Synonyms: overlay |
(verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
(verb) hide from view or knowledge | Synonyms: cover up |
(verb) spread over a surface to conceal or protect | - |
(verb) be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of | - |
(verb) to take an action to protect against future problems | - |
(verb) invest with a large or excessive amount of something | - |
(verb) help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming his responsibilities | - |
(verb) provide for | - |
(verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: continue, extend |
(verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, embrace, encompass |
(verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, overcompensate |
cower | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
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(verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: huddle |
cumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: encumber, restrain |
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cypher | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, figure, reckon, work out |
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(verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
decipher | (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: trace |
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(verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decode, decrypt |
defer | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, bow, give in, submit |
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(verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
deflower | (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: impair, mar, spoil, vitiate |
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(verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: ruin |
deliver | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have |
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(verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: present |
(verb) pass down | Synonyms: render, return |
(verb) utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.) | - |
(verb) bring to a destination, make a delivery | - |
(verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: pitch |
(verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in |
(verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender |
(verb) carry out or perform | Synonyms: drive home |
(verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deport, extradite |
(verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: rescue |
(verb) save from sins | Synonyms: redeem, save |
deter | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: dissuade |
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(verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: discourage |
dicker | (verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange | Synonyms: bargain |
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didder | (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: shake |
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differ | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: disagree, dissent, take issue |
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(verb) be different | - |