| discover | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) see for the first time; make a discovery | - |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, find, notice, observe |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
| disencumber | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disentangle, extricate, untangle |
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| disinter | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | Synonyms: exhume |
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| dismember | (verb) separate the limbs from the body | - |
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| (verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: discerp, take apart |
| disorder | (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disarray |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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| distemper | (verb) paint with distemper | - |
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| dither | (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: flap, pother |
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| (verb) act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain | - |
| dodder | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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| domineer | (verb) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner | Synonyms: tyrannise, tyrannize |
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| dower | (verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: endow |
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| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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| embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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| embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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| embroider | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, lard, pad |
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| (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: broider |
| empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
| encipher | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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| encounter | (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: meet, play, take on |
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| (verb) come together | Synonyms: come across, meet, run across, run into, see |
| (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, find, happen |
| (verb) be beset by | Synonyms: run into |
| (verb) experience as a reaction | Synonyms: meet, receive |
| encumber | (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, restrain |
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| endanger | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: expose, peril, queer, scupper |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
| engender | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| (verb) call forth | Synonyms: breed, spawn |
| engineer | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| (verb) design as an engineer | - |
| enter | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: embark |
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| (verb) make a record of; set down in permanent form | Synonyms: put down, record |
| (verb) become a participant; be involved in | Synonyms: participate |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: infix, insert, introduce |
| (verb) come on stage | - |
| (verb) to come or go into | Synonyms: come in, get in, get into, go in, go into, move into |
| (verb) take on duties or office | Synonyms: accede |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, inscribe, raise, recruit |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: figure |
| falter | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, stammer, stutter |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, stumble |
| (verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: waver |
| (verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: waver |
| father | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire |
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| feather | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
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| (verb) turn the oar, while rowing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing | Synonyms: square |
| (verb) cover or fit with feathers | - |
| (verb) join tongue and groove, in carpentry | - |
| fester | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: maturate, suppurate |
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| fetter | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: shackle |
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| filibuster | (verb) obstruct deliberately by delaying | - |
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| filter | (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter out, filtrate, separate out, strain |
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| (verb) pass through | Synonyms: percolate, permeate, sink in |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| financier | (verb) conduct financial operations | - |
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| finger | (verb) indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments | - |
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| (verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: thumb |
| (verb) search for on the computer | - |
| (verb) examine by touch | Synonyms: feel |
| flatter | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: blandish |
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| fleer | (verb) to smirk contemptuously | - |
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| flicker | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flitter, flutter, quiver, waver |
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| (verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flick |
| flitter | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flutter, quiver, waver |
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| flounder | (verb) walk with great difficulty | Synonyms: stagger |
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| (verb) behave awkwardly; have difficulties | - |
| flower | (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
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| fluster | (verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
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| (verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
| flutter | (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: bat |
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| (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: palpitate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, quiver, waver |
| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flit |
| (verb) flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements | - |
| fodder | (verb) give fodder (to domesticated animals) | - |
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| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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| foster | (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: nurture |
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| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, further |
| (verb) bring up under fosterage; of children | - |
| founder | (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way |
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| (verb) sink below the surface | - |
| (verb) stumble and nearly fall | - |
| (verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, flop |
| fritter | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| further | (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, promote |
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| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, foster |
| garner | (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, gather, pull together |
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| (verb) store grain | - |
| (verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: earn, win |
| garter | (verb) fasten with or as if with a garter | - |
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| gather | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up |
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| (verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) conclude from evidence | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together |
| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: pucker, tuck |
| (verb) look for (food) in nature | - |
| (verb) draw and bring closer | - |
| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet |
| (verb) get people together | Synonyms: assemble, get together |
| gauffer | (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: goffer |
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| gerrymander | (verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | - |
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| geyser | (verb) to overflow like a geyser | - |
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| gibber | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) chatter inarticulately; of monkeys | - |
| ginger | (verb) add ginger to in order to add flavor | - |
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| glimmer | (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: gleam |
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| glitter | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, shine |
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| glower | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, lour, lower |
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| (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glare |
| goffer | (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: gauffer |
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| gutter | (verb) provide with gutters | - |
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| (verb) wear or cut gutters into | - |
| (verb) flow in small streams | - |
| (verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker | - |
| halter | (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, hamper, strangle |
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| (verb) hang with a halter | - |
| hammer | (verb) beat with or as if with a hammer | - |
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| (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: forge |
| hamper | (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, strangle |
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| (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: handicap, hinder |
| hanker | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: long, yearn |
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| harbinger | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, foretell, herald |
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| headquarter | (verb) provide with headquarters | - |
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| hinder | (verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: hamper, handicap |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) be a hindrance or obstacle to | Synonyms: impede |
| holler | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, squawk |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) shout out | Synonyms: holler out |
| homer | (verb) hit a home run | - |
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| hoover | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: vacuum-clean, vacuum |
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| hover | (verb) hang in the air; fly or be suspended above | - |
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| (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: levitate |
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, vibrate |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: linger |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, loom |
| huckster | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
| hunger | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, starve |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, lust, starve, thirst |
| (verb) feel the need to eat | - |
| hunker | (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
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| infer | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, deduct, derive |
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| (verb) believe to be the case | Synonyms: understand |
| (verb) guess correctly; solve by guessing | Synonyms: guess |
| (verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic | Synonyms: deduce |
| (verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, generalize |
| inter | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, entomb, inhume, lay to rest |
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| jabber | (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout |
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| jeer | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, scoff |
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| judder | (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: shake |
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| junketeer | (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junket |
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| lacquer | (verb) coat with lacquer | - |
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| ladder | (verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: run |
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| lather | (verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning | Synonyms: soap |
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| (verb) exude sweat or lather | - |
| (verb) form a lather | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| launder | (verb) convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones | - |
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| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: wash |
| layer | (verb) make or form a layer | - |
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| leather | (verb) whip with a leather strap | - |
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| leer | (verb) look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression | - |
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| letter | (verb) mark letters on or mark with letters | - |
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| (verb) set down or print with letters | - |
| (verb) win an athletic letter | - |
| lever | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, prise, prize, pry |
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| lighter | (verb) transport in a flatbottom boat | - |
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| limber | (verb) cause to become limber | - |
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| (verb) attach the limber | Synonyms: limber up |
| linger | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: dawdle |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: tarry |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: hover |
| (verb) remain present although waning or gradually dying | - |
| litter | (verb) give birth to a litter of animals | - |
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| (verb) make a place messy by strewing garbage around | - |
| (verb) strew | - |
| loiter | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| lower | (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lour, turn down |
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| (verb) set lower | Synonyms: lour |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: depress |
| (verb) move something or somebody to a lower position | Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down |
| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lour |
| lumber | (verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: log |
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| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: pound |
| madder | (verb) color a moderate to strong red | - |
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| malinger | (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: skulk |
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| maneuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre, operate |
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| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| manoeuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, operate |
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| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre |